(National Pulse) Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the FBI’s debunked attempts to connect President Donald Trump to Russian collusion reveals that British intelligence officials were deeply unimpressed by the evidence, saying there was “no [f**king] way in hell” they would assist.
The Durham Report, commissioned in 2019 after the excruciatingly drawn-out investigations into Trump and Russia, has concluded there was no evidence of any of it.
The report slams the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe as lacking sufficient evidential justification, and for its “confirmation bias”.
Pages 60 onward reveal British intelligence officials were stunned by the flimsiness of the FBI investigation, to the extent that they were convinced the Americans were holding evidence back. But they weren’t.
Specifically, the report relates how the FBI’s Assistant Legal Attaché in London, known as “UK ALAT-1”, said the British “expressed real skepticism about the motivations and reliability” of key source George Papadopoulos, and “could not believe” that vague comments Papadopoulos reportedly made in a bar “was all there was” to justify an investigation.
COne British official is said to have told UK ALAT-1 that “the FBI’s plan for an operation made no sense.”
This lack of evidence was also a cause for concern among UK-ALAT-1 and his colleagues:
UK ALAT-1: Dude, are we telling them [British Intelligence Service-I] everything we know, or is there more to this?
Supervisory Special Agent-1: that’s all we have… not holding anything back
UK ALAT-1: Damn that’s thin
Supervisory Special Agent-1: I know it sucks
Later, UK ALAT-1 would find himself at FBI HQ as Crossfire Hurricane investigators “played the audio/visual recordings of [a] meeting with Carter Page” – another FBI source.
