Prosecutor handpicked by AG William Barr to scrutinize how US agencies investigated President Trump's 2016 campaign said he could not offer evidence to Justice Department's Inspector General to support suspicions of some conservatives the case was a setup by American intelligence
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office contacted US Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor Barr personally tapped to lead a separate review of the 2016 probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign & Russia.
The Inspector General also contacted several US intelligence agencies. Among Horowitz's questions: whether a Maltese professor who interacted with a Trump campaign advisor was actually a US intelligence asset deployed to ensnare the campaign.
But intelligence agencies said the professor was not among their assets. And Durham informed Horowitz's office that his investigation had not produced any evidence that might contradict the Inspector General's findings on that point.
