'He's actually proactively misrepresenting the findings of the [IG] report,' says former Assistant FBI Deputy Andrew McCabe, reacting to Attorney General Bill Barr contradicting the Justice Department inspector general's report on the Russia probe
Barr excoriated the FBI for launching what he called an"intrusive investigation" into a presidential campaign based on the"thinnest of suspicions."The Justice Department's inspector general found that the FBI properly opened its investigation into Russian election interference but said there were major errors in how the agency conducted the probe.
The warrants stated that the FBI believed Page"has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government," according to redacted copies the bureau released last year.To bolster their request to the surveillance court, the FBI relied at times on claims about the 2016 Trump campaign collected in a dossier of unverified intelligence reports by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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