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40/ it also looks like McCabe was separately leaking (false information) to WaPo about Flynn. He resigned almost immediately after this sabotage.

41/ during this resistance period, Strzok was breaking bad. As he became increasingly obsessed, one of his friends sagely observed "it looks like entire future credibility of the FBI is sitting on your shoulders". It did indeed. Unfortunately, Strzok was wrong about everything

42/ a dig here: on Feb 23, Brian Boetig, the FBI Legat from London who filed initial report on Downer's conversation with DCM Dibble about Papadopoulos leading to CH, checked in. Wonder what it was about.

43/ on Feb 24, Strzok and redacted correspondent were abuzz about an important episode in nascent resistance - a little discussed but very important episode culminating in Mueller appointment.

44/ on Feb 14, Schmidt, Mazzetti and Apuzzo (McCabe's buddies) broke false story that Trump campaign had "repeated contacts" with Russian "intelligence officials", claim supposedly established by "call logs and intercepts". Needless to say, none were produced in Mueller Report.

45/ NYT story, in immediate wake of Flynn's scalp being taken, had immense impact and led to coalescing of demands for special counsel. Trump WH asked FBI to dampen false story. Needless to say, CNN seized on this reasonable request as supposed unprecedented interference

46/ Strzok gossiped as the FBI and their media co-conspirators burned the new administration.

47/ on March 1, we learn that "Whitehall is chasing" someone regarding Flynn, someone who Strzok was talking to right that minute. archive.is/XE94i This text is two weeks after Svetlana Lokhova had been put into play in smear article in London Times.

48/ the March 1 text is half way between Andrew's smear and a WSJ smear archive.is/CanJB in which Lokhova was named and libeled. Getting Flynn fired wasn't enough for resistance. They had bigger game (Trump) in their sights.

49/ a vignette on March 8: NYFO interview of Carter Page waiting for Comey's approval. Strzok and correspondent think that it's "terrible timing" and "unnecessary".

50/ Carter Page was interviewed the next day by Somma (Horowitz' Case Agent 1, now a SSA) and Case Agent 6 (not identified yet, but a 7+8).

51/ on Mar 21, Strzok is asked to give Crossfire briefing to Karen Miller, a new name. Perhaps this Section Chief at DOJ?
linkedin.com/in/karen-davis…

52/ on Mar 23, Strzok's penpal reports that he went to SSCI hearing, also attended by Bill E. (William Evanina). FWIW there was a closed hearing of SSCI that day.

52/ one big MISSING topic in these new texts: NOTHING about blockbuster Danchenko evidence on Jan 24, 2017. Not a single syllable thus far in any releases. Why???

53/ on March 24, 2017, Papadop contacted FBI and on Mar 27, Strzok et al ruminating on contact. Not mentioned by Mueller. Did FBI follow up? If not, why not?

54/ on Mar 28, one of Strzok's subordinates reported that he'd just met with one of Fusion's clients who had information. Have we seen anything about this? I don't recall anything.

55/ on Mar 31, Strzok and Page shared a good laugh at Sessions' plan to diligently pursue the (unprecedented) leaks. Strzok's counterintelligence was in charge of catching leakers. No wonder they snickered at promise by hapless Sessions.

53/ reader pointed out to me that I incorrectly interpreted Strzok as sender of this text, when he was recipient. I agree. On other hand, Strzok seems to have been read in on leak by FBI to WaPo and not trying to catch leakers.

54/ going back to Aug 8, 2016. Moffa prepared article for Comey, McCabe on historical context, going back to Soviet times. (Some of this material prob re-emerges in ICA which uncritically cites Mitrokhin, a Curveball predecessor). But this next is important:

55/ Moffa says "Trainor apparently ordered CyD to pull their info out ... and thinks the whole thing is stupid...I'm totally not understanding why it is so offensive. CyD appears to be missing the point". This seems like a hugely important dig-here.

56/ James C. Trainor was then the AD, Cyber Division fbi.gov/news/pressrel/… but retired in Oct 2016 to private sector job prnewswire.com/news-releases/… presumably with the gold pension that FBI employees got after 20-25 years.

57/ Trainor appears to have been replaced by Scott Smith fbi.gov/news/pressrel/…. Although hacking of DNC and WL publication was the casus belli, so to speak, Cyber Division involvement is not strongly visible in Crossfire Hurricane. Maybe behind some redactions.

58/ in any event, why did Trainor think that the "whole thing was stupid"? We've heard nothing from that perspective on events, yet it seems to be the most prescient. Why was this minority opinion withheld from policy makers?

59/ on Aug 17, Strzok and Pientka used supposed defensive briefing to candidate Trump as opportunity to carry out surveillance. Texts on Aug 23 refer to this incident. Pientka sought confirmation from Strzok to only write up assessment on Flynn (Razor) as he was declared subject

60/ but "leave the other two out other than I provided a CI brief". One presumes that candidate Trump was one of the "other two" and that Pientka orally reported to Strzok on his surveillance of Trump at briefing, then they concealed.

60/ since we KNOW that it was Pientka checking with Strzok at 12:32:48, worth noting that character length of redacted Pientka handle is (almost certainly) exactly one character less than Strzok handle and that he is first candidate for texts from person of that handle length.

61/ once you start looking, one can begin to easily identify Pientka texts when contiguous to Strzok text as reference length. Texts updating Strzok on Halper meeting are (99% prob) (unsurprisingly) from Pientka (one character shorter). Compare lengths for Page, Moffa.

61/ Remember how Papadop's mother said not to go with FBI when agents confronted him at parents' home. A detail sufficiently vivid to report to FBI HQ.

There is 302 on accosting P at home, just NOT on substantive interview. Naturally, it doesn't disclose Mom's warning.