A central figure is Peter Strzok, deputy assistant FBI director for the counterintelligence division, who was fired in August.
In the three years since the controversial investigations, the FBI counterintelligence division has sought to rebuild its reputation by conducting aggressive operations untainted by past allegations of liberal political bias through recent high-profile spy cases.
Since the 1990s FBI counterintelligence has suffered numerous failures.
They include botched counterspy investigations into Chinese nuclear spies that stole American warhead secrets; a Chinese double agent who worked as an informant for the FBI in Los Angeles; and, most damaging, failing to uncover FBI turncoat agent Robert Hanssen who worked as an FBI counterspy and Moscow agent undetected for more than 20 years.
"The damage they've done to the FBI will last for years," said former FBI counterspy I.C. Smith.
DeGraffenreid said the fallout from Crossfire Hurricane likely will further weaken an already poor FBI counterintelligence capability.
"More than any other government bureaucracy, the FBI will openly lie to protect the FBI's reputation," he said, adding that of all the intelligence disciplines, counterintelligence requires the smartest and best analysts and operators free of political bias like that shown by Strzok.
https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/06/07/damage-crossfire-hurricane-fbis-counterintelligence-division-will-last-years-says-former-counterspy/
In the three years since the controversial investigations, the FBI counterintelligence division has sought to rebuild its reputation by conducting aggressive operations untainted by past allegations of liberal political bias through recent high-profile spy cases.
Since the 1990s FBI counterintelligence has suffered numerous failures.
They include botched counterspy investigations into Chinese nuclear spies that stole American warhead secrets; a Chinese double agent who worked as an informant for the FBI in Los Angeles; and, most damaging, failing to uncover FBI turncoat agent Robert Hanssen who worked as an FBI counterspy and Moscow agent undetected for more than 20 years.
"The damage they've done to the FBI will last for years," said former FBI counterspy I.C. Smith.
DeGraffenreid said the fallout from Crossfire Hurricane likely will further weaken an already poor FBI counterintelligence capability.
"More than any other government bureaucracy, the FBI will openly lie to protect the FBI's reputation," he said, adding that of all the intelligence disciplines, counterintelligence requires the smartest and best analysts and operators free of political bias like that shown by Strzok.
https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/06/07/damage-crossfire-hurricane-fbis-counterintelligence-division-will-last-years-says-former-counterspy/
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