Durham needs to see Obama, Biden, Clinton, DNC and Simpson

Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report raises the suspicion that the Obama-Biden White House, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Glenn Simpson could well have been receiving information from the FBI in relation to the Trump election campaign from the date the FBI opened an individual file on Carter Page in August 2016 until President Trump was sworn in as President on 20 January 2017 - and perhaps well beyond that until 20 September 2017. Obama and Biden were President and Vice-President respectively until 19 January 2017, whilst Hillary Clinton and the DNC had – through Perkins Coie lawyers - paid for the infamous Steele Dossier prepared by Russian sources engaged by Christopher Steele who was in turn hired by Glenn Simpson. Horowitz established the Dossier was false and was used to mislead the FISA Court to obtain four warrants to spy on Carter Page. Steele gave the Dossier to the FBI with the authority of Simpson.

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Horowitz noted in his Report that Glenn Simpson declined Horowitz’s request for a voluntary interview and could not be compelled to testify. Horowitz reveals what happened in the week after the first FISA warrant was obtained on 21 October 2016:

“Emails and other communications reflect that in the first week of surveillance on Carter Page, [redacted] following the granting of the first FISA application in October 2016, the Crossfire Hurricane team collected [redacted] [Footnote 354]. Based on our review of the Woods Files and communications between the FBI and 01, we identified a few emails between Page and members of the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign concerning campaign related matters.”

Footnote 354 quizzically states:

“We did not review the entirety of FISA [redacted] obtained through FISA surveillance [redacted] targeting Carter Page. We reviewed only those [redacted] under FISA authority that were relevant to our review.”

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What were in those campaign e mails? Were there anymore that were collected by the surveillance operation during Crossfire Hurricane? Why were campaign related e mails so important to the FBI? Were their contents made known to Obama, Biden, Clinton, the DNC Committee or Simpson? They could well have given the Democrats an inside run into what was happening in the Trump campaign. The FBI reputation for leaking like a sieve had already been called out by Horowitz. It is difficult to understand why Horowitz went into redacted mode at this critical part of his Report. Durham should hunt these campaign emails down. Horowitz further states that in the application to renew the first FISA warrant in January 2017 the five main elements enumerated in the first application were used and there was added recent investigative results. Regrettably Horowitz goes on:

“The recent investigative results section of the application included references to the following: [Almost one page of the Report – page 201 – has been redacted]

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The Clinton campaign was also able to negatively impact the Trump Campaign when leaks to the media appeared after the first FISA warrant was obtained. Steele, for example, contacted Mother Jones which published an article on 31 October 2016 titled "A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.". How many votes would an article such as that attract? Spying on and discrediting the Trump campaign using a false DNC paid-for Dossier to surveill an American citizen - as Horowitz seems to have painstakingly – perhaps unwittingly - uncovered – is far more serious than the 1971 Watergate break-in. The FBI’s outrageous conduct in collecting Trump campaign emails and maybe other communications using improperly-obtained FISA warrants needs to be thoroughly investigated by John Durham.

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