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The FBI Agents involved in Crossfire Hurricane, as well as the Bureau’s leadership, were not being manipulated for political purposes; they were, themselves, the manipulators.

The Durham Report: An Unexploded Bombshell (Part 2)




Part I focused on the introduction of the Durham Report where five, main queries of John Durham’s investigation are listed, along with a brief warning that the answers would be “sobering” to the readers.

Part 2 moves to the final document findings in pp. 303-304. It starts here: (Bolding added for emphasis)

“Throughout the duration of Crossfire Hurricane, facts and circumstances that were inconsistent with the premise that Trump and/or persons associated with the Trump campaign were involved in a collusive or conspiratorial relationship with the Russian government were ignored or simply assessed away…Some of those most directly involved in the subsequent investigation had (i) expressed their open distain for Trump, (ii) asked about when they would open an investigation on Trump, and (iii) asserted that they would prevent Trump from becoming President…[O]ur investigation revealed that the stated basis for opening a full investigation ‘to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign [were] witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia’ was seriously flawed...[T]he FBI’s failure to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a Trump/Russia collusive relationship exhibited throughout Crossfire Hurricane is extremely troublesome. The evidence of the FBI’s confirmation bias in this matter, includes, at a minimum, the following information that was simply ignored of in some fashion rationalized away.”


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In other words, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s motive for Crossfire Hurricane was as corrupt, biased, and fraudulent as a set of loaded dice.

Durham reports a dozen examples that represent only a “minimum” of the “information that was simply ignored or in some fashion rationalized away” by Crossfire Hurricane operatives. The dozen is summarized and condensed below with occasional bolding added for emphasis.

1. Australian diplomats told the FBI that George Papadopoulos never claimed to have direct contact with Russians, nor did he provide information about any offer of assistance.

2. There was no information from the wide U.S. “Intelligence Community” to support the Crossfire Hurricane hypothesis of Trump collusion with Russia.

3. The FBI ignored significant exculpatory information provided by Carter Paste, Papadopoulos, and an unnamed Trump senior policy advisor during recorded conversations. (I.e., the investigators didn’t consider information they didn’t want to hear.)

4. The FBI failed to pursue investigative leads inconsistent with their theory of the case.

5. The FBI disregarded Page’s offer to be interviewed about allegations contained in a news article written by Michael Isikoff in Yahoo! News, dated 9/23/2016. Instead, the Bureau pursued FISA (secret court) surveillance approval.

6. The FBI used unvetted/uncorroborated Steele Dossier content in several FISA applications, despite knowing there were conflicts between Steele and his main sub-source – Igor Danchenko. (More on Igor in Part 3)

7. The FBI never asked Steele about having provided information to Michael Isikoff that accused Page of colluding with Russians. Instead, the investigators shifted the source from Steele to Steele’s employers.

8. “The FBI ignored the fact that at no time before, during or after Crossfire Hurricane were investigators able to corroborate a single substantive allegation in the Steele dossier reporting.” (Verbatim in the Report)

9. “There was a complete failure on the part of the FBI to even examine – never mind resolve – the serious counterespionage issues surrounding Steele’s primary sub source, Igor Danchenko.” (Verbatim)

10. FBI leadership disregarded the Clinton Plan intelligence while, at the same time: “(i) the Clinton campaign made public statements tying the DNC computer hack to Russian attempts to help Trump get elected, (ii) the FBI was receiving Clinton campaign-funded Steele Reports, and (iii) the Clinton campaign-funded Alfa Bank allegations were being prepared for delivery to the media and the FBI.” (So, the FBI was backstopping the Clinton Campaign that was ramping up the media against Trump.)

11. FBI investigators never interviewed Charles Dolan, a longtime Democratic operator with ties to the Clintons, who had “significant ties to Russian government figures” who appeared in “the Steele reporting”.

12. The Crossfire Hurricane investigators provided partial, and/or misleading information, and withheld relevant information from attorneys preparing Page FISA applications to the secret court.

Here is John Durham’s summary:

“[T]he FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

It doesn’t stop there.

Durham looks beyond his own analysis to that offered by the FBI Inspection Division Report that claimed the investigators “repeatedly ignore[d] or explain[ed] away evidence contrary to the theory of the Trump campaign…had conspired with Russia….It appeared that…there was a pattern of assuming nefarious intent.”

Durham isn’t done yet. He writes:

An objective and honest assessment of these strands of information should have caused the FBI to question not only the predication for Crossfire Hurricane, but also to reflect on whether the FBI was being manipulated for political or other purposes. Unfortunately, it did not.” (p. 305)

There is, though, is another manipulation option contrary to Durham’s. It is this:

The FBI Agents involved in Crossfire Hurricane, as well as the Bureau’s leadership, were not being manipulated for political purposes; they were, themselves, the manipulators.

…to be continued



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Lee Cary -- Bio and Archives Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.

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