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Regarding Durham's latest filing, alleging that lawyers from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House after Trump took office, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to federal government agencies linking President Trump to Russia.
In October 2020, Fox News reported that Ratcliffe provided about 1,000 pages of material to the Department of Justice to support Durham's investigation.
Ratcliffe said he believed there was "enough evidence" in the material he provided to indict "multiple people."
One key piece, now declassified, revealed that intelligence officials in the CIA forwarded an investigative referral on Hillary Clinton approving "a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections" in order to distract the public from her email scandal to the FBI. Holy crap!
Sources told Fox News that the CIA memo, aka: Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL), was properly forwarded to the FBI, and to the attention of then-FBI Director James "Lordy" Comey and to then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.
[Strzok was eventually fired after the messages that he and his paramour, Lisa Page exchanged about their hatred for Trump, came to light and the insinuation that Strzok would do something about Trump's presidency.]
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| Strzok testifying and looking bizarre, like an evil Alfred E. Newman |
"The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate," the 2016 CIA memo to Comey and Strzok stated.
"This memorandum contains sensitive information that could be source revealing. It should be handled with particular attention to compartmentation and need-to-know. To avoid the possible compromise of the source, any investigative action taken in response to the information below should be coordinated in advance with Chief Counterintelligence Mission Center, Legal," the memo read. "It may not be used in any legal proceeding — including FISA applications — without prior approval …"
"This memorandum contains sensitive information that could be source revealing. It should be handled with particular attention to compartmentation and need-to-know. To avoid the possible compromise of the source, any investigative action taken in response to the information below should be coordinated in advance with Chief Counterintelligence Mission Center, Legal," the memo read. "It may not be used in any legal proceeding — including FISA applications — without prior approval …"
"Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date," the memo continued. ""An exchange [REDACTED] discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server."
A source familiar with the matter told Fox News that Ratcliffe, privately, has raised concerns that the CIOL was directed to Comey and Strzok, probably due to their hatred for Trump. As it turned out, there is no evidence that the FBI began an investigation into Clinton's plan as per the CIA referral.
But wait, because there's more.
Ratcliffe had also declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on Hillary’s purported "plan" to tie then-candidate Trump to Russia as "a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server" ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan is a contributor to MSNBC and NBC and is a leftist hack.
"We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED]," Brennan’s declassified notes, which were first obtained by Fox News in October 2020, read. "CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
At this point, Durham has indicted three people as part of his investigation: Igor Danchenko on Nov. 4, 2021, Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, and Michael Sussmann in September 2021.
Danchenko was charged with making a false statement and is accused of lying to the FBI about the source of information that he provided to Christopher Steele for the anti-Trump dossier. Kevin Clinesmith was also charged with making a false statement. Clinesmith had been referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.
Specifically, the inspector general accused Clinesmith, without naming him, of altering an email about Page to say that he was "not a source" for another government agency while Page said that he was a CIA source. The DOJ relied on that assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Trump campaign aide Carter Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
"We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED]," Brennan’s declassified notes, which were first obtained by Fox News in October 2020, read. "CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
At this point, Durham has indicted three people as part of his investigation: Igor Danchenko on Nov. 4, 2021, Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, and Michael Sussmann in September 2021.
Danchenko was charged with making a false statement and is accused of lying to the FBI about the source of information that he provided to Christopher Steele for the anti-Trump dossier. Kevin Clinesmith was also charged with making a false statement. Clinesmith had been referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.
Specifically, the inspector general accused Clinesmith, without naming him, of altering an email about Page to say that he was "not a source" for another government agency while Page said that he was a CIA source. The DOJ relied on that assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Trump campaign aide Carter Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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Durham also charged Michael Sussmann, a former Clinton campaign lawyer, with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty, but all the evidence indicates otherwise. The indictment against him says he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, not even 2 months prior to the 2016 presidential election, that he was not doing work "for any client" when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented "purported data and 'white papers' that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel" between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.
But his billing of the Clinton campaign proved him a liar.
Aren't they all liars?
Fake news isn't just about lying in the copy; it's also about omitting or refusing to report on something factual that hurts your political agenda.
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