Sussman revealed them as part of his defense, having gotten them via subpoena from Durham.
The notes reveal a pattern of repeated lies and omissions by FBI leadership to DOJ officials that concealed the dramatic deterioration of the predicate for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. As the predication deteriorated, so too was the purported justification for Comey’s public reveal of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.The significance of the FBI’s lies was accentuated this week at Sussmann’s trial when Scott Hellman, an FBI cyber analyst, testified that he knew right away in September 2016 that Sussmann’s data did not suggest any covert communications between Trump and Russia. Hellman added that he wondered if the person who put together the data was suffering from a mental disability.
Hellman’s testimony is the clearest evidence yet that the FBI knew from the start that one of the two major components of the Trump Russia collusion narrative — the Alfa Bank data — was false. As the March 6 notes show, they concealed this fact from their DOJ superiors.
The other major component of the investigation was the Steele dossier. The FBI knew from a January 2017 interview of Igor Danchenko, Christopher Steele’s “Primary Sub-Source” through whom all the allegations in the Steele dossier were originated or channeled, that the dossier too was false.I’ll refer you to the Federalist for details about this. In short, the Steele Dossier lied about having Sergei Mllian as a source, instead relying on a Democrat-connected, Hillary-supporting US resident named Igor Danchenoko for rumors and made-up “tips.”
…The FBI appears to have concealed these matters from the DOJ. In fact, it does not appear from the March 6 notes that the FBI ever mentioned Danchenko. Despite Danchenko’s disavowal of the dossier as of March 6, it remained as the main component of the overall Crossfire Hurricane investigation, including being the basis of two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The March 6 notes also reveal that FBI leadership told DOJ officials that the Page FISA application had been “fruitful” even though it had turned up nothing of significance. Page was never charged with, or even accused of, any offense and is now suing the DOJ for damages.
FBI leadership also pushed the narrative on their DOJ counterparts that the dossier was “CROWN reporting,” implying that the dossier was an official United Kingdom intelligence product when it was actually made-up stories and gossip and paid for by the Clinton campaign — a fact the FBI knew from their Danchenko interview.The FBI also tried to claim that this “CROWN reporting” connected Trump to some windfall in “Russian energy stocks.” This was another lie.
Read the article for further lies.
This emergency meeting was precipitated by Trump’s tweet in which he revealed that he knew that Obama’s minions were wiretapping him at Trump hotel.
They wanted to figure out how much Trump knew about their bogus probe, and what to do next.In reality, Trump’s tweet probably just restated what Levin had said. But the fact that the FBI did not know how much Trump knew meant FBI leadership had a choice to make. They could either downplay the investigation with a view to wrapping it up or they could double down even though they had not found any incriminating evidence.They chose to double down, with Comey going on offense in the immediate aftermath of the March 6 meeting. Aside from giving narrative-shaping briefings to congressional leaders, Comey publicly disclosed the existence of the Trump Russia investigation, ensuring a media frenzy. That frenzy ultimately led to the appointment of Mueller on May 17, 2017.
While we have become accustomed to false statements charges being filed against Trump associates such as Roger Stone, Papadopoulos, and Michael Flynn, those same charges are also applicable to false statements or concealment of material facts by FBI officials to DOJ officials in the conduct of their supervision of FBI investigations.
It is perplexing that no one within the FBI has been held accountable for the many lies told at the March 6 meeting. This fact is all the more perplexing as it was Durham who originally turned over the March 6 notes to Sussmann’s defense team.The article notes that William Barr declined to prosecute Andrew McCabe for lying in an official investigation.
It notes now that these notes — which show further FBI lying, and calculated, premeditated, coordinated lying intended to corruptly influence the DOJ into starting an unwarranted investigation — were concealed from the public until just now, after the five-year statute of limitations for obstruction of justice/lying to federal investigators had run out.The question is why the DOJ — and Durham in particular — gave the FBI a free pass. The uncomfortable answer may be that, as has been suspected for a while, Durham’s authority is effectively limited to private actors such as Sussmann and Danchenko and does not extend to public officials such as McCabe and Strzok.
I can think of a more uncomfortable answer: The Guild protects the Guild.
The “agents of Justice” will never face Justice themselves. Never.
Meanwhile, in the Michael Sussman trial, Hillary Clinton campaign manager and Weedy Gollum Robbie Mook admitted– bragged, really — that Hillary Clinton approved the “Alfa Bank” hoax story.
Despite her campaign not having confidence that her lies were true.
Via Fox:Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of materials alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media, despite campaign officials not being “totally confident” in the legitimacy of the data.Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data alleging a Trump connection to the Kremlin-linked bank, and found that “there was nothing there.”
Mook was called to the stand for testimony by Michael Sussmann’s defense Friday.
During cross-examination by government prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis Friday, Mook was asked about the campaign’s understanding of the Alfa Bank allegations against Trump and whether they planned to release the data to the media….
He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri.
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said.
“I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,” Mook said.
The government asked Mook if Clinton approved “the dissemination” of the data to the media.
“She agreed,” Mook testified.
Mook later said he “can’t recall the exact sequence of events,” when asked if he shared the idea to give the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations to the media with Clinton before or after the decision was made.
“All I remember is that she agreed with the decision,” Mook testified.Via Politico, he also claimed that Hillary did not direct Sussman to take this lie to the FBI, supposedly.
The lie they’ve agreed to is that they wanted to bring this story to the media, not the FBI:
If Hillary was pushing the investigations of false accusations, then those who pushed this at the FBI definitely was working for the Hillary campaign and also knew it was totally false.
Um, what possible difference does anyone think that would make? When was the last time Hillary was under oath and didn’t lie?
Have they all agreed to what the definition of “is” is yet?
I love it when weasel’s greed turns out to be their undoing. Of course, they never imagined they would get caught.
Theories Exist to Be Proven
If I’m wrong about this, then the long Durham investigation has been a joke. Personally, I don’t think Mr. Durham intends to go down in history as a joker.
I hope you are correct but given the history of all this, I still think nothing will happen. The cat was out of the bag when Admiral Rogers told Trump to move his operation out of Trump Towers because he was being spied on. Everyone up to and including BHO is implicated. Sessions was a decent person but was in way over his head. Barr proved to be just another corrupt swamp creature whose goal was to protect his fellow swamp rats. Durham knows if he were to uphold the law he’d take down half of D.C. and the praetorian guard won’t let that happen.
Watergate was nothing compared to this. Nothing but demorat feces. Just think, if America would have eaten more vegetables there would be fewer in DC destroying this country. It is not a “new world order” it is COMMMUNISM
It is becoming quite apparent that Judge Durham has some real meat here on the bun.
Gee, who will be surprised if greg and michael become deniers of these proceedings?