IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 907 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the Attorney General of the United 
States should appoint a Special Counsel to investigate misconduct at 
the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, including 
an investigation of abuse of the FISA warrant process, how and why 
the Hillary Clinton probe ended, and how and why the Donald Trump- 
Russia probe began. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 22, 2018 
Mr. ZELDIN (for himself, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. GAETZ, Mr. PERRY, Mr. DESANTIS, 
Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. 
MEADOWS, Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. ROTHFUS, 
Mr. JORDAN, Mr. BUDD, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. YOHO, Mr. BRAT, Mr. 
ROKITA, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr. DUNCAN of 
South Carolina, Mr. GIBBS, Mrs. BLACK, and Mr. ISSA) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judici-
ary 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the Attorney General 
of the United States should appoint a Special Counsel 
to investigate misconduct at the Department of Justice 
and Federal Bureau of Investigation, including an inves-
tigation of abuse of the FISA warrant process, how 
and why the Hillary Clinton probe ended, and how and 
why the Donald Trump-Russia probe began. 
Whereas there is an urgent need for the appointment of a 
second Special Counsel in light of evidence that raises 
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critical concerns about decisions, activities, and inherent 
bias displayed at the highest levels of the Department of 
Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation 
(FBI) regarding FISA abuse, how and why the Hillary 
Clinton email probe ended, and how and why the Donald 
Trump-Russia probe began; 
Whereas the concerns of the American people are serious and 
the issues requiring an immediate, unbiased, inde-
pendent, and thorough investigation are broad; 
Whereas misconduct during the 2016 presidential election by 
high-ranking individuals within the FBI and DOJ may 
have led to the premature conclusion of the FBI’s 2016 
probe into then-presidential candidate and former Sec-
retary of State Hillary Clinton; 
Whereas during her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary 
Clinton violated Federal law, and Department of State 
rules, regulations, and protocol, by using a private email 
server in her Chappaqua, New York, home; 
Whereas official communications were transmitted on an un-
secured server and included emails that contained classi-
fied information when they were sent, in addition to addi-
tional emails which were retroactively deemed classified 
by the Department of State; 
Whereas FBI Director James Comey acknowledged that 65 
of these illicit emails were classified as ‘‘Secret’’ and 22 
were classified as ‘‘Top Secret’’; 
Whereas there is significant evidence that the use of this pri-
vate server by Secretary Clinton was meant to avoid com-
pliance with the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 
552) and done to obstruct justice by not having to turn 
over incriminating emails in the case of a subpoena; 
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Whereas various sensitive emails subject to grand jury and 
congressional subpoenas were destroyed on Secretary 
Clinton’s private server through the use of ‘‘BleachBit’’ 
software and the destruction of hardware before they 
could be obtained by investigators in March 2015; 
Whereas in a September 2015 meeting between then-Attor-
ney General Loretta Lynch and then-Director Comey, the 
Attorney General instructed Director Comey to refer to 
the Clinton email investigation as a ‘‘matter’’, thus wa-
tering down the severity of the investigation and aligning 
the FBI’s rhetoric with the messaging of the Clinton 
campaign; 
Whereas Cheryl Mills, who served as Counselor and Chief of 
Staff to Hillary Clinton during her entire tenure as 
United States Secretary of State, was offered immunity 
from prosecution by the FBI during this investigation in 
exchange for access to her laptop that contained many of 
the questionable emails; 
Whereas according to transcripts obtained by the Senate Ju-
diciary Committee, former Director Comey was prepared 
to exonerate Hillary Clinton as early as April or May of 
2016 when he began to draft a statement announcing the 
end of his investigation, before up to 17 key witnesses, 
including former Secretary Clinton and several of her 
closest aides, were interviewed; 
Whereas former Director Comey contradicted these tran-
scripts when he stated during sworn testimony before the 
