Sen. Lindsey Graham made a startling revelation on Sunday that proves, yet again, that President Barack Obama was one of the most corrupt leaders in our nation’s history and that he completely politicized the Justice Department and the FBI.
In an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, the South Carolina Republican revealed that he would be turning over documents to U.S. Attorney John Durham indicating that Obama’s and James Comey’s FBI provided a defensive brief to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her 2016 campaign but didn’t do the same for then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.
And this bombshell: Graham said he couldn’t say which country it was, but a foreign government was attempting to help Hillary get elected.
A statement from his office noted:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today released newly declassified FBI documents and communications demonstrating the Bureau’s double standard when it came to the Clinton and Trump campaigns.
According to these declassified documents and communications, in 2015 FBI leadership sought to give the Clinton campaign a defensive briefing before an FBI field office could pursue a FISA warrant related to a threat posed to the Clinton campaign by a foreign government. But in 2016 when there was a similar counterintelligence threat to the Trump campaign, FBI leadership failed to give a defensive briefing to the Trump campaign, opting instead to open the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and relentlessly pursue FISA warrants targeting the Trump campaign.
“There was a clear double standard by the Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump and Clinton campaigns in 2016,” Graham said in his statement.
“These newly released documents indicate that a foreign government was trying to influence the Clinton campaign through a campaign associate and the FBI was seeking a FISA warrant. However, the Bureau, as it is supposed to do, required that Hillary Clinton be defensively briefed about the matter so she could engage in corrective action,” he continued.
“When it came to the Trump campaign, there were four counterintelligence investigations opened against Trump campaign associates. Not one time was President Trump defensively briefed about the FBI’s concerns,” he said.
Not once.
“Even more egregious, when the FBI gave a generic briefing to the Trump campaign about foreign influence, not only did they fail to mention the specific concerns about Trump associates, they sent an FBI agent into the briefing to monitor President Trump and General Flynn,” said the South Carolina Republican who’s up for reelection but considered to be a shoo-in.
“The FBI used the generic briefing as an intelligence gathering tool, which I believe to be inappropriate and shameful. The FBI did the right thing by briefing Clinton and failed to do the right thing by never specifically briefing President Trump about their concerns,” Graham added.
“Counterintelligence investigations are designed to protect American interests from foreign influence. They are not criminal in nature. Given all the stunning revelations of FBI bias compiled by Inspector General [Michael] Horowitz and others, it is clear to me why there was double standard — the FBI was not trying to protect the Trump campaign, they were trying to infiltrate the campaign and undermine his presidency,” he said.
Graham has been on a tear recently to get to the bottom of the Obama-Biden-Comey spy blitz against the Trump campaign. He had a hearing earlier this month and questioned former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and he’s revealed additional bombshell info as well.
“My goal is to make sure we have tools to protect American political campaigns from foreign influence, but these tools cannot be used as political weapons by law enforcement or prosecutors,” he continued.
“I will, as Chairman of the Committee, try to reform the FISA counterintelligence programs because they are necessary tools in the times in which we live. However, no reform will work until those who abused the programs in the past are held accountable by either dismissal or prosecution. Without accountability there will never be trust,” he said.
Graham discussed his findings with Maria:
