The testimony and report of Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a> show clearly that there was “political coordination” at the FBI in the investigation into former President Donald Trump over alleged collusion, according to Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro made the comments on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1752-the-schiff-hits-the-fan-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his Thursday show</a> while discussing Durham&#8217;s testimony on Wednesday before Congress. Durham conducted a nearly four-year investigation that painted a damning picture of an FBI that disregarded its mission and central principles in order to pursue a partisan investigation into Trump.
“That report, if you&#8217;ll recall, was just an absolute disaster for Democrats. I called it maybe the worst political scandal in American history. Nobody actually took it seriously in the press, because to do so would have been devastating for the Obama administration. In particular, as I wrote at the time, Crossfire Hurricane was initiated based on sheer conjecture,” Shapiro said. 
Shapiro explained that the investigation was based on shoddy evidence that was in part begun by agents who had voiced political opposition to Trump. 
“The FBI basically greenlit the investigation within days of receiving that flimsy information. Peter Strzok, who&#8217;s an ardent Trump hater, he helped initiate that investigation. The investigation from notes was launched well before any dialogue with Russia, with Australia, or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself,” Shapiro said.
Durham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-durham-set-to-testify-in-congress-over-damning-report-on-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found in his report</a> that the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump’s campaign “based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” and took allegations about Trump far more seriously than allegations about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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During his testimony, Durham said that investigators at the FBI suffered from confirmation bias, and ignored evidence that didn&#8217;t fit the narrative that Trump was colluding with Russia.
&#8220;Well, all of this ticked off the Democrats to no end, because what he is suggesting here is systemic failure. And it&#8217;s not just a question of a few bad apples,” Shapiro said. 
Durham said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-durham-says-fbi-agents-apologized-to-him-for-trump-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during his Wednesday testimony</a> that some current and former agents at the FBI had apologized to him for the investigation. 
“Let me give you some real-life views,” Durham said. “I have had any number of FBI agents who I’ve worked with over the years — some of them are retired, some of them are still in place — who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken.”

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Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>&#8216;s Crossfire Hurricane team were not made aware 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>.
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.
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 recently started investigating alleged links between Trump&#8217;s campaign and Russia never got the memo.
Durham said &#8220;no&#8221; when asked whether Comey shared the information with FBI agents on the case. He was then prompted to recount how a supervisory special agent who had been involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation became distraught when Durham&#8217;s team shared the intelligence with him during an interview.
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&#8220;We interviewed the first supervisor on the Crossfire investigation, the operational person,&#8221; Durham said. &#8220;We 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.&#8221;
He added later: &#8220;The information was kept from him.&#8221;
Durham&#8217;s <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 &#8220;Clinton Plan intelligence&#8221; could have been helpful to agents involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. &#8220;Most&#8221; of the individuals shown parts of the information by Durham&#8217;s team advised they had never seen it before, the special counsel&#8217;s report said.
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The report specifically points to British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s <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&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, 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’s 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.
&#8220;Whether 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,&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.
&#8220;The 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],&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.

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Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a> said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> agents approached him to apologize for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Durham spoke about his report that criticized the FBI over its probe into alleged links between Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
&#8220;Our findings were sobering. I can tell you, having spent 40 years-plus as a federal prosecutor, they were particularly sobering to me,&#8221; Durham said.
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) later asked Durham to explain why his findings were sobering.
&#8220;Let me give you some real-life views,&#8221; Durham said. &#8220;I have had any number of FBI agents who I&#8217;ve worked with over the years — some of them are retired, some of them are still in place — who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken.&#8221;
Durham said he believes the majority of the FBI&#8217;s personnel are &#8220;decent human beings&#8221; who swear under their oaths to abide by the law.
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&#8220;There were investigative activities undertaken or not undertaken here which raise real concerns about whether or not the law was followed, the policies in place at the FBI were followed,&#8221; Durham said.
After a years-long investigation, Durham concluded his probe, and the Department of Justice released his <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last month. It accused the FBI of &#8220;confirmation bias&#8221; and being too quick to open a full-fledged investigation into the Russia matter.
Durham secured one guilty plea over the course of his investigation: that of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was spared prison time and faced a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year bar suspension</a>.
In a statement responding to Durham&#8217;s report, the FBI said it “already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time.” The bureau also said Durham&#8217;s report &#8220;reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.&#8221;
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Durham said in his <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/durham-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opening statement</a> that he is &#8220;encouraged&#8221; by some reforms the FBI has implemented but stressed that &#8220;the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes.&#8221;
The special counsel added: &#8220;As we said in the report, they cannot be addressed solely with enhanced training or additional policy requirements. Rather, what is required is accountability — both in terms of the standards to which our law enforcement personnel hold themselves and in the consequences they face for violations of law or policy.&#8221;

