Lindsey Graham Says AG Barr Upset With Lack of Hillary Email Investigation, “I Hope There’s a Special Counsel Appointed”!

Here's more on the story, from the Washington Examiner:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Attorney General William Barr is "pretty upset" with how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.

During an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he hopes Barr will appoint a special counsel to look into potential political bias.

"So it seems to me that she was interviewed not under oath. She had a couple of her staff people with her. People in her campaign were given immunity without anything in return. Nobody in the Clinton investigation went to jail for lying about the process because there was no process," Graham told host Maria Bartiromo. 

"I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled," he added, noting he's not sure how Barr will act.

"I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior," Graham said. "I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role. But I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, you know? Because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation for criminality yet and somebody should."

Asked if he thinks the Clinton emails investigation will be reopened, Graham demurred.

“I'm not so much worried about retrying her, but I want to make sure that the public understands that she got away with something they wouldn't get away with," he said. "I think it's important to understand that political bias probably drove the Clinton outcome, not the facts. I really don't believe that Comey just took over the investigation from [former Attorney General Loretta] Lynch based on a tarmac meeting. I just want the American public to know that the standard used against Clinton is an outlier. It's not the way business is done. And why did they choose that path? I think they had a political bias. They wanted Clinton to win, Trump to lose. And here's the point. How could she win if the Department of Justice indicted her? I think that's what drove the decision not to indict. They wanted her to win.”

The Daily Wire added this:

Appearing on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Graham told Maria Bartiromo that there needs to be an investigation into the other side regarding the 2016 election, including the "Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse [and] the counterintelligence investigation."

"Nobody in the Clinton e-mail investigation went to jail for lying about the process, because there was no process," Graham said. "And I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled. I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior. I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role, but I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation, criminality yet — and somebody should."

"I'm not so much worried about retrying her, but I want to make sure that the public understands that she got away with something they wouldn't get away with. I think it's important to understand that political bias probably drove the Clinton outcome, not the facts," Graham continued. "I really don't believe that Comey just took over the investigation from Lynch based on a tarmac meeting. I just want the American public to know that the standard used against Clinton is an outlier. It's not the way business is done. And why did they choose that path? I think they had a political bias. They wanted Clinton to win, Trump to lose. And here's the point. How could she win if the Department of Justice indicted her? I think that's what drove the decision not to indict. They wanted her to win."

Graham said that his job is to provide oversight and to find out how the system was derailed so it does not happen again.

"Do we need to rewrite the FISA laws to make sure this never happens again?” Graham added. "Do we need to have congressional rules about counterintelligence investigations or presidential campaigns? But somebody needs to look at the behavior and see if they violated the law [in the manner that] Mueller looked at the Trump campaign extensively. Nobody's taking a look at the other side and I hope Bill Barr will either appoint a special counsel to do that or do it himself because it's important that both campaigns be looked at, not just one."

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