The White House and conservative media went into overdrive this week with claims that the FBI planted spies in the Trump campaign. We now know there was an informant, Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper, working with the bureau, but there is no indication that he was “embedded” in the campaign as a “spy” for “political” purposes.
Instead, Halper met several times with Trump aides known to be communicating with individuals linked to the Russian government, including Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, and passed the information on to U.S. intelligence agencies.
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Source: TPM
