Hannity is my favorite Fox News show. When Hannity
speaks of FBI corruption he goes out of his way to say something like 97% (I
am not sure of the exact quote. It could be a little more or a little less, but
Hannity definitely speaks the 90 percentile range) of the FBI is not corrupt
blaming 7th Floor FBI management.
I am beginning to believe the culture of corruption at the
FBI is far worse than a mere 7th Floor containment. This Gateway
Pundit report on FBI corrupt practices is one example of a larger
corruption culture.
JRH 1/24/20
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Must “Sequester All” Information Related
to Fraudulent Carter Page FISA Warrant Indicating Related Indictments May Be
Voided
It’s about time. The FISA Court’s communication
yesterday indicates that the Deep State’s Carter Page FISA warrants were
illegal and the related indictments may be voided.
An individual with the Twitter name of Undercover Huber
tweeted out some interesting tweets about the FISA Court’s document regarding
handling and disposition of information this week. After the recent DOJ
IG report that showed that the four FISA warrants taken out on Carter Page and
used to legitimize spying on candidate and then President Trump had numerous
material issues, the FISA Court is finally taking action.
Undercover Huber started his account when Jeff Sessions
asked US Attorney John Huber to look into the Clinton Foundation’s crimes in
2017. Huber eventually completed his efforts without investigating anything.
It was a total head fake by Sessions and Huber to calm demands from
conservatives. The only fortunate result from all this is the twitter
account of Undercover Huber which often has some outstanding tweets.
Yesterday was another example of this from Undercover Huber.
The FISA Court acknowledges that the last two of the four
Carter Page FISA warrant applications were fraudulent. This means that
the other two most likely are as well:
"The (FISA) Court
understands the government to have concluded, in view of the material
misstatements and omissions, that the Court's authorizations in [FISA
order 3 & 4] WERE NOT VALID"
(emphasis added) pic.twitter.com/XN7cV7zrI7
In his next two tweets Undercover Huber notes that the Court
is asking the FBI to sequester the data and information related to the Carter
Page FISA warrants. Undercover Huber suggests that actions in any cases
that relied on any of the ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ could be overturned,
including indictments from the corrupt Mueller gang:
Someone should start asking Mueller
and his crew (I hear Weissmann is on TV these days) whether any of their cases
relied on information gathered or derived from the Page FISAs, either directly
from Page or two hops away from
him
We really don’t know if the Durham investigation is
another head fake like the Huber non-action. What we do know is that
members of the Obama administration illegally spied on the Trump team before
and after the 2016 election.
Hat tip D. Manny
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J.E. Dyer examines Horowitz’s Report on Crossfire Hurricane FISA
abuses (a better word – CORRUPTION) in Devin Nunes questioning of pre-operation
beginnings by the FBI. VERY IMPORTANT READ and you’ll want to read a few
times to digest the info.
The first paragraph has a link to the 480-plus page IG
Report.
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Before Crossfire Hurricane: Devin Nunes asks the
essential question after release of DOJ IG report
Devin Nunes (Image: Screen grab of Fox News video,
YouTube)
Analytical revelations from the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the
conduct of the “Russia-Trump” investigation won’t end any time soon.
The highlights have come out quickly, such as the startling
count of 51 procedural violations by the FBI
just in forwarding the FISA applications on Carter Page, and the fact that nine
of those 51 involved making false statements to the FISA court. In light
of these and other findings, the IG report’s conclusion that all this troubling
conduct didn’t amount to “bias” on the part
of the FBI seems rather … beside the point. Pick another measuring stick,
folks. That one is about as useful to our public purpose as Gloria
Steinem’s famous bicycle was to a fish.
Whatever we label it – and “bias” is an unimpressive scare
word to begin with – a federal law enforcement undertaking so full of violations and false
statements is a problem of the highest priority. So call it
Petunia, for all I care. Just don’t have the crust to call it something
that frames it to be written off. Real, live Americans have to live every
day with what we suffer the FBI to do in the name of law and order.
And if the senior officials at headquarters are allowed to
misbehave themselves so badly, it doesn’t much matter how honorable the rank
and file are.
In any case, although there is surely a lot more to come as
the IG report gets its public walk-through, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)
bore-sighted Monday evening on the question that must propel us forward.
