“He is moving very diligently,” the attorney general said.
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said that he does not expect U.S. Attorney John Durham’s report on the origins of the Russia investigation “for quite a few months.”
“Just based on my general knowledge of the things that he is looking at or has to look at in the future,” he explained, “I would not think that he would be in a position for quite a few months.” They had similarly touted a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, that looked more specifically at the process used to secure warrants to surveil a former Trump campaign aide. While that investigation ripped the FBI and found a slew of serious errors and omissions had taken place, the watchdog report found that the investigation had not been tainted by political bias.
Part of what Durham has been examining, Barr explained, included dealing “with some of the various theories that have been thrown out and show one way or another whether they are valid or not. So the fact that you are looking into certain allegations does not necessarily mean you give them credence.”
He argued that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch or former FBI Director James Comey should have provided Trump with a defensive briefing when authorities received a tip that a campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had disclosed his knowledge of Russian-held “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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