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May 24, 2019

Trump Grants Attorney General Sweeping Powers to Investigate Mueller Probe Origins
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President Trump has given Attorney General William Barr broad new powers
to review how the Trump campaign's ties to Russia were investigated. The
order will give Barr oversight to compel the CIA, the FBI and more than
a dozen other intelligence agencies to declassify documents. Trump's
order came just hours after he claimed former FBI Director James Comey
and former acting FBI Director Andrew Mc Cabe were guilty of "treason."
Last month, Barr told lawmakers he believes intelligence agencies spied
on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign-echoing Trump's repeated
accusation, made without evidence, that President Obama wiretapped
Trump's phones ahead of the election.


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