FBI Superiors Kept Investigators in the Dark About Hillary Paying for Fake Steele Dossier
FBI brass hid the fact that Hillary and the DNC paid for the Steele dossier.
If there is one thing you must do when you are leading an investigation is to make sure your investigators have all of the facts, except of course when it would look bad for the Democrats. Both Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok knew that Hillary and the DNC paid for the Steele dossier as well as feeding lies to the FBI, but neither McCabe nor Strzok bothered to inform the investigators of this fact.
What a world of difference it would have made. If they had known it was a Democratic plan of action, it would have cast doubt on the veracity of the information they were getting. As it was, they had no reason to doubt what they were told that they were investigating. But, had they known, they would have dug deeper looking for the truth rather than believing the words of their superiors at the FBI. I wonder if they were even aware of the texts between Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page. Considering Strzok was their superior, I seriously doubt it.
The FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane was tasked with investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election. But, they were never made aware of the memo from the CIA to Strzok that Hillary had a plan to frame Donald Trump for collusion with the Russians.
The report said:
“In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.”
On September 7, 2016, the CIA wrote a “referral memo” addressed to FBI director James Comey and to the attention of Deputy Assistant Director Strzok saying as much. The information was considered so important that then-CIA Director James Brennan immediately briefed President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Comey about it in the Situation Room. Yet not a single FBI employee working for Strzok who was interviewed by Durham could recall seeing it or doing anything with the information.
While the Russian intelligence that was intercepted could have been an “exaggeration or fabrication,” it would have rung true to the FBI agents because they suspected, correctly, that the sources that were feeding them the anti-Trump narrative were being paid by the Clinton campaign or DNC, and caused them to proceed more skeptically.
Some agents expressed “surprise and dismay” to learn from Durham that the FBI had received this intelligence but bosses had seemingly concealed it from them. “For example, the original Supervisory Special Agent on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, Supervisory Special Agent-1, reviewed the intelligence during one of his interviews with the Office. After reading it, Supervisory Special Agent-I became visibly upset and emotional, left the interview room with his counsel, and subsequently returned to state emphatically that he had never been apprised of the Clinton Plan intelligence and had never seen the aforementioned Referral Memo. Supervisory Special Agent-1 expressed a sense of betrayal that no one had informed him of the intelligence,” Durham wrote.
The report said:
“A meeting was then held with Assistant Director Priestap and others. During that meeting, the review team was told to be careful about what they were writing down because issues relating to Steele were under intense scrutiny. Two weeks later, the Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Dina Corsi, met with the review team and directed them not to document any recommendations, context, or analysis in the memorandum they were preparing. The instructions, which Headquarters Analyst-3 described as ‘highly unusual,’ concerned the team because analysis is what analysts do.”