Durham Reveals How FBI Fabricated Evidence To Obtain FISA Warrants

"During his testimony before the House Judiciary committee on
Wednesday, Special Counsel confirmed under oath that not only was there no adequate basis to launch the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, but that the the FBI failed to examine all of the exculpatory evidence to their disposal.

This fascinating line of questioning from Rep Cline confirms all of the shocking details from Durham’s troubling report. At one point in the testimony, Cline asks Durham to expand on how FBI agents fabricated evidence when submitting the FISA report. Read the exchange below:

CLINE: “Mr. Durham, your report is not just sobering, as you stated, it’s outrageous and deeply troubling. Can you confirm these several main points that it found? The FBI did not have an adequate basis on which to launch Crossfire Hurricane, correct?”

DURHAM: “That’s correct.”

CLINE: “The FBI failed to examine all available exculpatory evidence, correct?”

DURHAM: “Correct.”

CLINE: “The FBI did not interview key witnesses in Crossfire Hurricane, correct?”

DURHAM: “Correct.”

CLINE: “And individuals within the FBI abused their authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, correct?”

DURHAM: “Correct.”

CLINE: “Is it true that an FBI employee fabricated this evidence? Can you expand on that fabrication and the reliance to support that FISA application?”

DURHAM: “In connection with one of the agents who had come on board wanted to be certain that there was information that, was there information as to whether or not Carter Page had been a source of information to the CIA, and pressed Kevin Clinesmith, in the General Counsel’s Office of the FBI, on that point. 

Clinesmith got a hold of people at another government agency, intelligence agency on the issue, and that person indicated, not indicated, said that yes, in the FBI parlance, Carter Page was the source, and put that in writing. When Clinesmith talked to the agent who was saying, we want to be sure on this, was he or was he not a source, Clinesmith said, no, he said he’s not. He said, did we get that in writing? Clinesmith said yes, and they said, well, I want to see it. And then Clinesmith altered the other government agency document to reflect this, to say that Page was not a source, when he in fact was a source. That’s the gist of it.” 

TP

Durham Reveals FBI Withheld Clinton’s Plan To Connect Trump To Russia From Agents On The Case

"Special Counsel John Durham said Wednesday that in 2016, intelligence suggesting Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia was not given to agents working on the Crossfire Hurricane case.

In Wednesday’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Durham detailed the findings of his investigation into the handling of intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign. This intelligence suggested that the Clinton campaign was planning to vilify Trump by tying him to Russia, a claim that was uncorroborated but caught the attention of

then CIA Director John Brennan​.

The intelligence was deemed significant enough by Brennan to warrant briefings with then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and other top national security officials. The matter was also referred to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, with the subject line: “Crossfire Hurricane.”

However, Durham said that the FBI did not act on this information. According to his testimony, a supervisory special agent of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, identified as Supervisory Special Agent Number One, was not aware of the intelligence. 

Upon learning about it, the agent reportedly became emotional, left the room with his lawyer, and was described as being “ticked off.”

“He was ticked off because this is something he should have had as an agent on the case,” Jim Jordan responded. “This important information that the director of the FBI kept from the people doing the investigation.” TP

Matt Gaetz demands FBI agents be indicted after Durham report

"Rep. Matt Gaetz demanded that the FBI be defunded and its agents
criminally indicted after a report found that the bureau lacked evidence to launch an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in 2016.

Gaetz accused the FBI of becoming “the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party to play offense against Trump,” and argued that the agency should face harsh consequences for its wrongdoings." 

NYP

Karine Jean-Pierre ends press briefing after being pressed on Durham report: ‘Fled the podium’

"Even though the Durham report was released Monday, Jean-Pierre
was only asked once about it during a White House Press Briefing on Tuesday.

“What is the White House reaction to special counsel report on how the FBI handled the Trump-Russia probe?” RealClearNews reporter Philip Wegmann asked. 

Jean-Pierre replied, “I would leave it to the Department of Justice to speak to that.”

Seemingly unsatisfied with her response, Wegmann pressed further, “The president talks often about how he wants the DOJ and FBI to remain independent and above the fray. That report seems to reflect the opposite. Does he agree with Special Counsel Durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the FBI?” 

“Again, that is with the Department of Justice,” Jean-Pierre quickly replied, closing her briefing book. “Thank you so much. I’ll see you guys in Japan,” she said while leaving the podium before any more questions could be asked." NYP

Trump: "this should never be allowed to happen in our country"

"Special Counsel John Durham’s final report — while it did not recommend any new charges — exonerated former President Donald Trump of any Russian collusion and vindicated his claims of being targeted by a politicized federal law enforcement agency.

“It’s a great vindication and it feels good, and the report has been wildly praised, I wish it would have come faster, but the detail that he went into — 308 pages — the detail is extraordinary, and all of these people, I guess you could call it treason, you could call it a lot of different things, but this should never be allowed to happen in our country,” Trump said in a recent interview with Newsmax.

Durham’s report confirmed that the FBI launched a politically motivated witch hunt against Trump, using the flimsiest of pretexts to “swiftly” launch an investigation into him while ignoring intelligence that Clinton’s campaign planned to accuse Trump of colluding with Russia to distract from her private server woes." Breitbart

Corrupt Ex-Fed Peter Strzok Insists Russian Collusion Investigation Was Honest

"Peter Strzok is the appallingly corrupt ex-FBI agent who was fired from the bureau after his ferocious partisanship and determination to kneecap Donald Trump’s run for the presidency was revealed, and who smirked his way arrogantly through a notorious 2018 Congressional hearing. 

