... his emergency control is set to expire after a maximum of 30 days,
according to the statute. That can be extended, but only if Congress
passes a law authorizing it.
While Trump has frequently complained
about crime in the district, violent crime there has fallen to a
30-year low as of January, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
was returned to the United States to face criminal charges involving an
alleged undocumented immigrant smuggling ring Friday, months after the
Maryland resident was wrongfully deported to a prison in his native El Salvador. ...
The indictment alleges that Abrego Garcia and others from 2016
through 2025 “conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United
States from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador,
and elsewhere, ultimately passing through Mexico before crossing into
Texas.”
The grand jury that issued the indictment found that he made more than 100 trips smuggling thousands of immigrants. ...
In a post on X on Friday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele wrote,
“As I said in the Oval Office:1. I would never smuggle a terrorist into
the United States. 2. I would never release a gang member onto the
streets of El Salvador.”
“That said, we work with the Trump
administration, and if they request the return of a gang member to face
charges, of course we wouldn’t refuse,” Bukele wrote. ...
... The administration is “asserting a
right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without
the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
constitutional order,” wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in an opinion for a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Further, it claims in essence that
because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be
done,” he wrote. “This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the
intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses
still hold dear.” ...
Wilkinson
and the two other judges on the 4th Circuit panel rejected the
administration’s appeal of an April 10 order from Xinis directing the
administration to “take all available steps” to facilitate Abrego
Garcia’s return to the U.S. “as soon as possible.”
Wilkinson zeroed in on the Justice Department’s admission that it had “mistakenly” deported Abrego Garcia.
“Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?” Wilkinson wrote. ...
Wilkinson warned of a dangerously
slippery slope on the horizon. “If today the Executive claims the right
to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what
assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American
citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?” he wrote.
“And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?” ...
A seventh federal prosecutor resigned Friday over the Department of Justice’s controversial order to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The prosecutor, Hagan Scotten,
in a blistering letter to top DOJ official Emil Bove, said “I expect
you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a
coward, to file your motion” to dismiss the Adams case.
“But it was never going to be me,” wrote Scotten, who had been the lead prosecutor in Adams’ case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
On Thursday, Scotten’s boss, acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned in protest over Bove’s order to toss the case. ...
Scotten is a Harvard Law School grad, who clerked for Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts after serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq in
the Special Forces. He also served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh when Roberts’ fellow conservative was sitting on a lower
court.
... After Sassoon refused to dismiss the case Thursday, the matter was reassigned to John Keller, the acting head of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, who then also refused to dismiss the case and quit, NBC reported. ...
Acting DOJ criminal division chief Kevin Driscoll also resigned Thursday after refusing to accept the Adams case.
At least three other senior officials in the DOJ’s Public Integrity
Section quit after that following a meeting with the deputy attorney
general. ...
Sassoon had been the lead prosecutor at the fraud and conspiracy trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former head of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried was sentenced last March to 25 years in prison.
It's a strange day when I find myself agreeing with Ed Markey.
. . . “The courts, if they
interpret the Constitution correctly, are going to stop Musk, are going
to stop Trump,” Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey told CNN’s Erin
Burnett on Thursday.
“Article
One is the Congress. Article Two is the president, Article Three is the
judiciary. There is not an Article 3.5 where Elon Musk gets to do
whatever he wants to do,” Markey said. “They are trying to rewrite
constitutional law in this country.” . . .
Three weeks in, the
growing storm of lawsuits means some of this young administration’s most
extraordinary applications of unilateral presidential power could be
reined in. But the litigation also conjures a scenario that no one wants
to think about: what would happen if the administration refused to
recognize court rulings — even one handed down by the Supreme Court?
This
is a particularly acute matter because it’s the Justice Department,
which is now operating under Trump’s firm hand, that’s responsible for
enforcing the law. The constitutional remedy for a president who breaks
the law is impeachment, but Republicans have twice shown that they will
not hold Trump to account in such trials, making moot this key check on
power envisioned by the founders.
“That
is the doomsday scenario,” Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department
special counsel and NYU law professor, told CNN’s Burnett. “So far, they
are complying with all the court orders, but what happens come the day
that they do lose at the Supreme Court?” Goodman asked.
“If they really want to push it, we are in a real constitutional crisis.”
