FBI Director Blasted By Trump Admits ‘Illegal Surveillance’ Of Trump Adviser: Report

On the same day that the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Trump over the allegations leveled by Democrats in their two impeachment articles, the director of the FBI reportedly made a significant admission during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. After publicly insisting that the FBI had not unfairly targeted the Trump campaign in its surveilling of Trump adviser Carter Page — prompting a sharp rebuke from President Trump — Wray reportedly acknowledged Wednesday that the FBI engaged in “illegal surveillance with respect to at least several of these FISA applications because there was no probable cause or proper predication.”

As reported by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe, citing the inspector general and DOJ report on the FBI abuse of the FISA court (see below), asked Wray in the hearing Wednesday if he would “acknowledge that this was illegal surveillance with respect to at least several of these FISA applications because there was no probable cause or proper predication. Correct?”