US special counsel slams FBI probe of Trump-Russia collusion
Washington (AFP) - The FBI investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was based on flimsy evidence and seriously flawed, an independent US prosecutor said in a report published Monday. Special Counsel John Durham was appointed in 2019 by then-president Trump's attorney general Bill Barr to address allegations -- made most prominently by Trump himself -- that the Russia investigation was a political "witch hunt." Durham's more than 300-page report follows a four-year investigation that continued under Barr's successor, Attorney General Merr...