Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Sen. Lindsey Graham referred former British spy agent Christopher Steele of the “Trump dossier” fame to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is chairman of a justice panel subcommittee, asked that Steele be investigated for misleading federal investigators. The maximum punishment for misleading the federal government under oath is five years.
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Grassley and Graham included an attached classified document describing “certain communications between Christopher Steele and multiple U.S. news outlets regarding the so-called Trump dossier that Mr. Steele compiled on behalf of Fusion GPS for the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee and also provided to the FBI.”
The dossier included multiple salacious claims about Trump’s conduct during a business trip to Russia.
Steele’s sources included persons linked to the Russian government.
PoliZette White House writer Jim Stinson can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter.
(photo credit, homepage image: Chuck Grassley, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore; photo credit, article image: Chuck Grassley, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore)
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