Senator Mark Warner: Barr has "little credibility" to review Russia probe origins
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned Attorney General's William Barr credibility to oversee a Justice Department probe into the origins of the Russia investigation, accusing him of acting like President Trump's "personal advocate."
"Mr. Barr has very little credibility with me and I think the vast majority of, candidly, not just Democrats, but many Americans because he time and again is not acting as our attorney general, but as a personal advocate for Donald Trump," Warner said on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
After multiple calls by Mr. Trump to "investigate the investigators," the attorney general earlier this month tapped the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, John Durham, to lead an investigation into the origins of the inquiry into Russian meddling in U.S. elections and possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow. The president recently granted Barr sweeping authority to declassify counterintelligence information and instructed the nation's intelligence agencies to cooperate with the attorney general's review.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News last week, the attorney general said he does not think some Obama-era Justice Department officials who oversaw the Russia investigation committed treason "as a legal matter," but noted he nevertheless has some concerns about the way these officials handled the probe.
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Concerns? Yeah they caught the GOP conspiring with a foreign power.
