{"id":1954261,"date":"2023-06-22T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-affirms-crossfire-hurricane-investigators-kept-in-dark-about-alleged-clinton-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:36:09","slug":"john-durham-affirms-crossfire-hurricane-investigators-kept-in-dark-about-alleged-clinton-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-affirms-crossfire-hurricane-investigators-kept-in-dark-about-alleged-clinton-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"John Durham confirms investigators in Crossfire Hurricane were unaware of the alleged Clinton plan."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjohn-durham-affirms-crossfire-hurricane-investigators-kept-in-dark-about-alleged-clinton-plan%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=1954261&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>Intelligence About Clinton&#8217;s Plan to Tie Trump to Russia Not Shared with FBI Agents, Says Special Counsel<\/h2>\n<p>Members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a>&#8216;s Crossfire Hurricane team were not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-friday-panic-cnn-airs-possible-path-for-trump-2020-win\/\" title=\"BLACK FRIDAY PANIC: CNN Airs Possible Path for Trump 2020 Win\">made aware<\/a> of intelligence about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>&#8216;s 2016 presidential campaign allegedly cooking up a plan to tie her rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> to Russia, according to Special Counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-durham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Durham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jim-jordan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH) got Durham to establish how the intelligence was important enough to be discussed by CIA Director John Brennan during a White House briefing with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden (who is now president of the United States), Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>That information came from a Russian intelligence report and was soon placed into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIA<\/a> referral memo addressed to Comey and Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who was involved in opening the Crossfire Hurricane inquiry. Yet, as told by Durham, Crossfire Hurricane agents who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-affirms-crossfire-hurricane-investigators-kept-in-dark-about-alleged-clinton-plan\/\" title=\"John Durham confirms investigators in Crossfire Hurricane were unaware of the alleged Clinton plan.\">recently started investigating alleged links<\/a> between Trump\u2019s campaign and Russia never got the memo.<\/p>\n<p>Durham said \u201cno\u201d when asked whether Comey shared the information with FBI agents on the case. He was then prompted to recount how 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> who had been involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation became distraught when Durham\u2019s team shared the intelligence with him during an interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Full exchange between Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jim_Jordan<\/a> and Special Counsel John Durham.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing continues LIVE on C-SPAN3 and online here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/To3Po9IsyS\">https:\/\/t.co\/To3Po9IsyS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/plHwPbxONk\">pic.twitter.com\/plHwPbxONk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1671523231021551616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe interviewed the first supervisor on the Crossfire investigation, the operational person,\u201d Durham said. \u201cWe showed him the intelligence information. He indicated he had never seen it before. He immediately became emotional, and got up and left the room with his lawyer, spent some time in the hallway, and came back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added later: \u201cThe information was kept from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/durhamreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/durham-report-makes-sobering-findings-about-fbis-handling-of-trump-russia-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> last month, indicated the \u201cClinton Plan intelligence\u201d could have been helpful to agents involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. \u201cMost\u201d of the individuals shown parts of the information by Durham\u2019s team advised they had never seen it before, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">special counsel\u2019<\/a>s report said.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report specifically points to British ex-spy Christopher Steele\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/01\/us\/trump-russia-investigation-dossier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-discredited<\/a> anti-Trump dossier, stemming from research funded by Clinton\u2019s campaign and the Democratic National Party, that the FBI was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/doj-inspector-general-finds-17-significant-errors-or-omissions-in-carter-page-fisa-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> to have improperly used to secure FISA surveillance warrants against onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. It also references the unfounded secret <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backchannel<\/a> between the Trump Organization and Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank that was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/793250312119263233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted<\/a> by Clinton and her team in the run-up to the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not the Clinton Plan intelligence was based on reliable or unreliable information, or was ultimately true or false, it should have prompted FBI personnel to immediately undertake an analysis of the information and to act with far greater care and caution when receiving, analyzing, and relying upon materials of partisan origins, such as the Steele Reports and the Alfa Bank allegations,\u201d Durham\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI also should have disseminated the Clinton Plan intelligence more widely among those responsible for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation so that they could effectively incorporate it into their analysis and decision-making, and their representations to the OI attorneys and, ultimately, the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court],\u201d Durham\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the FBI&#8217;s Crossfire Hurricane team were unaware of intelligence suggesting Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign planned to link Donald Trump to Russia, as revealed by Special Counsel John Durham. In a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) prompted Durham to confirm this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1954262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1954261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1954261","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}