FBI Director Christopher Wray affirmed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Monday that found the FBI did not improperly open its investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian election interference.
Wray told ABC News correspondent Pierre Thomas that one of the most important takeaways from the report is that he and his agency “fully accept its findings and recommendations.”
One of the other big takeaways, Wray said, was that “the inspector general did not find political bias or improper motivations impacting the opening of the investigation or the decision to use certain investigative tools during the investigations.”
“Including FISA,” the FBI director replied.
Wray’s acceptance of the report’s conclusions puts him at odds with Attorney General Bill Barr, who spun the report as proof the FBI’s investigation was launched “on the thinnest of suspicions” that were “insufficient to justify the steps taken.”
Barr also said that “no one is more dismayed about the handling of these FISA applications than Director Wray.”
Although Horowitz concluded that the FBI made “many basic and fundamental errors” with the FISA application for Carter Page, the inspector general did not find political bias tainted the FISA process, and that there was sufficient evidence for the FBI to open its investigation.
ohnoacracka on December 9th, 2019 at 23:45 UTC »
The idea that the AG of the US is fucking attacking his own FBI and IG because he doesn't like the political outcome of a sensitive report is completely banana republic level dictatorship. If you look at what authoritarians do abroad they always get a lemming corrupt ally in the top prosecutor role, so they can attack their opponents under the cover of the "rule of law".
It's insane how far the US has fallen, the Dems need to impeach Barr and create a special commission to review the politicization of the DOJ. Barr and Trump have destroyed the DOJ, the last agency I ever thought would fall to political interference.
WestCoastHumanist on December 9th, 2019 at 22:37 UTC »
"thinnest of suspicions" -- AG Barr
That kind of thinking is how you lose a World Trade Center.
ihavetoassumeurdumb on December 9th, 2019 at 22:36 UTC »
Seems Barr is caught blatantly misrepresenting yet another person. Seems our AG can't seem to get the facts straight.