- Following months of partisan arguments in Congress, the FBI released heavily redacted documents about the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser.
- The agency was investigating whether Carter Page was conspiring with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 US presidential election.
- President Donald Trump seized on the documents to claim his campaign was illegally spied on.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 US election.
The 412 pages, mostly heavily redacted and made public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late Saturday, included surveillance applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and warrants surrounding the investigation into Page.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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