Attorney General: Surveillance of Trump Campaign ‘a Clear Abuse of the FISA Process’

Attorney General William Barr, alongside officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announces the launch of Project Guardian, an anti-gun violence initiative, during a news conference, at the Davis-Horton Federal Building in Memphis Tenn., on Nov. 13, 2019. Mark Weber/Daily Memphian via AP

Attorney General William Barr announced on Dec. 9 that the surveillance operation against the Trump campaign in 2016 amounted to a “clear abuse” of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process.

Barr made the remarks in a statement responding to the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the handling of the FISA applications for warrants to spy on Trump-campaign associate Carter Page.