Attorney General William Barr responded to the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA system to surveil the Trump campaign by slamming the FBI for withholding exculpatory evidence from their filings with the FISA court.
“The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken,” Barr said. “It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump’s administration.”
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