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“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

Crossfire Hurricane “was opened as a full investigation without [the FBI] ever having spoken to the persons who provided that information.” Days after it was opened, Peter Strzok was telling a London FBI employee that “there’s nothing to this.”

Internal FBI communications discussing the Crossfire Hurricane during its early stages: it’s “thin” and “it sucks”.

British Intelligence pushed back on Mueller requests for assistance: “[a British Intelligence person] basically said there was no [expletive] way in hell they were going to do it.”

Durham documents TWO investigations into Hillary Clinton - one involving the Clinton Foundation and one involving illegal foreign contributions to Clinton’s Campaign.

In one Clinton Campaign investigation, an FBI confidential human source (CHS) had offered an illegal foreign contribution to the campaign through an intermediary. The Clinton Campaign was “okay with it” and “were fully aware”. The CHS offered the FBI a copy of the credit card charge; the FBI never got receipts. In fact, the FBI handling agent told the CHS “to stay away from all events relating to Clinton’s campaign.”
In February 2016, FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe directed the Clinton Foundation investigation to be shut down. He walked that back after receiving push-back, but McCabe made sure that his approval was required for any further investigative steps.

The New York Field Office was called on behalf of FBI Director Comey and informed to “cease and desist” from the Clinton Foundation investigation.

The FBI and DOJ restricted both of those Clinton investigations, making sure that “essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.” In comparison, the FBI opened a full investigation into the Trump Campaign based on unvetted “intelligence”.

The CIA had direct knowledge of the Clinton plan (“Clinton Plan”) to vilify Trump by linking him to Putin and Russia. On August 3, 2016, CIA Director John Brennon met with President Obama, VP Biden, and other senior Administration officials, including but not limited to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey. At that meeting, Brennan informed them of the Clinton Plan:

In September 2016, the CIA sent the FBI this information on the Clinton Plan to link Trump and Russia:

Somehow, the FBI did nothing to vet or investigate the Clinton Plan - even though they were using parts of the Clinton Plan (the Steele Reports) - to investigate the Trump Campaign. Durham writes: “No FBI personnel who were interviewed by the Office recalled Crossfire Hurricane personnel taking any action to vet the Clinton Plan intelligence.”

In fact, it was as if the CIA’s Clinton Plan memo was somehow buried within the FBI. Most members of Crossfire Hurricane “had never seen the intelligence before”. And, as we have previously discussed, it was never disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in contravention to that court’s local rules.

FBI Director James Comey was deeply interested in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and micromanaged it, demanding the Carter Page FISA warrant, telling Assistant Director Andrew McCabe: “Where is the FISA, where is the FISA?”

The FBI knew, relatively early, that its Carter Page FISA warrants were dubious. That FBI knowledge only intensified by 2018, as FBI analysts discussed how “Steele’s subsources could have been compromised by the Russians.” They were going to prepare their findings in a memorandum. FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Dina Corsi, met with the review team and directed them not to document any recommendations, context, or analysis in the memorandum they were preparing.” An FBI attorney was at that meeting. “He confirmed that the team was told not to write any more memoranda or analytical pieces and to provide their findings orally.” Corsi’s demands, according to one FBI Attorney, were “the most inappropriate operational or professional statement he had ever heard at the FBI.”

Igor Danchenko, the Steele primary subsource charged with (and acquitted of) lying to the FBI, was paid $220K by the FBI as a confidential human source. This was paid after the FBI knew Danchenko lied to them. As the Durham Investigation proceeded, Durham learned “the FBI proposed making continued future payments to Danchenko, totaling more than $300,000, while [Durham] was actively investigating this matter.” The FBI, in effect, was seeking to influence a key witness who would later face criminal charges.

The FBI’s reasons for paying Danchenko were certainly curious. Interviews with Durham’s office revealed: “the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for National Security, made clear that they were not even able to accurately describe the value or contributions of Danchenko that would justify keeping him open, much less making hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to him.”

