Sessions: FISA Abuse in Obama Administration "Will Be Investigated... We're Not Going to Allow That to Happen"

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in an interview with FOX News Channel's 'Sunday Morning Futures' with Maria Bartiromo, promised that there would be an investigation into alleged FISA abuse by the Obama administration during the 2016 election. "Every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate. That will be investigated and looked at," Sessions said. "I’m not going to talk about the details of it, but I tell you we’re not going to allow that to happen." <BLOCKQUOTE>MARIA BARTIROMO: You mentioned lawlessness. There appears to have been a lot of lawlessness going on in government over the last 8 or 10 years, and I want to ask you about the abuses of the FISA Court because any way you look at it appears the FBI and the Department of Justice were abusing their power over the election because they simply did not like Donald Trump. We know that and a number of issues. Now people wanted you to start handing down justice. Newt Gingrich joined me on this program last Sunday. Here’s what he had to say about that. Listen to this, Mr. Attorney General. <a HREF="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/11/newt_gingrich_if_we_had_a_reasonable_system_of_law_hillary_clinton_and_all_her_aides_would_be_in_jail.html">NEWT GINGRICH: He is not in any way recused on this information. He should be appointing an independent counsel. He should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. I’m totally mystified because he’s a great guy, he’s a solid conservative, he certainly in his career has been a fighter, and this behavior is just totally unlike everything I knew about Jeff Sessions before the last six or eight months.</A> BARTIROMO: Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump associates and they did not tell the FISA Court that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid for that dossier? SESSIONS: Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate. That will be investigated and looked at, and we are not going to participate at the Department of Justice in providing anything less than the proper disclosure to the court before they issue a FISA warrant. Other than that, I’m not going to talk about the details of it, but I tell you we’re not going to allow that to happen.