[janetjanet998]

The F.B.I. gave Mr. Horowitz’s team extraordinary access to its informant database, and his investigators examined other F.B.I. informants with possible ties to the Trump campaign.

In each case, they found that the F.B.I. had not deployed those people to gather information on the Trump campaign itself, the people said.

It is also possible that the F.B.I. received unsolicited material from inside the Trump campaign; outsiders often submit potential evidence to the bureau that agents did not seek. But it is not clear whether Mr. Horowitz uncovered any such instances.

[grey_whiskers]

Yup.

"We call these people informants. See, they're in a pretty Microsoft Access table (which we glorify into calling a "database")." "And nobody we put into the Trump campaign is on that list. So we didn't put any *informants* (according to our own private definition) into the campaign."

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'informant' is."

What a bunch of seditious vermin.

[tired&retired]

They were not “on the books” but they were paid.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’ll take who is Stephen Halper for 100 Alex.

[AndyJackson]

The F.B.I. gave Mr. Horowitz’s team extraordinary access to its informant database, and his investigators examined other F.B.I. informants with possible ties to the Trump campaign.

Oh really? Unprecedented access to their own IG who already has subpoena power within the agency for everything.