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Agency ‘failed to uphold mission of strict fidelity’, special counsel John Durham concludes in investigation set up by Bill Barr
The FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump’s political opponents to fuel the investigation, US special counsel John Durham concluded in a report released on Monday.
The report marks the end of a four-year examination launched in May 2019 when then-attorney general William Barr appointed Durham, a veteran prosecutor, to look into potential missteps by the FBI when it launched its early stage so-called Crossfire Hurricane inquiry into potential contacts between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
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