Investigative Referral of Possible Clinton Campaign Plan
Late July 2016, U.S. intel “obtains insight” into Russian intel analysis that alleges a Clinton Plan to frame Trump for collusion with Russia
CIA Director Brennan briefs President Obama
(Note: Crossfire Hurricane begins just days later on July 30 2016)
An investigative referral is made by the CIA a month later on September 7, 2016 and forwarded to Comey and Strzok
Special Counsel Durham (referred to as The Office in this report) considered the Clinton Plan Intelligence relevant for two reasons:
1. It “arguably suggested that private actors affiliated with the Clinton campaign were seeking in 2016 to promote a false or exaggerated narrative to the public and to U.S. government agencies…”
“The Clinton Plan Intelligence prompted the Office to consider”
-Was there a plan?
-If there was, did it involved “intentionally [providing] knowingly false and/or misleading information to the FBI or other agencies in furtherance of such a plan”
*cough* CONSPIRACY *cough* RICO *cough*
2. The Clinton Plan was interested Durham because “it was part of the mosaic of information that became known to certain U.S. officials at or before the time they made critical decisions” re: Crossfire Hurricane and in related LE and intel efforts.
“Put another way, this intelligence—taken at face value—was arguably highly relevant and exculpatory because it could be read in fuller context, and in combination with other facts, to suggest that the materials such as the Steele Dossier reports and Alfa Bank allegations… were part of a political effort to smear [Trump] and use the resources of the federal government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies in support of a political objective.”
Conditions for bringing charges:
“if there was an intent by the Clinton campaign or its personnel to knowingly provide false information to the government—would such conduct potentially support criminal charges.
It was unknown, at the time, how accurate the Clinton Plan intel was.
Durham “endeavored to investigate the basis for, and credibility of, this intelligence…”
“The Classified Appendix to this report provides further information about (i) the details of the Clinton Plan intelligence; (ii) facts that heightened the potention relevance to [The Office]; and (iii) the Office’s efforts to verify or refute the key claims found in the intelligence.”
“As described more fully in the Classified Appendix, there were specific indications and additional facts that heightened the potential relevance of this intelligence to [Durham]. (!!!!!!!)
Also, spot the statement that “U.S. officials described the Clinton Plan intelligence in various was in their officials notes and documents.”!!
The CIA official who received the Clinton Plan intelligence “immediately recognized its importance” and “acted quickly to make CIA leadership aware of it.”
Durham got “Brennan’s office holdings”
Now Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, and Bondi have them!
July 28, 2016
CIA Director Brennan meets with President Obama and other White House personnel re: "intelligence relevant to the 2016 presidential election" and
"creation of an inter-agency Fusion Cell to synthesize and analyze intelligence" related to 2016 election influence by Russia.
Brennan meets with FBI Director Comey the next day.
Brennan, who was interviewed by Durham for approx eight hours in August 2020, couldn't remember when he saw the Clinton Plan intel, but "he did not think he had the information when he spoke to Comey" on July 29, 2016.
"Immediately after" conferring with Obama, Comey, and Clapper, "Brennan and other agency officials" take steps to control (silo) the "Russian election interference intelligence, including the Clinton Plan intelligence"
"Email traffic and witness interviews conducted by [Durham] reflect that at least some CIA personnel believed that the Clinton Plan intelligence led to the decision being made to set up a Fusion Cell."
Instead of properly investigating, verifying, or falsifying it, they siloed it into the Fusion Cell.
The complete opposite of what was done with the Steele Dossier—which some of these same people knew was Clinton oppo research.
With the Clinton Plan intel now highly classified, unverified, and safely siloed in the Fusion Cell of select staffing from various agencies, Brennan meets with others in the White House on August 3, 2016 and briefs them on it.
Crossfire Hurricane, the vehicle for the Clinton Plan, is already underway.
FBI learns of the Clinton Plan sometime before August 22, 2016.
A cyber analyst at the FBI sent an email regarding the Clinton Plan on that date to SIA Auten and Section Chief Moffa, and also to the Crossfire team...
Apparently no one responded or took action on it.
Ten days later, the guy running the Fusion Cell verbally briefs Auten, Moffa, and other FBI persons at HQ re: the Clinton Plan intel.
