Lock Him Up: Lindsey Graham encouraged McCain to turn Trump-Russia 'Steele Dossier' over to the FBI

Mod: The ultra rightwing nut-jobs of the so-called Congressional Freedom Caucus (along with the very butt hurt Donald Trump himselflink), deeply desire to investigate whoever was responsible for turning the Steele Dossier over to the FBI, thus initiating what they are now calling the Mueller investigation "coup attempt." So who was in on this dirty deed? Turns out one fellow was Donald's most pliant cheerleader, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

Lindsey Graham encouraged McCain to turn Trump-Russia dossier over to FBI (CNNlink): GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that he told the late Sen. John McCain to turn over the dossier of Trump-Russia allegations to the FBI, pushing back against President Donald Trump's assertions that the Arizona Republican helped fan the flames of the Russia investigation.

Graham told CNN after a news conference that he told Trump in Florida this weekend that "Sen. McCain deserves better" than the way the President has been publicly disparaging the late senator and war hero in the last week. And Graham publicly acknowledged he had advanced knowledge of the dossier, the existence of which has enraged the President.

Graham defended McCain's role and said that he told Trump that his close friend's involvement was limited. Graham said that he "was very direct" with Trump, and if Trump believes it was the McCain people who spread this,"he's right. There were some McCain people that took a piece of garbage and tried to go after Trump after the election."

Graham added: "I told the President it was not John McCain. I know because John McCain showed me the dossier. And I told him the only thing I knew to do with it, it could be a bunch of garbage, it could be true, who knows? Turn it over to somebody who's job it is to find these things out and John McCain acted appropriately."

Asked more about the matter later, Graham said he put the dossier in "a safe" the day he got it and turned it over to the FBI the next day. "And I understand that, clearly people are in the McCain world that did some things inappropriate but it was not John McCain. John McCain did not give it to anybody in the press, he talked to me just as soon as he got it, and he turned it over to the FBI and that's exactly what he should have done.

Former McCain aide David Kramer approached the Arizona senator after the 2016 elections with former British spy Christopher Steele's dossier of Trump-Russia connections, and then McCain said he delivered the documents to the FBI, saying that was the extent of his involvement.
Mod: The hypocrisy is piling up. Graham now wants to investigate how the 'Steele Dossier' got handed over to the FBI. All he needs to do is look in his favorite mirror.

Graham Wants A New Special Counsel To Probe DOJ Handling Of Dossier (CNNlink): Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Monday that, now that the special counsel’s Russia investigation had wrapped up, his committee would be going full speed ahead in investigating the Justice Department for how it handled the Clinton email probe as well as for the warrants it obtained to surveil a former Trump campaign advisor in 2016.

At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Graham said he was satisfied with Attorney General Bill Barr’s assessment that there was not sufficient evidence to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, and that his committee would not be relitigating that question based on what further information Congress receives from the Mueller report.

Graham said he was planning on speaking to Barr at noon Monday, and that he would ask Barr to appoint a second special counsel. 

Graham wants a special counsel to investigate how the FBI obtained surveillance warrants for ex-Trump advisor Carter Page and whether it made inappropriate political decisions based on a dossier indirectly financed by the Clinton campaign. “What makes no sense to me is all of the abuse by the Department of Justice and the FBI— the unprofessional conduct, the shady behavior — nobody seems to thinks that’s much important,” Graham“Well, that’s going to change I hope.”