It seems the FBI never got a warrant, when they sent a spy in the Trump campaign. Wouldn't this be required?

okiknowit2018-05-25T01:31:03Z

No. Informants are often people who already work on the campaign and are just asked to keep their eyes open. Back in the day, in the 1960s and 1970s, they had as many as 15,000 such informants watching left wing and right wing fringe groups. We may have that number now, mostly watching Muslim groups. They are supposed to be reporting on federal crimes, not influencing the groups direction (though the COINTEL program was successfully sued for some informants' excesses).

An FBI agent I knew, once told me that if the FBI ever stopped paying their informants, there would be no Communist Party USA. And sure enough, when they did stop paying them in the 1990s, the CPUSA virtually ceased to exist and is now sort of Social Democratic.

orphen saiyuki2018-05-23T22:17:35Z

That s only if you believe Trump.

Sweetest P2018-05-23T03:35:48Z

The purpose of the FB"I" is to investigate. The government already knows what they are there for. A warrant is not needed to investigate.

?2018-05-22T20:16:13Z

No because an informant is someone Who is there to observe. He aleady had permission to be there so he doesn't need anything as far as paperwork

marsel_duchamp2018-05-22T19:57:07Z

They sent an undercover investigator to see if indications of possible crimes had any evidence.. Got any evidence there was any political espionage?

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