The IG report only takes us so far. That’s because it
accepts the start date of its investigative charter as the day Operation
Crossfire Hurricane was launched by the FBI: 31 July 2016.
We’ll learn a lot from looking at the period after
that. But the operations of U.S. agencies against (or, if you like,
“involving”) members of the Trump campaign were underway well before
that. Even if we use the friendlier-sounding term “involving” here, it’s
still the case that agencies and personalities that engaged with Trump campaign
members after 31 July 2016 were also involved with them before 31 July
2016.
Devin Nunes called that out on Monday. He’s brought
this up previously, and didn’t elaborate at length in his segment with Sean
Hannity (whose audience wouldn’t need a lengthy explanation). But that’s
what he’s referring to here.
And his question is the essential one. The DOJ IG
report looked at the conduct of the FBI and DOJ in Crossfire Hurricane.
But who was coordinating what was being done before
Crossfire Hurricane started?
That question gets to the fundamental mystery of how the
counter-Trump operation was started, and who was behind it. The motive
for the operation can only be ascertained fully by answering these questions.
The FBI was a late-comer to the game. It wasn’t “the” string-puller
(which was probably a small group, rather than a single individual).
If nothing else, Peter Strzok’s affect in 2016 tells us
that. He doesn’t text like someone who has known for months – or years –
that Stefan Halper was set onto LTG Michael Flynn back in 2014, or that Carter
Page has been working with the FBI since 2013 to take down Russian agents in the
United States.
And that’s really the point about the IG report too.
The report is framed as if it’s kind of no big deal that there was prior
engagement by the actors in its own drama with the Crossfire Hurricane targets:
Paul Manafort, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Michael Flynn.
The IG report accepts at face value the narrative that
Crossfire Hurricane was initiated on 31 July 2016, based on the nugget from
Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that in May 2016, George Papadopoulos had
told him something about the Russians and incriminating information on Hillary
Clinton.
Yet within two weeks of 31 July 2016, this new operation had
turned unerringly to a confidential source (Stefan Halper) who had known Paul
Manafort for years, had engaged with Michael Flynn back in
2014, and had invited Carter Page to a conference at Cambridge in July
2016 (where Halper and Page happened, according to Halper, to discuss the
possibility of Halper joining the Trump campaign), before Crossfire Hurricane
started.
Meanwhile, the FBI had had Manafort under investigation
several years earlier, and had electronic surveillance of him since 2014
(up through probably March of 2016, when reporting suggests the FISA authority
for that surveillance expired).
The FBI had been receiving cooperation from Carter Page in
interdicting Russian agents in the U.S. who were trying to recruit Americans.
And Stefan Halper, whom the IG report refers to as Source 2
(with a number of allusions that make Halper the only viable candidate for that
designation), had been involved in an apparent attempt to pin the appearance of
improper Russian connections on Michael Flynn in 2014.
Papadopoulos, on the other hand, while he had not been
approached by Halper before 31 July 2016, had been approached in March 2016 by
the Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud, who was well known to the U.S. State
Department and ran tame among the top officials of the British and Italian
intelligence organizations. Papadopoulos was subsequently approached by
Alexander Downer, the Australian diplomat with extensive links to the same UK
intelligence officials Stefan Halper hosted conferences with at Cambridge
multiple times each year.
There are a couple of passages in the IG report that afford
an intriguing look at how these remarkable coincidences were accounted for in
testimony to the IG.
We are given a little background on Stefan Halper’s (Source
2’s) checkered history as a confidential source (p. 313 as page-numbered in the
IG report document):
Source 2 was closed by the FBI in
2011 for “aggressiveness toward handling agents as a result of what [Source 2]
perceived as not enough compensation” and “questionable allegiance to the [intelligence]
targets” with which Source 2 maintained contact. However, Source 2 was
re-opened 2 months later by Case Agent 1, and was handled by Case Agent 1 from
2011 through 2016 as part of Case Agent 1 ‘s regular investigative activities
at an FBI field office.
Case Agent 1 remains anonymous in the report and has not
been firmly identified by blogosphere analysts. He is referred to as male
in the report, however, and was working Crossfire Hurricane in 2016.* He
is described as having an extensive history with Source 2 between 2011 and
2016.
