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Democracy Dies in Darkness Keeping up with politics is easy now By Amber Phillips President Trump has been claiming for several days that the FBI spied on his presidential campaign. He's using the accusation to bolster his argument that the independent investigation into whether his campaign worked with Russia to influence the election should end. Except, there is no evidence that an American professor spied on his campaign. Let's review why, from what we know publicly, it seems like Trump is wrong. To do that, we have to get specific about the language. I called up Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent, to understand why past and current intelligence leaders say the FBI did nothing wrong when it  sent retired American professor Stefan A. Halper to strike up conversations  with three members of the Trump campaign. And why he wasn't even a spy. 'Spy' or FBI source: What to know about Stefan Halper  ...

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The truth behind the rhetoric The Nunes memo didn’t prove the FBI spied on the Trump campaign For all the hype leading up to it,  a memo released by Rep. Devin Nunes fell flat because it failed to prove the FBI spied on President Trump’s campaign. We were told the memo would show an out-of-control FBI going over to the dark side — using information paid for by Democrats (the “Steele dossier”) to secure a court order to spy on a Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. It turned out to be false advertising. Page was no longer associated with the Trump campaign when the court approved the warrant, as the memo shows, and the FBI had been looking into Page  before  the Democrats got involved with the Steele dossier. A few Republicans apparently didn’t get the memo (or didn’t read it), and we gave them Four Pinocchios. Trump talks a big game on MS-13, but his numbers are iffy Every Captain Ahab has a Moby Dick.  Trump’s white whale mi...