Originally Posted by Rochard

George is walking a very fine line. At the very least we know he did something illegal. If he keeps playing around he is going to get bitch smacked very hard.

The country that was spying on him was most likely Australia. They were the ones who he blabbed to about the Russians having the emails, and they most likely opened up an investigation on their own. For some of you it might seem odd that a nation who is friendly to us would open up an investigation on something like this, but it would be automatic and routine - If there is a major security risk with one major party in the United States, Australia would want to know about it. In this case, they reported to the FBI.

People can try to spin this all they want, but the original investigation started with a report from a foreign power who reported to the US that an American citizen in England was bragging that the Russians had tens of thousands of emails a political candidate running for President.