It will be just about impossible to find developments in the Michael Sussman trial Tuesday, but we did manage to find a few tweets that include some new finds, including an FBI agent who’s under internal investigation in the FBI’s probe of Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Agent Curtis Heide is being investigated for “withholding potentially exculpatory information in a FISA court application.”
Revealed in Sussmann trial today: FBI Agent Curtis Heide is being investigated in FBI internal probe of Crossfire Hurricane. Heide confirmed that he is being investigated for withholding potentially exculpatory information in a FISA court application.
— Jake Gibson (@JakeBGibson) May 24, 2022
— drogoobi (@drogoobi) May 24, 2022
No surprise here
— MsSoandSo (@MDove53) May 24, 2022
Here’s the New York Times’ Adam Goldman with details:
Day 7 of the Sussmann trial beginning soon. FBI Agent Curtis Heide is expected to testify. He worked in Chicago with Allison Sands who was the lead agent on the Alfa Bank case. Heide was Sands training agent as she was fairly new when she opened the case in Sept. 2016.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
The Alfa Bank case, which we’re sure you know was fabricated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team and then leaked to the media and the FBI. You know, the Russian bank to which the Trump Organization had a secret backchannel server, according to Clinton.
Heide was also the case agent on the George Papadopoulos case, a former Trump campaign foreign advisor. G.P. pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the Russian investigation. He faced the same charge as Sussmann. https://t.co/rQwiIIPmjo
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Govt calls Heide
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide has worked at the FBI for more than 16 years. He is the SSRA in Des Moines. He manages about two dozen people. In 2009, he moved to Chicago to work CI matters.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Jonathan Algor is questioning. He's another prosecutor on Durham's team from EDNY. Heide says he worked on the HRC email case: Midyear. He also supported the initial efforts of Crossfire Hurricane.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says he is being investigating by FBI.He's being investigated for not IDing exculpatory info. (I believe FBI OPR is doing inquiry). Heide says he did not intentionally withhold exculpatory info — a consensual recording related to the Carter Page FISA.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide discussing the Alfa Bank allegation. Heide says the allegation was provided to FBI by anonymous source who gave it to Baker. He never learned the ID of the source. Heide is going through Alfa Bank opening EC.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide is explaining the meaning of a full field investigation and the different levels of investigation at the FBI. A full field allows the FBI to use the most intrusive methods or tools. And there is no time limit to the investigation. The Alfa Bank inquiry was also a SIM
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide is now explaining why the EC says the info came from DOJ and not the FBI. He's says the info might have been conflated.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says they could not substantiate any of the allegations in the white paper. Heidi says cyber deferred the matter to CI for further investigation.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide now reviewing FBI instant messages with J.P. and Scott Hellman. Heide writes to JP on 9/22/16. "I just talked with cyber division. we're leaning toward this being a false server not attributed to the trump organization."
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Note the date: Heide messaged on Sept. 22, 2016, that the FBI was “leaning toward this being a false server.” By Halloween, Clinton was spreading around a press release about a “new report” exposing “Trump’s Secret Line of Communication to Russia.”
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
More FBI instant messages between Heide and J.P. Heide asks J.P. on 9/26/16 if he can interview the source of the white paper. Algor turns to a previous 10/3/16 email in which Heide asks HQ Supervisor Gaynor if he can interview the source.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
That email was examined yesterday during Gaynor's testimony. Heide said there was another agent (tom grasso) at HQ who provided Heide with info (IP addresses).
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide said his investigation was reaching a logical conclusion and he wanted to talk to the original source because everything was unsubstantiated.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says it's important to know the source of the info and why it was brought to the fbi. In the case, it was right before an election, he said. You would want to know because the source could have bias. It appears that Grasso was handling Joffe, a former FBI CHS
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Yes, the source could have a bias to have brought this to the FBI right before the election.
Heide relays incident during midyear investigation when someone brought team information for political reasons. the FBI interviewed person and then decided to not to deal with that person again.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz is questioing Heide now about Inspection Division investigation. Heide denies allegation which he concedes is serious.The allegation involves withholding exculpatory info from the FISC via a secret warrant.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide met with prosecutors 5x before the trial.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
When Heide first met with Durham's team he didn't have a clear recollection of case. Heide says he played more of a support role in helping Allison Sands. That's because Heide was in the middle of george papadopoulos case, Berkowitz said. Heide says yes.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says the DOJ reference in opening EC is a "typo."
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
The @JusticeOIG brought the "typo" to Heide's attention during its previous investigation of the Page FISA. Berkowitz asks Heide about closing EC on 1/18/17. The closing EC says "FBI received whitepaper that was produced by anonymous third party from the US Department of Justice"
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Quick reminder: Crossfire Typhoon was FBI code name for Papadopoulos in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says he had no choice to open a full case because the FBI 7th floor demanded. Berkowitz making clear they could have used all the same steps as in preliminary investigation, which has 6-month window. In this case, Berkowitz says, the Alfa Bank inquiry ended in 4 months.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
This is not the first time we’ve heard of the “seventh floor” exerting its influence.
Heide was preparing for the NYT to publish a story about the Alfa Bank matter. Heide didnt know that the person brought info to FBI and the NYT. Heide said it was helpful to his investigation that the fbi had it before it was public.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz produces more instant text messages: Heide tells Hellman: "I just briefed up to the AD level that we think its a bunk report…"
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide says he would have wanted to interview the original source and author of white paper.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz shows an instant message from Ben Gessford to J.P. that shows they knew Sussmann was representing DNC — something Heide did not know and wanted to know.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
They knew Sussman was representing the DNC. How about that.
Context: Gessford was one of the original Crossfire Hurricane agents. He was a CI guy who worked Robert Hanssen espionage case. I believe that Gessford is agent #2 in IG report about Carter Page FISA. FBI agent Stephen Somma is case agent #1` https://t.co/iw14uC1zzB
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Gessford went to that Rome meeting with Steele along with three other FBI officials.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz demonstrating that Heide and others didn't take obvious investigative steps during Alfa Bank investigation. Where is Berkowitz going with this line of questioning?
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz produces a 1023 from the FBI CHS who was providing info about Alfa Bank matter. Berkowitz only displayed the 1023 momentarily. But it was generated out of Springfield, IL.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Berkowitz asks Heide if he would be suspicious of Alfa Bank because of its ties to Putin. Heide says yes.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
Heide concedes the FBI's Alfa Bank investigation was incomplete after not doing these interviews. Berkowitz sits down.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 24, 2022
7th floor would not give field agents access to their source so the investigation would take longer so they could put it in their FISA application…not too hard to figure out.
— Anti-Gaslighter (@AntiGaslighter) May 24, 2022
Durham realizes you don’t have to win every battle to win the war 💡
— Free Speech USA (@Free_Speech_1A) May 24, 2022
Mueller sure did miss a lot over the course of two years of investigating.
There’s a special place in hell for Robert Mueller
— DGood (@DGood1973) May 24, 2022
reminder that the nyt was instrumental in pushing this fraud on the public for political reasons
— Yoilish der Poilisher (@YoilishPoilish) May 24, 2022
So corrupt. We have become a banana republic thanks to the democrat party and our democratic (party) sham institutions. Never thought I would see the day one man triggers the establishment enough to expose themselves. Smh.
— Craig (@ckinder07) May 24, 2022
Related:
Here’s the disinformation-laden Hillary Clinton tweet admitted as evidence in Sussmann trial (not that Twitter or journos will care) https://t.co/e9WxHfcv7F
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 21, 2022
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