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“The objective facts show that the FBI’s handling of important aspects of the Crossfire Hurricane matter were seriously deficient,” Durham wrote, arguing that the bureau relied on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence.”

“As the more complete record now shows, there are specific areas of Crossfire Hurricane activity in which the FBI badly underperformed and failed, not only in its duties to the public, but also in preventing the severe reputational harm that has befallen the FBI as a consequence of Crossfire Hurricane,” Durham wrote in the report.

“Importantly, had the Crossfire Hurricane actors faithfully followed their own principles regarding objectivity and integrity, there were clear opportunities to have avoided the mistakes and to have prevented the damage resulting from their embrace of seriously flawed information that they failed to analyze and assess properly,” he continued.

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He concluded the FBI was more cautious and skeptical of allegations of foreign influence on the Clinton campaign than on the Trump campaign in 2016. According to the report, the bureau didn’t aggressively pursue evidence of two instances in which foreign governments were potentially planning to contribute to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to gain influence. The speed with which the FBI opened the investigation into the Trump campaign “based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached” those other allegations, it said. The FBI provided briefings to the Clinton campaign, the report said, an approach it said stood in contrast to the lack of such briefings provided to the Trump campaign.

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While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in shaping the political rumor sheet.

According to the 306-page report, former Justice Department prosecutor Bruce Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr first plowed the ground for the dossier with a series of a research reports she wrote for Fusion GPS, the D.C.-based opposition research firm the Clinton campaign commissioned to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia.

Obtained by Durham, her reports zeroed in on Sergei Millian and his connections to Russia and Trump, falsely portraying him as a key intermediary between the Kremlin and the Republican candidate. They would later provide the foundation for the dossier’s many fictions.

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Durham report slams FBI’s Trump-Russia probe

https:// thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4005219-durham-report-slams-fbis-trump-russia-probe-but-does-not-recommend-new-charges/

FBI Faulted for Its Probe of Russian Meddling in 2016 Campaign
Four-year inquiry concludes bureau was rash in its handling of allegations linking Trump to Russia

https:// www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-faulted-for-its-probe-of-russian-meddling-in-
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Ex-DOJ Official and Wife Had Bigger Roles in Dossier Than Known: Durham Report

https:// www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/05/16/ex-doj_official_an
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I just hope that SOME of you (Not SECOND, he's too far gone) finally come to grips with the reality that 90% of what you read or hear from the media is just a show, put on to scare or attract you into doing what's good for TPTB.

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You expect justice from a demonstrably politicized justice system?

None so blind as he who will not see, SECOND. But, hey, keep denying reality. Why change now?

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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You expect justice from a demonstrably politicized justice system?

None so blind as he who will not see, SECOND. But, hey, keep denying reality. Why change now?

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Signym, your understanding of justice is weaker than your understanding of the Henry Kissinger quote that you use as your signature.

Here is what Kissinger actually said:

Henry Kissinger said in November 1968, after Richard Nixon was elected U.S. president but before he took office: “Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu (South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu—ed.) before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

The quotation referred to America’s role in Vietnam. If America doesn’t stand by its friends and allies, the quotation explains, then it might ultimately be less dangerous to be America’s enemy.

Much more at
https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/it_may_be_dan
gerous_to_be_americas_enemy_but_to_be_americas_friend_is_fatal

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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FBI Responds To Durham Report, Acknowledges 'Missteps'
...The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time,” the FBI wrote in a statement published hours after the Department of Justice (DOJ) published the Durham report (pdf) on its website on Monday.

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SECOND- Every one of your posts show that you don't understand anything. Not even the Kissinger quote.
But hey, keep your head up your ass.
Why change now?

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Look at all the defense Second's Media Masters have been running today.

Who gives a shit who was busted by the report?

Bottom line is that Trump was fucked by Leftists, once again. And this one was by the previous administration and before he was even President.


