President Trump ordered his chief of staff Monday to make sure Congress gets "Highly classified" information from the Justice Department, intelligence community and FBI - including details that could shed light on whether the FBI had an informant investigate the Trump campaign.
Mr. Trump also officially requested an inspector general's investigation into the FBI's "Tactics" toward the Trump campaign in 2016, and the White House and Justice Department said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein agreed to convey the directive.
At a meeting that also included Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Mr. Trump ordered them to play ball with House lawmakers looking into reports that the FBI recruited an informant to try to get information from key campaign officials.
Mr. Trump has deeply involved himself after reports that Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, 73, acted as an FBI informant who met with Trump campaign officials, and even tried to pry loose information that the campaign may have had about Russian hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email.
The New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting three months before the election with three suspect people - an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes, a Republican donor who once led the security firm formerly named Blackwater and an Israeli social media specialist.
He is finishing a report on James B. Comey's handling of the Clinton email saga while serving as FBI director, and he recently began a report on whether the FBI acted properly when it sought permission to surveil a Trump campaign figure.
Negotiating tricky disputes between Mr. Trump and the Justice Department is part of the job, Mr. McCullough said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/21/donald-trump-orders-highly-classified-data-congres/
Mr. Trump also officially requested an inspector general's investigation into the FBI's "Tactics" toward the Trump campaign in 2016, and the White House and Justice Department said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein agreed to convey the directive.
At a meeting that also included Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Mr. Trump ordered them to play ball with House lawmakers looking into reports that the FBI recruited an informant to try to get information from key campaign officials.
Mr. Trump has deeply involved himself after reports that Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, 73, acted as an FBI informant who met with Trump campaign officials, and even tried to pry loose information that the campaign may have had about Russian hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email.
The New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting three months before the election with three suspect people - an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes, a Republican donor who once led the security firm formerly named Blackwater and an Israeli social media specialist.
He is finishing a report on James B. Comey's handling of the Clinton email saga while serving as FBI director, and he recently began a report on whether the FBI acted properly when it sought permission to surveil a Trump campaign figure.
Negotiating tricky disputes between Mr. Trump and the Justice Department is part of the job, Mr. McCullough said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/21/donald-trump-orders-highly-classified-data-congres/
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