Attorney General William Barr has assembled a "team" to investigate the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
Ex-FBI counsel Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was romantically involved, revealed during a closed-door congressional interview that the FBI “knew so little” about whether allegations against the Trump campaign were “true or not true” at the time they opened the probe, noting they had just “a paucity of evidence because we are just starting down the path” of vetting the allegations.
The FBI's ultimately successful October 2016 warrant application to surveil Carter Page, which relied in part on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose anti-Trump views are now well-documented, flatly accused Page of conspiring with Russians. Page has never been charged with any wrongdoing, and he since has sued the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for defamation.The FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions, in the October 2016 warrant application and in subsequent renewals, that other sources including a Yahoo News article, independently corroborated claims, without evidence to back it up. It later emerged that Steele was also the source of the Yahoo News article, written by reporter Michael Isikoff.
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