FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying to Congress Tuesday, said that he would not describe the bureau's traditional surveillance as “spying” -- indicating a possible split with Attorney General William Barr on his controversial use of the term to describe intelligence-gathering during the Russia probe. “That’s not the term I would use,” Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee when asked if FBI agents engage in "spying" when they follow FBI policies and procedures. "I think spying did occur," Barr said in a hearing last month. “I want to be careful about how I answer this question here because there is an ongoing inspector general investigation," he said. Barr testified last week that he's working with Wray to try and "reconstruct" the origins of the probe.

Source: Fox News May 07, 2019 16:18 UTC