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"The word is it's historic," Trump told Fox News Channel about
an upcoming Justice Department watchdog report on the FBI's
adherence to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requirements
during the 2016 campaign.
"That's what I hear. If it's historic, you're going to see
something," Trump said, declining to say how he knew.
Trump supporters have claimed the report from the Justice
Department's inspector general, which is expected to be released
on Dec. 9, will raise questions about the legitimacy of FBI
investigations into alleged links to Russia by Trump and some of
his campaign advisers.
A central issue the inspector general's office said the report
looked into is how closely the FBI stuck to the law and rules
when it went to a secret court beginning in 2016 to obtain
authorization to conduct electronic monitoring of "a certain
U.S. person."
Carter Page, a onetime foreign policy adviser to Trump's 2016
campaign, recently sued the Justice Department, accusing it of
violating his privacy by failing to give him an opportunity to
examine the report before publication.
(Reporting By Steve Holland and Lisa Lambert; Editing by Alex
Richardson and Jonathan Oatis)
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