Senate Republicans continue their own investigation into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with the Russian government to steal the election.
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team eventually concluded, the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia, and a subsequent Inspector General report found that the FBI omitted evidence that would have called into question the years long investigation into the Trump administration as part of “Crossfire Hurricane.” Following the IG report, Senate Republicans and U.S. Attorney General William Barr launched separate investigations into the origins of the false collusion narrative.
As part of the Senate’s investigation, ex-FBI Director James Comey will testify on September 30. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night that Comey had agreed to testify, while Mueller said he didn’t have enough time.
“The day of reckoning is upon us when it comes to Crossfire Hurricane,” Graham said.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/fbi-james-comey-robert-mueller-testify-senate-lindsey-graham/">reported</a> that the committee would also interview the two FBI employees who spoke with the primary source for Christopher Steele’s dossier, which was used as the basis for the investigation into the Trump campaign. The primary source, Russia analyst Igor Danchenko, informed the FBI and the Justice Department in January 2017 that Steele embellished parts of his dossier, but the FBI didn’t include this information when applying for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Graham’s decision to interview the two FBI employees is a chance, he told Hannity, to find out which FBI agents knew about what Danchenko said during his interviews that would undermine the investigation.
“Now who did the intel analyst and the case agent tell?” Graham said. “We’re going to talk to them in the next week to 10 days.”
More from Ross:
<blockquote>The case agent has been identified as <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/24/case-agent-1-stephen-somma-fisa/">Steven Somma</a>, a veteran counterintelligence investigator in the FBI’s New York Field Office. Somma was involved in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane.
In addition to interviewing Danchenko, he was the FBI handler for Stefan Halper, a confidential source who secretly recorded Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, another Trump campaign aide.
The IG report said Somma, who is referred to as “Case Agent 1” in the report, was the first FBI investigator to propose applying for a FISA warrant against Page.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">reported</a>, the IG report found 17 “inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s FISA warrants against Carter Page, far higher than were found in dozens of other warrant requests as part of a random search conducted by the IG.
Among the omissions were information pertaining to Page’s past known communications with Russian officials. An FBI lawyer who is no longer with the bureau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-durham-criminal-investigation-for-allegedly-falsifying-evidence">pleaded guilty</a> to falsifying an email to remove the fact that the CIA told the FBI Page had worked with the agency.
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The producer of the pro-life film “<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/23/gosnell-sobering-depiction-evil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gosnell</a>” is raising funds for another project; this time tackling the “Russian Collusion Hoax” that has entangled the FBI and top intelligence and national security officials for years, according to a Thursday press release for the project.
Filmmaker and journalist Phelim McAleer, who is a contributor to The Daily Wire, plans to release the movie “Obamagate” in early October.
The film project, which is being <a href="https://obamagatethemovie.com/">crowdfunded</a>, will focus on the FBI under former director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-shreds-disgraced-former-fbi-director-james-comey-in-devastating-interview">James Comey</a>, as well as key players in ex-special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion such as former FBI special agent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-documents-show-fbi-used-a-briefing-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign-in-2016">Peter Strzok</a> and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The October release was picked to counter the narratives of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/showtimes-james-comey-mini-series-drops-right-in-time-for-election-heres-everything-we-know-about-it">Showtime’s</a> “big budget, pro-Comey mini-series called ‘The Comey Rule’” and Strozk’s upcoming, “self-aggrandising memoir.”
“Showtime has created ‘The Comey Rule’ which is based on a political fairytale and a conspiracy theory that is told by the left in a shameless attempt to take down President Trump. It’s simply untrue, and despite this, the media is gushing over ‘The Comey Rule.’ Americans deserve the truth,” McAleer said.
“Showtime is spending tens of million[s] of dollars to tell this lie and that’s why we’re creating ‘Obamagate The Movie,’ to set the record straight,” he continued. “Whereas Showtime and ‘The Comey Rule’ rely on dramatic fiction written by left-wing Hollywood writers, ‘Obamagate The Movie’ is non-fiction and it is solely composed of the texts, emails, messages, and transcripts that clearly show the Deep State plot to take down President Trump. We are giving viewers the word-for-word facts so they can decide for themselves.”
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McAleer’s movie is named after former President Barack Obama who, though he is not a prominent figure in the film itself, was instrumental in the launch of the original FBI investigation into the Trump campaign over alleged Russian collusion.
“The Russia Collusion Hoax started under his presidency, under his FBI,” McAleer told The Daily Wire in an email. “We had the outgoing administration spying on senior members of their political rivals campaign. If republicans did this &#8211; it would be treated like WaterGate but the mainstream media just seem to want the scandal to go away.”
Actors Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson will play “‘FBI Lovebirds’ Peter Strzok and Lisa Page,” while John James, who starred in the original Dynasty TV series, will play James Comey.
“Obamagate” will be filmed “Hamilton style” as a play. The script has been pulled “completely verbatim” from FBI files, court documents, text messages, and tweets sent out by the real people being portrayed.
“If you wanted to tell a story with just one perspective, you can do anything you want and you can change people’s perceptions of what took place,” Cain said in the press release. “When you do something verbatim, the words are there and it’s pretty darn clear. The verbatim texts themselves are damning.”
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‘Russian Collusion Hoax’ Exposed In New ‘Obamagate’ Movie On Comey’s FBI

