The new revelation by the FBI that a top FBI official may have spied on President Trump and his inner circle points to a key element in the ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
While the investigation is still in its early stages, this development has renewed media attention to the potential scope of that investigation. The FBI is looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and the probe is getting broader as the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials reaches its culmination.
What’s interesting about this development is that while it’s been reported that the Trump campaign has been cooperating with the FBI, if that’s the case, then the investigation into the Trump campaign could reach into the inner circle of the President’s family. It’s important to remember that the FBI and the Department of Justice have different purposes and different responsibilities. The FBI is charged with bringing down the President of the United States and has its own laws and guidelines regarding investigating crimes.
If you are a member of the Trump Campaign, you are legally bound to cooperate with the FBI and to report any crime committed by the President to the FBI even if you were not directly involved in the crime. However, if you were not involved in the crime, there are no laws that prevent you from cooperating with the FBI. You don’t have to report crimes you weren’t involved in to the FBI and you don’t have to report crimes you were involved in to the Department of Justice.
As if you didn’t already know, the Presidential Campaign is being investigated for paying hush money to the former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep his story of a Trump Tower build going. The FBI and the Department of Justice have been looking into the matter for over a year, and the former Trump lawyer has been cooperating with the government.
You can still report crimes you werent involved in to authorities for a variety of reasons: if you are under investigation yourself, you may have reason to take a look at the background or the possible motives of those you are questioning. If you are a witness, you should be looking at your own involvement as well as the involvement of others.
Now that the case has been reopened and the investigation is a bit more thorough, the FBI and DOJ are now trying to get as much information out as they can on the current crime that has been committed. We had a brief mention of this when we noted that the investigation is taking a lot longer than we thought. Even though the government has announced that they are looking into the matter, there is still no timetable for the case to be closed.
The FBI was quite open about their search for information when they first announced that they were looking into the Clinton Foundation. Their statement to us was, “FBI investigators are continuing to investigate this matter.” It is not clear if the FBI has found any evidence that Clinton had any involvement with any illegal activity, but they are continuing to investigate.
The FBI has said that they won’t close the case unless they find evidence that Clinton committed a crime. However, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be looking at any other possible leads. We may not hear any new developments in the investigation until July.
We still don’t know if Clinton’s private emails were hacked or if it could be possible that he did something to her political enemies to bring her down. It’s a very big question, and we haven’t learned anything about it yet so we don’t know for sure.