The report found the FBI moved quickly on a vague tip about potential contacts between a Donald Trump campaign aide and Russian officials in July 2016, during the election|Kremlin.ru|CC BY 4.0
Special Counsel John Durham’s report, released Monday, concluded that the FBI did not have “actual evidence” to probe into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and launched an inquiry after relying on tips.
Durham said the inquiry lacked “analytical rigor.”
Though there are no blockbuster revelations, the roughly 300-page report is critical of how the FBI decided to open the counterintelligence investigation into Trump, accusing top officials at the FBI of relying on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence.”
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The report found the FBI moved quickly on a vague tip about potential contacts between a Trump campaign aide and Russian officials in July 2016, during the election.
The report concluded that it is not the “crime of the century.”
John Durham, 73, was appointed in October 2020, as the special counsel to lead the investigation into misconduct in the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.