Former federal prosecutor blasts AG Barr's 'political spin' of IG report: 'So wildly inappropriate'

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Former federal prosecutor blasts AG Barr's 'political spin' of IG report: 'So wildly inappropriate'
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A former federal prosecutor has called William Barr's response to the release of the Inspector General's probe into the 2016 presidential campaign 'wildly inappropriate.'

"I look forward to the Durham report, which is coming out in the not-too-distant future. He's got his own information," President Trump concluded, referring to an upcoming report by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Durham was separately appointed by Barr to conduct his own investigation into the Russia probe.

Durham's own statement in response to the IG's findings said in part,"We do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened." AG William Barr's reaction to the findings of the IG were called"inappropriate" by a former federal prosecutor.the Washington Post

which read in part,"Those who smeared the FBI are due for an accounting." Comey was fired from his position as head of the FBI by President Trump during the initial Russian probe in May of 2017. Rocah, an MSNBC and NBC legal analyst who's running for the Westchester County D.A. seat as a Democrat, served as assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2012 to 2017. She was also the Pace University School of Law's Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice.

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