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FBI documents and communications that were recently declassified show the bureau treated foreign interference on Hillary Clinton’s campaign differently than it did with President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the documents on Sunday with a lengthy statement about the contents:
<blockquote>There was a clear double standard by the Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump and Clinton campaigns in 2016.
These newly released documents indicate that a foreign government was trying to influence the Clinton campaign through a campaign associate and the FBI was seeking a FISA warrant. However, the Bureau, as it is supposed to do, required that Hillary Clinton be defensively briefed about the matter so she could engage in corrective action.
When it came to the Trump campaign, there were four counterintelligence investigations opened against Trump campaign associates.  Not one time was President Trump defensively briefed about the FBI’s concerns.
Even more egregious, when the FBI gave a generic briefing to the Trump campaign about foreign influence, not only did they fail to mention the specific concerns about Trump associates, they sent an FBI agent into the briefing to monitor President Trump and General Flynn.
The FBI used the generic briefing as an intelligence gathering tool, which I believe to be inappropriate and shameful.
The FBI did the right thing by briefing Clinton and failed to do the right thing by never specifically briefing President Trump about their concerns.
Counterintelligence investigations are designed to protect American interests from foreign influence. They are not criminal in nature.
Given all the stunning revelations of FBI bias compiled by Inspector General Horowitz and others, it is clear to me why there was double standard — the FBI was not trying to protect the Trump campaign, they were trying to infiltrate the campaign and undermine his presidency.
My goal is to make sure we have tools to protect American political campaigns from foreign influence, but these tools cannot be used as political weapons by law enforcement or prosecutors.
I will, as Chairman of the Committee, try to reform the FISA counterintelligence programs because they are necessary tools in the times in which we live. However, no reform will work until those who abused the programs in the past are held accountable by either dismissal or prosecution. Without accountability there will never be trust.
Finally, I appreciate the hard work of the Senate Judiciary Committee staff in finding the documents and Attorney General Barr and Director Wray for helping secure their release. The American people deserve a full accounting of the misdeeds by the FBI and DOJ. I will continue to push forward in that endeavor.</blockquote>
The latest documents include written recollections from FBI agents who provided the defensive briefing to the Clinton campaign as well as a summary of what would have been covered during that briefing. Emails between the FBI headquarters and a field officer were also released, including messages with former FBI Director James Comey.
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A former FBI lawyer will reportedly plead guilty to falsifying a document that FBI officials used to renew FISA warrants that were used to surveil the Trump campaign in 2016.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/politics/kevin-clinesmith-durham-investigation.html">reported</a> that the lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, &#8220;who was assigned to the Russia investigation, plans to admit that he altered an email from the C.I.A. that investigators relied on to seek renewed court permission in 2017 for a secret wiretap on the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who had at times provided information to the spy agency.&#8221;
Clinesmith is expected to be <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7036409/Clinesmith-Document-2020-08-14.pdf">charged</a> in federal court on one felony count of making a false statement.
The New York Times’ report repeatedly sought to downplay the significance of the development, attempting to portray it as falling short of what Trump allies have alleged happened.
For example, The New York Times states at the top of the report: “Prosecutors are not expected to reveal any evidence of a broad anti-Trump conspiracy among law enforcement officials.” The report then waits nearly 400 words before telling readers that Attorney General William Barr said last night on Fox News that the development that was coming today, which is on Clinesmith’s decision to plead guilty, was not “an earth-shattering development, but it is an indication that things are moving along at the proper pace, as dictated by the facts in this investigation.”
The New York Times failed to inform readers that Barr stated that “there are going to be developments, significant developments, before the election” that come out of the criminal investigation.
“There are two different things going on,” Barr said. “One, I’ve said that the American people need to know what actually happened, we need to get through the story of what happened in 2016 and 2017, now, out. That will be done.”
“The second aspect of this is, if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated the criminal law, they will be charged,” Barr continued. “And John Durham is an independent man, highly experienced, and his investigation is pursuing apace.”
National Review Senior Writer David Harsanyi also took issue with the report, writing, &#8220;I won&#8217;t even link to the Adam Goldman story in the Times. He&#8217;s consistently been the most dishonest &#8216;reporter&#8217; on this story in the country. It&#8217;s unmitigated hackery.&#8221;
Federalist co-founder Sean Davis also took issue with the way that The New York Times reported the story, writing: &#8220;The charging documents against Clinesmith prove the NYT piece is nonsense. On three separate occasions, Clinesmith and the FBI withheld from the FISA court the fact that Carter Page was a CIA source. On the fourth, Clinesmith doctored evidence.&#8221;
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The charging documents against Clinesmith prove the NYT piece is nonsense. On three separate occasions, Clinesmith and the FBI withheld from the FISA court the fact that Carter Page was a CIA source. On the fourth, Clinesmith doctored evidence. <a href="https://t.co/pkWqX9p2Pg">https://t.co/pkWqX9p2Pg</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1294312240737386497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway tweeted: &#8220;Intel source just described NYT&#8217;s writeup of Clinesmith story as &#8216;Beyond Pravda.&#8217; &#8216;This totally insults my intelligence.'&#8221;
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Intel source just described NYT&#39;s writeup of Clinesmith story as &quot;Beyond Pravda.&quot; &quot;This totally insults my intelligence.&quot;
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1294319417317298179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington also called out the report for its bias, noting that the newspaper was not a &#8220;neutral arbiter&#8221; of the truth.
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Look at the bias. These are not neutral arbiters
What did Klinesmith plead guilty to?
NYT says no evidence of &quot;broad anti-Trump conspiracy&quot; except the guy who the day after President Trump won said &quot;Viva le resistance&quot; just pleaded guilty to falsifying evidence to SPY on Trump <a href="https://t.co/Lha1jyEIvu">pic.twitter.com/Lha1jyEIvu</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1294308122929094656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Attorney General William Barr told Fox News on Thursday night that there are &#8220;significant developments&#8221; coming before the election in U.S. Attorney John Durham&#8217;s criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016.
Barr said that some developments will be made public as soon as tomorrow.
“There are two different things going on,” Barr said. “One, I’ve said that the American people need to know what actually happened, we need to get through the story of what happened in 2016 and 2017, now, out. That will be done.”
“The second aspect of this is, if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated the criminal law, they will be charged,” Barr continued. “And John Durham is an independent man, highly experienced, and his investigation is pursuing apace. There was some delay because of COVID, but I&#8217;m satisfied with the progress, and I&#8217;ve said there are going to be developments, significant developments, before the election, but we’re not doing this on the election schedule.”
“We’re aware of the election, we’re not going to do anything inappropriate before the election, but we’re not being dictated to by this schedule. What’s dictating the timing of this are developments in the case, and there will be developments. Tomorrow, there will be a development in the case – it&#8217;s not an Earth-shattering development, but it is an indication that things are moving along at the proper pace as dictated by the facts in this investigation,” Barr continued.
Barr later added, “When we feel we can prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt, it will be charged, I can tell you that.”
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Breaking News: AG Bill Barr says there are *significant developments* coming in the Durham investigation before the election, including as soon as tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/7TlmYDPKtM">pic.twitter.com/7TlmYDPKtM</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1294091121895731200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Durham has been praised for his tenacity, fairness, and experience in prosecuting cases under both Democrat and Republican administrations.
“He is aggressive, tireless and fair,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-is-john-durham-prosecutor-russia-probe">said</a> former U.S. attorney for Connecticut Deirdre Daly. “He has been tapped by the Justice Department under previous Democratic and Republican administrations to conduct sensitive and significant investigations, so he has done this before for both sides of the aisle, so to speak.”
“What’s critically important here is that he is independent and apolitical,” Daly added.
Durham had originally started out by conducting an administrative review of the events that transpired regarding the FBI&#8217;s surveillance of the Trump campaign. However, the administrative review quickly turned into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-administrative-review-into-russia-probe-takes-serious-turn">criminal investigation</a> in response to things that Durham allegedly found during the review.
Bret Baier and Jake Gibson of Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-investigation-trump-campaign-surveillance-expanded-scope">reported</a> last October that “based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation, adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.”
“Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham traveled to Italy recently to talk to law enforcement officials there about the probe and have also had conversations with officials in the U.K. and Australia about the investigation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings,” Baier and Gibson added.
This report has been updated to include additional information.
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AG Barr: ‘Significant Developments’ Coming In Durham Probe Before Election, Including Tomorrow

