There is very little open-source info in the “team lead” of Crossfire Hurricane (hereafter XH).
Preistap was AD-CD in April 2017.
All agents (Strzok, Pientka, Moyer from graphic) answered to him.
But, I see no mention of a team lead for XH.
In this matter, I can only conclude that the name and existence of a team lead for XH was a closely guarded position.
Some timelines are appearing that make some sense:
Strzok was assigned to SCMueller around that time, meaning his time would need to be split between the SC and “normal” FBI stuff.
Pientka was NOT on the SC team.
Did Pientka get reassigned the lead after Strzok went to Mueller?
Secondarily, Pientka could have been assigned that position by Priestap on the recomm of a WhiteHat at DOJ (assigned by Bouregard)?
Either way, no real conclusions.
My research didn’t find a name, just the implication that it is Pientka as the DOJ embed.
Hence, his current “non-existence”.
It also shed little light on the White Hat assigned by Bouregard to look into XH.
Well I just had to pay my hubby 50 cents. Nobody tried to steal our Trump signs last night.
You’re making a lotta sense, cletus.
Pientka seems to fallen off the earth?
Witness protection??
Plus, iirc, there was a drop or a top to keep an eye on pientka, so maybe it’ll turn out he has an important role in this thing.
Thanx for the work this, cletus
here’s a quote from a redstate.com piece I found linked up on tracy beanz twatter:
“I think “Priority 1A” for AG Barr is a hard look at the conduct of the Special Counsel’s Office. The interview of Special Agent William Barnett, the original case agent on the Flynn and Manafort investigations begun in August 2016, took place only 10 days ago. That interview was done by US Attorney Jensen, not Durham. But that interview covered events from the beginning of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation to a point beyond the entry of a guilty plea by General Flynn — Barnett discusses interviews done with General Flynn after he pled guilty.”
* SNIP *
“On Twitter I said that Agent Barnett is a saavy and experienced Bureau actor. He’s spent 18 years as a working “brick agent” which means that was by choice. He was personally selected by Joe Pietka — the Supervisory Special Agent over all of Crossfire Hurricane in the early days — to lead both the Flynn and Manafort investigations. He was personally solicited by Peter Strzok to join the SCO investigation after Mueller was appointed even after he indicated he was not interested in being part of the investigation any further.”