Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Saturday that he doesn’t see a difference between an FBI informant and a spy in relation to recent revelations that the FBI used an informant to investigate the Trump presidential campaign.
In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Cornyn said that there is no difference between a “confidential informant” and a spy.
“The FBI was involved in a counterintelligence investigation, I presume, and used somebody who had contacted various subjects of their investigation to communicate back to the FBI what they found out,” Cornyn, who is the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said. “I guess for all practical purposes, for most people, it wouldn’t be any different.”
House Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.), have been pushing for weeks to get access to information about the FBI informant.
Democrats have said the FBI did nothing wrong by using an informant, who reportedly met with at least three Trump advisers during the campaign in 2016.
But President Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that Democrats planted a spy in his presidential campaign.
Cornyn blamed former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump last year, for the current situation.
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No. 2 Senate Republican: There’s no difference between an FBI informant and spy https://t.co/a2iwo7HvDW pic.twitter.com/rH7RUQsBVz
— The Hill (@thehill) May 26, 2018
James Bond, "Informant in Her Majesty's Secret Service with a License to Kill" just doesn't have the same ring to it. https://t.co/utyIrIwYIV
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 26, 2018
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