Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Justice Department to launch a grand jury investigation into the Obama administration officials who oversaw a probe into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of President Donald Trump, according to multiple reports Monday evening.
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, forwarded a criminal referral last month to the DOJ for a number of Obama-era officials — all of them unnamed — who she said “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork” for an FBI investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and the country’s attempts to influence U.S. elections.
Gabbard also released hundreds of redacted documents last month related to the case and launched a task force aimed at undermining the intelligence community’s 2017 conclusion that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential race but failed to flip any votes.