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Miles Taylor witness CROSSFIRE RAZOR
CROSSFIRE RAZOR = Michael Flynn
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11.23.2020
Johnson, Grassley Request Additional Declassification Of FBI Director’s Briefing Notes On The Crossfire Hurricane Investigation From May 2017 That Identify Trump Critic Miles Taylor As A Possible Witness
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting the full declassification of briefing notes for then-Director James Comey summarizing the FBI’s investigative efforts regarding Crossfire Hurricane. The May 1, 2017 notes identify Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who anonymously authored a September 2018 op-ed criticizing the president, as a possible witness in the Flynn investigation. The chairmen enclosed the partially declassified but heavily-redacted FBI document in their request to Attorney General Barr.
Text letter to Attorney General Barr follows. A copy of the letter and the briefing notes can be viewed here.
November 20, 2020
The Honorable William P. Barr
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
Dear Attorney General Barr:
On October 30, 2020, we requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) declassify several types of records, including then-Director Comey’s briefing notes and FBI Lync messages, relating to Crossfire Hurricane. The DOJ recently produced to the Committees the enclosed partially declassified document titled “Director’s Briefing Notes Crossfire Hurricane” dated May 1, 2017. This document appears to summarize the FBI’s investigative efforts, as of May 1, 2017, relating to subjects of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, namely, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, and Paul Manafort.
This 11-page document includes information about the status of the then-ongoing investigations into those individuals and references new information obtained through witness interviews. One of the witnesses named in the section of the document labeled “Michael Flynn [CROSSFIRE RAZOR]” is Miles Taylor. [1] Although the document does not fully explain the FBI’s interest in Taylor in relation to Flynn, the memo included a “place holder” for an “interview w/ Miles Taylor.” [2]