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The new policy, NBC News reports, goes like this:
“Before conducting physical searches or wiretaps of a federal election official, members of the official’s staff, candidates for federal office, or their staff or advisers, the FBI must now consider giving them a ‘defensive briefing,’ to tell them that they could be the target of foreign influence. Such a step, Barr said, would address concerns that people in the U.S. ‘may become unwitting participants in an effort by a foreign power to influence an election or the policy or conduct of the United States government.'”
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The Attorney General presumably has concluded that when Donnie Trump Jr. (photo, right) says to his Russian contact, “If that’s what you say, I love it!” when offered dirt on his father’s political opponents, he’s too stupid to realize he’s being manipulated by a foreign power, and needs to be warned.