Graham: New Bruce Ohr docs show FISA warrant against ex-Trump campaign aide a 'fraud'
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New documents highlighting top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's contact with ex-British spy Christopher Steele are the latest troubling development for the DOJ in 2016.
That's the claim from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who said Thursday on " Hannity " that he believes there was deep corruption in the department during that year's U.S. presidential election.
"Here's what we're looking at: Systematic corruption at the highest level of the Department of Justice and the FBI against President Trump and in favor of Hillary Clinton," Graham said.
Host Sean Hannity then asked Graham whether officials "lied purposefully" on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
"The best you could say is that they were incompetent," Graham responded. "The most likely outcome is that they wanted a result."
"I think the insurance policy is what we're seeing here, getting into the Trump campaign," Graham continued. "The FISA warrant against Carter Page was a fraud, I believe. The counter-intelligence investigation is something we have to look at very closely."
On Thursday evening, newly released records obtained by Fox News showed the FBI formally documented the bias of Steele shortly after the November 2016 presidential election, yet continued to use his unverified dossier in multiple FISA court warrant application renewals.
The documents, first obtained by Judicial Watch, also reveal that top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr maintained contact with Steele for at least six months after Steele was fired by the FBI for unauthorized media contacts in November 2016.
The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, show that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that Steele was "desperate" that Donald Trump not be elected president.
A source close to the matter told Fox News "this had the effect of putting a senior DOJ official on notice that a witness/source had an extreme bias" -- yet the FISA warrant application went through in October 2016 with multiple renewals.
In his interview with Hannity, Graham claimed if a Republican operative acted in a way similar to Steele, the news would receive wall-to-wall media coverage.
"You could not turn on your television," he said.
Fox News' Gregg Re and Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.
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"The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, indicated that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that an individual with links to the dossier was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.”
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It's called FRAUD
No wonder the "Left" is pushing for Trumps Impeachment so hard. They were hoping to conclude that before the actual "damning Information" came out against their side.
Impeachment, Mueller, all a farce.
Yippers !
Accomplished NOTHING for the Millions spent.
Lol, another attempt to spread the bullshit.
These things only work on the sheeple. I'm sure Nunes is all over it! lol
The real 'bullshit' was the unsubstantiated dossier.
It will even be covered by MSNBC & CNN in about another month when the shit hits the fan!
It will be interesting to see how they spin it all to their viewers. The anti-Trump FBI & CIA officials who investigated Trump (without cause) were the same people who were so pro Hillary when the FBI supposedly investigated her (for obvious code violations). There seems to be a common theme there!
Based on what Lindsey Graham is saying, he's ready and waiting for the IG report to be finished so that his committee can take it's own look at it.
I don't think we'll get to see the IG report until Durham is finished with his investigation. Unlike the previous AG, Barr knows what he's doing and will make certain the job is done thoroughly.
I have a feeling all of the Dem networks are working diligently on a unified diversion to obfuscate any backlash to be felt from the FACTS the IG and Durham dig up.