Posted on 09/23/2020 10:13:45 AM PDT by bitt
After threats posed by foreign governments, FBI HQ sought defensive briefing for Clinton campaign, opened counterintelligence investigation of Trump campaign
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today released newly declassified FBI documents and communications demonstrating the Bureau’s double standard when it came to the Clinton and Trump campaigns.
According to these declassified documents and communications, in 2015 FBI leadership sought to give the Clinton campaign a defensive briefing before an FBI field office could pursue a FISA warrant related to a threat posed to the Clinton campaign by a foreign government. But in 2016 when there was a similar counterintelligence threat to the Trump campaign, FBI leadership failed to give a defensive briefing to the Trump campaign, opting instead to open the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and relentlessly pursue FISA warrants targeting the Trump campaign.
“There was a clear double standard by the Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump and Clinton campaigns in 2016.
“These newly released documents indicate that a foreign government was trying to influence the Clinton campaign through a campaign associate and the FBI was seeking a FISA warrant. However, the Bureau, as it is supposed to do, required that Hillary Clinton be defensively briefed about the matter so she could engage in corrective action.
“When it came to the Trump campaign, there were four counterintelligence investigations opened against Trump campaign associates. Not one time was President Trump defensively briefed about the FBI’s concerns.
“Even more egregious, when the FBI gave a generic briefing to the Trump campaign about foreign influence, not only did they fail to mention the specific concerns about Trump associates, they sent an FBI agent into the briefing to monitor President Trump and General Flynn.
“The FBI used the generic briefing as an intelligence gathering tool, which I believe to be inappropriate and shameful.
“The FBI did the right thing by briefing Clinton and failed to do the right thing by never specifically briefing President Trump about their concerns.
“Counterintelligence investigations are designed to protect American interests from foreign influence. They are not criminal in nature.
“Given all the stunning revelations of FBI bias compiled by Inspector General Horowitz and others, it is clear to me why there was double standard — the FBI was not trying to protect the Trump campaign, they were trying to infiltrate the campaign and undermine his presidency.
“My goal is to make sure we have tools to protect American political campaigns from foreign influence, but these tools cannot be used as political weapons by law enforcement or prosecutors.
“I will, as Chairman of the Committee, try to reform the FISA counterintelligence programs because they are necessary tools in the times in which we live. However, no reform will work until those who abused the programs in the past are held accountable by either dismissal or prosecution. Without accountability there will never be trust.
“Finally, I appreciate the hard work of the Senate Judiciary Committee staff in finding the documents and Attorney General Barr and Director Wray for helping secure their release. The American people deserve a full accounting of the misdeeds by the FBI and DOJ. I will continue to push forward in that endeavor.”
The materials include FBI agents’ recollections of a defensive briefing of Clinton attorneys and a summary of what would be covered in the Clinton defensive briefing. In addition, there are emails between an FBI field office and FBI headquarters, including correspondence with former FBI Director James Comey. [Documents and communications]
The FBI’s double standard when it came to the Clinton and Trump campaigns:
https://new-amend.senate.gov/assets/judiciary/imo/media/image/chart1.png
These declassified documents and communications, and other related material may be accessed at the following link: judiciary.senate.gov/fisa-investigation.
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The link shows this material was released Aug. 23rd not today.
The big surprise here is that it’s been made official.
Stunning.
So?
When is someone going to be indicted? Fired?
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It’s horrible, but we’re not going to do anything about it.
Chris Wray: We did a great job
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Let’s not forget that Admiral Mike Rogers was the one that blew the whistle on this crap. He’s the real hero in this.
The FBI was gunning for Trump because the FBI is corrupt, infiltrated and compromised.
The FBI started the war on cops they have blood on their hands. The war on cops started when the FBI sent 75 agents to Ferguson to stand with the criminal thug Brown...
The purpose of the 75 agents was to tell the world the FBI was taking cops, traditional American, and non-communist down.
Wash rinse, repeat...
The sh*ts did the same thing when they went running to NASCAR - assuming white racists EVERYWHERE... hoping, praying the could find a white racist... they ran to Jussie Smollett too. Oh please oh please let the noose be real, let the bleach show rape...no matter how unlikely two racists are going to be walking around the South Side of Chicago at 3 AM wearing MAGA hats... THIS ISN'T 'STUPID' IS AN OBSESSION OF HATE TOWARD WHITE CITIZENS, COPS, AND THE LAWFUL...
The FBI sucks.
Well, look. There are a couple of reasons to sound tough now, rather than 2016-2017-2018.
Graham is in a close re-election campaign now.
And McCain is still dead.
Romney, Murkowski, Murray, Collins, Flake, (and bunch of others) no longer provide power and guaranteed support.
It's easy once you get the right spin on it. /Sarcasm
What could possibly go wrong?
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