Washington (AP) – Attorney General Pam Bondy The Justice Department has directed that it move forward in an investigation into the origins of Trump-Russia investigation Following the recent release of documents intended to undermine the legitimacy of inquiries It established that Moscow intervened on behalf of Republicans in the 2016 US presidential election.
Bondy has instructed prosecutors to present evidence to the large ju court after an introduction to the Trump administration’s highest intelligence news agency, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The person was not authorized to discuss it by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press. Fox News first reported development.
It was not clear which former officials were the targets of the major ju judge. There, a large ju court that may ultimately hear evidence, whether professional employees or political appointees, may be involved in the pursuit of the investigation. It was also not clear what the exact allegations of fraud that Trump administration officials believe could form the basis for criminal charges.
This development is likely to raise concerns that the Department of Justice is being used to achieve political objectives. This has been used to achieve political objectives given President Donald Trump’s long-standing grievances with Russia’s investigation that called for the imprisonment of political enemies. Criminal Investigations will revisit one of the most dissected chapters of modern American political history. It also emerged during the Trump administration. It is mitigated by criticism of the processing of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation.
Investigating Russian election interference As a result, a special advisor was appointed. Robert Mueller secured multiple convictions against Trump’s aides and allies, but failed to establish evidence of criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
The investigation hides many of Trump’s first term, and he has long focused his anger on senior officials from the Intelligence Employment Agency community, including former FBI director James Comey and former CIA director John Brennan, who was fired in May 2017. The Justice Department appeared to confirm the investigation of both men in an unusual statement No details were provided last month.
Multiple special counsels, Parliamentary Committee and Department of Justice’s own inspector It studied and documented Russia’s multifaceted efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Trump, including democratic email hack-and-leak dumps and secret social media operations aimed at winging and shaking discrepancies.
However, this conclusion has been actively challenged over the past few weeks as Trump’s National Intelligence Director and other allies hope to release previously classified records, cast doubt on the scope of Russian interference, and establish an Obama administration’s efforts to mislink Trump with Russia.
In one batch of documents released last month, National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard An email that reveals what senior Obama administration officials know In 2016, Russians had not hacked the state’s election system to manipulate votes in Trump’s favor. However, President Barack Obama’s administration did not argue that the votes were tampered with, instead detailing other forms of election interference and foreign influence.
A new protest surfaced last week when Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a series of documents FBI director Kash Patel claimed on social media.
The document was part of a categorized annex of a report issued in 2023 by John Durham, a special adviser appointed during the first Trump administration to monitor government misconduct during the Russian investigation.
Durham has identified key flaws in the investigation, but found no bombs to disprove the existence of Russian election interference. His vast probes produced three criminal cases. The two were acquitted, while the third was a plea for guilty to issue a false statement from a little-known FBI lawyer.
Republicans claimed that on July 27, 2016, then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved the plan amid the heat of the campaign linking Trump and Russia.
But the author of The Email, a senior employee of a charity founded by billionaire investor George Soros, told the Durham team he never sent an email, and the recipient said she had never received it. Durham’s own report noted that investigators had not supported the communication as authentic, saying the best evaluation was that the message was “a complex of several emails” and that Russians gained from the hacking.
The FBI’s Russia survey opened on July 31, 2016. George Papadopoulostold Russian diplomats that Russia owns dirt in Clinton.
