MEMOS: FBI DOUBTED
INTEL COMMUNITY'S RUSSIA CLAIM. Bureau found
no evidence to back assessment of '16 agencies', by Art Moore, 9/21/18, WND.
FBI officials who had been investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion did not agree with the highly publicized intelligence community conclusion that Moscow had meddled in the election to help Trump, according to newly obtained bureau memos and emails.
She observed that while FBI officials, including FBI Director James Comey and lead investigator Peter Strzok, were disputing the findings of CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper behind closed doors, the public believed the FBI agreed with the assessment.
Strzok expressed concern about the CIA assessment in an appearance before the House Intelligence Committee in December 2016.
“We did not have information to differentiate what their ultimate goal was,” he wrote, noting that Comey gave the Senate Intelligence Committee the same answer.
The initial claim was the all 16
intelligence agencies were in agreement, but that number was later corrected to
four.
Now, the documents show FBI officials
concluded there was not enough intelligence to support the January 2017
findings, according to SaraACarter.com.
Carter noted there is no dispute that
the Kremlin meddled in the elections, but the assertion that its intent was to
aid Trump has been the source of controversy.
Text messages indicate,
nevertheless, that Strzok was still intent on proving that members of the Trump
campaign colluded with Moscow.
And Comey, as did Strzok, believed
the unverified dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele should
have been part of the Intelligence Community Assessment titled “Assessing
Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.”
Carter reports that shortly after, on
Dec. 10, 2016, the FBI received an email inquiry
from a reporter asking if it was true that the FBI was uncertain about the CIA’s
assessment that Russia was trying to help Trump.
Strzok sent an email to the FBI
press office. “In other words, the activity is
one-sided and clear but we can’t say the sole and primary purpose was
specifically intended to help someone, hurt someone else or undermine the
process. The reality is all three,” he said.
Carter noted that “when the
declassified version of the IC Russia report was made public Jan. 6, 2017, the
FBI had already addressed members of Congress, but it wouldn’t be until these emails
and texts that the public would know the extent of the concerns.”
Strzok’s paramour, former FBI lawyer
Lisa Page, acknowledged recently in a closed-door congressional interview that
after nine months of investigation, the FBI found no evidence that the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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