Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Troubling Legacy: U.S. Attorney John Huber’s Probe of FBI Misconduct
March 18, 2019 by IWB
There are two major investigations taking place concurrently at the U.S. Department of Justice; i.e., Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion and U.S. Attorney John Huber’s investigation into purported FBI misconduct. The Mueller investigation began in May 2017. U.S. Attorney John Huber’s investigation began in November 2017 after former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions bowed to congressional pressure and selected Huber to look into alleged malfeasance by FBI officials.
John Huber, a Utah-based U.S. Attorney appointed by President Obama in 2015, is looking into the FBI’s use of dubious Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court applications to spy on a Trump associate named Carter Page. He is also investigating the FBI’s handling of the Uranium One deal and probably the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation as well. Huber is yet to deliver any report of his findings after almost a year and a half, despite a plethora of incriminating evidence.
Most observers would agree that both probes should have ended a long time ago. The question is whether the two investigations are being coordinated internally to ensure that both of them are compatible with each other. If so, it would mean there is a disturbing political component to both investigations, which could directly influence the results. Instead, the investigations should be based on hard evidence and nothing else. After all, it was politics that supposedly led Trump to collude with Russia to swing a national election his way. Political considerations may also have driven the FBI to ignore Russian illegal activities that led to approval of the Uranium One deal by U.S. officials. And it was politics that drove FBI and DOJ officials to exonerate Hillary Clinton and undercut Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and continue to harass Trump after the election. Therefore, the Mueller and Huber investigations should be based on findings independent of each other without introducing extraneous politics into the mix.
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