President Donald Trump renewed his offensive against the US security establishment on Tuesday with a broadside criticizing the "attitude" of FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Trump attacked Wray for defending a Justice Department inspector general report that said there was adequate evidence and no politics behind the FBI's opening of an investigation into Russian interference during Trump's victorious 2016 election campaign.
"With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI, which is badly broken," Trump tweeted.
The report, issued on Monday, found there had been numerous procedural errors but said there was no political bias against Trump by law enforcement.
Defending the FBI on Monday, Wray said the investigation had been underpinned by "adequate factual predication." The report starkly contradicted Trump's claims that the investigation -- which grew into a sprawling probe of multi-pronged Kremlin interference operations and Trump's business links with Russia -- was an "attempted coup."
In an interview with MSNBC, he said the justifications to place wiretaps on members of Trump's election campaign who had suspect Russian government contacts were "very flimsy."
Barr made no mention of the charges and convictions that came out of Mueller's investigation, instead dismissing the episode as "hyped."
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