tCommentary Affidavits filed in a federal court Monday raise crucial questions about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s role in the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s efforts to vilify her opponent Donald Trump as a Russian agent. The FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on the Trump team based on a dossier of memos alleging Trump’s ties to Russia that was filed by Clinton campaign contractor Christopher Steele. But the newly released court documents suggest the FBI may have helped shape the anti-Trump plot at its origins. The affidavits are the latest revelation to come from the ongoing defamation suit that the owners of Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest commercial bank, have brought against Fusion GPS, the communications firm that hired Steele to compile Trump-Russia reports on behalf of the Clinton campaign. In one of Steele’s memos, Alfa Bank principals Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan are …