NEW: Senate Homeland Security Committee subpoenaed Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as part of probe into origins of #CrossfireHurricane. Halper has been long reported as an #FBI informant, including during 2016, when he made contacts w/ @carterwpage@GeorgePapa19
NEW:Halper is compelled to produce all records related to FBI's #CrossfireHurricane probe; DOJ IG's review of that investigation;& the #unmasking of US "persons or entities affiliated, formally or informally, with the Trump campaign,Trump transition, or Trump administration.”
NEW: Halper is required to produce those documents to @SenRonJohnson committee on October 14 at 5:00pm.
“getting additional insight on Russian activities from [REDACTED]”per @JohnBrennan notes. "alleged approved by @HillaryClinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify @realDonaldTrump by stirring up scandal claiming interference by Russian security service"
NEW: @JohnBrennan notes state @HillaryClinton
proposal was “on 28 of July." In the margin, Brennan writes "POTUS," but that section of the notes is redacted.
A senior Trump campaign official told Fox News that the masthead was a seven-figure buy, and described it as “the most valuable piece of real estate on the internet.”@TeamTrump
YouTube sells the masthead for 24-hour increments, meaning the Trump campaign will control it for the entirety of Sunday, the official said.
NEW: FBI official who served on #Mueller team said he believed the prosecution of #MichaelFlynn was part of an attitude to “get Trump,”& that he did not wish to pursue a Trump-Russia collusion probe as it was “not there"& considered it to be a "dead end." foxnews.com/politics/fbi-o…
NEW: FBI agent William J. Barnett made the comments during an interview on Sept. 17 at DOJ w/ Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeffrey Jensen,Jensen has joined U.S. Attorney John #Durham's team in his review of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
NEW: Barnett said he thought #FBI Trump-#Russia probe was “opaque” & “with little detail concerning specific evidence of criminal events & that the “predication” of #Flynn probe was “not great,” & it“was not clear” what the “persons opening the case wanted to ‘look for or at.’”
NEW: @JayCarney on #Debates2020 : “I know Vice President @JoeBiden sees this as a serious challenge. @realDonaldTrump has an advantage in that he is an expert at delivering memorable sound bites and engaging in short-form scrums."
NEW: @JayCarney on #Debates2020: @realDonaldTrump "gets in regular practice with all his short encounters with the press, and that kind of format, ironically, is close enough to what you experience in a debate that I doubt he’ll be rusty.”
NEW: DNI Ratcliffe declassified "Annex A," a footnote in the 2017 ICA which detailed reporting by Christopher #Steele.
The footnote makes clear the internal concerns officials had over that document, however.
NEW: The annex states that the Intel Community had "only limited corroboration of the source’s[Steele's] reporting in this case and did not use it to reach the analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment." #SteeleDossier