Barr Taps Prosecutor to Investigate Origins of FBI Trump-Russia Probe

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Attorney General William Barr has asked a U.S. attorney to probe the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence inquiry into the Trump campaign and Russia

Attorney General William Barr has tapped the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to study the origins of a 2016 counterintelligence investigation that conducted what he has called “spying” on people affiliated with the Trump campaign, a person familiar with the decision said.

John Durham, Connecticut’s U.S. attorney, is helping Mr. Barr look at the early stages of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia, which included surveillance and was later taken over by special counsel...

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