Barr says familiar names among those DOJ is investigating in Durham probe, calls findings 'very troubling' | Fox News

Barr says familiar names among those DOJ is investigating in Durham probe, calls findings 'very troubling' | Fox News

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Exclusive: DOJ investigating 'familiar names' in Durham probe, Barr tells Fox News
Americans will recognize "some" of the names linked to U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into federal surveillance abuses, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday, adding he is "very troubled" by the findings so far.

The Durham team "has been working very aggressively to move forward," Barr told Fox News' Bret Baier in an exclusive interview on “Special Report,” and pledged there "will be public disclosure" of his findings.

"I think before the [2016] election, I think we're concerned about the motive force behind the very aggressive investigation that was launched into the Trump campaign without, you know, with a very thin, slender reed as a basis for it," Barr told Baier. "It seemed that the bureau was sort of spring-loaded at the end of July to drive in there and investigate a campaign."

The Justice Department's watchdog has identified critical errors in every FBI wiretap application that it audited as part of the fallout from the bureau's heavily flawed investigation into former Trump adviser Carter Page, who was surveiled during the 2016 campaign in part because of a largely discredited dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Click here for more on our top story. 

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