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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 10, 2019, 08:45:38 pm
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Justice gives Congress new details on 'spying' probe
By Morgan Chalfant - 06/10/19 03:04 PM EDT
The Justice Department on Monday offered more details to Congress on the investigation that Attorney General William Barr ordered into the intelligence collection on the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 election.
In a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said that the inquiry is being primarily conducted by U.S. attorney John Durham out of Justice Department offices in Washington, D.C.
Boyd wrote that Durham, the U.S. attorney from Connecticut, is receiving assistance from a “number of U.S. Attorney’s Office personnel and other Department employees.â€
“The Department has made existing office space in Washington available for this work,†Boyd wrote in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). “Mr. Durham’s Review will be funded out of the U.S. Attorney’s Salaries and Expenses appropriation.â€
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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/447760-justice-gives-congress-new-details-on-spying-probe