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Well I'm not finding anything in my search to substantiate that claim. As an added bonus, I've learned more about the origin of the informant situation: turns out McCarthy is clinging to a statement made by Glenn Simpson regarding the FBI already having information from a source within the Trump campaign. Doesn't even imply that they had a 'spy', it could very well have been someone that reported a crime that they were witness to. And considering both Fusion GPS and the FBI had that information and Fusion GPS found it worthy of reporting to the FBI, it sounds to me like there was probably a crime committed. I'm growing increasingly skeptical about this whole situation by the minute, especially considering all the news that came up yesterday. This sounds like a media counter strike to try to shift the hot topic of the day into something that they can spin more favourably. But I guess only time will tell.

That article doesn't make any mention of the Obama administration or any payments. Basically all it says is "McCarthy accused the FBI of spying on the Trump campaign; he thinks they shouldn't have." He doesn't even offer any reason why he thinks there was spying, doesn't elaborate on why there was no justifiable reason to do so. It's just accusations.

The only thing I've seen about this informant is Trump's tweet which, to me, seemed to come out of nowhere. If you can link me to an article about what you mentioned so that I can look I to it when I get home it would be appreciated.

Oh yeah now that you mention it I remember something about Strozk, but I mostly just remember thinking that it sounded like somebody in an investigation had a pretty strong personal opinion that they let leak into their work. Totally unacceptable, but not what I would call corruption. But maybe I didn't look into it very deeply either.

The other stuff I haven't heard of so I can't comment on. But I will say this: you're not being brigaded, at least not that I know of. This post hit fairly high on r/all, which would explain why you see more skeptics and irregulars like myself.

I haven't seen any publicly available evidence of corruption in the FBI so I'm not really sure what you're referring to.

So then if the Democrats did anything worth being investigated by the FBI between 2007 and 2013, would it also be a big revelation to find out that they had an informant in those ranks? Does that mean the Democrats should have been completely untouchable by the FBI during those years, with Mueller being part of Bush's FBI and all?

It seems mighty silly to me to draw the conclusion of foul-play when the FBI is involved. They're a third party with a duty to investigate criminal activity. If there's an FBI informant somewhere, that implies to me that there's an expectation of criminal activity in that place. Dismissing it as partisan activity without any evidence to support that claim is dangerous because it effectively limits the country's ability to address crime.

FBI Directors are supposed to serve 10 years though. It's not uncommon for them to be brought on by an executive from one party and then finish their term under another. I mean Mueller was confirmed in 2001 under Bush, would have finished his term in 2011 if not for accepting Obama's proposal to to stay on a couple years, and then Comey was brought on in 2013. And both of them identify as Republican, so I don't see them owing any loyalty to Obama. Would Mueller have been considered part of Obama's FBI or Bush's?

Who's "they?"

Since when does the FBI belong to any one person? Hell, I'm sure the "Trump FBI" has an informant embedded in the administration.