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President Donald Trump accompanied by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General Bill Barr, announces his administration’s effort to gain citizenship data during the 2020 census at an event in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras\/SIPA USA)(Sipa via AP Images)<\/p><\/div>\n
By Solange Reyner
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The Justice Department\u2019s inspector general Michael Horowitz is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week on the FBI’s Russia investigation, though Attorney General William Barr says he rejects one of Horowitz\u2019s key findings, reports\u00a0The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Barr\u2019s issue with the report is said to center on Horowitz\u2019s conclusion that the FBI had enough information to open an investigation into Trump campaign members in July 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cBarr has not been swayed by Horowitz\u2019s rationale for concluding the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016,\u201d sources told the Post.<\/p>\n The IG operates independently of DOJ leadership, so Barr cannot order changes to the report.<\/p>\n Horowitz is expected to allege that a former FBI lawyer altered a document related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, though he will say the lawyer\u2019s conduct did not change the legal basis for the request to wiretap him.<\/p>\n The report is expected to be sharply critical of the FBI but\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reported Friday that the IG is not expected to conclude that top FBI leaders acted out of bias.<\/p>\n The review is set for release on Dec. 9. Horowitz is scheduled to testify about his findings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n