On October 15, the task force was granted a warrant by a judge in the FISA court — named after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — to intercept the electronic records from two Russian banks that may have been implicated in the money transfer, a senior intelligence official told the BBC. Trump was not named in the warrant, but three of his associates were the subject of the inquiry.
Report: CIA set up task-force in 2016 to investigate possible Russian funding of Trump's campaign
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Report: CIA set up task-force in 2016 to investigate pos...
A US counterintelligence task force was established by the CIA in 2016 to investigate possible Russian funding of President-elect Donald Trump's preside...
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Report: CIA set up task-force in 2016 to investigate possible Russian funding of Trump's campaign
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Report: CIA set up task-force in 2016 to investigate pos...
A US counterintelligence task force was established by the CIA in 2016 to investigate possible Russian funding of President-elect Donald Trump's preside...
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