FBI controversial actions by Trump Russia were predicted by “surprising idiosyncraticity” by foreign actors: sources
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Exclusive: The US intelligence agency had reliable foreign sources that demonstrated that the FBI would play a role in spreading the nasty Trump Russian collusion story. Crossfire Hurricane A source familiar with Intel told Fox News Digital.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe It is expected to declassify underlying information, including classified annexs related to the investigation of former special advisor John Durham on the origins of Trump Russian probes.
Sources familiar with the contents of the classified appendix may not have been clear to Fox News Digital at the moment the intelligence collection implied, but the advantage of hindsight predicted the FBI’s next move to be “with surprising singularity.”
CIA director John Ratcliffe has joined the centre as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds a global threat hearing at Capitol Hill, Washington on Tuesday, March 25th. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“In the end, the release of the classified appendix gives more credibility to the claim that there was a coordinated plan within the US government to help the Clinton campaign spark controversy between Trump and Russia,” said a source who was granted anonymity to discuss the issue of sensitive intelligence that has not yet been published.
“A few days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source said. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper, Comey You will be able to explain this. ”
In 2020, Fox News Digital reported that in the summer of 2016, former CIA director John Brennan had only explained to former President Barack Obama and his administration officials about the intelligence news that then-democratic candidate former Clinton had stirred up plans to link Trump to Russia.
President Barack Obama will nominate John Brennan as CIA director at an event in the White House East Room held in Washington, DC on January 7, 2013. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
As Director of National Intelligence, Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes in commemoration of that meeting, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital in October 2020.
On July 28, 2016, Brennan explained to Obama about plans from one of Clinton’s campaign foreign policy advisors.
The former directors of then-President Wiese Joe Biden, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former National Intelligence Director Joe Biden, and James Clapper were at Brennan Obama’s briefing.
After that briefing, the CIA properly transferred the information through an anti-intelligence operational lead (CIOL) to Coby and then assistant director of Counter Intelligence, and used “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Fox News Digital exclusively acquired and reported on CIOL in October 2020. This stated that “where appropriate, the following information has been provided for the exclusive use of the station for background investigation actions or lead purposes.”
President Barack Obama will speak to the media after meeting Attorney General Loretta Lynch (left) and FBI Director James Comey in Washington, DC on July 19, 2016. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
“As per FBI’s oral request, the CIA will provide the following example of information: Crossfire Hurricane Fusion Cell has collected so far,” the memo continued. “The exchange (editor) in which US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discusses approval of plans on US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers will hamper US elections as a way to divert the public from the use of private email servers.”
On July 31, 2016, the FBI launched an anti-intellectual investigation into whether candidate Trump and his campaign members were colluding or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign. The investigation was called “Crossfire Hurricane” within the department.
Sources told Fox News Digital on Monday that the release of classification and classification is taking place in close coordination with National Security Director William Hartman, along with Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting chairman Chuck Grassley.
The National Director of the Centre Tarsi Gabbard is adjacent to the sides of FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA John Ratcliffe as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds a global threat hearing at Capitol Hill, Washington on Tuesday, March 25th. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
A familiar source told Fox News Digital that the CIA and NSA have signed declassification of sensitive intelligence, which serves as the basis for the findings of the classified annex.
Meanwhile, Ratcliffe was the director of national intelligence in 2020, but he provided information to Durham as part of a larger herd of over 1,000 documents.
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A former Trump official told Fox News Digital that Ratcliffe would release the intelligence reporting agency at the time, but Durham, who was then expected to release a preliminary report before the 2020 election, rejected it, saying it could have a negative impact on an investigation that had not yet reached a decision on a potential prosecutor.
“Durham said he wanted to save the investigation, but he intended to release a preliminary report,” a former official told Fox News Digital. “Then he said he was afraid he had been accused of politicization and disappeared.”
The source added: “Thankfully, all the real politicization is revealed.”
Special Advisor John Durham noted that the Department of Justice and the FBI “failed to support a strict fidelity mission to the law.” (Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)
Former Special Advisor Robert Mueller has been appointed to take over the FBI’s former “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. Almost two years later, Mueller’s investigation, which ended in March 2019, did not provide evidence of criminal conspiracy or adjustments between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.
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Shortly thereafter, John Durham was appointed special advisor to investigate the origins of the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe.
Durham discovered that the FBI “failed to act” ahead of the 2016 presidential election, as the bureau was a “target” of Clinton-led efforts, “to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes.”
“The foregoing facts reflect a rather surprising and mysterious failure to properly consider and incorporate Clinton Plan Intelligence into the FBI’s investigative decision-making in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” the Durham report states.
Robert Mueller, former special advisor to the US Department of Justice. (AP Newsroom | Andrew Haller/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Mike Cohen/Getty Images of the New York Times)
“In fact, if the FBI launched a Crossfire hurricane investigation as an assessment and collaborated with information from Clinton Plan Intelligence to collect and analyze the data, the information received may have been investigated at least with a more important point of view,” the report continued.
Durham said in his report that the FBI “failed to act on what would have been a clear warning sign that it was a target for efforts to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election, which could have been combined with other uncontroversial facts.”
On Sunday, in an interview with Maria Bartiromo about Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Ratcliffe previewed the confidentiality and release of “Classified Nex” to the Durham Report. Ratcliffe said it would be an overview of Durham’s discovery.
“What intelligence shows. Part of this was Hillary Clinton’s plan, but part of it was the FBI plan to become accelerator for fake Steel Dejas. Those claims of false Russian conspiracy fuel the fire by accumulating lies and filling in the truth about Hillary Clinton’s existence.
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The expected release of the declassified annex comes after Ratcliffe and Gabbard released classified records revealing they “manufactured” intelligence to promote the story of Trump-Russia’s collusion.
FBI Director Kash Patel launched a criminal investigation to Brennan and Comey, and Gabbard sent criminal introductions to additional Obama-era officials.