"We have to find out what the government is doing"

AAttorney General William Barr wants to know what government officials were doing at the beginning of the Trump-Russia inquiry.

"If we are worried about foreign influence, for the same reason, we should ask ourselves if government officials have abused their power and put the scales on the scale," said Barr in an interview with Fox News, aired Friday. so i'm not saying that it happened, but i say that we have to look at that.

Barr seeks to find out if the Department of Justice and the FBI acted appropriately at the beginning of the investigation led by the special advocate Robert Mueller on Russia's efforts to interfere in the Presidential election of 2016.

While "trying to get answers to the questions," he said, many of the answers did not work out or "do not stay together".

"In a sense, I have more questions today than when I started," Barr said.

President Trump himself has considered the Mueller investigation with suspicion from the start, repeatedly calling it a political motivation. "witch hunt."

And Republicans are calling to investigate investigators for more than two years now, these calls multiplying after the conclusion of Mueller's investigation. The 448-page redacted Mueller report showed that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election by cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns on social networks, but could not establish that anyone in the Trump campaign had participated in a criminal plot with the Russians.

Earlier, Barr had told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was reviewing the origins of the Trump investigation, the existence of criminal leaks from the FBI or DOJ in the media, the possibility that the record voluminous constituted by the former British spy Christopher Steele was influenced. by Russian disinformation, if the law on the surveillance of foreign intelligence has been misused, etc.

"I think people need to know what the government was doing during this time," Barr said Thursday.