John Durham, top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, assigned to review FBI's decision to open a counterintel investigation into alleged ties between Trump associates and Russia's campaign to interfere in 2016 presidential election, NYTimes reports.
WASHINGTON — Two of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys welcomed a report Monday night that Attorney General William Barr had asked a U.S. attorney to look into the origins of the Russia investigation.that Barr had assigned John Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to review the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into alleged ties between Trump associates and Russia's campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Giuliani, who said he wasn't consulted about Durham's reported assignment ahead of time, added,"As Barr has done throughout, he made a sensible choice." Barr testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee last month that he was reviewing whether federal authorities spied on the Trump campaign, saying he thought they had.Representatives of Durham and the Justice Department didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
by the FBI, as well as suggestions that federal investigators failed to fully investigate questions about Hillary Clinton's connections to the sale of U.S. uranium rights to a Russian-controlled company through the Clinton Foundation.
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