Justice Department officials will soon interview some senior CIA officers as part of Attorney General William Barr’s “investigate the investigators” review of the origins of the Russia probe, The New York Times reported.
According to people briefed on the matter who spoke to the Times, Justice Department investigators are interested in hearing from a senior counterintelligence official and a CIA analyst who were directly involved in efforts to understand the degree of Russian meddling in 2016 from the onset of the probe. The inquiry is reportedly making CIA officials anxious, according to the Times.
The review is all part of Barr’s interest in reviewing whether the Russia probe was handled legally and ethically from its earliest days, particularly in regards to the intelligence community’s surveillance of some key Trump campaign members. Barr seems to believe that “spying” occurred, a word he borrowed from President Trump, who has consistently deemed the entire probe into Russian election interference a “witch hunt.”
Is it me or is there the smell of BENGHAZI!!! in the air?
Why not just send them right to the gulag?
The outcome is predetermined, just as it was the last time Stalin was in charge.
Claiming that there are CIA officers that must be interviewed will make it a lot easier to claim that this investigation must be shut down too, to avoid national security issues.
Barr’s job is to hold the line in the Senate in an impeachment vote. Provide a minimum of 34 Senators a plausible rationale for voting to acquit in the face of all evidence of malfeasance and criminality to the contrary.
Do these DOJ folks have the proper clearances to question CIA officers?