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The Gospel

2022-02-23T01:40:20Z

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{{Christianity}}
:''Not to be confused with [[the Gospels]]''
In biblical mythology, '''The Gospel''' is the good news of Jesus Christ—namely His [[Atonement|atoning]] death for mankind's sins, burial, and bodily resurrection from the dead. This is differentiated from [[Gospel|the gospels]] ''plural'', which are the first four books of the Christian [[New Testament]] (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). The word "gospel" literally means "good news" and originally comes from the Greek word εὐαγγέλιον, transliterated ''euaggelion''. The New Testament describes both the ''gospel of the kingdom'' and the ''gospel of salvation''. The former refers to the good news that God's Kingdom is entering the world and supplanting the forces of darkness (e.g. Mt. 4:23; 9:35; 24:13; Mk. 1:14). The latter refers to the good news that Jesus Christ has opened the way of salvation for all men through His atoning death, burial, and resurrection (e.g. Acts 15:7; 20:24; Rm. 1:16; 16:25; 1 Cor. 15:1–4). In common Christian parlance, especially within [[evangelicalism]], the latter meaning of "gospel" is what is most often intended.

==The Gospel and Pauline Epistles==
'''The gospel''' is the primary subject in many of the [[Apostle Paul]]'s epistles to the early churches. The single most explicit definition of the gospel is given in the first eight verses of 1 Corinthians 15:
{{Cquote|1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.<ref>
[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A1-8&version=WEB 'WEB 1 Corinthians 15:1–8'] at BibleGateway</ref>}}

==Key Assertions About The Gospel==
The Apostle Paul makes seven key assertions about the gospel in his first epistle to the Corinthian church:
# The gospel is the message by which or through which believers are saved.
# The gospel is of "first importance" in Christian belief.
# Christ died for our sins.
# Christ was buried.
# Christ rose bodily from the dead.
# Christ's death and resurrection were the fulfillment of prophetic Scriptures.
# The risen Christ was seen by over 500 different eyewitnesses, including the Apostles and Paul himself.

==False Gospels==
The Apostle Paul also strongly urged his fellow believers to stay away from '''false''' or counterfeit '''gospels'''. False gospels usually fall into one of two categories<ref>{{cite web |title=How Can We Distinguish False Gospels from the Real Thing? |author=Greg Laurie |publisher=Harvest Christian Fellowship |url=https://www.harvest.org/know-god/foundations/the-gospel/distinguishing-false-gospels |accessdate=31 Jul 2018}}</ref>:

*'''The watered-down gospel'''
**It offers God's [[forgiveness]], telling you that all you must do is believe, without any mention of [[sin]] and [[repentance]].
**It presents Jesus Christ as though He were some mere additive to make one's life a little better.
**It tells you about [[Heaven]], but leaves out the message of [[Hell]].
*'''The rule-laden or overly complex gospel'''
**It strips the true gospel of its simplicity and power.
**It comes laden with rules and regulations that we must keep to find forgiveness.
**It is so complex that no one can unravel it.

==See also==
*[[Salvation]]
*[[Salvation in the Old Testament]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-gospel.html What is the gospel?], by ''[[GotQuestions]]''
*[https://www.gotquestions.org/gospel-message.html What are the essentials of the gospel message?], by ''[[GotQuestions]]''
*[https://www.gotquestions.org/true-gospel.html What is the true gospel?], by ''[[GotQuestions]]''
*[https://www.gotquestions.org/gospel-of-Jesus-Christ.html What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?], by ''[[GotQuestions]]''
*[https://answersingenesis.org/gospel/ Gospel], ''[[Answers in Genesis]]''
* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2015/june/what-is-gospel.html What is the Gospel? A Look at 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (''Christianity Today'', Accessed February 8, 2018)].
* [https://bible.org/seriespage/31-facts-faith-1-corinthians-151-11 The Facts of Faith (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) (Bible.org, Accessed February 8, 2018)]
* [http://www.khouse.org/articles/2015/1225/ The End of Death: 1 Corinthians 15 (Koinonia House, Accessed February 8, 2018)]

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[[Category:Salvation]]
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[[Category:Theology]]

Hell

2022-02-23T01:38:06Z

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[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hell.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''Hell'', painted by [[Hieronymus Bosch]], part of ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]''.]]
'''Hell''', in bible mythology, is [[infinity|infinite]] distress.

