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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 04:55 PM Mar 2018

Sessions rejects GOP calls for second special counsel to investigate allegations of FISA abuse I FBI

Sessions rejects GOP calls for second special counsel to investigate allegations of FISA abuse and FBI actions, a move likely to anger conservatives and possibly Trump, too. Sessions says Utah's top prosecutor has been investigating it, per @LauraAJarrett



Sessions names prosecutor investigating claims of FBI misconduct

Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed Thursday that Utah's top federal prosecutor, John Huber, has been examining a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI and has decided that no second special counsel is needed -- at least for now.

Huber has been looking into allegations that the FBI abused its powers in surveilling a former Trump campaign adviser, and more should have been done to investigate Hillary Clinton's ties to a Russian nuclear energy agency, but his identity had remained a secret.

But Sessions' decision to stop short of formally appointing a special counsel like Robert Mueller, detailed in a lengthy written response to three Republican chairmen on Capitol Hill, will likely anger those in the GOP who have recently ramped up calls to investigate claims of political bias at the nation's top law enforcement agencies.

It also comes one day after the Justice Department's internal watchdog office confirmed it would review how the FBI obtained a warrant to monitor Trump foreign policy aide Carter Page, as well as the bureau's relationship with Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/sessions-prosecutor-fbi-misconduct-clinton-uranium-one-special-counsel/index.html
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Sessions rejects GOP calls for second special counsel to investigate allegations of FISA abuse I FBI (Original Post) MelissaB Mar 2018 OP
Oh my goodness, the freeps are havin themselves one shitty day!! They have been waiting Leghorn21 Mar 2018 #1
So....is Sessions getting fired shortly? Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2018 #2
That was my first thought when I read this. MelissaB Mar 2018 #3

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
1. Oh my goodness, the freeps are havin themselves one shitty day!! They have been waiting
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 05:01 PM
Mar 2018

breathlessly for this second investigation - -

OH WELL, MOTHERFUCKERS

...guess you need to go take a couple Bayer aspirins about now, eh?
Feel better soon!

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