Durham report shows Democrats fabricated anti-Russia intelligence during 2016 elections
Durham’s 306-page document, entitled “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns,” presents an extensive review of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign that began on July 31, 2016.
The Durham report was submitted to Attorney General Merrick Garland on May 12 along with a 29-page classified appendix that was not released to the public. Garland publicly released the main report without comment or redaction.
In the Executive Summary, the report states that the FBI’s counterintelligence probe of the Republican candidate for president
was initiated by top bureau officials, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, even though “the government possessed no verified intelligence reflecting that Trump or the Trump campaign was involved in a conspiracy or collaborative relationship with officials of the Russian government.”
An example of the “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” used by the FBI to investigate individuals in the Trump campaign such as George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, including secret electronic surveillance of them, was what became known as the Steele Dossier.
The Durham report says that the Perkins Coie law firm, “acting as counsel to the Clinton campaign,” entered into a consulting agreement with Fusion GPS, a political investigative firm, to conduct opposition research on the Trump campaign.
The report states: “In mid-May 2016, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS met with Steele in the United Kingdom and subsequently retained Steele and his firm, Orbis Business Intelligence (‘Orbis’), to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia.”
The Durham report says that the “primary sub source” of the content of the Steele Dossier was determined by the FBI to be Igor Danchenko, a U.S.-based Russian national. When Danchenko was interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, he could not corroborate any of the allegations in the Steele reports. Instead, the Durham report says, “Danchenko characterized the information he provided to Steele as ‘rumor and speculation’ and the product of casual conversation.”
During his testimony before the House Judiciary committee on Wednesday, Special Counsel confirmed under oath that not only was there no adequate basis to
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