US attorney-general to probe FBI ‘spying’ on Trump campaign
Trump says he wants the attorney-general to ‘get started’ investigating what he calls ‘an attempted coup’
New York — US attorney-general William Barr said that he’s starting his own inquiry into counter-intelligence decisions that may have amounted to political “spying”, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in 2016. “I think spying did occur,” Barr told a senate appropriations panel on Wednesday, “but the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated. I need to explore that.” The comments, confirming a report by Bloomberg News, indicate that Barr is looking into allegations that Republican law makers have been pursuing for more than a year — that the investigation into US President Donald Trump and possible collusion with Russia was tainted at the start by anti-Trump bias within the FBI and US justice department. Barr said he was not opening a broad investigation into the FBI — vouching for the bureau and current director Christopher Wray — but added “there was probably a failure by a group of leaders there at the upper echelon”. Barr’s inquiry ...
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