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IG Report: FBI Was Justified in Opening Russia Probe

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general says FBI
   leaders were justified in opening an inquiry into alleged ties between
   the Trump presidential campaign and Russian operatives, saying
   investigators found no evidence that the probe was politically
   motivated.

   But the independent inspector general, Michael Horowitz, also sharply
   criticized the FBI in his report released Monday for its handling of
   the court authorized surveillance of a former Trump campaign advisor,
   during its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential
   election.

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