Read the full text: Justice Department watchdog report into origins of Russia probe

By NBC News with NBC News Politics • last updated: 09/12/2019

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on June 18, 2018. -

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Along-awaited report by the Justice Department's watchdog rebuts President Donald Trump's depiction of the government's probe into Russian election interference as a politically biased plot against him.

The report also criticized parts of that inquiry.

Read the full report:

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