Revelations that an FBI informant insinuated himself into the Trump campaign have led some congressional investigators to rethink their theories on how and why former President Barack Obama's Justice Department began investigating the 2016 Trump presidential effort.
Most reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign.
The document, known as the electronic communication, or EC, is said to have focused on the case of George Papadopoulos, the peripheral Trump adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller about his contacts with people connected to Russia.
Most of the key events of the Trump-Russia investigation - the Carter Page wiretap, the wiretap of Michael Flynn's conversations, the presentation of Trump dossier allegations to the president-elect - took place after the formal start of the FBI counterintelligence investigation.
The question has pointed investigators back to the issue of when the probe began - not when a piece of paper was formally signed but when the FBI, and perhaps other U.S. intelligence agencies, began investigating the Trump campaign.
Lynch told the House Intelligence Committee that she, Comey, and McCabe discussed whether to provide a "Defensive briefing" to the Trump campaign.
In early July, Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, the former British spy, approached the FBI with the first installment of the dossier.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/when-did-trump-russia-probe-begin-investigators-focus-on-mystery-months
Most reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign.
The document, known as the electronic communication, or EC, is said to have focused on the case of George Papadopoulos, the peripheral Trump adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller about his contacts with people connected to Russia.
Most of the key events of the Trump-Russia investigation - the Carter Page wiretap, the wiretap of Michael Flynn's conversations, the presentation of Trump dossier allegations to the president-elect - took place after the formal start of the FBI counterintelligence investigation.
The question has pointed investigators back to the issue of when the probe began - not when a piece of paper was formally signed but when the FBI, and perhaps other U.S. intelligence agencies, began investigating the Trump campaign.
Lynch told the House Intelligence Committee that she, Comey, and McCabe discussed whether to provide a "Defensive briefing" to the Trump campaign.
In early July, Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, the former British spy, approached the FBI with the first installment of the dossier.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/when-did-trump-russia-probe-begin-investigators-focus-on-mystery-months
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