Isn’t the timing kind of funny? The New York Times happens to release the story saying that the same agents that gave Hillary Clinton a sweetheart deal just happen to be on the Trump investigation? The New York Times spilled a lot of ink to tell us relatively little about Comey’s original Russia investigation, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane” after the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” song. Initiated on July 31st, 2016, the codename is a reference to the controversy the FBI knew would come from investigating the Trump campaign.
 
Former Trump opponent Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says there’s nothing to see here: “There might have been individual agents that had views that, in hindsight, have been problematic for those agents,” Sen. Rubio said. “But whether that was a systemic effort, I’ve seen no evidence of it.” 
 
 
Another interesting thread in this knot of random facts that as much of the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation occurred in London, with the Australian Ambassador to the UK reporting on the barroom boastings of George Papadopoulos and other factors, it turns out that the president’s pick to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, was CIA station chief at the time. With FBI agents running around her duty station talking Russia, the nominee may herself have more involvement than was previously known. 
 
On the other hand, it’s rather curious that as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) digs into the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election, someone leaks this story as a means of minimizing the blowback about the dedicated operation to investigate Trump, when the same agents had just granted the dispensation to Hillary Clinton. President Obama still did not inform the Congress about “Crossfire Hurricane” making the whole thing appear to be a partisan investigation.