I love how they under sell an FBI lawyer “doctoring” emails during an investigation, the Steele dossier having “unverified information” and...

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/john-durham-report-fbi-trump-released/index.html

I love how they under sell an FBI lawyer “doctoring” emails during an investigation, the Steele dossier having “unverified information” and talking about issues within the FISA application process without calling them issues. If “Trump appointed” John Durham didn’t find anything “bombshell” why did the FBI implement “dozens of corrective actions” at the FBI “In response to the conduct examined by Durham”?

CNN acknowledges the Steele dossier and the role ii played in the “surveillance warrants” then goes on to say that it “contained unverified allegations”. Democrats are always saying there is “no proof/evidence to support that claim” but apparently that does not apply to Trump. It’s a good thing Durham was elevated to a special counsel because it protected “his position” and made “it politically difficult for the Biden-run” DOJ to shut down the investigation. Why would they want to shut down the investigation if there was so much proof of wrong doing?

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Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election

Durham’s 300-plus page report also states that the FBI used “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” to launch the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump and Russia but used a different standard when weighing concerns about alleged election interference regarding Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Durham only secured one conviction: the guilty plea of a low-level FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who avoided jail after admitting to doctoring an email about a surveillance warrant.

In a statement Monday, the FBI said its leadership has “already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time,” in response to the conduct examined by Durham. “Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the statement adds.

Despite acknowledging the FBI had sufficient reason to open a preliminary assessment or at most a preliminary investigation, the report states that the bureau should not have gone as far as opening a full probe into whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign were coordinating with the Russian government.

The report is also critical of the Steele dossier, an explosive document that had been used by the FBI to bolster its case for probable cause to secure surveillance warrants against a former Trump campaign adviser.

The Steele dossier contained unverified allegations about Trump’s connections to Russia, including his alleged business dealings, rumors of lurid trysts in Moscow and claims that his campaign collaborated with the Kremlin in 2016.

The FBI has made reforms to the way it obtains warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in light of the inspector general’s report – which led to FBI invalidating two of the four warrants it obtained on the Trump campaign adviser – as well as a follow up investigation revealing widespread problems with FISA court applications.

Before the 2020 election, Barr elevated Durham to “special counsel” status, further protecting his position and making it politically difficult for the Biden-run Justice Department to control or shut down the investigation.

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