![]() ![]() The Durham report, however, relies on many public findings - including problems with the investigation that were detailed in a 2019 investigation by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz - to question the bureau’s decision to open a full investigation, one the watchdog found to be legal and unbiased.Īnd while Durham acknowledges the FBI did have reason to open a preliminary review or investigation, he accuses the bureau of failing to uphold its “important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.”Ĭlaims FBI had no real evidence of collusion before launching probe: Durham concluded that federal investigators did not have “any actual evidence of collusion” between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia before launching a yearslong probe into the matter. Here are t he takeaways from the special counsel’s report :ĭurham finds FBI rushed to investigate Trump: The special counsel’s office “conducted more than 480 interviews,” and “obtained and reviewed more than one million documents consisting of more than six million pages,” while also issuing 190 grand jury subpoenas, according to the report. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday in which he casts doubt about the FBI’s decision to launch a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Russiagate, in short, was the scandal of a generation - a media and government one. Yet breathless scribes at The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, New York magazine and elsewhere hyped this nonsense for months, all taken in (most, willfully) by the equivalent of catty junior-high whisper campaigns. ![]() This, when Director of National Intelligence John Brennan had briefed President Barack Obama in July 2016 of the Clinton campaign’s intention to fake a Trump-Russia scandal. Top FBI officials used it as the basis for spying on the Trump campaign intelligence-community bigs at least pretended to take it seriously. (Steele doesn’t speak Russian, by the way.) Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Imagesĭanchenko, now under indictment for lying to the FBI, passed on these “findings” orally to British ex-spy James Bond Christopher Steele (who’d forbidden him to write notes). Steele then ran with it all, as he (or the Fusion GPS sleaze merchants who’d hired him, after Clinton lawyer Marc Elias hired them) claimed it all came from his supposed Russian sources or, alternately, sources close to Trump. ![]() Igor Danchenko passed on bogus information about Donald Trump to ex-spy Steele. Galkina, a school buddy of Danchenko’s, came up with the totally bogus storylines about first Carter Page and then Michael Cohen serving as Donald Trump’s Kremlin cutouts - and helped drag her employer, Aleksey Gubarev, into the muck by alleging with no real evidence that he and his company had aided Internet attacks against Hillary Clinton. “I’m hoping that this is exposed as fake news,” he reportedly wrote mere hours after the dossier saw the light of day ![]() Olga Galkina, paid flack of a Russian tech entrepreneur and the primary “researcher” on the dossier, Igor Danchenko.ĭolan - the apparent source for, among other fantasies, the tale of Trump cavorting with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel - was shocked that some of his chatter was published and reported on as fact. The nonentities were: Dem stalwart and PR man Charles Dolan Jr. What an embarrassment for the countless reporters and TV personalities who talked up this tawdry nonsense from total outsiders as a democracy-saving scoop. And for the FBI, which took Steele so seriously. No: from a trio of unremarkable hacks with zero insight into covert affairs, whose only real connections were to Clinton World. Not from intel-community insiders with vast source networks. Now we know why the allegations it contained were so lurid, clumsy and (to anyone with an iota of sense) obviously fake.Ī Wall Street Journal deep dive reveals that Steele’s central charges were based on idle gossip. We’ve known for some time, thanks to the efforts of special counsel John Durham, that the Steele dossier was a Clinton-camp fabrication. Media suckered by Hamas’ hospital lie must stop trusting terroristsĬNN blasts ‘fabricated, inaccurate’ viral video claiming Israel reporting was staged New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election YouTube’s moderation policies make no sense ![]()
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