Therefore, we get the following characterization a couple of
paragraphs later (on p. 314):
Source 2 ‘s involvement in the
Crossfire Hurricane investigation arose out of Case Agent 1’s pre-existing
relationship with Source 2. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that when he arrived in
Washington, D.C. in early August 2016 to join the Crossfire Hurricane team, he
had never previously dealt with the “realm” of political campaigns. He said he
lacked a basic understanding of simple issues, for example what the role of a
“foreign policy advisor” entails, and how that person interacts with the rest
of the campaign. Case Agent 1 said he proposed meeting with Source 2 to ask
these questions because Case Agent 1 knew that Source 2 had been affiliated
with national political campaigns since the early 1970s.
Case Agent 1 seems to have known the source he had been
handling since 2011 reasonably well. So this passage in the middle of p.
315 comes across as a bit puzzling:
Source 2 told the Crossfire
Hurricane team that Source 2 had known Trump’s then campaign manager, Manafort,
for a number of years and that he had been previously acquainted with Michael
Flynn. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that “quite honestly … we kind of stumbled
upon [Source 2] knowing these folks.” He said that it was “serendipitous” and
that the Crossfire Hurricane team “couldn’t believe [their] luck” that Source 2
had contacts with three of their four subjects, including Carter Page.
It strains credulity just a bit, that Case Agent 1, who’d
been handling Source 2 since 2011, found it mere “luck” to discover that Source
2 knew Manafort, whom the FBI had investigated intensively since 2011,
and had contacted Carter Page, with whom the FBI had worked since 2013, only a
couple of weeks before Case Agent 1 joined Crossfire Hurricane.
Perhaps Case Agent 1 had no reason, at least, to know about
Source 2’s connection with Michael Flynn. But as for the rest, it sounds
for all the world as if Case Agent 1 read a Wikipedia entry on Source 2 to get
his background information, and then was disingenuously astonished to find out
how relevant to Crossfire Hurricane Source 2’s history would actually be.
Case Agent 1’s protestations sound, in other words, less
than credible.
His and the Crossfire Hurricane team’s reported disbelief in
their “luck” requires accounting for, given the extensive history of the FBI
with everyone that “luck” applied to.
That’s where Devin Nunes’s question comes in. If it
wasn’t the FBI that assembled all that “luck” prior to 31 July 2016 – who was
it? And was it, as we would reasonably assume, the same maker of “luck”
that manufactured a series of contacts in early 2016, and then handed George
Papadopoulos to the FBI, tied up with a bow?
Obviously, readers will be waving their hands in the air at
this point calling out “Brennan!” But it’s equally obvious John Brennan
couldn’t do this alone. Just for starters, the Steele dossier was a key
component of the anti-Trump operation, and there is neither need nor evidence
for connecting it to Brennan’s instigation (at least not directly).
Moreover, the collaboration that may have come from foreign
intelligence agencies (e.g., in Italy and the UK, as well as the notorious
grab-bag of other European sources, like Estonia, supposedly plying Brennan
with information in early 2016) would have had motives other than merely
helping Brennan out with a personal project. For those sources, motives
related to their own perceived interests had to be in play.
There are probably reasons the public will never be cleared
for why Brennan would have taken a set against Michael Flynn. We know of
one reason why senior personnel at the DOJ might have.
Meanwhile, the odd centrality of Ukraine and Paul Manafort
to the Russiagate drama seems to have had its origins and motives from other
actors: in the State Department, in the Democratic Party, in at least one of
the Democrats’ major funders, George Soros. And those origins and motives
appear, like the animus against Flynn, to have predated even Donald Trump’s
candidacy for president.
Nunes is right. This is what we need to get to the
bottom of. All that “luck” the Crossfire Hurricane team stumbled into:
who authored it? Will John Durham be able to dig that out? Is he
making the attempt?
William Barr’s comments this week, which include a
reference to looking at the activities of other agencies (besides the FBI and
DOJ), suggest that at least some version of that attempt may be underway.
But we don’t know its scope or quality.
If we get a few indictments for things done by DOJ and FBI
personnel after 31 July 2016, and if Trump weathers the impeachment frenzy
unscathed – and if we complacently accept never knowing the answer to Nunes’s
question – we remain at grave risk for something like this happening
again. We remain at risk for not understanding the alarming power our
government’s intelligence and law enforcement tools can wield over our nation’s
future.
That’s why one of the most important things the IG report
can do is point us not only to opportunities for indictment, but to
discrepancies in testimony and narrative that set channel markers: buoys we can
navigate by in chasing down Nunes’s question.