Meanwhile, earlier in December Biden's own Department of Justice warned Jan 6 "insurrectionists" that accepting a pardon from Trump would amount to a confession of guilt.
So Fauci, Milley, et alia are all ipsofacto guilty.
A pro-abortion RFK Jr. at HHS. A pro-union Chavez-DeRemer at Labor. Lefty Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. And gay George Soros adviser Scott Bessent at Treasury.
Mike Allen of AXIOS reminds me of no one so much as George W. Bush: "There is no conservative movement. I redefined the Republican Party".
I think Mike is in a perpetual state of PTSD because his father was a John Bircher.
Donald Trump's problem is that no real conservative wants to be associated with his lame duck brand, so he's got to find people SOMEWHERE to serve in his hapless administration. Might as well be lefties and liberals and Jeb Bush retreads like Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice after the Gaetz flameout.
Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump and George W. Bush are exactly the same person, except Georgie actually got more than 49.83% of the vote.
The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release. ...
It’s been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau’s lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers. ...
The updated data for 2022 report that there were 80,029 more violent crimes than in 2021. There were an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults. The question naturally arises: should the FBI’s 2023 numbers be believed? ...
While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8% since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers [from the U.S. Department of Justice] show that total violent crime has risen by 55.4%. Rapes are up by 42%, robbery by 63%, and aggravated assault by 55% during Biden’s term. Since the NCVS started, the largest previous increase over three years was 27% in 2006, so the increase under Biden was slightly more than twice as large. ...
At the beginning of this year, the media was running headlines like National Public Radio’s: “Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don’t believe it.” “At some point in 2022 … there was just a tipping point where violence started to fall and it just continued to fall,” NPR claimed. But now the FBI has itself admitted its violent crime numbers were way off. ...
A Gallup survey late last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that, by a 4.7-to-1 margin, likely voters say violent crime in the U.S. is getting worse (61%), not better (13%). A Gallup poll found in March that “crime and violence” was Americans’ second biggest concern, after inflation. But the media and politicians used the inaccurate FBI data to try to convince people that they were wrong.
My organization has been highlighting this dangerous double-standard, warning Americans that the Justice Department and FBI are exploiting the FACE Act to target and harass individuals like Eva who stand in the way of their extremist agendas.
Just this month, a man named Elliot Bennet set fire to a Catholic
Church in New Jersey. This was the third time Bennet had committed acts
of violence or vandalism against the church since 2018, the 21st attack
on a Catholic Church in 2024, the 274th attack since May 2022 and the
412th attack since May 2020.
Yet the same Justice Department that is fighting to throw Eva in jail
failed to prosecute Bennet for these multiple and obvious FACE Act
violations. It has also failed to federally prosecute a single one of
the more than 400 egregious FACE Act violations against Catholic Churches since May 2020, or to meaningfully address the 90 attacks on pregnancy resource centers across the nation since May 2022.
These attacks don’t involve prayer and hymns. They’ve involved fire-bombings and arson,
vandalism of pregnancy clinics and churches, spray painted threats on
clinic and church walls, decapitated statues, smashed glass, disrupted
masses, blocking of church entrances and even physical attacks on
priests and parishioners. They have cost at least $25 million in damages
to Catholic Churches, while intimidating hundreds of peaceful Catholic
and pro-life communities.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department wants former Trump White House
adviser Peter Navarro to spend six months behind bars after being convicted of criminal contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena. ...
“The Defendant chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over
the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in Thursday’s sentencing memo.
Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on the first son's refusal to testify on 'Special Report.'
The assistant U.S. attorney who was accused oflimiting questionsrelated to President Biden during the federal investigation into Hunter Biden is no longer employed by the Justice Department, Fox News has learned.
Lesley Wolf, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware, is no longer with the DOJ, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The source said Wolf had longstanding plans to leave the Department of Justice and did so weeks ago.
Wolf, who IRS whistleblowers claimed slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation, is sitting for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning.
Specifically, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged that Wolf worked to "limit" questioning related to President Biden and apparent references to Biden as "dad" or "the big guy."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
WASHINGTON — The former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and his son Hunter
during a criminal investigation testified 79 times to Congress that she
was “not authorized” by the Justice Department to answer questions
about the case, according to a transcript reviewed by The Post.
Former Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf repeatedly cited a
five-page authorization letter from Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House Judiciary Committee deposition last week.
