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FBI Employees Also Exchanged Pro-Trump Text Messages During Campaign
President Trump has long seized on anti-Trump tweets between two FBI employees to push his unfounded conspiracy theories that the bureau tried to undermine his candidacy.
President Trump continued to lash out at the FBI at a rally in Hershey, Pa., on Tuesday night, calling bureau leaders “scum” and doubling down on his claims of a “deep state” conspiracy to undermine his campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that the Inspector General’s report on Trump’s campaign and Russian meddling vindicated him and the bureau.
President Trump ripped into FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday morning, presumably for backing the inspector general’s conclusion that the bureau didn’t improperly open its investigation into the Trump campaign.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department inspector general’s report dismissed some conservatives’ longstanding allegations about the investigation into the Trump campaign — including that top FBI officials were motivated by political bias and illegally spied on Trump advisers. At the same time, the report that examined the FBI’s probe into connections between Trump campaign…
President Trump tapped Anthony Ornato, deputy assistant director of the Secret Service, as his new deputy chief of staff for operations.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is set to announce today that top FBI officials did not illegally spy on Trump’s campaign in 2016, delivering a blow to one of the president’s most repeated conspiracy theories.
The writer, an FBI agent for 31 years, retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office in 2006. By Greg Stejskal On March 10, 1975, I reported to the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. — “Main Justice” — to be sworn in as a FBI special agent with my fellow…