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Federal law enforcement officials are investigating after a U.S. soldier was hit with a bullet while flying in a military helicopter over Virginia earlier this week.
&#8220;An Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter was conducting a routine training mission when it was struck by a bullet a little before 1 p.m. Monday,&#8221; USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/12/us-air-force-helicopter-shot-over-virginia-fbi-investigating/3359749001/">reported</a>, citing an Air Force official who was not authorized to disclose the matter publicly. &#8220;The helicopter was about 1,000 feet above ground and heading for the Manassas Regional Airport and the shot was fired near Middleburg, Va, the official added.&#8221;
&#8220;The Office of Special Investigations is fully engaged with our FBI colleagues on this incident,&#8221; the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. &#8220;OSI take threats to our Airmen and our resources very seriously. As this is an ongoing investigation, no further investigative details can be released at this time.&#8221;
FBI agents were immediately dispatched to the Manassas Regional Airport after learning about the incident.
In a <a href="https://www.wxii12.com/article/stitch-first-black-auburn-student-receives-master-s-degree/33585820">statement</a>, the FBI said:
<blockquote>On Monday, August 10, at approximately 12:00 p.m., the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) dispatched Special Agents and its Evidence Response Team to the Manassas Airport after receiving reports that a helicopter was shot at from the ground nearby.
WFO is working jointly with our law enforcement partners, including the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. One individual in the helicopter sustained a non-threatening injury, for which he was treated and subsequently released from the hospital The FBI asks that anyone near this area at the time of the incident who may have information please call the FBI at 202-278-2000.</blockquote>
The soldier who was injured was treated at a hospital for the injuries sustained in the incident, and was later released.
The helicopter was reportedly damaged during the incident, although specific details were not immediately available.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/air-force-helicopter-shot-fbi-investigation.html">noted</a> that the helicopter is part of the 1st Helicopter Squadron, which is &#8220;known for its role in providing transportation for federal government and foreign dignitaries, as well as conducting evacuations and rescues.&#8221;
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Top FBI officials made copies of memos written by former Director James Comey on his meetings with President Donald Trump and hid those copies “in remote locations around the bureau,” aiming to shield them from the administration.
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin revealed the steps FBI brass took to protect its investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russia in Toobin’s new book, “TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump.” CNN published an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/jeffrey-toobin-trump-fbi-mueller-true-crimes-and-misdemeanors/index.html">excerpt</a> of the book on Thursday.
In early 2017 after Trump took office, then-FBI Director James Comey feared that Trump would quash an ongoing investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 election. The investigation was almost solely based on the debunked <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/new-documents-show-fbi-drove-trump-russia-collusion-investigation-forward-despite-lack-of-evidence-distrust-in-steele-dossier">Steele dossier</a>.
Comey’s fear drove him to write <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-comeys-memos-released-media-ryan-saavedra">memos</a> on conversations he had with the president and share those memos with top FBI staff. After Comey’s ouster from the bureau in May 2017, top FBI officials worried that they would be next and took steps to shield the Russia investigation.
Toobin writes in his upcoming book:
<blockquote>The FBI took extraordinary – and previously undisclosed – steps to protect its investigations.
From Comey&#8217;s first meetings with Trump, shortly after he won the presidency, the FBI director developed misgivings about his new boss&#8217; behavior – about Trump&#8217;s demands for &#8220;loyalty,&#8221; and even more unnerving, his request that the Bureau drop its investigation of Flynn. Comey&#8217;s conversations with Trump had been so distressing that the director started writing up contemporaneous summaries of their interactions and sharing them with a handful of top officials at the Bureau. Now, suddenly, Comey was out – and the question arose of what to do with his memos about his conversations with the President.</blockquote>
Andrew McCabe served as Comey’s deputy director and became acting director for the bureau after Comey was fired. McCabe made the first moves to hide the memos.
<blockquote>Given the wild pace of events, McCabe couldn&#8217;t be sure how long he&#8217;d last as director, so he wanted to lock down as much evidence as possible. Most important, he told the investigating agents to place Comey&#8217;s memos in SENTINEL, the FBI&#8217;s case management software. McCabe knew that once documents were inside the system, they were virtually impossible to remove. With Comey&#8217;s memos in the system, the investigators were certain to have access to them – even if McCabe himself would eventually be gone.
Indeed, FBI officials even went a step farther. Once McCabe became director, Bureau employees grew so concerned that Trump would try to shut down the investigation that they secreted at least three copies of key documents, including Comey&#8217;s memos, in remote locations around the Bureau. This was to make sure that in the event Trump directed an end to these inquiries, the documents could always be preserved, located, and shared.</blockquote>
After Comey was removed from his post, he took steps to ensure that his memos would be uncovered by leaking the contents of those memos to a journalist. The former FBI director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-comey-reveals-he-leaked-memos-containing-james-barrett">admitted</a> to leaking the memos, which contained classified information, to a friend who gave the information to a reporter.
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Book: FBI Brass Took ‘Extraordinary’ Steps To Hide Russia Investigation Docs From Trump

Top FBI officials made copies of memos written by former Director James Comey on his meetings with President Donald Trump and hid those copies “in remote

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On July 4, eight people were shot at a gathering in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, the youngest was just 11 years old. Four of the victims died as a result of their injuries, including 14-year-old Vernado Jones, Jr.
Now the FBI is <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/vernado-jones-jr">offering a $25,000 reward</a> to anyone with information leading to the arrests of the perpetrators who killed Jones and three others.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s Chicago Field Office, along with the Chicago Police Department in Illinois, are seeking the public&#8217;s assistance in identifying the unknown individuals responsible for the murder of Vernado Jones, Jr., on July 4, 2020,” the FBI said. “Jones, Jr., who was 14 years old at the time of his death, was shot when unknown individuals opened fire on a gathering in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, after 11:30 p.m. on July 4, 2020. A total of eight victims were shot &#8211; including two other children &#8211; and Jones, Jr., was one of four fatalities.”
Jones’ aunt Nancy Wardlaw-Williams <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/7/21316675/teen-slain-in-englewood-was-already-amazing-with-so-much-more-life-to-live-family-says">told</a> the Chicago Sun-Times that her nephew planned to play basketball professionally.
“He was going to be our great basketball star,” she told the outlet. “I told him, ‘I’m waiting on my NBA tickets.’”
“Vernado was a wonderful kid. He had so much more life to live. So much more life to live,” she added. “And we’re deeply hurt. The entire family is deeply hurt.”
Other family members told the Sun-Times that Jones was preparing to attend the Simeon Career Academy – the same school NBA player Derrick Rose attended.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-14-people-shot-near-chicago-funeral-home-feds-planning-to-deploy-to-city">has documented</a>, violent crime in Chicago is on the rise. Last week, more than a dozen people were shot outside a funeral home in the city after leaving a service.
“People in a black vehicle opened fire on the group as they left the funeral, [First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter] said … at least 60 shell casings were found at the scene,” the Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/7/21/21333544/multiple-people-shot-gresham-79th-gun-violence">reported</a>. “Fourteen people were being treated at five area hospitals, Carter said. Police said their conditions were unknown, while Chicago fire officials said at least 11 of them were listed in serious-to-critical condition.”
Two days later, Chicago police released video footage of a violent altercation on a bridge that crosses the Chicago River near the city’s high-end shopping district, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-pd-releases-footage-of-deadly-shooting-near-downtown-tourist-areas">reported</a>.
“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJy3sTz3Ww&amp;feature=emb_title">The video, which is graphic</a>, shows an altercation that happened July 19th on the 300 block of North Wabash, on the bridge that connects the city’s Loop central business district with its touristy River North district, just south of Chicago’s Trump Tower,” The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reported.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-release-video-of-deadly-shooting-in-hopes-of-nabbing-suspects">reported</a> that the video showed “a group of about 10 men walking on the Wabash Avenue Bridge before a few of them look off toward the street. Police highlight one man wearing black pants and a black T-shirt who then pulls out a gun and holds it in his right hand.”
“A few moments later, the man opens fire, as another suspect behind him appears to pull out a weapon and fire off a few rounds. Chaos quickly ensues as people scramble for cover and drop to the ground,” the outlet added.
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FBI Offers $25,000 Reward For Information On Shooting Death Of Chicago Teen, 3 Others

