{"id":4672,"date":"2025-07-29T02:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:39:52","slug":"senate-republicans-push-for-special-counsel-in-obama-russia-election-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans push for special counsel in Obama-Russia election probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Thursday urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether former President Barack Obama and his administration attempted to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Graham wrote, \u201cFor the good of the country, Senator @JohnCornyn and I 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their demand follows the release of a newly declassified document by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which questions earlier assessments that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win.<\/p>\n<p>While the document affirms that Russia interfered in the election, it casts doubt on the narrative that Putin favored Trump specifically.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s office issued a rare response, saying on Tuesday, \u201cThese bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Thursday urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether former President Barack Obama and his administration attempted to sway&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}