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He actually led the implementation of many of the bureau’s current rules for informants and intelligence gathering. citizen, it has specific facts justifying an investigation of that person.”īrock knows that of which he speaks. However as Halper’s documents reveal, the FBI conducted a widespread, unfocused search with little substantiation of possible wrongdoing, and with significant evidence that countermanded the core allegations, experts told Solomon.Īccording to former FBI Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock, the information relative to alleged foreign lobbying by Papadopoulos which the FBI used to open the Russia collusion investigation did not meet the bureau’s own legal standards to justify the larger probe which ensnared Page and a number of other Trump officials.īrock said, “Normally when the FBI opens an investigation on a U.S. It should be noted that in a typical FBI counterintelligence investigation targeting American citizens, there must be sufficient allegations which narrowly focus on the FBI’s ability to “spy” on limited targets in order to avoid interference with privacy and civil liberties. “The Crossfire Hurricane investigative team is attempting to determine if anyone in the Trump campaign is in a position to have received information either directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation regarding the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.” In one of the earlier memos from Halper’s undercover work, it read: However, the sheer magnitude of the FBI’s targeting of the Trump campaign, with an insufficient predicate for doing so, as well as the FBI agents making it clear that their goal was to hold off any efforts by the Trump campaign to get dirt from Russia that could hurt Hillary Clinton were the most damaging revelations to come forth from the memos. However Halper’s tactics included creation of a fake cover story (he was trying to get a job with the Trump campaign), secret recordings, providing background on targets, suggested questions to ask and finally contact information for potential targets.

Current FBI Director Christopher Wray has claimed the FBI didn’t engage in spying on the Trump campaign.

Despite the fact that Halper had provided a treasure trove of exculpatory evidence to the FBI, which included transcripts of conversations he recorded with certain Trump advisers in which they made claims of innocence, that evidence was not disclosed by the bureau to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) which had approved surveillance targeting the Trump campaign and in particular Carter Page.

Michael Flynn, and campaign adviser Carter Page. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s future pick for attorney general, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, economic adviser Peter Navarro, future National Security Adviser Lt.

However they also pressed their source Halper for information on a number of other people, including Sen.

Right after the bureau opened a Russia collusion investigation on July 31, 2016, they focused primarily on the foreign lobbying of George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign aid.

Solomon revealed that contained within the memos were revelations that: The sources and targets within the declassified operational handling reports were given nicknames in order to maintain confidentiality.įor example, one such confidential human source-Stefan Halper, codenamed “Mitch-was revealed within those reports which provided a magnifying glass of sorts into tactics used by the FBI to investigate the Trump campaign and just how widespread a net was cast in order to target numerous high-level officials within that campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

That scandal, fomented by rogue elements of the FBI, has been disclosed by investigative reporter John Solomon as being far more egregious than the American people have been led to believe.Īccording to Solomon, FBI agents had instructed an undercover informant to conduct secret recordings, sought out intelligence on numerous Republicans, and were doing a deep dive to look for anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign who may have had ties to Russia and was capable of finding information “damaging to Hillary Clinton.”

WASHINGTON, DC- Perhaps the greatest scandal ever perpetrated upon the American people not including the coronavirus lockdown charade is Operation Crossfire Hurricane, aka the Russia Collusion Hoax.