Two powerful GOP Senators sent a letter Thursday to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting all the records from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team, which investigated the now debunked theory that President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia during the 2016 election.
Sen. Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who have been investigating the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s investigation and alleged malfeasance in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Warrants to spy on then Trump campaign official Carter Page, made the request in a letter. The senators
stated in the letter
that “on January 28, 2020, we wrote to Attorney General Barr and
requested the declassification of four footnotes in the Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) report about the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s (FBI) Crossfire Hurricane investigation.” “Since then, we received declassified versions of those and other
footnotes, and they reveal disturbing facts about the FBI’s
investigation: the Crossfire Hurricane team’s investigative file
included at least two intelligence reports stating that key parts of the
reporting from Christopher Steele—reporting that “played a central and
essential role” in the decision to request FISA orders —were part of a
Russian disinformation campaign,” the pair added. The Senator’s noted that the information in the now-declassified footnotes from Department of Justice
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s
December report investigating the FBI’s probe into the Trump campaign
“also directly contradicts statements provided by FBI officials in the
OIG report.”...
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