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“If credibility is the lifeblood of journalism, the Mainstream Media is dead.”
Ashley Rindsberg, investigative journalist and author of “The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times&#8217;s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History,” outlined the broad strokes of the Russian Collusion narrative that was manically propagated by the mainstream media and then quietly ignored after its claims were categorically discredited.
In January 2023, the Columbia Review, a highly respected journalistic publication, published an in-depth review of the “Russiagate” scandal written by industry veteran Jeff Gerth. Gerth concluded that every major claim made about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion was false. “Let’s step back and consider what this means: for some five years, the Mainstream Media, the New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN fed a grotesque lie to the public, that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to subvert an American election.”
A similar fact pattern would emerge in many of the allegations — initial sourcing from opposition research or highly disreputable sources would be referenced by the FBI or other government agents in anonymous statements to the media, who would then parrot the claims as if they were credible because the FBI was investigating them.
These claims include:
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<li>Allegations that Trump campaign advisors George Papadopoulos and Carter Page were Russian agents</li>
<li>Allegations that Trump had close ties to Russia and Vladimir Putin</li>
<li>Allegations that Trump was financially connected to the Russian Alfa-Bank</li>
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“There were 533,000 articles published about Russia and Trump during just the 22 months of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s alleged involvement with Russia,” Rindsberg noted.
The Washington Post and The New York Times were both awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting on the Russian Collusion story, reporting that was later revealed to be poorly sourced from ideologically motivated actors or completely fabricated evidence such as the Steele Dossier. Neither organization returned their prizes, and there has been little coverage of Gersh’s exposé in the mainstream press.
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“Journalism is no longer about gathering the facts and presenting an accurate picture of reality,” Rindsberg said.  “It’s about choosing sides.”
Rindsberg notes that this approach is the opposite of good journalism and it has completely destroyed the credibility of once-venerated outlets and institutions.
“The only Trump era collusion that has been proven was between the Mainstream Media, the Hillary Clinton Campaign, the Democratic Party, and elements within government agencies,” Rindsberg said. “Together, they did more to sow discord between Americans than Russia could have ever dreamed of doing on its own.”
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A current <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> official, and former advisor to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> during her presidential runs, will speak to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European</a> officials in the coming week about countering “disinformation.”
The official, James P. Rubin, who is the special envoy and coordinator for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a>’s Global Engagement Center, will be in the United Kingdom until February 28, which will be followed by a trip to Belgium on March 1.
“In London, Special Envoy Rubin will meet with UK officials to solidify support for counter disinformation efforts. In meetings with UK counterparts, he will discuss efforts by Russia, the People’s Republic of China, and other actors who deploy disinformation to undermine democracy and national security around the globe, and how our nations can collectively counter threats in the information space,” the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/special-envoy-and-coordinator-for-the-global-engagement-center-rubins-travel-to-london-and-brussels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
During his London trip, which began on Thursday, Rubin will take part in the Phoenix Challenge Forum, a <a href="https://phoenix-challenge-new.webflow.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conference</a> that is put on in part by the Department of Defense and the U.K. Ministry of Defense.
The goal of the conference is to “drive knowledge collaboration and solutions across Defense and Security Organizations, Academia, Private Sector and International Partners to address complex issues related to Cognitive Security, Information Competition &amp; Conflict, and Malign Influence.”
In Belgium, Rubin will also speak with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/european-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Union</a> officials about countering “foreign disinformation.”
Rubin, <a href="https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/james-rubin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who was</a> a foreign affairs advisor for both the Clinton and Obama administration, was part of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 and 2016 presidential runs. During the 2016 campaign, Rubin suggested that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was working with the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails.
“So the idea that a candidate for president is aiding and abetting a foreign power in its intelligence operations is, as I said, unprecedented. We really don’t know how to describe it, except I think it’s the clearest possible evidence of being – of the fact that the nominee for the other party is unfit to be commander-in-chief,” Rubin <a href="https://2009-2017-fpc.state.gov/260592.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in response to Trump calling for Russia to release the emails.
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He also suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin was in support of Trump’s candidacy because Putin believed that Trump would have a more favorable foreign policy toward Russia.
Democrat claims about Trump colluding with the Russians ended up falling flat, as an investigation headed up by Robert Mueller found no evidence of any collusion. Subsequent studies have also found that Russia’s influence on the election was much less than previously claimed by Democrats and the legacy media.
Rubin also has worked as a <a href="https://www.politico.eu/author/james-p-rubin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributing editor</a> for POLITICO magazine where he blasted Trump and his foreign policy in several columns.

