Durham report: FBI addresses ‘missteps’ after special counsel review released

The FBI said it has “implemented dozens of corrective actions” to reform “missteps” highlighted in the report from special counsel John Durham on Monday.

The agency issued a statement shortly after the release of the 306-page report that looked into the origins and conduct of the FBI investigation regarding alleged ties between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the statement said

“This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect,” the statement continued.

Durham’s report slammed the FBI’s conduct in opening an investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Durham said if the bureau had taken simple steps, then “the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject.”

Republican lawmakers have gone after the Department of Justice and FBI for their conduct highlighted in the report, and Democrats have mostly brushed off the report, citing the lack of convictions stemming from the investigation.

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The long-awaited report found there was no proper basis for the FBI and DOJ to launch an investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Durham concluded in the report that “based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly investigations of these matters,” including the special counsel’s own inquiry, “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”