Four Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey asking the bureau to explain the practices that led to the indictment on campaign finance charges of conservative intellectual and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The lawmakers, Charles Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz, are apparently concerned that D’Souza might have been the victim of a selective prosecution.
“The Washington Post and other news outlets reported that the U.S. Attorney’s Office said that the investigation that led to the [D’Souza] indictment began as a result of a ‘routine review by the FBI of campaign filings with the FEC of various candidates after the 2012 election,'” the senators wrote. “The articles, however, did not provide any details regarding the scope and methodology of these routine reviews.”
