Wednesday, CNN’s senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju asked Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) about Attorney General Bill Barr’s comments during his congressional testimony that the Department of Justice had spied on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
Warner said, “I’m amazed that the Attorney General would make that kind of statement. I think it is in many ways disrespectful to the men and women who work in the Justice Department. And it shows, I think, either a lack of understanding or willful ignorance of what goes into a counterintelligence investigation.”
He continued, “The idea that the FBI, with the evidence they had, wouldn’t have launched a counterintelligence investigation would have been irresponsible. So I don’t understand the Attorney General’s comments. I don’t understand what basis he’s making them on. Frankly, he almost seems to be endorsing one of these theories that has been debunked time and time again by the various — even House Republican-led investigations trying to show some kind of these efforts.”
(h/t Grabien)
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