Durham’s Broad Spygate Inquiry Looking at Private Actors, Barr Says

BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

1 CommentsDecember 19, 2019 Updated: December 19, 2019

The investigation into the surveillance of the Trump campaign is broad in scope and includes actions taken by private actors, according to Attorney General William Barr.

Barr made the revelation in an interview with Fox News aired on Dec. 18. He appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham earlier this year to look into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign and whether the spying on Trump-campaign associates was legal and free of improper motive.

“He’s not just looking at the FBI,” Barr said. “He’s looking at other agencies and departments and also private actors. So it’s a much broader investigation.”

Private actors figured prominently in the investigation of the Trump campaign. Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele compiled an opposition research dossier on Trump. The dossier played a central role in the FBI’s decision to apply for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump-campaign associate Carter Page. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee ultimately funded Steele’s work by retaining the Fusion GPS research firm through Perkins Coie, a law firm.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/durhams-broad-spygate-inquiry-looking-at-private-actors-barr-says_3179602.html

Surveillance footage from night of Jeffrey Epstein suicide attempt goes missing

Footage from surveillance cameras monitoring Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell has gone missing, prosecutors have admitted, in the latest twist of the scandal surrounding his life and death.

The footage in question was from the night of his first suspected suicide attempt inside a Manhattan jail, on July 23.

He was found dead inside a different cell in the same jail on August 10.

Epstein’s cell mate, Nick Tartaglione, a former policeman accused of quadruple murder, claimed to have saved Epstein’s life after the suicide attempt. Epstein reportedly claimed that Tartaglione, a bodybuilder, attacked him.

On July 25 Tartaglione’s lawyers requested the surveillance camera footage, hoping that it would bolster his argument that he is of good character.

William Barr, the attorney general, was furious that one of America’s most high-profile prisoners was able to take his own life, and launched an immediate inquiry.

The warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan was reassigned, and two officers on duty the night he died, who fell asleep while they were supposed to be monitoring him, have been charged with neglecting their duties and falsifying records.

Mr Barr said the paedophile financier’s death was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/19/surveillance-footage-night-epstein-suicide-attempt-goes-missing/

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Epstein was discovered when guards went to bring him breakfast.

Mr Barr said the paedophile financier’s death was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups”.

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