House Judiciary Committee on September 28, 2016, that 
he made the decision not to recommend criminal charges 
for Secretary Clinton ‘‘after’’ she was interviewed by the 
FBI on July 2, 2016; 
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Whereas Director Comey, in the final draft of his statement, 
allowed FBI Agent Peter Strzok to replace ‘‘grossly neg-
ligent’’, which is legally punishable under Federal law, 
with ‘‘extremely careless’’, which is not legally punishable 
under Federal law; 
Whereas Federal law states gross negligence in handling the 
Nation’s intelligence can be punished criminally with 
prison time or fines (18 U.S.C. 793, 798); 
Whereas on June 27, 2016, Attorney General Lynch had a 
covert meeting with former President Bill Clinton aboard 
her plane on the tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona; 
Whereas on July 5, 2016, Director Comey violated DOJ rules 
and unilaterally exonerated then-presidential candidate 
Hillary Clinton in a public statement to the media; 
Whereas one day later, on July 6, 2016, an announcement 
followed from Attorney General Lynch that the DOJ in-
vestigation into then-presidential candidate Hillary Clin-
ton would be formally closed with no criminal charges; 
Whereas in September 2016, the FBI, during an examination 
of the personal laptop of former Congressman Anthony 
Weiner as part of an unrelated investigation into him 
sending sexually explicit messages to a teenage girl, dis-
covered previously unexamined Department of State clas-
sified emails belonging to his spouse, top Clinton aide 
Huma Abedin; 
Whereas FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s wife, Dr. 
Jill McCabe, was running for Virginia State Senate at 
the time and, as of October 26th, had received $675,000 
in donations from the Virginia Democratic Party and 
Common Good VA, the Leadership PAC controlled by 
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Democratic Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a long-
time Clinton associate; 
Whereas an investigation conducted by the Office of the DOJ 
Inspector General noted that on October 27, 2016, Direc-
tor Comey required that Deputy Director McCabe remove 
himself from a conference call regarding the Clinton 
emails discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop to avoid 
the appearance of a conflict of interest after media re-
ports surfaced noting these questionable political dona-
tions; 
Whereas it took until October 28, 2016, for Director Comey 
to announce via a letter to the chairs of the relevant con-
gressional committees that he was reopening the inves-
tigation into Hillary Clinton, an additional, egregious 
delay after the FBI failed to even examine the illicit 
emails after the FBI discovered them on Anthony 
Weiner’s computer; 
Whereas further investigation into whether then-FBI Deputy 
Director McCabe and other FBI officials sought to pur-
posely delay the release of these illicit emails for politi-
cally motivated purposes is warranted; 
Whereas throughout the Obama Administration, the DOJ 
failed to fully investigate serious concerns surrounding 
former President Clinton, then-Secretary of State Clin-
ton, and the Clinton Foundation’s connection to Russian 
company Uranium One, which received Department of 
State approval to purchase U.S. uranium mines in 2010; 
Whereas throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of 
State, a family foundation controlled by the Chairman of 
Uranium One made $2,350,000 in contributions to the 
Clinton Foundation which were not publicly disclosed in 
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violation of an agreement Secretary Clinton had with the 
Obama White House to publicly identify all donors; 
Whereas in 2010, while Russian State interests were working 
to both acquire a majority stake in Uranium One and to 
purchase American mines, Bill Clinton was paid 
$500,000 for a speech in Moscow by a Kremlin-linked 
Russian investment bank that was underwriting Uranium 
One stock; 
Whereas a confidential informant who worked with the FBI 
to uncover bribery and other corruption related to the 
Uranium One matter was threatened with reprisal by the 
Justice Department under Attorney General Lynch when 
he tried to come forward in 2016; 
Whereas the Senate Judiciary Committee launched a probe in 
October 2017 to investigate the Uranium One matter, in-
cluding whether Federal departments and agencies such 
as the Department of State knew the FBI was looking 
into possible corruption before the deal was approved; 
Whereas an investigation conducted by the Office of the DOJ 
Inspector General noted that a multi-State investigation 
into the questionable dealings of the Clinton Foundation 
