Attorney General William Barr's pledge to release Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report within a week, complete with color-coded redactions, was the splashiest news from Barr's testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. But Barr also told the House he's "reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016" into members of President Trump's campaign and Russia. That investigation eventually led to Mueller's probe.
In fact, Bloomberg News reports, Barr has already "assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016." Trump and his Republican allies have called for an investigation into what they call Mueller's "witch hunt," and during Tuesday's hearing, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) asked Barr if the Justice Department is investigating "how it came to be that your agency used a salacious and unverified dossier as a predicate for FISA order on a U.S. citizen?"
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