Posted on 09/16/2021 9:02:46 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Attention John Durham, reference Stephen Somma
“Carter Page alleged in a lawsuit filed last week that an FBI counterintelligence agent used an alias during interviews with him in 2017. A retired FBI official who has worked in undercover operations says that an agent using an alias in that situation would be highly unusual. Page said in the lawsuit that Stephen Somma, a veteran counterintelligence agent, introduced himself as Steve Holt during their interviews. An inspector general’s report criticized Somma’s actions during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe.
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According to Page, veteran FBI counterintelligence agent Stephen Somma introduced himself as Steve Holt during five interviews conducted as part of Crossfire Hurricane, the code name for the FBI probe.
(Snip) The lawsuit extensively cites the findings of a Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report which detailed 17 “significant” errors and omissions in the FBI’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page.
The IG report was highly critical of “Case Agent 1,” who has since been identified as Somma. The report said Somma, who works out of the FBI’s New York field office, was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions in the FISA applications.”
(Snip) The use of an alias by an FBI agent outside of an undercover operation is virtually unheard of, according to a retired 25-year FBI veteran who has worked on undercover operations.
(Snip) “Never heard of an FBI agent going undercover as a different FBI agent,” James Gagliano told the DCNF.
“If I was in a supervisory capacity on that matter — I’d never have authorized it,” said Gagliano, who has worked as a supervisory special agent and as the senior team leader for the FBI’s SWAT team in the New York Field Office.
(Snip) The IG report says that Somma denied directing Halper to meet with Page before the start of the investigation. He said that Halper’s meeting with Page was a chance occurrence, though investigators used the previous interaction to set up additional contacts between Halper and Page.
Somma and other investigators met with Halper on Aug. 10, 2016, and tapped him to work as a source in the investigation, according to the IG report. Halper met with Page on Aug. 20, 2016, at Halper’s home in Virginia.
Investigators failed to disclose that Page told Halper during one of their meetings that he had never met Kremlin officials who the dossier claims he met during a trip to Moscow.
Page also told Halper that he had never spoken to or met Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. That undercut an allegation from former British spy Christopher Steele that Page worked with Manafort as part of the conspiracy with Russia.
(Snip) The IG report also said that a CIA employee informed Somma on Aug. 17, 2016 that Page had been an “operational contact” for the spy agency through at least 2013. Somma did not include that information in the applications to surveil Page. The IG report said that Somma misrepresented the information from the CIA during conversations with attorneys from the Justice Department’s national security division.
Somma took part in the January 2017 interviews with Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the Steele dossier.
The IG report said that Danchenko undercut the credibility of the dossier during the interviews, but that the FBI did not disclose that information in applications to continue surveillance against Page.“
Records show he knew that Carter Page worked for the CIA, and he just did what he had to do to get the Wiretaps and Surveillance.
John Durham is a Fraud.
Older article.
Maybe he's just a coward. The current climate in DC doesn't encourage truth-telling.
“Durham. Carter Page Says FBI Agent Used Fake Name During Interviews”
Why did you put Durham in the headlines?
Maybe he identifies as Stephen Holt. /s Errors and omissions my ass. These people make me sick.
That’s what criminals do - they use fake names and aliases
Oh yes, Carter Page. The guy who smirks constantly. Naval Intelligence, CIA, gets into the Trump campaign and starts talking to Russians and always reporting so to the campaign.
Then when Mueller investigation comes. He gets interviewed one time, for a few hours on ONE afternoon, when everyone else gets the rectal probe back to third grade.
He was CIA, sent to be a Trump campaign member because of his Russia ties. And his presence was tailor made to allow the FBI an excuse to get the FISA warrant to spy on the entire campaign. Also, remember how long he hid those CIA ties, and at times they would have mattered.
I don’t trust him a bit.
People don't call them the FIB for nothing.
“Maybe he’s just a coward. The current climate in DC doesn’t encourage truth-telling.”
Yer right there. Likely he doesn’t want to get “Trumped up”, knowing that is precisely what would happen.
I want to say they’ve gone rogue. But, the truth is there has been directives from the top. The 1/6 attempted coup they refer to is a projection of the coup that took place in November and are currently in power.
Time to start looking for another country....this one is too far gone.
Never heard of an FBI agent going undercover as a different FBI agent,” James Gagliano told the DCNF.
Donnie Brasco say WTF are you talking about.
Youtube: Ronald Reagan Discussing This Scenario
He warned us all.
Anyone pinning their hopes to that "justice will be done" cloud...
This will come to trial during 2022.
C Page was a Surveillance Rabbit. Enabled spying by Five Eyes on entire Trump Campaign. He knew what his role was the entire time...
Fully agree. And the way he smirked through every interview on TV was the tell. He didn’t have that wrenched gut look from facing bankruptcy, scared of jail, etc.
He knew he was gonna be fine and be well paid for his work.
Then why is he filing law suits? Why did he go on the Fox News talk shows during the height of SpyGate revelations when Bongino and Hannity and the rest of the hucksters were constantly counting down to “BOOOOOOOM”?
He did his job, his presence on the team allowed them to spy on the campaign. That’s all long gone now, mission accomplished, why is he still around? Shouldn’t he have faded back into spook obscurity? Doesn’t make any sense to me.
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