Here’s a summary of the links between the Russiagate crowd and the MAL search crowd. An excerpt:

The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump.

The law of parsimony.

More:

Although the former head of Crossfire Hurricane, Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his vitriolic anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, the sources say, even though they are under active investigation by both Durham and the bureau’s disciplinary arm, the Office of Professional Responsibility. The FBI declined to respond to questions about any role they may be taking in the Mar-a-Lago case.

In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team – Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten – has continued to be involved in politically sensitive investigations, including the ongoing federal probe of potentially incriminating content found on the abandoned laptop of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to recent correspondence between the Senate Judiciary Committee and FBI Director Christopher Wray. FBI whistleblowers have alleged that Auten tried to falsely discredit derogatory evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 campaign by labeling it Russian “disinformation,” an assessment that caused investigative activity to cease.

Auten has been allowed to work on sensitive cases even though he has been under internal investigation since 2019, when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred him for disciplinary review for his role in vetting a Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier used by the FBI to obtain a series of wiretap warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz singled out Auten for cutting a number of corners in the verification process and even allowing information he knew to be incorrect slip into warrant affidavits and mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.

The article goes on to say that the only thing Wray has blocked this group from doing is to write FISA applications. But the MAL case wouldn’t involve FISA, as far as we know.

“It is a disgrace that Auten is still even employed by the bureau,” said 27-year FBI veteran Michael Biasello. “I would substitute other analysts and agents.”

You would, Mr.Biasello; I would – but we’re not in charge, are we? And those in charge seem to have different standards and different goals. Clearly, from his demeanor and answers in his recent Congressional hearing, Christopher Wray doesn’t feel the need to answer to anyone other than the Biden administration.

The article goes on to list other people involved in both investigations, all of whom are DC-based. It concludes this way:

Former FBI counterintelligence official and lawyer Mark Wauck said he is troubled by signs that the same cast of characters from the Russiagate scandal appears to be involved in the Mar-a-Lago investigation.

“If these people, who were part of a major hoax that involved criminal activity and displays of bias and seriously flawed judgment, are still involved, then that’s a major scandal,” he said in an interview.

But if a major scandal falls in the forest and the MSM doesn’t report it, does it make a sound that anyone except those on the right will hear? Of course not – at least, that’s what previous experience tells us.

Many Democrats could believe every word in that article and not care, or even applaud the situation, because they want Trump disgraced and imprisoned and they could not care less how it’s accomplished as long as it’s accomplished.

But among those why might be uneasy if they came to understand what’s been happening, precious few will ever read that article or any others like it. And if somehow they did – let’s says you forwarded it to them and they actually did read it – they would almost certainly dismiss it. The sources aren’t named, for example – which wouldn’t trouble them if it were an anti-Trump article and the same thing were the case. They are unaware of how often unnamed sources speaking to the right have later been proven correct, as compared to those speaking to the left. In general, they would probably put the article on a par with the sort of thing that purports to prove that NASA never sent anyone to the moon.