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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

AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - White House declassifies secret FBI probe that treated Trump as a potential Russian asset

The White House has released declassified details of a covert FBI investigation, codenamed "Oxferd Comma", that probed whether President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey at Russia's direction, even as the bureau's own evidence was already pointing the other way. An administration official disclosed Wednesday that the investigation, opened after Trump dismissed Comey in May […] The post White House declassifies secret FBI probe that treated Trump as a potential Russian asset appeared first on American Almanac .

The White House has released declassified details of a covert FBI investigation, codenamed "Oxferd Comma", that probed whether President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey at Russia's direction, even as the bureau's own evidence was already pointing the other way. An administration official disclosed Wednesday that the investigation, opened after Trump dismissed Comey in May 2017, operated as a subcomponent of the broader Crossfire Hurricane probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. FBI agents marked the case "sensitive" and described it internally as "the least intrusive method to address a serious national security risk." The premise: that the President of the United States might be acting on behalf…Open