Sen. Cruz on FBI Abuse: 'How High Up the Chain Did This Go?'
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to the media with other Republicans. |
He was talking about the Justice Department inspector-general report, which detailed 17 serious misrepresentations the FBI and the Justice Department made to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
"Well, the inspector general report is a stunning indictment of the politicization of the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI," Cruz said.
Did the attorney general, did Loretta Lynch sign off on spying on the Trump campaign in the middle of the -- of the election? Did the national security adviser at the White House? Did Barack Obama? Did Joe Biden?
I got to tell you, in most administrations, if you're launching an investigation a major political figure like the Republican nominee for president, your opponent, they would be read in. Nobody's asking those questions about whether Barack Obama and Joe Biden personally signed off on spying on and surveilling their political opponents.
Not a single Democrat in the House cares about the answer to any of this. It's beyond crickets. You cannot ask about abuse of power or investigation. That's wrong.
Sen. Cruz said the most "stunning example" uncovered by the inspector general concerns the senior lawyer at the FBI who "fabricated evidence."
"And here's what happened," Cruz said:
Now, an obvious question, if you have someone talking to sketchy Russians, is, well, are they working for the CIA? Because that's a very different inference. If someone's working for the CIA, then talking to sketchy Russians isn't that surprising. The CIA -- he's doing his job...So the FBI sends an e-mail to the CIA, says, hey, is this guy a source for you? The CIA e-mails back, and they say, yes, he's a source.
The FBI assistant general counsel takes that e-mail. And he alters it...So the CIA said, yes, he's a source. The FBI lawyer types in, no, he is not a source. A hundred and eighty degrees, exactly opposite.
He then sends that e-mail on to the Department of Justice that uses that as the basis for a sworn statement to the FISA court to get a wiretap.
"One of the things that's so offensive, it's clear these guys assumed Hillary would win, which would mean there'd be no accountability at all," Cruz said. "They could get away with this, because no one would check."
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Susan Jones (@SJonesCNS) writes for CNSNews a division of the Media Research Center, a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization.
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