Weinsheimer’s Dec. 12 letter, also reviewed by The Post, says: “[T]he
Department generally does not authorize congressional testimony from
line-level personnel, especially relating to an ongoing investigation
with charges pending in court. The Department has declined to do so in
connection with this matter.”
Wolf’s dozens of refusals to answer questions — just one day after the full House voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry
into President Biden — frustrated attempts to firm up the storyline
involving what whistleblowers say was a sweeping cover-up by Wolf and
colleagues to protect the Biden family.
A
former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and
his son Hunter during a criminal investigation testified that she was
“not authorized” to answer questions about her actions, according to a
transcript. AP
The near-blanket rejection of questions follows pressure from House
Republicans on the administration to allow witness testimony and could
bolster GOP arguments that the White House is obstructing the inquiry,
which itself could form an article of impeachment.
Two IRS agents who worked on the long-running tax fraud investigation
into Hunter Biden, which focused on his foreign income from countries
such as China and Ukraine, alleged in prior testimony to House
committees that Wolf tipped off the first son’s lawyers to investigative
steps and forbade inquiries into Joe Biden, even when communications
mentioned him.
Wolf served on the squad of prosecutors that signed off on a
probation-only plea deal in June for the first son on tax and gun
charges, which fell apart the following month under scrutiny from a federal judge.
Lesley
Wolf (above) repeatedly cited a five-page authorization letter from
Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House
Judiciary Committee deposition. Fedbar.org
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley, who oversaw the Hunter Biden
investigation for three years, and case agent Joseph Ziegler, who worked
on the inquiry for five years, made a series of specific claims against
Wolf, which she did not refute in her testimony.
Tax investigators learned in December 2020 that Wolf “reached out to
Hunter Biden’s defense counsel and told them” about investigators’ plans
to search a northern Virginia storage unit that contained business
records, “circumventing our chance to get to evidence from potentially
being destroyed, manipulated or concealed,” Ziegler testified in July.
Shapley testified that investigators were months earlier barred from
searching a guest house at Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home, where
Hunter often stayed.
Wolf’s
refusals to answer questions come one day after the full House voted to
authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. REUTERS
Shapley said that on Sept. 3, 2020, “Wolf told us there was more than
enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the
question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze.”
Wolf also allegedly objected during a meeting on Dec. 3, 2020, to questioning a key Biden family associate, Rob Walker, about the president.
“Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy
and stated she did not want to ask questions about ‘dad,’” he said.
“When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected that we had
to ask, she responded, there’s no specific criminality to that line of
questioning. This upset the FBI, too,” Shapley testified.
Wolf served as a key point person for the investigation, serving under Delaware US Attorney David Weiss.
The whistleblowers accused Weiss’ office of giving Hunter Biden’s
legal team advance knowledge of a planned interview attempt in late
2020, scuttling a planned approach, and said prosecutors didn’t pass
along a paid FBI informant’s tip that Joe and Hunter Biden received $10 million in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma,
which paid Hunter a salary of up to $1 million to serve on its board
beginning in 2014 when his vice president dad led US policy toward the
country.
Wolf allegedly instructed FBI agents in August 2020 to remove
references to Joe Biden from a search warrant affidavit, writing,
“Someone needs to redraft [the affidavit] … There should be nothing
about Political Figure 1 in here,” according to an email released by the Ways & Means Committee.
“That email, I think, is super important because it’s a one-off
example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative
leads that might lead to Joe Biden,” Ziegler said last week in a Fox
News interview.
“The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they
had sufficient evidence — probable cause — to support including
Political Figure 1 in that affidavit,” said the self-identified Democrat.
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley (not pictured) oversaw the Hunter Biden investigation for three years. REUTERS
“That related to [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma, access to Joe
Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that
was included in that affidavit that’s supported including Political
Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those
emails that we’re searching for might not come through to the team.”
Shapley and Ziegler said they were not allowed to get cellphone
geolocation data that could have proved Joe Biden was with his son in
July 2017 when Hunter sent a threatening text message to a Chinese government-linked businessman saying, “I am sitting here with my father,” and warning of retribution.
Within 10 days of that message, $5.1 million flowed to accounts
linked to Hunter and first brother James Biden from CEFC China Energy —
after a tranche of $1 million earlier that year, less than two months
after Biden left office as vice president.
