U.S. Attorney General Barr taps Connecticut prosecutor to probe the steps the Justice Department took in launching an investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia SarahNLynch
WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General William Barr is working with top intelligence officials and a senior federal prosecutor on at least the third inquiry to date into the origins of the Mueller probe of President Donald Trump and Russian election meddling, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
In addition, Barr is personally working with FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to review intelligence gathering techniques used to investigate Trump’s 2016 campaign. In 2017, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions assigned Utah’s top federal prosecutor John Huber to review a wide range of issues that Republicans had complained about, from how the FBI handled investigations related to Hillary Clinton, to questions about the origins of the Russia probe.
Congressional pro-Trump Republicans in the conservative House Freedom Caucus have alleged that the FBI-Mueller probe was sparked by a “dossier” penned by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele at the behest of private investigators working for the Democratic Party. Barr angered Democrats last month when he echoed language used by Trump’s allies in saying he shared concerns about “spying” on Trump’s campaign. He later acknowledged that there was no evidence of FBI wrongdoing.
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