The FBI obtained a warrant in 2016 to eavesdrop on former Trump national security aide Carter Page on suspicions that he was secretly a Russian agent. The Justice Department renewed the warrant three times, including during the early months of the Trump administration. But the Justice Department's inspector general has harshly criticized the FBI's handing of those applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The court directed the FBI to report back by this month on what steps it was taking to fix the problems. ———This story has been corrected to show that the Justice Department found that there was “insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping.

Source: ABC News January 25, 2020 23:42 UTC