Donald Trump Declassifies More Materials from Crossfire Hurricane in Final Hours as President

Charlie Spiering 19 Jan 2021

President Donald Trump ordered that more documents from Operation Crossfire Hurricane be declassified Tuesday, in his final hours as president.  The president noted he requested the Department of Justice to provide the White Hosue with a binder of materials related to the FBI’s investigation of him and his campaign as part of the investigation of whether he was colluding with Russia to win the presidential election.

“I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible,” Trump wrote in a memo released by the White House Tuesday night.  He noted that the FBI objected to further declassification of the materials but had identified the passages “most crucial” to keep redacted.  “I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission,” he wrote.

The president said he had ordered the attorney general to provide a final copy of the binder with appropriate redactions.  “Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law,” he wrote. It was not immediately clear when the contents of the binder would be released, but it will likely cast a shadow over President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration and the first 100 days of his presidency..............To Read More.....

Graham Releases Russia Probe Docs, Calls Crossfire Hurricane ‘Incompetent and Corrupt’

By Tom Ozimek January 16, 2021

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday released interview transcripts from an inquiry into the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, claiming the documents show incompetence and corruption at the heart of the investigation.

Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, released hundreds of pages of transcripts from the committee’s inquiry into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane probe, saying in a statement that he believes the effort “was one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ.”

The transcripts come from 11 closed-door hearings that the Graham-led committee carried out between March and October of 2020, including interviews with Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials.

One of the transcripts relates to an interview with an unnamed FBI agent who once headed one of the FBI’s field office’s investigations into Russian organized crime and later became British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s primary contact and handler. The transcript shows the agent believed that Steele’s infamous dossier, which was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, was “political.”

“I mean, it was obvious,” the FBI agent said when asked whether he believed the dossier was political in nature............To Read More....