Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Monday evening that his panel will vote June 4 on a subpoena authorization to review documents and communications and solicit testimony from an array of senior Obama-era officials, including former FBI Director James Comey.
Graham announced in a press release that the subpoena vote will take place as part of his panel’s investigation into “FISA abuse” and the FBI probe “Crossfire Hurricane,” which investigated contacts between Trump advisers and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.
The subpoenas will cover “documents, communications and testimony from witnesses” including Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Under Senate Judiciary Committee rules, the chairman cannot unilaterally issue a subpoena and must either receive the consent of the ranking member, in this case Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), or secure a majority committee vote.
Graham and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are spearheading Senate Republicans’ investigation into whether the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign in 2016, which later evolved into former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between Trump advisers and Russian officials, was politically motivated.
Republicans last week touted a declassified National Security Agency document released by acting DNI Richard Grenell showing that 39 former senior Obama administration officials — including Comey, Clapper and Brennan — requested authority to know the identity of an American individual whose conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were intercepted by U.S. intelligence.
That official turned out to be former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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#BREAKING: Graham announces vote on subpoena for Comey, Obama-era intel officials https://t.co/aFkfu9bO6S pic.twitter.com/9898OWwcCV
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2020
Wow — Graham announces Senate Judiciary will vote on a broad subpoena giving him the authority to compel documents and testimony from former Obama administration officials as part of the committee’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. pic.twitter.com/2wHZ5XzwZZ
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) May 18, 2020
AG William Barr issued an apparent rebuke of President Trump’s efforts to hatch vague accusations of misconduct by former Obama administration officials — all while lamenting Trump’s treatment by federal law enforcement officers during the Russia probe https://t.co/j5eFJI9uOH pic.twitter.com/nUf5gSBOip
— POLITICO (@politico) May 18, 2020
Trump "surprised" Barr sees no criminal probe into Obama, Biden https://t.co/GZ9kLGFo7d pic.twitter.com/XN9W5RJMmz
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2020
Sen. Lindsey Graham is preparing to ask his colleagues for blanket permission to subpoena dozens of Obama and Trump administration officials connected to the Russia probe — and contacts between Trump's team and Russians.https://t.co/xkXMDmXfqd
— POLITICO (@politico) May 19, 2020
My new article for @thedailybeast warns you what Bill Barr was *really* up to yesterday, and it isn’t pretty.
Bill Barr Is Ready to Kick Off the ‘Obamagate’ Show Trials https://t.co/7jVcQlNB8D via @twitter_page
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 19, 2020
But according to Trump and company, congressional subpoenas need not be complied with . . . or did I miss something? Let’s be clear, Linsey Graham is doing the political hit job that President Zelensky was unwilling to do. https://t.co/5nA0pqCLPH
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) May 19, 2020
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