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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: libertybele on December 23, 2019, 11:39:11 pm

Title: Sen. Cruz on FBI Abuse: 'How High Up the Chain Did This Go?'
Post by: libertybele on December 23, 2019, 11:39:11 pm
Sen. Cruz on FBI Abuse: 'How High Up the Chain Did This Go?'

 "One of the worst legacies of the Obama administration is the corruption of law enforcement and the intelligence community," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told "Sunday Morning Futures."

He was talking about the Justice Department inspector-general report, which detailed 17 serious misrepresentations the FBI and the Justice Department made to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

"Well, the inspector general report is a stunning indictment of the politicization of the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI," Cruz said.

    And, by the way, the big unanswered question is, how high up the chain did this go? We know that the deputy director of the FBI, McCabe, was read in and authorized this. We know the director of the FBI, James Comey, was read in and authorized this....

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/sen-cruz-fbi-abuse-how-high-chain-did-go (https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/sen-cruz-fbi-abuse-how-high-chain-did-go)