A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI for its handling of the investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
In a 300-page report, special counsel John Durham said the FBI’s probe lacked “analytical rigor”.
Mr Trump had vowed that Mr Durham’s report would uncover the “crime of the century”.
The FBI said it has addressed the issues highlighted in the report.
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In the report, Mr Durham – who was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2019 – accused the FBI of acting on “raw, unanalysed and uncorroborated intelligence” when it launched the probe.
Among the various investigative mistakes it made were repeated instances of “confirmation bias” that ignored information that undercut the initial premise of the investigation, which was known by the codename “Crossfire Hurricane”.
In a statement, the FBI said it had “already implemented dozens of corrective actions”.
“Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the statement added.