Even the origins of the FBI investigation “Crossfire Hurricane” revealed how superficial, immature, and self-centered the actors within the United States’ premier law enforcement agency truly are.
Their choice of name for their corrupt and crazed operation, a reference to a Rolling Stones song about growing up in London during the Nazi onslaught, was likely a response to President Donald J. Trump’s campaign song, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Trump played the Rolling Stones’ song at his rallies, which was used as an allusion to an out-of-control ‘Deep State’ or covert government that was operating without the consent of the American people.
“Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, into myriad links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies and “whether individuals associated with [Trump’s] presidential campaign,” according to the documentation on the FBI’s corrupt actions toward Trump and his associates.
Special Counsel John Durham filed his final report on his investigation into the FBI’s actions in the Crossfire Hurricane on Monday, which was a humiliation for the FBI even though, as expected, Durham did his best to protect the status quo of the corrupt actors in Washington, D.C. and stated that there should be no punishment for the outrageous abuse of the American people.
In the end, all that Durham did over the past seven years was prove that Trump was correct to expose them all for their enormous corruption, and he walked away with a shrug.
However, the FBI’s reputation has been severely damaged, and they acknowledge that many of the allegations are real.
“The FBI was forced to make a big admission after Special Counsel John Durham released the findings on the years-long investigation into former President Donald Trump and alleged Russian collusion,” Martin Walsh reported for Conservative Brief.
“Durham found the FBI used “uncorroborated intelligence” when it launched its investigation into Trump before the 2016 presidential election and that agents failed repeatedly to maintain “strict fidelity to the law” throughout the probe,” Walsh reported.
As soon as the report was made available to the public, the FBI acknowledged that several mistakes were made in 2016. The bureau also acknowledged that Durham’s findings are accurate.
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the FBI admitted in its statement.
“This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect,” it added.
The Daily Caller noted crucial findings in the report about Hillary Clinton:
The report noted that the FBI received intelligence that Hillary Clinton’s campaign approved “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services,” specifically one that involved “tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee” to distract the public from her email scandals.
It notes that President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey were personally briefed on Clinton’s scheme, known as the “Clinton Plan” in the report, by CIA Director John Brennan, who recorded mentioning the plan in his handwritten notes.
The “Clinton Plan” was obtained by the FBI while it was relying on the “Steele Dossier,” a discredited report of lurid allegations of Trump’s personal sexual activity, which the FBI knew was being funded and promoted by the Clinton campaign, according to the report. Durham quotes information from a meeting between the Dossier’s author, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, and FBI agents, as well as texts between FBI officials, to demonstrate that the agents knew the evidence was connected to Clinton.
Durham’s report also found that the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice wasted little time investigating Trump and that there was a “notable departure” from how it resisted efforts to investigate claims against Clinton’s campaign.
The FBI briefed Clinton staffers on information of possible threats aimed at the Clinton campaign but ignored intelligence it received from “a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.”
Durham’s report also found that “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement” of the investigation.
“Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting,” the report found.
“Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,” Durham said in the report.
Durham stated that the investigation showed “senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically-affiliated persons and entities. This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents.”
“The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence,” the report said.
It is uncertain whether the report will result in any reforms at the FBI. DC acts like sociopathically damaged toddlers whenever the American people attempt to rein them in, and they never seem to be able to control their power demands.
People anticipated the report to be a green light for Durham to continue acting like pampered brats.