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Hillary Clinton famously tried to move past the Obama administration’s mistakes in Benghazi by claiming, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Now another former Obama official wants to pretend nothing happened just because a few years have passed. Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett suggested Tuesday we all move on from how the previous administration used the FBI to spy on its opponent, then-candidate Donald Trump, in 2016.
Appearing on Fox Business with host Maria Bartiromo, Jarrett tried to absolve the FBI investigators who looked into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election – an investigation that resulted in a two-year special counsel investigation that found no collusion.
&#8220;Well, Maria, look, I have a high degree of confidence that our of intelligence community, our investigators comported themselves responsibly,” Jarrett said. “Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI.”
McCain was involved in jumpstarting the allegations that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia, but Jarrett ignores the major role the Obama FBI played in inappropriately surveilling campaign adviser Carter Page. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">reported</a>, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found 17 “inaccuracies and omissions” in FISA warrant applications to spy on Page. The FBI blatantly ignored information from a U.S. government agency that said it had a prior relationship with Page involving contacts with Russian intelligence officers. An FBI agent went so far as to alter an email to make it look like this agency said Page did not work with them.
The FBI hid this information from the FISA court in order to obtain another warrant to continue investigating Page, even though it knew there was nothing to investigate. By spying on Page, the FBI gained access to other Trump associates to spy on in order to find some evidence that could be used against Trump.
Jarrett then pushed the blame for the dubious investigation onto former FBI Director James Comey, who was a major player in the whole situation, but she again pushes the blame from the Obama administration.
“So, I can’t tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation. Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle. But I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I would like to see going on,&#8221; Jarrett said.
Jarrett is essentially demanding we move on from the biggest scandal in political history since Watergate because it happened four years ago. She neglects that two years were spent investigating Trump, while DOJ-appointed investigators are continuing to work on how that dubious investigation began. Newly declassified documents continue to paint a picture of an FBI that knew there was no evidence of collusion, but continued to investigate and leak information to the press to create a narrative that Trump stole the election. The real scandal is the investigation itself, which started at the behest of the Obama administration.
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Former Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett Wants To Move On From Origins Of Trump-Russia Investigation: ‘It Was Four Years Ago’

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Hillary Clinton famously tried to move past the Obama administration’s mistakes in Benghazi by claiming, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, hinted to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; on Sunday that big news was coming regarding those involved in the FBI’s dubious investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and its alleged ties to the Russian government.
As a reminder, a two-year special counsel investigation found no collusion between the campaign and Russia, yet media outlets continue to suggest one exists.
Graham and other Senate Republicans have been releasing declassified documents showing that the FBI knew before the special counsel investigation began that evidence did not suggest collusion, yet continued to go after Trump and his associates anyway.
On Sunday, Graham told Bartiromo to “Stay tuned next week” to learn more about the investigation into the Trump campaign.
“Not only do we now know that the FBI lied to the FISA court about the reliability of the dossier. They told the court that the subsource was truthful and cooperative and Russian-based. The truth of the matter is that the subsource was American-based. He was an employee of Christopher Steele, who was on the payroll of the Democratic Party. And he told Christopher Steele, this is all a bunch of hearsay. And when the FBI understood that the dossier was no longer reliable, they continued to use it. But we also now have found — and this will come out next week — that Congress got suspicious about the Russian subsource and the reliability of the Steele dossier and that members of Congress asked to be briefed about it,” Graham said.
Though the FBI denied that the Steele dossier was the basis for the investigation into the Trump campaign, FISA court applications show it was, in fact, the primary source. The articles used to bolster its claims were all based on the dossier and briefings from Steele himself – essentially circular reporting.
Graham went on to say that the FBI lied both to the FISA court about the reliability of the Steele dossier and also to Congress, which is illegal.
“Somebody needs to go to jail,” Graham said.
The Steele subsource Graham mentioned is Igor Dancheko, a researcher connected to the Brookings Institute, who was based in the U.S. and not in Russia, as the FBI and Steele claimed. The mainstream media has taken issue with Dancheko’s outing, ignoring the bigger story of the FBI lying to Congress and the American people – and the media.
<a href="https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/27/graham-fbi-lied-steele-dossier-congress-2018-somebody-needs-go-jail/">Transcript via Ed Morrissey</a>:
<blockquote>BARTIROMO: What did the FBI say to Congress? Because I remember John Brennan in testimony to — in front of Trey Gowdy. And he said to Trey Gowdy, we did not use the dossier. It was a small part of the overall mosaic. What about the FBI and what it told Congress? Is lying to Congress a 10-year felony, as Trey Gowdy has said on this program?
GRAHAM: So, stay tuned. Next week, you are going to learn more. Not only do we now know that the FBI lied to the FISA court about the reliability of the dossier. They told the court that the subsource was truthful and cooperative and Russian-based. The truth of the matter is that the subsource was American-based. He was an employee of Christopher Steele, who was on the payroll of the Democratic Party. And he told Christopher Steele, this is all a bunch of hearsay. And when the FBI understood that the dossier was no longer reliable, they continued to use it. But we also now have found — and this will come out next week — that Congress got suspicious about the Russian subsource and the reliability of the Steele dossier and that members of Congress asked to be briefed about it.
I will tell you next week what I found. And here is what I think I’m going to be able to show to the public. Not only did the FBI lie to the court about the reliability of the Steele dossier. They also relied — lied to the Congress. And that is a separate crime.
BARTIROMO: So, that is a second criminal — that is a second criminal act, then?
GRAHAM: And this is in 2018. So, again, I want to emphasize this, that the Congress got suspicious, the Intelligence Committee did, about Steele and the reliability of the dossier. The intelligence community did not want to include the dossier in the intelligence assessment provided to President Trump about the 2016 campaign because they didn’t trust it. So, they started asking questions at the FBI in 2018 about the subsource and how reliable this information was. And I found the notes that the FBI used to prepare that briefing. Mr. Horowitz told us about them. I found them.
Stay tuned next week. You’re going to find, not only did the FBI lie to the FISA court. They lied their ass off to the Congress.</blockquote>
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‘Somebody Needs To Go To Jail’: Lindsey Graham Says FBI Lied To Congress While Investigating Trump Campaign

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, hinted to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News&#039; &quot;Sunday Morning Futures&quot; on Sunday that big

