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Their letter came on the heels of a controversial memo the House Intelligence Committee released earlier this month, which purports to show the FBI and Department of Justice abusing their surveillance authority to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The New York Times reported Dec. 30 that the investigation began after a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, revealed to an Australian diplomat in London that Russia had political dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The document claims that the Department of Justice and FBI bypassed proper protocol when they sought a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign adviser.

But the memo appears to suggest that it wasn't the dossier but an interaction involving George Papadopoulos, another former Trump campaign adviser, that triggered the Russia investigation and the FISA warrant targeting Page.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

The memo, which suggests that FBI and DOJ officials misled a judge in seeking a warrant to extend secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, has sparked widespread controversy.

One witness interviewed by Mueller's team told NBC News that investigators asked about what Stone's interactions with Trump were like once he ended his tenure as a Trump campaign adviser in August 2015.

That regulation states, in effect, that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign adviser.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

The DOJ informed the FISA court that the Russia investigation was opened after the FBI learned of an interaction during which a Trump campaign adviser boasted that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Two other Trump associates — former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn — pleaded guilty last year and are cooperating with the Mueller probe.

«Barack Obama believes in options: «Maintain my options,» «said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department.

... The expert said that based on his conversations with Mr. Smith, he understood the elder Mr. Flynn to be coordinating with Mr. Smith's group in his capacity as a Trump campaign adviser.

In 1996, he acted as a backroom campaign adviser to Campbell, then in 2001 he co-chaired the campaign that handed the Liberals a 77 - 2 victory over Ujjal Dosanjh's NDP.

«They aren't going to bully him into backing down,» said Stephen Moore, a former Trump campaign adviser who is now a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

«It is not unusual for staffers to hear him bluster about things,» said Barry Bennett, a former campaign adviser.

Washington (CNN) The lawyers for former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates showed a hint as to why they'd like to quit his case Wednesday: They don't agree with Gates.

Key foreign policy campaign adviser Michael Mandelbaum refused to join the Administration in part because he realized that Clinton indeed would not support a major Western assistance effort to Russia.

about the FBI's post-campaign monitoring of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Michael Caputo, a former campaign adviser whom Trump praised Monday morning on Twitter for his appearance on Fox News Channel's «Fox & Friends,» later called the indictments «one big, huge fail.»

First off, when Clovis first brought him on as a campaign adviser, he directed him that one of the campaign's top priorities would be improving ties to Russia, the document claims.

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

Much of the questioning focused on Page's trip to Moscow in early July, while he was a Trump campaign adviser — because his description of that trip in emails sent at the time looks very different from his description of it now.

The Justice Department launched an internal investigation on Wednesday into how the FBI got permission to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

He emailed several different Trump campaign advisers to tell them about these efforts, and at least one campaign official — national co-chair Sam Clovis — appeared to encourage them.

The former Trump campaign adviser testified for more than six hours on the Russia scandal.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

According to the New York Times, the memo says that shortly after being sworn in as deputy attorney general last spring, Rosenstein re-approved an existing wiretap on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The memo reportedly suggests that Steele lied to FBI agents who interviewed him during their probe of the 2016 election and that this purported lie was included in a successful application for a federal court order to conduct electronic surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday refused to authorize the release of a Democratic rebuttal to a Republican intelligence committee memo alleging that FBI and Justice Department officials abused their power to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The memo in question alleges that the FBI and Justice Department abused their surveillance authority to target Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted that Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, likening Trump's actions to the Founding Fathers.

Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

Cuomo even singled out Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a former campaign adviser who is Jewish, who was sitting in the front row wearing a yarmulke.

Trump's lawyer, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said there was nothing illegal about Trump campaign advisers meeting with a Russian lawyer purportedly offering dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The White House is inclined to declassify a Democratic rebuttal to the controversial GOP - penned memo that claims the FBI unlawfully spied on a Trump campaign adviser.

@Ame The legality will be decided by the investigating attorneys and judges, but I think it is safe to say that a campaign adviser agreeing to meet with someone alleged to be the representative of a hostile government who wants to help a candidate win a presidential election is HIGHLY unusual, if not unprecedented.

«This is a high - needs district and, with our thousands of supporters, we are going to help John Sampson utter his second on - the - record word this year in Albany: «Goodbye,»» said Smitherman campaign adviser Nathan Smith.

UPDATED: Senior campaign adviser Bay Buchanan said last week that the candidate supports states» choices.

A black woman,» said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant and former Cuomo campaign adviser.

Two groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Allied Progress, have launched TV ads in the senators» home states that aim to tie the two GOP senators to President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's Cabinet and White House staff picks.

Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.

And he's accused of failing to disclose on his city ethics forms gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars from a campaign adviser, relatives, other individuals and their companies for credit - card expenses, reimbursement to the inaugural committee and tuition for his master's degree at New York University.»

Investigators also revealed Monday that former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials and had been cooperating with Mueller's investigation.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Veteran political consultant and longtime Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone was one - on - one with WBEN Thursday morning.

Cuomo even singled out the off - beat swaying of Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a former campaign adviser who is Jewish, who was sitting in the front row wearing a yarmulke.

Prosecutors requested $ 500,000 bail while Haggerty's lawyers asked that no bail be set, arguing that the Republican campaign adviser had shown up at every court appearance and should not be considered a flight risk.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

«Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign,» Trump tweeted at 8:04 a.m.