First Chamber member Lindsey Graham on Tuesday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding the names of the individuals who gave a 2018 briefing to the First Chamber of Intelligence, in which Graham claims that the FBI lied about the credibility of the infamous Steele Dossier.
The dossier, which was the main basis for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warning against former Trump aide Carter Page, makes a variety of sick claims about President Trump, many of which have not been verified.
The FBI interviewed the most important sub-source ex-British spy Christopher Steele used to produce the dossier in 2017, and the sub-source allegedly said that Steele had exaggerated his claims. But then in 2018, according to a document released Sunday by the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Graham, the FBI apparently told the House Intelligence Committee that there was no reason to doubting the Steele dossier or the information that was presumably from the sources.
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“In 2017, the FBI interviewed the primary sub-source three times, including one three-day interview in January 2017. The result of those interviews was that the primary sub-source largely discredited the case and the way Steele reported and characterized the information that the primary sub-source had given him, “Graham said in the letter to Wray.
“However, in the sketch of the FBI’s information to the Education Commission,” Graham continues, “it states that: (1) the primary sub-source ‘did not raise significant concerns with the way in which its reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent to which he could identify it ‘; (2)'[a]t minimum, our conversations with [the Primary Sub-source] confirm that the file was not manufactured by Steele ‘; and (3) the Primary Sub-Source ‘maintains confidential relationships with individuals who are able to report on the material he collects for Steele.’ “
Graham broke the news of the information document, which was given to the House Judiciary Committee by Attorney General William Barr, during an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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“They did to the Senate Intel Commission what they did to the FISA court,” Graham said. “They deceived the hell out of them. They said there is no evidence from the sources to suggest that Steele fabricated everything in the dossier.”
Graham said in an interview with Bartiromo that he would get to the bottom of the issue.
“Someone has to go to jail for this,” Graham said. “This is a second lie. This is a second crime. They are lying to the FISA court. They were notorious, the FBI acted in 2019 by the FISA court, making all FISA requests doubtful … a year before that, they “appeals to the Intel Committee of the First Chamber.”
He added: “I will find out who did that briefing, and who it is, they are in trouble.”
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That’s exactly what Graham’s letter to Wray intends to do – he asks the FBI Director for the names and titles of every person who worked on the scheme his commission released on Sunday, all FBI agents. staff who were at the House Intelligence Committee and any documents the FBI has regarding congressional briefings on the dossier, the Russia investigation and the FISA requests to check page.
Graham’s letter is not a statement but a request, which means Wray is not legally required to comply. But Wray – who was at the time of the 2018 briefing – is a Trump nominee who, despite the beleagured policy around the Department of Justice, has for the most part been able to extricate himself from the political fury to keep.
Wray, however, faces a conviction of sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., For “all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.” Crossfire Hurricane was the probe into Russian election interference that Trump colleagues like Page and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn investigated. Johnson is chairing the House of Representatives for Homeland Security.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
