Halper has friends all through the deep state and heavily within the Bush “family”. I can’t convince myself that this whole cesspool is 100% a democrat operation.
There were probably several Halper’s - think about it for a second. He was given a script of questions to ask and then he reported his “contacts” to CIA and British intelligence and it was all funneled back to the 7th floor of the FBI. It is very likely that other people were doing the same thing and reporting it to the State Dept. Same scheme with the Isakoff article on Yahoo news that ultimately was revealed to come from the same source. That is the game they played - strategically seed the field with puffs of smoke and get the dupes to believe there was a fire. It was easy because FBI took everything from Brennan/Clapper to be gospel without verification.
Lordy indeed Jim.