Graham says Barr may be ready to go after Clinton
by digby
Is he lying like his Dear Leader? Maybe. But it’s clear that he thinks this is a red-meat electoral winner for himself. And he has the power to hold some very dramatic hearings.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Attorney General William Barr is “pretty upset” with how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized private email server.
During an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he hopes Barr will appoint a special counsel to look into potential political bias.
“So it seems to me that she was interviewed not under oath. She had a couple of her staff people with her. People in her campaign were given immunity without anything in return. Nobody in the Clinton investigation went to jail for lying about the process because there was no process,” Graham told host Maria Bartiromo.
“I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he’s pretty upset about the way all this was handled,” he added, noting he’s not sure how Barr will act.
“I don’t know if he’s going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior,” Graham said. “I’m going to look at what happened from an oversight role. But I hope there’s a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, you know? Because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody’s really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation for criminality yet and somebody should.”
He’s not going to let this go. It’s obviously how he expects to stay on Trump’s good side and appeal to his right-wing base in South Carolina.
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