AG: FBI's conduct during investigation was a 'travesty'
MR. BAKER; You said in response to that yesterday, “The FBI launched an intrusive investigation on the thinnest of suspicions that were, in my view, insufficient to justify the steps taken.” Could you tell us where exactly you disagree with Mr. Horowitz?
MR. BARR: I think there are three parts or issues, let’s say categories of analysis in the report. The first is, was the investigation adequately predicated, the start of it? The second one is, how was it conducted? And I break that down into two things: How was it conducted before the election and how was it conducted after the election? The real meat of Horowitz’s work, and the real thrust of the report actually deals with the conduct of the investigation, where I think it quickly became apparent that it was a travesty.
MR. BAKER: The abuses? I want to come onto these in detail, but the abuses that in particular refer to the application for...