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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?
To review:

FBI Informant Testifies: Moscow Routed Millions To Clinton Foundation In "Russian Uranium Dominance Strategy"
FBI Informant "Threatened" After Offering Details Linking Clinton Foundation To Russian Bribery Case
FBI Raids Home Of New Clinton Foundation, Uranium One Whistleblower
Leaked Memo Exposes Shady Dealings Between Clinton Foundation Donors And Bill's "For-Profit" Activities
DOJ And Clinton Lawyers Struck Secret Deal To Block FBI Access To Clinton Foundation Emails: Strzok

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.

As attorney and political commentator Techno Fog notes at The Reactionary (emphasis ours);

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.

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The inevitable blizzard of lies, excuses, and rationalizations from SECOND.

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The inevitable blizzard of lies, excuses, and rationalizations from SECOND.

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Yup.

Can't even bother to read most of his walls of garbage anymore.

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How was work today, honey?

Get fucked, wage slave.

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Notice how whenever a discussion isn't going his way, SECOND drags it off topic by trolling with "Russia" or "Trumptards"?

In case gentle readers have forgotten, the topic is: the FBI's misuse of its investigatory powers, and whether or not we should have an internal spy agency in our country that has been used time and time again for political purposes.

Well, yes, of course.

The interesting thing about the report is that Durham is STILL covering up for the perps in the FBI and CIA.

Alexander Mercouris, of The Duran, has a prodigious capacity to read official reports and he has read the whole thing. He points out the blank spots, un-interviewed ppl and unanswered questions in Durham's report which allows the perps in the FBI, CIA, and DNC to skate free,.

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Wasn't all of this known, like, 6 years ago?

I mean, by non-Libtards.

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Signym, I will tell you this twice: The only people who think John Durham has a point are stupid people who voted for Trump or defended him.

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COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program; 1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals the FBI[5] deemed subversive,[6] including

feminist organizations,[7][8]
the Communist Party USA,[9] ]
anti–Vietnam War organizers,
activists of the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party),
environmentalist and animal rights organizations,
the American Indian Movement (AIM),
Chicano and Mexican-American groups like the Brown Berets and the United Farm Workers, independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups such as the Young Lords and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party),
a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left,
and white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan[10][11] and the far-right group National States' Rights Party.[12]

COINTELPRO memo proposing a plan to expose the pregnancy of actress Jean Seberg, a financial supporter of the Black Panther Party, hoping to "possibly cause her embarrassment or tarnish her image with the general public". Covert campaigns to publicly discredit activists and destroy their interpersonal relationships were a common tactic used by COINTELPRO agents.

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Lincoln's spy: How Pinkerton laid the foundation for the CIA and FBI https://www.salon.com/2017/11/12/lincolns-spy-how-pinkerton-laid-the-f
oundation-for-the-cia-and-fbi/) im additiom tp protectin Lincoln's life was also a diligent strike breaker.

The FBI failed to stop terrorist acts against the USA, including 911.

On balance, it seems to me the FBI generally does more harm than good and should be disbanded, or Congress should cut their budget (and that of the CIA, NSA, and DHS) by a huge amount.





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Signym, I will tell you this twice: The only people who think John Durham has a point are stupid people who voted for Trump or defended him.

SIGNY: SECOND, I will tell you this again - the only people who thought the "Trump Russia collusion!" was even worth repeating are people who can't think, or people who lie.

SECOND: The Mueller report said there was no collusion. Why do you keep bringing that up?

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Are you kidding, Sigs? He's allowed himself to be lied to and he's lied to himself so much over the years he doesn't even know what is and is not reality anymore.

Second is a meat puppet.

He probably actually does believe that he was going around here telling Cap'n, Ted and Wishy that there was no Russian Collusion, because that's exactly the spin his Media Masters are trying to pull right now and all he can do is repost their lies because he gave up the ability to think for himself many, many years ago.

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Are you kidding, Sigs? He's allowed himself to be lied to and he's lied to himself so much over the years he doesn't even know what is and is not reality anymore.

