Former Intelligence Chiefs Explain How President Trump Sows Distrust to His Advantage

It sounded like a scandal. In a series of late-May tweets, President Trump alleged that the Obama Administration had placed a spy in his 2016 campaign for political purposes. "This is bigger than Watergate!" he wrote. But "SPYGATE," as Trump dubbed it, was not exactly what he said it was. The FBI had reportedly deployed an informant to covertly question low-level members of Trump's circle who had been contacted by Russian operatives.