Ex-Director claims he was kept in dark or can't remember about key developments. Former FBI managers fear he was either inept or is currently in legal jeopardy.
Newly declassified documents show informant Stefan Halper was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" and was paid nearly $1.2 million from FBI over three decades.
One group modestly objects: "Trying to curb a reporter's ability to report by covert means or behind closed doors will always raise suspicions about motive and justification."
"If the media did its job, there'd be no reason to have this movie," filmmaker Amanda Milius says of her documentary slamming the press and select Democrats for what it views as a political conspiracy against President Trump.
The Attorney General will defend his conduct as at the head of the Dept. of Justice
Chuck Grassley says Wray decision is encouraging, but it's too early to say if FBI is serious about fixing bias problems.
Officials used grand jury to obtain Google email, phone data for at least two top investigators for panel's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes.
Trump's first attempt at declassifying Crossfire Hurricane documents in January 2021 was thwarted. But now, the FBI records have been released, revealing in part new details on the FBI's problematic Trump-Russia probe.
Legal expert Alan Dershowitz says DOJ use of subpoenas to target House Intelligence Committee staff phone and email records is likely unconstitutional.
"According to the story the CIA officer and his colleagues would tell, Trump was again in league with a foreign power to defeat a rival candidate. They rotated Ukraine in for Russia and Biden for Clinton." — From "The Permanent Coup," by Lee Smith
