Exposing the FBI's role in the Russia hoax

 Blaze:

As promised, CIA Director John Ratcliffe has declassified the appendix from the 2023 Durham report and provided the documents to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The contents are damning.

The Department of Justice authorized federal prosecutor John Durham in 2019 to explore the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's investigation into whether President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to win the presidential election — which the intelligence community knew full well did not occur.

The result was a 306-page unclassified report that exposed the bureau's investigation as an Obama administration hatchet job launched on the basis of "raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence," willfully blind to contradictory information, and conducted without basic due diligence.

In addition to exposing misconduct — how an FBI attorney apparently altered an email in support of a FISA renewal request targeting a Trump campaign adviser — and highlighting how the bureau took a far different approach when tackling failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's alleged pay-to-play scheme, Durham detailed the FBI's outsized reliance on a foreign-sourced political opposition research report paid for in part by the Clinton campaign, the contents of which the bureau knew to be unreliable.

There was more to Durham's report than what was originally made publicly available: namely a 29-page classified appendix that provided insights into the genesis of the Russia collusion hoax.

That appendix, released on Thursday by Grassley, provides additional insights into the FBI's willful failure under former Director James Comey to investigate intelligence indicating that the Clinton campaign manufactured the Russia collusion hoax out of whole cloth.

The so-called Durham annex also provides strong indications that when confronted with evidence of the Clinton campaign plan, the FBI ultimately decided not only to play along but to weaponize the false narrative against Trump.
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"These intelligence reports and related records, whether true or false, were buried for years. History will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump," continued Grassley. "This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history. The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency."
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Those responsible for this political fraud should be held accountable.  They also should never be allowed a government position again.  Do those at the FBI who went along with the political hit job still have jobs there?  While I have long been a Trump supporter, I think he has good reason to clean up the mess at the FBI that was created by Comey et al.