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> chastised The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> for its critical reporting of special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>&#8216;s investigation into potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe.
Barr broke his silence Wednesday while speaking to a reporter after delivering a speech in Sacramento, California. He challenged aspects of an article published last week <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailing alleged</a> problems in Durham&#8217;s endeavor. “They ignored some fundamental facts as to why some of the information that Durham was seeking was very important information,” Barr charged, according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-01/bill-barr-says-he-didnt-overstep-in-his-involvement-in-the-durham-probe-of-mueller-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>. He also said the article missed &#8220;obvious reasons&#8221; for Durham&#8217;s investigation.
The New York Times &#8220;stands behind this story and the reporting it contains,&#8221; a spokesperson for the newspaper said in response. The original report noted Barr declined to comment for the article.
In May 2019, shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller released his report, Barr appointed then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Durham to investigate the origins and conduct of the FBI inquiry into alleged ties between former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign and Russia. Barr elevated Durham to special counsel status in the final months of the Trump administration, giving Durham extra protections to continue his work once President Joe Biden took office. Trump and his allies often champion Durham&#8217;s investigation as a means to unravel a suspected &#8220;Russiagate&#8221; plot against the former president. Democrats and others have criticized the inquiry as a politically tainted endeavor meant to discredit Mueller and top officials from the FBI.
The New York Times report gave fuel to Durham&#8217;s detractors in Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-democrats-threaten-hard-look-at-durham-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened an investigation</a> and House Democrats pressed the Justice Department inspector general to <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/Lieu%20and%20Goldman%20letter%20requesting%20inspector%20general%20investigation%20into%20Barr%20and%20Durham/d1a1af56f980a928/full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">start a review</a> to determine whether Barr or Durham “violated any laws, DOJ rules or practices, or canons of legal ethics.”
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The article, published on January 26, said a monthslong review by the New York Times &#8220;found that the main thrust of the Durham inquiry was marked by some of the very same flaws — including a strained justification for opening it and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court.&#8221; The article also outlined how Durham&#8217;s investigation &#8220;became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes,&#8221; leading to resignations by some dissatisfied prosecutors on the team, including Durham&#8217;s No. 2 Nora Dannehy, who allegedly disliked how Barr spoke ominously about the probe&#8217;s findings in public.
Barr, who made an appearance at the <a href="http://capcon2023.com/#Speakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California News Publishers Association meeting</a>, outright rejected the notion that appointing Durham to the task was problematic from the start.
&#8220;The idea that there was a thin basis for doing it doesn’t hold water,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Because it wasn’t started as a criminal investigation. One of the duties of the attorney general is to protect against the abuse of criminal and intelligence powers, that they’re not abused to impinge on political activity, so I felt it was my duty to find out what happened there.&#8221;
In addition, Barr defended himself in response to one of the most explosive claims in the article — that Durham expanded his inquiry in the fall of 2019 to include a criminal investigation into &#8220;suspicious financial dealings&#8221; tied to Trump in response to a tip from Italian officials. However, the report asserted the details were largely unclear and said this line of inquiry did not result in Durham bringing charges.
Barr insisted the tip &#8220;was not directly about Trump&#8221; and argued it was appropriate to rope it into Durham&#8217;s investigation because “it did have a relationship to the Russiagate stuff. It was not completely separate from it. And it turned out to be a complete non-issue.&#8221;
So far, Durham has secured one guilty plea: that of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was spared prison time and faced a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year bar suspension</a>. Last year, Durham endured setbacks when prosecutions against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s anti-Trump dossier, ended in acquittal in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, respectively.
Whenever Durham&#8217;s report is complete, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-doj-official-durham-report-pause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Merrick Garland has said</a> he would &#8220;like as much as possible to be made public,&#8221; but he also stressed there will be Privacy Act concerns and classification to consider.
“I think [Durham]&#8217;s going to explain, to the extent he’s allowed to put it out, the whole genesis of [the Russia interference claims] and how it all occurred,” Barr said, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-01/bill-barr-says-he-didnt-overstep-in-his-involvement-in-the-durham-probe-of-mueller-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the Los Angeles Times</a>. “So what’s wrong with that? You review something, you get the facts. Yes, we wanted to hold people accountable if something came up that indicated criminality, or you could prove criminality. But it wasn’t a criminal investigation, it was a review to get the story. And he got the story.”

