Justice department watchdog stands by report on Trump-Russia investigation
(The Guardian United States)

Inspector general at center of political feud as Republicans and Democrats spar over his findingsThe US justice department´s internal watchdog was caught in a political tug of war on Wednesday as Republican and Democratic senators used his report on the origins of the Russia investigation involving Donald Trump´s 2016 campaign to support their contrasting views that it was either a legitimate inquiry or a badly bungled farce.The inspector general, Michael Horowitz, on Wednesday firmly stood by his report, published on Monday, that concluded that although FBI agents made some significant errors as they began their investigation of Trump´s campaign, examples of sloppiness were far outweighed by the gravity of the legitimate legal justification for launching the inquiry, which was taken over by the special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017. Continue reading...