The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
This is probably a reaction to this story, which reports that Reince Priebus tried to inveigle the FBI into dismissing news reports that the Trump campaign was in constant contact with Russian intelligence agencies during the campaign.
The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
Since it’s unlikely that the Trump administration would have told the story of their attempted meddling, we’re safe to suppose that the source of the story was the other half of the conversation, the FBI itself.
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If Trump is innocent of wrongdoing, his attitude would be something along the lines of, “The investigation is a bother when I’m trying to get my administration set up, but there is only one possible outcome and I’ll be happy to hear Director Comey affirm what we’ve said all along: We did nothing wrong.”
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All those phone calls with Russian intelligence operatives were not about soybean futures. There is no (publicly available) proof yet that the campaign colluded with Russian intelligence’s hacking of the Clinton e-mails — but there is no reasonable expectation but that’s what the FBI will find if it keeps digging.