Newly declassified Crossfire Hurricane docs shine light on Steele, Clinton, and more

Just the News ^ | 4/12/25 | Jerry Dunleavy

[CFW]

Newly-declassified FBI documents shine new light on the FBI’s mishandling of its relationship with anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, on the FBI’s double standards on defensive briefings given to Trump and Hillary Clinton, and other key elements of the debunked collusion saga.

Just the News already revealed on Thursday that declassified documents show that Stefan Halper, a key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case, was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades and was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" — and that he continued snitching for the bureau even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn.

[snip]

The FBI also released a slightly less-redacted version of an FBI document detailing the State Department’s awareness of the FBI’s relationship with Steele — who the bureau referred to as “CROWN.”

The newly declassified version shows the document was written by FBI special agent Joseph Pientka on November 16, 2016. The record is titled, “U.S. Department of State Employees Aware of FBI Relationship with CROWN.” A previous version of the document was declassified in 2020.

The FBI said then-Obama and future-Biden State Department official Victoria Nuland had inquired about an October 2016 FBI meeting with Steele — with the declassified document showing the meeting she was asking about was in Rome. The declassified notes say a State Department official may have also been in Rome and met with Steele there.

[CFW]

A lot in the now declassified documents showing the FBI knew the R/T collusion lies were a creation of Clinton, Democrats, and maybe even some on the 7th floor.

The Just the News article is long and confirms a lot that we already knew, but there are a few new tidbits included as well.

[subterfuge]

FBI’s “mishandling.” LOL

[nopardons]

BTTT

[hardspunned]

I might suggest the mods put the 700 easily accessible pages in the Breaking News Column.

File 1 https://t.co/hmmLlyQU9D

File 2 https://t.co/uSYSsJBtT1

File 3 https://t.co/UusEEnN9vQ

File 4 https://t.co/bJQEjaKcVT

File 5 https://t.co/9e6mPbLwKb

File 6 https://t.co/9e6mPbLwKb

File 7 https://t.co/9e6mPbLwKb

[PeterPrinciple]

The FBI offered Steele an “incentive” in October 2016 of up to $1 million if he could prove the allegations in his discredited anti-Trump dossier, but the former MI6 agent was unable to back up his claims, according to 2022 court testimony in Durham’s investigation. An FBI record dated May 2016 said at that point that “the CHS has received a total of $74,000 since being opened in 2013… Another request for $15,000 in service payments is in the system.”

[brownsfan]

Let me know when someone, anyone is held accountable.

[TTFlyer]

And still no arrests.

[nesnah]

....a creation of Clinton.....

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The Republic will improve exponentially once those two crooks take a dirt.

[nesnah]

....nap.

[CFW]

Would a thread just listing the 7 parts of the declassified documents be appropriate?

[gibsonguy]

Yep, no raids no taken in for questioning a couple of token firings and plenty of FNC appearances.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Sure! Thanks.

[Shady]

And……once again, the most we may get out of this is a nice shiny four-color covered REPORT.

I’ve just about had it.

[Bratch]

The Process Matters When Confronting the Deep State

April 12, 2025 | Sundance 

Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos).

Using the reference of the James Wolfe storyline, let me outline how process matters and how you can tell when the process is being used to coverup corrupt activity in Washington DC.

Former Senate Intelligence Community Security Chief, James Wolfe, leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. We know from the DOJ indictment of James Wolfe [SEE HERE], a very specific set of evidence and key dates that was assembled against him.

James Wolfe was nailed for lying to FBI investigators about his leaks to Ali Watkins on December 15, 2017.  That is the date of the second interview with Wolfe.  During the third interview a few days later, Wolfe was shown the evidence against him, and he admitted his lies.  However, his indictment was not unsealed until June 7, 2018.

Key Dates: Busted for guilt December 15, 2017.  Indicted June 7, 2018.

♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Senate Intel Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, and the lawyer for Oleg Deripaska, an attorney named Adam Waldman. The text messages were made public on Feb 8, 2018, [SOURCE] four months before Wolfe was indicted.

♦ The evidence against Wolfe included text messages between Wolfe and journalist Ali Watkins.  Ms Watkins was notified of her phone records being seized by FBI investigators on February 13, 2018, [SOURCE] again four months before Wolfe was indicted.

Why was this evidence, all of which would have been useful at trial, purposefully released by the Mueller investigation who was in charge of everything related to Russiagate at the time.

