Mixed Reactions to Durham Report Findings on FBI's Investigation of Trump Campaign.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper claimed that the report by Special Counsel John Durham on the FBI's investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign is "devastating" to the organization and even exonerates Trump "to a degree." However, CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez reiterated that it recommended no criminal charges beyond those that were already brought. The only conviction from Durham's investigation was of a former FBI lawyer for altering an email to help obtain surveillance of a Trump adviser. The report criticized the agency for acting on "raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence," but much of the content had already come to light in a December 2019 report by the Justice Department's inspector general that spurred changes within the FBI.