Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s entire Russia investigation was nothing more than a two-long scam that failed to give Democrats their chance to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Months after Mueller’s investigation and testimony ended with a dud, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s FISA report found that FBI officials doctored documents in order to obtain warrants from the spy court in the Russia investigation against Trump.
Now, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham says the people behind the Russia investigation could be “going to jail.”
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry took to Twitter on Wednesday and said that Graham has reportedly asked Attorney General William Barr to make high ranking Justice Department official Gabriel Sanz-Rexach available to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee over FISA abuse.
Sanz-Rexach is the chief of the Office of Intelligence’s Operations Section and was reportedly known as the DOJ’s “gatekeeper” in 2016 when the FBI and DOJ obtained the warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign.
BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Chair Graham has asked AG Barr to make senior DOJ official Gabriel Sanz-Rexach, an Obama holdover, available to testify before committee investigators about FISA abuses. Sanz-Rexach was the FISA gatekeeper at DOJ when illegal FISA approved on Trump aide
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 26, 2020
The IG report released last year notes the chief of the Office of Intelligence’s Operations Section argued, “that the evidence collected during the first FISA application time period demonstrated that Carter Page had access to individuals in Russia and he was communicating with people in the Trump campaign.”
This uncoincidentally happens to be the same senior DOJ official that Graham is targeting in his committee’s investigation into alleged FISA abuses.
In a series of tweets, Sperry went on to suggest that Barr would be open to approving the request because both the DOJ and FBI have admitted major errors in the FISA process that must be corrected.
Below are some high-points of what Horowitz found:
- There was extreme bias against then-candidate Trump.
- FBI officials deliberately doctored evidence they presented to the nation’s top spy court in order to gain authority to spy on a key Trump affiliate.
- The FBI and the Justice Department’s review committee failed to comply with attorney general guidelines requiring timely validation.
- Investigators uncovered issues with FBI employees who conducted validation reviews, noting they did not “review the full scope” of a long-term source’s work for the FBI.
- The inspector general found “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” concerning FBI efforts to obtain secret FISA warrants against Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
For months, Graham has been leading the charge investigating officials involved in the FISA process.
Graham initially promised to look into the origins of the Russia investigation earlier this month, telling CBS “I’m going to get to the bottom of the FISA work process because it was an abuse of power of the Department of Justice, the FBI.”
“Half of the people behind the Russia investigation are going to jail,” he said.
WATCH:
Lindsey Graham: Half the people behind the Russia investigation are going to go to jail pic.twitter.com/Xi9LQV6J9M
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 9, 2020
After being asked when it will happen, Graham reassuringly answered with: “Well, just hang tight.”
Barr has also stated numerous times that there were serious issues with the Russia investigation and how the Obama-led DOJ and FBI carried out their witch hunt.
Barr has appointed special prosecutor John H. Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia probe, and he reportedly shifted his investigation into a criminal inquiry.
It certainly appears that Barr and Durham have already found evidence of criminal wrongdoing regarding the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.