In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, officials stand outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Julio Cortez/AP

A top Justice Department official has retracted a letter he sent to an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that suggested he was being investigated in relation to a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones.

In a letter Wednesday to William Aldenberg’s attorney last week, President Donald Trump ally Ed Martin implied the agent was being scrutinized because of his role in a major lawsuit led by families of victims against the conspiracy theorist Jones.

Aldenberg, who was one of the first responders the day of the elementary school massacre, was a plaintiff alongside the victims’ family members.

Martin initiall

See Full Page