Trump declassifies Russia-investigation documents

The Russia-collusion investigation launched by Democrats against Donald Trump even before he took office consumed the first three years of his presidency. It's now known that the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election was fueled in large part by a bogus "dossier" of Russian propaganda financed by Hillary Clinton's campaign. On Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham released declassified documents related to the Obama administration's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation, Fox News reported. Graham called the probe, in which the "Steele dossier" was used to obtain warrants to sspy on the Trump campaign, "one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ." He said his committee released as much as it could. The South Carolina senators said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court "was lied to." "Exculpatory information was withheld on those being investigated," he said. "The investigators, with some notable exceptions, were incredibly biased and used the powers of law enforcement for political purposes. The subjects of the investigation had their lives turned upside down. It is my hope that counterintelligence investigations will be reined in and this never happens again in America." The senator described the leadership of the FBI under former director James Comey and former deputy Andrew McCabe as, at the least, "grossly incompetent." If not that, he said, the two "knowingly allowed tremendous misdeeds." Investigators, he said, turned "a blind eye" toward any evidence that didn't fit their claim that "the Trump campaign was colluding with foreign powers." The investigation was pushed forward when it should have been dropped, he said, and "the only logical explanation is that the investigators wanted an outcome because of their bias." The events at the time now are under review in a criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham. He already obtained a conviction of a low-level operator, an FBI agent who admitted changing official documents to reflect something that was not true. Durham's investigation has been opposed by Democrats, including Kamala Harris, soon to be vice president...MORE She was among a group of 10 senators who demanded an investigation of Durham's investigation because they alleged it was "political."...MORE