*pauses reading through executive summary to briefly conduct word search* 
*mutters expletive*
wtf. "The FBI viewed the briefing of candidate Trump and his advisors as a possible opportunity to collect
information "
information "
does anyone now doubt that the candidates were getting different briefings? smh
notice to all future Presidential candidates. "The FBI viewed the briefing of candidate Trump and his advisors as a possible opportunity to collect information.."
quote: "The supervisor memorialized the results of the briefing in an official FBI document, including instances where he was engaged by Trump and Flynn, as well as anything he considered related to the FBI or pertinent to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation...
..The supervisor did not memorialize the results of the
briefing of candidate Clinton and her advisors."
briefing of candidate Clinton and her advisors."
(page 6) I assume "other agency" is "CIA". note: footnote 8 "According to the U.S. government agency, a "Contact
Approval" does not allow for operational use of a U.S. person or tasking of that person."
Approval" does not allow for operational use of a U.S. person or tasking of that person."
(page 8) "The other U.S. government agency's [CIA] liaison to the Crossfire Hurricane team.." when were CIA personnel tasked to Crossfire Hurricane?
confirmation on why Durham investigation and declassification is necessary.
[page 12 (46/476)] footnote 20 "Timely completion of this review would not have been possible..." I need to do a poll because I for one do not consider this IG report to be a "timely completion".
I'm on page 39,40 (71,72/476) and I may need to take a break because I'm obsessing over what appears to be a font change.
trying to move on but imo pg. 40, 41 were inserted at a different time than the rest of the document. imo it contains a certain minutia of detail I guess someone thought was important enough to rewrite fwiw.
page 47 (79/476) hmm... who's this FBI CHS?
*recoils* page 49 (82/476)
footnote 163 Horowitz appears to make no attempt to speak to Assange or address other identified weaknesses of GRU attribution claims as to DNC/DCCC hack but simply repeats other reports.
remember little open source information of attribution evidence exists. most of the analysis was done by CrowdStrike and private contractors. Mueller's IRA = GRU (GU) are unsubstantiated.
recall:
page 51 (84/476) who is this U.S. gov't official Mifsud spoke with in the European city?
page 52 (85/476) quote: "On Jul 27 2016 the USG official called the FBI's Legal Attache (Legat) and in the European city to *her office* and provided them with the FFG [Friendly Foreign Government] information."
page 53 (86/476) again, why the DNC hack becomes so important to nail down, part of the context of the tipping point/FFG Mifsud), put here by none other than McCabe. smh.
note: Mueller characterized/inferred Mifsud as a Russian asset while Horowitz report stating Friendly Foreign Government (FFG)
page 54 (87/476) quote: "everyone was in agreement about opening an investigation because the information came from a trusted intelligence partner [Mifsud]"
interesting. #archive
page 55 (88/476) Priestap fail. FBI fail. should have provided defensive briefing to Presidential Candidate Trump. It was a must imo.
page 56 (89/476) #Brennan
quote: "Brennan did not provide any information that predicated or prompted the FBI to open Crossfire Hurricane."
recall:
again, exactly why Durham needs to be investigating and declassification authority has been given.
page 56 (89/476) *mutters expletive*
page 57 (90/476) based on this absolute zero justification not to give Presidential candidate Trump a defensive briefing. unbelievable. smh.
note: redacted section footnote 164 & footnote 464 - another reason why Durham investigation needed as well as declassification authority - feeling nervous John Brennan? #Mifsud
ffs. lets not give the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency a defensive briefing either - let's instead make him a center target of a CI investigation based on some FFG chat with a low level foreign policy advisory panel member of a political campaign. rufkm.
I'm not making it past page 59 (92/476) because now i'm just saying expletives. OMG the former DDIA has ties or a history of traveling to Russia. what a crock of shit.
page 59 (92/476) footnote 179 quote: "We did not locate any records that indicated the FBI provided written notification to NSD about the opening of these cases."
does anyone know the code name given to the FBI's investigation of Flynn? - I missed it somehow.
page 60 (93/476) "traveled to Russia in December 2015"
now read this.
page 65 (98/476) cross pollination of admin, lawyers and a case agent with Midyear and Crossfire Hurricane investigations.
page 73 (106/476)
page 74 (107/476) why redact this information? it's just the numerical date of the month which has already been given with the year? why does the day matter?
page 77 (110/476) "in late July...another U.S.
government agency had briefed President Obama.."
government agency had briefed President Obama.."
page 77 (110/476) footnote 194 "Corney told us that this meeting was attended by..Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough..National Security Advisor Susan Rice..Director of National Intelligence (DNI} James Clapper..CIA Director John Brennan..Director of the NSA Michael Rogers."
page 78 (111/476) "The FBI also sent names of individuals associated with the Trump campaign to other U.S. government agencies *and a foreign intelligence agency* and requested any information about those individuals"
I have no words. let's keep things quiet and take "off the table any idea of legal process" yet send the names of Americans involved in political campaigns to foreign intelligence agencies during an election year. rufkm
page 80 (113/476) footnote 199 "The Crossfire Hurricane team did not provide information about this meeting to OI attorneys handling the Carter Page FISA applications"
page 93 (128/476) again, not sure why the number of reports would be redacted.
page 96 (130/476) presented without comment.
who is handling agent 1? and who is Steele's source E?
page 100 (134/476) so outside CrowdStrike the collaborating evidence of the DNC DCCC "hack" is Sergei Millian (Source E)?
page 102 (136/476) cute justification for wilful blindness. any supervisory intel analyst worth anything should be doing parallel red team analysis. this person needs to be named & shamed imo.
page 103 (137/476) footnote 229 "we found that the first time the Crossfire Hurricane team accessed Steele's Delta file was in *November 2016*." another Supervisory Intel Analyst fail, who is this person? smh.
quote: "the team should have "turned the file upside down" looking for information 2 months earlier and
that he assumed that some members of the team had thoroughly reviewed the file."
that he assumed that some members of the team had thoroughly reviewed the file."
page 107 (141/476) footnote 238 "including Assistant Secretary Nuland"
page 108 (142/476) the same Supervisory Intel Analyst who didn't look at the Dela file until Nov 2016...
..the same Supervisory Intel Analyst that became aware of this other information late July 2016 (recall: page 98 footnote 223).
page 109 (143/476) "Steele in early October.. disclosed to the participants that he was furnishing information to the State Department "to ensure that the information was reaching the proper elements of the [U.S. government]."
page 110 (144/476) "Person 1 is a "boaster" and "egotist" and "may engage in some embellishment."
page 111 (145/476) "Simpson had been retained
by "people seeking to prevent Trump becoming President."
by "people seeking to prevent Trump becoming President."
intermediaries (like Simpson) funded by these people. recall:
page 113,114 (147,148/476) "it 'blew his mind' that, given Steele's intelligence background, Steele was meeting with the press..."
page 114 (148/476) so the FBI doesn't ask about Steele's news leaks in September and instead gives Simpson "classified information" (footnote 250) in October.
page 115 (149/476) which Steele then gives to Simpson/Fusion GPS (Footnote 251). smh.
page 116 (150/476) 'Winer had been given the
report by a friend of a well-known Clinton supporter.."
report by a friend of a well-known Clinton supporter.."
recall: "Winer said he met with Blumenthal, who he described as “an old friend.” They discussed the Steele report and Blumenthal showed Winer “notes” put together by another longtime Clinton operative, Cody Shearer, that “echoed” the claims made in the Steele dossier."
