We Don’t Need The Durham Annex To Know Hillary And The FBI Set Up Trump. We Watched It Happen:
In fact, we didn’t need secret intelligence to expose the plan. It was playing out openly before our eyes in real time.
Just hours after the release of bombshell intelligence showing that the Clinton campaign orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax, The New York Times and Washington Post rushed out articles that misrepresented the intelligence entirely — one falsely claimed Durham dismissed it, the other falsely claimed the FBI investigated it. In reality, Durham treated the intelligence as credible and preserved it in a classified appendix to his report without disclaiming or refuting it — because the facts were confirmed by what unfolded in real time.
Now, thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley, that once-secret appendix has been released. It contains raw intelligence obtained by the CIA in July 2016 indicating that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to “vilify” Donald Trump by tying him to Russia while relying on the FBI to drive the smear. At the time, the intelligence was routed to President Obama, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-FBI Director James Comey.
But rather than investigate Clinton for orchestrating a dirty trick operation that funneled false intelligence into the U.S. government, Comey and Brennan, with the apparent blessing of President Obama, turned their focus on Trump. Instead of treating him as the victim of a political smear campaign, they helped carry it out.
As the Durham appendix notes, both the CIA and intelligence analysts consulted by Durham assessed the intelligence as likely authentic. But the real strength of the intelligence — apparently left unstated by Durham or anyone else — lies in the fact that it was effectively self-verifying. The very actions it described — Clinton operatives accusing Trump of Russian ties, feeding false information into the FBI, and working with a cybersecurity firm to plant the Russia collusion narrative — were already unfolding in public, in real time, exactly as the intelligence outlined.
For example, on July 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robbie Mook appeared on national television and declared that the “the Russian” perpetrated the DNC email leak “for the purpose of actually of helping Donald Trump.” It was a striking accusation made without evidence, and it came at the time U.S. intelligence was receiving reports, described in the Durham appendix, that Clinton operatives had a plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Russian hackers.
The intelligence also included two emails allegedly sent by Leonard Benardo, a senior vice president at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation. These emails — reportedly obtained by hackers “affiliated” with the Russian government who breached Benardo’s account — provide striking insight into the Clinton campaign’s strategy. In the first email, dated July 25, 2016, Benardo allegedly outlined the plan’s strategic goals: “Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump.”
“Julie” appears to refer to Julianne Smith, the NATO ambassador under President Biden and, at the time, a Clinton foreign policy adviser.
Benardo allegedly continued, “Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.” That Benardo purportedly anticipated FBI involvement — indeed, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was launched just six days later — makes this exchange particularly significant. --->READ MORE HERE
Don’t Believe The Lies From NYT Russia Hoaxers About The Durham Annex:
Russia hoax handmaiden Charlie Savage falsely claimed that the annex to the Durham report said something it never actually said.
New documents shedding light on the Trump-Russia collusion hoax dropped Thursday, and the corporate media are still running cover for the same chicanery they helped launder back in 2016. Especially dishonest is the spin from Russia hoax handmaiden Charlie Savage of The New York Times, who falsely claimed Thursday night that the previously classified annex to the Durham report said something it never actually said.
The 29-page annex is a byproduct of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the decision by Barack Obama’s intelligence agencies to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, based in part on a collection of falsehoods commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign known as the Steele dossier. In his report, released in 2023, Durham found the FBI lacked justification for investigating Trump and spying on his campaign.
He also found that the Obama intel agencies had been made aware of intelligence suggesting Hillary Clinton planned “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference” by the Russians. In 2016, the Clinton campaign’s law firm commissioned the Steele dossier, which included salacious lies about Trump and Russia, and shopped it to the FBI, which then launched the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump. In his report, Durham blasted the agencies for falling for allegations of Trump-Russia collusion despite their foreknowledge that it could be a Clinton-engineered hoax.
The annex released Thursday includes Russian intelligence memos obtained by U.S. agencies that evidence Durham’s suspicion that Clinton had approved a plan to smear Trump. The Russians claimed to have obtained several emails from Soros executive Leonard Benardo, one of which said that “HRC [Clinton] approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.”
Savage Falsely Claims Durham Found Emails Were ‘Fakes’
If those emails were real — or even if U.S. intelligence in 2016 suspected they were real — it would be another nail in the coffin of the Russia hoax, because it would further indicate the Obama FBI opened an investigation into Trump while believing the claims about Trump-Russia collusion were a likely Clinton plant. It would mean U.S. intelligence willfully participated in the Clinton campaign’s plot to frame Trump, which, of course, is exactly what happened.
But that would look awfully bad for Charlie Savage, who has dutifully carried water for the Russia hoax for the past decade. So, in an article and accompanying post last night, Savage downplayed the emails and falsely claimed Durham had “decided they were fakes made by Russian spies.”
The problem is, that’s not what Durham concluded at all.
Durham certainly never said the emails were fabricated, and in fact said he couldn’t tell for sure. He said his office was unable to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton campaign plan [intelligence] … was entirely genuine, partially true, a composite pulled from multiple sources, exaggerated in certain respects, or fabricated in its entirety.”
Moreover, Durham’s team interviewed U.S. intelligence personnel who were “well-versed” in the matter, and they testified that their “best assessment was that the Benardo emails were likely authentic.” Savage dismisses this because these interviews happened early in Durham’s investigation.
Durham also says that the CIA “prepared a written assessment of the authenticity and veracity of the above-referenced intelligence.” His description of their conclusion contains redactions, but it appears to say the CIA “stated that it did not assess that the above … memoranda … [were] the product of Russian fabrications.” --->READ MORE HERE
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