The flaws revealed in the Durham report will add weight to the arguments of those advocating for a “real reform” in the FBI, said retired longtime Bureau agent Marc Ruskin.
The 306-page report, released on Monday by special counsel John Durham, concluded that the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia demonstrated a “lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents.”
As one example, Durham pointed to the 2015 opposition research book “Clinton Cash,” which only prompted the FBI headquarters to start a preliminary investigation into Clinton Foundation. By contrast, the agency “immediately opened” what eventually became known as Crossfire Hurricane as a full-scale probe, despite it being “similarly predicated on unvetted hearsay information.”…