The FBI did not inform the Senate Judiciary Committee about its probe into Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election, a spokesman for a Republican member of the committee said Thursday.
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Senate Judiciary member: FBI didn't inform us of probe into Sessions' contacts with Russia
The FBI did not inform the Senate Judiciary Committee about its probe into Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election.
"We learned of it last night," the spokesman for Sen. Mike Lee said in an email, referring to an investigation first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal reported Wednesday that the FBI opened an
Lee's spokesperson said the FBI had not yet offered an explanation for why it did not inform the Judiciary Committee about the investigation prior to Sessions' January confirmation hearing. The spokesperson said the senator learned of the investigation through news reports Wednesday evening.
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Sessions denied in the hearing that he had ever communicated with any Russian officials while he was a top Trump campaign surrogate. But reports emerged Wednesday that he met with
Lee's office was the only of any senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee to return requests for comment about whether the committee was briefed on the investigation before Sessions' hearing.
The FBI declined to comment.
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