The alarm he raised in early 2017 is what cued both his
committee and an interested public to demand the exertions that got us to the
DOJ IG report. In his excellent new book The Plot Against the President,
journalist Lee Smith recounts much that was previously unreported about Nunes’s
efforts and the centrality of his role. Without Nunes, we wouldn’t have
the broad public understanding we have today of the truth about Russiagate and
Spygate, as opposed to the script written by Fusion GPS and pounded in the
media.
I suggest trusting Nunes one more time: that we cannot rest
until we know how and with whom this whole business really started.
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Kelly McLaughlin
writing for Business Insider has a list
to date of Trump Administration Officials who have DENIED being the
identity of the anonymous Deep State Trump traitor. I suspect Attorney
GeneralJeff Sessions or some DOJ/FBI
upper echelon Obama hold-over is my suspect. Glaringly, Sessions is not on the
McLaughlin denial list.
Still, if Sara Carter is correct, declassifying the Carter
Page FISA warrant is a good first step of swamp draining and sticking it to the
Deep State perpetrating a coup against the duly and Constitutionally elected
President Donald Trump.
President Trump
is expected to declassify the redacted 20 pages of documents from the
controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that have
still not been made public, which allowed the FBI to spy on short-term campaign
volunteer Carter Page, numerous sources told SaraACarter.com. This comes after
nearly a year of stonewalling by the Department of Justice at the demand of
lawmakers, who claim that the 20 redacted pages will reveal explosive
information about the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation,
according to sources.
However,
President Trump, who has been under pressure from some DOJ officials not to
release the classified documents, “could always change his mind and it’s not a
guarantee that it will happen, but the indications are that it more than likely
will possibly be before the end of this week,” said a U.S. official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.
In July, the Justice Department released over 400 previously
top-secret documents connected to the Page warrant. However, more than 20 pages
of the FISA document remained highly classified and have only been viewed by a
select group of Congressional members and investigators. The lawmakers are now
asking that those documents be made public. Behind the scenes, the battle
between Justice Department officials and senior members of Congress intensified
over the past year, leading lawmakers to call on President Trump to intervene
and declassify the documents.
In a 38 minute interview with the Daily Caller Tuesday,
President Trump said the White House is “looking at it very seriously right now
because the things that have gone on are so bad, so bad. I mean they were
surveilling my campaign. If that happened on the other foot, they would’ve
considered that treasonous. They would’ve considered that spying at the highest
level. Can you imagine if we were doing that to Obama instead of Obama and his
people doing that to us? Everybody would’ve been in jail for the next 500
years. OK? Can you believe it, where they paid this guy millions of dollars, it
turned out? If you look at all of the things that are happening.”
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes
(R-CA) told Fox New’s Sean Hannity this month that the remaining classified
documents regarding Page need to be declassified because “there is exculpatory
evidence that we have seen of classified documents that need to be
declassified. The judges should have been presented with this exculpatory evidence
that the FBI and DOJ had.”
In July, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles
Grassley (R- IA) also requested the declassification of embattled Department of
Justice official Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie Ohr worked in 2016 as a
contractor for the research firm Fusion GPS, which was paid by the Democratic
National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to investigate Trump’s
alleged ties to Russia.
“All these documents will expose how the FBI handled this
investigation and give clarity to the public,” said one congressional official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The American people deserve to know the
truth and our country needs to move on.”
The FISA
documents, which were heavily redacted by the FBI and Department of Justice are
expected to reveal detailed information showing that the bureau withheld
exculpatory information from the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC) and the role former British spy Christopher Steele
had in getting his unverified anti-Trump dossier to the bureau. Steele was hired
by Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, to
compile the dossier.
New documentation obtained by Congress are already revealing
the deep ties Ohr had to Steele and the bureau. Recent texts, notes and emails
obtained by Congress reveal that Ohr worked as a backchannel for the FBI to
move information being collected by Steele to the FBI.
The documentation also exposes Ohr’s inter-workings with the
FBI and that he was in communication with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI
Attorney Lisa Page. Strzok was recently fired by the FBI and Page has since
left the bureau. McCabe was fired earlier this year after DOJ Inspector General
Michael Horowitz released a scathing report showing that McCabe lied on
numerous times to investigators and leaked information to the media.