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The most recent trove of declassified documents shows the FBI used the pretense of a defensive briefing as an opportunity to spy on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/declassified-documents-show-fbi-used-defensive-briefing-in-2016-to-spy-on-donald-trump/#.XxoHAzWE1CQ.twitter">reported</a> that the documents, which were declassified Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and provided to senators on the Finance and Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committees, are just the latest to show how far the FBI was willing to go to make a case against the Trump campaign.
“In one of the documents declassified and released on Wednesday, FBI supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka wrote that he deliberately used the briefing to ‘actively listen for topics or questions’ from Trump ‘regarding the Russian Federation.’ Rather than provide the Trump campaign a specific warning that certain campaign principals were being targeted by Russian intelligence, the FBI instead gave a general, non-specific warning that foreign intelligence services might eventually target the campaign,” the outlet reported. “Pientka’s written summary of the briefing noted that Trump, Michael Flynn, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were the only three Trump campaign members in attendance. Christie’s attendance had not previously been disclosed. The August 17, 2016 meeting came the day after the FBI opened a formal counterintelligence investigation against Flynn and just two days after FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok texted his former lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page, about an ‘insurance policy’ he had designed to keep Trump from becoming president.”
Pientka wrote in his notes that the meeting lasted roughly two hours, during which time he spent just 13 minutes providing the Trump campaign members a warning about foreign interference. He then complained about other intelligence officials not having enough time to provide the campaign with their own material suggesting foreign interference.
“Due to time constraints, not all ODNI briefers presented their material,” Pientka wrote, ignoring the fact that he used the meeting to spy on the Trump campaign. He didn’t address whether that may have kept other intelligence officials from providing their information to the campaign.
Pientka, according to a report from the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), “was selected to provide the FBI briefings, in part, because Flynn, who was a subject in the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation, would be attending the Trump campaign briefing.” Pientka told the OIG that he was sent to the meeting to “record” or “overhear” from the attendees “any kind of admission” that they were colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. Pientka also wanted to study Flynn’s “overall mannerisms” to potentially use as a base against him in the future.
Pientka was present during the FBI’s interview on January 24, 2017, where agents questioned Flynn about a phone call from months earlier with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Even though the FBI already had a transcript of the phone call, they questioned Flynn to try to trip him up so they could charge him with lying. The charges against Flynn were dropped earlier this year.
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New Documents Show FBI Used A Briefing To Spy On The Trump Campaign In 2016

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The most recent trove of declassified documents shows the FBI used the pretense of a defensive briefing as an opportunity to spy on President Donald

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Although the FBI has arrested three Chinese visa holders suspected of having memberships in the People’s Liberation Army, a fourth research visa fraud suspect is being protected in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, where U.S. law enforcement cannot enter unless invited.
The People&#8217;s Liberation Army is under the command of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.
“Four individuals have recently been charged with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), while in the United States conducting research. Three of these individuals have been arrested and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking the fourth who is a fugitive from justice currently being harbored at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco,” the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researchers-charged-visa-fraud-after-lying-about-their-work-china-s-people-s-liberation-army">Department of Justice</a> stated.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers stated, “These members of China’s People Liberation Army applied for research visas while hiding their true affiliation with the PLA. This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic institutions. We will continue to conduct this investigation together with the FBI.”
“The United States welcomes students, academics, and researchers from across the globe. Today’s announcement shows the extreme lengths to which the Chinese government has gone to infiltrate and exploit America’s benevolence,&#8221; said John Brown, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI&#8217;s National Security Branch, adding, “In interviews with members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in over 25 cities across the U.S., the FBI uncovered a concerted effort to hide their true affiliation to take advantage of the United States and the American people.”
The DOJ said of the suspect who is being kept in the Chinese consulate, Juan Tang, that she is a uniformed officer of the PLA Air Force (PLAAF). The DOJ continued, “As set forth in the complaint, the FBI found a photograph of Tang in a military uniform and references to Tang’s employment at the Air Force Military Medical University, which has also been known as the Fourth Military Medical University. The FBI interviewed Tang on June 20. Although Tang denied having been a member of the military, an additional photograph of Tang in a different PLA military uniform was found on electronic media seized pursuant to a search warrant.&#8221;
“The FBI has interviewed visa holders in more than 25 U.S. cities suspected of hiding their Chinese military memberships, the Justice Department said on Thursday, as part of what experts called the biggest known crackdown on the theft of U.S. know-how in more than 40 years of Sino-U.S. relations,” <a href="https://wkzo.com/news/articles/2020/jul/23/chinese-fugitive-being-harbored-in-san-francisco-consulate-fbi-interviewing-visa-holders-nationwide/1042543/">WKZO</a> reported, adding, “Experts called it the largest known crackdown on the theft of American intellectual property since the two nuclear-armed powers began the process that led to the establishment of diplomat relations in 1979.”
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U.S. Pursues Chinese Researcher At San Francisco Consulate

Chinese Researcher Tied To Chinese Military Hiding From FBI In Chinese Consulate

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President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday that they were expanding Operation Legend into two additional cities that have been deemed to be &#8220;plagued by recent violence.&#8221;
&#8220;Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime,&#8221; the DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-joins-president-donald-j-trump-announce-expansion-operation">said</a> in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;Operation Legend is named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.&#8221;
The operation launched a couple of weeks ago in Kansas City and is now expanding into Chicago and Albuquerque, both of which have seen significant increases in violent crime. Barr directed the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, DEA, and ATF to significantly ramp up federal resources to the two Democrat-controlled cities.
The federal operation in Chicago will include:
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<li>The Department of Justice will supplement state and local law enforcement agencies by sending over 100 federal investigators from the FBI, DEA, and ATF to the city.</li>
<li>The investigatory efforts will be advanced by more than 100 members of the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Task Force, which will direct violent fugitive apprehension operations within Chicago to identify wanted gang members, violent criminals, and firearms violators.</li>
<li>The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are also committing at least 100 agents, already stationed in Chicago, to Operation Legend. HSI agents will conduct investigations into gangs, narcotics traffickers, violent offenders, and firearms traffickers.</li>
<li>To further support the Chicago Police Department in reducing violent crime, ATF has deployed its national Crime Gun Intelligence Mobile Command Vehicle to assist local law enforcement with analysis of crime scenes and spent shell casings through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN).</li>
<li>The Bureau of Justice Assistance will make available $3.5 million in funding to reimburse the Chicago Police Department and City of Chicago for the work of local law enforcement on the federal task forces supporting Operation Legend’s violent crime reduction efforts. The COPS Office has also made $9.375 million available to the Chicago Police Department to fund the hiring of 75 officers.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
The federal operation in Albuquerque will include:
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<ul>
<li>The Department of Justice will supplement state and local law enforcement agencies by sending more than 25 federal investigators from the FBI, DEA, and ATF to the city.</li>
<li>Up to 10 HSI agents will assist with the efforts in Albuquerque, as well.</li>
<li>The Department of Justice has also made available over $1.5 million in COPS Hiring Grants to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department to onboard five deputies and to support additional federal task force officers committed to violent crime reduction efforts. Additionally, the COPS Office has made $9.74 million available to the Albuquerque Police Department to fund the hiring of 40 officers.</li>
<li>Separately, the Bureau of Justice Assistance has made available $1.4 million to reimburse the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and Albuquerque Police Department for the work of local law enforcement on the federal task forces supporting Operation Legend’s violent crime reduction efforts.</li>
</ul>
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&#8220;The most basic responsibility of government is to protect the safety of our citizens,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Today, we have extended Operation Legend to Chicago and Albuquerque to protect the residents of those cities from senseless acts of deadly violence by targeting those involved in gang activity and those who use guns to commit violent crime.&#8221;
During a press conference Wednesday, Barr <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-operation-legend-combatting-violent-crime-american-cities/">said</a>, &#8220;The principal danger to the lives of our inner-city communities is violent crime. The leading cause of death for young, black males is homicide. Each year, approximately 7,500 black Americans are the victims of homicide. Every one of those lives matter.&#8221;
&#8220;The real measure of success of initiatives like Operation LeGend is the ability of communities to feel safe,&#8221; FBI Director Chris Wray said in a statement. &#8220;It’s not about the number of arrests; it’s about the ability of kids to be able to play outside of their homes, about families to be able to walk to and from work.&#8221;
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Feds Attempt To Intervene After Weeks Of Violent Protests In Portland

