Graham Wants A New Special Counsel To Probe DOJ Handling Of Dossier, Clinton Emails [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
March 25, 2019 1:22 pm
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Monday that, now that the special counsel’s Russia investigation had wrapped up, his committee would be going full speed ahead in investigating the Justice Department for how it handled the Clinton email probe as well as for the warrants it obtained to surveil a former Trump campaign advisor in 2016.
At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Graham said he was satisfied with Attorney General Bill Barr’s assessment that there was not sufficient evidence to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, and that his committee would not be relitigating that question based on what further information Congress receives from the Mueller report.
Graham said he was planning on speaking to Barr at noon Monday, and that he would ask Barr to appoint a second special counsel. Graham wants a special counsel to investigate how the FBI obtained surveillance warrants for ex-Trump advisor Carter Page and whether it made inappropriate political decisions based on a dossier indirectly financed by the Clinton campaign.
“What makes no sense to me is all of the abuse by the Department of Justice and the FBI — the unprofessional conduct, the shady behavior — nobody seems to thinks that’s much important,” Graham “Well, that’s going to change I hope.”
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