Alexander Downer's now-famous cable helped trigger an FBI counter-intelligence probe into Trump's 2016 campaign "on the thinnest of suspicions".
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Washington | It was the paragraph that set off a thundering judicial and political storm that continues to hover over US presidential politics.
Just 34 words long, the key element of former London High Commissioner Alexander Downer's cable to Canberra would become the main trigger for the FBI's controversial counter-intelligence operation into Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/the-34-words-from-alexander-downer-that-set-off-an-fbi-firestorm-20191210-p53iex