NEW: Senate Investigators seek Hunter Biden records, according to October 21 letter, addressed to team of lawyers. Deadline October 23. “According to recent reports that published emails allegedly from your client’s laptop, the Committees have identified your client as an
individual involved in one or more of these business arrangements or financial transactions. As part of the ongoing efforts to validate + verify the information in those emails, the Committees request that your client provide all records related to any of your client’s business
dealings—including, but not limited, to bank records, wire transfers, account balances, gifts, business transactions, travel records—with Joe Biden, James Biden, Ye Jianming, Chi Ping Patrick Ho, Zang Jian Jun, Gongwen Dong, Mervyn Yan, Gabriel Popoviciu, or any other associates
regarding CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd or any other transactions related to business in Romania, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, or any other countries. @cbsnews seeking comment on request, plan to comply. @SenRonJohnson@ChuckGrassley
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READ: The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of "Russian Activities + Intentions in Recent US Elections" is now the subject of investigative referral to Intel Community Inspector General by @dni_ratcliffe Referral first sent to CIA IG in 2018 but no meaningful action taken.
GET FOCUSED ICA KEY JUDGMENTS + LEVELS OF CONFIDENCE: While CIA, NSA, FBI found with HIGH CONFIDENCE Putin ordered 2016 influence campaign to "undermine faith in US democratic process" + "denigrate Secretary Clinton” + "harm her electability" + developed a “clear preference" for
candidate Trump, NOT ALL AGENCIES on same page. "We also assess Putin + the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton + publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with
SCOOP #Durham: @CBSNews obtains 94-page declassified FBI spreadsheet, widely cited by IG Horowitz, but not public until now. Recently released to Senate investigators, the FBI spreadsheet was part of a broader effort to corroborate the Steele dossier claims.
While lightly redacted, the bureau spreadsheet shows the FBI relied heavily on media reporting to back up claims about Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and others. IG Horowitz faulted the FBI over lack of corroboration + evidence of circular reporting.
IG Horowitz page 5 found dossier author Christopher Steele spoke to the Yahoo news reporter prior to publication of a September 23 article. The FBI spreadsheet cites the SAME article on page 51 as supporting evidence. IG Horowitz also faulted the FBI for using the Yahoo
#Durham This morning, @LindseyGrahamSC went further on recent Comey testimony about Sept 2016 CIA investigative referral to FBI over alleged 3rd party discussion of HRC approved plan “concerning candidate Trump + Russian hackers.” Graham told @MariaBartiromo, “Comey said that
didn’t ring a bell. But when you look at the source documents, it went directly to him. So if we can prove, he actually knew about this request
and did nothing, then he could be charged with perjury. He said he didn’t know anything about all the problems with the dossier. That
the subsource was a (suspected) Russian agent. If we can find somebody, no that’s not true. I briefed him. He’s in trouble. If the Clinton Foundation used money to pay for this smear campaign, they’re in trouble. Anybody who hides evidence from the court, that alters evidence,
#Durham#Flynn 13 page DOJ filing includes unvarnished assessment from FBI Agent assigned to Flynn case, code named “Crossfire RAZOR.” Pages 1 + 2 Agent William Barnett said case theory was “supposition on supposition” + predication or basis for opening probe “not great”
On pages 3 + 5 Agent Barnett said FBI team considered closing Flynn probe November 2016 (which moves up timeline) + called case “exercise in futility” + believed he was “cut out” of Jan 2017 Flynn WH conducted by @petestrzok where Flynn had no lawyer + WH counsel not advised
Page 6 + 7 Agent Barnett said “RAZOR Investigation was problematic” + he “wished to be removed” because it could end up with IG + FBI lawyer Clinesmith who recently pleaded guilty to altering CIA email about @carterwpage also handled Flynn data collection requests
In other news... #Durham This recent, 600+ page FOIA #Buzzfeed litigation contains noteworthy FBI records about the origins of the Russia probe -- US Attorney John Durham's focus. Compare & Contrast: IG Horowitz pg. 1 that states "Crossfire Hurricane" opened based on information
from a Friendly Foreign Government or FFG (Australian diplomat) + according to @GeorgePapa19 , the Trump campaign had received '"some kind of suggestion" from Russia that it could help assist with the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.”’
While not named, the key player is apparently professor Joseph Mifsud. But according to the newly released FBI interview report or "302," Mifsud was not questioned for another 7 months + in a hotel lobby rather than FBI's Washington Field Office 3 miles away + "stated he had
#Whistleblower Statement from @MarkSZaidEsq attorney for DHS Former Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence Brian Murphy “The selective disclosure of heavily redacted documents by DHS neither contradicts what is contained in Mr. Murphy's whistleblower complaint, nor even supports
the character assassination attempt by the Department. Our role, however, is not to publicly speak for Mr. Murphy regarding official DHS positions but to facilitate his ability to provide complete and truthful information to the relevant oversight authorities. Mr. Murphy has
identified documentation that goes to the heart of this issue, as well as that supporting his whistleblower complaint, and is more than willing to disclose the information to Congress and Inspectors General, and we have asked DHS to facilitate