FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SALLY YATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is alarmed by President Donald Trump’s call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…Trump issued his demand for the inquiry by Twitter on Sunday 5-20-18] following reports that the FBI dispatched a confidential source to speak with some aides to Trump’s presidential campaign about its possible ties to Russia. Later that day, the agency asked its inspector general to expand its review of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application process into possible impropriety or political bias by the FBI. Yates condemned the President’s demand as an escalation of his efforts to direct the Justice Department’s investigative activities ‘to a different and more dangerous level’ that threatened the public’s confidence in the agency.”
-Jennifer Hansler, “Sally Yates: Trump’s DOJ pressure is ‘a step beyond dangerous,'” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 25, 2018 10:22 am