Trump, Barr Expand Operation Sending Hundreds Of Federal Agents Into Cities Plagued By Violence

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Top U.S. officials said in the hours following the revelation that the United States ordered the Chinese General Consulate in Houston to close that the move was carried out because the facility was a &#8220;massive spy center&#8221; that was stealing information from Americans and running influence operations in the U.S.
&#8220;The United States will not tolerate the PRC’s (People Republic of China) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated the PRC’s unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs, and other egregious behavior,&#8221; the State Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-forces-closure-of-chinese-consulate-in-houston-video-shows-classified-documents-being-burned-inside">said</a> in a statement Tuesday. &#8220;We have directed the closure of PRC Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American’s [sic] private information.&#8221;
The State Department <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/state-department-china-houston-consulate-closing-377715">said</a> Wednesday that China had been engaging &#8220;for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations throughout the United States against U.S. government officials and American citizens.&#8221;
Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-u-s-ordered-us-to-close-our-houston-consulate-11595407075">said</a> the move to close the facility was &#8220;long overdue&#8221; and that the alleged criminal activity that the Chinese were committing at the facility had accelerated since the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.
Videos <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-houston-fire-police-responding-to-reports-of-documents-being-burned-at-chinese-consulate-general">surfaced</a> this week that showed Chinese officials burning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-forces-closure-of-chinese-consulate-in-houston-video-shows-classified-documents-being-burned-inside">classified documents</a> after receiving notice that they were being forced out of the country.
&#8220;China’s Houston consulate is a massive spy center, forcing it to close is long overdue,&#8221; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a tweet, later adding: &#8220;China’s consulate in Houston is not a diplomatic facility. It is the central node of the Communist Party’s vast network of spies &amp; influence operations in the United States. Now that building must close &amp; the spies have 72 hours to leave or face arrest. This needed to happen.&#8221;
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-u-s-ordered-us-to-close-our-houston-consulate-11595407075">reported</a> Wednesday that the FBI has interviewed suspected members of the People&#8217;s Liberation Army in more than 25 cities:
<blockquote>FBI agents have interviewed Chinese researchers suspected of being undeclared members of the People’s Liberation Army in more than 25 cities, according to some U.S. officials. In some instances, staff at Chinese consulates helped instruct some researchers on security, reminding them to delete information from their electronic devices, the officials said.</blockquote>
Stilwell said that one of the events that triggered the closure of the facility was a Chinese official working with a Chinese state-owned airline to &#8220;put unidentified passengers on a charter flight meant for Chinese students departing Houston amid the coronavirus travel restrictions,&#8221; the Journal added.
The Chinese Communist Party is “pursuing a campaign of intellectual property theft, economic espionage, cyber intrusions that target businesses — big and small — all across the country and our academic research institutions,” FBI Director Chris Wray <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-director-were-opening-new-investigations-into-china-every-10-hours-have-over-2000-cases">said</a> last month. “And it’s everything from Fortune 100 companies to startups. It’s agriculture. It’s high tech. It’s aviation. It’s health care. As I said before, it’s our academic research institutions.”
“There’s no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to America’s innovation, to economic security, and to our democratic ideas than China does,” Wray told Fox News. “Just to give you some context for that. Just as we’re sitting here having this conversation, the FBI has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government of China.”
“The FBI is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to China every 10 hours,” Wray added. “So you put some of those things – and that’s sort of just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Chinese Consulate In Houston Was ‘Massive Spy Center,’ FBI Probes Chinese Army Suspects In 25+ Cities

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Top U.S. officials said in the hours following the revelation that the United States ordered the Chinese General Consulate in Houston to close that the

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In one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. political history, the Republican speaker of the Ohio House was arrested Tuesday along with four others, and faces charges of federal corruption and campaign finance violations.
House Speaker Larry Householder stands accused of being involved in a $60 million bribery scheme involving two nuclear power plants that were bailed out by taxpayers, according to The Associated Press. U.S. Attorney David DeVillers described the alleged crimes as possibly the largest instance of bribery and money laundering that had &#8220;ever been perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio.&#8221;
FBI agents, local police, and county sheriffs raided Householder&#8217;s farm in southeastern Ohio during the early morning hours of Tuesday. Also arrested were one of Householder&#8217;s advisers, a political lobbyist in the Statehouse, a former Ohio Republican Party chairman, as well as the co-founder of a consulting firm in Columbus. The five were charged as an enterprise in the <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/21/ohio-bribery-case-read-documents-larry-householder-matt-borges/5480513002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">federal complaint</a>.
The case centers on the <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/business/2017/02/firstenergy_asking_for_zero_em.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bailouts</a> of two nuclear power plants owned by FirstEnergy, legislation for which Householder helped push through after years of <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/22/house-bill-6-repeal-nuclear-bailout-householder-bribery-case/5485082002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unsuccessful lobbying</a> on the part of the company. House Bill 6 slapped a monthly fee on the utilities bill of Ohioans to pay for the bailout.
The federal complaint alleges that in exchange, Householder and his associates received $60 million, which was funneled through &#8220;Generation Now,&#8221; a dark money group Householder controlled and used to advertise in favor of the bill. Householder then allegedly used that money to increase his political power by backing candidates who would support him for speaker. Generation Now also allegedly spent $15 million in an ad campaign to keep controversial House Bill 6 from being placed on the ballot to be approved by voters.
&#8220;Nuclear bailout supporters of House Bill 6 have stooped to unprecedented and deceitful depths to stop Ohioans from exercising their constitutional rights to put a bailout question on the ballot for voters to decide,&#8221; Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts spokesman Gene Pierce <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/21/anti-nuclear-bailout-effort-miss-deadline-submit-signatures/4052255002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> at the time.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Ohio have already begun to plan ways to get the bill repealed. Republican state Reps. Mark Romanchuk and Laura Lanese requested co-sponsors on Wednesday morning for legislation &#8220;that will fully repeal House Bill 6,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/22/house-bill-6-repeal-nuclear-bailout-householder-bribery-case/5485082002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Cincinnati Enquirer</a>.
&#8220;Corruption has no place in our government, regardless of political party. When corruption is revealed, it is important we act quickly to fix what has been broken,&#8221; Democratic state Rep. Mike Skindell said.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called on Householder to resign, as did the head of the Ohio Republican Party, the state attorney general, the Senate president, and the protesters outside the Columbus courthouse when Householder appeared. He was released on his own recognizance and made to surrender his passport.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-texas-republican-exposes-democrats-failure-on-trump-bribery-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WATCH: Texas Republican: Here’s How Many Times Impeachment Witnesses Have Even Mentioned ‘Bribery’</a>
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In one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. political history, the Republican speaker of the Ohio House was arrested Tuesday along with four others,

