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Why the FBI's counterintelligence probe of President Trump should be investigated

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trump and fbi - Google Search Tuesday January 15 th , 2019  at  9:20 AM Why the FBI's counterintelligence probe of President Trump should be investigated Tuesday January 15 th , 2019  at  10:01 AM Volokh Conspiracy 1 Share Readers of this blog may be interested in  my Lawfare post  about the news that the FBI made President Trump the subject of a counterintelligence investigation after he fired their boss. My take: The political and bureaucratic motives mixed into this incident are reminiscent of the motives mixed into the decision to launch an investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign, the decision to rely on Christopher Steele's research despite his partisan funding, and the decision to interrogate national security adviser Michael Flynn in the slipperiest of fashions. There are reasons why all of these things might have seemed necessary to honest, committed cops just doing their job. But they also offer a roadmap for ho