Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he intends to uncover whether there was any wrongdoing by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s campaign now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe found the Trump campaign did not conspire with the Russians.
Graham said he wants more answers on the “shady behavior” of Democrats and Obama administration officials during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“When it comes to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] warrant, the Clinton campaign, the counterintelligence investigation, it’s pretty much been swept under the rug except by a few Republicans in the House. Those days are over. Going forward, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion, we’ll begin to unpack the other side of the story,” Graham said at a news conference.
Republicans have accused the Justice Department and the FBI of abusing FISA and misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in their investigation into Trump and his associates during the campaign, particularly focusing on the use of an unverified dossier that detailed Trump’s alleged links to Russia. Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, was paid by the conservative Washington Free Beacon to conduct research on Trump and other candidates during the Republican presidential primaries. When the outlet’s interest in the research lapsed, Fusion GPS approached a law firm for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to continue that funding.
Graham also questioned the FBI’s actions during its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state and said he believes there is more to be uncovered about what happened when former Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly met with former President Bill Clinton in a plane on the tarmac in Phoenix during the investigation.
“What was the conflict that made Loretta lynch so unable to preside over the Clinton email investigation? Was it just a tarmac meeting or was it more? I believe there was more there. And I intend to get to there,” he said.
[Read: Attorney General William Barr’s letter on Mueller final report]
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