The two top officials running the FBI in the spring of 2016 informed Attorney General Loretta Lynch of intelligence they received linking the Russian government to Trump 2016 presidential campaign associate Carter Page months before the bureau formally launched the investigation into the Trump campaign, according to the report on the FBI’s surveillance of Page released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) watchdog last week.
Lynch told DOJ Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz that in the spring of 2016 FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pulled her aside after a weekly meeting at FBI headquarters and shared information about Page that Lynch believed they learned from a member of the intelligence community.
