Two separate U.S. Department of Justice reviews are likely to reach opposite conclusions about whether the FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign had sufficient cause to look into any ties with Russia, an official watchdog told Congress on Wednesday.
The department’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz told lawmakers that he and a U.S. prosecutor conducting a separate review disagreed about a fundamental question of the politically sensitive inquiry.
In a 434-page report released on Monday, Horowitz concluded that the FBI had enough evidence in 2016 to open a full counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia.
Horowitz said prosecutor John Durham told him last month that he believed the FBI should have opened a more limited investigation. He said he was not swayed by Durham’s argument.
“None of the discussions changed our findings,” Horowitz told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Durham’s office…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
