{"id":1616628,"date":"2022-08-19T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616628"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:48:37","slug":"fbi-unit-leading-mar-a-lago-probe-earlier-ran-discredited-trump-russia-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-unit-leading-mar-a-lago-probe-earlier-ran-discredited-trump-russia-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-unit-leading-mar-a-lago-probe-earlier-ran-discredited-trump-russia-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump\u2019s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation of the bureau\u2019s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russiagate\">Russiagate<\/a> probe of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president\u2019s Florida estate is part of a counterintelligence case run out of Washington\u2014not Miami, as has been widely reported\u2014according to FBI case documents and sources with knowledge of the matter. The bureau\u2019s counterintelligence division led the 2016\u20132017 Russia \u201ccollusion\u201d investigation of Trump, codenamed \u201cCrossfire Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the former head of Crossfire Hurricane, Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his vitriolic anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, the sources say,\u00a0even though they are under active\u00a0investigation by both Durham and the bureau\u2019s disciplinary arm, the Office of Professional\u00a0Responsibility. The FBI declined to respond to\u00a0questions about any role they may be taking in the\u00a0Mar-a-Lago case.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team\u2014Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten\u2014has continued to be\u00a0involved in politically sensitive\u00a0investigations, including the ongoing federal probe of potentially incriminating content\u00a0found on the abandoned laptop of President Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden,\u00a0according to recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_justice_deptfbipoliticalbiasfollowup.pdf\">correspondence<\/a>\u00a0between the Senate Judiciary Committee and FBI Director Christopher Wray. FBI whistleblowers have alleged that Auten tried to falsely discredit derogatory evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 campaign by labeling it Russian \u201cdisinformation,\u201d an assessment that caused investigative activity to cease.<\/p>\n<p>Auten has been allowed to work on sensitive cases even though he has been under internal investigation\u00a0since 2019, when Justice Department\u00a0Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred him for disciplinary review for his\u00a0role in vetting a Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier used by the FBI to\u00a0obtain a series of wiretap warrants to spy\u00a0on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump\u2019s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation of the bureau\u2019s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump. The FBI\u2019s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president\u2019s Florida [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}