We call on a newly appointed special counsel to investigate, consistant with appropriate
Regulations, the following questions, many of which were previously posed by this Committee
And remain unanswered:
1) Then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch directing Mr. Comey to mislead the American people on the nature of the Clinton investigation;
2) The shadow cast over our system of justice concerning Secretary Clinton and her involvement in mishandling classified information;
3) FBI and DOJ’s investigative decisions related to former Secretary Clinton’s email investigation, including the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to potentioal Clinton co-conspirators Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, John Bentel and possibly others;
4) The apparent failure of DOJ to empanel a grand jury to investigate allegations of mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and her associates;
5) The Department of State and its employees’ involvement in determining which communications of Secretary Clinton’s and her associates to turn over for public scrutiny;
6) Wikileaks disclosures concerning the Clinton Foundation and its potentially unlawful international dealings;
7) Connections between the Clinton campaign, or the Clinton Foundation, and foreign entities, including those from Russia and Ukraine;
8) Mr. Comey’s knowledge of the purchase of Uranium One by the company Rosatom, whether the approval of the sale was connected to any donations made to the Clinton Foundation, and what role Secretary Clinton played in the approval of that sale that had national security ramifications;
9) Disclosures arising from unlawful access to Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer systems, including inappropriate collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign;
10) Post-election accusations by the President that he was wiretapped by the previous Administration, and whether Mr. Comey and Ms. Lynch had any knowledge of efforts made by any federal agency to unlawfully monitor communications of then-candidate Trump or his associates;
11) Selected leaks of classified information related to the unmasking of U.S. person identities incidentally collected upon by the intelligence community, incvluding an assessment of whether anyone in the Obama Administration, incliding Mr. Comey, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Susan Rice, Ms. Samantha Power, or others, had any knowledge about the “unmasking” of individuals on the then-candidate Trump’s campaign tean, transitions team, or both;
12) Admitted leaks by Mr. Comey to Columbus University law professor, Daniel Richman, regarding conversations between Mr. Comey and President Trump, how the leaked information was purposefully released to lead to the appointment of a special counsel, and whether any classified information was included in the now infamous “Comey memos”;
13) Mr. Comey’s and the FBI’s apparent reliance on “Fusion GPS” int its investigation of the Trump campaign, including the company’s creation of a “dossier” of information about Mr. Trump, that dossier’s commission and dissemination in the months before and after the 2016 election, whether the FBI paid anyone connected to the dossier, and the intelligence sources of Fusion GPS or any other person or company forking for Fusion GPS and its affiliates; and
14) Any and all potential leaks originated by Mr. Comey and provided to author Michael Schmidt dating back to 1993.
