Schiff accuses Bill Barr of 'weaponizing' DOJ
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused Attorney General Bill Barr on Sunday of “weaponizing” the Justice Department.
Schiff’s remarks come after media reports that a Justice Department review of the start of the agency’s probe into connections between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia has now become a criminal investigation.
“It means that Bill Barr on the president’s behalf is weaponizing the Justice Department, to go after the president’s enemies,” Schiff said on ABC‘s “This Week with George Stephanopolous.” “He’s demonstrating once again that he is merely a tool of the president, the president’s hand, not the representative of the American people.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Barr to investigate how the FBI began its Russia probe. John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, is leading that effort. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General has also been conducting an investigation into aspects of the FBI Russia probe. That report is expected to be released in the near future.
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