RealClearInvestigations
By Paul Sperry
The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump.
The FBI’s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president’s Florida estate is part of a counterintelligence case run out of Washington – not Miami, as has been widely reported – according to FBI case documents and sources with knowledge of the matter. The bureau’s counterintelligence division led the 2016-2017 Russia “collusion” investigation of Trump, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Although the former head of Crossfire Hurricane, Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his vitriolic anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, the sources say, even though they are under active investigation by both Durham and the bureau’s disciplinary arm, the Office of Professional Responsibility. The FBI declined to respond to questions about any role they may be taking in the Mar-a-Lago case.
In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team – Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten – has continued to be involved in politically sensitive investigations, including the ongoing federal probe of potentially incriminating content found on the abandoned laptop of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to recent correspondence between the Senate Judiciary Committee and FBI Director Christopher Wray. FBI whistleblowers have alleged that Auten tried to falsely discredit derogatory evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 campaign by labeling it Russian “disinformation,” an assessment that caused investigative activity to cease. more here
Of course. Joy Behar and Whoopie are probably in on it, too.
FBI style “Russian disinformation” is what the FBI is using to justify their raid a Mar-a-lago. Wait and see.
Accountability matters.
Accountability matters. As long as it not our guy who has to be accountable.
You run the stooges you brung!
Criminals hiding behind badges.
GESTAPO-type thugs – agents provocateur – liars – murderers – Traitors.
No one in the House or Senate has the balls to take them on – just as no one took on the GESTAPO – no one took on the NKVD – any attempt to rein them in would be a death sentence – or at minimum a smear campaign or frame.
We have an unholy alliance between the incipient Police State and the Media – exactly the opposite of what the 1st Amendment was designed.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
And they’re using the same bootstrapping tactics to get the search warrant…
1. DoJ asshole leaks to the compliant press that “Trump may have sooper dooper top secret documents lying around unsecured in his basement!!!”
2. Compliant press cunt writes story about how “Sources in the know claim Trump has sooper dooper top secret documents lining the walls in his living room at Mar-a-Lago!!!”
3. Compliant press cunt asks same DoJ asshole if the “rumors” about Trump using top secret documents as table coasters is true. DoJ asshole replies that he can’t comment on any possible ongoing investigations.
4. Compliant press cunt writes story saying, “Reliable sources claim Trump is shingling his home with top secret documents he stole when he left office!!!”
5. DoJ asshole finds activist/compromised PoS federal judge to sign the warrant off on the basis if the news stories written by the compliant press cunt citing the bullshit fed to her by the same DoJ asshole. And the activist/compromised PoS federal judge signs the warrant because he knows what’s good for him.
6. Presto! Bango! Search Warrant…
7. FBI totally ransacks the place while violating Trump’s 4th and 5th amendment rights. They don’t care. It’s all a bullshit political narrative, and the entire thing will drop after it’s damaged Trump’s chances to run again… or not… depending on what insufferable hard-ons the DC cabal of motherfuckers have become now.
@TheMule . . . I think you have cracked that 3 lock box. Well Done.
But but our sooper dooper pooper guy would never lie, he’s like honest Abe or George Washington & the cherry tree. Secret documents, I never saw them, I might of had coffvee with em once.
@aircubed August 19, 2022 at 8:31 am
> Accountability matters.
No. It doesn’t.
It never did. Ever.
The wherewithal of superior firepower (Not. The existence. Of firepower. Superior. Or not.), is all that dissuades violence.
And violence is all the government. Any government. Every government. Is.