In the Fall of 2016 Pretty sure this is all in chronological order. Back in October, a buddy shows me this article he learned about on Reddit. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html This stuff seems to be true to me based on what I know about how network traffic works. Other experts agree, read the comments - https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/793253775087702016 https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/793272484178960385 The FBI seems to agree as well- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/that-secret-trump-russia-email-server-link-is-likely-neither-secret-nor-a-trump-russia-link/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html Slate wrote a follow-up a few days later. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/the_trump_server_evaluating_new_evidence_and_countertheories.html Even if he was talking to Alfa bank, who cares? http://fortune.com/2016/11/02/donald-trump-alfa-bank/ But wait for a minute? How did the FBI get to investigate the server? I mean the guys in the slate article are just guys, maybe they committed a crime maybe they didn't. But the FBI can't do that, they can't investigate without a warrant. They can't just steal your data and analyze it, can they? Was there a warrant? Maybe- https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/ Written By a Trump Hater- https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author FISA Seems to me like if there was a FISA warrant, the only way it would have been legal is that if the target was the Bank server sending the signal, not the trump server its self. But the NYT article says they did, in fact, investigate the server. The FBI investigated Trump server for WEEKS. Then again if they did, they could have, but they must have probable cause to believe Trump is a Foreign Agent. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html If this isn't fake news, did the FBI have probable cause to believe Donald Trump is an agent of Russia?