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The latest edition of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> Files from investigative journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> outlets, academics, and policymakers who cited an initiative meant to track supposed <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disinformation</a> fell for a not-so-elaborate scam.
Hamilton 68, a computerized dashboard that monitored purported Russian bot infiltration, tracked 644 accounts supposedly linked to &#8220;Russian influence activities online,” according to an <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> and a social media <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029772977455105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread</a> posted by Taibbi. Executives at Twitter “reverse-engineered” the list of accounts out of a concern that the users were influencing the American political conversation on behalf of the Russians. Only 36 of the 644 accounts were registered in Russia, while many of the rest were ordinary American accounts.
Executives wrote in internal company emails that the accounts were “​​neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots” and concluded there was “no evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information.”
Yoel Roth, the social media company’s former Trust and Safety lead, characterized the project as “bulls***” in one of the messages. He noted that the site “falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots” and earns “traction around partisan trends” to assert that “any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.”
The project was launched by former FBI agent Clint Watts and received backing from the German Marshall Fund and the Alliance for Securing Democracy. The latter entity, a bipartisan think tank, has an advocacy panel that includes former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former American ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, current Biden administration senior adviser John Podesta, and Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol.
Allegations of collusion with Russia similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> former President Donald Trump throughout his administration; Robert Mueller, a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department, investigated claims that the Trump campaign illegally coordinated with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election, eventually concluding that no such evidence existed.
Taibbi found that media outlets such as NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones cited supposed data on Russian disinformation from Hamilton 68 on “hundreds if not thousands” of occasions. He noted that the outlets often used the dashboard to discredit various political figures, such as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russian-web-trolls-boo-biden-often-boost-gabbard-report-finds-n1085216?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tulsi Gabbard</a> and <a href="https://observer.com/2018/09/russian-propagandists-brett-kavanaugh-controversy-division-online/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brett Kavanaugh</a>, by linking them to purported disinformation operations.
Academics at postsecondary institutions like Harvard University and Princeton University also cited Hamilton 68, as did lawmakers such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Social media users contacted by Taibbi were surprised to learn they were supposed purveyors of Russian disinformation. Conservative writer David Horowitz and businessman Dennis Michael Lynch were implicated in the Hamilton 68 list, as were “a range of political dissidents, including leftists, anarchists, and humorists,” according to Taibbi.
Many were unsuspecting everyday Americans. “I am a 73-year-old snowbird in Florida,” one individual said. “Supposedly in a free world, we are being watched at many levels, by what we say online,” said another individual, who told Taibbi she had experienced political persecution in Lebanon before moving to the West.
Previous editions of the Twitter Files, an initiative from independent journalists based on emails and other internal company documents provided by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, have shown that federal law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policed content</a> on the platform and asked executives to remove certain posts. There existed “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” aimed at “senior executives at news and social media companies,” according to journalist Michael Shellenberger.

