Top Democrats Ask for Justice Department Investigation Into FBI Leaks

— -- Top Democrats have asked the Justice Department inspector general to investigate potential leaks in the FBI, citing concerns surrounding Director James Comey's letter to Congress regarding the discovery of new emails connected to Hillary Clinton's private server.

Citing a retracted Fox News report about Clinton facing a "likely" indictment, and comments made by top Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani on Fox News, Reps. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, and John Conyers, D-Michigan, have requested the inspector general review any "unauthorized -- and often inaccurate leaks" made to "benefit the presidential campaign of Donald Trump."

"These unauthorized and inaccurate leaks from within the FBI, particularly so close to a presidential election, are unprecedented," the ranking members on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees wrote. "For these reasons, we are calling on your office to conduct a thorough investigation to identify the sources of these and other leaks from the FBI and to recommend appropriate action."

In a Fox News interview Friday morning, Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and federal prosecutor who ran for president in 2008, suggested that current FBI agents were frustrated with the status of the agency's investigations into Clinton.

"This has been boiling up in the FBI," he said on "Fox & Friends."

In an interview this evening with CNN, Giuliani insisted that he received no prior warning from anyone within the FBI or Justice Department about Comey's letter to top members of Congress last week.

"I haven't talked to a current FBI agent in the last, gosh, eight or 10 months," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I was referring to the consternation within the FBI."

"That came to a complete surprise to me," he added.