GOP lawmakers allege law-enforcement officials abused their authority during the probe of the Trump campaign; Democrats say new move is politically motivated
WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr said he would form a team to examine the origins of a 2016 counterintelligence investigation that conducted what he termed as “spying” on people affiliated with the Trump campaign, a characterization Democrats said was politically motivated and echoed the president’s longstanding criticism of the Justice Department’s Russia probe.
At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mr. Barr said the team would look at what lay behind the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe of the Trump campaign’s...
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