Barr’s Review of FBI ‘Spying’ on Trump Campaign Has Wide Reach
- Attorney general forms team to examine Russia probe origins
- Trump and Republicans are pushing him for full investigation
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Attorney General William Barr has begun to fill in details on his controversial pledge to investigate whether the FBI and Justice Department engaged in improper “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016.
In a contentious hearing this week on Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, Democrats accused Barr of sounding like President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. But some Republicans encouraged him to lay out the contours of the nascent surveillance probe that he made clear is among his top priorities.