According to a recent report, the FBI under former President Obama obtained a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign based off of information from the Russian Alfa Bank even though the FBI knew at the time that the entire story was made up and untrue.
The Alfa bank hoax was started in June of 2016. According to the Gateway Pundit, "after news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, a group of prominent computer scientists went on attack. The group of individuals, led by a Hillary supporter whom the Obama Administration had provided a grant, started snooping around the Trump Tower computers to allegedly see if these servers had also been hacked."
Indiana University professor Jean Camp was the leader of this group and according to Circa, she was a major Hillary Clinton supporter. She also just so happened to receive a multi million dollar grant in 2012 from the Obama administration:
A respected computer scientist who raised concerns about a possible connection between President Trump and a Russian bank is an unabashed Hillary Clinton supporter who made multiple small donations to the Democrat’s presidential campaign around the time she and her colleagues surfaced the allegations.
In October of 2016, the New York Times reported that Alpha Bank sent thousands of "look up" messages to Trump servers. During this time, the FBI had complaints from "cyberexperts" that there may be a connection which the FBI then used to start the bogus investigation which ultimately lead to spying.
Via the New York Times:
In classified sessions in August and September of 2016, intelligence officials also briefed congressional leaders on the possibility of financial ties between Russians and people connected to Mr. Trump. They focused particular attention on what cyber experts said appeared to be a mysterious computer back channel between the Trump Organization and the Alfa Bank, which is one of Russia’s biggest banks and whose owners have longstanding ties to Mr. Putin.
This just so happened to be at the same time that Christopher Steele was pushing his bogus dossier with the same claim that Donald Trump was in some way connected to Alpha Bank even though he never was.
Hillary Clinton even joined in with the hoax at the time, tweeting "Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank."
It was all a hoax.
Check out the rest of the story summarized by the Gateway Pundit:
We know that the FBI sought and received a FISA warrant related to the Russia-linked bank, using the Steele dossier as evidence. This is the only plausible piece of evidence that the FBI could have used. (As McCabe said: The FISA warrants would not have been granted without the Steele dossier.)
The far-left New York Times then reported: "Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.”
The reason the FBI wasn’t able to find anything was because the claims were based entirely on “DNS logs,” digital records of when one server looks up how to contact another across the internet. A forensic examination conducted by Alfa Bank of the Alfa Bank computer revealed that the only communications that took place regarding “trump” were those logged requests coming from outside its servers noted by The New York Times above. No other communications were found as indicated in the forensic report related to this subject.
Alfa Bank blamed Jean Camp & Associates for artificially setting up a false Trump-Alfa Bank narrative and threatened a lawsuit: "In May of this year [2017], the bank tapped Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a white-shoe American law firm, to write a letter to L. Jean Camp, an esteemed Indiana University computer scientist and researcher — and a vocal supporter of the claims made by Tea Leaves. This initial letter, first reported by CNN, claimed that the Camp investigation into the covert server chatter had “encouraged inquiries into supposed links to the Trump organization” and that her “activities continue to this day to promote an unwarranted investigation into Alfa Bank’s ‘communication’ with the Trump Organization.” The letter added that “Alfa Bank is exploring all available options to protect itself … [including] litigation and causes of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” further demanding that Camp “preserve all records” pertaining to the Tea Leaves research. Such a preservation request is often the precursor to a lawsuit. There would be more letters."
Alfa Bank contacted Professor Camp and demanded she hand over her emails related to the Trump – Alfa bank connection, but she would not. The bank’s position is that the professor is an employee of a public entity (Indiana University) but still Camp’s attorney’s have refused to comply. Alfa would like to know who all was involved in her sending requests to the bank’s and Trump’s servers and with reporting the incident as a fact that Trump and Alfa bank had a secret back channel to each other.
In March of 2017, FBI Head Comey confirmed there was no connection between Trump and Alfa Bank. But Comey wasn’t telling the entire truth.
We now know that Comey knew that the Trump Tower was not exchanging information with Alfa Bank before the FISA warrant was even requested.
On May 21st, John Solomon of The Hill reported:
Multiple sources confirm to me that the attachment that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec sent to then-FBI section chief Stephen Laycock on Oct. 13, 2016, was a summary from Steele’s company alleging Trump and Russia might be communicating through a computer server at Russia’s Alfa Bank."
This long-debunked allegation has floated around Washington since the summer of 2016, compliments of Hillary Clinton backers ranging from a university computer science professor who spread it across the internet to a lawyer for Clinton’s campaign who delivered it to the FBI in summer 2016.
The theory – worthy of a spy novel – was that a series of data pings between a computer in Trump Tower and Alfa Bank in Moscow actually was a secret beacon alerting the Putin and Trump teams that it was time to talk about colluding on hijacking the American presidential election.The story eventually made its way to mainstream media such as The New York Times, Slate, CNN and, just last fall, The New Yorker. It has been debunked by the FBI, and it was not mentioned as a reliable allegation in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
He continued:
I first heard about the allegation in late September 2016 and, by the first week of October, I reached multiple U.S. officials – including one inside the FBI – who told me the allegation had been investigated and the pings were determined to be “innocuous” contacts, most likely related to errant spam emails. Alfa Bank hired two experts who reached similar conclusions.
According to the Gateway Pundit, "Solomon then notes that the FISA warrant that the FBI requested on October 21st, 2016 was a fraud based on this and additional information that the State Department had provided the FBI. What Solomon neglected to note is that the FBI requested a FISA warrant to spy on Trump Tower based on this bogus information and based on the timing provided by Solomon, the FBI knew that their warrant was a fraud."
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