What Does the Executive Summary Tell Us?

In this series, I will go over the Executive Summary of the IG report. Throughout the report there is mention, several times, of a Friendly Foreign Government which initiated the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. I am going to outline the main points of the report word for word so you can assess for yourself if I have hit the nail on the head.

This series is to allow readers to disseminate the information in short intervals for themselves, form their own opinion on the writing of the report, and then assess whether they agree with my take on each page. Today we are looking at the main points of Executive Summary page ii.

Main Points: Executive Summary Page ii

“The FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, just days after its receipt of information from a Friendly Foreign Government (FFG) reporting that, in May 2016, during a meeting with the friendly foreign government, then Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos ‘suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist this process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Mrs. Clinton’ (and President Obama).”

“The FBI Electronic Communication (EC) opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation stated that, based on the FFG information, ‘this investigation is being opened to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia.’”

“We did not find information in FBI or Department EC’s, emails, or other documents, or through witness testimony, indicating that any information other than the FFG information was relied upon to predicate the opening of Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

“Although not mentioned in the EC, at the time, FBI officials involved in opening the investigation had reason to believe that Russia may have been connected to the WikiLeaks disclosures that occurred earlier in July 2016, and were aware of information regarding Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections. These officials, though, did not become aware of Steele’s election reporting until weeks later and we therefore determined that Steele’s reports played no role in the Crossfire Hurricane opening.”

“The FBI assembled a headquarters based investigative team of special agents, analysts, and supervisory special agents (referred to throughout this report as “the Crossfire Hurricane team”) who conducted an initial analysis of links between Trump campaign members and Russia. Based upon this analysis, the Crossfire Hurricane team opened individual cases in August 2016 on 4 US persons – Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn – all whom were affiliated with the Trump campaign at the time the cases were opened.”

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The page goes on to elaborate on the guidelines that are required to be used in the types of investigations Horowitz investigated. Note that in Horowitz’s investigation, he only had a limited scope in what he could do. He questioned all involved except for two who declined to speak with the team. Those two were Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, and Jonathan Winer.

In an older article of mine, I wrote about Glenn Simpson and other’s very shady actions in the Russia investigation. Jonathan Winer formerly worked at the US State Department and was one of many given accesses to the still unverified “Steele Dossier.”

The main focus should be on what the second page of the IG report states: “during a meeting with the friendly foreign government, then Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos ‘suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist this process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Mrs. Clinton’ (and President Obama).”

Many people aren’t aware Papadopoulos was drunk when he suggested that. For all anyone knows he could have been joking given all the buzz around then candidate Trump “potentially being an agent of Russia” from claims of Hillary Clinton. Before we go any further, I’d like to remind everyone that Hillary has now called Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, and Boris Johnson agents of Russia. Sigh.

Crossfire Hurricane opened on the foundations of a, then drunk, foreign policy advisor telling an Australian that they have dirt on Hillary, from Russia. If that is truly the case, what pretense can the FBI use to investigate everyday citizens?

Limited Scope

I have another theory. President Trump’s accusations of Ukraine trying to influence the election are founded in truth. Remember the Politico article that came out? Well I found another. In an article from The Hill written in May 2019, it states “Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016.” The article says Alexandra Chalupa, a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider solicited dirt on Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and even tried to get Ukraine’s former president to help her efforts.

This article that says the Obama White House invited Ukrainian law enforcement officials to a meeting in January 2016. The efforts by the Obama administration led to Ukrainians leaking documents about Manafort in May 2016. Even a Ukrainian court ruled that the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau wrongly interfered in the 2016 election by releasing documents related to Manafort.

Now let’s look at when the IG report says Crossfire Hurricane started. August 2016, just a few months after those leaks and one drunken rant. What a coincidence. As I stated earlier, Horowitz’s investigation is limited in scope, but guess whose isn’t? John Durham and Bill Barr’s investigation, and where have they been? Ukraine, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Italy.

Horowitz’s IG report only forebodes the ongoing criminal investigation from Barr and Durham and in the upcoming summary pages I will prove this notion even more.

Stay tuned for IG Summary page iii about Peter Strzok and company, and deeper revelations I have uncovered relating to the report.