A former top FBI official has said he did not know that the bureau wrongly said the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conveyed sketchy claims regarding Donald Trump and Russia ahead of the 2016 election, despite being sent the documents containing the false details.
Both the opening and closing electronic communications (ECs), or documents, for the FBI probe into the claims of a secret backchannel between Trump’s business and Alfa Bank said they were referred by the DOJ.
But during a recent trial, agents in the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, who led the investigation, said those descriptions were not true. They described what happened as mistakes, or “typos.”…