‘Thank God for Chairman Grassley’ making DOJ watchdog report public
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined John Solomon and Amanda Head on Just the News, No Noise to discuss his public disclosure of a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) report showing the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s negligence during the Clinton email investigation.
Watch the full interview HERE and below. Excerpts follow.
On the Trump administration’s cooperation with Grassley’s oversight:
“First of all, I think I need to compliment the Trump administration, because I sought information under both Republican and Democrat presidents over decades on a lot of my oversight work. And I'm getting more cooperation from the Trump administration [than I’ve] ever got before.”
On the FBI’s failure to fully investigate Clinton’s private email server:
“We’re talking about [former] Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, [who was] also at the same time candidate for president of the United States, and a person that ought to know better than to keep emails and official correspondence on a server that's not protected in their own home... [W]hat [I’m] making public...is this fact that the FBI knew about it. They got some thumb drives that dealt with all these issues, [and] they didn't even bother to go through [them].
“It was a complete cover up, completely ignoring [the FBI’s] responsibilities. [Just] another way of saving the politicalization and weaponization of the FBI and the Department of Justice [by] turning a blind eye to key evidence while investigating Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information on this private email server.
“These findings prove that the Clinton investigation wasn't thorough and complete... And I've been requesting this report to be declassified for years, and finally, now, after seven years, we got it declassified so the American people can have all the facts at their disposal.
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“Transparency is the first step to accountability. I would expect that now that this stuff's out and the public knows about it, DOJ is going to find some pressure to closely review what has been exposed.”
On anti-Trump efforts to keep President Trump from being reelected:
“Whether it's Jack Smith, what he was doing to put [President Trump] in prison, or what the prosecutor in New York was doing to break him financially or what was done through the Russia hoax and what we call Crossfire Hurricane – all those things lumped together are all conspiracies to get Trump either in jail or out of office or keep him from being re-elected...
“[T]he bottom line is that we ought to be thankful President Trump is back in office so truth can come out to light. And we ought to just thank God that that's the situation, but if these people had their way, he wouldn't [have] even serve[d] those first four years.”
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