The following article by Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Karoun Demirjian and Seung Min Kim was posted on the Washington Post website May 24, 2018:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business associate Konstantin Kilimnik were indicted on June 8, on obstruction of justice charges. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Justice Department and intelligence community leaders conferred twice with top Republican and Democratic lawmakers Thursday, hoping to defuse a partisan conflict over the FBI’s use of a confidential source to aid the investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia.
After hours of discussion, though, there seemed to be little in the way of resolution. Instead, the meetings spawned classic Washington fights over who was there, who wasn’t, and how it all might look. Continue reading “White House lawyer’s presence at briefings on FBI’s Russia source roils lawmakers”