Crossfire Hurricane folks were (apparently) not included in the discussion.
This chat occurred because the CIA was about to send an official investigative referral based on the Clinton Plan intelligence!
This was a heads-up, FYSA, from the Fuson Cell to FBI-HQ.
On the same day or shortly prior to it, FBI Asst Director for Counterintel Bill Priestap pens notes on the Clinton Plan intel.
He's just been briefed by Moffa, Corsi, and Sporre.
Durham wanted to know more about this meeting, but ole' Bill refused to meet with him.
Perhaps Kash, Bongino, and Bondi can get Bill to have a chit-chat with them.
The CIA sends the investigative referral to the FBI five days later—September 7, 2016—and they address it to Comey and Strzok.
NO ONE WHO MET WITH DURHAM COULD RECALL RECEIVING THIS REFERRAL.
And no one could remember doing a damn thing about it.
As September came to a close, Comey, Clapper, and other high ranking NatSec officials receaved ANOTHER intelligence product on Russian interference in the 2016 election... which included the Clinton Plan Intelligence.
Apparently, it was ignored/neglected as well.
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The @USAO_SDFL "is recruiting prosecutors and restructuring its chain of command in preparation for a grand jury investigation expected to target former Justice Department officials and others involved in cases against President Donald Trump." 1/n
"The exact scope of the grand jury effort—which one of the individuals described as “special counsel oversight”—remains unclear."
I think it's worth providing some background on what's going on here, so I'll start there, but if you want to skip the background, go to post number [21] in this thread for a breakdown of what happened yesterday.
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Background
Nachmanoff is the district judge assigned to this case.
Nachmanoff ordered that all Rule 16 discovery material be provided to the defense by Oct 13.
85k pages of discovery was eventually turned over, but not all of it because...
‘A federal judge on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to turn over key evidence in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, expressing concern that the [DOJ] may have “indicted first and investigated later.”
I have a thread on the motion seeking grand jury materials here
Today, DOJ defended the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA.
In an order signed on Halloween, @AGPamBondi retroactively made Halligan a "Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025" and gave her the "authority" to conduct legal proceedings in EDVA.
The order also says...
"[S]hould a court conclude that Ms. Halligan's authority as Special Attorney is limited to particular matters, I hereby delegate to Ms. Halligan authority as Special Attorney to conduct and supervise the prosecutions in United States v. Corney (Case No. 1:25-CR-00272) and United States v. James (Case No. 2:25-CR-00122)."
Halligan's appointment is the basis of motions to dismiss in both the James Comey and Letitia James criminal cases.
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a senior judge out of South Carolina who isn't assigned either the Comey or James case, is handling the matter.
The above exhibit is attached to the gov't's filing in opposition to the motions to dismiss in both cases.
Prosecutors in the criminal case against Fmr FBI Dir James Comey have filed a response to defense's opposition to implementing a filter team.
Prosecutors want that team to review privileged materials seized from Daniel Richman during the Arctic Haze media leak investigation.
The filing says that Comey has asserted privilege (atty-client) over five text threads of communications between him and Person 3 from the indictment, Daniel Richman, who was counsel to Comey at the time of the communications.
A filter team is the appropriate method of handling this issue.
The remaining evidence HAS ALREADY BEEN FILTERED and was provided by Richman.
The defense has argued in their opposition that, while they are not opposed to a filter team being used, they want to challenge the underlying search warrants first and also want prosecutors to be more specific about what exactly they are seeking to extract from the seized material.
Prosecutors repond here:
"The government is not asking to look at the raw returns from prior search warrants. The government is simply asking for a judicially approved filter protocol as to a small and specific subset of evidence that was lawfully obtained consistent with the terms of a federal search warrant."
Defense files motion seeking disclosure of grand jury transcripts and audio recordings.
"The record in this case raises a significant risk that irregularities in the grand jury process may have influenced the grand jury to return an indictment...
Those irregularities may create a basis for dismissing the indictment."
"Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(E)(ii), a court may order the disclosure of grand jury materials “at the request of a defendant who shows that a ground may exist to dismiss the indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury.”"