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.
Linda is so compromised, he quickly takes “no” for an answer. You are right . . . Tim Fitton needs to procure that info and deliver it to Linda . . . but keep copies to keep him honest . . . more honest than he is now, that is.
It’s called a subpoena, Lindsay.
Issue a few.
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Trump needs to dump FBI Director Wray.
Perhaps he will after he wins re-election in November.
Wray’s agenda so far hasn’t been to restore FBI integrity and see that justice is done.
His agenda has been to protect the FBI and FBI employees from further embarassing revalations about their criminality, sedition, treachery and treason.
Cut their funding 10% every day they don’t comply. Bull$hit walks. Money talks.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he has been denied access to interview an FBI agent and an FBI analyst ...”
And Graham says ...oh, okay.
Tell ‘em how mad you are Lyndsey! /s
They are stalling for time, to get past the election.
They know that if he issues subpoenas they can take it to court and get even more delays................
The general rule for failure to produce is to allow drawing the negative inference. They are not showing up because they have something to hide.
The FBI learned these corrupt gang type of actions and shenanigans from their arch enemy the Mafia.
Just about himself. I honesty believe he is a sociopath, void of conscience.
You mean The Deep State is not afraid of him? Aww, they are so mean to little girls!
Graham to Keystone Kops: I didn’t ASK to interview the agents. I DEMAND to speak with them.
If he had cojones.
Stalling for time to get past the election................
That’s exactly what he’s afraid of.
His mentor McCain delivered the fake dossier to the FBI.
Bingo. Also Bidens threat to him of his worst mistake if he pursues Joey tells me ole Lindsey has been wetting his beak somewhere, and re the dossier knew about it from McCain but did nothing to stop it...
The FBI learned these corrupt gang type of actions and shenanigans from their friends in the Mafia.
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Trump needs to dump FBI Director Wray.
Perhaps he will after he wins re-election in November.
thats one thing that will happen for certain.
Wray is a smarmy looking character...
Yeah, like he is going to accomplish anything before the election.
He has no plans to bring anybody to justice. He was tied to McStain too long not to have secrets.
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