Republican senators refer 'Trump dossier' author Christopher Steele for criminal investigation

Source: Washington Examiner | January 5, 2018 | Kelly Cohen

Two Republican senators have recommended that the Department of Justice criminally investigate the author of the Trump dossier.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a senior committee member, told the Justice Department they believe Christopher Steele, the former British spy who helped put together the dossier, knowingly lied to federal authorities about his communications with U.S. journalists.

The recommendation is the first known criminal recommendation from Congress’s multiple Russia probes.

Grassley and Graham delivered a letter, as well as a classified memo, to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray containing the basis for the criminal investigation.

“Based on the information contained therein, we are respectfully referring Mr. Steele to you for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, for statements the Committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained,” they said in a press statement.

That federal criminal code refers to knowingly and willfully making false or misleading statements to federal authorities.

Grassley indicated that Steele didn’t tell the truth when asked by the FBI whether he leaked parts of the dossier to reporters.

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