FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says

The following article by Kyle Cheney was posted on the Politico website May 29, 2018:

“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got,” Trey Gowdy said in an interview on Fox News. Credit: Andrew Harnik, AP Photo

A senior House Republican who was part of a highly classified Justice Department briefing last week said on Tuesday that the FBI acted properly when it deployed an informant to gather information from advisers to President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said last week’s briefing, convened by the Justice Department under pressure from Trump, convinced him even further that the FBI’s information-gathering steps were appropriate. Continue reading “FBI was right to deploy informant, senior GOP lawmaker says”