Two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee called Thursday for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate documents alleging a “treasonous conspiracy” by former President Barack Obama’s administration to amplify “manufactured intelligence” of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas are pressing Bondi to appoint a special counsel after Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, released extensive sets of declassified documents that she says showed “what was essentially a yearslong coup” and a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump staged shortly after his 2016 election victory over Hillary Clinton.
“For the good of the country, we urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff, and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome,” Graham and Cornyn said in a joint statement. “As we have supported in the past, appointing an independent special counsel would do the country a tremendous service in this case.
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