"FBI looking into Comey’s off-the-books ‘honeypot’ operation targeting 2016 Trump campaign"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/25/fbi-looking-james-comeys-books-honeypot-operation-targeting-2016/
"Off the books" means: It wasn't even Crossfire Hurricane, what we already heard of.
two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff.
The Times has learned that the bureau, now led by Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.
...the investigation differed from Crossfire Hurricane, a later FBI counterintelligence operation that looked into never-proved [ed: 100% fabricated, with Hillary-DNC help] allegations that the campaign was colluding with Russia.
The investigation did not appear to target a specific crime but was more of what agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find anything incriminating against Mr. Trump.
Fishing expeditions are Soviet. "Show me the man, I'll show you the crime" - Laventiy Beria.
Fishing expeditions are supposed to be illegal, outside of international warfare.
the undercover operation was obscured [ed: illegally hidden, covered-up] from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who investigated misconduct in the bureau’s probe of the Trump campaign.
“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” according to the whistleblower’s disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”
the secret investigation may have indicated institutional bias at the FBI against Mr. Trump, though “it does not appear that any information about this investigation was turned over to Trump’s criminal defense counsels.”
The investigation was eventually closed because a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercovers...one of the undercovers agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness.
The other undercover employee was rewarded for her activities through a promotion in the bureau and is now a high-level FBI executive in a major field office.
is accurate - have -very- Soviet, Nazi Germany, North Korea sound.
