Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that he has "no idea" why Attorney General William Barr thinks he spied on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Anyway, Comey said, he was not aware of any court-ordered electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign.
At a Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Barr said that government "spying" on the Trump campaign "did occur" and raised questions about whether the intelligence agencies had gotten appropriate authorization for such intelligence gathering.
"I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It's a big deal," Barr said, noting that longstanding rules bar spy agencies from targeting domestic political figures.
Until Trump fired him in May 2017, Comey was leading an FBI probe of Russian election interference and any possible Trump campaign involvement. The agency obtained a secret surveillance warrant on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, after he left the campaign, and the agency reportedly used at least one confidential informer to collect information on campaign associates.
Eight days after Comey's exit, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate the same matters.
Nearly two years later, on March 24, Barr released a summary of Mueller's report, which he said found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians and stopped short of recommending the president be prosecuted for obstruction of justice regarding the investigations of him. The attorney general said no charges would be brought.
Democrats have suggested Barr is trying to hide damaging information about Trump, and have pledged to continue a number of congressional investigations of the president.
Current and former law enforcement officials have insisted that they did nothing wrong in investigating the Trump campaign, saying they needed to determine whether members were conspiring with Russians to interfere in the election.
Trump on Thursday agreed with Barr's comments about spying.
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