FBI Director Kash Patel Eyes Releasing the Eric Swallwell Fang-Fang Documents

Release the Fartstein Files!

FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell: Reports

FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing for the release of files related to an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-Calif.) interactions with a suspected Chinese spy, according to reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post.

FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing with senior Trump administration officials, according to The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter.

The files stem from a decade-old counterintelligence probe into a Chinese woman, known both as Christine Fang and Fang Fang, who reportedly helped Swalwell with fundraising and placing an intern in his office during the 2014 campaign cycle.

Swalwell was not accused of criminal wrongdoing and severed ties with Fang in 2015 after being briefed by U.S. intelligence officials on their suspicions of her. A two-year House Ethics probe into the matter concluded in 2023 without taking any further action.

The public release of files in an investigation that did not result in criminal charges would mark a highly unusual step, the Post noted.

Oh, like when they released the Mueller Report about the Russiagate hoax?

Swalwell has for years accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the issue against him in retaliation for his criticisms of the president.

Are you kidding me? He's one of the main weaponizers in Congress.

Note that The Hill points none of this out.

On Saturday, he suggested the FBI's alleged actions were tied to his rising standing in the California governor's race.

Oh! You mean the Administration is trying to interfere with an upcoming election by releasing files?

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In a statement to the Post, an FBI spokesperson denied improper motives regarding the investigative files.

"The contentions in this story are incorrect," the spokesperson told the newspaper. "This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations."

Swalwell said in September that he "fully" expected to be prosecuted by the Trump administration, pointing to his name in a book written by Patel in which he listed "government gangsters" who should be held accountable.

If only. If only.

Related: The media screamed for years that someone allegedly hacked DNC emails, and that person was, it was claimed but never proven, acting in concert with Russia.
"RUSSIA IS RIGGING THE ELECTION TO HELP THE TRAITOR TRUMP,' they screamed as if all reading from the same script.

Now Iran hacks Kash Patel's emails and that silence you hear is the media studiously avoiding the topic of which party Iran was seeking to rig an election for.

Patel wasn't even the FBI director when this hack took place. This was back in 2020 and 2021 -- when Patel was a congressional investigator primarily known for uncovering the RussiaGate hoax concocted by Hillary Clinton.

Hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posted materials -- including photos and documents -- taken from his account, a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN.

The hackers have published a series of photos of Patel from before he became FBI director that they claim were stolen from his personal email account. A source familiar with the incident confirmed the images' authenticity.

The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022 and appear to include personal, business and travel correspondence that Patel had with various contacts, according to a preliminary CNN review of the files with the help of an independent cybersecurity researcher.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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