Horowitz’s mixed bag of conclusions is likely to give new ammunition to both Trump’s defenders and critics in the long-running partisan fight over the Russia investigation. Trump has long chafed at the Russia investigation, which overshadowed the first years of his presidency. But agents had to investigate the four advisers’ ties with Russia, and the people they did scrutinize all played roles in the Trump campaign. The FBI gave Horowitz’s team extraordinary access to its informant database, and his investigators examined other FBI informants with possible ties to the Trump campaign. Though a wiretap itself is an intrusive investigative tool, FBI officials obtained a wiretap on Page after he had left the Trump campaign.

Source: bd News24 November 28, 2019 02:26 UTC