they allege the justice department cannot investigate itself. the warrant is wanted for application, pardon me, for trump campaign, be declassified and made public. if we re able to get the application into the public square, i think we could instill confidence in the american people that the fbi and the department of justice were biased against the president. they were making misrepresentations to the court and then we ll know which individuals we have to get rid of to really drain this swamp and restore confidence in the critical institutions to our republic. fox news independently can confirm robert mulers investigation has been talking about this as early as november of last year. critics of the special counsel say it s more evidence a long with the wide ranging subpoenas that the investigation has gone beyond the stated mandate of russian interference. we also are learning more about the inspector general s
legal standard for a surveillance warrant was not met in this case and department officials hid the roots with the clinton campaign. and chuck grassley and senator lindsey graham want to investigate the former british spy on the right to investigate the dossier. senator graham said the president should not have attacked the attorney general but the president has a point the justice department cannot investigate itself. i thought the attack on attorney general sessions was unwarranted. i think he s doing his job honorably with integrity and what i ll be doing soon is writing another letter to deputy attorney general rosenstein saying i think the i.g. is an
justice department for in its application for this wiretap order, which was granted, using information from christopher steele, that was opposition research financed by democrats, without adequately explaining to the judge that chris steele was being financed by the campaigned an the dnc. one of the things that supposedly is so misleading about this is that there was all kinds of evidence from all kinds of sources woven together in this application of which this was a single thread. but supposedly the memo focuses on it as if that was it. they just used this one thing and but for that there wouldn t have been a wiretap order. the catch-22 is that the fbi cannot and the justice department cannot talk about all that other stuff to defend itself, to show this was just one thing among many, not the pivotal thing. because to talk about the other stuff would blow all these other intelligence sources the government has for keeping track
investigation. that s what special counsel does. the department cannot simply assign a special counsel to look at things that bother the white house. there has to be enough evidence to have predicated a criminal investigation in the first place. then and only then if the facts warrant can a special counsel be assigned to the case. so far there has been no credible factual or legal claim that anybody at the department of justice violated any law by deciding not to bring charges against hillary clinton or by attempting to meet with fusion gps. in other words, there is no investigation to which the department could even assign a new special counsel. second, the list of grievances raised by the majority for review by a new special counsel seems wildly off the mark. for example. there is nothing unlawful for comey sitting down to draft an early statement about the clinton investigation or not unethical to outline the conclusions before the investigation was over if the clear weight of the e
investigation outside the ordinary chain of command. but the key here is the criminal investigation. that s what special counsel does. the department cannot simply assign a special counsel to look at things that bother the white house. there has to be enough evidence to have predicated a criminal investigation in the first place. then and only then, if the facts warrant, can a special counsel be assigned to the case. so far, there has been no credible factual legal claim that anybody at the department of justice violated any law by deciding not to bring charges against hillary clinton or by attempting to meet with fusion gps. in other words, there is no investigation to which the department could even assign a new special counsel. second, the list of grievances raised by the majority for review by a new special counsel also seems wildly off the mark. for example, there is nothing unlawful about directors comey sitting down to draft an early statement about the clinton investigation. no