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1) My latest @EpochTimes - Focus of Durham Probe Shifts to Senior Obama Officials

US Attorney John Durham reportedly “very interested” to interview former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper
theepochtimes.com/focus-of-durha…

2) Durham is expected to seek an interview with former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper following an expansion of his investigation.

3) It was reportedly the meetings Durham and Barr recently had in Rome—where they obtained new evidence—that were the impetus for the broadening of the scope of the probe.

According to Herridge, Durham is now “very interested to question” Brennan and Clapper.

4) It was recently revealed in a court motion by the lawyer for former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, that the DOJ had obtained two cell phones belonging to Joseph Mifsud.
theepochtimes.com/misfuds-cell-p…

5) Earlier this month, on Oct. 5, Politico reported that Durham had “not requested interviews with any of the FBI or DOJ employees who were directly involved in, or knew about, the opening of the Russia investigation in 2016, according to people familiar with the matter.”

6) However, according to an Oct. 19 article New York Times article, Durham has already interviewed “about two dozen former and current F.B.I. officials” and that the “number of interviews shows that Mr. Durham’s review is further along than previously known.”

7) In addition to the dozens of FBI interviews, Durham’s team has also reportedly “questioned officials in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence” although former DNI Clapper does not appear to have been among those interviewed.

8) The number of interviews conducted as well as the widening scope suggests that Durham has been gathering all the available facts, evidence and data prior to approaching the central figures in his inquiry.

9) Durham “has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia's activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers.”

10) According to NBC, “Justice Department officials have said that Durham has found something significant, and that critics should be careful.”
nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

11) Additionally, NBC News noted that “Although the probe did not begin as a criminal investigation, Justice Department officials won't comment on whether it has morphed into one.”

12) Fox News reported that “based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation” and went through the process of “adding agents and resources”

Fox also reported that the “timeline has grown" and now includes a post-election timeline through the spring of '17

13) Brennan himself had also told MSNBC—where he is a paid commentator—earlier this month, that "I'm supposedly going to be interviewed by Mr. Durham as part of this non-investigation.”

https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1179522092200579073

14) Sometime in mid-2016, Brennan formed an inter-agency task force at the CIA to investigate foreign intelligence allegations against the Trump campaign.

Brennan appeared to describe the task force formation during an Aug. 17, 2018, interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow:

15) Brennan and some of his CIA analysts, along with DNI Clapper, were responsible for a series of three reports that were used to promote the Trump-Russia collusion story.

The third report known as the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was released on Jan. 6, 2017.

16) The ICA claimed that “Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump” noting that “Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.”

17) The report played a key role in advancing the now disproven allegation that Trump colluded with Russia.

Brennan denied using the Steele Dossier in the ICA, but he attached a two-page summary of the dossier to the ICA that he delivered to then-President Obama on Jan. 6, 2017.

18) Notably, NSA head Admiral Mike Rogers publicly dissented from the findings of the ICA, assigning it only a moderate confidence level, and later told Congress that the report “didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”

19) Brennan testified to Congress in May 2017 that any information, specifically “anything involving the individuals involved in the Trump campaign was shared with the bureau [FBI].”

Brennan also admitted that it was his intelligence that helped establish the FBI investigation.

20) Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper personally confirmed foreign intelligence involvement during congressional testimony in May 2017.

21) But there is a significant problem with Brennan’s ongoing transfer of foreign intelligence leading up to the FBI’s initiation of their counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016.

22) Nunes, who has seen the Electronic Communication that was used to officially open the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation, has publicly stated, “We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation.”

23) Gowdy appeared to back this while discussing Brennan and Comey:

“It's going to be interesting if they begin to turn on one another. I've seen the document. I'm not going to describe it any more than that. Comey's got a better argument than Brennan based on what I have seen."

24) In addition to his use of unofficial foreign intelligence, Brennan appeared to have employed the use of reverse targeting on members of the Trump campaign.

During an Aug. 17, 2018, interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Brennan said:

25) Under the laws governing US surveillance, the identities of US citizens are supposed to be protected.

Provisions known as minimization procedures are intended to protect information “incidentally collected” on U.S. citizens in the course of foreign surveillance.

26) As this foreign intelligence, unofficial in nature and outside of traditional channels, was gathered, Brennan began feeding this intelligence to the FBI.

Repeated transfers of foreign intelligence from Brennan helped push the FBI toward establishing a formal investigation.

27) These actions by Brennan may be precisely why both AG Barr and Durham are focused on the events leading up to the FBI’s initiation of their investigation into the Trump campaign.
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