The controversial actions of the FBI Trump-Russia predicted with the `alarming specificity ” by foreign actors: sources
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EXCLUSIVE: The American intelligence services had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in the propagation of the narrative of the Salace of Trump -Russia – before the Office has ever launched its controversial investigation into the Hurricane of Crossfire, sources familiar with the Intel told Fox News Digital.
CIA director John Ratcliffe should declass the underlying information, including a classified annex, linked to the investigation of former lawyer John Durham on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
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A familiar source with the content of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that even if it was perhaps not clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with hindsight, it predicted the next FBI movement “with an alarming specificity”.
CIA director John Ratcliffe joined the Center by National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, on Tuesday March 25, testifies its world audience for global threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 25. (AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
“In the end, the publication of the classified annex will bring more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan within the US government to help Clinton’s campaign to arouse controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” said the source, which has been anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence issues that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital.
“A few days after the collection of this intelligence, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” said the source. “It is really difficult to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey will be able to explain this.”
In 2020, Fox News Digital reported exclusively that former CIA director John Brennan in the summer of 2016, informed former president Barack Obama and administration officials on intelligence that the former nomine of the time, the former Secretary of State Clinton, moved a plan to link Trump with Russia.
President Barack Obama appoints John Brennan, CIA director at an event in the East Room at the White House on January 7, 2013 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
Ratcliffe, as director of national intelligence, declassified the handwritten notes of Brennan commemorating this meeting, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital in October 2020.
On July 28, 2016, Brennan informed Obama of a plan of one of the Foreign Policy Advisers of the Clinton campaign “to go through Donald Trump by arousing a scandal demanding interference from the Russian security service”.
Comey, the president of the time, Joe Biden, the former general prosecutor Loretta Lynch and former national director James Clapper, were at the Brennan-Obama briefing.
After this briefing, the CIA properly transferred this information through an operational counter-espionage advance (CIOL) to Comey, then deputy director of counterintelligence Peter Strzok, with the object line: “Crossfire Hurricane”.
Fox News Digital obtained exclusively and reported on the CIOL in October 2020, which indicated: “The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your office for fundamental or lead investigation, if applicable.”
President Barack Obama speaks to the media after meeting the general prosecutor Loretta Lynch (on the left) and the director of the FBI James Comey at the Oval Blanche Office on July 19, 2016 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
“By verbal request from the FBI, the CIA provides the examples below of information that the merger cell of Hurricane Crossfire has gleaned to date,” continued the memo. “An exchange (expurgated) discussing approval by Hillary Clinton, candidate for the American presidential election, concerning the American presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Russian pirates who hinder the American elections as a means of distracting the public from his use of a private messaging server.”
The FBI, on July 31, 2016, opened an investigation into counterintelligence to find out if the candidate Trump and the members of his campaign were collusion or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign. This survey was called within the office as “Crossfire hurricane”.
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The source told Fox News Digital on Monday that the declassification and publication of the classified appendix take place with close coordination between Ratcliffe, the director of the FBI Kash Patel, director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Attorney General of the Senate, the president of the Senate Judicial Committee, who will publish the document.
The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Center, is flanked by the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, on the left, and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, while the intelligence committee of the Senate holds its global audience on threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday March 25. All three answered questions about the leak of the text chain. (AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
A familiar source told Fox News Digital that the CIA and NSA had signed to declass their sensitive intelligence which serves as a basis for the conclusions of the classified annex.
Meanwhile, while Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence in 2020, he provided information to Durham as part of a larger mine of more than 1,000 documents.
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A former senior Trump official told Fox News Digital that Ratcliffe had pleaded for publicly publishing intelligence, but that Durham, who was to publish an interim report before the 2020 elections, refused to make a negative impact on his investigation, which had not yet reached determination on potential proceedings.
“Durham said he wanted to preserve his investigation but was going to publish an interim report,” said former official at Fox News Digital. “Then he said that he was afraid that he was accused of politicization and that he had disappeared.”
The source added: “Fortunately, real politicization appears now.”
Special lawyer John Durham said the Ministry of Justice and the FBI “had not respected their mission as a strict loyalty to the law” when the Trump-Russia investigation is launched. (Ron Sachs / Consolidated News Pictures / Getty Images)
Former special lawyer Robert Mueller was appointed to resume the original FBI investigation “Crossfire Hurricane”. After almost two years, the Mueller’s investigation, which concluded in March 2019, gave no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials in the 2016 presidential election.
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Shortly after, John Durham was appointed special advisor to investigate the origins of the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe.
Durham found that the FBI “did not act” on a “clear warning sign” that the office was “the objective” of an effort led by Clinton to “manipulate or influence the process of applying the law for political ends” before the 2016 presidential election.
“The aforementioned facts reflect a rather surprising and inexplicable failure to consider and adequately incorporate the Intelligence Plan in the FBI decision -making in the survey of crossfire hurricanes,” said Durham’s report.
Robert Mueller, former special advisor to the United States Ministry of Justice. (AP Newsroom | Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images | Mike Cohen / Getty images for the New York Times)
“Indeed, if the FBI had opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation as an assessment and, in turn, collected and analyzed concert data with the information of the Clinton Plan Intelligence, it is likely that the information received would have been examined, at least, with a more critical eye,” continued the report.
Durham, in his report, said that the FBI “had not acted on what should have been – when combined with other indisputable facts – a clear warning sign that the FBI could then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the process of applying the law to political purposes during the 2016 presidential election.”
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On Sunday, during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” by Fox News, Ratcliffe presented in preview the declassification and the release of “the classified annex” to the Durham report. Ratcliffe said it would be an overview of Durham’s conclusions.
“What intelligence shows … is a part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but partly an FBI plan was an accelerator for the false Steele file, to these false allegations of Russia by pouring oil on the fire, amplifying the lie and buried the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to it,” said Ratcliffe.
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The expected release of the declassified annex comes after Ratcliffe and Gabbard published declassified files revealing that Obama administration officials have “manufactured” information to push the collusion of Trump-Russia.
FBI director Kash Patel opened criminal investigations on Brennan and Comey, and Gabbard sent criminal references to other Obama era officials.
