Senator Hawley: IG Report Shows FBI ‘Effectively Meddled’ in 2016 Election

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questions witnesses during a Senate hearing in Washington in a Dec. 3, 2019, file photograph. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report shows that the FBI “effectively meddled” in the 2016 presidential election.

Horowitz found FBI agents made 17 “significant errors or omissions” in FISA warrant applications to surveil Trump 2016 presidential campaign associate Carter Page.