The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence investigator who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane.
The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence official who oversaw the bureau's investigation of the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia.
The declassified documents also show that Strzok was provided with real-time updates as FBI agents or undercover sources were meeting with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papaodpoulos, who were early targets of the investigation.
While Strzok indicated that he thought Steele was a source for the Yahoo! article, the FBI maintained its relationship with Steele and failed to inform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the ex-spy had contact with journalists.
A Justice Department inspector general's report released on Dec. 9, 2019, blasted the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane team for failing to disclose key details about Steele and the dossier to the FISC. Strzok's messages also show that he and others at the FBI had inside information about CNN's plans to publish a story about then-FBI Director James Comey's briefing to Trump regarding allegations in the dossier.
An FBI employee and Strzok then joked that Papadopoulos's mother, who was with her son when the FBI approached for an interview, urged him not to go to the FBI's offices for an interview, but that he went anyway.
On Jan. 30, 2017, an FBI employee messaged Strzok to say that they had "Opened" a case file on Mifsud.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/17/peter-strzok-declassified-fbi-trump-crossfire-hurricane/
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