Finding it difficult to get what he wants from the FBI, 64-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the FBI was not getting him a chance to speak with the case agent and intel analyst for information on the Steele Dossier used to obtain warrants in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to wiretap former Trump foreign policy aid Carter Page. Graham wants to know whether or not Agent Stephen Somma [Case Agent 1] interviewed Steele’s source and knew information in the Steele dossier was corrupted. Inspector General Michael Horowitz, 57. found numerous errors in the FBI’s FISA Court filings in his Dec. 9, 2019 report. “I made a request to interview the case agent and the intel analyst . . . and they’re denying me the ability to do that Graham told Fox News’ “Sunday Futures.” Both the case agent and intel analyst interviewed Steele’s subsource three times in 2017.
Graham confirmed that the unidentified person “revealed potentially serious problems with Steele’s description of information in his reports,” Horowitz said Dec. 9, 2019 in his report to Congress. Horowitz’s Dec. 9, 2019 report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane, its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, relied on disinformation produced by Russian intelligence, something the FBI knew in January 2017. Former FBI Director James Comey continued with Crossfire Hurricane until he was fired May 9, 2017 by 73-year-old President Donald Trump for leaking to the press and conducting an illegal counterintelligence investigation. Once Comey was fired, Graham also wants to know if Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein knew that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was deeply flawed but went ahead appointing 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel.
Mueller spent 22-months and $40 million with 17 career prosecutors, most of whom Democrats, concluded March 23 in a 480-page Final Report that there was no evidence that Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 presidential election. Graham wants to know something very simple: Did the FBI know in January 2017 that the Steele Dossier was deeply flawed, no evidence on which the FBI should have predicated a counterintelligence investigation. While Graham tries to get his own facts on the origin of the FBI counterintelligence investigation, 69-year-old Atty. Gen. Bill Barr and 70-year-old U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) investigates possible criminal offense by FBI and DOJ officials liked to the counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Comey continued the investigation all through the transition and after the Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration.
Graham wants to answer a very specific question on whether the case agent and intel analyst failed to notify their superiors that the Steele Dossier was tainted with Russian disinformation. Whether Graham gets that confirmation or not, it’s obvious that the Steele Dossier was former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research, used by he and the Democratic National Committee [DNC] to undermine Trump 2016 presidential campaign. Recently released declassified documents by former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grinnell revealed that numerous Obama administration officials were heavily involved in setting up 62-year-old former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. “Did the case agent and the intel agent reuse to tell the system about exculpatory information? Does the fault lie with two or three people? Or was it a system out of control?” asked Graham.
Graham knows the answers to his rhetorical questions that the system was out of control. When former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former NSA Susan Rice, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates attended an Oval Office meeting Jan 5, 2017, they all discussed the counterintelligence investigation and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Whether or not Graham gets to interview Case Agent 1 or Case Agent 2, the Obama White House knew that Hillary’s dossier was filled with lies and Russian disinformation. Even the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), who gave the dossier to Comey in August 2016, knew that the contents were utter rubbish, used by Hillary to discredit Trump in the 2016 presidential race.
Graham wants to “question the accuracy and reliability” of everything related to Christopher Steele’s sourcing. Steele admitted April 24 that he “destroyed” all electronic and physical files related to this Steele Dossier paid for by Glenn Simpson’s FusionGPS, the opposition research firm hired by Hillary and the DNC. Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, who ordered the Mueller investigation, said June 3 in the Senate Judiciary Committee that knowing what he knows know, he would not have signed off on the fourth FISA application. Rosenstein said he didn’t know that Carter Pager worked for the CIA, something omitted by former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Rosensteim admitted that McCabe was not forthcoming or transparent about Comey’s personal notes about speaking with Trump. Graham finds himself in the unenviable position of getting to the truth about the Russian hoax.