A recent report
by Fox New’s Catherine Herridge also exposes Ohr’s ties in 2016 to Robert
Mueller’s Special Counsel’s lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. Weissmann, who
was then chief of the DOJ’s criminal fraud division, was “kept in the loop” by
Ohr about his contact with Steele and the FBI, according
to the report.
Earlier this year, SaraACarter.com revealed that before
Weissmann was appointed to the Special Counsel, he arranged a meeting with
AP journalists investigating Paul Manafort and his Ukrainian business dealings.
On April 11, 2017 Weissmann, the AP reporters and several FBI officials
Weissmann brought into the meeting met with the reporters.
According to sources who spoke with this news outlet, the
meeting was attended by three different litigating offices. Two employees from
the U.S. Justice Department and the other representative was from the U.S.
Attorney’s office, according to the sources. FBI agents also attended the
meeting, law enforcement sources confirmed.
At the time Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, and chief
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores also declined to comment.
According to sources, FBI officials at the meeting
complained about Weissmann’s failure to follow protocol with journalists. They
issued a formal complaint against him to the Justice Department, as they were
concerned the meeting with the journalists could harm the ongoing probe into
Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
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She was formerly with the Los
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Even as the Mainstream Media (MSM) continues to harangue the
Trump Administration over Crooked Hillary’s loss to President Trump, more and more
documented information is rising to the top like scum purified out of metal.
Emails and memos substantiate just how corrupt the Obama Administration’s FBI,
DOJ, CIA, etc. leadership indeed was in creating ex nihilo
fake evidence of Trump wrongdoing with Russian help.
Below are three documented stories of where the actual
collusion originated and guess what? TRUMP IS NOT THE CULPRIT!
At some point, some rational journalist is going to have to
start openly wondering if they’ve been wrong about this FBI/DOJ/Mueller stuff
all along, won’t they?
The overwhelming majority of agents working for the FBI/DOJ
are wonderful, hard-working professionals, which begs the question, how did so
many anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton agents get in on the Clinton
investigation, the Russia investigation, and the Mueller investigation?
The material that has leaked out over the last few months
has proven that at least 4-5 of the agents had a definite anti-Trump animus and
that animus was bad enough that Mueller canned them from his investigation.
Now, we’re learning that there is even more evidence of the
intelligence community working against Trump for partisan reasons.
Multiple reviews of whether FBI
agents’ political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their
infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal
communications long withheld from public view.
We already know from FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s now-infamous text messages with his
fellow agent and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Strzok — the man driving that
Russia collusion investigation — disdained Donald Trump and
expressed willingness to use his law enforcement powers to “stop” the
Republican from becoming president.
Memos the FBI is now producing
to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and
House committees offer what sources involved in the production, review or
investigation describe to me as “damning” or “troubling” evidence.
They show Strzok and his
counterintelligence team rushing in the fall of 2016 to find “derogatory”
information from informants or a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a
surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president.
The memos prove that Strzok and his team railroaded Trump
associate Carter Page (who has still never been accused of any kind of wrongdoing)
and used him as a scapegoat to spy on the Trump campaign. Strzok’s own words in
the memos damn him for his immoral tactics and obvious partisan behavior.
The memos also indicate that certain FBI officials were
knowingly and maliciously leaking information from their investigations to
Democrats in Congress and to the media.
These and other documents are
still being disseminated to various oversight bodies in Congress, and more
revelations are certain to occur.
Yet, now, irrefutable proof
exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information
and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t
like.
Clear evidence also exists that
an investigation into still-unproven collusion between a foreign power and a
U.S. presidential candidate was driven less by secret information from Moscow
and more by politically tainted media leaks.
And that means the dots between
expressions of political bias and official actions just got a little more
connected.
In response to all of the bad news, Democrat leader Adam
Schiff (D-CA) has been trying to obfuscate what is really happening by
attacking Republicans for being on Trump’s side.
Schiff has even begun mocking a few GOP Congressional
leaders as ‘The Four Horsemen,” but Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) isn’t worried
about anything Schiff has to say. In fact, to hear Gowdy talk about it… nobody
in the GOP “gives a damn” about what Schiff thinks.
“Let me tell you this about
Adam,” Gowdy began. “Adam’s had a terrible last couple of years. He wanted to
be the attorney general under Hillary Clinton and no one in the country worked
harder to protect her than Adam Schiff.”
