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...told the OIG that if Source 2 had joined the campaign, the Crossfire Hurricane team
would not have used Source 2 "because that's not what we were after." He added
that having Source 2 in the campaign would have been difficult because "then
[Source 2] actually has a job to do and (Source 2 is] going to actually have to do
that job." Case Agent 2 told us that the reaction of the OGC attorneys advising the
Crossfire Hurricane team was "no freaking way" and that the team was not
"pushing for that. .. [because they were] not trying to get into the campaign." Case
Agent 2 said that by using Source 2 outside of the campaign, the Crossfire
Hurricane team could find "smart ways, and quiet ways to get information that we
can corroborate, that helps us understand what the heck Mr. Papadopoulos meant
by ... the Trump team received a suggestion from the Russians." Priestap said that
his first question was "what was Source 2's answer?" and that the response was
Source 2 did not want to join the campaign.
The OGC Unit Chief said that she remembered the team seeking her advice,
and said she told them they should not direct Source 2 to join the campaign, but
they also should not tell Source 2 not to join the campaign. She told the OIG her
advice was that Source 2 "should do what [Source 2] would normally do" and that
the Crossfire Hurricane team should "follow [Source 2's] lead." She added that she
was "grateful" when she learned that Source 2 did not want to join the Trump
campaign, because she said that if the Crossfire Hurricane team had wanted to
operate a CHS within the campaign (which she said none of the team members
ever proposed to her), that would have raised a host of complicated issues under
the FBI's Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG), including
undisclosed participation in political activities, appearance issues if it became
publicly known an FBI source was in the Trump campaign, and the potential that
the source could influence campaign policy or strategy.
complete transcript of the meeting, which was consensually monitored, but instead
"wrote up only the pertinent parts of whatever meetings occurred just
because ... doing a full transcript would have taken too long and it was just not
pertinent." We reviewed the Crossfire Hurricane team's partial transcript of Source
2's October 17, 2016 meeting with Carter Page.
During the meeting, Page told Source 2 that Page "never had any ambitions
to go into government regardless of who won"
Later in the conversation, Source 2 asked Papadopoulos directly whether help
"from a third party like WikiLeaks for example or some other third party like the
Russians, could be incredibly helpful" in securing a campaign victory. Papadopoulos
responded:
Well as a campaign, of course, we don't advocate for this type of
activity because at the end of the day it's, ah, illegal. First and
foremost it compromises the US national security and third it sets a
very bad precedence [sic].... So the campaign does not advocate for
this, does not support what is happening. The indirect consequences
are out of our hands.... [F]or example, our campaign is
not. .. engag[ing] or reaching out to wiki leaks or to the whoever it is to
tell them please work with us, collaborate because we don't, no one
does that.... Unless there's something going on that I don't know
which I don't because I don't think anybody would risk their, their life,
ah, potentially going to prison over doing something like that.
Um ... because at the end of the day, you know, it's an illegal, it's an
illegal activity. Espionage is, ah, treason. This is a form of treason ....
.
The indirect consequences
are out of our hands.... [F]or example, our campaign is
not. .. engag[ing] or reaching out to wiki leaks or to the whoever it is to
tell them please work with us, collaborate because we don't, no one
does that....
consensual monitoring of the August 20 meeting between Source 2 and
Carter Page was presented to McCabe, Priestap, then FBI General Counsel James
Baker, Strzok, Anderson and other FBI personnel during briefings on August 25,
2016. Baker told the OIG that what he remembered about the briefing
was feeling comfortable that the focus was on the Russians, the focus
was on trying to get foreign-intelligence information, [and] that this
other stuff [regarding the campaign] was part of the cover story and
not what we were interested in, and something that we ... just weren't
going to make any use of.
He added that "even though the FBI was collecting some type of political
information" through Source 2's conversation with Carter Page, the political
information "was not the focus of what we were after ... [and] it was being minimized
originally posted by: dashen
now.
a question to you all
whats did strzok and paige mean when they said obama wantss to know everythong we are doing?
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: dashen
Manafort was a bag man for the nomination and I read that in a few books. It helped bring in the needed donors but there was nothing illegal. He even worked for free which many people don't know about.
Now, 3 days after Trumps first intel briefing he had his resignation. I would love to know what was discussed in that meeting.
While we concluded that the investigative
activities undertaken by the Crossfire Hurricane team
involving CHSs and UCEs complied with applicable
Department and FBI policies, we believe that in certain
circumstances Department and FBI policies do not
provide sufficient oversight and accountability for
investigative activities that have the potential to gather
sensitive information involving protected First
Amendment activity, and therefore include
recommendations to address these issues.