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New ‘Twitter Files’ Drop Shows Prominent Media Source For Supposed ‘Russian Disinformation’ Was A Fraud

New 'Twitter Files' Drop Shows Prominent Media Source For Supposed 'Russian Disinformation' Was A Fraud

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Former Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/devin-nunes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Devin Nunes</a> (R-CA) accused the Justice Department of spying on his team at a time when he was leading a congressional investigation into the FBI&#8217;s conduct during its Trump-Russia probe.
Two senior House Intelligence Committee staffers were the subject of grand jury subpoenas sent to Google seeking personal email and phone data in November 2017, <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/doj-spied-house-intelligence-committee-investigators?utm_source=news.google.com&amp;utm_medium=news-app&amp;utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Just The News</a>. Nunes expressed alarm about the timing as the subpoenas were secretly issued when he was chairman of the intelligence panel and on the cusp of releasing a memo alleging misconduct in the surveillance of a Trump 2016 campaign operative.
“The FBI and DOJ spied on a presidential campaign, and when Congress began exposing what they were doing, they spied on us to find out what we knew and how we knew it,&#8221; Nunes told the news outlet. &#8220;It’s an egregious abuse of power that the next Congress must investigate so these agencies can be held accountable and reformed.”
The motive for these subpoenas remains unclear; The Daily Wire reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
In terms of timing, they were issued around when secret subpoenas were sent to tech companies seeking records of Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, including then-ranking member Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), their staff, and family members, as the Trump-era Justice Department investigated leaks of classified information, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/justice-department-leaks-trump-administration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times reported</a> in June 2021. The ensuing outcry by Democrats led to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/11/schiff-calls-for-probe-into-trump-doj-seizing-house-democrats-data-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcing that he would look into the seizures</a>.
The targets of the newly revealed subpoenas, who were informed by Google this week in compliance with a policy to wait five years after such law enforcement activity, included Kash Patel, a top investigator for the House Intelligence Committee who later served in multiple high-level national security positions within in the Trump administration.
“It&#8217;s so shocking,” Patel told the &#8220;Just the News, Not Noise&#8221; show Monday. &#8220;Because a co-equal branch of government, we as congressional investigators and Devin Nunes, his staff on House Intel were conducting constitutional demanded oversight of the fraudulent acts at the FBI and DOJ which we now know happened.&#8221;
What became known as the &#8220;Nunes memo&#8221; was released in February 2018 <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/02/trump-nunes-memo-released-384977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the face of opposition</a> from <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democratic-rebuttal-to-gop-house-intelligence-memo-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats on the intelligence panel</a> and the FBI. The memo alleged abuses by the FBI and Justice Department in seeking Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant authority to snoop on ex-Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
The crux of the problems cited by the Republicans was the FBI&#8217;s reliance, in part, on an unverified dossier compiled by British former spy Christopher Steele, a since-discredited document that contained salacious claims tying former President Donald Trump to Russia that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93" target="_blank" rel="noopener">benefited from funding</a> via Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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The memo was followed by a report by Horowitz criticizing the Justice Department and the FBI for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-unable-to-say-if-bias-tainted-carter-page-fisa-process" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least 17</a> “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA surveillance of Page, who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/carter-page-calls-charges-that-he-conspired-with-russia-a-complete-joke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied being a Russian asset</a> and was never charged with a crime. The Justice Department also declared that at least two of the four FISA warrants targeting Page were “not valid,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-finds-two-carter-page-fisa-orders-not-valid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as reported by The Washington Examiner</a>.
As part of special counsel John Durham&#8217;s ongoing investigation, which was put together by former Attorney General William Barr to root out misconduct in the FBI&#8217;s Russia inquiry, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on Page. Clinesmith was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/fbi-lawyer-trump-russia-probe-email-463750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spared prison time</a> and faced a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year bar suspension</a>.
Nunes, who now leads Trump&#8217;s Truth Social endeavor, said Congress should push Durham to investigate the subpoena matter. &#8220;This is clearly in the realm of what John Durham&#8217;s scope was to look at,&#8221; he said in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday.

