Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Ryan backs Gowdy on FBI’s use of informant to contact Trump associates
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:46:17 -0600
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Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that he's seen no evidence to contradict Rep. Trey Gowdy's recent assessment that the FBI acted responsibly when it deployed an informant to make contact with associates of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
 
"I think Chairman Gowdy's initial assessment is accurate," said Ryan, who was one of a handful of lawmakers, including Gowdy, briefed by the Justice Department on the FBI's use of an informant. "I have seen no evidence to the contrary of the initial assessment Chairman Gowdy has made."
 
Trump has claimed repeatedly, without evidence, that the FBI placed a spy in his campaign for political purposes, dubbing it "Spygate."

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