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The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report clearly spelled out gross abuses by the FBI when applying to spy on members of the Trump campaign. Despite those facts, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News were clutching their pearls Tuesday while reporting on how President Trump and Attorney General William Barr were slamming the law enforcement organization for lying and misleading the FISA courts.
“Tonight, in an extraordinary set of developments, the President and his attorney general took aim at the FBI director,” CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell rhetorically gasped. “Now, this comes a day after the department's watchdog concluded the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign.”
CBS correspondent Ben Tracy began the video portion of the segment by whining about how “Attorney General William Barr is once again siding with President Trump, offering a scathing critique today of the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.”
Adding: “Barr is contradicting his own inspector general, who found the FBI acted legitimately and with no political bias in launching the probe into the Trump campaign's potential ties with Russia. The report did, however, find the FBI made significant mistakes in its warrant applications for wiretap surveillance of the campaign.”
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