Breaking news: The long-awaited report on how the government probed Russian interference in the 2016 election seems likely to fuel, rather than end, partisan debates about politicization within the Justice Department and FBI.
Durham was appointed in 2019 by President Donald Trump’s attorney general, William P. Barr, to re-examine how government agents hunted for possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the presidential election.
by the Justice Department’s inspector general, which did not find “documentary of testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct."Durham goes further in his criticism, however, arguing that the FBI rushed to investigate Trump in a case known as Crossfire Hurricane, even as it proceeded cautiously on allegations related to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
failure could have been prevented if FBI employees hadn’t embraced “seriously flawed information” and had followed their “own principles regarding objectivity and integrity.”In particular, the report notes that while the FBI gave Clinton’s team a defensive briefing when agents learned of a possible evidence by a foreign actor to garner influence with her, agents moved quickly to investigate the Trump campaign without giving them a defensive briefing.
The senior FBI officials who ran the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, who left the agency years ago, have long said they had a duty to investigate the allegations against the Trump campaign. In the wake of the criticism from the inspector general, Director Christopher A. Wray implemented a host of reforms and policy changes at the agency, which has been at the center of fierce political debates since the 2016 election.
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