Posted on 06/08/2020 8:19:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he has been denied access to interview an FBI agent and an FBI analyst who met with a key source for the Steele dossier who disavowed the salacious document.
Graham has sought interviews with the FBI case agent and supervisory intelligence analyst to discuss their interview in January 2017 with the primary source for Christopher Steele, the former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign for Democrats.
Steele’s source disputed many of the allegations attributed to him in the dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI and Justice Department failed to disclose those red flags in applications to federal judges for authority to surveil Page.
“I made a request to interview the case agent and the intel analyst…and they’re denying me the ability to do that,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“I’m going to keep working the system,” Graham said.
Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not say whether the FBI or the Justice Department have blocked his request to interview the FBI employees.
Graham is considering a subpoena for 53 current and former government officials as part of a sweeping review of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to the Russian government.
Graham has said he wants to get to the bottom of how information from the source was handled at the FBI and Justice Department. (RELATED: FBI Agent Faulted For ‘Significant’ Role In Surveillance Abuse Worse Many Hats During Trump Probe)
“The question is, did the case agent and intel agent refuse to tell the system about exculpatory information? Does the fault lie with two or three people, or was it a system out of control?” Graham said on Fox News.
“Here’s what I think. Every time there was a stop sign for Carter Page or Flynn, the system moved forward because the people at the top did not want to stop.”
Graham said he plans to call former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to find out whether they knew that Steele’s source disputed information in the dossier.
“I find it hard to believe that McCabe and Comey did not know that the Russian subsource told the FBI in January, ‘oh, by the way, the documents you’re using to get a warrant against Carter Page, the Steele dossier, it’s a bunch of hearsay, bar talk and garbage,'” Graham said.
One of the agents who took part in the initial interviews with the source is Stephen Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI’s New York field office. An inspector general report faulted Somma — who is identified as “Case Agent 1” — for numerous errors and omissions in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.
Two Justice Department officials also took part in the interview with the Steele source and failed to disclose the information that undermined the dossier. Graham is seeking to interview one of those officials, David Laufman. Laufman served as chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division through 2018.
Like Linda cares
I’m willing to be Tom Fitton could get the job done!
news reports that fail to identify the subject (WHO denied the Senator his interviews?) WHO?
WHO is the very first part of writing a news story
if the actor isn’t identified, there’s no real story
Don't request, subpoena
Can’t Trump order full FBI cooperation in the name of Senate oversight on his own branch?
I have a good idea.
Let’s keep the police departments across the country and disband the FBI.
Linda and boyfriend McCain carried the dossier over to Comeys office and started the whole thing.
Linda is up to her training bra in this whole coup attempt.
I'm sure you will, Mr. Graham.
Don’t push too hard Lindsey....you might find your name comin’ back at ya’
Jeepers, couldn’t President Trump just order them to cooperate?
If he can’t, who’s in charge of the FBI? Are they their own branch of the government?
So, graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has no authority over the fbi or the justice department?
“I’m going to keep working the system,” Graham said.
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Because that’s how Uniparty weasels keep their own dirt from surfacing.
They play hardball.
He plays Whiffleball...................
The FIB wont take a knee to Congress but will
to terrorists, Antifa, China, Russia, white ISIS
and seditionists.
Everyone in the FIB should be fired for this.
Every one.
Then burn the buildings and salt the ground.
Linda has been around long enough to know how this plays out. Whining is pure kabuki BS.
Just tell the FBI okay and head on back to the Senate with the rest of your crooked buddies.
That’s exactly what he’s afraid of.
His mentor McCain delivered the fake dossier to the FBI.
There was no “source” for the steel dossier
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