The FBI Director’s appearance before a Senate committee could be something of a preview of the intense questioning former special counsel Robert Mueller is likely to face in Congress the next day.
on the campaign and suggested the origins of the probe may have been mishandled.
Barr didn’t specify what he meant when he said he believed there had been spying on the Trump campaign, but he was probably alluding to the FBI obtaining a secret surveillance warrant in the fall of 2016 to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, whose interactions with Russians several years earlier had raised law enforcement suspicions even before he joined the...
Barr has not said such surveillance was necessarily improper, but Trump nonetheless seized on those comments to suggest his campaign was spied on in an illegal and unprecedented act. The attorney general, the chief federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to investigate the surveillance methods used during the investigation and to probe the origins of the Russia investigation.
As FBI director, he has sought to avoid public spats with Trump, but his appearance on Capitol Hill comes amid signs of possible tension between the two men.to suggest that Donald Trump Jr. should have called the FBI as the organizer of a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer offering negative information on his political opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Trump told ABC that if a foreign power were offering dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and would have no obligation to call the FBI.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
FBI Director Wray says Russians still intent on interfering in US electionsFBI Director Christopher Wray warned Tuesday that Russians are still carrying out foreign influence operations on the United States, despite US efforts to deter them ahead of another presidential election.
Read more »
FBI raids at DWP, L.A. City Hall related to fallout from billing debacleFBI agents searched the offices of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and City Atty. Mike Feuer as part of an investigation into the city’s handling of lawsuits filed over the disastrous 2013 rollout of a new billing system at the utility.
Read more »
FBI searches DWP headquarters, L.A. City Hall, serving warrantsBreaking: The FBI conducted a search of the downtown headquarters of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, officials said.
Read more »
10 Things to Know for TodayAmong AP10Things: Boris Johnson to become next British prime minister; Deal sealed on federal budget, ensuring no shutdown, default; FBI director's testimony could be preview for Mueller hearing.
Read more »
Lindsey Graham vows to call Papadopoulos in review of Russia probeSenate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham reiterated his pledge to look into the FBI’s opening of a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump’s 2016 campaign
Read more »