Sen. Graham demands Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Durham Report’s findings, calling it a “damning indictment.”

Senator Lindsey Graham Calls for Hearing on Durham Report

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is urging the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to hold a hearing on the report by John Durham, a special counsel tasked with investigating the FBI’s 2016–2017 probe into Trump’s campaign. Graham, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Durham Report a “damning indictment” of the FBI under James Comey and the Department of Justice’s operations.

House Judiciary Committee Also Requests Durham Testimony

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has also requested that Durham testify about the report next week. Durham’s three-year-long examination of the FBI’s conduct in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election found that the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) “failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.”

Durham Report Finds FBI’s Rush to Investigate Trump Campaign Was Unjustified

According to Durham’s report, the FBI’s rush to open the investigation into Trump’s campaign was “based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” and reflects a departure from how the bureau approached other politically sensitive investigations in 2016. The report also noted that the FBI and DOJ restricted an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation so that little to no investigative activity could occur in the months leading up to the election.

• The agency had a different attitude toward Trump, Durham concluded, as evident by his observation that “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
• Agents “repeatedly disregarded important requirements” when they made surveillance requests on the Trump campaign—initiated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—in the absence of a “genuine belief” that there was a probable cause to investigate the target, the report found.

Graham: Rule of Law in America is Subservient to Political Outcomes

Graham said the report underscores a trend that “the Rule of Law in America is subservient to political outcomes.” He also criticized the American Left for celebrating bad actors like those involved in the investigation because they had a “noble cause” of taking down a political opponent.