“That’s not the term I would use,” Wray said Tuesday in testimony to a Senate Appropriations panel, when asked about whether there there was spying. Wray said he isn’t personally aware of any evidence to support the accusation that there was improper surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
-- FBI Director Christopher Wray pushed back on accusations his agency improperly spied on Donald Trump’s campaign, a charge that Attorney General William Barr said he is reviewing during a contentious Senate hearing last week.
Barr, Wray’s boss at the Justice Department, suggested there might have been investigative “overreach” during the 2016 campaign and that he was assembling a team to probe the issue. That echoed accusations President Trump and many of his top Republican supporters have long lobbed at the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Trump’s campaign.
Wray said he and his staff are working to help Barr understand the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 into whether anyone on the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia to interfere in the election.
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