Why did the attorney general and his handpicked prosecutor undermine the findings of his own investigation?
review of the origins of the FBI investigation into potential conspiracy between Russia and the Trump 2016 presidential campaign tended to exonerate the FBI—investigators found “no documentary or testimonial evidence” that FBI officials were driven by political bias against Trump when they opened the probe, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” in July 2016.
But what was truly surprising to some veterans of the Robert F. Kennedy building and the DC bar was the reaction from Attorney Generalwho Barr tapped to run a parallel investigation of Crossfire Hurricane and related investigations. Both issued statements throwing significant shade at Horowitz's report, though, technically, Barr is Horowitz's boss. “I’ve never seen such an internal DOJ effort to challenge and undermine the IG's findings,”a former U.S. attorney, told me Monday.
Barr’s decision to publicly distance himself from Horowitz’s findings was met with some astonishment. “No law enforcement purpose is served by the Attorney General announcing that he disagrees with the inspector general’s conclusion that the FBI had an adequate predicate for its investigation of Russia’s contacts with the Trump campaign,”leak case, told me.
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