Second is a meat puppet.

He probably actually does believe that he was going around here telling Cap'n, Ted and Wishy that there was no Russian Collusion, because that's exactly the spin his Media Masters are trying to pull right now and all he can do is repost their lies because he gave up the ability to think for himself many, many years ago.

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True about all of thst.

But it's not just Trump voters that he hates, SiX. He hates anyone who wants to keep illegal aliens out of the country. He hates anyone who exercises free speech. He hates anyone who requires evidence. He hates anyone who insists on due process. He hates anyone who isn't rich

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True about all of thst.

But it's not just Trump voters that he hates, SiX. He hates anyone who wants to keep illegal aliens out of the country. He hates anyone who exercises free speech. He hates anyone who requires evidence. He hates anyone who insists on due process. He hates anyone who isn't rich

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This is all true, but when you look at his posts... any of his posts... he attributes all of these things to Trump voters. Even positive things like exercising free speech, requiring evidence and insisting on due process, he finds a way to twist it into a negative and then say "all the Trump voters I've ever known in my life do this and it's why they fail at life", while at the same time he pretends that nobody who votes Democrat is poor or unhealthy or has ever made a bad decision in their life life when this is obviously far from the truth. Second will find a way to find everything he hates in the world and cram it into the "Trump Voter" box, reality be damned.

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Sure. I'm in the middle of another of those conversations with him right now in the inflation thread. He's so determined to "win" any argument that he'll just keep shifting the argument into totally unrelated spaces and it usually winds up with him just arguing the point he was trying and failing to make in the first place, and then he disappears from the thread entirely until somebody else brings something completely unrelated up in the thread.

Honestly, I've never known anyone quite like Second in my life. I'm glad whatever personality type he is happens to be an extremely rare one.

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FBI Improperly Used Surveillance Program To Spy On Jan. 6 Suspects

The FBI abused its surveillance powers while spying on suspects in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol and Black Lives Matter protesters, a federal court said in a newly unsealed ruling.

FBI agents violated standards the agency developed for the Section 702 program, which enables spying on Americans and others, more than 278,000 times, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in the 2022 ruling, which was made public for the first time on May 19.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enables agencies like the FBI to collect information like emails without warrants from foreigners, even if they’re in the United States, and bars intentionally targeting Americans.

The FBI developed its own standard for Section 702 searches, stating that queries “must be reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information, as defined by FISA, or evidence of a crime, unless otherwise specifically excepted.”

But FBI agents have been violating the standard, the court has found, with the newest ruling disclosing hundreds of thousands of abusive searches in addition to those already known.

The abusive searches include multiple improper queries targeting suspected or confirmed Jan. 6 suspects.

In one instance, an analyst searched for information on 13 people suspected of being involved in the Capitol breach. The analyst “said she ran the queries to determine whether these individuals had foreign ties,” but the Department of Justice’s National Security Division (NSD) “concluded the queries were not reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information or evidence of crime,” the newly unsealed ruling states.

In another case, widespread searches that in total consisted of more than 23,000 separate queries looked for information on presumed Americans to see whether the people were “being used by a group” involved in the breach.

“The queries were run against unminimized Section 702 information to find evidence of possible foreign influence, although the analyst conducting the queries had no indications of foreign influence related to the query terms used,” the court said. “NSD assessed there was no specific factual basis to believe the queries were reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information or evidence of crime from Section 702 information.”
Other Improper Searches

The new ruling, released by the Office of Director of National Intelligence, also revealed that FBI personnel improperly surveilled a congressional campaign.

An analyst conducted a so-called batch query, or a widespread query, for over 19,000 donors to the campaign. The analyst claimed the campaign was “a target of foreign influence,” but NSD officials found sufficient evidence for queries for just eight of the people who were queried.