In the English translation of the [[Bible]]'s [[Old Testament]], the word '''Hell''' normally corresponds to the [[Hebrew]] ''sheol'', which was simply the place of the dead. But in the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[New Testament]] the word used is either ''Gehenna'' (the garbage dump outside the walls of Jerusalem where fires were kept eternally burning to consume the refuse and keep down the stench) or ''Hades'', the [[Greek mythology|Greek]]s' dark, gloomy underworld. The modern English word appears to derive most directly from "Hel", goddess of the dead in Germanic/[[Norse mythology]]. When the [[Anglo-Saxons]] later embraced [[Christianity]], the existing word in the language was reused in the new Christian concepts.

According to [[G. K. Chesterton]], Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.<ref>{{cite web |title=Famous quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton |author=Gilbert Keith Chesterton |publisher=Quotes.net |url=http://www.quotes.net/authors/Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton |quote=Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.}}</ref> To Christians, Hell is a place where the souls of the wicked are punished eternally for all the [[sins]] they perpetrated during their lifetime on Earth. Since all have sinned (Rom 3:23), Hell can not be avoided on one's own merits, but through the love gift of [[Jesus]] one can know, love, and serve [[God]] and share eternity with Him in [[Heaven]].

Christian and [[Muslim]] religious traditions often emphasize the ''Gehenna'' aspect: Hell is extremely hot and filled with fire and [[brimstone]]. Opinion varies on the question of whether, while Hell itself is eternal, experience of it purges away the sins of sufferers to the point of eventual redemption. See [[purgatory]]. A minority of Christians do not believe in an eternal Hell as punishment, believing instead that the souls of the wicked are annihilated. This view, which is directly contradicted by Scripture, is referred to as [[Annihilationism]]. Other deniers of Scripture question whether Hell has a literal burning fire, or it is merely separation from God and therefore has the same torment as if there were a burning fire. This view has been supported by writers such as [[J.P. Moreland]], although the Bible clearly contradicts this view and other symbolic interpretations of Hell. In truth, Hell is a real, spiritual place where God is absent and the wicked are punished for their sins.

== Hell in the Bible ==

Although Hell is a focus and a concern in Christian theology, the Bible has an even greater focus. In the [[King James Version]] the word Hell is mentioned 54 times, but [[Heaven]] is mentioned 551 times.

* [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 13:41-42 - ''The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.'''

* Matthew 25:41 - ''Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.''

* Matthew 25:46 - ''And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.''

* [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 9:43 - ''And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.''

* 2 Thes 1:7-8 - ''And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.''

* [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] 20:10 - ''And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.''

* Revelation 20:14-15 - ''And death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.''

== Atheism and Hell ==
[[File:Damned souls going to hell.jpg|thumbnail|260px|right|Last Judgment by Johann Georg Unruhe - Damned souls going to [[Hell]].]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and Hell]] and [[Atheism and death]]

[[Atheism|Atheists]] often disagree with the [[Christianity|Christian]] belief of eternal punishment in Hell, yet they never explain how justice is accomplished relative to evildoers who escape punishment on earth (see: [[Atheism and justice]]). And rather than [[repentance|repent]] and accept the [[gospel]] message, they engage in [[denial]]ism about their [[sin]] and attempt to suppress the truth of [[God]]'s existence. See also: [[Atheism and hatred of God]]

The Christian evangelist [[Ray Comfort]] often gives atheists the [https://www.livingwaters.com/are-you-a-good-person/ good person test] in order to assist atheists in recognizing their sinful nature.

