AG Barr Says He Will ‘Reconstruct’ Origins of Russia Probe

Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "the Justice Department's investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 1, 2019. Aaron Bernstein/Reuters

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 1, Attorney General William Barr reiterated that he will look into the origins of the Russia interference probe and the extent of the FBI surveillance on President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

Barr testified at another Senate hearing on April 10 that he believes that Trump’s campaign was being spied on and announced that he intends on “reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016” to learn whether the surveillance was “adequately predicated.”