So, how is the FoxNews.com homepage covering today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing?
The hearing is being held to question Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz about his newly released report on the Trump/Russia probe. The report found that despite a number of procedural errors and omissions in the process to get Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act approval to monitor Trump campaign aide Carter Page, there was still a legitimate basis to begin the investigation itself.
Fox had been building up hype on this report for years, alleging all manner of conspiracy theories about anti-Trump political bias in the intelligence community and even a vast plot to frame President Donald Trump in the Russian election interference scandal. But the report itself was a big dud for such ambitious hopes. Nonetheless, Attorney General Bill Barr still attacked the FBI and the report’s conclusions on Trump’s behalf.
Early on in the hearing, Fox used the glowing phrase “GRAHAM SLAM” to describe Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) attack on the infamous opposition research dossier by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, which Trump and others have claimed spurred the entire investigation. (Horowitz’s report says it became a factor only during the FISA process, after the probe itself was already underway based on prior evidence.)