Halper's evidence against Flynn misleading

 Epoch Times:

Newly released FBI documents shed light on two meetings between FBI Agent Stephen Somma and FBI source Stefan Halper, providing further insight into the wide scope of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign—and the active role played by Halper, who acted as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI.

Although Halper was not considered an official CHS for the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation prior to these meetings, Somma had known Halper since 2011, according to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on FISA Abuse. Additionally, Somma had served as Halper’s handler from “2011 through 2016” as part of Somma’s “regular investigative activities.”

The FBI’s meetings with Halper on Aug. 11 and 12, 2016, were done at the proposal of Somma, who said he “lacked a basic understanding” of political campaigns. Somma said that he selected Halper because he knew that Halper had been “affiliated with national political campaigns since the early 1970s” and “might have information about, and potentially may have met, one or more of the Crossfire Hurricane subjects”—Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Somma said that he did not initially tell Halper that there was already an open FBI investigation or who the subjects were, nor, he told the IG, did he tell Halper of the conversation between Papadopoulos and Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, which was the FBI’s claimed reason for opening Crossfire Hurricane.

Somma was proven to be prophetic, as Halper already had direct knowledge of two of the three people considered subjects of Crossfire Hurricane. And Halper would later fashion a meeting in London with Papadopoulos, the one person he didn’t already know. Halper also managed a meeting with Sam Clovis from the Trump campaign.

Additionally, based on the FBI documents obtained by Just The News, it appears that Halper was responsible for pushing Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as a “person of interest” to the FBI with what appears to have been a false story that the FBI failed to immediately verify—and then later failed to correct as the story gained traction in the media during a crucial period of the Trump presidency.

The IG Report notes that the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane “without identifying any specific subjects or targets” because, as they told the IG, “it was unclear from the FFG [Friendly Foreign Government/Downer] information who within the Trump campaign may have received the reported offer of assistance and might be coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government.”

According to the IG Report, by Aug. 10, 2016, the FBI had assembled a team of “special agents, analysts, and supervisory special agents” and had “conducted an initial analysis of links between Trump campaign members and Russia.” Based upon this analysis, the FBI made the decision to open counterintelligence Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) cases “under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella” on three individuals—Papadopoulos, Page, and Manafort. Flynn was not considered to be part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation at this time.

The opening of the FARA cases against the three members of the Trump campaign took place on the day prior to the FBI’s meetings with Halper. Notably, it was not until after the FBI’s meetings with Halper, where he provided the FBI with what now appears to be a false story on Flynn, that the FBI decided to open a fourth FARA case on Flynn on Aug. 16, 2016.
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According to the FBI documents, Halper asked Somma if the FBI had an interest in Page—whose name had not been mentioned in the documents up to this point. Halper’s seemingly innocuous query turned out to be serendipitous and timely for both parties. Halper had recently met Page during two separate meetings—one in the UK and the other at Halper’s office. Meanwhile, the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Page months earlier, in April 2016, out of their New York Field Office (NYFO).
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There is much more.

Halper is also involved in the allegations against Page and others that proved inaccurate.  He seems to be involved with many of the FBI figures who were caught up in the bogus investigations of the Trump campaign.  The people involved in these investigations apparently believed or pushed a lot of allegations that simply were not true and they were probably feeding the false information to the media.