While the Durham report is revelatory on the weaponization of the FBI toward Donald Trump in their unethical investigation of his 2016 campaign, Republican lawmakers are noting awkward limitations to the report and want answers as to why Special Counsel John Durham limited his report through not compelling testimony from key senior officials involved in that investigation. Two lawmakers, Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have expressed their concerns in a letter to Durham, according to Just the News.

This letter began by thanking Mr. Durham for his report but quickly delved into the interesting lack of follow-up by Durham in his investigation. The letter noted that the Republican lawmakers "noticed that several high-level former government officials directly involved in Crossfire Hurricane either declined or partially declined to cooperate with your investigation. In addition, in Footnote 13, your report noted that 'some personnel' in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division “refused to cooperate” with your review and that FBI leadership intervened to 'urge those individuals to agree to be interviewed.'...Congress requires additional information with respect to this refusal to cooperate and how it ultimately concluded."

The letter also contrasted Mueller's use of subpoena power versus Durham's. It read "During former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his office “issued more than 2,800 subpoenas and executed nearly 500 search warrants[.]”... In contrast, we understand your office 'served more than 190 subpoenas under the auspices of grand juries' and 'executed seven search warrants.'... It seems odd that individuals would be allowed to avoid fully cooperating with your office, particularly given your authority to compel testimony and records." 

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Senators Johnson and Grassley then noted the series of senior individuals that did not participate in Durham's report. 

They listed that former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Unit Bill Priestap, former FBI agent Kevin Clinesmith, and Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, all managed to escape being interviewed by Durham. 

The letter goes on with a series of inquiries on whether these individuals were ever subpoenaed (and if not why not), whether the DOJ tried to "impede" Durham's investigation, and which counterintelligence agents in the FBI refused opportunities for cooperation with Durham's probe and how they did this.  

Some of these figures, like McCabe, have tried to discredit Durham's findings. McCabe said, "I stand by the investigative decisions that we made to open the investigation first on the Trump campaign and the possibility that the Russians were trying to influence it and then later on Donald Trump himself." McCabe was fired from the FBI for willfully misleading investigators.