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Originally Posted by finnbow
What we know is that the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation looked into a number of Russia-huggers on Trump's campaign staff (who lied repeatedly about their Russia connections). Not doing so would have been irresponsible and a dereliction of their duty to protect the country from ongoing Russian efforts to mess with the election.
I see, however, that you've bought into the latest Trump/Nunes attempt to undermine the investigation, just as you did with all the previous discredited attempts to do so.
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The placement of this individual inside the campaign preceded the special counsel investigation, and therefore would need to have been approved by Justice. You can't tell me that Justice / the FBI would have planted an operative inside the Trump campaign without White House foreknowledge and approval.
The operative was placed inside the campaign during the Summer of 2016, which means that the FBI would have had to contact and arrange his placement before that. Podesta "hack" didn't occur until March 2016 (and, of course, there has been no FBI forensics conducted on the DNC email system). The FBI claims its counter-intel investigation didn't even start until July 31, 2016.
So, your claim that this pointing this out is "undermining the investigation" is laughable. Lots of questions here about what this individual was doing, and why the FBI would have recruited him, before the FBI investigation even started.