President Trump
on Wednesday lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, accusing the
nation’s top law enforcement officer of not being aggressive enough in
investigating allegations of misconduct in the handling of surveillance
of former Trump adviser Carter Page during the 2016 campaign.
Sessions said on Tuesday
he would ask the Justice Department’s inspector general to look into claims that the
FBI
and other Obama administration officials misled a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court judge when they applied for the warrant to wiretap
Page.
“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse,”
Trump tweeted.
“Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with
reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice
Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”
Sessions responded in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
“We
have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints
against this Department will be fully and fairly acted upon as
necessary,” Sessions said in the statement, first reported by CNN. “As
long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my
duties with integrity and honor, and this Department will continue to do
its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and
Constitution.”
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