Spying, treason and politics: President Trump accuses federal investigators despite scant evidence
Spying, treason and politics: President Trump ups the stakes in Russia probe battle despite scant evidenceWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is significantly raising the stakes in his public battle with the law enforcement and intelligence agencies that spent two years investigating him and his campaign.
“There’s nothing the CIA or NSA, for example, guards more jealously than sources and methods. It is not hyperbole to say that lives are at stake,” said Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency and for the Director of National Intelligence.
Republicans have long asserted that the FBI targeted Trump's campaign for political reasons using improper surveillance and have raised alarms about leaks to the media during the Russia investigation. A few have adopted more extreme claims, suggesting there was a deep-state government conspiracy to frame Trump.
“And I can say for the counterintelligence division, if I got a whiff of it, it absolutely would not be tolerated, period,” Bill Priestap, then the head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed interview in June 2018. That division conducted the early investigations of Russian election meddling.Download the USA TODAY app for more
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he wants to know what prompted the Obama administration’s surveillance of Trump campaign aides and “the extent to which improper partisan motivations drove that decision.” Another of his lawyers, John Pierce, said the results of Barr’s work “will help clarify Mr. Papadopoulos’s role in the Russia investigation.”Former officials involved in the investigations have called such allegations ridiculous.
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