The @FBI ran 4 informants and “a few” undercover agents against Trump campaign aides @CarterWPage and @GeorgePapa19, according to #IGHorowitz.
FBI told the OIG it was snooping on Page and Papadopoulos because of their contacts with #Russia. (Thread 👇) theepochtimes.com/fbi-targeted-t…
FBI told the OIG it was snooping on Page and Papadopoulos because of their contacts with #Russia. (Thread 👇) theepochtimes.com/fbi-targeted-t…
But the @FBI also had one of the informants reach out to a high-level Trump campaign official who was not investigated. That official appears to have been #SamClovis.
The informant has been identified by @EpochTimes and others as Cambridge professor #StephanHalper.
The informant has been identified by @EpochTimes and others as Cambridge professor #StephanHalper.
@FBI All conversations Halper had with Page, Papadopoulos, and Clovis were monitored by the @FBI, the OIG said.
#IGHorowitz made the revelations in a Dec. 9 report on his review of a #FISA warrant taken out by the FBI against Page and other aspects of the related FBI investigation.
#IGHorowitz made the revelations in a Dec. 9 report on his review of a #FISA warrant taken out by the FBI against Page and other aspects of the related FBI investigation.
The @FBI officially opened a counterintelligence investigation on the Trump campaign dubbed “#CrossfireHurricane,” with the stated aim “to determine whether individuals associated with the…Campaign were coordinating or cooperating, wittingly or unwittingly…
…with the Russian government to influence or interfere with the 2016 U.S. elections.”
As opposed to criminal investigations, counterintelligence investigations don’t require any allegation of a crime.
As opposed to criminal investigations, counterintelligence investigations don’t require any allegation of a crime.
In the following weeks, top @FBI officials assembled a small team and opened individual cases on Trump campaign aides @CarterWPage, @GeorgePapa19, #PaulManafort, and @GenFlynn.
The #FISA warrant on Page was obtained in Oct 2016, was renewed 3 times, and lasted well into 2017.
The #FISA warrant on Page was obtained in Oct 2016, was renewed 3 times, and lasted well into 2017.
#IGHorowitz concluded in the #IGReport that the warrant contained “at least 17 significant errors or omissions,” saying the errors and other failures constitute “serious performance failures by the supervisory and non-supervisory agents.” 
The #HorowitzReport describes Halper as a source both long-term and problematic.
@FBI ditched him in 2011 for “aggressiveness toward handling agents as a result of what [Halper] perceived as not enough compensation” and “questionable allegiance to the [intelligence] targets.”
@FBI ditched him in 2011 for “aggressiveness toward handling agents as a result of what [Halper] perceived as not enough compensation” and “questionable allegiance to the [intelligence] targets.”
2 months later, however, Halper was recruited back.
His new handler, who later joined the #CrossfireHurricane team, called Halper “mercurial” but said he was kicked out because the previous handler was “not the right match” for Halper.
His new handler, who later joined the #CrossfireHurricane team, called Halper “mercurial” but said he was kicked out because the previous handler was “not the right match” for Halper.
The handler told the OIG that he initially approached Halper to only learn basic issues about political campaigns, since Halper has been affiliated with political campaigns since the 1970s.
The agent said it was a coincidence that Halper happened to have met with Page…
The agent said it was a coincidence that Halper happened to have met with Page…
…two months before and that he also knew Flynn and Manafort.
“The Crossfire Hurricane team ‘couldn’t believe [their] luck’ that Source 2 had contacts with three of their four subjects,” the agent said.
“The Crossfire Hurricane team ‘couldn’t believe [their] luck’ that Source 2 had contacts with three of their four subjects,” the agent said.
The @FBI tasked Halper to engage @CarterWPage and @GeorgePapa19 and try to coax out of them whether the campaign was colluding with #Moscow.
Halper talked to both multiple times.
Halper talked to both multiple times.
@GeorgePapa19 told Halper multiple times that the campaign had nothing to do with the Russian election interference.
But the denials were excluded from the @CarterWPage #FISA warrant.
But the denials were excluded from the @CarterWPage #FISA warrant.
@GeorgePapa19 @carterwpage Another @FBI informant, who wasn’t identified, talked to @GeorgePapa19 multiple times after he left the campaign.
Another two informants were supposed to talk to Papadopoulos too, but “those attempted contacts did not lead to any operational activity,” the OIG report says.
Another two informants were supposed to talk to Papadopoulos too, but “those attempted contacts did not lead to any operational activity,” the OIG report says.
The report also says that at least one @FBI informant worked directly in the Trump campaign but his handler didn’t learn about it until the source had already left the campaign.
@FBI In an email to the handler, the #CrossfireHurricane team said they wanted to use the informant as “a passive listening post regarding any observations [he/she] has of the campaign so far,” but wouldn’t task the source directly.
Trump campaign’s leaders weren’t given a defensive briefing that would warn them about potential #Russian infiltration of their campaign.
They were only given unclassified “counterintelligence awareness” briefings.
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They were only given unclassified “counterintelligence awareness” briefings.
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