U.S. Attorney General orders probe of FBI agents' texts: lawmaker

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stands during a news conference to discuss

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an investigation into texts exchanged between two officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are accused of expressing views against President Donald Trump, the Republican lawmaker who chiefly oversees the FBI and Justice Department said on Tuesday.

"I am pleased to hear that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is going to launch an investigation into what happened to those texts, and I hope they are uncovered ... They illustrate a conspiracy on the part of some people and we want to know a lot more about that," said Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte in an interview with Fox News Channel.

(Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Susan Thomas)

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