CIA/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an ‘informant’ spying on the Trump campaign reached new heights Friday [5-18-18] morning, as President Donald Trump tweeted about the ‘all time greatest political scandal.’ But US officials tell CNN that the confidential intelligence source was not planted inside the campaign to provide information to investigators. One of the officials said the informant is a US citizen, but provided no other details on the identity. The officials say that the identity of the informant had been closely held at the highest levels of the FBI and intelligence community, and the individual has been a source for the FBI and CIA for years…The maelstrom over the informant began over a week ago, as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes subpoenaed the Justice Department for documents related to the source, threatening to hold Justice officials in contempt of Congress. Officials from the Justice Department, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence have maintained that turning over that information Nunes has requested on the specific individual would pose a grave risk to the source’s life.”
-Shimon Prokupecz, Jim Sciutto, Laura Jarrett and Manu Raju, “Officials tell CNN that FBI ‘informant’ not planted inside Trump campaign,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 18, 2018 1:25 pm