With the Mueller report complete, is another investigation looming?
WASHINGTON (SBG) - With the contents of the Mueller report now public, President Trump and key White House aides are said to be taking a fresh look at declassifying documents that GOP allies believe will expose unlawful actions at the Department of Justice and the FBI purportedly taken against the Trump campaign in 2016. Attorney General William Barr has already begun investigating the investigators at both the DOJ and FBI. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, probing the same matters, is said to be drafting his final report, due within six weeks or so. Any declassification by the president is expected to occur around that time and to focus on the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in October 2016.
"We need to go back to these five key people – Comey, McCabe, Baker, Strzok, Page – and figure out what exactly happened right from the get-go says Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) James Comey was the FBI Director fired by President Trump. Andrew McCabe, a Deputy Director fired for unauthorized disclosures to the news media. James Baker was FBI General Counsel, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were senior FBI officials caught texting about their antipathy for Donald Trump when they were conducting investigations into him and Hillary Clinton. All have denied wrongdoing. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the House Intelligence Committee this week dismissed the Republicans' allegations and cast the Attorney General as a political animal.
For the White House and Congressional Republicans, the forthcoming Inspector General report is an eagerly anticipated event, with the outstanding questions being whether Michael Horowitz will find any wrongdoing, and whether that will entail criminal referrals for potential prosecution.
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