The way the FBI investigated allegations of a secret backchannel between The Trump Organization and Russia-based Alfa-Bank was peculiar in several regards, according to a former FBI agent.
A number of FBI agents and officials took steps that effectively shielded from scrutiny the source of the allegation: operatives tied to the Clinton campaign, according to information that came out during the trial of Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who fed the allegation to the FBI in 2016 while on the campaign’s payroll.
