Thread by @SeekerOTL

TWO SIDES OF THE HOUSE: What happened to Operation Crossfire Hurricane?

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The following text is from 1-23-17, 3 days after the inauguration and 1 day prior to Peter Strzok’s interview with Gen Mike Flynn.

Since the inauguration, the management of the Counterintel Division has changed. While Strzok is still confident in “our cases,” he no longer has any knowledge of what’s happening on “Jens side of the house.”

“Jen” is Jennifer Boone. She was a Deputy Assistant Director in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division along with Peter Strzok.

As explained in a previous thread, there is more than one Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) in the Counterintelligence Division (CD).

https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1037358673033449473

Fast forward to this text from 2-06-17:

DD refers to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

DAD is Deputy Assistant Director.

PCC is Policy Coordination Committee.

Policy Coordination Committees are divided by topic.

Counterespionage and Counterproliferation are in separate PCCS.

allgov.com/departments/ex…

PCCs are also divided by regions.

In the following text, we see that ‘this country’ is in Jen’s branch. Since it’s clear that Strzok is investigating members of the Trump campaign for possible ties to Russia, we can surmise that Jen’s country is not in Europe or Eurasia.

“Jen’s Branch” is CD3, the Counterproliferation Section of CD.

“This country” is in her branch.

Page expresses her dismay that Jen is responsible for all work related to ‘this country’.

We know from his 1-23-17 tweet that Strzok is working more than one case, but here we learn his cases are related to one country, Russia.

Jen’s case is related to a second country.

Page responds by saying the organization of the Counterintel Division makes no sense.

Strzok explains that, in theory, he works on Jen’s country when the subject is cyber and espionage. However, Jen has “cp” (Counterprofileration) and something that is redacted.

I have pondered this redaction many times. “FISA” is a possibility. But ultimately I believe that “FARA” is most like behind the redaction.

Note that Strzok follows up his comment by stating he had worked on the “influence stuff” previously.

The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) is a law that governs INFLUENCE disclosure requirements.

justice.gov/nsd-fara/gener…

Strzok’s syntax allows for several interpretations. He could be saying that ‘this country’ owns FARA. Quite an explosive statement, but I doubt that’s what he means.

He could be saying that the Counterproliferation Section owns the FARA program.

However, I tend to believe he’s saying CP owns FARA for ‘this country.’

I can only see only two real possibilities for ‘this country’ - China or Israel

In the past, Strzok has worked on counterespionage cases involving China.

businessinsider.com/top-fbi-invest…

And I believe that Strzok investigated Jared Kushner for his business ties to China and was pressing to charge him in May of 2017.

https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1034073049417621509

However, in this text, I don’t believe China is “this country.”

Let’s go to an text from earlier on the day of 2-05-17: Strzok asks Page about a particular person and gives her two options.

Page tells Strzok to “check red side for Beth.”

Now, if the two countries in question are Russia and China, then red side would not tell Strzok anything since both countries are associated with the color red

We know Mueller threatened to charge Papadopolous as an agent of Israel. And PapaD has admitted to taking money, in Tel Avi, from an Israeli citizen.

So I suspect ‘this country’ is Israel.

This text exchange I see as pure sarcasm.

Strzok never works on ‘this country’ because he has cyber and espionage and Page remarks that ‘this country’ never engages in cyber crime and espionage.

Strzok sneeringly responses “No…”

So in Feb 2017, the two sides of the Counterintelligence Division’s house looked like this:

However, on July 31 2017, when Operation Crossfire Hurricane was launched, Jen was not part of the Counterintel Division.

I explain in detail here.

https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1037358656138792967

According to this article by John Solomon, Strzok emailed Lisa Page on Oct 14, 2016: “At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him.” The subject line is “Crossfire FISA.”

thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…

On Oct 18, 2016, Strzok and Page are exchanging emails about obtaining a FISA for an investigation code-named “Dragon”

Jen’s first day in the Counterintel Division is Oct 27, 2016.

Yes, Peter Strzok kicked off Operation Crossfire Hurricane with his interview of Alexander Downer in London.

At some point, however, the investigation was turned over to Jen and it became an investigation of PapaD, Israel and “influence stuff.”

Simona Papadopoulos hints at it here.

As late as Dec of 2016, Strzok was still working “issues” in CD3.

After the inauguration of President Trump, however, Strzok was shut out, and the organization of CD house looked like this:

Of course, by Feb 2017, Strzok was investigating more than one case involving Russia.

I list only Carter Page since we know for certain he was the subject of a FISA warrant and Dragon since it is the only name we have for an operation besides CH.

I’ve based this thread almost exclusively on the RECOVERED texts that we were never supposed to see.

On December 23, 2016 the UN voted to condemn all Israeli settlements since 1967. The drama behind that resolution was the subject of a previous thread.

https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1032268751180324865

I also believe within these recovered texts are indications that Strzok was pushing to charge a member of the President’s family. And there is evidence that the FBI was investigating Israel for “influence stuff.”

The FBI would just assume that evidence was buried.

So what happened to Crossfire Hurricane? Did it start in July 31, 2016 and end with a 14 day sentence for PapaD? Would PapaD have even plead guilty without FARA charges hanging over him?

Why is Peter Strzok (in)famous and Jen Boone unknown? What was the predicate for investigating Carter Page if Crossfire Hurricane was an investigation of PapaD’s as a possible unregistered agent of Israel?

Maybe we will get some answers to these questions in the following weeks. There are “new” texts and emails emerging daily, it seems. We also have IG Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse due soon.

So there is hope. Don’t forget that IG Horowitz is responsible for the recovery of the supposedly “lost” emails. He’s not part of a coverup.

But some digging on our part is required.

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ADDENDUM: Left out this text where Strzok explains that 'this country' is in Jen's branch.