The long-awaited report was the conclusion of a four-year probe into the FBI's decision to examine the Trump campaign's relationship with Russia.
Durham, who issued a statement disagreeing with the Justice Dept. inspector general's report at the time, expanded his dissent in the report released Monday.
But Durham argues that the FBI acted too hastily when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in July 2016, after a Trump campaign aide told an Australian diplomat that the Trump campaign had received an offer from Russia to help Trump by releasing damaging information on his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Durham says the FBI took a much different approach with other counterintelligence matters that had the potential to affect the election. For example, when it learned that an unnamed foreign government was seeking to influence the Clinton campaign with political contributions, the FBI moved cautiously and ultimately provided fact-specific "defensive briefings," warning Clinton campaign officials — something the FBI decided not to do with Trump.
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