William Barr Disdains Election Deadline With Plan to Report on FBI Probe
- DOJ guidelines warn about public comments 60 days before vote
- Barr says deadline is moot because Biden, Trump aren’t focus
William Barr at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 11.
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Attorney General William Barr is promising more revelations from a probe of the government’s investigation into Russian meddling in 2016, but he may be running out of time.
Barr said last week’s formal charge against a former FBI lawyer is just the first of several “significant” developments he expects to come out before the Nov. 3 presidential election.