Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham said on 'Sunday Morning Futures' that the FBI deceived his counterparts in the Senate Intelligence Committee during a 2018 interview, citing a newly released he obtained through the Department of Justice.
, citing a newly released document he obtained through the Department of Justice.
"It was Horowitz, during his investigation of the warrant application, found information in 2018 where the FBI was called on the Senate Intel Committee because people were getting suspicious about the subsource ... at the Senate Intel Committee level and the FBI was sent over to brief them," Graham said. "And they did to the Senate Intel Committee what they did to the FISA court. They misled the hell out of them.
Documents recently released by the Senate Intelligence Committee indicate that as early as December 2016 there were strong doubts about the reliability of the Steele Dossier. As the FBI and CIA worked together to create an Intelligence Community Assessment to present to President Obama, those in the CIA camp, according to the now-declassified interviews conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, worried that the FBI was playing up the Steele Dossier too much.
Graham said that he was not sure who specifically briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee on the subsource, but swore he would write to current FBI Director Christopher Wray to get to the bottom of the situation.Former British spy Christopher Steele's unverified dossier was a major element in warrant applications the FBI filled out to spy on Trump associate Carter Page. Sen. Lindsay Graham slammed the Steele dossier and the FBI's faith in it under former FBI Director James Comey.
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