On overbearing FBI, aggressive non-answers from Lindsey Graham

Published February 25, 2019 1:37pm ET



Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has become something of a publicity hog — but a very selective one.

Late in January, I wrote approvingly of Graham’s demand that FBI Director Christopher Wray provide a briefing on why such heavily armed force was used to arrest Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone. Bizarrely, Graham then went silent about whether or not the FBI ever provided the briefing he had requested, with press aide Kevin Bishop haughtily fending off simple and friendly questions by explaining the Graham team’s refusal to answer in this way:

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