Posted on 05/17/2020 2:59:39 PM PDT by Libloather
**SNIP**
Nearly two decades after 9/11, and seven years after Mueller left the FBI, the investigation code-named “Crossfire Hurricane” - the investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign and its supposed collusion with Russia - has exposed some flaws in Mueller’s dream of an intelligence-led FBI.
When the FBI became intelligence-driven, it didn’t have to stop being fact-driven. Exhibit A is Christopher Steele, who was never a collector of facts - he was a former foreign intelligence officer, and there’s a huge difference: A spy’s singular mission is to break the laws of the countries to which they are assigned and get citizens to commit espionage. Facts don’t matter - only results. The FBI agents who handled or listened to Steele should not have treated him as the confidential human source he never was but as a conduit for the transmission of unverified information.
When intelligence started coming into headquarters from Steele and other confidential sources, it was treated as part of a labyrinth of possibilities. Unlike a criminal investigation, where facts matter, none of what the bureau got was verifiable. Yet no one involved at HQ appears to have cared if the intelligence on Trump campaign allies Carter Page, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone was factually true. (The latter two later were prosecuted for crimes that occurred before and after the campaign.)
To the headquarters executives and lawyers running the Trump-Russia investigation, this was the best of both worlds: a criminal investigation into Russian collusion masquerading as a counterintelligence case, where information was not evidence and therefore fungible.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Phooey
Experiment makes it sound like rookies were going to their first rodeo.
The FBI bastards have been pilling this crap for decades.
I’d almost say this was a good article & shocking to be in the Hill. But this guy skates far away from what the case is really about...an attempted coup of an incoming administration. Credibility cannot be restored until the people responsible go to jail.
What you forgot—— an attempted coup led by the outgoing administration!
OXYMORON
FBI = ATF = Jackbooted Thugs with badges!
Albeit the FBI traded in the boots for black oxfords.
It wasn’t an “intelligence experiment”, you oafs...it was a seditionist traitorous coup. Hang them all one the WDC mall...after arrest, speedy fair trial and conviction , of course .
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