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ICYMI: Hice, Colleagues Introduce Resolution for Second Special Counsel“It is time we investigate the investigators”Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jody Hice (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, today spoke with Harris Faulkner on Fox News’ Outnumbered Overtime to discuss joining his colleagues in introducing a resolution calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel. The resolution directs an investigation into matters associated with three topics: the ending of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal email server, the progress of the Trump-Russia investigation from its origins through the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, and the abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the warrant application process.
On having a deal in place that says they’re going to look into whether someone infiltrated the Trump campaign: “It certainly is a step in the right direction, Harris. We have got to get to the bottom of this. Just to think of the possibility of our federal government spying on private citizens and infiltrating the Trump campaign is infuriating. It is as far away from what America is supposed to be as one can imagine….we are now calling for a second special counsel to take this thing even farther and get to the bottom of it.” Why a second special counsel?: “Because we haven’t gotten answers. Truth, justice, and transparency: these are pillars of our American government. They’re not partisan issues, and they are who we are as a Nation. The rule of law is our backbone, and when you have individuals high up in the FBI and the Department of Justice either ignoring the law or creating one of own of their own, we then, as Members of Congress, are accountable to hold them to the standard of law. We have not been able to get to that point yet, so a special counsel now is necessary in order to get to the bottom of what is going on.” On the President’s remarks, “If they had spies in my campaign that would be a disgrace, I hope there weren’t. It would be illegal and unprecedented.” “We had people in the DOJ and the FBI that did everything they could to make sure that Hilary Clinton was not going to be indicted, and at the same time doing everything they could to make sure that Donald Trump would not be the president, even to the extent of possibly infiltrating the campaign. This is unthinkable, and it’s something we absolutely got to get to the bottom of. Where heads need to roll, they need to roll, but the rule of law without any preferential treatment needs to be the high standard that we maintain.”Click here to watch the full interview. ## |
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