FBI confirms probe into Moscow-Trump link during elections

Washington

FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey on Monday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 US election.

Mr Comey and Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, made clear that their investigation of Moscow and November's US elections could last for months.

Appearing before a congressional panel, Mr Comey also publicly challenged Mr Trump's claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped his 2016 campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Trump Tower.

The two officials spent 51/2 hours before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee in testimony marked by starkly partisan…