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"The Department has asked the Inspector General to expand the ongoing review of the FISA application process to include determining whether there was any impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election," a statement from DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores read.
The professor (Halper) met with Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis in late August, offering his services as a foreign-policy adviser, The Washington Post reported Friday, without naming the academic. Clovis did not see the conversation as suspicious, his attorney told the paper - but is now "unsettled" that "the professor" never mentioned he'd struck up a relationship with Page.See also: Russiagate twist: Professor Stefan Halper, who spied for the CIA in the 80s, was sent by FBI to spy on Trump campaign
The Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment - a shadowy think tank that reports directly to the secretary of defense - paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017.
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