Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he plans to send a letter asking other countries to cooperate with the Justice Department’s (DOJ) probe into the origins of the Mueller investigation.
Graham, during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday, knocked a New York Times report about President Trump asking the Australian government to assist Attorney General William Barr as part of the DOJ investigation.
“Barr should be talking to Australia. He should be talking to Italy. He should be talking to the U.K. to find out if their intelligence services worked with our intelligence services improperly to open up a counterintelligence investigation of Trump’s campaign. If he’s not doing that he’s not doing his job,” Graham said.
“So I’m going to write a letter to all three countries … asking them to cooperate with Barr,” he added.
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Graham’s Fox News interview comes after The New York Times reported that Trump urged Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help Barr, according to two officials with knowledge of the call. The Justice Department subsequently confirmed that Trump had contacted foreign governments at Barr’s request.
Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and has emerged as a close ally of Trump, blasted the Times piece, characterizing it as “the beginning of an effort to shut down Barr’s investigation.”
“This New York Times article is an effort to stop Barr. … What are they afraid of? This really bothers me a lot that the left is going to try to say there’s something wrong with Barr talking to Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom,” he added.
Barr said earlier this year that he planned to investigate the intelligence collection on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election to determine whether it was “adequately predicated.”
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Graham asks countries to cooperate with Barr in probe of Russia inquiry's origins https://t.co/CCb3Z3BY8K pic.twitter.com/5OGgJTXoOf
— The Hill (@thehill) October 1, 2019
Lindsey Graham wrote to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and Britain that US intelligence officials used a “deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay” during the 2016 election https://t.co/ofa6VSoHt7
— POLITICO (@politico) October 3, 2019
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