Internal Justice watchdog finds that Russia probe was justified, not biased against Trump

[tulc]

DOJ report finds Russia probe was justified, not biased against Trump

The FBI mishandled parts of its application to monitor a Trump campaign aide as it was probing possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, but the overall investigation was justified, according to a long-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog that rebuts the president's depiction of a politically biased plot against him.

The 434-page report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that the FBI and the Justice Department launched their investigation into the 2016 campaign not for political reasons, but because of evidence the Russian government was using cutouts to reach out to the Trump campaign as part of its efforts to influence the election.


The inspector general said he examined more than a million documents and interviewed more than 100 witnesses.

Horowitz found that political bias did not taint the actions of former FBI leaders who have frequently been the subject of presidential attacks on Twitter, including former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok.

"We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions" to open investigations into four Trump campaign aides, the report says.

tulc(thinks this should make Republicans happy, right?)

 

[DennisTate]

There are some experts who tend to disagree:

This expert says that when anybody states emphatically that certain messages originated from Russia they are almost certainly lying because these days it is virtually impossible to trace a message all the way back to the true original source.

 

[Yarddog]

DOJ report finds Russia probe was justified, not biased against Trump

tulc(thinks this should make Republicans happy, right?)

When are the Pubs gonna investigate the investigation of the investigation.?