The Western Journal
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The FBI responded to special counsel John Durham’s condemnation of its actions in the investigation of the supposed links between Russia and former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign by saying it was doing better these days.
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the bureau said in a statement Monday.
“This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect,” it added.
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York said an apology was not enough and those who launched the investigation that scarred American political life must be held accountable.
“The long-awaited Durham Report confirmed what the American people already know; that individuals at the highest levels of government attempted to overthrow democracy when they illegally weaponized the federal government against Donald J. Trump,” Stefanik said in a statement.
“This criminal abuse of power went all the way up to the Oval Office where President Obama and then Vice-President Joe Biden were in on it from the very beginning,” she said. “This was an unlawful attempt by the politicized FBI and DOJ to meddle in our elections.
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