“He wanted to be the head of the
CIA. He wanted to run for California and the run for Senate and the People’s
Republic of California, but he couldn’t win either of those seats. So, now,
now, he wants to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Speaking
of the apocalypse, Adam Schiff wants to be the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee,” he said.
“If you ever have — I don’t know — a couple of three months with nothing else
to do, I want you to go back, Jason, and think of all the things you would not
know if you had taken Adam Schiff’s advice. You wouldn’t know the whole — the
spontaneous reaction to a video was a hoax in Libya. You would never have read
the first Chris Stevens email. You wouldn’t know that Hillary Clinton had this
unique email arrangement with herself because Adam Schiff did everything in his
power to keep you from finding out,” Gowdy continued.
“You wouldn’t know about the
dossier. You wouldn’t know who funded it. You wouldn’t know it was used in a
court proceeding. You wouldn’t know about Strzok and Page. In fact, you
wouldn’t even be having the show tonight. You wouldn’t be having the show about
Strzok and Page if Adam Schiff had had his,” Gowdy finished.
During a closed-door interview on June 27, former FBI
official Peter Strzok downplayed his role in obtaining surveillance warrants to
spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Daily Beastreported that Strzok, the
former deputy chief of counterintelligence, claimed in the interview that he
had no substantive input on drafting or securing Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants used to spy on Page, an energy consultant who
left the Trump team in September 2016.
Strzok also denied providing evidence for the FISAs, the
first of which was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.
A Republican in the June 27 interview confirmed that Strzok,
who oversaw the Russian investigation, denied having a direct role in the FISA
process. But the Republican was also incredulous at Strzok’s suggestion that he
had little to do with the spy warrants obtained against Page.
A new report appears to justify the Republican’s skepticism.
John Solomon reported on The Hill that Strzok exchanged emails with FBI
attorney Lisa Page regarding the Carter Page surveillance.
Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged numerous anti-Trump text
messages during their work on the Russia probe, which was codenamed “Crossfire
Hurricane.” In one Aug. 8, 2016, message, Strzok told Page that “we’ll stop”
Trump from becoming president.
Strzok, who was the FBI’s top investigator on Crossfire
Hurricane, sent an email with the subject line “Crossfire FISA” to Lisa Page
discussing a set of talking points aimed at getting then-FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe to push the Department of Justice to approve a surveillance
warrant against Carter Page, according to Solomon.
“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on
him,” Strzok emailed Lisa Page on Oct. 14, 2016, according to Solomon.
Strzok also commented on a letter that Lisa Page sent to
then-FBI Director Jim Comey offering to meet with the FBI to discuss
allegations made against him in a Yahoo News article published on Sept. 23,
2016.
“At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to
interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, on
Sept. 26, 2016.
The Yahoo News article claimed that U.S. government
officials were looking into allegations that Page met secretly in Moscow in
July 2016 with two sanctioned Kremlin insiders.
It would later be learned that the article, written by
Michael Isikoff, was based on information from Christopher Steele, the author
of the dossier.
The dossier claimed that Page was the Trump campaign’s
conduit to the Kremlin for the collusion conspiracy. Page has vehemently denied
all of the allegations, and no evidence has emerged to support the Steele
dossier’s claims about him.
The FBI and DOJ’s spy warrants relied heavily on the Steele dossier,
which remains largely unverified and uncorroborated, in order to persuade a
federal judge to allow spying against Carter Page. The FISA applications also
cited the Isikoff article that relied on the dossier, though without disclosing
that the article was derived from Steele.
The applications also did not disclose that the Hillary
Clinton campaign and DNC had financed the dossier. A law firm for both
organizations hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which in turn hired
Steele.
Despite Strzok’s suggestion of an interview with Carter
Page, the FBI did not meet with him until March 2017, six months after the
email and two months after BuzzFeed News published the dossier. Page has
questioned why the FBI waited so long to interview him.
The FBI used other methods to keep tabs on the former Trump
aide. As The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported, an FBI informant
named Stefan Halper made contact with Page during a conference at the
University of Cambridge on July 11, 2016, nearly three weeks before the start
of Crossfire Hurricane.
Halper, a veteran of three Republican presidential
administrations, maintained contact with Page for over a year, until September
2017. That was the same month that the fourth and final FISA warrant against
Carter Page expired.
