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COMMENTARY: Bad news just keeps coming for FBI

by Tribune News Service | May 26, 2023 at 4:00 a.m.

Politicians and activists reacted with dismay last week upon the news that the FBI illegally tapped into foreign intelligence data looking for dirt on U.S. citizens. But given this news emerged just days after the release of the Durham report, which fingered the FBI as knee-deep in the bogus Russian collusion narrative that dominated Beltway politics during the Trump years, the outrage and surprise seem underwhelming.

On Friday, the secret FISA court publicly released an opinion which found the agency had no factual basis to comb through reports compiled under a law intended to combat foreign espionage in search of dirt on Jan.

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