Article snippet: Several conservative GOP lawmakers on Thursday reaffirmed their demand for a second special counsel to investigate alleged surveillance abuses at the Justice Department. Reps. resisted such demands earlier in the day. During the interview, Jordan accused top FBI officials of omitting facts when approaching a secretive court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to get a surveillance warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. "Laura, it's supposed to [be] the truth, the whole truth, not part of it, not [with] redactions, and when you go to the court, you gotta give them the whole truth. They did not do that at the FISA court," Jordan said. "And it was those people – two of them have been fired, three of them have been demoted," he said. "And we don't think that's extraordinary circumstances warranting a second special counsel?" Meadows, the chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Jordan, the group's previous chair, have been calling for another special counsel for months alongside more than a dozen other GOP lawmakers. Republicans have seized on revelations that the FBI did not save five months worth of text messages between two agents accused of pro-Clinton and anti-Trump bias during the 2016 presidential race. Sessions announced earlier Thursday that he would not appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged FISA abuses but would instead appoint a federal prosecutor from Utah to lead an investigation inside the ... Link to the full article to read more