When you see Brennan on liberal media describing how Trump is afraid, know that this is the type-case of projection. You have to hand it to Brennan that he is willing to maintain his nonsense cover-up of DOJ/FBI/CIA malfeasance in the face of the Durham Investigation.
I will say that it is one thing to uncover the malfeasance, it is another to find a prosecutable case against one or more bad-actors. That may be the source of Brennan’s ongoing blathering.
Clarice Feldman:
Crossfire Hurricane Team — A Tool of Russian Intelligence
Despite the best efforts of the intelligence agencies involved in the shameful conspiracy to destroy the Trump campaign and then his presidency to hide the extent of their perfidious illegal surveillance, it is finally coming to light. Among the most serious of the team’s failing were those in the classified footnotes to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ report which this Friday were partially declassified. They reveal that Christopher Steele, with the knowledge of the FBI, may well have been part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Key FBI officials failed to review an intelligence file identifying Christopher Steele’s ties to Russian oligarchs and were later advised some of the information he provided agents in his dossier appeared to be misinformation planted by Russian intelligence, according to declassified information made public Friday. [snip]
One of the newly declassified footnotes highlights a glaring misstep early in the Russia case, when key officials failed to review the intelligence control file for Steele, a former MI6 agent who approached the FBI with unverified allegations about Trump after he was hired to do opposition research by the firm working for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Checking such files is a basic procedure in a counterintelligence probe when an informant is involved, officials told Just the News.
The footnote states that an FBI intelligence analyst and a supervisory special agent working on the Crossfire Hurricane probe admitted they “did not recall reviewing information in Steele’s Delta file documenting Steele’s frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs in 2015.”
“In addition to the information in Steele’s Delta file documenting Steele’s frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarch[s], we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received [redacted] indicating the potential for Russia disinformation influencing Steele’s election reporting,” a second footnote revealed. [snip]
That same footnote reveals a separate report to the FBI, dated 2017, “contained information … that the public reporting about the details of Trump’s [REDACTED] activities in Moscow during a trip in 2013 were false, and that they were the product of RIS ‘infiltrat[ing] a source into the network’ of a [REDACTED] who compiled a dossier of information on Trump’s activities.” RIS is an acronym for Russian intelligence services. [snip]
Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who worked to get the footnotes declassified, said Friday the information withheld from the American public for two years confirms the FBI collusion probe that dogged the Trump administration was flawed from start to finish and covered up by a false narrative driven by news media leaks.
Attorney General William Barr has signaled that the probe of U.S. Attorney into these matters has turned up “far more troubling evidence” and John Solomon reported this week that multiple subpoenas have been issued by Durham’s office for testimony before a D.C. grand jury. (For those wondering why the grand jury is in D.C., an unfavorable jurisdiction for trying members of the Obama-Biden administration’s election interference gang, it’s because by law that, unfortunately, is the appropriate venue.)
Mark Wauck, a retired FBI special agent, explains the import of Barr’s remarks as Barr defended the firing of CIA Inspector General Michael Atkinson and loosed the news about the Durham probe:
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- The Durham investigation — evidence gathering — is nearing a conclusion;
- The language Barr used indicates there were multiple people engaged in illegal activities and it’s likely we’ll see a “sprawling” conspiracy case.
- It’s likely that in addition to prosecutions we will get a report detailing what happened.
- “Crossfire Hurricane was initiated for the purpose of developing a narrative that could derail and sabotage a presidential election. But that baseless investigation nevertheless served as the predication for what Barr says he has found “even more concerning”: “…what happened after the campaign — a whole pattern of events while [Trump] was president… to sabotage the presidency.”
Wauck concludes:
From this I think we can readily gather why this Durham investigation is so “sprawling.” What happened after the campaign? The attempt to frame Michael Flynn and to sabotage the presidency through the frame job on Flynn, at the very inception of the administration, to tar it as “colluding” with Russia, rather than conducting foreign policy. The continued renewals of the Carter Page FISA, known to be fraudulent, which implicate the highest levels of the FBI and of DoJ — McCabe, Comey, Yates, Boente, Rosenstein, and many more. The bogus Intelligence Community Assessment, the development of which we’re told Durham has spent so much time examining.
And lastly but far from least, the entire Mueller Witchhunt — which, as framed by Rod Rosenstein, purported to be a continuation of the baseless FBI investigation, Crossfire Hurricane. The release of the Papadopoulos transcript not only is a dagger in the heart of the predication for Crossfire Hurricane and the Carter Page FISA, a dagger in the heart of the FBI’s role in the conspiracy. It is also a dagger that, along with the final FISA renewal, we may learn is directed at Team Mueller through its pursuit of George Papadopoulos.
And no doubt there is much more to come.
More than the CDC must be swept clean to resurrect the Republic and make us strong again. The intelligence community requires a strong disinfectant.