The file
He ran FBI Counterintelligence. Horowitz says he opened Crossfire Hurricane. He told the Inspector General he skipped a defensive briefing so a target would not change tactics. Handwritten notes in the Flynn file ask whether the goal was truth, or to get him to lie so they could prosecute him or get him fired.
E.W. Bill Priestap. Federal Bureau of Investigation official portrait, 28 January 2015. U.S. government work (PD-USGov-FBI). Wikimedia Commons File:Edward_W._Priestap.jpeg.
OIG · documented
Horowitz: AD E.W. “Bill” Priestap opened the case after friendly-foreign-government information. Consensus of senior officials. Not a court.
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building. Ajay Suresh. CC BY 2.0. FBI named him AD of Counterintelligence.
Appointment
Bureau press release. Chicago 1998 to AD CI. Attorney. Two master’s degrees. Identity lock.
Judgment call
OIG quote: a briefing might change tactics or produce a cover-up. Policy left it to discretion.
Michael T. Flynn. Defense Intelligence Agency. U.S. government work.
Flynn record
The notes exist in the Flynn file. Meaning is contested. Not a conviction.
Reporting
National Review on the released texts. They briefed Bill. Reporting, not a crime.
Chuck Grassley, 2017. U.S. Senate Photographic Studio. U.S. government work.
Testimony
His Senate PDF on Thousand Talents and non-traditional espionage. His words.
Departure
Epoch Times quotes the Bureau email. Strider: CI tour ended December 2018.
White House, south facade. Matt H. Wade, 26 May 2006. CC BY-SA 3.0. Interrogatory listed Clinton emails in the EOP.
Reporting
Epoch Times on court-ordered written answers. Reporting. Not a crime finding.
Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building. Voice of America. U.S. government work.
Official finding
Finding about the opening. Separate FISA errors by others. Not a blanket clearance.
United States Capitol, west front. Architect of the Capitol. U.S. government work.
Allegation
Graham: whitewashed Steele reliability. Allegation. Not an indictment.
John H. Durham, 2018. U.S. Attorney’s Office. U.S. government work.
Durham
Report p. 60. Grassley quoted it. Not a conviction.
Just the News
Solomon/Richards file list. Secondary journalism. No invented quotes from the PDF.