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Devin Nunes Reacts To DOJ Subpoenas Of His House Intel Staff: ‘They Spied On Us’

Devin Nunes Reacts To DOJ Subpoenas Of His House Intel Staff: 'They Spied On Us'

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Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>&#8216;s bombshell court filing this week is going to make it hard to paint the FBI as a dupe tricked into investigating former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald J. Trump</a> for all that election collusion with Russia we now know never happened.
Durham says shadowy Russian operative Igor Danchenko — the key source for the anti-Trump Steele dossier — was on the FBI payroll from 2017-2020. The bureau should have known by 2017, and certainly knew by 2020, that the dossier, which it used to get a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page, was full of ludicrous lies. And the bureau also knew, or should have known, that in had investigated Danchenko just a few years earlier for trying to buy classified information for Mother Russia.
If you catch a suspected spy lying to you, but keep using his information to pursue, oh, say a presidential candidate, it gets hard to blame sheer incompetence or stupidity.
That might have worked in Durham&#8217;s last case in his ongoing investigation into the origins of the FBI&#8217;s probe of Trump. In that one, high-powered Democrat lawyer Michael Sussmann was accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sussmann-trial-opens-lawyers-spar-over-defendants-2016-lie-to-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lying to the bureau</a> by denying he was working for Hillary Clinton when he met with a top FBI official to present  another phony claim, that Trump communicated with Moscow through the Russian lender Alfa Bank.
A Washington, D.C., jury acquitted Sussmann, despite a damning text he sent to the official the night before, saying, “I’m coming on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — want to help the Bureau.”
Some critics were cynical enough to wonder if Durham was going out of his way to protect the bureau by painting it as gullible, but not corrupt. After all, his only FBI scalp to date is that of Kevin Clinesmith, a bureau lawyer who lied while preparing a FISA warrant application to spy on Page by saying he had not worked for the CIA when in fact he had. Clinsemith got a year&#8217;s probation and is back to practicing law again.
Danchenko is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-had-suspected-russian-operative-source-for-trump-dossier-on-payroll-durham-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing trial</a> in federal court in Virginia, also on charges he lied to the FBI. Maybe Sussmann and Danchenko both lied to the bureau, but when Danchenko did, it sure seems like the G-Men knew it.
Instead of getting mad, the FBI gave the Russian a job and kept him around all through the Mueller probe and right up until the 2020 election. Maybe that&#8217;s just another reason why <a href="https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/COSA-FBI_DOJ-Opinion-Full-Report-0824.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polls show trust in the FBI is plummeting</a>. Durham might not smell a rat in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, but Americans do.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Durham Zeroes In On FBI’s Real Problem, And It Is Worse Than Incompetence