In another instance, a batch query was conducted on 133 people who were arrested “in connection with civil unrest and protests between approximately May 30, and June 18, 2020,” the time period during which people, primarily Black Lives Matter members and supporters, were protesting and rioting over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“The query was run to determine whether the FBI had ‘any counter-terrorism derogatory information on the arrestees,’ but without ‘any specific potential connections to terrorist related activity’ known to those who conducted the queries,'” the court found. NSD said the queries violated the FBI standards, but the FBI disagreed, claiming there was a “reasonable basis to believe these queries ‘would return foreign intelligence” due to citations that were redacted.

Additional 2020 violations included queries using variations of “political activist groups involved in organized protests;” 697 queries using identifiers on scheduled visits to a place or person that were redacted in the ruling; searches for at least 790 defense contractors that the FBI was considering requesting cooperation from; and at least 330 queries conducted using identifiers of employees of a company whose name was redacted, with the FBI claiming it might recruit the employees as sources.

Multiple queries were run without obtaining an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, another violation of the law.
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Critics said the newly released information highlights a pattern of abuse.

“Chris Wray told us we can sleep well at night because of the FBI’s so-called ‘FISA Reforms.’ But it just keeps getting worse,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told The Epoch Times via email.

Wray is the FBI’s director.

Many of the improper searches were conducted before the FBI began overhauling the system. Officials have said the changes include strengthening training, ramping up auditing, and revising guidance on the querying standards.

The FBI told The Epoch Times via email: “As Director Wray has made clear, the errors described in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s opinion are completely unacceptable. As a result of the audits that revealed these instances of noncompliance, the FBI changed its querying procedures to make sure these errors do not happen again. These steps have led to significant improvement in the way we conduct queries of lawfully obtained Section 702 information. We are committed to continuing this work and providing greater transparency into the process to earn the trust of the American people and advance our mission of safeguarding both the nation’s security, and privacy and civil liberties, at the same time.”

Those changes have led to a drop in queries, according to data released in April.

Still, four percent of a sample of queries carried out in the second half of 2021 and the first quarter of 2020 violated the standards, the FBI’s own watchdog reported recently, and members of Congress are considering whether to reauthorize the law that grants the spying powers.

“The FBI has shown a penchant for spying on all Americans without a warrant. The opinion describes shocking abuses of the FBI’s Section 702 powers, and Congress should respond by ending this unconstitutional surveillance,” Aaron Mackey, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s free speech and transparency litigation director, told The Epoch Times via email.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said in the newly released opinion the surveillance court “is encouraged by the amendments to the FBI’s querying procedures” and that they appeared to be “having the desired effect.”

“Nonetheless, compliance problems with the FBI.’s querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread,” he added. “If they are not substantially mitigated by these recent measures, it may become necessary to consider other responses, such as substantially limiting the number of FBI personnel with access to unminimized Section 702 information.”

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Here are some of the main findings:

“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

Crossfire Hurricane “was opened as a full investigation without [the FBI] ever having spoken to the persons who provided that information.” Days after it was opened, Peter Strzok was telling a London FBI employee that “there’s nothing to this.”

Internal FBI communications discussing the Crossfire Hurricane during its early stages: it’s “thin” and “it sucks”.

British Intelligence pushed back on Mueller requests for assistance: “[a British Intelligence person] basically said there was no [expletive] way in hell they were going to do it.”

Durham documents TWO investigations into Hillary Clinton - one involving the Clinton Foundation and one involving illegal foreign contributions to Clinton’s Campaign.

In one Clinton Campaign investigation, an FBI confidential human source (CHS) had offered an illegal foreign contribution to the campaign through an intermediary. The Clinton Campaign was “okay with it” and “were fully aware”. The CHS offered the FBI a copy of the credit card charge; the FBI never got receipts. In fact, the FBI handling agent told the CHS “to stay away from all events relating to Clinton’s campaign.”
In February 2016, FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe directed the Clinton Foundation investigation to be shut down. He walked that back after receiving push-back, but McCabe made sure that his approval was required for any further investigative steps.

