Peter Strzok's 'False Memory' About the Origins of Crossfire Hurricane

Over the weekend, Strzok officially opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, filing the authorizing Electronic Communication memorandum on Sunday, July 31.

In framing his comment as a choice between Strzok lying or Downer lying, Mahncke was allowing to the remote possibility that Australian ambassador Downer had lied to Strzok about what had triggered him.

It remains a remote possibility that Strzok himself never suggested, and which became moot when Strzok walked back part of his false story.

Wittes: Jerry Dunleavy of Washington Examiner writes: "Can Mr. Strzok clear up what seems to be a contradiction in his timeline of how the Crossfire Hurricane investigation began. He writes that the Australians were prompted to contact the U.S. about a May 2016 conversation with George Papadopoulos following Trump's 'Russia, are you listening' comment in July 2016. But Mueller and Horowitz say that the U.S. was contacted by the Friendly Foreign Government on July 26. Trump's comments were not until the next day, July 27, 2016." Any help for Mr. Dunleavy?

Strzok didn't explain or even acknowledge his false memory about Downer telling Strzok about the Trump quip.

Out of all the issues arising from Strzok's CBS and Lawfare interviews, the most important was left unexamined by Wittes: Strzok's false memory of Downer supposedly telling him about the triggering event-a story that is not only central to Crossfire Hurricane, but which was also prominently used in the CBS interview to discredit Trump.

The corollary of discovering Strzok's lie is that we don't presently know two of the most fundamental questions about the opening of Crossfire Hurricane: what triggered Downer to report the Papadopoulos conversation to the U.S. embassy; and what Downer actually told Strzok on August 1, 2016, about what triggered him to go to the U.S. embassy.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/peter-strzoks-false-memory-of-alexander-downer-interview/