'DISGRACEFUL': Trump lashes out at Sessions for using 'Obama guy' to investigate alleged spying abuses

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• President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for tapping an Obama-era inspector general to investigate FISA abuse claims.
• Trump asked why Sessions wasn't using Justice Department lawyers instead.
• Sessions announced Tuesday that he believed it was "the appropriate thing" for the inspector general to take on the investigation.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out once again at his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, enraged that Sessions asked the Justice Department's Obama-era internal watchdog to investigate allegations of surveillance abuse rather than using the department's own lawyers.

"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse," he tweeted, referring to surveillance warrants granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. "Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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