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Exclusive: U.S. intelligence has reliable foreign sources suggesting the FBI will play a role in spreading Trump-Russian collusion narratives – before the bureau launches controversial Fire exchange hurricane Sources familiar with Intel told Fox News digital numbers.
Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe Basic intelligence related to former special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russian investigation is expected to be explained, including a confidential attachment.
A source familiar with the contents of confidential attachments told Fox News Digital that while the implications of intelligence collection may not be clear at this moment, in hindsight, it predicted that the next FBI action was “having a shockingly special.”
CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who was joined by the National Intelligence Agency Director Tulsi Gabbard, testified on Tuesday, March 25, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/J. ScottApplewhite)
“Ultimately, the release of a confidential attachment will make people more credible, namely, advocate for a coordinated plan within the U.S. administration to help the Clinton campaign spark controversy that links Trump to Russia.
“A few days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched a firefighting hurricane,” the source said. “It’s hard to see how Brennan, clapping and Comey Will be able to explain this. ”
In 2020, Fox News Digital exclusively reported that former CIA director John Brennan briefed intelligence to former President Barack Obama and administration officials in the summer of 2016, when then-democratic candidate former Secretary of State Clinton prompted plans to connect Trump to Russia.
President Barack Obama nominates John Brennan as director of CIA in the White House East Room in Washington, DC, January 7, 2013 (Mark Wilson/Getty Image)
Ratcliffe, who served as director of National Intelligence, interpreted Brennan’s handwritten notes as a memorial to the conference, obtained by Fox News Digital in October 2020.
On July 28, 2016, Brennan introduced Obama to one of Clinton’s foreign policy advisers to “the plan to kill Donald Trump through a scandal that inspires Russian security intervention.”
Joe Biden, then vice president Joe Biden, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were briefed by Brennan-Obama.
Following this briefing, the CIA correctly forwarded the information through the Head of Counter Intelligence Operations (CIOL) and served as the sub-topic Peter Strzok’s vice president and with the subject line: “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained and reported on CIOL in October 2020: “Providing the following information for your office exclusively for background investigation litigation or lead items.”
President Barack Obama spoke to the media after meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey in Washington, D.C. on July 19, 2016. (Mark Wilson/Getty Image)
“According to the verbal request of the FBI, the CIA provides the following example of information. Crossfire Hurricane Fusion Batteries have been collected to date,” the memorandum continued. “A exchange (edited) discusses U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers to hinder U.S. elections as a means to distract the public from using private email servers.”
The FBI conducted a counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016 on whether candidate Trump and his campaign members are colluding with or coordinating with Russia to influence candidates in the 2016 campaign. The investigation is called a “fire exchange hurricane.”
Sources told Fox News on Monday that the decryption and release of the confidential attachment was accomplished through close coordination between Ratcliffe, with FBI Director Kash Patel, NIA Director Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Acting NSA Director William Hartman and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who eventually released the document, which will eventually release the document.
National Intelligence Commission held a global threat hearing on Tuesday, March 25 in Capitol Hill, Washington, center Tulsi Gabbard, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. (AP/J. ScottApplewhite)
A familiar source told Fox News Digital that the CIA and the National Security Agency have signed a sensitive intelligence that explains its sensitive intelligence, which is the basis for the discovery of the classification attachment.
Meanwhile, when Ratcliffe served as director of the National Intelligence Service in 2020, he provided intelligence to Durham as part of a larger document of more than 1,000 documents.
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A former senior Trump official told Fox News Numbers that Ratcliffe advocated public intelligence at the time, but Durham was expected to release an interim report before the 2020 election because it could negatively impact his investigation, which has not yet reached a resolution on potential prosecutions.
The former official told Fox News Numbers, “Durham said he wanted to keep the investigation but was going to release an interim report.” “He then said he was worried that he would be accused of politicizing and disappearing.”
“Thankfully, the real politicization has been revealed now,” the source added.
Special counsel John Durham said the Justice Department and the FBI “failed to uphold their mission of strict loyalty” when it launched the Trump-Russian investigation. (Ron Sachs/Merge News/Getty Images)
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to take over the FBI’s original “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. For nearly two years, Mueller’s investigation ended in March 2019, and during the 2016 presidential election, there was no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination.
Not long after, John Durham was appointed as special counsel to investigate the origins of the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation.
Durham found that the FBI “failed to take action”, i.e. “a clear warning sign” that the bureau was the “target” of the Clinton-led effort to manipulate or influence law enforcement procedures “before the 2016 presidential election.”
Durham’s report noted: “The above facts reflect a shocking and inexplicable failure to adequately consider and incorporate Clinton program intelligence into the FBI’s investigative decision.
Robert Mueller, former special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice. (AP Newsroom | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg by Getty Images | Mike Cohen/Getty Images for New York Times)
“In fact, if the FBI opened up the firefighting hurricane investigation as an assessment and collected and analyzed the data along with information from Clinton’s program intelligence, it might be at least to check the information received and to do it more critically.”
Durham said in his report that the FBI “has failed to take action, combined with other undisputed facts, a clear warning sign is that the FBI may be the goal of efforts to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process during the 2016 presidential election.”
Exclusive: Durham finds DOJ, FBI
Ratcliffe previewed the decryption and release of the Durham Report’s “Classification Attachment” in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday in Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” Ratcliffe said it would be an overview of Durham’s discovery.
“What the intelligence shows. It’s a plan by Hillary Clinton, but part of it is the FBI’s plan to be accelerating the fake Steele Steele archive, which is the claim of fake Russian collusion by magnifying lies and burying Hillary Clinton’s authenticity.”
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The unsecret attachment was expected to be released after Ratcliffe and Gabbard released decrypted records, which showed Obama administration officials “made” intelligence to push for a Trump-Russian narrative.
FBI Director Kash Patel conducted a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey, and Gabbard filed a criminal referral to other Obama-era officials.
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