Washington (AP) – News Attorney General Pam Bondy is moving to investigate criminally The Obama-era origins of Trump-Russia’s investigation mean that one of the most studied and politically polarized chapters of modern American history is once again under the microscope.
Here we look at what is known and yet unknown about the latest Department of Justice Revelation.
Saga with a long backstory
Perhaps there is no problem that continues to make the president worse. Donald Trump More than the intelligence agency’s evaluation Russia interfered in the 2016 election On his behalf, he was investigated by law enforcement, The campaign conspired Tie out the results of the contest along with Moscow.
Former FBI director Robert Mueller discovered that Russia is working hard after investigating as Trump’s first special advisor to the Justice Department. Multifaceted Operations in Benefits of Trump And that the Republican president’s campaign welcomed the aid. However, Mueller could not find sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign.
As president, Trump has kept his desire to use the Justice Department as a retaliation weapon against political enemies he thinks has smeared, including asking Obama-era officials to be jailed.
And his administration, It is now more broadly and spans multiple institutions.has been engaged in efforts to resume long-accepted conclusions, including prominent Republicans of Russian interference, and to scrutinize officials involved in reaching that assessment.
Bondi Large Jue Order
Trump’s royalist, Bondi has directed the Justice Department prosecutors to present evidence related to the Russian investigation to the large juice. A large ju trial is a tool used by prosecutors to issue records and subpoena to the prosecutors and create a prosecution based on the evidence they receive.
Given that the prosecutor’s presentation of evidence is one-sided, the bar for the charges is low, but he has refused to indict a large ju judge in the past and has done so.
Anyone familiar with the issue has checked Bondi’s instructions to the Associated Press, but important questions remain.
For example, a large ju court, where prosecutors are pursuing an investigation, where there may be a large ju court, where evidence may be located, did not say whether or not a law enforcement officer would attempt to file a criminal charge.
In a rare statement last month, the Department of Justice said: Apparently confirming the existence of the investigation Former FBI Director James Comey Former CIA Director James Brennan However, no details or details were provided.
Potential targets of the probe remain unknown
It is not clear who will be targeted in the investigation, but the Trump administration has been actively challenging the Intelligence Election community’s conclusions about Russia’s actions and intentions that seemed to have been resolved long ago.
It was a welcome turn for the administration as it faces a wave of criticism of Trump’s foundations and processing records from conservative influencers. Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation.
Last month, Trump administration officials and allies released a series of documents aimed at questioning the scope of interference, aiming to portray the original Russian investigation as a frame job for the Obama administration.
The document is welcomed as indisputable evidence of the plot, but a close examination of the records shows that it is not close to that.
In the released documentation Tarshi Gabbardan email from 2016 that the administration’s National Intelligence Director admitted that Obama administration officials had not hacked the state’s election system in 2016 to manipulate votes in Trump’s favor.
However, there is no evidence that votes have been switched – the Obama administration never claimed – not relevant to sufficient evidence of other forms of Russian interference, Includes hack and leak operations including democratic email Secret social media campaign aimed at sowing Discord and spreading false information.
Last week, Senator Chuck GrassleyRepublican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced a previously classified annex to the 2023 report by John Durham, the special adviser appointed by the first Trump administration to hunt government misconduct in the investigation of Russia.
The annex included a series of emails that were said to have been sent from July 2016 by senior staff at a charity founded by billionaire investor George Soros.
However, Durham’s own report noted that investigators had not supported the communication as authentic, saying that the best evaluation was the “complex of several emails” that Russians gained from hacking, increasing the likelihood that it was a product of Russian fraud.
The new scrutiny also focuses on the intelligence news community’s assessment of Russia’s election interference, released in January 2017. The appendix to the classification version of the assessment contained a summary of what is called steel related documents.
Latest in a series of research
So does the US government’s response to that, just as Russia’s interference is being scrutinized.
Several government reports include not only Mueller but also the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Email Committee, which includes the current Secretary of State. Marco Rubiorecorded details of cleaning up activities in Russia.
Certainly, reports from Justice Department inspectors and Durham also identified significant flaws in the FBI’s Russian investigation. Includes application errors and omissions The Justice Department filed it with a secret surveillance court to eavesdrop on national security advisers for the 2016 Trump campaign.
However, Durham discovered criminal misconduct among government officials and filed three criminal cases. The two were acquitted at trial, causing a third of those lesser-known FBI lawyers. Who pleaded guilty to writing an email.
It is unclear whether there is any criminal injustice that exists that Durham, who began his investigation in 2019 and concluded it four years later, missed during his vast investigation.
