'What are you doing, man, is the question I'd have for him.' Former FBI Director James Comey reacts to US Attorney John Durham commenting on the Justice Department inspector general's investigation into the Russia probe.
Washington The Justice Department's inspector general found no evidence that US intelligence agencies tried to plant spies in the Trump campaign, undercutting a repeated claim from President Donald Trump and his allies, people familiar with a draft of the report due out Monday tell CNN.
Michael Horowitz, the Justice inspector general, consulted US intelligence agencies as well as John Durham, the prosecutor conducting a broad investigation into the intelligence used to start the Russia investigation, to ask whether they could provide any evidence to back up the spy claim. Durham and the intelligence agencies responded that they couldn't provide any such evidence. The Washington Post first reported the IG's outreach to Durham.
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