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    Barr echoes Trump's 'spying' claim

    by Del Quentin Wilber and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr told a Senate committee Wednesday that he is reviewing whether the Justice Department and the FBI acted inappropriately in their investigation of Russian election interference in 2016, saying he thought "spying did occur" on President Donald Trump's campaign.

    In echoing the provocative charge leveled by Trump to denounce the court-approved surveillance of a former member of his campaign, Barr thrust himself directly into the partisan battle waged by the White House and Republican lawmakers who allege that abuses by FBI officials prejudiced the Russia investigation from the start.

    Testifying to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the nation's top lawman expressed concerns about whether top FBI officials

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