Halper met with two other Trump campaign advisers, Sam
Clovis and George Papadopoulos. Halper paid Papadopoulos $3,000 in September
2016 to travel to London under the guise of writing a policy paper and
Mediterranean energy issues.
Papadopoulos has told associates that during dinner one
night in London, Halper asked him about Russian efforts to steal Hillary
Clinton emails.
Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, did not respond to an
email seeking comment for this article.
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA for Documents
on Dossier Leak to Senator Harry Reid
Reid Publicized Clinton-DNC Dossier Allegations
Following Brennan Briefing
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced
today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) for records of communications with former Senator
Harry Reid (D-NV) and his staff regarding the anti-Trump dossier funded by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:18-cv-01502)).
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid reportedly believed
then-Obama CIA Director Brennan was feeding him information about alleged links
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in order to make public
accusations.
According to “Russian
Roulette,” by Yahoo! News chief investigative correspondent Michael
Isikoff and David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother
Jones magazine, Brennan contacted Reid on Aug. 25, 2016, to brief him on
the state of Russia’s interference in the presidential campaign. Brennan
briefed other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, but Reid is the only who
took direct action.
Two days after the briefing, Reid
wrote a
letter to then-FBI Director James Comey asserting that
“evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign continues to mount.”
Reid called on Comey to investigate the links “thoroughly
and in a timely fashion.”
Reid saw Brennan’s outreach as “a sign of urgency,” Isikoff
and Corn wrote in the book.
“Reid also had the impression that
Brennan had an ulterior motive. He concluded the CIA chief believed the public
needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the
possible links to the Trump campaign.”
According to the book, Brennan told
Reid that the intelligence community had determined that the Russian government
was behind the hack and leak of Democratic emails and that Russian President
Vladimir Putin was behind it. Brennan also told Reid that there was evidence that
Russian operatives were attempting to tamper with election results.
On August 27, 2016, Reid wrote a letter to
Comey accusing President Trump’s campaign of colluding with the Russian
government.
The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit was filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia after the CIA failed to respond to
a February 12, 2018, FOIA request for:
§All records of
communications, including but not limited to letters, emails, text messages,
and instant chats, between former CIA Director John Brennan and/or officials in
the CIA Director’s Office on the one hand, and Senator Harry Reid and/or
members of Senator Reid’s staff on the other hand, regarding, concerning or
relating to the Christopher Steele “dossier” and/or alleged “collusion” between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§Copies of any reports,
memoranda or other materials provided to Senator Reid and/or members of his
staff by the CIA relating to alleged Russian “collusion” or cooperation between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All materials, including
briefing reports and memos, audio/video presentations, PowerPoint presentations
and any other records, used by CIA Director Brennan and/or other CIA officials
to brief Senator Reid and/or members of his staff on alleged “collusion”
between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All notes, minutes,
transcripts, and audio and/or visual recordings made of any and all briefings
provided by the CIA to Senator Reid and/or members of his staff regarding
alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
Brennan has come under public scrutiny as one of the
suspected prime movers of the “Spygate”
scandal against then-candidate Trump and his team during 2015 and 2016 and
later against President Trump and members of his administration.
Brennan himself has revealed his deep-seated animus toward
President Trump and used his media platform as an MSNBC commentator to
repeatedly attack the president.
When President Trump tweeted about FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s firing in March 2018, Brennanretweeted
and responded:
When the full extent of your
venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will
take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history.
You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will
triumph over you.
In response to the president’s tweet that former FBI
director Comey is a “proven leaker and liar,” Brennan retweeted
and responded in April 2018 that President Trump’s
administration is a failing “kakistocracy.”
“Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on
President Trump help explain the Obama administration spying abuses targeting
Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The mere fact that we had to
file this lawsuit shows the CIA has something to hide on Obama-era abuses and
collusion with Democrats in Congress to target then-candidate Trump.”
Judicial Watch filed a separate FOIA lawsuit against
the CIA on March 6, 2017, for records related to the investigation of former
Trump National Security Advisor and retired United States Army Lieutenant
General Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency et al.(No.1:17-cv-00397)).
The National Security Agency refused
to confirm or deny the existence of intelligence records about
communications between Gen. Flynn and Amb. Kislyak.
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA
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