Newly Released Docs Show That Mueller Investigation Relied on Media Reports to Indict Trump Officials

Newly released documents have shown that the Mueller team relied on reports from the fake news media to build cases against Trump officials while conducting their Russian collusion probe, which were often based on biased anonymous sources or otherwise patently false.
CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge posted pictures of the “lightly redacted” documents on Twitter:
SCOOP #Durham: @CBSNews obtains 94-page declassified FBI spreadsheet, widely cited by IG Horowitz, but not public until now. Recently released to Senate investigators, the FBI spreadsheet was part of a broader effort to corroborate the Steele dossier claims. pic.twitter.com/tO46InBSae
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) October 12, 2020
She noted that the documents showed Mueller’s cases against individuals like Carter Page and Paul Manafort were based on media reports from outlets such as Yahoo, with Democrat operatives like disgraced spook Christopher Steele used as an authoritative source.
IG Horowitz page 5 found dossier author Christopher Steele spoke to the Yahoo news reporter prior to publication of a September 23 article. The FBI spreadsheet cites the SAME article on page 51 as supporting evidence. IG Horowitz also faulted the FBI for using the Yahoo
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) October 12, 2020
should include a variety of intelligence sources, including imagery intelligence, human intelligence, signals intelligence as well as clandestine intelligence collection platforms for verification," Gill said. “You don't rely on media reporting.”
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) October 12, 2020
These documents were largely the basis of the IG report, which documented a stunning amount of immoral and unethical behavior but ultimately exonerated the FBI of any criminal wrongdoing in the Russian collusion probe.
Big League Politics reported last year on the disappointing conclusions of the report prepared by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who was appointed to his post by Barack Hussein Obama:
Every person who has believed “trust the plan” propaganda received a reality check today after the release of the much-anticipated Inspector General (IG) report, which cleared the FBI of criminality and political bias in their plot to surveil President Donald Trump.
The fake news is gloating that President Trump has been proven false by the IG report’s findings. Although the IG report admits that the FBI’s investigation was improper in certain respects, it justified the underlying basis of the investigation and claimed it was not launched for political purposes because of authentic concerns about Russian collusion.
To sum it up, the deep state’s investigation of the deep state has found that the deep state essentially did nothing wrong.
The report ultimately concluded that no “documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the FBI’s decision to conduct these operations.” The IG report came to this conclusion despite the fact that 17 inaccuracies were discovered in three surveillance applications, including a completely promulgated rationale to spy on former foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
FBI Director Christopher Wray released a statement claiming that the report shows how the deep state is committed to serving the people.
“We are vested with significant authorities and it is our obligation as public servants to ensure these authorities are exercised with objectivity and integrity,” Wray said. “Anything less falls short of the FBI’s duty to the American people.”
Top Congressional Democrats released a statement claiming that the report’s findings vindicate their supposition that any talk of deep state wrongdoing is a conspiracy theory.
“Those discredited conspiracy theories were attempts to deflect from the President’s serious and ongoing misconduct, first urging Russia and now extorting Ukraine into interfering with our elections to benefit him personally and politically,” said Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, the New York Democrats who co-chair the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.
Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a separate criminal investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion investigation, publicly disagreed with the findings of the IG report.
There will likely never be any repercussions for the globalist interests who perpetrated Russia-gate because the deep state protects its own.
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