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GOP senators back probe into Obama officials, as critics accuse Trump administration of Epstein deflection

From CNN’s Morgan Rimmer

GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration’s intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The move comes after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released a congressional report on intelligence related to Russian interference, a move that critics say was meant to distract from controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The report, originally written by the House Intelligence Committee during President Donald Trump’s first term, argued that the intelligence assessment that Russia sought to help Trump win the 2016 election made analytical leaps based on relatively thin sourcing and failed to weigh contradictory intelligence highly enough.

“For the good of the country, we urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff, and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome,” Graham and Cornyn wrote in a statement today.

Bondi announced yesterday that she is creating a “strike force” at DOJ to assess the intelligence. Congressional Democrats have accused Gabbard of endangering intelligence sources and methods by declassifying the report, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s own review of the Russian interference intelligence assessment does not match Gabbard’s insistence that the allegation regarding Trump was “manufactured.”

A special counsel spent four years investigating a wide range of matters related to Russian interference in the 2016 election and never accused US officials of any crimes related to the 2017 intelligence assessment.

Go deeper: Here’s a closer look at how the administration’s claims conflate and misrepresent the intelligence community’s conclusions on Russian interference.