The IG report states that the FBI investigation was triggered by information received from a "friendly" foreign ally, and the FBI was justified in relying on the information:
As we describe in Chapter Three, the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, just days after its receipt of information from a Friendly Foreign Government (FFG) reporting that, in May 2016, during a meeting with the FFG, then Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos "suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist this process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Mrs. Clinton (and President Obama)." The FBI Electronic Communication (EC) opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation stated that, based on the FFG information, "this investigation is being opened to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia." We did not find information in FBI or Department ECs, emails, or other documents, or through witness testimony, indicating that any information other than the FFG information was relied upon to predicate the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Barr and Durham have been investigating that friendly (as in "friendly to Hillary") foreign source and they have probably found that the information given to the FBI was effectively produced and delivered to them by another part of the US government (likely the CIA).
“probably found that the information given to the FBI was effectively produced and delivered to them by another part of the US government (likely the CIA)”
It was Stephan Halper and he was paid close to a million dollars out of a DoD military account. If I know this then surely Durham and Barr know it. Halper was the one who set up Flynn using an innoccent Svetlana Lokhova.
Go read https://twitter.com/RealSLokhova ... she has it laid out to a tee.
Heh. I bet Durham can sweet-talk them into sitting down for a chat.
Let me propose that Halper got Misfud to drop the email idea on Papadopolus and then arranged for Downer to meet with Papadopolus in order make his report to the FBI.
We have all heard news of Barr and Durham visiting Italy. Have they paid a visit to Downer?
Is this the chain:
Brennan > Halper > Misfud > Papadopolus
And: Brennan > Halper > Downer > FBI
And: Brennan > Halper > Carter Page
There seems to be good reason to believe that Downer may have contrived the meeting with Papadopolus, knowing what he wanted Papadopolus to tell him. Who sent Downer?
FBI were waiting to arrest Papadopolus when he returned to the U.S., evidently expecting him to be carrying $10,000 given to him by yet another player in the drama. Who tipped the FBI? Good citizen Brennan or one of his henchman?
Who sent Vesilnitskaya to Trump Tower? She met with Glenn Simpson who employed Nellie Ohr just before and just after the Trump Tower meeting. How convenient.
I predict that there will be smaller fish who are at great risk if they don't tell what they know. The FBI lawyer who was caught fabricating evidence is one of them. Maybe Misfud is another. Perhaps Downer sees that the jig is up. Foreign governments who shield anyone caught up in this conspiracy are likely to regret any involvement and turn on the participants.
We Freepers may not know how all this will end. But I am personally convinced that it is far from over.