Attorney General William Barr praised the FBI and Director Christopher Wray after suggesting the FBI may have acted in "bad faith" in the Russia probe.
Attorney General William Barr offered a forceful endorsement of the FBI and Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, a week after suggesting the bureau may have acted in"bad faith" during the Russia investigation.
The inspector general's report, while largely focused on the flawed justifications to conduct surveillance on Page, concluded the FBI was warranted in launching the broader Russia inquiry and did not act out of political bias. The attorney general said the Detroit event, staged to announce a seven-city crackdown on violent crime, marked a rare gathering of top Justice Department leaders outside of Washington, D.C.
The event came a day after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued a rare public rebuke of the FBI's surveillance of Page. "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," Collyer wrote in an unusual public opinion.
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