Top Republican senators said Thursday that their Democratic counterparts sicced the FBI on them in 2020 in an attempt to shut down their probe into how the Justice Department bungled the Trump-Russia investigation.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley said senior Democrats falsely told the FBI he was being manipulated by Russian disinformation, and when the FBI did a secret briefing for Mr. Grassley and fellow Sen. Ron Johnson, it was leaked to the press to try to discredit the work the senators were doing.
The panel has been tasked with exposing attempts to use the power of the government to silence vital debates and investigations. Democrats told the FBI that Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson, who was chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, were being manipulated by disinformation. Parts of that letter were leaked to the press.
Mr. Johnson, in his testimony, said the leaks were a “key ingredient in the most destructive, political dirty trick in US history.” Mr. Raskin, the Democrats’ witness, criticized the weaponization subcommittee’s existence and said the GOP is trying to use the panel to defend Mr. Trump. That means it is Republicans who are actually weaponizing government, he said.
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