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Special counsel John Durham found no evidence that the US justice department and the FBI conspired in a deep-state plot to investigate Donald Trump's ties to Russia in 2016, though the report released on Monday found that the FBI's handling of key aspects of the case were deficient.

What do we know about the Durham investigation of an investigation? In May 2019, the then US attorney general in the Trump administration, William Barr, asked federal prosecutor John Durham, the US attorney in Connecticut, to investigate an investigation: the one carried out into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election and links between Donald Trump and Moscow. Here's what else we know.

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