The New York Field Office was called on behalf of FBI Director Comey and informed to “cease and desist” from the Clinton Foundation investigation.

The FBI and DOJ restricted both of those Clinton investigations, making sure that “essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.” In comparison, the FBI opened a full investigation into the Trump Campaign based on unvetted “intelligence”.

The CIA had direct knowledge of the Clinton plan (“Clinton Plan”) to vilify Trump by linking him to Putin and Russia. On August 3, 2016, CIA Director John Brennon met with President Obama, VP Biden, and other senior Administration officials, including but not limited to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey. At that meeting, Brennan informed them of the Clinton Plan:

In September 2016, the CIA sent the FBI this information on the Clinton Plan to link Trump and Russia:

Somehow, the FBI did nothing to vet or investigate the Clinton Plan - even though they were using parts of the Clinton Plan (the Steele Reports) - to investigate the Trump Campaign. Durham writes: “No FBI personnel who were interviewed by the Office recalled Crossfire Hurricane personnel taking any action to vet the Clinton Plan intelligence.”

In fact, it was as if the CIA’s Clinton Plan memo was somehow buried within the FBI. Most members of Crossfire Hurricane “had never seen the intelligence before”. And, as we have previously discussed, it was never disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in contravention to that court’s local rules.

FBI Director James Comey was deeply interested in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and micromanaged it, demanding the Carter Page FISA warrant, telling Assistant Director Andrew McCabe: “Where is the FISA, where is the FISA?”

The FBI knew, relatively early, that its Carter Page FISA warrants were dubious. That FBI knowledge only intensified by 2018, as FBI analysts discussed how “Steele’s subsources could have been compromised by the Russians.” They were going to prepare their findings in a memorandum. FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Dina Corsi, met with the review team and directed them not to document any recommendations, context, or analysis in the memorandum they were preparing.” An FBI attorney was at that meeting. “He confirmed that the team was told not to write any more memoranda or analytical pieces and to provide their findings orally.” Corsi’s demands, according to one FBI Attorney, were “the most inappropriate operational or professional statement he had ever heard at the FBI.”

Igor Danchenko, the Steele primary subsource charged with (and acquitted of) lying to the FBI, was paid $220K by the FBI as a confidential human source. This was paid after the FBI knew Danchenko lied to them. As the Durham Investigation proceeded, Durham learned “the FBI proposed making continued future payments to Danchenko, totaling more than $300,000, while [Durham] was actively investigating this matter.” The FBI, in effect, was seeking to influence a key witness who would later face criminal charges.

The FBI’s reasons for paying Danchenko were certainly curious. Interviews with Durham’s office revealed: “the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for National Security, made clear that they were not even able to accurately describe the value or contributions of Danchenko that would justify keeping him open, much less making hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to him.”

We’ll follow this up with a much deeper analysis hopefully by tomorrow. Part of that story is the problem with the Durham investigation: the fact that its scope didn’t include the attribution of the DNC hack.

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https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-durham-report

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Comey: Imagine A "Retribution Presidency" Where The President Ordered The "Investigation And Prosecution" Of His Enemies

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Imagine if you will a "retribution presidency" in which the President of the United States ordered "the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he sees as enemies."

You may think that describes Joe Biden's presidency to a T -- locking up J6ers en masse, ordering the FBI to target the regime's political opposition, having the DOJ work to jail former president Donald Trump -- but it's actually former FBI director James Comey's vision of a second Trump term.

"Think about what four years of a retribution presidency might look like," Comey told MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Sunday.
"He could order the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he sees as enemies."

Translation: ‘If Trump is elected he might weaponize the justice system against us just as we weaponized it against him.’

I wish I could imagine it but Trump did nothing like this during his first term -- he let Hillary Clinton off the hook despite campaigning on "Lock Her Up" and even kept Comey on as FBI Director. One would hope Trump learned his lesson but who knows.

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