Lindsey Graham Excoriates DOJ, Calls It a Criminal Enterprise, Reminiscent of J. Edgar Hoover

Dec. 9, 2019 (EIRNS)—Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a short but brutal press conference this afternoon, about his conclusions based on certain facts set forth in the FISA report of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Graham said that the FBI and DOJ became a criminal enterprise with respect to Donald Trump’s campaign and, for a period of time, relived the good old days of J. Edgar Hoover.

The Senator reviewed two facts presented by Horowitz. First, the FBI interviewed Trump dossier author, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s main Russian sub-source in January 2017, and was told that what that sub-source had told Steele was a mixture of gossip, hearsay, and barroom speculation, that he never understood would be used in any official document. Yet, the FBI told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, after this interview, that the same FBI sub-source had vouched for Steele, and was completely reliable himself. As Graham said, that was an outright lie.

Second, Graham highlighted the fact that Carter Page was an operational asset of the Central Intelligence Agency at the same time as the FBI was calling him a Russian agent in order to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign.

Graham’s full press conference can be found here is available on C-Span.