Sentence buried in GOP memo may undercut Trump
Published on February 02, 2018 at 09:33PM by Karen Tumulty and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Though President Donald Trump and his allies hope that the controversial release of a GOP-written memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI will tarnish the legitimacy of the entire Russia probe, that argument may be undercut by a single sentence buried near the end of the four-page document. It confirms for the first time that the event that set the FBI's counterintelligence investigation in motion was not the surveillance of Trump adviser Carter Page - a subject upon which most of the memo dwells - but rather that it was opened as the result of information the bureau had received about another person connected to the Trump campaign.
Published on February 02, 2018 at 09:33PM by Karen Tumulty and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Though President Donald Trump and his allies hope that the controversial release of a GOP-written memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI will tarnish the legitimacy of the entire Russia probe, that argument may be undercut by a single sentence buried near the end of the four-page document. It confirms for the first time that the event that set the FBI's counterintelligence investigation in motion was not the surveillance of Trump adviser Carter Page - a subject upon which most of the memo dwells - but rather that it was opened as the result of information the bureau had received about another person connected to the Trump campaign.
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