'DEVELOPING: Investigators have learned that Obama CIA Director John Brennan ran a secret task force out of Langley with its own separate budget to investigate Trump campaign and alleged ties to Russia. Task force set up before FBI officially launched its own probe on 07/31/16'
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1303170472071356418
'I’ve watched this story for 72 hours to see if anything new might develop.
On September 1, 2020, journalist Sarah Carter broke a story based on confidential sources that in a briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI and Department of Justice informed the committee that the “Woods File” for the Carter Page FISA application had been somehow “lost” at some unknown point in time. She reported that the Committee was told that the contents of the file had been “recreated” by the Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel office by “reverse engineering” — my words — through examining the application and determining what factual allegations would have required supporting documentation normally contained in a “Woods File”.
I have not seen any other news outlet report this story, so all I have at this point is Carter’s story which she attributes to “sources familiar with the proceedings” before the Intelligence Committee.
As a refresher readers should understand that the “Woods File” is a process by which the FBI case agent on a FISA application documents a source for every factual allegation set forth in the application. It is named after a member of the FBI General Counsel’s Office who first devised the validation process as part of reforms to the FISA process put in place by Robert Mueller when he was Director of the FBI.
Here is what Carter reports based on her sources familiar with the hearing:
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https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/09/04/report-that-woods-file-on-carter-page-fisa-was-lost-and-mueller-team-recreated-it-theyre-going-with-that/
'… The original Woods file on former campaign advisor Carter Page went missing more than two years ago, and according to sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com, those documents had to be recreated by the FBI and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in 2018 from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Application used by the bureau to obtain the warrant on Page.
The woods file procedure, which was overseen by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka, and ultimately former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, was used to verify the contents in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application that was used to obtain a warrant to spy on Page.
Moreover, during Pientka’s numerous interviews with investigators from the DOJ’s Inspector General’s office, who likely have worked for both Michael Horowitz and Connecticut prosecutor John Durham – the fact that it was a recreated Wood’s file was never disclosed. …'
'… Where to begin?
How about with the “disappearance” of an electronic file in a system where nothing disappears. The Woods File is a subfile in the investigation’s case file. It is created by the Case Agent by scanning in the documentary sources used as the basis to make factual allegation in the affidavit.
The purpose of having the file is so that when third parties — supervisors, subsequent case agents, other agencies — who review the affidavit and have questions about a particular allegation, they can go to the Woods File and find the specific documents from which the allegation was sourced. The file is not intended to “prove” the allegation true — only that the allegation has a source, and what that source is.
A question that has never received enough scrutiny is the role of the Special Counsel’s office in seeking the third extension of the Page FISA warrant. That extension was requested on June 29, 2017. That is six weeks after Mueller was appointed Special Counsel, and responsibility for Crossfire Hurricane was transferred to the Special Counsel’s Office.
The IG Report on Four FISAs pirouettes around this question on Page 219 in the following fashion: … '
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