Now, he has all too predictably come out against the Durham report. That report reveals just how deep the corruption was in the FBI while Strzok and others worked to frame a president of the United States for a crime he didn’t commit (and it has only gotten worse since then). So it is no surprise that a longtime corruptocrat such as Strzok would be working now to sabotage the report as energetically as he ever worked to sabotage Trump.

Strzok, however, was defiant even in the teeth of the evidence, insisting that “this is a predictable sad ending to an investigation that never should have taken place.” Demonstrating admirable skills in projection and accusing one’s enemy of what one is actually guilty of doing, Strzok continued: “Shortly after [Durham] was announced in 2019, he went on the record as a prosecutor making a rare public statement that he disagreed with IG Horowitz’s conclusion that the investigation was appropriately launched and then he spent the next three to four years with a cognitive bias trying to build a case that somehow it was. We saw the results today, and the results are clearly that he didn’t come up with anything.”

In reality, Durham found that the Justice Department “and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.” 

And one of the chief offenders who was making a mockery of the FBI’s mission was none other than Peter Strzok himself.

Fox notes that Strzok was “previously fired from the FBI after perceived bias against Trump during the ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ investigation. In 2018, multiple anti-Trump texts from Strzok were discovered from 2016. One of the texts showed Strzok asserting to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that ‘we won’t allow’ Trump to become president.” 

And he did his best, even while acknowledging privately that the whole Russian Collusion case against Trump was weak at best. The Durham report states: “Our investigation gathered evidence that showed a number of those closest to the investigation believed that the standard arguably had not been met, even Strzok, who drafted and approved the opening EC [electronic communication], said there’s nothing to this but we have to run it to ground. His view would seem to dictate the opening of the matter or at the most a preliminary investigation.”

Nevertheless, now that the Durham report has exposed his cynicism and dishonesty, Strzok is sticking to his original story with all the tenacity of the 1950s Leftists who insisted that Communist spy Alger Hiss was innocent even after overwhelming evidence had been marshaled against him and he had been duly convicted."  

PJMedia

FBI Leadership Sabotaged Clinton Foundation Investigations: Durham Report

"Remember the Clinton Foundation? Which, took millions in foreign donations when everyone thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the 2016 US election, only to see donations plummet by 90% after she lost?

Now we learn, thanks to the Durham report, that the FBI had three concurrent investigations into the Clinton Foundation, which were shut down during the 2016 election year by top brass.

 

Durham’s scope included the FBI investigations “directed” at the Hillary Clinton campaign. It seems the purpose of that review was to assess and compare the favorable treatment received by Clinton to the targeting of Trump.

 

**The first investigation involved an FBI tip from a CHS that a foreign government was sending a person “to contribute to Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign, as a way to gain influence with Clinton should she win the presidency.” (Which country?!) An FBI field office sought a FISA against the foreign contributor and made that request to FBI headquarters, which ignored it for four months due to the fact that they were careful that Clinton was “involved.” According to one FBI Agent, “They were pretty ‘tippy-toeing’ around HRC because there was a chance she would be the next president.” The FISA was approved on the condition that the FBI give defensive briefings to Clinton.

 

**The second Clinton investigation involved the same CHS, who in November 2015 reported to the FBI that another foreign government was looking to contribute to the Clinton campaign “in exchange for the protection of [that country’s] interests should Clinton become

President.” That CHS would end up making a donation to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign insider, in violation of federal law which bans contributions by foreign nationals. The CHS told their handling FBI agent that “They [the campaign] were okay with it. […] yes they were fully aware from the start” of the contribution being made on behalf of the foreign interest.Who was the FBI’s confidential human source that caught the Clinton campaign in illegal activity?

Somehow, the FBI did not obtain copies of the illegal payment and the CHS’s FBI handlers “could not explain why this apparent illegal contribution was not documented in FBI records.” Instead, the FBI handling agent “told the CHS to stay away from all events relating to Clinton’s campaign.” Later on, the CHS, who had essentially caught a member of the Clinton campaign facilitating illegal contributions, was admonished by the FBI:

“do NOT attend any more campaign events, set up meetings, or anything else relating to [Clinton’s] campaign. We need to keep you completely away from that situation. I don’t know all the details, but it’s for your own protection.”

Durham questioned how the FBI could reconcile giving defensive briefings to the Clinton campaign while denying defensive briefings to the Trump campaign.

 

**The other Clinton investigation Durham reviewed – the investigation into “possible criminal activity involving the Clinton Foundation” – demonstrated, yet again, favorable treatment received by Clinton from FBI leadership. According to Durham, the Clinton Foundation case opening communication:

referred to an intelligence product and corroborating financial reporting that a particular commercial “industry likely engaged a federal public official in a flow of benefits scheme, namely, large monetary contributions were made to a non-profit, under both direct and indirect control of the federal public official, in exchange for favorable government action and/or influence.”

Additionally, the FBI Little Rock and New York Field Offices investigations “included predication based on source reporting that identified foreign governments that had made, or offered to make, contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton.”  

 

DOJ and FBI leadership essentially sabotaged the Clinton Foundation investigation. The DOJ was “hostile” to the Clinton Foundation presentations from the FBI Field Offices. And at a February 2016 FBI meeting to discuss the Clinton Foundation investigations, Assistant Director Andre McCabe ordered the cases to be closed." 

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