Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) shared information with the White House about the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report released Thursday. Mueller’s report states that on March 16, 2017, the senator informed White House counsel Don McGahn’s office of “4-5 targets” of the FBI investigation into Russian interference ― the probe that eventually evolved into the special counsel investigation. Those materials “on their face reference the FBI, the Department of Justice, and Comey,” the report states, referring to then-FBI Director James Comey. Donaldson “could not rule out that Burr had told McGahn those individuals were the FBI’s targets,” the report adds. Burr’s Senate investigation has generally retained its reputation as being serious and bipartisan, even amid Nunes’ hijinks in the House and Republicans in both chambers defending Trump.

Source: Huffington Post April 18, 2019 20:28 UTC