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Sen. Hawley: We Have a Pattern of Abuse at the Highest Levels of the FBI and DoJ, Reminiscent of the Worst Days of J. Edgar Hoover

‘It is unlike anything I have ever seen’
By Grabien Staff

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HAWLEY: "Prosecutions got to be done by elected officials. There's a reason for that. It's so that we can hold them accountable."
COX: "Yes."
HAWLEY: "So I don't -- I don't love what the court is doing here, going out and asking opinions of third parties about whether or not somebody ought to be prosecuted. You've got the prosecutor from the Department of Justice saying there was no basis for this. You had an independent review done within the Department of Justice that found that the guy was improperly prosecuted. So that ought to be the end of it. I think it's pretty dangerous to go out and to ask other people do you think he ought to be prosecuted. What -- what's going to happen? The judge's going to order somebody else to prosecute? Flynn over and again -- "
COX: "Yeah."
HAWLEY: "-- the conclusion of the Justice Department. I mean that would set an unbelievable precedent that I'm not familiar with ever in our history. So bottom line on this though Marc is that we have a pattern here. Whether it's Michael Flynn or whether it is the lying to the FISA court to get wiretaps on the Trump campaign, we have a pattern of abuse at the highest levels of the FBI and the Justice Department in the last administration. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. It reminds you of the worst days of J. Edgar Hoover, you know that we've all read about from decades and decades ago. This has got to stop and we've got to get to the bottom of it."
 

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