Former chair says Kash Patel played a key role in debunking the Russia collusion hoax.

Kash Patel, Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, was the lead investigator in the congressional inquiry into alleged Trump-Russia collusion. He discovered government surveillance misuse that resulted in the appointment of two special counsels: one who found no collusion and another who determined the entire basis of the FBI's initial investigation was false.

Devin Nunes, then-Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), had Patel as his senior counsel and national security adviser.

Nunes, who now heads Trump's Truth Social site, told Planet Chronicle Digital that Kash played a crucial role in exposing the Russia collusion hoax and uncovering evidence of government misconduct, despite the FBI and DOJ's efforts to obstruct their investigation.

In July 2016, the FBI began an investigation into whether the Trump campaign was working with Russia to sway the election results. This investigation, internally called "Crossfire Hurricane," remained active until 2019.

In January 2017, Comey informed Trump of the Steele dossier, which contained unproven accusations about Trump's alleged collusion with the Russian government, leading to the investigation's start.

Fusion GPS, a political research firm, hired Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer, to create a dossier on Donald Trump during the 2016 election cycle.

The dossier was eventually funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the law firm Perkins Coie.

In May 2017, Trump fired Comey, who was later replaced by Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the "Crossfire Hurricane" probe into Trump campaign's collusion with Russia during the 2016 election cycle.

The HPSCI launched an investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion while Mueller was investigating.

By February 2018, as the chief investigator for Nunes, Patel uncovered extensive government surveillance misuse, including the unlawful monitoring of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Kash Patel, with his training as a top public defender, became the ideal advocate for exposing one of the greatest election interference scandals in history, despite most members of Congress being prepared to overlook the unprecedented civil rights abuses against the Trump campaign and Page himself.

Patel played a crucial role in drafting the memo that Nunes released in February 2018, which outlined the surveillance of Page by the DOJ and FBI under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The anti-Trump dossier, funded by Democrats, played a crucial role in the FISA application to monitor Page.

The Steele dossier was used to obtain a surveillance warrant from the FISA court, according to closed-door testimony from former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

During the FISA warrant application process, the FBI failed to disclose the source of the dossier, specifically its financial backing from Clinton, who was Trump's opponent in the 2016 presidential election.

Steele, who worked as an FBI informant, was eventually cut off from the bureau due to a serious violation: an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI.

The FBI and DOJ obtained "one initial FISA warrant" targeting Page and three FISA renewals from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. According to the statute, every 90 days, a FISA order on an American citizen must be reviewed.

At least one FISA application was signed by McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates, and Boente, while Comey signed three such applications for Page.

The memo was widely criticized by Democrats but was ultimately correct.

The Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, verified that the dossier was the foundation for the contentious FISA warrants issued against Page.

During the investigation, the government monitored Kash and engaged in psychological warfare against him, but Kash still exposed them, according to Nunes.

In November 2017, Nunes used grand jury subpoenas to secretly obtain the personal email and phone data of Patel and another Nunes staffer on the HPSCI while they were investigating FBI abuse and the Russia probe.

In 2020, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray to inquire about the unlawful monitoring of Patel.

In April 2019, Mueller finished his investigation and found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to affect the 2016 election.

John Durham was appointed as special counsel by Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.

In his report, Durham accused the Justice Department and FBI of failing to adhere to their duty of strict loyalty to the law when they initiated the Trump-Russia investigation.

In his report, he stated that the FBI "failed to act" on a "clear warning sign" that the bureau was the "target" of a Clinton-led effort to "manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes" prior to the 2016 presidential election.

In July 2016, Clinton's presidential campaign created a plan to link Trump to Russia, which was intended to divert attention from the investigation into her use of a private email server and mishandling of classified information.