IG cites main "bad guy" as un-named "Case Agent 1," who is STILL working for the FBI !
As most Americans know, last Monday the inspector general of the laughably-misnamed "Justice Department" released his report on FBI
surveillance of the Trump campaign, both before and after the 2016 presidential election.
The report very carefully claims that the IG found no "documentary or testimonial evidence" that the investigation was "politically motivated."
It doesn't take an expert to recognize the totally uninformative nature of the statement: Does anyone expect that any member of the conspiracy would have come forward and said "Yeah, the top dozen heads of the FBI and DOJ got together and hatched this plot to undo the results of the election"?
Similarly, the plotters had two years to go thru files and remove any document that might support the existence of a conspiracy. Only a fool would believe any such document wouldn't have been removed. Nevertheless, the IG report contains more evidence than the "17 instances of gross errors" that the real goal of the report was to protect the FBI and DOJ. Meet "Case Agent 1."
The report cited "Case Agent 1" as one of the FBI employees deemed "primarily responsible" for the "most significant" errors in the investigation.
The agent, who the report didn't name, played a key role in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane, including handling an FBI informant, interviewing a source for the dossier, and applying for warrants to spy on Carter Page.
The new, unintended, unreported evidence of FBI corruption is that instead of the agency firing this agent for his numerous "significant errors," Case Agent 1 still works for the FBI.
Case Agent 1 was a counterintelligence investigator, and a "handler" for Stefan Halper, a Cambridge academic. In 2016 Case Agent 1 opened the case file on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. He was also the main driver at the FBI pushing to get surveillance warrants on Page, and was put in charge of verifying each strand of evidence included in the applications. In January of 2017 he met with Christopher Steele’s main source for information in the infamous Trump dossier.
The agent was one of the first FBI agents assigned to Crossfire Hurricane (the effort to find that Trump's people "colluded" with Russia) when it started on July 31, 2016--five months before the presidential election.
Think about this: Obviously the top plotters would "hire" their most reliable people first.
The IG report states that Case Agent 1 also withheld information that raised questions about the credibility and reliability of virulently anti-Trump Chris Steele and the veracity of his dossier, which alleged a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
On Aug. 15, 2016, the agent proposed that the FBI apply to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to wiretap Carter Page. FBI lawyers rejected that proposal, saying there wasn't enough evidence to suggest Page was a Russian agent.
But a month later, on Sept. 19, 2016, the FBI reversed that decision after six memos from Steele found their way to the Crossfire Hurricane team. The IG report says the dossier played a "central and essential role" in getting the FBI to apply for a warrant to wiretap Page.
The IG report found that the FISA applications to tap Page was riddled with errors and omissions. Although the IG investigators found no "specific evidence" that the agent's "pattern of errors" were intentional, "we also did not find his explanations for so many significant and repeated failures to be satisfactory," the report said.
It would be interesting to hear an actual recording of the agent's explanation. But of course....
Horowitz told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he believes the agent still works at the FBI.
Horowitz had to say he "believed" the agent still worked at the FBI because if he'd stated that as fact, a natural question would have been "Why did you omit that significant information from your report?"
Perhaps the most damning "error" that Horowitz attributes to Case Agent 1 is information that Steele’s main dossier source gave agents during interviews in January 2017. The source told FBI agents that Steele's dossier misrepresented information they provided, and that the dossier’s most salacious claim -- that the Kremlin had blackmail video of Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow in 2013 -- was based on "rumor and speculation."
These statements--which raised huge doubts about the dossier’s credibility--were never divulged to FISA Court judges, which the law explicitly requires.
Why hasn't Case Agent 1 been named yet? Why are dirty cops allowed to frame innocent American citizens while remaining anonymous?
Unmask him. Unmask him.
H/T Ace of Spades.
The report very carefully claims that the IG found no "documentary or testimonial evidence" that the investigation was "politically motivated."
It doesn't take an expert to recognize the totally uninformative nature of the statement: Does anyone expect that any member of the conspiracy would have come forward and said "Yeah, the top dozen heads of the FBI and DOJ got together and hatched this plot to undo the results of the election"?
Similarly, the plotters had two years to go thru files and remove any document that might support the existence of a conspiracy. Only a fool would believe any such document wouldn't have been removed. Nevertheless, the IG report contains more evidence than the "17 instances of gross errors" that the real goal of the report was to protect the FBI and DOJ. Meet "Case Agent 1."
The report cited "Case Agent 1" as one of the FBI employees deemed "primarily responsible" for the "most significant" errors in the investigation.
The agent, who the report didn't name, played a key role in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane, including handling an FBI informant, interviewing a source for the dossier, and applying for warrants to spy on Carter Page.
The new, unintended, unreported evidence of FBI corruption is that instead of the agency firing this agent for his numerous "significant errors," Case Agent 1 still works for the FBI.
Case Agent 1 was a counterintelligence investigator, and a "handler" for Stefan Halper, a Cambridge academic. In 2016 Case Agent 1 opened the case file on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. He was also the main driver at the FBI pushing to get surveillance warrants on Page, and was put in charge of verifying each strand of evidence included in the applications. In January of 2017 he met with Christopher Steele’s main source for information in the infamous Trump dossier.
The agent was one of the first FBI agents assigned to Crossfire Hurricane (the effort to find that Trump's people "colluded" with Russia) when it started on July 31, 2016--five months before the presidential election.
Think about this: Obviously the top plotters would "hire" their most reliable people first.
The IG report states that Case Agent 1 also withheld information that raised questions about the credibility and reliability of virulently anti-Trump Chris Steele and the veracity of his dossier, which alleged a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
On Aug. 15, 2016, the agent proposed that the FBI apply to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to wiretap Carter Page. FBI lawyers rejected that proposal, saying there wasn't enough evidence to suggest Page was a Russian agent.
But a month later, on Sept. 19, 2016, the FBI reversed that decision after six memos from Steele found their way to the Crossfire Hurricane team. The IG report says the dossier played a "central and essential role" in getting the FBI to apply for a warrant to wiretap Page.
The IG report found that the FISA applications to tap Page was riddled with errors and omissions. Although the IG investigators found no "specific evidence" that the agent's "pattern of errors" were intentional, "we also did not find his explanations for so many significant and repeated failures to be satisfactory," the report said.
It would be interesting to hear an actual recording of the agent's explanation. But of course....
Horowitz told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he believes the agent still works at the FBI.
Horowitz had to say he "believed" the agent still worked at the FBI because if he'd stated that as fact, a natural question would have been "Why did you omit that significant information from your report?"
Perhaps the most damning "error" that Horowitz attributes to Case Agent 1 is information that Steele’s main dossier source gave agents during interviews in January 2017. The source told FBI agents that Steele's dossier misrepresented information they provided, and that the dossier’s most salacious claim -- that the Kremlin had blackmail video of Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow in 2013 -- was based on "rumor and speculation."
These statements--which raised huge doubts about the dossier’s credibility--were never divulged to FISA Court judges, which the law explicitly requires.
Why hasn't Case Agent 1 been named yet? Why are dirty cops allowed to frame innocent American citizens while remaining anonymous?
Unmask him. Unmask him.
H/T Ace of Spades.
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