On Trump probe bias, IG’s carefully-worded answers get second look

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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified for more than seven hours in front of two House committees last week. The transcript of the session is roughly 61,000 words long. So it is no surprise that some key moments were missed in the initial reporting and discussion.

Now, some members of the House are looking at a brief exchange between Horowitz and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Nadler appeared to want Horowitz to declare that there was no bias in the FBI’s investigation of President Trump. Horowitz quite pointedly declined to go along.

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