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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Tucker Carlson Corners CA Congressman on Whether FBI Spied on Trump Tucker Carlson Corners CA Congressman on Whether FBI Spied on Trump By Randy DeSoto June 7, 2018 at 4:33pm Fox News host Tucker Carlson put California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell on the defensive on Wednesday as the lawmaker tried to justify the FBI’s reported use of an informant to infiltrate the Trump presidential campaign. “Why is it ok for an administration to hire an informant to spy on a rival political campaign?” Carlson asked Swalwell, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “That’s not what happened,” the representative fired back, arguing only Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has described what the FBI did in that way after being recently briefed by the Justice Department. Swalwell pointed to others like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who were also briefed, disputing the spying characterization. Carlson replied that those Republican leaders’ position on the issue is “ludicrous.” “The Obama administration paid an informant to spy on the Trump campaign and then pass that information back to the Obama administration and then never told the Trump campaign,” the Fox News personality said. Swalwell stuck to the position that the work of an informant is different from spying and “entirely appropriate” in relation to monitoring the Trump campaign. “Informants are commonly used in a lot of cases to help us catch bad guys,” he said. “If it was used here from the evidence I have seen, it would be entirely appropriate.” “We would want to know everything about how close the Trumps were getting to the Russians,” Swalwell added. On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul charged the Obama administration’s FBI and CIA with seeking to “entrap” members of Trump’s presidential campaign, through the use of an informant. “I think it’s unseemly that the FBI was putting informants in there trying to extract and entrap members of the Trump campaign,” he told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. “I think it’s incredibly inappropriate and an abuse of power.” Poster Comment: Video and Tweets at source. Spygate makes Watergate look like a third rate burglary. Obummer could go down on it and so could many other top officials who are the Deep State. Deep State are life long employees who are working for their pensions. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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