Two reviews of Trump-Russia probe to have opposite conclusions - official testifies


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Dec 2019

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) holds a copy of the Justice Department IG report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act while questioning Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the FISA Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two separate U.S. Department of Justice reviews are likely to reach opposite conclusions about whether the FBI investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign had sufficient cause to look into any ties with Russia, an official watchdog told Congress on Wednesday.

The department's Inspector General Michael Horowitz told lawmakers that he and a U.S. prosecutor conducting a separate review disagreed about a fundamental question of the politically sensitive inquiry.

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