![]() ![]() US Special Counsel John Durham ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct. He also accused the bureau of treating the 2016 Trump probe differently from other politically sensitive investigations, including several involving Mr Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.įor instance, he said Ms Clinton and other officials received defensive briefings about being the possible targets of foreign interference, whereas Mr Trump received no such briefing before the FBI opened probes into four members of his campaign. In his new 306-page report, Mr Durham concluded that US intelligence and law enforcement did not possess any "actual evidence" of collusion between Mr Trump's campaign and Russia prior to launching Crossfire Hurricane. ![]() That Crossfire Hurricane investigation would later be handed over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in March 2019 concluded there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Mr Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. Mr Durham said there were a series of missteps by the FBI and Justice Department as investigators undertook a politically explosive probe in the heat of the 2016 election into whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to tip the outcome.īut the report fell far short of the former president's prediction he would uncover the "crime of the century". ![]() The report marks the end of a four-year investigation launched in May 2019 when then-Attorney-General William Barr appointed Mr Durham, a veteran prosecutor, to probe potential missteps by the FBI when it launched its early stage Crossfire Hurricane inquiry into potential contacts between Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. ![]()
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