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  1. News about Durham inquiry whose existence we broke last night: he's conducting a "review" of intel collection involving the Trump campaign & Russia, not a criminal investigation w/ power to subpoena documents and witnesses. w/ @adamgoldmanNYT @npfandos nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/politics/russia-investigation-review.html
    1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      Earlier today @LindseyGrahamSC , the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Cmte, said he'd cancel plans for an oversight probe into the Russia investigators bc he didn't want to get in the way of the criminal investigation. He wasn't pleased to learn it isn't one; backoff may be off.
      1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
        One notable thing about all this is that it indicates for all the turmoil from Trump team about Carter Page FISA etc, there still isn't sufficient factual predicate to meet the standards for opening a criminal investigation about any of this.
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API