There was an investigation in Chicago????
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Berkowitz is asking about Hellman’s apparent comment in his interview saying there was a “big divide” between the FBI’s cyber and counterintelligence units
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Berkowitz is focusing on the fact there were no allegations of a hack, and therefore no mater for the cyber division (in which Hellman works) to pursue.
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Hellman says he knew there was “another team of agents” involved in a special investigation in Chicago, and they were going to look into it further.
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Hellman does not remember asking Baker during the chain of custody documentation asking where the data Sussmann delivered came from
Later, Hellman asked another agent where the data came from and was told it was a “sensitive source.”
OH, Boy, can you just see it Janet.
They are going to start a dance of distraction and misdirection.
This is going to go from FBI counterintelligence to FBI department of let’s divert, to Heaven knows where.
BUT, I feel Durham is good enough to pull it all together and I hope he does.
Imagine Hellman...yeah I saw that there was nothing to it...yada,yada.
OKAY, but when the stuff started coming out in force, couldn’t he put two and two together?
OH, I know, he is one of the 1 percent who are really, really good guys, but do nothing about putting things straight.
Chicago FBI bump
The Alfa Bank investigation did go to Chicago, briefly:
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The relentless campaign to keep the allegations alive is remarkable not only for its political origins, but for what often has been omitted from the public narrative.
First off, the FBI has, on repeated occasions in 2016 and 2017, told me emphatically that it looked at the allegations and could find no conspiracy and, instead, believed the server communications were simply explained by normal internet traffic activities.
Secondly, Alfa Bank’s law firm traveled to meet an FBI cyber team in Chicago in 2017 and opened up its data vaults to assist the investigation. There was no follow-up, Alfa Bank says.
The private lawyer who supervised the review for Alfa Bank was Brian Benczkowski. He later was confirmed to be the chief of the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, one of the most sensitive and important jobs in law enforcement; Democrats asked him about the Alfa review during his confirmation. And neither the FBI nor the intelligence community offered any information to the Senate during his confirmation to contradict his conclusions that there was no conspiracy involving the Alfa-Trump servers.
Furthermore, not once in the 17 months of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation has a member of Mueller’s staff reached out to Alfa Bank to raise questions about collusion or the servers, the bank says. . .