AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Declassified FBI files reveal bureau opened probe treating Trump as possible Russian asset after Comey firing
The White House released a cache of declassified FBI documents showing the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation in May 2017 that treated President Donald Trump as a potential agent of Russia, a probe later found to rest on insufficient evidence. The documents, published through the White House's Government Transparency Task Force, center on an FBI […] The post Declassified FBI files reveal bureau opened probe treating Trump as possible Russian asset after Comey firing appeared first on American Almanac .
The White House released a cache of declassified FBI documents showing the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation in May 2017 that treated President Donald Trump as a potential agent of Russia, a probe later found to rest on insufficient evidence. The documents, published through the White House's Government Transparency Task Force, center on an FBI memo dated May 16, 2017, just days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. That memo opened an investigation codenamed "Oxferd Comma" and directed agents to determine whether the sitting president of the United States was "directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the…Open