Second special counsel needed to uncover FBI-DOJ abuses with Democrats taking over House

Sara Carter:
Over the past two years Republican and Democratic lawmakers have waged battles both behind closed doors and in public, which have exposed startling evidence of possible malfeasance within the FBI, as well as mounting concerns regarding conflicts of interest, back channeling of information within the DOJ and possible criminal violations regarding the FBI’s dealings with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
But with Democrats taking over the House next year, Republicans will be limited in their scope to investigate and will lose their power to subpoena witnesses. The party, will in effect, be at the mercy of Democrats. So where does this leave the Republican’s ongoing investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe and Hillary Clinton’s use of private servers for government business?

It may all lie in the hands of Barr, who served as attorney general during the first Bush administration from 1991 to 1993. It is in his purvey to appoint a second Special Counsel to investigate the growing body of evidence regarding the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe. Barr would not be limited from his role, like former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the Russia investigation and appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has overseen Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation.
On Friday, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-CA, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told SaraACarter.com that a second Special Counsel may be the only way to hold those who may have broken the law accountable. He noted that the email exchanges between senior FBI and DOJ officials during the FBI’s investigation into Russia Trump may contain information that the committee believes will show that exculpatory information was held from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when the FBI sought a warrant to spy on short-term campaign volunteer Carter Page.

“Based on the evidence we have, a second special counsel is looking increasingly necessary,” Nunes told this reporter Friday. “There are indications of serious wrongdoing, and the FBI and DOJ can’t be expected to investigate themselves. At any rate, what we want most now is for President Trump to declassify the evidence, so the American people can see more clearly what abuses were committed and who committed them.”

Nunes, along with other Republican lawmakers, have requested that the DOJ to declassify the emails for months but the DOJ has refused, he noted. The request for declassification is now with Trump and lawmakers are not sure if he will take the next step to declassify. The committee is also requesting that Trump declassify the ‘Gang of Eight’ dossier, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Page and the FBI interviews with DOJ senior official Bruce Ohr, who was used as a backchannel by the FBI to collect information from former British spy Christopher Steele after he was released by the FBI as a confidential informant. Steele compiled the unverified dossier on Trump’s campaign that was used as the bulk of information to obtain the warrant from the court to spy on Page.

The biggest question is will Barr be able to buck any Democrat pressure and call for a second Special Counsel if his nomination is approved, say lawmakers and legal analysts who spoke to this news site.
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It is also needed because Mueller has ignored these abuses of power and focused all his efforts on manufacturing crimes against former Trump associates, after finding no evidence to support the Democrats bogus allegations of Russian collusion.   The DOJ and FBI appear unable to investigate themselves and the IG has limited ability to go after the miscreants.

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