Eli Lake, Columnist

Congress Should Leave the Russia-Trump Inquiry to the FBI

The professionals are at the bureau. Lawmakers should stick to oversight.

March 5, 2017 at 2:51 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Leave it to the pros.
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The one thing Republicans and Democrats in Congress can agree on when it comes to President Donald Trump and Russia is the need to investigate. In less than five weeks many in Trump's own party have moved from "nothing to see here," to "no stone left unturned." Meanwhile the Democrats smell blood.

In this spirit, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence announced the parameters of its investigation. Its Senate counterpart did the same last month. At the heart of the probes are what links Russia's influence operation had to the Trump campaign and the president's associates.