Well, maybe the FBI didn’t lie after all. But on the other hand, they didn’t tell the whole truth either. Previously, the FBI said they did not place any spies within the Trump campaign but what they didn’t say is that the had people inside the campaign volunteering information. One went so far as to supply the FBI with thousands of documents.
One FBI agent said he spoke to a campaign worker to try to assess what to expect from the Trump Administration. In all the FBI had about half a dozen people feeding them information from within them campaign.This included someone who had direct contact with the president to be. What were they thinking? Were some or all of them Democratic plants?
This information was out there in the IG report but for some reason it’s just coming to light now.
But what does that tell you? It tells me that even with so much contact from inside the campaign, the FBI found nothing because there was nothing to find. The same thing applies to the Mueller investigation. How many politicians could take that much scrutiny without finding at least some dirt on them but with Donald Trump, they found nothing.
Some of the generalities of the use of these sources were outlined in the executive summary at the opening of the IG report. The executive summary, however, states, “We found no evidence that the FBI placed any CHSs or UCEs within the Trump campaign or tasked any CHSs or UCEs to report on the Trump campaign.”
Both the summary itself and the larger section on the use of CHS’s deep inside the report detail a more complicated picture. While the FBI may not have officially tasked sources to report on the Trump campaign, it did accept information from sources who volunteered to provide the details, the IG report relates. Also an FBI agent contacted a source to “obtain insight” into the incoming Trump administration and another source provided information on Trump campaign officials. Another source was documented as being scheduled to obtain a briefing with Trump and it wasn’t clear whether that source reported back with any information.
The section of the report about the sources has not received significant news media attention.