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The special counsel-led investigation looking into the FBI’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign has ended, the Department of Justice announced Monday, and in a 306-page final report, concludes the FBI did not have enough intelligence to merit a full Trump-Russia probe investigation.
Read the report below.
The report says that investigation — which was originally called the «Crossfire Hurricane» — was treated different from how cases related to Trump’s then-opponent, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had been handled.
«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 says.
John Durham was tapped in May 2019 by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to lead a review of the genesis of the investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. It became a criminal investigation — though only three people faced criminal action.
