Thread by @realjusthuman

From the Durham Report beginning on page 107

"the FBI had no intelligence about Trump or others associated with the Trump campaign being in contact with Russian intelligence officers during the campaign"

"Moreover, significant intelligence information that first became available for the FBI to review in 2018 showed that the Russians had access to sensitive U.S. government information years earlier that would have allowed them to identify Steele's subsources."

"Indeed, an experienced FBI analyst assessed that as a result of their access to the information, Steele's subsources could have been compromised by the Russians at a point in time prior to the date of the first Steele dossier report."

From the Classified Appendix to the Durham Report, beginning on page 4.

An excerpt from the March 2016 Russian memoranda:

"Among other things, the Clinton staff, with support from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations" re: Trump.

"special services" could be taken to mean the FBI or CIA

Or, more broadly speaking, it could mean the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

But it could also refer to the opposition research that Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS were already doing at the time of this memo.

This is the same report that indicated that Hillary was being protected by AG Lynch and the "threat" to her from the FBI's investigation of her email server was "minimal."

So minimal that her victory was certain.

So, the Russians, believing that Hillary was going to evade criminal liability over the server, that Hillary was going to win, and knowing that Hillary had hired FusionGPS plus Christopher Steele to do opposition research on Trump as part of a plan to smear him, and knowing who Steele's sources were...

Could EASILY have compromised those sources, fed them garbage, and played a game whereby they HELP Hillary smear Trump

And provide the FBI with the "oil" for the "fire."

Why would the Russians do this?

Because all of these people think Hillary is going to win.

They never thought she would lose.

The weight of the blackmail that Putin would have had against Hillary could be measured in square kilometers of Ukraine and Georgia, in the lifting of sanctions on Nord Stream, and who knows what else.

He would have all of these emails, he would know the sub-sources for Steele, he would know it was disinformation, he would know Hillary paid for it, he would know about the Clinton Plan, he would know about AG Lynch leaking to Amanda Renteria...

He would know it all.

So playing into the Clinton Plan, even just a little, was in his interests.

And the cost was cheap.

Feed some rumors to Peskov, Dolan, Danchenko, maybe others. They'll eat it up.

So will Steele.

After all, he's being paid to by Hillary.

So folks, who was REALLY colluding with the Russians in 2016?