{"id":1083,"date":"2019-07-22T18:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2019-07-22T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:58:08","slug":"justice-dept-watchdog-has-evidence-comey-probed-trump-on-the-sly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/07\/22\/justice-dept-watchdog-has-evidence-comey-probed-trump-on-the-sly\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Evidence Comey Probed Trump, on the Sly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general\u2019s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially \u201crunning a covert operation against\u201d the president, starting with a private \u201cdefensive briefing\u201d he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a \u201ccounterintelligence assessment\u201d of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to adding notes of his meetings and phone calls with Trump to the official FBI case file, Comey had an agent inside the White House who reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to other officials familiar with the matter.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/22\/comey_under_scrutiny_for_own_inquiry_and_misleading_trump_119584.html\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Evidence Comey Probed Trump, on the Sly\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/22\/comey_under_scrutiny_for_own_inquiry_and_misleading_trump_119584.html\" data-hashtags=\"LyingComey\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general\u2019s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially \u201crunning a covert operation against\u201d the president, starting with a private \u201cdefensive briefing\u201d he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/07\/22\/justice-dept-watchdog-has-evidence-comey-probed-trump-on-the-sly\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}