CHRIS WRAY/FBI/SPYGATE: “FBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday [May 7, 2019] that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be ‘spying’ and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election.
His comments at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing broke from Attorney General William Barr, who has described as ‘spying’ FBI surveillance during its investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Barr has not said such surveillance was necessarily improper, but Trump nonetheless seized on those comments to suggest his campaign was spied on in an illegal and unprecedented act.”
-Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo, “FBI chief: No evidence of illegal spying on Trump campaign,” apnews.com, May 7, 2019