FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on July 21, 2022. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times
Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
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The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump.

The FBI’s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president’s Florida estate is part of a counterintelligence case run out of Washington—not Miami, as has been widely reported—according to FBI case documents and sources with knowledge of the matter. The bureau’s counterintelligence division led the 2016–2017 Russia “collusion” investigation of Trump, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.”