Internal
Revenue Service whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley testify
in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing
about alleged meddling in the Justice Department’s investigation of
Hunter Biden. REUTERS
A May 2017 email penciled in Joe Biden, referred to as the “big guy,” for a 10% cut from CEFC dealings.
The IRS whistleblowers say that — in addition to preferential
treatment for Joe and Hunter Biden — Attorney General Merrick Garland
misled Congress under oath about Weiss’ ability to independently bring
criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
Biden-appointed US attorneys in Los Angeles and Washington have
confirmed in testimony that they declined to partner with Weiss, who in
August was elevated by Garland to be a special counsel, allowing him to bring charges independently outside of Delaware.
The DOJ didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about Wolf’s testimony.
When Obama nominated that guy for the Supreme Court, it was like throwing a Molotov Cocktail at it.
The federal prosecutor tasked with investigating Hunter Biden told at least six witnesses last
year that he lacked authority to charge the first son outside Delaware
and was denied special counsel status, according to an IRS whistleblower
— and now the House Judiciary Committee wants to talk to them.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans
will launch an impeachment inquiry into Garland if Shapley’s account is
corroborated.
Hunter Biden wanted something from Zhao — it appears it was a
payment of some sort — and he wanted it immediately. "I am sitting here
with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made
has not been fulfilled," Hunter Biden wrote. "Tell the director that I
would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means
tonight. And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this
other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between
the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to
forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I
am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
Shapley said the IRS team discovered
the message in August 2020. Even for people who questioned the
authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop — and we now know the FBI had
verified its authenticity in December 2019 — the WhatsApp message was
worth investigating. "In August 2020, we got the results back from an
iCloud search warrant," Shapley said. "Unlike the laptop, these came to
the investigative team from a third-party record keeper and included a
set of messages. The messages included material we clearly needed to
follow up on."
No kidding. The July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message was the clearest evidence ever
that Joe Biden, then the former vice president, knew about his son's
business dealings. Now, maybe Hunter Biden was lying in the message.
Maybe his father wasn't in the room. Maybe there's some other
explanation. What was clear was that the WhatsApp message was evidence
that needed to be investigated. But Shapley and the other IRS
investigators soon ran into a brick wall at the Justice Department.
The IRS team wanted to execute a search warrant
at the guest house and Joe Biden's house in Delaware, where Hunter
Biden was staying at the time of the message. In discussions with the
Justice Department, they were told that there was more than enough
probable cause to get a warrant but that "optics" were a problem. A
Justice Department official told them, in Shapley's words, that "a lot
of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of
former Vice President Biden but said there is no way we will get that
approved."
Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian owner of Burisma, was the "foreign
national" involved in the alleged "criminal bribery scheme" aimed at
shaking an alleged investigation into Burisma by then-Ukrainian
prosecutor Viktor Shokin, according to sources familiar with the FBI record who described its contents to the Washington Examiner.
The sources said Zlochevsky said he believed it would be difficult to
unravel the alleged bribery scheme for at least 10 years because of the
number of bank accounts involved.
Amid the threat of being held in contempt of Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray
allowed members of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee to review an
FD-1023 form this month that contained redacted versions of the
allegations from the paid FBI informant.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member on the House Oversight
Committee, repeatedly claimed following a late May FBI briefing that
Barr and his “hand-picked prosecutor” — Scott Brady, then the
Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania —
ended the investigation into the bribery claims in 2020. But Barr
quickly said that is false.
“It’s not true,” Barr soon toldmultiple outlets in early June. “It wasn’t closed down. On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”...
Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) also revealed this month that a less redacted version of the
form he has viewed says Zlochevsky claimed to have 17 recordings of his
conversations with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden (two of the former and 15
of the latter) as an "insurance policy."
Zlochevsky’s alleged reference to Joe Biden as the “big guy” appears
independent of the apparent reference to the now-president as the “big guy” by a Hunter Biden business associate during negotiations with Chinese intelligence-linked businessmen. The China-related reference occurred in a May 2017 email not made public until October 2020.
Hunter Biden reached a plea deal on federal charges related to tax crimes and the illegal purchase of a handgun, Weiss’s office revealed in a court filing on Tuesday.
When Trump actually finds a competent attorney, the attorney should immediately file to have the case dismissed based on the Jackson ruling of 2012.
But will he?
Trump’s Boxes and Clinton’s Sock Drawer
A president chooses what records to return or keep and the National Archives can’t do anything about it.
