Sen Lindsey Graham was able to get AG Bill Barr to help him retrieve FBI documents that director Christopher Wray has kept hidden from members of congress and other investigators. In 2018, an FBI agent briefed US Senators and in the briefing he told them that there was no reason to disbelieve the Steele Dossier.
The new documents prove that was a total lie and the FBI was well aware of it. This occurred under Wray’s watch. The primary source told FBI agents that some of the stories attributed to him were not his. Other stories he said that Steele embellished what he told him since he told Steele that these were merely rumors. And the hooker story was just a joke told during a night of drinking. This was well known to the FBI a full year before the briefing.
Graham said:
“It was [Justice Department’s inspector general Michael] Horowitz, during his investigation of the warrant application, [who] found information in 2018 where the FBI was called on the Senate Intel Committee because people were getting suspicious about the subsource … at the Senate Intel Committee level and the FBI was sent over to brief them. And they did to the Senate Intel Committee what they did to the FISA court. They misled the hell out of them. They said there’s no evidence from the subsource to suggest that Steele fabricated anything in the dossier.”
“Actually, the subsource said it was all bar talk, hearsay, speculation and conjecture, and the whole sexual activity of the president was made in jest. So they completely misrepresented to the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 what the subsource had told the FBI in 2017,” Graham said.
“Somebody needs to go to jail for this,” Graham said. “This is a second lie. This is a second crime. They lied to the FISA court. They got rebuked, the FBI did, in 2019 by the FISA court, putting in doubt all FISA applications … a year before, they’re lying to the Senate Intel Committee. It’s just amazing the compounding of the lies.”
“I’m gonna’ find out who did that briefing, and whoever it is, they’re in trouble,” Graham vowed.