Wednesday, May 23, 2018

5 Big Questions the FBI Hasn't Answered on Its Conduct During the 2016 Campaign

At least 19 House Republicans are sponsoring a resolution calling for a special counsel to investigate the conduct of the Justice Department and FBI during the 2016 election campaign.

"In just the past few days, we learned that the DOJ, FBI, or both appear to have planted at least one person into Donald Trump's presidential campaign to infiltrate and surveil the campaign," Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill press conference.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General has completed a draft report on the FBI's Clinton investigation and just announced it will do a separate review of the FBI's apparent spying on the Trump campaign.

Here are five unanswered questions about the actions of the Justice Department and FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign.

That has become a politically contentious point, with Mr. Trump's allies questioning whether the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign or trying to entrap campaign officials.

"With the revelations that our campaign may have been the subject of surveillance by the FBI, the president I think is grateful that the Department of Justice is going to have the inspector general look into it and determine and ensure that there was no surveillance done for political purposes against our campaign," Pence said.

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the dossier as opposition research and the FBI used it as a basis for obtaining a FISA warrant to surveil Page, the Trump campaign aide.

FBI officials knew in September 2016 that Clinton emails were stored on the laptop of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., but waited until days before the Nov. 8 election to obtain a search warrant.

The inspector general's report was expected to criticize Comey, the FBI director during the Clinton email probe and early stages of the Trump-Russia probe.

Comey told the House Judiciary Committee in September 2016 that he made the decision not to recommend criminal charges after the FBI interviewed Clinton on July 2.

The inspector general's report also is expected to criticize a series of electronic text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that disparaged Trump during the campaign, AP reported.

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