Chuck Grassley: “over the last 3 or 4 years, I have come to the floor to discuss with my colleagues information that I get from…”

“over the last 3 or 4 years, I have come to the floor to discuss with my colleagues information that I get from whistleblowers in the FBI and the Department of Justice, most of it dealing with the subject of the critical weaponization of people at the highest levels of the FBI and their violating of protocol, getting involved in political situations that the FBI has no business being in. Last week, when Mr. Patel was before my Judiciary Committee, I released some new emails that I have gotten that show further involvement of certain people in the case against Trump that Jack Smith headed up. I am here today because, when I released those emails, last week, there was a New York Times story that got it all wrong. So, today, I want to bring to my colleagues' attention a January 30, 2025, New York Times article from Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer about my and Senator Johnson's oversight of the FBI. In that article they said: ``FBI emails released Thursday showed that agents and officials followed standard procedure'' when opening the Trump elector case. Well, they read it wrong, and I am going to tell you why they read it wrong. The article written by these two can be summed up like this: a very wet kiss to the politically biased leadership within the FBI. Last week, Senator Johnson and I made public FBI records that showed a snapshot into the origins of the Jack Smith elector case against Trump.…”