This week, Attorney General William Barr testified in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In an exchange with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Barr answered, “I think spying did occur, yes. I think spying did occur.”
He received immediate pushback for his comments. “Let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer is going off the rails,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in response to his comments. She went on to say, “He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.”
Former FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the bureau during the 2016 campaign, declared, “When I hear that kind of language used, it is concerning because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court ordered electronic surveillance. I have never thought of that as spying.”
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