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This counterintelligence is another aspect of that inquiry. a counterintelligence is not necessarily criminal in nature. according to reporting, investigators on the counterintelligence side of the fbi first had their interest peaked by president trump in july, 2016, calling on russia to leak hillary clinton's hacked e-mail. that's sort of the kind of thing they were looking at. all of this got folded into mueller's broader investigation of election meddling. so it is unclear how long the counterintelligence probe lasted, but clearly the white house lashing out at news that it existed in the f...

Morning. tweeting about a half dozen times about this. calling comey and his former deputy andrew mccabe corrupt and also claiming falsely that the fbi pursued a probe of him, quote, for no reason and with no proof. of course, the fbi opened that obstruction of justice inquiry into the president in may of 2017 shortly after he fired comey because trump twice tied his decision to fire the fbi director to the russia investigation. the counterintelligence probe that the "new york times" reported on was not. "the new york times" is reporting the counterintelligence agents had their interest piqued...

Comey's firing to the russian investigation which helped spark this counter intelligence probe. here's one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> a second instance, a draft letter the president intended to send to comey listing the reasons that he was firing him, but his lawyer blocked him fr...

That seem to benefit trump when he fired fbi director james comey, and when robert mueller was appointed special counsel. as you know, that counterintelligence probe was an aspect of the obstruction inquiry that was folded into mueller's broader investigation of russian meddling in 2016, so it is unclear how long that counterintelligence probe went on. nonetheless, the white house is responding forcefully to news of its existence, sarah sanders saying this is absurd. james comey was fired because he is a disgraced partisan hack and his deputy, andrew mccabe in charge at the time was a known li...

President trump did unload this morning, going after current and former members of his intelligence community, the president clearly irked by this reporting in the new york times about this counter intelligence probe, questioning whether the president was wittingly or unwittingly working for russian interests. here's one of the tweets from the president, he writes, just learned in the failing new york times the corrupt former leaders of the fbi almost all fired or forced to leave the agency, opened up an investigation on me for no reason. and with no proof after i fired lyin' james comey a tot...