... The
National Archives and Records Administration was never given the
recordings. As Mr. Branch tells it, Mr. Clinton hid them in his sock
drawer to keep them away from the public and took them with him when he
left office.
My
organization, Judicial Watch, sent a Freedom of Information Act request
to NARA for the audiotapes. The agency responded that the tapes were Mr.
Clinton’s personal records and therefore not subject to the
Presidential Records Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
We
sued in federal court and asked the judge to declare the audiotapes to
be presidential records and, because they weren’t currently in NARA’s
possession, compel the government to get them.
In
defending NARA, the Justice Department argued that NARA doesn’t have “a
duty to engage in a never-ending search for potential presidential
records” that weren’t provided to NARA by the president at the end of
his term. Nor, the department asserted, does the Presidential Records
Act require NARA to appropriate potential presidential records forcibly.
The government’s position was that Congress had decided that the
president and the president alone decides what is a presidential record
and what isn’t. He may take with him whatever records he chooses at the
end of his term.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson
agreed: “Since the President is completely entrusted with the
management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time
in office,” she held, “it would be difficult for this Court to conclude
that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he
pleases with what he considers to be his personal records.”
Judge
Jackson added that “the PRA contains no provision obligating or even
permitting the Archivist to assume control over records that the
President ‘categorized’ and ‘filed separately’ as personal records. At
the conclusion of the President’s term, the Archivist only ‘assumes
responsibility for the Presidential records.’ . . . PRA does not confer
any mandatory or even discretionary authority on the Archivist to
classify records. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely
to the President.”
I
lost because Judge Jackson concluded the government’s hands were tied.
Mr. Clinton took the tapes, and no one could do anything about it.
“On day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all
these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political
targeting and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons,” DeSantis said
in his response. ...
DeSantis replied, “I would say any example of disfavored treatment
based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no
matter how small or how big.”
The Justice Department said this month more than 1,033 defendants have been arrested as part of its probe of the Capitol riot. ...
DeSantis said he planned to use the pardon power “at the front end”
instead of waiting until the end of his term in the White House.
“We’re going to find examples where the government’s been weaponized
against disfavored groups, and we will apply relief as appropriate. But
it will be done on a case-by-case basis,” he said.
She wrote her first
Millian report in April 2016, the month before Fusion GPS hired former
British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to put his imprimatur as
a supposed former “spy” and "Russian insider" on the dossier.
"This
report was prepared just ten days after Fusion GPS was retained by
[Clinton campaign law firm] Perkins Coie to conduct opposition research
on Trump,” the Durham Report states, "and prior to Steele being retained
by Fusion GPS."
Durham suggests Nellie
Ohr planted the seeds of sourcing for the most explosive allegations
leveled by the dossier against Trump, including the oft-cited notion
that he and his campaign were engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of
cooperation” with the Kremlin. The dossier attributed this, falsely, to
Millian. Durham found that the Belarusian-American realtor was never a
source for the dossier and was simply invented as one, along with the
allegations attributed to him.
In fact, Durham says that Millian initially
wasn’t even on the radar of Steele and his dossier “collector" Igor
Danchenko, a former Brookings Institution analyst who's admitted much of
the information he provided Steele was alcohol-lubricated gossip.
Millian was called to their attention by Nellie Ohr, who the prosecutor
said “implicated" Millian through her own reports. Durham suggests
Steele and Danchenko merely followed her leads.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor added, Bruce Ohr,
an anti-Trump Democrat, pushed his wife’s reports that cited Millian —
12 in all — onto the Crossfire Hurricane team at FBI headquarters that
was investigating Trump and his campaign for possible espionage. Agents
used her reports as a source of corroboration for the Steele reports
they received in the summer and fall of 2016, even though it was
circular reporting. ...
In other words, Steele was not the catalyst
behind the dossier’s central claims. Rather, it was Clinton's contractor
Fusion GPS -- but more specifically, the wife of a senior DOJ official
who worked for Fusion. So the FBI wasn’t really investigating "Crown
reporting,” as officials referred to Steele’s dossier, implying it was
British intelligence. More accurately, it was investigating information
from inside its own department that was laundered through Steele and his
dossier.
The Durham report shows that the FBI had the dossier reports in July 2016, two months before the time in September insisted upon by the FBI.
The Ohrs are ground zero for the Trump-Russia-collusion disinformation operation.
