[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 100 (Thursday, May 28, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E496]
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                        NEW SCANDAL CONFIRMATION

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 28, 2020

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, every day new evidence 
is revealed of the scandalous government spying on the Donald Trump 
Campaign and the rogue FBI and intelligence agencies conspiracy to 
sabotage the Donald Trump Presidency, I include in the Record today's 
revelations in the The Washington Times by Rowan Scarborough entitled 
`Tail wagging the dog':

       Not much was going on in the Michael Flynn probe until The 
     Washington Post and a leaker reenergized the FBI, according 
     to a newly disclosed transcript of closed-door testimony by 
     former bureau Director James B. Comey.
       The FBI had filled out the paperwork to end the Flynn-
     Russia probe, but Mr. Comey halted the closing in early 
     January 2017. Transcripts emerged of the incoming White House 
     national security adviser talking by phone with Kremlin envoy 
     Sergey Kislyak.
       The retired three-star Army general and Mr. Kislyak talked 
     about not overreacting to economic sanctions that President 
     Obama imposed on Dec. 31, 2016, in retaliation for Moscow's 
     election interference.
       Mr. Comey went to work. He provided top-secret call 
     intercept material to Director of National Intelligence James 
     R. Clapper, who told Mr. Obama. At a Jan. 5 White House 
     meeting, the FBI chief and Mr. Obama again discussed that 
     Flynn had talked with Russians during the transition. There 
     is no law, per se, against such communications.
       And there things stood, Mr. Comey said in his most 
     extensive narrative of what he did in the pivotal January 
     time frame when the Obama team was leaving the White House to 
     Donald Trump.

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