Rep. Doug Collins said when Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee next month, the George Republican plans to ask him about the dropped criminal investigation into a top FBI official.

"Why like Andrew McCabe was not charged," Collins asked Sunday on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "Someone who is an admitted liar. Someone who was let go from his job. The American people, the average Joe who gets up in the morning and says if I lie to the authorities, if I lie to the police, something is going to happen to me."

The Justice Department announced earlier this month that McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, would not be charged in an investigation into whether he lied to investigators about a media leak two years ago.

"We said at the outset of the criminal investigation, almost two years ago, that if the facts and the law determined the result, no charges would be brought,” federal prosecutors said. “We are pleased that Andrew McCabe and his family can go on with their lives without this cloud hanging over them.”

President Trump cried foul, suggesting his longtime confidant Roger Stone, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison for obstruction, witness tampering, and lying to Congress.



“They say Roger Stone lied to Congress.” @CNN OH, I see, but so did Comey (and he also leaked classified information, for which almost everyone, other than Crooked Hillary Clinton, goes to jail for a long time), and so did Andy McCabe, who also lied to the FBI! FAIRNESS? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2020



Trump's allies argue that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the Russia investigation, which found at least 17 "significant errors or omissions" in the warrants to monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, is evidence of a so-called deep state that sought to undermine the president.

As the Justice Department found that at least two of the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders were not valid, Republicans such as Collins have vowed to expose what they say is corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement.

"Where’s the investigation going forward on how we can make sure this doesn’t happen again?" Collins, the top Republican on the judiciary panel, said he plans to ask Barr.

Barr is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 31.