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The Senate Judiciary Committee released new documents relating to the FBI’s probe into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election. The new documents reveal that in early 2017, the FBI had “little, if any, evidence” of ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin and already had misgivings about the so-called Steele Dossier.
Despite this lack of evidence, the FBI, spurred on by anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok, continued to look for something to pin on Trump and further the false narrative that Trump was an agent of Russia. The information in this new trove of documents isn’t anything groundbreaking, it’s just more evidence that the investigation and narrative was weak to begin with, yet media outlets are either ignoring the documents or downplaying them. For example, Politico headlined <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/lindsey-graham-russia-probe-documents-368045">its article</a> about the documents as boring as possible, titling it, “Graham releases declassified docs on early months of Russia probe,” referring to Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The article, however, describes just how flimsy the case was against Trump even though media outlets rushed to suggest his administration would crumble and the election was illegitimate:
<blockquote>The documents suggest that even as press reports began to describe connections between Americans in Trump’s orbit and figures in Russia’s shadowy intelligence services, the FBI had gathered little, if any, evidence that such ties existed.
“We have not seen evidence of any officials associated with the Trump team in contact with [intelligence officers],” wrote Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who helped initiate and lead the Russia probe, in internal <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Annotated%20New%20York%20Times%20Article.pdf">notes</a> accompanying a Feb. 14, 2017, New York Times article. “We are unaware of ANY Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials.”
Those contacts, Strzok wrote, were limited to Russia’s then-ambassador to the U.S. and the Russian Embassy’s liaison to Congress.</blockquote>
The documents also revealed that Strzok was skeptical of the dossier alleging Russia collusion and scandalous acts between Trump and Russians, compiled by ex-British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele.
“Graham also released a <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/February%209,%202017%20Electronic%20Communication.pdf">57-page memo</a> detailing the FBI’s interview with a top source for Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent whose unverified dossier on Trump described a nefarious, yearslong plot to aid his election. That document, which formed part of the basis for the FBI’s surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser in 2016, was crafted largely through a network of six sources relied on by this associate of Steele’s — and some of its most explosive and salacious findings were based on thinly sourced speculation,” Politico reported. “In his New York Times annotation, Strzok also indicated that Steele may not have been able to adequately judge whether the sources he relied on for his dossier were reliable. Strzok, who was fired from the bureau in 2018 after drawing Trump’s fury over private text messages that revealed his disdain for the president, raised strong doubts about the Times article, which described &#8216;repeated&#8217; contacts between Trump aides and Russian intelligence agents.”
The article is laid out to absolve Strzok of anti-Trump bias, yet it confirms that even though the FBI had no evidence to investigate, it continued for two years, while the media lapped up every dubious leak.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee released new documents relating to the FBI’s probe into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia

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The number of FBI background checks conducted last month for people attempting to purchase firearms shattered the previous all-time record, and experts say the surge in gun sales was directly tied to current events rocking the United States.
&#8220;The new coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest after the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing movement to defund police are bringing in new buyers worried about their personal safety, according to buyers, store owners and gun experts,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/background-checks-a-metric-for-gun-sales-hit-all-time-high/2020/07/01/a5e6fe8c-bbdb-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;In June, background checks for firearms were up 136%, compared to a year earlier &#8230; background checks in June for civilians seeking a license to carry were the highest since the FBI began conducting checks 20 years ago.&#8221;
FBI statistics that were <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view">released</a> at the start of the month showed that 3,931,607 background checks were processed last month, which is by far the most ever recorded. The previous all-time record was set in March – when parts of the U.S. began going into shutdown over the coronavirus – when 3,740,688 were conducted.
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Firearm sales in June were the highest monthly sales since data collection began in 1998: 3.9M firearms sold. <a href="https://twitter.com/phil_wellesley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@phil_wellesley</a> and Robin McKnight explore the trend, as well as potential causes and consequences. <a href="https://t.co/X7ZdI0zP3X">https://t.co/X7ZdI0zP3X</a> <a href="https://t.co/WKRchQ07SK">pic.twitter.com/WKRchQ07SK</a>
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The Journal reports that dealers estimate that some 40% of sales have been going to first-time buyers, &#8220;an increase over the normal average of about a quarter,&#8221; and are claiming that many of the new buyers &#8220;are people who say they never thought they would own a firearm and were previously critical of those who did.&#8221;
The surge in gun sales comes as the U.S. has experienced a wave of violent riots in response to the death of George Floyd. The riots have spanned from Los Angeles to New York City, and ultimately led to calls from leftist activists and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ilhan-omar-defund-minneapolis-police-theyre-cancer-we-dont-want-your-damn-reforms">Democrat</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-proposed-budget-would-cut-1-billion-from-nypd-aoc-it-isnt-enough">politicians</a> to defund the police. Violent crime has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-weekend-in-seattle-chicago-minneapolis-as-new-york-city-reports-uptick-in-shootings">surged</a> in inner cities in the days and weeks following the riots and the demonization of law enforcement officials.
Social media was flooded with images of rioters destroying police cars that were abandoned by law enforcement officials, looters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-in-l-a-begs-alleged-looters-to-stop-this-is-going-to-get-trump-re-elected">stealing</a> items from stores, and criminals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officers-hit-by-cars-shot-beaten-in-numerous-cities-on-monday-night-amid-violent-riots">attacking</a> law enforcement officials by hurling objects at them and even running them over.
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POLICE CARS DESTROYED: Rioters destroy a line of police cars, ghost riding them into each other and setting them on fire in West Philadelphia. 
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One gun buyer told the Journal that he was applying for a permit because he feared that law enforcement officials would not be able to protect him, saying, “I don’t want to ever shoot anybody ever. But if I had to duck and shoot back in self-defense, at least I’d have a chance.”
John Kingdon, a registered Democrat who has been a gun control activist in the past, told the paper that he purchased a semi-automatic pistol just a couple of months ago, saying, “If I had a hard time getting police to respond to me when we weren’t in a pandemic, what about now?”
British media personality Piers Morgan, who opposes the Second Amendment, derided the surge in Americans engaging in their constitutionally protected right, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Just when you thought the news couldn&#8217;t [be] more depressing&#8230;8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Just when you thought the news couldn&#39;t more depressing&#8230;8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1278382083837235211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Riots, Violent Crime, ‘Defund Police’ Push Surged In June. Gun Sales Exploded To All-Time High, FBI Data Suggests.

