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quote, mr. barr and mr. dur havm did not shut down their inquiry. with the investigation complete, they turned to a new rational. a hunt for a basis to accuse the clint campaign of conspiring to defraud the government by manufacturing the suspicions that the trump campaign had colluded with russia. now the caper could be described as almost entertaining in its brazen politicization or abject failure but as we sit here, john durham is a employee of merrick garland, filing a final report on this. what happens next for the durham probe is where we start the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. we re joined by phone by one the reporters who shared a by-line and contributor charlie savage is here. and also joining us, ben wittes
investigate the matter himself giving him criminal prosecution powers for the first time. in october of 2019, a garrbled echo became public and the times reported that the administrative review of the russia inquiry had involved to include a criminal investigation saying it was not clear what the suspected crime was. the news reports however were all framed around the erroneous assumption that the criminal investigation must mean durham had found evidence of potential crimes by officials involved in the russia inquiry. barr who weighed in publicly at regular interviews in ways that advanced a pro-trump narrative chose in this instance not to clarify what was really happening. so what happens to the criminal investigation into trump s financial ties that was passed along by italian officials, charlie? so john durham opens a criminal investigation and he does not bring charges. and there is a lot of murk there. maybe we ll learn more, maybe something will shake out at some point but
the lens of his closest aides, mark meadows, cash patel, dan scavino and steve bannon. of course who better than bannon to gather all of the facts from and really get the full picture in part because he crafted former president trump s campaign platform. also he was credited with being one of the organizers of the stop the steal rally that led to violence in this capitol i m standing in. but he s evaded congress before, and members on the house select committee are very familiar with that both in the first impeachment trial of former president trump and also in the russia inquiry. now, pete agular, a member of the house life panel he was on msnbc last night. here s what he said on why it s so important to hear from these guys. what we hope to get is the full picture of the pressure campaign that the former president utilized on his own department of justice and how they in turn used it on other states. we think it s very clear that that s exactly what happened. reporter: now the qu
National Security Surveillance Plummeted Amid Pandemic and Russia Inquiry Fallout
But the F.B.I. is still using residual authority to obtain business records under a partly expired Patriot Act provision, a new report showed.
The F.B.I.’s headquarters in Washington. The number of people that the bureau targeted for surveillance in national security investigations dropped sharply last year.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
April 30, 2021
WASHINGTON The number of people targeted by the F.B.I. for court-approved searches and surveillance in terrorism and espionage investigations dropped sharply in 2020, a report released Friday said, amid the pandemic and the continuing political and legal fallout from the F.B.I.’s botched use of its eavesdropping power in the Trump-Russia investigation.
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