Attorney General Barr's hand-picked prosecutor said he can't back a 'deep state' theory that the Russia probe was an anti-Trump conspiracy

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• Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham, who was picked by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the source of the Russia probe, has found no evidence that it was a set-up by US intelligence, The Washington Post reported. 
• A separate report by justice department inspector general Michael Horowitz expected to be released next week will also conclude that there is not good evidence to believe that FBI's Russia probe was launched because of the anti-Trump bias of senior officials. 
• President Donald Trump and his allies have long attempted to discredit the Russia probe as a plot to discredit him concocted by "deep state" officials. 
• In recent weeks the president and his allies have seized a conspiracy theory — rubbished by the intelligence community, security officials and experts — claiming that Ukraine was in fact behind a plot to sway the 2016 election. 
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The prosecutor picked by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the Russia probe said he has found no evidence to support claims that the investigation was the result of a plot by partisan intelligence officials, sources have told The Washington Post. 

Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham was appointed by Barr to conduct an inquiry into the origins of the FBI's probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence.

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