with corrupt donors was shut down in August 2016, 
when pressure was asserted on the FBI by senior officials 
within the Obama Justice Department; 
Whereas the same Inspector General’s report also noted that 
shutting down this investigation into Clinton Foundation 
impropriety and influence peddling was connected to high 
ranking officials in the DOJ and FBI, including Attorney 
General Lynch, Director Comey, and Deputy Director 
McCabe; 
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Whereas the same Inspector General’s report also found that 
Deputy Director McCabe, after consenting to the political 
pressure to shut down the Clinton Foundation multi- 
State investigation, attempted to later use unauthorized 
leaks to the press to create a false narrative that he was 
opposed to the closure of the investigation and that he 
did this in an attempt to salvage his reputation following 
revelations of questionable Clinton-connected money 
being donated to his wife’s Virginia State Senate cam-
paign; 
Whereas in October 2016, the FBI and DOJ used politically 
biased, unverified sources to obtain warrants issued by 
the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 
of Review (FISA Court) that aided in the surveillance of 
U.S. citizens, including Carter Page; 
Whereas these warrants grant U.S. intelligence and law en-
forcement agencies sweeping power to collect bulk infor-
mation and conduct ‘‘about collection’’, which results in 
surveillance of a broad array of private communications 
from the past, present, and future, including those of 
U.S. citizens not specifically targeted in the FISA au-
thorized warrant; 
Whereas to obtain these warrants, FBI and DOJ officials 
submitted an unverified dossier prepared by Christopher 
Steele to the FISA Court, failing to disclose that Chris-
topher Steele was hired by the firm Fusion GPS, which 
was hired by the Democratic National Committee and 
Hillary Clinton campaign to prepare this dossier and that 
the source was unreliable and was soon thereafter going 
to be terminated as a source; 
Whereas the FISA Court was not informed that Christopher 
Steele was actively opposed to the election of Donald 
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Trump, that he was the unnamed source cited in the 
media reports that the FBI used to corroborate his dos-
sier, and that Fusion GPS had been hired to perform 
previous anti-Trump research efforts in 2015; 
Whereas the Woods Procedures, which are the FBI’s manda-
tory vetting process required for all FISA warrant appli-
cations instituted to ensure that all the facts contained 
in an application are accurate and verified to clearly sup-
port probable cause for a warrant, were not followed; 
Whereas former Director Comey admitted in sworn testimony 
to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 8, 2017, that 
material contained in the Steele dossier was known to be 
both ‘‘salacious’’ and ‘‘unverified’’; 
Whereas since FISA warrant applications are rarely turned 
down, are almost never subject to appeal, and are pre-
sented in closed court with no public record where the 
Government is not challenged by any defense, it is imper-
ative that the Government take extra care to validate the 
information being utilized to build their case before they 
take the extraordinary step of waiving rights of a U.S. 
citizen without his or her knowledge or the opportunity 
to present a defense; 
Whereas at the FISA Court, the Government has a responsi-
bility not only to provide its best evidence in support of 
its case, but also to provide the best evidence against its 
case; 
Whereas these deeply flawed and questionable FISA warrant 
applications utilizing illicit sources and politically biased 
intelligence were approved by DOJ and FBI officials at 
the highest levels before being submitted to the FISA 
Court; 
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Whereas it was further not disclosed to the FISA court that 
the wife of fourth-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr 
worked for Fusion GPS and that Christopher Steele di-
rectly transmitted the dossier and other information 
through Bruce Ohr for submission to the FISA court; 
Whereas to this day there does not appear to be any evidence 
that President Trump colluded with the Russians to win 
the 2016 election; 
Whereas the initial FBI probe into the Trump Campaign and 
alleged collusion with Russia was launched in July 2016, 
based on questionable and insufficient intelligence and bi-
ased motivations; 
Whereas former Director Comey prepared a series of seven 
memoranda containing classified information, including 
notes on his conversations with President Trump; 
Whereas former Director Comey admitted in sworn testimony 
