Kash Patel, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to head the FBI, is the lead investigator in the Congressional investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, which uncovered government surveillance abuses that led to the appointment of two special counsels. I made it. One determined that there was no such collusion. Another determined that the entire premise of the FBI's original investigation was false.
Mr. Patel served as senior advisor and national security advisor to then-chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
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Nunes, who is currently in charge of President Trump's Truth social site, said: “Despite constant attempts by the FBI and Justice Department to obstruct our investigation, Kash uncovered the Russian collusion hoax and brought the government's “We worked hard to find evidence of wrongdoing,” he told Fox News Digital.
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In July 2016, during the 2016 election, the FBI launched an investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the election. This investigation was known within the department as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
By January 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey had notified President Trump of a document known as the Steele dossier containing salacious and unverified allegations about President Trump's alleged collaboration with the Russian government. This document became an important document that prompted the start of the investigation.
The document was written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and commissioned by Fusion GPS. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign adopted Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign.
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It was eventually determined that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee had funded the document through the law firm Perkins Coie.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017. Days later, Robert Mueller took over the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation and was appointed special counsel to investigate whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election cycle.
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While Mr. Mueller is investigating, the HPSCI has launched its own investigation into allegations of collusion between President Trump and Russia.
As Nunes' lead investigator, Patel had uncovered widespread government surveillance abuses by February 2018, including improper surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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“While most members of Congress were prepared to ignore the unprecedented civil rights violations against the Trump campaign and me, Kash Patel, trained as a top public defender, was involved in one of the largest election interference scandals in history. “He became the perfect advocate for exposing people,” Page said. he told FOX News Digital.
Mr. Patel played an integral role in drafting a memo released by then-Chairman Nunes in February 2018 that detailed Mr. Page's surveillance by the Justice Department and FBI under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. was.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (AP/File)
Nunes and Patel revealed that the infamous anti-Trump dossier, funded by Democrats, “formed a material part” of the spy application against Page.
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The memo cites private testimony from former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who told the FISA court that “without the Steele dossier information,” the surveillance warrant “would not have been requested.”
But in applying for the FISA warrant, the FBI omitted the source of the documents, particularly the source of the funding from Trump's 2016 presidential opponent, Clinton.
The memo also states that Steele, who worked as an FBI informant, was ultimately fired from the bureau for “unauthorized disclosure of his relationship with the FBI to the media,” which the FBI calls the most serious violation. It is also written.
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The memo said the FBI and Justice Department obtained “one initial FISA warrant” targeting Page and three FISA renewals from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The law specified that FISA orders against American citizens “must be reviewed” every 90 days.
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The memo states that Mr. Comey signed Mr. Page's three FISA applications, while Mr. McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente It has been revealed that he has signed at least one petition.
The memo was widely criticized by Democrats, but ultimately vindicated.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz reviewed the memo and confirmed that the document served as the basis for the controversial FISA warrant obtained against Page.
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“Federal authorities monitored Mr. Kash during the investigation and waged an information war, but Mr. Kash cooperated with the disclosure anyway,” Nunes told Fox News Digital.
In November 2017, Nunes used a grand jury subpoena to secretly obtain personal email and phone data of Patel and another Nunes staffer at HPSCI who were investigating FBI abuses and the Russia investigation. He was referring to the Department of Justice.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) last year sent a letter to current FBI Director Christopher Wray to investigate improper surveillance of Patel.
Meanwhile, Mueller completed his investigation in April 2019, which found no evidence of any criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 election.
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A few weeks later, then-Attorney General Bill Barr appointed then-Connecticut Attorney General John Durham as special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI's original Trump-Russia investigation.
Durham said in his report that the Justice Department and FBI “failed in their mission to ensure strict compliance with the law” when they launched the original Trump-Russia investigation.
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He also said in the report that the FBI was based on “clear warning signs” that the agency was a “target” of a Clinton-led effort to “manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes.” “I didn't take any action,” he said. 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Durham linked Mr. Trump to Russia in an effort to distract from an investigation launched by Mr. Clinton's presidential campaign in July 2016 into Mr. Trump's use of a private email server and mishandling of classified information. It referred to intelligence agencies regarding the plan.
