Former special counsel John Durham testified Wednesday that the FBI did not pay enough attention to intelligence that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to smear former President Donald Trump with Russia allegations and treated the two campaigns disparately during the 2016 election.
Durham confirmed that the CIA had received intelligence about Clinton approving a plan to make Russia allegations against Trump as a means of distracting from her classified email scandal.
The prosecutor said the FBI did not “sufficiently scrutinize information it received” and did not “apply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns.”
“The FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research, such as the Steele dossier,” he said during the House Judiciary Committee hearing. “The FBI relied on the dossier and FISA applications, knowing there was likely material originating from a political campaign or political opponent.”
He told the House panel that “it’s going to take time to rebuild the public’s confidence in the institution” of the FBI after the agency’s handling of the so-called Russia collusion probe.
Durham, appointed as a Justice Department special counsel in 2020 to investigate the matter, has said there was no evidence of collusion between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian intelligence officials when the FBI probe was launched.
“There were some individuals who clearly expressed a personal bias” against former President Trump, Durham told the committee, following the release in May of his final report on the now-discredited Russian collusion probe.
Under questioning from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Durham said former FBI Director Jim Comey withheld a referral memorandum from the agents working the Crossfire Hurricane case.
The memo contained intelligence from a high-level briefing with Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan related to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s attempts to tie Trump to Russia.
“They kept key intelligence from the investigators. This is how bad this investigation was but here’s the scary part: I don’t think anything has changed,” Jordan said.
Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen told Durham that his reputation has been “damaged” by accepting the special counsel position to investigate the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe.
“My concern about my reputation is with the people I respect, my family, and my lord. And I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir,” Durham responded.
The same FBI that refused to prosecute Hillary for her crimes. Rank and file FBI and DOJ investigators were infuriated with the decision.
James Comey knew about the Steele dossier and that it had been paid for by the DNC. He copied parts of it to use in his spying requests.
Clinton attorney Marc Elias was directly involved in tapping Fusion GPS to spy on the Donald Trump campaign on behalf of Clinton while a partner at left-wing law firm Perkins Coie. He should be charged as well.
More than two years before Mueller’s final shitshow before Congress and his admission that there was no collusion, the FBI acknowledged that the Steele dossier was fake. FBI memos showed that the “Russian collusion” hoax fell apart early into Trump’s presidency. They knew it was all bullshit, but they wanted Trump gone by any means.
Even if it involved illegal wiretaps, lying to the FISA court, and perjury.
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