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Byron York: After Trump dossier revelation, FBI is next

By Byron York
Published October 25, 2017 4:43am ET
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Byron York: After Trump dossier revelation, FBI is next
The Washington Post's Tuesday revelation that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and law firm Perkins Coie are all connected to the so-called "Trump dossier" will likely increase pressure on the FBI to explain what it did, and did not do, with the dossier. (iStock)

Investigators looking into the so-called “Trump dossier” were not surprised when news broke Tuesday night that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, working through the Democrats’ law firm, Perkins Coie, financed the “salacious and unverified” compilation of allegations of Trump collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. (The “salacious and unverified” description comes from former FBI Director James Comey.)

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