Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are demanding Special Counsel John Durham disclose why several prominent Russia hoaxers, including a former director and deputy director of the FBI and several counterintelligence personnel, failed to testify about their roles in a coup against former President Donald Trump and the will of the American people.
Durham’s 306-page report, published earlier this month, detailed how Democrat operatives packaged and sold a lie to the all-too-believing Obama administration FBI that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
Missing from the thorough look into Crossfire Hurricane, Grassley and Johnson noted in a letter on Wednesday, were the testimonies of several key Spygate hoaxers such as former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the scandal-plagued former FBI agent Peter Strzok, then-assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap, disgraced felon and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, and Fusion GPS’s lying Glenn Simpson.
“In order to better understand what, if any, actions your office took to obtain information from relevant individuals, we request that you provide detailed information related to the following individuals who apparently declined to fully cooperate with your investigation,” the senators wrote.
Some of the potential witnesses, such as Strzok and Priestap, initially agreed to provide Durham information “concerning matters related to the FBI’s Alfa Bank investigation” but “otherwise declined to be interviewed … on matters related to [their] role in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
McCabe refused to talk even after Durham “offered to
