{"id":1931505,"date":"2023-05-16T02:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-nothing-to-this-but-we-have-to-run-it-to-the-ground-anti-trump-fbi-agent-strzok-said-durham\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T02:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:45:46","slug":"theres-nothing-to-this-but-we-have-to-run-it-to-the-ground-anti-trump-fbi-agent-strzok-said-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-nothing-to-this-but-we-have-to-run-it-to-the-ground-anti-trump-fbi-agent-strzok-said-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Strzok said, &#8220;We must investigate thoroughly, even if it&#8217;s baseless.&#8221; &#8211; Durham."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftheres-nothing-to-this-but-we-have-to-run-it-to-the-ground-anti-trump-fbi-agent-strzok-said-durham%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=1931505&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--><h2>Lead FBI Investigator Opens Full Investigation into Trump-Russia Connections Based on Vague Account<\/h2>\n<p>Days after opening a full FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-the-bidens-got-rich-while-americans-got-robbed\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: 'The Bidens Got Rich While Americans Got Robbed'\">investigation<\/a> into connections between Donald Trump and Russia, lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok told a subordinate that \u201cthere\u2019s nothing to this, but we have to run it to the ground,\u201d the subordinate \u2014 a top official in the Bureau\u2019s London outpost\u2014told Special Counsel John Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Strzok opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-nothing-to-this-but-we-have-to-run-it-to-the-ground-anti-trump-fbi-agent-strzok-said-durham\/\" title=\"Strzok said, \"We must investigate thoroughly, even if it's baseless.\" - Durham.\">full investigation \u2014 skipping preliminary steps \u2014 based<\/a> on nothing but a brief and \u201cvague\u201d account by an Australian diplomat of a conversation in a London bar, and within hours had traveled to London. But when he explained why he had opened the investigation, neither the FBI employees there nor their British counterparts could believe it, according to a report released by Durham on Monday.<\/p>\n<h3>Brand-New Intelligence Analysts Assigned to Work Prominent and Politically Explosive Case<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s specialists on Russia had heard nothing about ties between Trump and Russia, making them skeptical. Instead of using Russia experts, the FBI then assigned brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-presses-supreme-court-to-end-men-only-draft\/\" title=\"ACLU Presses Supreme Court to End Men-Only Draft\">intelligence analysts<\/a> to work the most prominent and politically explosive case in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s Assistant Legal Attache in London (UK ALAT) told the Special Counsel that British intelligence agents \u201cdid not assess the information about the Russians and Trump, attributed to Papadopoulos, to be particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-founders-son-urges-israel-to-assassinate-hamas-leaders-after-ceasefire-teach-them-a-lesson\/\" title=\"Hamas Founder\u2019s Son Urges Israel To Assassinate Hamas Leaders After Ceasefire: \u2018Teach Them A Lesson\u2019\">valuable intelligence<\/a>. Indeed, he told the FBI\u2019s Inspection Division investigators that \u2018the British could not believe the Papadopoulos bar conversation was all there was,\u2019 and they were convinced the FBI must have had more information that it was holding back.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDude, are we telling them everything we know, or is there more to this?\u201d the ALAT wrote to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-covered-up-slow-response-to-sexual-assault-allegations-against-usa-gymnastics-doctor\/\" title=\"FBI Covered Up Slow Response To Sexual Assault Allegations Against USA Gymnastics Doctor\">supervisory special agent<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThat\u2019s all we have. Not holding anything back,\u201d the supervisor replied.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDamn that\u2019s thin,\u201d the ALAT said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI know. It sucks,\u201d the supervisor said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British agents felt the same way, raising concerns that Papadopolous was a low-level volunteer who seemed \u201cinsecure\u201d and trying to impress. The ALAT said that in discussing the matter with a \u201csenior British Intelligence Service-I official, the official was openly skeptical, said the FBI\u2019s plan for an operation made no sense, and asked UK ALAT-1 why the FBI did not just go to Papadopoulos and ask him what they wanted to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Inexperienced Intelligence Analysts Selected for Crossfire Hurricane<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s specialists on Russia had also heard nothing about ties between Trump and Russia. FBI officials in London assumed there was much more evidence given Strzok\u2019s urgency, but after it quickly became clear that there was not, they had to \u201cgrease the skids\u201d for it anyway because of pressure from top leadership, the ALAT said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom his vantage point, UK ALAT-1 saw that FBI executive management was pushing the matter so hard that \u2018there was no stopping the train,\u2019 and he told the OIG that, \u2018I mean it was, this thing was corning. So my job was to grease the skids for it, and that\u2019s what I did,&#8217;\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>FBI lawyer and Strzok mistress Lisa Page testified that the FBI used \u201cline level analysts who [were] super experts on Russia,\u201d but\u00a0 the FBI\u2019s Inspection Division found that the intelligence analysts \u201cselected for Crossfire Hurricane were uniformly inexperienced\u201d and that \u201c[n]one of them were subject matter expert analysts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Strzok was Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI\u2019s Counterintelligence Division. After his hyper-anti Trump text messages with his mistress were exposed, he has since become an open partisan with regular TV appearances. His comment, as recalled by the ALAT, could suggest that Strzok knowingly conducted a baseless operation from Day 1. The Russia probe went on to overshadow much of the Trump presidency, despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller previously concluding that there was no evidence of a conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Related: Read the Durham report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI probe into Trump-Russia links, but later said &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing to this, but we have to run it to the ground,&#8221; according to a top official in the Bureau&#8217;s London outpost who spoke to Special Counsel John Durham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1931506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7218,22199,11773,4235,6550,3618,4048,26855,26859],"class_list":["post-1931505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-we","tag-baseless","tag-durham","tag-investigate","tag-its","tag-riot","tag-said","tag-strzok","tag-thoroughly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931505","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}