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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#Durham #Flynn Former senior FBI counterintelligence official E. W. “Bill” Priestap is under scrutiny by Senate Judiciary republicans over FBI draft talking points for 2018 Senate intel committee briefing which included credibility of the Steele dossier. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
WHY IT MATTERS: the 2018 FBI draft talking points say the primary sub-source “did not cite significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.” But a year earlier, January 2017, the same dossier sub-source told FBI
investigators he did not recall or did not know where some reporting came from, described other info as “rumor + speculation” CONTEXT: Priestap’s handwritten notes from January 2017 were recently made public (note initials “EP”) + central to FBI handling of @GenFlynn case which..
is still in the courts. @CBSNews reached out to Priestap’s last counsel of record who did not respond to requests for comment about his client’s alleged role in 2018 briefing, whether briefing went beyond draft FBI talking points + whether Priestap is cooperating with Durham

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Catherine Herridge Profile picture
9 Sep
#Durham #Flynn Former senior FBI counterintelligence official E. W. “Bill” Priestap is under scrutiny by Senate Judiciary republicans over FBI draft talking points for 2018 Senate intel committee briefing which included credibility of the Steele dossier. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
WHY IT MATTERS: the 2018 FBI draft talking points say the primary sub-source “did not cite significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.” But a year earlier, January 2017, the same dossier sub-source told FBI
investigators he did not recall or did not know where some reporting came from, described other info as “rumor + speculation” CONTEXT: Priestap’s handwritten notes from January 2017 were recently made public (note initials “EP”) + central to FBI handling of @GenFlynn case which..
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1 Sep
#FISA 2 memos from AG Barr in direct response to findings that FBI warrant applications to surveil @carterwpage were defective. Key section: Memo 2 applies to surveillance political campaigns + FBI personnel who “knowingly misrepresent facts” to FISA Court justice.gov/opa/pr/departm…
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#Durham Another indicator US Attorney Durham’s probe is focused on Jan 2017 intel community assessment (ICA) that found “Putin + the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton” @DNI_Ratcliffe said on
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27 Aug
SCOOP: Two sources close to the Senate probe tell @CBSNews that FBI agent Joe Pientka has been interviewed behind closed doors for "multiple hours" by investigators with Senate Judiciary + Senate Oversight/Governmental Affairs. In 2018, then-Chairman @ChuckGrassley first sought
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