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in Russia collusion hoax, by asking foreign intelligence agencies to illegally spy on the Trump campaign? Lucas Tomlinson in Washington with more. Lucas. Good early morning, Carly and Todd. This report from Substax sizing multiple unnamed sources claims the U.S. intelligence community asked foreign spy agencies to help spy on more than two dozen associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. It reads in part, "President Barack Obama's CIA director John Brennan had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had identified them as people to bump or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement targets for collection and misinformation. The Five Eyes nations are the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Here's one of the reporters, Michael Schellenberger, who spoke to Jesse Waters last night. If this binder contains what we have been told that it contains, which may include raw intelligence, information showing that the U.S. government, the CIA and the intelligence community of the U.S. government initiated the Russia collusion hoax, that it did not occur in the way that the official story, including the Durham investigation, had portrayed it, then that's extremely serious information. The report was released at the same time House conservatives are preparing a bill that would reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allows the government to collect communications from foreigners abroad. And today the House Rules Committee is set to meet over that FISA reform bill, guys.
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