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.
Here’s a thought, what if Trump canned Wray and made Grennell interim director of the FBI, the democrats would be pissing their pants while their heads exploded!
As Ross Perot would say, “Surely their mamas gave them names.” Sen. Graham: WHO exactly is holding this up? What exactly is their claimed excuse? Don’t give us the old “ongoing investigation” crap. If Bill Barr is Mr. Transparency, why hasn’t he ordered his pal Chris Wray to apply the boot to whoever is obstructing the investigation?
The 4 witnesses Graham mentioned are almost assuredly keys to revealing the truth, or the conspirators wouldn’t be hiding them.
Well I guess that’s the end of it. Move along.
Democrats sweating like a cartel dealer at a the air port inspection.
They are losing ground on the cover up’s by the day.
all fbi should be assigned to help build the wall, effective yesterday
Linda likes to give lip service.
Everyone in the FIB should be fired for this.
Every one.
Then burn the buildings and salt the ground.
Sell them into slavery. Unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to get much for the treasonous bastards.
We know her track record regarding promises, don't we?
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Remember that linda is up for reelection in November.
Remember also that linda announced last August he is writing a Red Flag bill.
Bump!
Homeland security committee is getting the job done that Linda can’t bring himself to do SCREW LINDA!! I PRAY this POS is primaried!!
Fitton is relentless. If it’s there, he will find it.
He may be the only one in the country that will get Hillary to testify under oath. No one else has ever come this close. So far he is holding strong.
Comey already had a copy and Comey and the Deep State already wanted to use the dossier to start the investigation.
They simply instigated McCain to bring over another copy to make it look like it wasn't they who were starting the investigation.
I've completely lost what little faith I might have had in Graham. He's been all hat and no cattle for 3 years. Now we have a scant 21 weeks to the November election. He'd have to issue subpoenas and starting taking testimony at the rate of 2.5 people per-week to get through the list by then.
This is all Kabuki theater to distract while the clock runs out. Graham, like others in the deep state, realize the only chance they have of protecting the status quo is to defeat Trump and install another of their swamp brethren.
Linda should STOP trying to”keep working the system” because the “system” doesn’t work. He is the boss of the Sen. Judiciary Committee. He should act like one or turn in his dress and leave.
Subpoena Dir. Wray and anyone else in the FBI who had a hand in the Deep State, the coverup of FBI malfeasance, the losing of documents (that doesn’t happen by accident, only by design), and their Records Managers.
Wray is an ineffective to useless POS of Squid piss. Time for him to go, far, far away.
Yes he could, but it wouldn't make a bit of difference. The DOJ, FBI, CIA, and now the DoD see themselves as independent actors and not subject to what the President directs. The DoD is now the lead actor for removing Trump from office now that the other agencies have failed in stopping him. Esper and his generals/admirals are locked and cocked to make the move.
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