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Speaking of oversight...

One more choice of Notable Notables from QR...

Barr Launches Wide-Ranging Probe Into 2016 FBI Spying

Attorney General William Barr told the Senate Judiciary
Panel this week that he has assembled a team at the Justice
Department to probe whether the spying conducted by the FBI
against the Trump campaign in 2016 was improper, reports
Bloomberg.

Barr suggested that he would focus on former senior leaders
at the FBI and Justice Department.

“To the extent there was overreach, what we have to be
concerned about is a few people at the top getting it into
their heads that they know better than the American people,”
said Barr.

Barr will also review whether the infamous Steele dossier -
a collection of salacious and unverified claims against
Donald Trump, assembled by a former British spy and paid for
by the Clinton campaign - was fabricated by the Russian
government to trick the FBI and other US agencies. (Will
Barr investigate whether Steele made the whole thing up for
his client, Fusion GPS?)

“We now know that he was being falsely accused,” Barr said
of Trump. “We have to stop using the criminal justice
process as a political weapon.”

Mueller’s report didn’t say there were false accusations
against Trump. It said the evidence of cooperation between
the campaign and Russia “was not sufficient to support
criminal charges.” Investigators were unable to get a
complete picture of the activities of some relevant people,
the special counsel found.

Although Barr’s review has only begun, it’s helping to
fuel a narrative long embraced by Trump and some of his
Republican supporters: that the Russia investigation was
politically motivated and concocted from false allegations
in order to spy on Trump’s campaign and ultimately undermine
his presidency. -Bloomberg

As Bloomberg notes, Barr’s review could receive a boost by a
Thursday New York Times article acknowledging that the FBI
sent a ‘honeypot’ spy to London in 2016 to pose as a
research assistant and gather intelligence from Trump
foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos over possible
Trump campaign links to Russia.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-03/barrs-review-2016-fbi-spying-will-have-wide-scope