Instead, the one recommendation provided by the report is to assign an official who is responsible for challenging the steps taken in a politically sensitive investigation. The report does not recommend any major changes on the guidelines and policies that the DOJ and FBI currently have in place. "The Department did not adequately examine or question thee materials and the motivations of those providing them," the report says.
"Our investigation also revealed that senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information they they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities," the report says.ĭurham says in particular, there was a significant reliance on investigative leads provided by, or funded by, political opponents of Trump. The report concludes that the DOJ and FBI "failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law." In 2020, Durham was appointed as a special counsel. It became a criminal investigation - though only three people faced criminal action. 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. "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. The report says that investigation - which was originally called the "Crossfire Hurricane" - was treated different from how cases related to Donald Trump's then-opponent, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, had been handled. 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 investigation. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on May 16, 2022. Special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, arrives to the E.
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