House Republicans are introducing a resolution that calls for a 2nd Special Prosecutor to investigate the misdeeds of federal agencies in the 2016 election:
FOX NEWS – A group of congressional Republicans plans to introduce a resolution Tuesday calling for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate alleged misconduct at the FBI and Justice Department.
The resolution is backed by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus as well as two of the group’s co-founders — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.
Fox News has learned the 12-page resolution will ask a second special counsel to probe matters related to 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 abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the warrant application process.
The resolution is expected to say that a second special counsel would have greater autonomy to investigate those issues than the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General. Last week, Inspector General Michael Horowitz told lawmakers that he had completed his draft report on the Clinton investigation and submitted it to the DOJ and the FBI.
Chris Stirewalt weighs in on this new resolution, saying that he doesn’t believe it has a chance of passing. However he does explain why he believes they are putting it out there now:
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Essentially Stirewalt believes that some of these Republicans need high visibility in an election year and he believes this is a good way to get it. But even more than that, he argues that with the report by IG Horowitz coming soon, it’s important for Republicans to the idea of a 2nd special counsel out there before the report comes out.
All that may be true. But I think with all the new reporting on potential spying in 2016 of the Trump campaign, it’s clear that it does need to be thoroughly investigated and an IG can only take an investigation so far before he has to hand it off to actual prosecutors. So I can see why they would be calling for a 2nd special counsel.