Senate Judiciary panel chief wants Barr testimony on Mueller report
WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday he will ask Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to look into the origins of the probe of whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
He said it was time to look at the Clinton campaign and the origins of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant for former Trump adviser Carter Page, which was based in part on information in a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who co-founded a private intelligence firm.
However, Steele was initially contracted by FusionGPS, a Washington-based political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of unidentified Republicans who wanted to stop Trump’s bid for the party’s nomination. Graham said he wants Barr to appear before the Judiciary Committee to discuss Mueller’s report, which concluded Russia did attempt to intervene in the election on Trump’s behalf.
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