Who is hiding Stefan Halper from the Durham and other probes about FBI spying on Trump campaign?

 Fox News:

As Special Counsel John Durham carries on with the investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, widening his prosecutorial team, critical questions linger over the role played by FBI informant Stefan Halper and his longtime FBI handler, Stephen Somma.

Halper emerged in the middle of the firestorm in May 2018, when his identity as the secret FBI informant embroiled in Crossfire Hurricane was exposed. It cast a dark shadow on his prestigious career as a foreign policy expert, Cambridge professor, author and analyst with deep ties to intelligence figureheads and sources spawning the globe.

But since then he appears to have been hidden from public view. The whereabouts of Somma, who subsequently was exposed as his handler and shared blame for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) mishaps against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, also have been unclear.

Despite both Halper and Somma being poised as having played a pivotal part in the U.S. counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane – which officially ran from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, to determine "whether individuals associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election" – neither of them have testified publicly about their roles and what they knew.

"The key is getting Halper (and Somma) to testify publicly, once he speaks, this whole thing unravels," Steven Schrage, a former senior G8 and congressional chief of staff, whose studies Halper directly supervised as the "Russiagate" scandal was playing out, told Fox News. "So, who is protecting him and why?"
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"You are hereby commanded to appear before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate on October 14, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. at its committee room," the subpoena read, adding that there, he was compelled to "produce all records related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

But Halper, now 76, failed to show, and it's uncertain whether the matter will be pushed further. According to a source connected to Durham's inquiry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Halper allegedly claimed to be sick for much of the past year.

Yet, the unanswered questions have remained flagrant.
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A January-dated letter authored by Grassley to James Baker, director of the ONA, underscored that a request for "all records related to Professor [Stefan] Halper's contracts with DoD" six months earlier had not been met. When Grassley raised the "failure to comply" a month later, further documents were issued, but he claimed in the letter that the "production of documents still did not include all records requested."

"For example, you failed to provide all Halper-related documents that you delivered to the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD IG) for their review," he wrote, additionally highlighting other questionable payments to Halper for an array of unclear DOD contracts and "unknown" foreign entities.

However, Halper and Somma were not the only critical figures within Russiagate who have been shielded from public view.

Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor working at the security and intelligence-focused Link University in Rome – who in 2016 told fellow Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians "had dirt" that could damage Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign before the opening of Crossfire Hurricane – has not been seen publicly since his name was exposed in the fall of 2017.

Former FBI Director James Comey implied in May of last year that Mifsud was something of a "Russian agent." Yet the Mueller team never indicted him, despite statements in the report that he lied three times to investigators. It has long been fodder for debate as to whether Mifsud was also on the payroll of a Western foreign intelligence agency – public or private. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019, said emphatically at the time that Mifsud was not an agent at the behest of Moscow.
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But, when questioned by Republican lawmakers in a House Judiciary Committee hearing in June as to why Mifsud was not charged with the crime of giving false statements despite other indictments for fewer offenses, Mueller responded: "Well, I can't get into it and it's obvious, I think, that we can't get into charging decisions."

An attorney for Mifsud, who has not had direct contact with him since his dispersal from public view, told Fox News that he remained in some form of hiding in November. Meanwhile, and despite his crucial role, Halper's name did not appear in the 2019 unveiled Mueller report.
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There is much more.

The skullduggery involved in the coup attempt against the President is so spooky that it is being hidden from Durham and Congress and may explain why the Durham investigation has taken so long.  Breaking through the spook curtain to get to the bottom of this coup plot is something we have a need to know if we are going to stop this kind of situation again. I suspect that one of the reasons the Democrats are so desperate to win the Georgia runoffs is so they can bury the evidence of their plot against the President.