Judiciary Dem calls for hearing on Trump's FBI attacks [View all]

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Source: The HILL

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an oversight hearing on the Trump administration's attacks on the FBI and Justice Department.

Leahy, a senior member on the committee, expressed his concern in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the panel's chairman, on Saturday about what he called the "attempted politicization of the FBI."

"Never has our Committee's oversight authority of the Justice Department been more critical than now," Leahy wrote.

"I fear the damage being done to the FBI, and to our nation's institutions more broadly, will far outlast any current crises unless we take decisive, bipartisan action."

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