Rep. Mark Meadows on Thursday slammed as "disappointing" the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that federal prosecutor John Huber was secretly investigating FISA abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department.
Huber, who is from Utah, would then decide whether another special counsel is necessary, Sessions said, according to CNN.
"This DOJ can't appoint a second special counsel after all the troubling documents we've seen?" Meadows, a North Carolina Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, asked on Twitter:
In addition, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday that it would review how the FBI obtained a warrant from the court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor former Trump campaign aide Carter Page and the agency's dealings with Christopher Steele.
Steele is the former British agent who developed an unsubstantiated dossier containing negative information about Republican candidate Donald Trump during the campaign.
GOP legislators have long charged the FISA court was not told the dossier had been financed in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign in the FBI's application for the warrant on Page.
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