2016 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William Barr appointed Connecticut US Attorney John Durham to act as special counsel investigating whether intelligence and law enforcement violated the law in investigating the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
Barr made the appointment on October 19 and kept it secret so as not to interfere in the election, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Tuesday [Dec. 1, 2020].”
-Katelyn Polantz, “Barr appoints John Durham as special counsel investigating 2016 presidential campaign investigators,” cnn.com, Dec. 1, 2020