Former Attorney General William P. Barr is cautioning against counting the number of people prosecuted to measure the success of special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe.
Former Attorney General William P. Barr is cautioning against counting the number of people prosecuted to measure the success of special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of theThe lack of high-level prosecutions has frustrated conservatives and former President Donald Trump’s allies, who said the investigation fell well short of their expectation that major figures in theMr. Barr said it is “dangerous” to judge the success of the probe by how many people were prosecuted.
“I think accountability looks like if people pay attention to the truth,” Mr. Barr added. “I mean, there was a lot of attention paid by the media to all the little details that they thought implicated Trump in collusion with Russia, all of which were nonsense. And yet, we had a two-year steady diet of this nonsense from the media. Now they should pay attention to the actual facts in the report. And that’s what accountability looks like.
and Justice Department officials failed in their duty to uphold the law or act objectively in pursuit of Mr. Trump. However, Mr. Durham did not recommend any new criminal charges.when it opened its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into whether members of former President Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to sway the election.
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