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The FBI and Justice Department jumped to investigate former President Trump’s campaign despite a lack of sound evidence, a “notable departure” from the way it resisted efforts to investigate claims against Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the probe into alleged election collusion between Trump and Russia.
Durham’s long awaited report from his investigation into FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” probe was delivered to Congress on Monday and revealed that FBI and DOJ “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
Durham’s report also highlighted that the Trump investigation was “markedly different” from the government’s level of interest in Clinton’s campaign.
Durham’s report said the FBI briefed Clinton staffers on information of possible threats aimed at the Clinton campaign, but ignored intelligence it received from “a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.”
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Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on his investigation into the Trump-Russia probe was released Monday.
“The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign,” the report said.
“[I]n the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election,” the report said. In each of those instances – including those related to Clinton – the FBI moved with…
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