{"id":1932427,"date":"2023-05-17T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damning-indictment-sen-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-durham-report-findings\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:14:20","slug":"damning-indictment-sen-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-durham-report-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damning-indictment-sen-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-durham-report-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham demands Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Durham Report&#8217;s findings, calling it a &#8220;damning indictment.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdamning-indictment-sen-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-durham-report-findings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932427&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Lindsey Graham Calls for Hearing on Durham Report<\/h2>\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is urging the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to hold a hearing on the report by John Durham, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weeks-after-being-appointed-special-counsel-jack-smith-returns-to-u-s\/\" title=\"Weeks After Being Designated, Unique Counsel Jack Smith Returns to U.S.\">special counsel tasked<\/a> with investigating the FBI\u2019s 2016\u20132017 probe into Trump\u2019s campaign. Graham, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Durham Report a \u201cdamning indictment\u201d of the FBI under James Comey and the Department of Justice\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<h3>House Judiciary Committee Also Requests Durham Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has also requested that Durham testify about the report next week. Durham\u2019s three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damning-indictment-sen-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-durham-report-findings\/\" title=\"Sen. Graham demands Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Durham Report's findings, calling it a \"damning indictment.\"\">-year-long examination<\/a> of the FBI\u2019s conduct in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election found that the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) \u201cfailed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Durham Report Finds FBI\u2019s Rush to Investigate Trump Campaign Was Unjustified<\/h3>\n<p>According to Durham\u2019s report, the FBI\u2019s rush to open the investigation into Trump\u2019s campaign was \u201cbased on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence\u201d and reflects a departure from how the bureau approached other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-jeopardized-national-security-by-calling-verified-hunter-biden-evidence-disinformation-whistleblowers-say\/\" title=\"FBI Jeopardized National Security By Calling Verified Hunter Biden Evidence \u2018Disinformation,\u2019 Whistleblowers Say\">politically sensitive investigations<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The agency had a different attitude toward Trump, Durham concluded, as evident by his observation that \u201cneither 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.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Agents \u201crepeatedly disregarded important requirements\u201d when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-responds-to-durham-report-findings-the-american-public-was-scammed\/\" title=\"Trump: Durham Report Shows Public Was Scammed.\">made surveillance requests<\/a> on the Trump campaign\u2014initiated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\u2014in the absence of a \u201cgenuine belief\u201d that there was a probable cause to investigate the target, the report found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Graham: Rule of Law in America is Subservient to Political Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p>Graham said the report underscores a trend that \u201cthe Rule of Law in America is subservient to political outcomes.\u201d He also criticized the American Left for celebrating bad actors like those involved in the investigation because they had a \u201cnoble cause\u201d of taking down a political opponent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to hold a hearing on John Durham&#8217;s report. Durham, a special counsel, investigated the FBI&#8217;s 2016-2017 probe into Trump&#8217;s campaign. Graham stated that the report is a severe criticism of James Comey&#8217;s FBI and the Department of Justice&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":1932428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4206,4384,4118,4201,11773,6701,3803,3679,15074,4151,4564,7025,3740],"class_list":["post-1932427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-calling","tag-committee","tag-damning","tag-demands","tag-durham","tag-findings","tag-graham","tag-hearing","tag-indictment","tag-judiciary","tag-reports","tag-sen","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}