Graham Fires Warning Shot At FBI: You’re ‘About To Screw Up Big Time’

Republican Senator Lindsay Graham on Tuesday fired a warning shot at FBI Director James Comey warning him that the FBI would be “about to screw up big time” if it had failed to respond to his subcommittee’s letter asking for “copies of any warrant applications and court orders” related to wiretaps of Donald Trump.

Graham sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey and the acting deputy attorney general last week requesting any information they might have about wiretapping that targeted the Trump campaign before the election.

Graham’s subcommittee will be holding a hearing on Wednesday to investigate “Russian Efforts to Undermine Democracies.”

And Graham told reporters that if the FBI does not respond to his letter before the hearing that he would “make an announcement and let the FBI know they are about to screw up big time — if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter.”

“We have jurisdiction over the FBI,” Graham said. “I like Director Comey a lot. But … all things legal come through the judiciary committee. If they don’t honor this request and give us an answer then I would say that we need a joint select committee because the regular order is not working.”