'It is very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer in our country is going off the rails yesterday and today,' Speaker Pelosi said. 'He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not of Donald Trump.'
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"When you start linking spying with law enforcement or the intelligence community, that sets off red flags everywhere," Warner added."And that's why I think he does a disservice to the men and women who work in the Department of Justice and the FBI, who if they had not started a counterintelligence investigation into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election, they would be skewered and rightfully so.
"Spying is a loaded term. The attorney general is smart enough to know that it's a loaded term," he said.Pelosi, D-Calif., also weighed in, telling reporters,"It is very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer in our country is going off the rails yesterday and today. He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not of Donald Trump.
"The only spies interfering in the 2016 campaign were Russian ones," Blumenthal said."As Attorney General Barr himself admitted, there is absolutely no evidence that our nation's own law enforcement officers did anything unlawful during their investigation into Russian meddling in our democracy. To recklessly suggest otherwise is deeply offensive — and worse, it is dangerous.
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