Trump has called the investigation of him a failed coup, and several Republican senators argued last week that the FISA court could not continue without significant changes to its operation. The inspector general did not find documents or testimony indicating that political bias motivated the FBI to investigate Trump aides. In the meantime, the FISA court has ordered the Justice Department and FBI to provide information about any other surveillance applications in which that same lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, was involved. The Justice Department and the FBI go to the FISA court for surveillance authorities in the country’s most sensitive national security cases involving terrorism or espionage. “With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI,” Trump declared.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 21:19 UTC