The Mueller Report thread

[SunsetBengal]

It's about to get real, folks.


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/barr-fbi-spying-trump-campaign-1266531

Quote:Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday appeared to back up President Donald Trump’s assertion that the Justice Department “spied” on his presidential campaign.
During his second day of testimony on the Hill, the attorney general also suggested that the Justice Department was gearing up to investigate the origins of the counterintelligence probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“Spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr told senators. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. But I need to explore that.”
Barr’s statements are certain to please Trump, who said earlier Wednesday that the origins of the FBI’s investigation amounted to an “attempted coup.” The president has long decried the counterintelligence probe as a “witch hunt” that was launched by officials who were biased against him, citing the approval of a surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
There is no evidence that officials were “spying” on the president’s campaign, and the warrant was approved after Page had left the campaign.
“I have no specific evidence that I would cite right now,” Barr later said. “I do have questions about it.”

Quote:The attorney general said he has not yet set up a team to investigate the origins of the probe. While Barr said he would not be launching an investigation into the FBI over the alleged spying, he said it was likely that there was a “failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon.”