The attorney general suspected that the CBI or foreign intelligence was involved in monitoring the Trump campaign before the official launch of the FBI investigation. But he said he did not see “any sign of CIA misconduct” or any foreign government activity before the FBI began its investigation in July 2016.
Barrow, however, disputed the DOJ inspector general’s findings and continued to prosecute the FBI’s crossfire hurricane investigation, accusing the agency of using thin suspicions to launch an “intrusion investigation.”
The FBI’s use of “secret human resources and wire tapping” to investigate those involved in the operation was “outrageous,” Barry told the Journal.
Durham’s position as special adviser virtually ensures that after Bar and Trump leave office, they will enter the Biden administration.
Former CIA director John Brennan responded to Barr’s comments about the CIA on CNN on Friday evening, saying “it’s really daring Bill Barr to say this when he has already announced that he will step down.” Durham thinks the investigation is a “trolling exercise.”
“Clearly, they couldn’t find anything with which to have any kind of illicit relationship,” Brennan told Wolf Blitzer in “The Situation Room,” as to why he was being held hours after the interview.
“This is something I was very confident about, because the CIA and our other partners in this investigation, according to our officials, tried to understand what the Russians were doing and then tried to keep it a secret,” he said.
CNN’s Evan Perez and Caitlin Polantz contributed to this report.
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