Report exposes FBI flaws in Trump probe

A special counsel report on the FBI's investigation into former US president Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign concluded on Monday that neither US law enforcement nor the intelligence community "appears to have possessed any actual evidence of (Russian) collusion" at the start of the probe.

The 306-page document marked the end of a four-year investigation launched when then-attorney general William Barr appointed John Durham to look at potential mistakes in the FBI's inquiry into possible contacts between Trump's campaign and Moscow.

The FBI probe, known as Crossfire Hurricane, was later turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller, who in March 2019 said there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, although he was critical of Trump.