to the Senate Committee on Intelligence on June 8, 
2017, that he had leaked this content to a personal 
friend and encouraged that friend to share the material 
with the press in order to trigger a Special Counsel inves-
tigation; 
Whereas an investigation conducted by the Senate Judiciary 
Committee later revealed that the personal friend of Di-
rector Comey was Professor Daniel Richman of Columbia 
Law School and that Director Comey provided him with 
four of the seven memoranda; 
Whereas Director Comey’s actions are a clear violation of 
non-disclosure agreements he signed as a condition of his 
appointment and a clear violation of FBI protocols re-
garding the dissemination of sensitive information outside 
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of the Bureau which are based on provisions of the Pri-
vacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a); 
Whereas text messages exchanged between FBI Agent Strzok 
and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, during the period of August 
16, 2015, to May 17, 2017, contain serious evidence of 
political bias and the improper handling of investigations 
within the agency; 
Whereas the texts contain egregious evidence of bias against 
President Trump, including Lisa Page stating ‘‘Trump 
should go f himself’’ and Peter Strzok stating ‘‘F 
TRUMP’’; 
Whereas those text messages were not stored within the FBI 
archive system, an egregious oversight blamed on a tech-
nical glitch, and even after these messages were partially 
recovered by the Bureau’s Inspector General in January 
2018, many unanswered questions remain regarding im-
propriety and bias; 
Whereas in March 2018, former FBI Deputy Director 
McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions who 
noted that Deputy Director McCabe ‘‘lacked candor—in-
cluding under oath—on multiple occasions’’ and had par-
taken in ‘‘unauthorized disclosure to the news media’’, 
among other violations noted in a report issued by the 
Office of the DOJ Inspector General after a wide-reach-
ing investigation into Deputy Director McCabe’s conduct; 
Whereas a myriad of DOJ and FBI personnel have been fired 
or demoted, or have resigned, including FBI Director 
Comey, Deputy Director McCabe, Chief of Staff to the 
Director James Rybicki, FBI General Counsel James 
Baker, FBI Agent Strzok, FBI Counsel Page, FBI Spe-
cial Agent Josh Campbell, DOJ Senior Official Ohr, FBI 
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Assistant Director Michael Kortan, and Assistant Attor-
ney General Peter Kadzik; 
Whereas evidence has come to light that raises serious con-
cerns about egregious misconduct within the DOJ and 
FBI rooted in political bias; 
Whereas the DOJ, FBI, or both appear to have planted at 
least one person into Donald Trump’s Presidential cam-
paign to infiltrate and surveil the campaign; 
Whereas the DOJ has failed to timely comply with several re-
lated document requests by Congress; 
Whereas providing Members of Congress with heavily re-
dacted versions of some but not all of the documents de-
manded and offering Members limited in-person viewing 
of these documents is an inadequate response to repeated 
requests after months of delay by the DOJ; 
Whereas the mission of the Office of the DOJ Inspector Gen-
eral is limited to detecting and deterring waste, fraud, 
abuse, and misconduct in DOJ programs and personnel 
and promoting economy and efficiency in those programs, 
and a fully independent Special Counsel has greater au-
tonomy than an Inspector General or Federal prosecutors 
to run a non-biased investigation and if necessary bring 
forth criminal charges; and 
Whereas the DOJ and FBI cannot be expected to fully inves-
tigate themselves regarding this matter: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) DOJ, FBI, and all Federal law enforcement 
agencies have a sacred duty to uphold our Constitu-
tion and to protect our country without any partisan 
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or ideological inclination affecting their important 
work; 
(2) Congress acknowledges with gratitude that 
the vast majority of the men and women who serve 
within these critical agencies do so with the utmost 
integrity, independence, patriotism, and commitment 
to the rule of law; 
(3) misconduct regarding FISA abuse, how and 
why the Hillary Clinton probe ended, and how and 
why the Trump-Russia probe began should imme-
diately be investigated by a Special Counsel who can 
act independently; and 
(4) the Attorney General of the United States 
should immediately appoint a Special Counsel to 
conduct a thorough and independent investigation of 
these grave concerns. 
Æ 
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