Durham Inquiry Includes Scrutiny of a Media Leak
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/john-durham-ignatius-column.html
April 24, 2020
Updated 4:45 p.m. ET
The attorney general has suggested that the Justice Department review of the Russia investigation has uncovered “troubling” findings without going into details.
Investigators have also examined the role of John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director in 2016, in how intelligence agencies assessed Russia’s election interference. Though Mr. Trump’s allies have accused Mr. Brennan — who has made his distaste for the president widely known — of tainting intelligence to go after Mr. Trump, the Senate Intelligence Committee said this week in a report that it found no evidence that the intelligence community’s assessment on Russian interference had been politicized.
Last year, Mr. Durham also started examining the 2017 column by The Post’s David Ignatius, said a person familiar with that line questioning. Mr. Ignatius revealed that Mr. Flynn had spoken in late 2016 with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States at the time, as the Obama administration was about to place sanctions on Russia for its election sabotage.