Valerie Plame: Surveillance on Trump campaign not 'spying'
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 05/13/19 11:00 AM EDT
Former CIA operative and current congressional candidate Valerie Plame said Monday that FBI surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign was not spying.
"I absolutely do not [believe spying occurred]. These are professionals in our intelligence community, both in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and in the CIA. I have to believe that what happened was that there was real cause. And the bar is extremely high to collect information particularly on a U.S. citizen," Plame, a New Mexico Democrat, said on CNN's "New Day."
"So I don't know all the details of what led to that, but I think Attorney General Barr's rather casual assessment that the FBI spied on candidate Trump is a little too loose with the facts," she continued.
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