Analysis: AG Barr appeared to endorse a widespread GOP view that the Mueller probe may have involved inappropriate surveillance of the Trump campaign.
before President Trump made him attorney general — endorsed a widespread GOP view that the investigation may have involved inappropriate surveillance of the Trump campaign. He said he would conduct a review of the matter." on Trump's campaign, Barr told a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee."The question was whether it was adequately predicated."
Barr added that he wasn't launching an investigation of the FBI, but said,"I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon." He did not elaborate on who he believes failed and how.President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have long argued that the Russia investigation had its origins in a group of biased FBI leaders who bore animosity toward Trump, including then-Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Barr's embrace of longtime GOP talking points casting doubt on the origins of the Russia investigation came shortly after Trump denounced the probe as"an illegal investigation,""crooked,""an attempted coup," and"treason."Given a chance to distance himself from those comments by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Barr declined."I'll use my own adjectives," the attorney general said.
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