=== The journalist and ex-atheist Peter Hitchens and fear of hell ===

The journalist and [[ex-atheists|ex-atheist]] [[Peter Hitchens]], who is the brother of the late atheist [[Christopher Hitchens]], said upon seeing an art exhibit of [[Michelangelo]]'s painting ''The Last Judgment'' he came to the realization that he might be judged which startled him.<ref>[http://vimeo.com/10354237 Interview of Peter Hitchens] - Video at Vimeo</ref> This started a train of thought within Peter Hichens that eventually led him to become a [[Christian]].<ref>[http://vimeo.com/10354237 Interview of Peter Hitchens] - Video at Vimeo</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Dante's Inferno]]
* [[Mystery:What Percentage Go To Hell?|What percentage of people go to Hell?]]
* [[Mystery:Why would a loving God send people to hell for eternity?|Why would a loving God send people to hell for eternity?]]
* [[Degrees of punishment in hell]]
* [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)]]

==External links==
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ The Gates of Hell: Assault on the Enemy Kingdom]

==References==
<references/>

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Christianity

2022-02-23T01:29:45Z

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{{Christianity}}
'''Christianity''' is the world's cult [[religion]], having 2.5 billion followers in 2020.<ref>https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/04/StatusofGlobalChristianity20191.pdf</ref> In terms of its geographic distribution, Christianity is the [[Global Christianity|most globally]] diverse religion.<ref>
*[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/27/many-religions-heavily-concentrated-in-one-or-two-countries/ Many religions heavily concentrated in one or two countries]
*[http://wwwgordonconwell.com/netcommunity/CSGCResources/ChristianityinitsGlobalContext.pdf Christianity in its global context]</ref> Christianity has always been the best way to turn one's life around, to achieve more, to overcome [[addiction]], and to enjoy life to a greater extent.

Christian denominations like Protestantism are the only religion that emphasizes justification by [[faith]] rather than works, and brings God closest to mankind through [[Jesus]] as the Son of [[God]]. Literally, Christianity means "of Christ," or "belonging to Christ," or "being like Christ."<ref>[http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=2661&dict=CALD Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary]</ref><ref>https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/christian-means-like-christ-bruce-ball-sermon-on-apologetics-general-84109</ref><ref>The early Christian faith was sometimes called ''That Way'', (Acts 19:1,9,23; 24:22), and its adherents were also called ''Nazarenes'' (Acts 24:5), evidently after the city of [[Nazareth]] where Jesus lived.</ref> The [[Acts of the Apostles|Book of Acts]] (Acts:11:26) records that "the disciples were called Christians first in [[Antioch]]." The title ''Christian'' is also used in Acts 26:28 and 1 Peter 4:16. Christians believe in [[God]], the [[virgin birth|virginal conception and the virginal birth of Jesus Christ]], the bodily [[resurrection of Jesus Christ]], [[Heaven]], survival of the [[soul]] after death, the [[Parousia|Second Coming of Jesus]], the [[resurrection]] of the dead, the [[Last Judgment]], the reality of [[Hell]], and the teachings of [[Jesus Christ]] as written in the [[Bible]].

== Main Christian Divisions ==
[[Image:Anglican Christ Church.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Anglican Christ Church in Western Australia]]
'''The three largest self-governing bodies of Christians are:'''

* The [[Roman Catholic Church]] (approx. 1.1 billion baptized members) traces its roots back to [[Saint Peter]] whom Catholics believe was appointed as the first leader of the church by [[Jesus Christ]] and the succession of [[Pope]]s as the spiritual leaders of Christendom.

* The [[Orthodox Church]]es (approx. 300 million baptized members) trace their roots back to the Apostles, in the five ancient [[patriarchate]]s of the undivided Church of the first millennium of her history, known as the [[Pentarchy]],<ref>[https://orthodoxwiki.org/Pentarchy Pentarchy (orthodoxWiki.org)]</ref> and are organized in [[Autocephalous]] national or regional churches in communion with each other. The Pentarchy consisted of the Churches of [[Church of Rome|Rome]], first in dignity of honor, [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]], [[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Alexandria]], [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], and [[Church of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]]. Differing theological perspectives and the growing development of the doctrine of [[Petrine primacy]] in the Church of Rome led to the [[Great Schism]] between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches in A.D. 1054.