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The number of FBI background checks conducted last month for people attempting to purchase firearms shattered the previous all-time record, and experts

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An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn says new documents show the FBI knew Flynn wasn’t trying to lie during his January 24, 2017, interview, yet they concocted a criminal case against him anyway.
Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/flynn-judge-gets-reprieve-as-court-weighs-new-dismissal-hearing">reported</a> that the U.S. Department of Justice gave Flynn 14 new pages of documents, which his attorney, Sidney Powell, said in a filing amounts to prosecutorial misconduct.
“These documents establish that on January 25, 2017 &#8212; the day after the agents ambushed him at the White House &#8212; the agents and DOJ officials knew General Flynn’s statements were not material to any investigation, that he was ‘open and forthcoming’ with the agents, that he had no intent to deceive them, and that he believed he was fully truthful with them,” Powell wrote in the filing.
The new documents contained FBI memos from early 2017 that allegedly show the people who interviewed Flynn didn’t believe he was a Russian agent, which was the crux of the investigation against him.
“The docs reveal prosecutors’ internal debates over whether to bring charges against Flynn. In one, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tashina Gauhar described agents assessments of Flynn after speaking to him, saying they believed he had been ‘forthright’ about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and that there was no indication of any deliberate attempt at deception,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/flynn-defense-team-says-documents-show-prosecutorial-misconduct/">reported</a>.
Powell’s filing argued that the “FBI determined that General Flynn believed what he was telling the agents was the truth.”
Powell further argued that even though FBI agents didn’t think Flynn was a Russian agent and that he was not trying to lie during his interview, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former DOJ official Mary McCord “made two trips to the White House to get Flynn fired,” Bloomberg reported.
“The filing also says former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe met with Vice President Mike Pence to convince him that Flynn had lied to him. Powell says the new evidence supporting Flynn was unearthed by Jeffrey Jensen, a U.S. Attorney in Missouri who is leading a review of the FBI’s handling of the Flynn case,” the outlet continued.
The charges against Flynn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">were dropped</a> on May 7, citing “a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” The DOJ argued that Flynn’s January 2017 interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Flynn had pleaded guilty several times to lying about his conversations with Kislyak, something Democrats and the media use against him without noting that people often plead guilty despite being innocent for a number of reasons. Flynn met with the FBI without an attorney present, and FBI agents had a transcript of his phone call while Flynn did not. Though the charges were dismissed, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has tried to keep them alive despite an appeals court telling him to drop the case.
In response to the newly released evidence, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday, &#8220;New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it!&#8221;
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New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! <a href="https://twitter.com/OANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OANN</a>
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FBI Director Chris Wray warned of the extreme national security threat that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the United States and highlighted the level of resources that America is devoting to combatting criminal activity in the U.S. that can be traced back to China.
In an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report&#8221; with anchor Bret Baier, Wray said that China was the greatest threat to &#8220;America’s innovation, to economic security, and to our democratic ideas.&#8221;
&#8220;Just to give you some context for that. Just as we’re sitting here having this conversation, the FBI has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government of China,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And that’s – a little more context on that – that’s about a 1300% increase in terms of economic espionage investigations with the Chinese nexus from about a decade ago.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not about the Chinese people or Chinese Americans. This is about the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And they are pursuing a campaign of intellectual property theft, economic espionage, cyber intrusions that target businesses – big and small – all across the country, and our academic research institutions. And they do it not just through traditional government officials, which they certainly do, but also through what we sometimes call non-traditional collectors, which can be businessmen, high-level scientists, high-level academics – people like that – all of whom are in different ways incentivized to steal American innovation and confidential information and take it back to China.&#8221;
Wray said that China is trying to steal information from nearly all types of businesses regardless of size or the industry that they are in.
&#8220;The FBI is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to China every 10 hours,&#8221; Wray later concluded. &#8220;So you put some of those things – and that’s sort of just the tip of the iceberg.&#8221;
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Director Wray, thanks for being here.
CHRISTOPHER WRAY, DIRECTOR OF THE FBI: Thank you.
BAIER: There are a lot of topics we want to talk about and cover here with you. I want to talk about first foreign influence in this country. The Justice Department recently indicted a professor at Harvard for lying about his relationship with the Chinese government. For people who don’t know about China and what they&#8217;re trying to do in the U.S., how much is China doing? How much is China spying in the U.S.?
WRAY: Bret, there’s no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to America’s innovation, to our economic security, and to our democratic ideas than China does. Just to give you some context for that. Just as we’re sitting here having this conversation, the FBI has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government of China.
BAIER: 2,000?
WRAY: And that’s – put a little more context on that – that’s about a 1,300 percent increase in terms of economic espionage investigations with the Chinese nexus from about a decade ago.
BAIER: So how much is that economic espionage – how much is it government espionage?
WRAY: Well, that’s the thing that a lot of people don’t really understand about the Chinese government. This is not about the Chinese people or Chinese Americans. This is about the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. And they are pursuing a campaign of intellectual property theft, economic espionage, cyber intrusions that target businesses &#8212; big and small &#8212; all across the country, and our academic research institutions. And they do it not just through traditional government officials, which they certainly do, but also through what we sometimes call non-traditional collectors, which can be businessmen, high-level scientists, high-level academics – people like that – all of whom are in different ways incentivized to steal American innovation and confidential information and take it back to China.
BAIER: So in the 30s and 40s, the Soviet Union, for example, had more than 100 spies in the State Department. Is espionage a real problem in the U.S.? What is China doing on that front?
WRAY: Well, traditional espionage is certainly – the old sort of spy versus spy thing is still very much a phenomenon in today’s world. But we’re much more focused in many ways on the economic espionage, which targets American businesses and hurts American jobs, American consumers. And it’s everything from Fortune 100 companies to startups. It’s agriculture. It’s high tech. It’s aviation. It’s health care. As I said before, it’s our academic research institutions.
BAIER: Are they taking an interest in elections?
WRAY: They certainly have an interest in influencing our political thought – our policies – to try to shift them in a more friendly, pro-China, pro-Chinese Communist Party direction. And so sometimes that gets wrapped up in election issues.
BAIER: Is the FBI in charge of the investigation of the origins of the coronavirus?
WRAY: We certainly have a role in looking into the origins of the coronavirus.
BAIER: Are you getting closer?
WRAY: I would say, at this point, there’s nothing to add to what the intelligence community has already said publicly on that. There’s still insufficient information to really know exactly how the virus emanated from Wuhan.
BAIER: When you say that China’s active – when there is a crisis, for example, the protests after the George Floyd killing &#8212; are you seeing foreign intervention to kind of stir up chaos inside the U.S.?
WRAY: We have certainly seen in the past a variety of foreign adversaries looking to amplify controversy in this country. And they use state media; they use social media. Some of that’s through propaganda; some of that&#8217;s through disinformation; some of that&#8217;s through just fake information. And we are looking carefully at the prospect of foreign influence or foreign interference in all of the protest activity that’s occurred over the last few weeks.
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The sheer volume of the threats that face this country is remarkable. So just to give you a flavor of it. In the past few months alone, our joint terrorism task forces have thwarted potential terrorist attacks in Tampa, in New York, in Cleveland, in Kansas City. Then you had COVID come in, right? And we’ve probably got over 400 COVID-19 fraud investigations open. We have, probably in the last year, something like 1,500 kids that the FBI has recovered or rescued from child sexual exploitation or human trafficking. We talked about China before. The FBI is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to China every 10 hours. So you put some of those things – and that’s sort of just the tip of the iceberg.</blockquote>
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FBI Director: We’re Opening New Investigations Into China Every 10 Hours, Have Over 2,000 Cases

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