First Chamber Speaker Lindsey Graham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Thursday that FBI Director Christopher Wray is doing his duty to “hold accountable” those who may have the law at the origin of the Russian probe “earlier in the day. as letter. “
Graham, RS.C., whose commission is investigating the origins of the Russian probe, including abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the appointment of former special counsel Robert Mueller, the unmasking process, said he spoke with Wray Thursday morning.
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“I had a very good discussion this morning with FBI Director Wray about providing witnesses and documents to the House Judiciary Committee in connection with our oversight of Crossfire Hurricane, related FISA abuse and the next Mueller. investigation, “Graham said in a statement.
Wray is “committed to being useful – in an appropriate way – by balancing the needs of privacy for office workers with public transparency for the benefit of the American people,” Grahm added.
And Wray will be deferential to criminal investigations conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham, Grahm said.
Graham’s remarks come at noon from several congressional subjects about the origins of the Russia inquiry, and because Durham is conducting a similar inquiry.
Earlier this week, Senate Homeland Security and Government Secretary Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Presented the FBI and Wray with documents related to his panel’s Russian probe.
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Meanwhile, Attorney General Bill Barr appointed Durham last year to investigate the origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, which began in July 2016, through Mueller’s appointment in May 2017, shortly after Mueller completed his years-long investigation into the question of whether to join his campaign as coordinated with the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Mueller’s investigation provided no evidence of criminal collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 elections, although the question of whether Trump obstructed justice was left open in the final report.
Barr, earlier this summer, said Durham’s probe is likely to yield “developments” before the summer is over, despite delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
But President Trump on Thursday said he hoped Durham “would not be politically correct” and warned that Barr could come down as “the greatest attorney general” or just “an average boy” – depending on what comes out of the months-long probe .
“I hope he does a great job, and I hope they will not be politically correct,” Trump said. ‘Obama knew everything. Vice President Biden knew everything, as stupid as he was, knew everything and everyone else. ‘
The president has accused several senior government officials of lying to Congress, including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA director John Brennan and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
“And Comey, and Brennan, and Clapper, they were all terrible, they left for Congress,” Trump said.
And he accused her of espionage and betrayal.
“They were spying on my campaign, which is treason,” he continued. ‘They spied, both before and after I won, with the United States intelligence service to take down a president, a legally elected president, a duly elected president of the United States. It is the biggest political crime in the history of our country. ”
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The president said his legacy of Attorney General William Barr drives on the outcome of the investigation.
“Bill Barr may descend as the greatest attorney general in our country’s history, or he may descend as an average man,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens.”
The president said the probe will lead investigators to the top of the former Democratic administration.
“They have all the answers,” Trump said. “It’s all going to Obama, and it’s going straight to Biden.”
However, Barr said he did not expect Durham’s findings to lead to a ‘criminal investigation’ into both former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden – noting that their concerns about “potential crime” in the behavior of that sin is “directed at others.”
Barr, earlier this year, said that “not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.”
“As far as President Obama and Vice President Biden are concerned, whatever their level of involvement is based on what I know, I do not expect Durham’s work to lead to a criminal investigation of any of the men,” Barr said. “Our concern about potential crime is focused on others.”
Meanwhile, the Graham Commission, earlier this summer, authorized statements of state for all documents, communications and testimony of current and former officials, including McCabe, Ohr, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Ambassador to the United States Nations Samantha Power, former FBI agents Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Baker and Bill Priestap, among others.
Last month, Graham said he would “absolutely” call former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to testify before his panel as part of their ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russian probe.
