Here are key takeaways from the Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
But the IG's much anticipated report released Monday also detailed errors the FBI committed during the investigation, specifically about surveillance warrants issued for a former Trump campaign aide.Here are the key takeaways:Legal and unbiased origin of the probeIn no uncertain words, the inspector general says there was no political conspiracy to undermine Trump's 2016 campaign.
A low-level FBI lawyer -- now under investigation but unnamed in the report-- doctored an email that he sent to a supervisory FBI agent as they tried to determine whether they needed to inform a special court overseeing surveillance warrants that Page had been a US government source in the past.
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