Durham Zeroes In On FBI's Real Problem, And It Is Worse Than Incompetence

Last year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> columnist David Ignatius wrote what he called a “profile” of former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a> official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-official-classified-mar-a-lago-documents-were-actually-declassified-by-trump-before-leaving-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kash Patel</a>, making the explosive claim that Patel was under investigation for mishandling classified information.
In a column <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/19/trump-kash-patel-declassification-mar-a-lago-search/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> late last week, however, that claim has disappeared at the time of this writing, even though the column is about alleged classified information being found at former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago. Even more curious, emails provided to The Daily Wire show Ignatius asked Patel and his spokesperson about this claim but didn’t include their denial that any investigation ever existed.
“I noted in my April 2021 piece that Mr. Patel was ‘facing an investigation for possible improper disclosure of classified information’ because of a referral made last year by an intelligence agency. If that investigation has concluded without any finding of wrongdoing, I should say so. I have requested that info from the government but if you can confirm it, I’ll use that,” Ignatius wrote to Patel’s spokeswoman the day before the column ran.
The spokeswoman responded: “There has never been an investigation to begin with, so this and all follow up stories are inaccurate.”
Ignatius asked the spokeswoman which investigation she was referring to (the columnist also mentioned Patel’s investigation into Russiagate). The spokeswoman quoted Ignatius’ question about the investigation into Patel and again stated: “This did not conclude because it never existed.”
Yet, no mention of the alleged investigation into Patel or the spokeswoman’s statement made it into Ignatius’ August 19 column.
Ignatius could not be reached for comment.
Ignatius’ claim in his April 16, 2021, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/kash-patel-trump-intelligence-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column</a> about the alleged investigation into Patel came from “two knowledgeable sources who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe,” adding that “the investigation resulted from a complaint made this year by an intelligence agency, but wouldn’t provide additional details.”
The anonymous sources angle follows a common tactic used by the media when writing about Trump and people who worked for him. First, the claim is reported from the angle that someone said there is an investigation, thereby keeping the media outlet from making a potentially libelous claim itself. Second, the sources are vague and not noted as having a direct connection to the alleged investigation. In this case, they are merely “knowledgeable sources.”
“It’s a disinformation campaign,” Patel told The Daily Wire.
Ignatius also suggested by asking a hypothetical in his 2021 column that Patel — who at the end of the Trump presidency was the chief of staff for Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller — may have been installed in that position “to gain control of the nation’s intelligence and military command centers as part of Trump’s effort to retain the presidency, despite his loss in the November 2020 election.”
Ignatius did include part of Patel’s spokeswoman’s response in his column, which said he was “acting as an unthinking, loyal mouthpiece for deep-state goons and the Democratic Party.”

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a> official Kash Patel continues to insist that the “classified” documents recovered in the raid on Mar-a-Lago were actually documents pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russiagate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russiagate</a> that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> declassified before leaving office.
Patel, who served as chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense at the end of the Trump administration, has been making the claim since shortly after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was raided by the FBI on August 8. He told The Daily Wire in a recent interview that Trump declassified documents relating to the years-long claim from Democrats and the media that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, a claim that has been disproven.
“Trump unilaterally declassified every Russiagate document and every Hillary Clinton email document. He did it by social media, issued a written statement,” Patel said, adding that he didn’t know any documents were at Mar-a-Lago.
Patel also said that the reason he’s so convinced the Mar-a-Lago documents are the ones Trump declassified is that they outline “the same corrupt FBI agents at the counterintelligence division” that were involved in Russiagate, Hillary Clinton’s emails, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the plot to kidnap Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Patel told The Daily Wire that it was a “smart” but “evil” move by the Department of Justice to put Trump under a counterintelligence investigation because “those never close.” He said it paralleled what former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray did to Patel and his then-boss, former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), which was to refuse to hand over documents because of an open investigation.
“Now they have an open investigation and they’re never going to release the Russiagate documents until [Republicans] take back the House, we subpoena them, and we take their money,” Patel said.
He insisted that he and Nunes were able to release 60% of the information they received relating to the Russiagate investigation and that he has been working to get the other 40% released as well. Patel said the information that has yet to be disclosed is “the most damning.”
“He and I, of course, can’t talk about it even though POTUS declassified it because the FBI will come up and say, ‘You’re leaking classified information,’” Patel told The Daily Wire.
In order to get the declassified Russiagate documents released to the public, as Trump wanted, Republicans are going to have to work very hard if they are able to take control of the House of Representatives during the mid-term elections, Patel said.
“Not just a series of subpoenas for the documents and public testimony of the witnesses,” Patel said. “They won’t respond to that, but what they will respond to is what Devin and I did &#8230; I fenced their money. I took $100 million from FBI and said, ‘Until you comply with the subpoena, no money.’ A thousand documents showed up the next day.”
Patel was the lead investigator for Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and has in recent months become Trump&#8217;s representative to the National Archives, trying to get all information pertaining to Russiagate released to the public on his website, <a href="https://www.fightwithkash.com/">FightwithKash.com</a>.
“In the aftermath of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump continues to call for complete transparency. Release the already declassified documents, there is no lawful authority preventing this, just politics in law enforcement. These bad actors cannot be permitted to dictate how they serve the American people by hiding the truth. Demand action, remind them, they work for you, not the other way around,” Patel said in a previous statement regarding the National Archives’ refusal to release Russiagate documents.

