Solange Reyner | Wednesday, 04 December 2019 07:53 PM
U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor leading a high-profile probe into the origin of the Russia-Trump collusion claims, told DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz there is no evidence that the Maltese academic who met with Russian officials and with George Papadopoulos was a U.S. intelligence asset working to tarnish the president, reports The Washington Post.
Joseph Misfud was a central figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. His conversation with Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign aide, set in motion the FBI probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The Post report is key in that it stunts conservative theories that the FBI case was a setup by American intelligence agencies.
Attorney General William Barr in May said officials’ statements about the origins of the investigation “are just not jiving†with information he had learned during his short stint in office.
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