Thread by @PeymanAskari451

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This Durham report to Congress is a beast (300+ pages). This is something that I will have to work on in the coming weeks.

@realDonaldTrump

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No evidence of conspiracy between @realDonaldTrump and the Russians existed prior to the July 28, 2016 tip from the Australians.

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Durham describes what can only be described as a corrupt @FBI.

Andrew McCabe passed the information onto @petestrzok who, without even talking with the source of that information, immediately opened the #CrossfireHurricane investigation.

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I'm impressed that Durham did not white wash his report. He lists the different instances when @HillaryClinton should have been investigated, but because the @BarackObama administration wanted another Democrat in office, they buried those investigations.

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Background information on #CrossfireHurricane for those interested.

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Durham describes how on one or more occasions, when Carter Page or @GeorgePapa19 made statements which would help exonerate them ('exculpatory evidence'), the FBI simply withheld that information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

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Durham goes a step further in damning the @FBI by pointing out that during the course of his investigation, one @FBI lawyer was prosecuted and convicted of falsifying a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application to the FISC.

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Background information on the Steele Dossier.

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Durham states that the @FBI was aware that the information in the Steele Dossier had also be released to the press. In other words, they could not use the information released by the press as corroboration of the Dossier, when they were one and the same.

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Durham states how one allegation in particular was used in all 4 FISA applications against Carter Page. He goes on to recreate that allegation in full, and it reads like a discount Hollywood monologue.

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According to Durham,

1. The @FBI tried, but failed to corroborate any of the main allegations of the Dossier
2. Steele relied almost entirely on a singleRussian national source named Igor Danchenko

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When the @FBI finally interviewed Danchenko, he could not corroborate any of Steele's allegations in his Dossier, instead characterizing his conversations with his sub-sources as 'rumor & speculation'. The @FBI disclosed none of this to the FISC.

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In its first FISA application, the @FBI told the FISC that Danchenko was based in Russia. When the @FBI learned that he in fact lived in Washington, DC, it never corrected this fact in its subsequent 3 FISA applications to the FISC.

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I don't know what to make of this, to be honest. Danchenko is found to be unable to corroborate anything, the @FBI conceals key parts of his testimony to the FISC, then they bring him on as a Confidential Human Source (CHS). Reminds me of The Pelican Brief.

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In 2008, Danchenko attempted to bribe fellow employees at the @BrookingsInst for classified information. The @FBI opened an investigation & discovered he had ties to Russian intelligence officers. What's more damning is that in 2017 the @FBI was aware of this investigation.

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I'm assuming Durham has intentionally withheld more details on this for a reason. Either he believes investigation into this matter is beyond the scope of this document, or he didn't want to go down a rabbit hole of implicating @BarackObama/@real_GeorgeBush in this scandal.

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In closing the issue of the Steele Dossier, Durham says that they found no evidence that the @FBI even tried to address Danchenko's 2008 espionage matter before bringing him on as a Confidential Human Source (CHS)

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Durham next points out that the @FBI never disclosed Danchenko's unresolved 2008 espionage issue to the @TheJusticeDept, who, therefore, could not and did not disclose it to the FISC in their Carter Page FISA application.

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Finally, Durham points out the obvious fact that anyone who has ever watched a Bond movie could tell you: a Russian with ties to Russian Intelligence is probably feeding you Russian disinformation.