CrowdStrike one of Russiagate's 'biggest culprits': ex-House investigator

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate As a top investigator on the House Intelligence Committee, Kash Patel helped uncover the Clinton campaign's funding of the Steele dossier and the FBI's extensive and deceptive reliance on it. Patel joins Aaron Maté to discuss Steele's new attempt to defend his discredited work via a softball interview with ABC News. Patel also addresses the key role of newly indicted Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann in hiring and overseeing another heavily influential Clinton campaign contractor, CrowdStrike, the cyber-firm behind the foundational allegation that Russia hacked the DNC. "CrowdStrike is one of the biggest culprits of the Russia fraud," Patel says. "For some reason, for the only time in FBI history that I can think of, they allowed an outside non-government entity to referee. That is, to go in and seize the servers of a target of an investigation and let a third party, CrowdStrike, referee what the FBI could and could not have access to." Guest: Kash Patel. Former senior government official in the Trump administration. Previously, Patel served as a top investigator on the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee, where he was instrumental in exposing US intelligence misconduct in the Trump-Russia investigation. Also served as a national security official in the Obama-era Justice Department and Pentagon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to pushback. I'm Aaron Mate. There have been a number of big developments in the
0:09.5	Russia Gate saga from the indictment of Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussman for allegedly
0:15.9	lying to the FBI to the return of Christopher Steele, speaking out in his first public comments, defending
0:24.1	his so-called dossier, including the P-tape.
0:28.1	And today, do you still believe that that tape exists?
0:32.0	I think it probably does, but I wouldn't put 100% certainty on it.
0:36.5	So you stand by the dossier.
0:38.0	I stand by the work we did, the sources that we had, and the professionalism which we applied to it.
0:44.3	Well, joining me is someone who has played a critical role in exposing the fraud and surveillance
0:51.8	abuses behind Russia Gate.
0:54.1	Cash Patel is an attorney and former government
0:57.0	official, served in the Obama era Justice Department, and then served in several senior roles
1:02.8	under the Trump administration, and served as a senior staffer on the House Intelligence
1:08.8	Committee, where he helped uncover the FBI surveillance
1:12.1	abuses in relying on the Steele dossier. Cash Patel, welcome back to pushback.
1:19.1	Hey, Aaron, thanks so much for having me back. Really great to be with you and glad you're still
1:23.6	covering these subjects with such great, great scrutiny.
1:28.9	Thank you for coming back. So I wanted to first get your response to Christopher Steele,
1:33.8	making his first public comments since this whole scandal began. He stands by his work, he says.
1:42.0	I'm just curious what your reaction was when you heard that.
1:46.3	Well, I mean, I laughed a lot harder and a lot louder for a lot longer. My response to that is
1:52.5	he's basically taking the same approach as the James Comey's and Annie McCabe's of the world,
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