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REMINDER: Bill Barr’s claim that the FBI “spied” on the Trump campaign is the latest in more than two years of Republican conspiracy theories that the government illegally surveilled the Trump campaign. All of them have fallen apart. themoscowproject.org/explainers/the…
There was the “unmasking” scandal, which backfired so spectacularly that Devin Nunes had to recuse himself from the Russia investigation he was supposed to be overseeing. washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hous…
There was “Spygate,” which only succeeded in exposing an FBI informant who was part of an entirely legitimate counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling. vox.com/world/2018/6/6…
There was the Nunes Memo, which claimed to expose FBI wrongdoing but actually showed that Trump’s own DOJ thought one of his advisers might be a Kremlin plant. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/nunes…
All of these conspiracy theories fell apart, in part because we already know why the Russia investigation started: because George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat about the Kremlin-linked professor who gave him a heads-up about Russia’s attack. nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/…