Former Trump Official: ‘Classified’ Mar-A-Lago Documents Were Actually Declassified By Trump Before Leaving Office

Kash Patel Says ‘Classified’ Mar-A-Lago Documents Were Actually Declassified By Trump Before Leaving Office

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pulitzer-prize">Pulitzer Prize Board</a>&#8216;s decision to stand by its 2018 media awards for coverage of the 2016 allegations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russiagate">Russian collusion</a> between Russia and then-candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> is a &#8220;big win&#8221; for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin">Russian President Vladimir Putin</a>, a former defense intelligence official told The Daily Wire.
On Sunday, the board <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/news/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-2">announced</a> that it would not revoke the awards in national reporting that it gave to The Washington Post and The New York Times after &#8220;separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.&#8221; Former President Donald Trump had previously requested that Pulitzer scrub the awards after new information has been revealed through various government investigations and additional reporting into the matter which showed that no such collusion existed between his campaign and Russia.
&#8220;Pulitzer’s refusal to take back the award given for the inaccurate coverage of the Russiagate Hoax is a big win for Putin,&#8221; said Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer specializing in Russian Doctrine &amp; Strategy.
Koffler told The Daily Wire that any interference Putin did in previous elections was meant to cause division and that The Times and The Post played a role in that effort, even if unwittingly.
&#8220;Putin’s goal for intervening in the U.S. presidential election in 2016 (as well as in 2018 and 2020) by running cyber-enabled and clandestine influence operations was to divide America by pitting Trump and Clinton supporters against one another,&#8221; Koffler explained. &#8220;The media outlets, which spread the false &#8216;Russia-Trump collusion&#8217; narratives, essentially helped Putin foment chaos in our country and undermine the confidence of the American people in the election process.&#8221;
Allegations of collusion with Russia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing">dogged</a> Trump during his campaign and throughout his presidency. Ex-special counsel Robert Mueller for three years investigated claims that the Trump campaign had illegally coordinated with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election. He eventually concluded that no such evidence exists.
Koffler, the author of &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Playbook-Russias-Secret-America/dp/1684510031">Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America</a>,&#8221; also told The Daily Wire that Pulitzer&#8217;s decision will have negative impacts on American democracy.
&#8220;Instead of revoking it from the purveyors of fake news, is a major loss for democracy and a big win for Putin and America’s foes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This misguided decision also discredits the award itself, which has been the hallmark of journalistic achievement for over a century.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s attorneys blasted the board for not revoking the awards and claimed that the papers in question fed the false narrative that their client had somehow worked with Putin to win in 2016.
&#8220;The idea that President Trump plotted with Vladimir Putin to skew the 2016 election in his favor was always preposterous. Since 2018, if not before, it has been clear that the articles upon which the Pulitzer Board based its Prize include numerous false statements that are defamatory to our client,&#8221; the attorney&#8217;s letter <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors">said</a>. &#8220;We assume that in awarding the Prize, the Board was misled by frenzied media reports alleging that President Trump colluded with Russia. That was never plausible, and it has since been proven to have been a cynical invention of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC.&#8221;
As p<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors">ointed out by Fox News</a>, Pulitzer&#8217;s awards were given for articles that included citations of the now largely-debunked Steele Dossier and that reporting after the fact showed much of the allegations against Trump were mere rumors.

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‘Big Win For Putin’: Former Intelligence Officer Blasts Pulitzer Board After Refusing To Take Back Russiagate Prizes

'Big Win For Putin': Former Intelligence Officer Blasts Pulitzer After Refusing To Take Back Russiagate Hoax Prizes

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