The FBI is undertaking an internal inquiry into the bureau’s Trump-Russia probe, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, Fox News informed.
The internal evaluation was revealed during evidence by FBI Special Agent Curtis Heide during Michael Sussmann’s trial on Tuesday, the first trial stemming from Special Counsel John Durham’s years-long inquiry into the Trump-Russia probe’s origins.
During his testimony, Heide revealed that he is under investigation for omitting potentially exculpatory material in a FISA warrant application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The exculpatory information in question, Heide claimed Tuesday, was a “certain recording that is obtained from one of the subjects.”
Durham’s investigation focused on transcripts of recordings made by one FBI confidential human source who managed to meet with Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos overseas in 2016, and why certain “exculpatory” material was not presented in subsequent FISA warrant applications against Page, according to Fox News.
In 2019, a source told Fox News that Papadopoulos denying having any communication with the Russians to obtain the alleged “dirt” on Clinton could be contained in the transcripts, that were declassified and published in April 2020.
In April 2020, Fox News got the declassified transcript of the surreptitiously recorded meeting.
According to the transcript, the anonymous human source probed Papadopoulos if the Trump campaign was complicit in Russian election intervention, which Papadopoulos categorically rejected.
It’s unclear whether that’s the “exculpatory” material Heide is accused of withholding from FISA warrant applications.
The transcript, on the other hand, is from a nearly 4-hour conversation between Papadopoulos and a secret FBI source on October 31, 2016.
The confidential human source (CHS) talked with Papadopoulos and asked if he believed Russians hacked the DNC right before the Democratic National Convention, according to the transcripts.
According to authorities, the comments made by Papadopoulos were never presented or included in documentation to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) while obtaining warrants and warrant renewals to monitor Trump campaign aide Carter Page on suspicion of Trump campaign ties to Russia.
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