Durham Report reveals government’s misinformation czars are the first to believe it.

Special Counsel John Durham’s Report Reveals FBI’s Role in Spreading Disinformation

After completing his long-awaited report on the 2016 election and related rot emanating from the FBI and intelligence agencies, Special Counsel John Durham has revealed some pretty damning conclusions. While some were already fairly obvious, such as the Steele dossier being a joke and Obama’s FBI attempting to spy on the regime’s enemies, the report also condemns the same feds who have appointed themselves the arbiters of all they consider “mis-, dis-, and malinformation.”

The Biggest Believers and Purveyors of Misinformation

The report reveals that it’s the powerful members of the Department of Justice, not some random QAnon Facebookers or moms who show up to talk at school board meetings, that are the biggest believers and purveyors of misinformation. When the feds received false information that supported their biases about Donald Trump, Russia, and the 2016 election, they gobbled it up hook, line, and sinker, no matter how unreliable the source or suspect the information.

• The FBI used Steele’s dossier as a pretext to spy on the Trump campaign, even though they were not able to confirm or corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the reports.
• Steele’s primary sub-source, Russian national Igor Danchenko, couldn’t corroborate Steele’s claims, but agents never told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about these inconsistencies when applying for warrants to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
• The FBI had more important things to do than verify the veracity of information. After all, they had Trump associates to spy on.

The overarching takeaway from the Durham report is that the FBI’s Russia hoax was straight disinformation. And the upper echelons of U.S. federal intelligence and investigation not only believed it, but they spread it so far and wide that many Democrats and the media still parrot it as the surest information there ever was. If misinformation is a bear trap, the feds are both the snagged bear and the scheming trapper.

The Censorship Complex

The federal government, from the FBI to the Department of State to the Department of Homeland Security and more, has played an integral role in the Censorship Complex. They throttle the speech of Americans for the crime of expressing wrongthink on anything from elections to viruses, or as they call it, misinformation, disinformation, and malformation.

Calling the FBI corrupt is akin to calling the pope Catholic. But don’t miss what the Durham report reveals about America’s self-appointed and heavily armed hall monitors of “misinformation”: They are the first suckers to believe it.

Kylee Griswold is the editorial director of The Federalist. Follow her on Twitter @kyleezempel.