Ron Desantis breaks with Trey Gowdy: 'Deploying surveillance powers' against Trump campaign not OK
by Daniel Chaitin
| May 31, 2018 11:13 AM
A Republican member of the House Oversight Committee disagrees with Chairman Trey Gowdy's assessment that the FBI had an "obligation" to chase leads on possible foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election, even if it meant sending an informant to contact members of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
During an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Rep. Ron Desantis, R-Fla., said "deploying surveillance powers" against an "opposition party's campaign" is "not normal."
"And I think that is not what Americans want the FBI to be doing," he added.
DeSantis is aligning himself with Trump, who has dubbed the matter "spygate" while claiming the Obama administration may have scoped out his campaign for political purposes.
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