Tag: Crossfire Hurricane

Ex-Trump Advisers Lament Light Sentencing for FBI Lawyer Who Falsified Evidence

Former President Donald Trump advisers said Friday an ex-FBI lawyer who admitted to falsifying evidence in Crossfire Hurricane avoiding jail time was an example of a double standard of justice. “[If] this was a Trump individual who had done this to the Obama administration or to the incoming Biden administration, this person would be in…


FBI Lawyer Who Forged Email in Carter Page FISA Process Sentenced to Probation

A federal judge on Jan. 29 sentenced former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith to 12 months of probation for forging an email that resulted in one of several major errors in the applications to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg described Clinesmith’s forgery as an “inappropriate shortcut.” The judge…


McCabe Aware of Exculpatory Evidence Before Opening Obstruction Probe Into Trump, Documents Show

Then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe was aware of crucial exculpatory evidence regarding the firing of FBI Director James Comey when he opened an obstruction of justice investigation into then-President Donald Trump in mid-May of 2017 over Comey’s removal, according to documents declassified by Trump during his last days in office. Trump fired Comey on May…


Steele Leaked to Media Because FBI Reopened Clinton-Email Case, New Documents Show

Declassified notes of the FBI’s interview with former British spy Christopher Steele show that he betrayed the FBI by leaking to the media at the direction of his client, Hillary Clinton, because the FBI had reopened the investigation into Clinton’s use of an unauthorized private email server to conduct government work. Just the News obtained…


Video: John Solomon: Capitol Attack Security Failures; What Crossfire Hurricane Declassified Docs Will Show

Days before the shocking events of January 6, the Pentagon chief expressed concerns about potential violence at the Capitol and offered to deploy the National Guard, says investigative journalist John Solomon. “The fundamental question is not: did someone see this coming? Because the NYPD, FBI, Pentagon, Capitol Police all believe they saw something bad coming….


Trump Orders Declassification of Some Crossfire Hurricane Documents

President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of previously confidential documents related to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI’s investigation of his 2016 campaign. The move comes on his last night in office. The materials were not immediately made known to the public. The Department of Justice provided the White House on Dec. 30, 2020, with a binder…


FBI Agent Quit Crossfire Hurricane After Request for ‘Enhanced Validation’ of Steele Was Denied

A senior FBI agent asked to be removed from the Crossfire Hurricane team that probed the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russia after his request for a more stringent validation of ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s subsources was rejected, the agent told a Senate panel last year, according to a newly released transcript. The FBI supervisory…


Graham Releases Russia Probe Docs, Calls Crossfire Hurricane ‘Incompetent and Corrupt’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday released interview transcripts from an inquiry into the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, claiming the documents show incompetence and corruption at the heart of the investigation. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, released hundreds of pages of transcripts from the committee’s inquiry into the origins of the…


Graham Releases Russia Probe Docs, Calls Crossfire Hurricane Probe ‘Incompetent and Corrupt’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday released interview transcripts from an inquiry into the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, claiming the documents show incompetence and corruption at the heart of the investigation. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, released hundreds of pages of transcripts from the committee’s inquiry into the origins of the…


Rep. Nunes: ‘Bad Actors’ Should Be Prosecuted

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), whose investigation uncovered FBI misconduct in the Russia collusion probe, told The Epoch Times on Monday that “bad actors” should be prosecuted to bring back trust in judicial institutions. “Our Republic really depends on this investigation, and the prosecution of these bad actors,” Nunes said during an interview with “American Thought…