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The Russia Investigations: Big Questions Answered, More Big Questions Raised

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee unleashed everything it has about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. But many answers remain elusive.
Donald Trump Jr. leaves the Senate intelligence committee on December 13, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

This week in the Russia investigations: The Senate Judiciary Committee dumps documents about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, the special counsel's office celebrates its first birthday and the GOP escalates its war against the Justice Department.

The enemy within

After chapters on "wiretaps," eavesdropping, "unmasking" and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the new hotness this week was confidential sources.

FBI investigators may have used a confidential source as part of the initial phase of their inquiry into overtures made by Russian intelligence agents to people in the Trump presidential campaign.

No onehas verified whether that source was someone within the Trump team or whether this was an FBI asset moved in from the outside. Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani.

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