Who is Bill Priestap?
Bill Priestap is the head of the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Division. Per Comey’s testimony, Priestap was the individual responsible for making the decision not to inform Congressional leadership – the Gang of Eight – about the July 2016 FBI Russia-Trump Investigation. Priestap is not a household name, but he held a pivotal role in the FBI’s exoneration of Clinton, the subsequent Trump-Russia Investigation and surveillance of the Trump Campaign. Bill Priestap presented the FBI’s contributions to the early 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, or ICA – Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections – to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 21, 2017. Bill Priestap has been copied on virtually every significant email – including FBI Director Comey’s exoneration of Hillary Clinton. Priestap is referenced on the Strzok/Page texts hundreds of times. We know the following (expanded timeline and details at bottom): Associate Deputy Attorney Gener...