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Durham: The FBI had no reason to open an investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign

2023-05-16 01:01:34, Kosova & Bota CNA
Durham: The FBI had no reason to open an investigation into ties between Russia
Special Prosecutor, John Durham

Special Counsel John Durham has ended his four-year investigation into possible wrongdoing by the FBI in its investigation into ties between Russia and Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

The report, released Monday by U.S. Attorney Durham, strongly criticizes the FBI, but its results fall far short of former President Trump's prediction that he would solve the "crime of the century."

The report represents the long-awaited culmination of an investigation that Mr Trump and his allies had claimed would expose massive wrongdoing by law enforcement and intelligence officials. Instead, Prosecutor Durham's investigation yielded little, with prosecutors securing a guilty plea from a little-known FBI employee and two criminal cases ending in trial without convictions.

The nearly 300-page report cites what prosecutor Durham says were a series of back-to-back mistakes by the FBI and the Justice Department as investigators conducted a high-profile probe in the run-up to the 2016 election into whether the campaign Mr. Trump was colluding with Russia to change the outcome of the election.

The report criticizes the FBI for opening a full investigation based on "raw, unanalyzed and unverified intelligence data," saying the speed with which the FBI did so was a departure from the norm. . He also said investigators repeatedly relied on "confirmation bias," ignoring evidence that undermined their premise of a Trump-Russia collusion as they advanced the investigation.

John Durham, a former federal prosecutor in Connecticut, was appointed in 2019 by Attorney General William Barr to investigate possible wrongdoing by the FBI in its investigation into possible ties to Mr Trump's campaign with Russia. The appointment of the Durham prosecutor was made immediately after the conclusion of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation into the possible connections of the Trump campaign with Russia./ VOA





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