Shortly after James Wolfe was indicted, the Title-1 FISA application he leaked was then released to the public under the auspices of a FOIA request.  Wolfe indicted June 7, 2018, the FISA application released publicly July 21, 2018 [SOURCE].

RIGHT QUESTION:  Why was the evidence against James Wolfe being released to the public between the time the case was made (Dec ’17) and the time the indictment was unsealed (June ’18)? 

Why wasn’t the evidence held until criminal trial processes began?

ANSWER: In hindsight we discover the Mueller team were in charge of the timeline because the Russiagate investigation superseded all other Main Justice outcomes and consequences. 

The Mueller team were protecting the participants (Ali Watkins, Mark Warner, James Wolfe etc.), who all knew they were being investigated as a result of the Wolfe leak.

All of these players, including the media who received the FISA application from the Wolfe leak, knew they were tangentially and directly connected to the Wolfe investigation.  After Wolfe made his admission (December ’17), all of the collateral players knew they were at risk.

The FBI was notifying all stakeholders of the Wolfe admission, and Mueller’s team was helping to mitigate the consequences to those stakeholders. 

How? 

With controlled public releases of information.

Each of the corrupt actors had weeks, some even months, to hire lawyers, obfuscate the evidence of their involvement and formulate their defenses.  That’s why the information was being “released.”

The biggest single example of controlling damage and public opinion through the selective release of information was also the most brutally obvious, the July 21, 2018, release of the Carter Page FISA itself.

This was a Top-Secret Compartmented Intelligence document (TSCI). Directly related to a national security matter, and directly related to an ongoing investigation, and directly a component of the largest leak of top-secret classified information in decades.

The FISA itself was the easiest of all documents for the DOJ, FBI and National Security Apparatus to keep hidden from public view.  There was no court in America who would have ordered it to be released.  Quite simply, there was no reason for the DOJ to even consider releasing it; yet they did.

The Title-1 FISA application was released by Main Justice under the ridiculous justification of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release.  Name me another TSCI document in the history of the Intelligence Community, that has ever been released under a FOIA (either before, or since); there simply isn’t another example.  Yet in the rush to review it, no one ever drew attention to this brutally obvious point.

The FISA was released shortly after James Wolfe was indicted, because everyone in the background network of the James Wolfe indictment, mainly the DOJ under Mueller team control, was operating to control information adverse to their interests.  The public release watered down the jaw-dropping leak itself.

[SOURCE]

Why visit this example again?  Because we are seeing a repeat of this pattern in the recently released Russiagate files.

If DC can frame negative information as politically motivated, DC can then avoid the unlawful and illegal activity underneath the information.  That is exactly what is happening, and that is why process is important.

If the bad actors in the silos want to remove the concern about illegal activity, they control release the information framing it as political in nature.

…”if the DOJ can claim evidence is political, it then nullifies the evidence and ends the case. This is why SD is pissed they handed this to that [willing] idiot Solomon.”…

[hardspunned]

This was the first post with the accessible 700 pages posted on Wednesday.

BREAKING: @FDRLST has obtained the Russiagate binder, which consist of seven separate files totaling hundreds of pages. In the interest of full transparency and disclosure, we are making the documents available to everyone for review on our Scribd page.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4310307/posts

[UnwashedPeasant]

I predict PBS will respond to this news with yet another documentary on Watergate.

[libertylover]

FBI’s “mishandling.” LOL

Exactly! As if it was accidental.

[Shady]

BINGO! Solomon is as deep state as Newsmax is.

[Jim Noble]

To say “the FBI” offered Steele a million dollars, at any time, for anything, conceals more than it reveals.

Perhaps employees of the FBI were the messenger boys or delivery boys.

But, as with Henry II’s “who will rid me of this turbulent priest”, no bureaucrat, however pro-Obama or however afflicted with TDS, would DARE to do such a thing (or would even dare to draw a million dollars from a funding source) without cover from Eric Holder, who presumably had cover from Barack Obama.

This reveal makes “rogue FBI operation” impossible, in my view. Bureaucrats are what they are because they jostle for favor from the boss, and that’s all they are.

Someone much higher than Comey is guilty of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.

[Jim Noble]

And still no arrests

You watch too much television.

WHO do you think should be arrested, and WHAT has to happen within our system before that can happen?

Sheesh.