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Trump demands DOJ probe claims of campaign surveillance | TheHill

posted onMay 21, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE on Sunday said he’ll ask the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether the FBI surveilled his campaign. “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” Trump tweeted.  Not long afterward, the DOJ announced it had asked its inspector general to expand its probe into alleged surveillance abuses to encompass the most recent claims. “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement on Sunday afternoon. Trump has spent the last few days sounding the alarm on Twitter about claims that an FBI informant was embedded within his campaign. He has alleged, without evidence, that the FBI sought to spy on his campaign for political purposes, which Trump argued would be a scandal "bigger than Watergate." The New York Times reported Friday that an FBI informant met with two former Trump campaign advisers, MORE and Carter Page, after they'd received information that those two had contacts with Russia. Trump's calls for an investigation into the matter come as House Republicans have pushed for access to documents that reveal the identity of the informant who gave investig... Link to the full article to read more

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