.POTUS was briefed in 2016 about an alleged plan by HillaryClinton to tie Donald Trump to Russia to distract from her own use of an illicit private email server while secretary of state, according to special counsel John Durham.
Durham's new 306-page report harshly criticized the FBI's"Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into baseless claims of collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. Durham found the bureau’s rush to investigate Trump was “markedly different from the FBI's actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin.
Durham said the Clinton Plan was relevant to his investigation for two main reasons: first because the Clinton Plan intelligence “arguably suggested that private actors affiliated with the Clinton campaign were seeking in 2016 to promote a false or exaggerated narrative to the public and to U.S. government agencies about Trump's possible ties to Russia” and second because “it was part of the mosaic of information that became known to certain U.S.
Durham was unable to figure out when the FBI received the Clinton Plan intelligence but concluded it was no later than Aug. 22, 2016, when an FBI cyber analyst emailed several FBI employees, including supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten and Section Chief Jonathan Moffa, both senior intelligence analysts on the Crossfire Hurricane team, a summary of the contents of the Clinton Plan intelligence.
The special counsel said, “No FBI personnel who were interviewed … recalled Crossfire Hurricane personnel taking any action to vet the Clinton Plan intelligence.” Durham said, “This stands in sharp contrast to its substantial reliance on the uncorroborated Steele Reports, which at least some FBI personnel appeared to know was likely being funded or promoted by the Clinton campaign.”
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified during the Sussmann trial he was"briefed about the Alfa-Bank issue first" by Elias in the summer of 2016. Mook said,"I discussed it with Hillary as well" after the campaign team had discussed it. Mook said, “She agreed with the decision" to share the Alfa Bank claims with the media and said, “She thought we made the right decision.
Baker also told Durham’s team “that he had neither seen nor heard of the Clinton Plan intelligence or the resulting Referral Memo prior to his interview” and said, “Had he known of it during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, he would have viewed in a different and much more skeptical light” both the Steele dossier and Sussmann’s Alfa Bank claims.
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