Here's a CNN headline you didn't ever think you'd see:
AND THEY CHANGED IT BECAUSE IT SOUNDED TOO NICE TO TRUMP:
I'm not making this up. After years of running with attacks on Trump that included the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation by the FBI, CNN is out here pretending like they weren't undermining truth and democracy the entire time by printing real news!
Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to a report compiled over three years by the Trump-administration appointee and released on Monday.
Durham's 300-plus page report also states that the FBI used "raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence," to launch the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into Trump and Russia but used a different standard when weighing concerns about alleged election interference regarding Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Now we'll turn over to Fox, since CNN is slyly trying to hide some of the particulars.
Fox News Digital obtained Durham's report Monday afternoon after his years-long investigation into the origins of the FBI's original investigation, known as "Crossfire Hurricane." That investigation looked into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Durham was set to release his report Monday afternoon โ the report spans more than 300 pages.
"Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report," the report said.
Durham added that his investigation also revealed that "senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically-affiliated persons and entities."
In short, the FBI was WAAAAAY too eager to investigate Trump over leftist insiders like Clinton. They were practically chomping at the bit to try to crucify the Orange Man.
"This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller's investigation," the report states. "In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents."
"The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence," the report states.
Durham said the FBI has lost its edge and is a partisan hack outfit.
But he did so in really nice words.
[There is a] continuing need for the FBI and the Department to recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willigness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint in pursuing allegations of collusion or conspiracy between a U.S. political campaign and a foreign power.
Translation: You need to do a lot better, guys. You made the FBI the laughingstock of the world by not being objective and wise.
"FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging โ both then and in hindsight โ that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities," the report continued. "And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have prompted investigative restraint and re-examination."
Unfortunately, there's nothing in the report about indicting a certain You-Know-Who that always seems to be immune from scrutiny and was at the center of the Steele Dossier and Crossfire Hurricane...