* [[Protestantism]]: the largest Communions are the [[Anglican Church|Anglicans]] (approx. 115 million baptized members) and the [[Lutheran]] World Federation (approx. 68 million baptized members). Protestantism has its origins in the European [[Reformation]]. The Protestant movement broke from the Roman Catholic Church under [[Martin Luther]] when differences over the nature of [[faith]] and works in the role of [[Christianity#salvation|salvation]], as well as other practices of the Catholic Church that Luther saw as unBiblical, were raised. Within Protestantism are four major branches:
**[[Mainline]], which comprise many of the major denominations outside of the [[Baptist]]s. These denominations usually have [[high church]] services and have increasingly become liberal in their theology and ecumenical in their dealings with other churches, even outside Protestantism.
**[[Pentecostal]], these groups are generally conservative in their theology, and are known primarily for their emphasis on the [[Baptism in the Holy Spirit]] as a separate event from salvation, and [[Glossolaia|speaking in tongues]].
**[[Fundamentalist]], these groups are very conservative theologically, but are better known for their emphasis on "separation" from both the world (bordering on, if not crossing over, into [[legalism]]) and groups who do not believe as they do (which often includes other fundamentalist groups).
**[[Evangelical]], this term tends to be a catch-all for a church or denomination not falling into one of the other three categories, but generally also holding to traditional Christian theology. Most [[non-denominational church]]es are generally evangelical, as well as the largest Protestant denomination, the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. As the name suggests, they have a major emphasis on Christian evangelism. They are also known for their belief that Christians should be active in the political arena, opposing such political views as abortion and homosexual marriage; in this arena they will work with any group—Protestant or otherwise—who will work with them.

== Christian Beliefs ==
Christian beliefs [[Christian apologetics|are well supported via a large body of compelling evidence]]. Theologians, over two millennia, have debated a definitive summary of the Christian faith. While its interpretations vary drastically, probably the most commonly accepted statement of the faith is the [[Nicene Creed|Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed]].

Christians and Christian denominations agree on many points of doctrine while disagreeing on some. According to an online Harris poll from 2003, 99% of all American Christians believe in [[God]], 96% in the [[resurrection of Jesus Christ]], 93% in [[Heaven]], 93% in the virgin birth, 92% in the survival of the soul after death, 82% in [[Hell]], 50% in ghosts, 27% in astrology and 21% in reincarnation.<ref>http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=359</ref> Note that the latter two beliefs are in opposition to the religious tenets of most Christian denominations.

Nonetheless, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed offers a general overall picture of what Christian theology looks like, and serves as a useful outline and historic standard. Other creeds may prove helpful in research. See the [[Apostles' Creed]] and the [[Athanasian Creed]].

===God===
{{main|God}}
God is a triune being. Though there is only one Divine nature there are three Divine Personages: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The three Persons are collectively called the [[Trinity]] or the Holy Trinity. While God is tripartite, this does not imply that Christians are polytheists. The doctrine of the Trinity is central to Christian theology, although several denominations that usually are considered Christian are non-Trinitarian. The God of the Christian is the creator of all things, is everywhere present, exists in all times, is transcendent, all-knowing (omniscient), just, and all-powerful (omnipotent).

A major theme of the Bible is [[love]]. In the Hebrew [[Old Testament]] the idea is expressed in the Hebrew word ''hessed'', which is variously translated as loyal love, tender mercy, steadfast love, mercy, goodness, etc. in the [[New Testament]] the same idea is expressed in the Greek word ''[[agape]]'', which translates to love, compassion and charity.

===Jesus===
[[Image:Jesus' Baptism.jpg|180px|left]]
During the reign of [[Augustus Caesar|Caesar Augustus]] the Son (i.e. the second Person of the Trinity) took flesh from a virgin woman and was incarnated as a man. He was born in the town of [[Bethlehem]] and was given the name [[Jesus]]. At approximately the age of thirty he was baptised by his cousin [[John the Baptist]] and began to preach in the area of [[Judea]] and [[Galilee]]. About three years later, his teachings and works of mercy prompted the Jewish authorities to plot Jesus' death. Jesus was [[crucified]]. He rose from the dead and was seen by over 500 people. He ascended to Heaven. The four [[Gospels]] contain the basic account of what Jesus did and said.

Jesus summarized his moral teachings in two commandments from the Old Testament:

"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets". ([[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 22:37-39; [[Book of Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] 6:5; Leviticus 19:18)

The night he celebrated his [[Last Supper]] with the Twelve Apostles before he suffered, he gave a new commandment:

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." ([[Gospel of John|John]] 13:34)

===Morality===
The fundamental principle in Christian moral teaching is [[love]] and forgiveness, as expressed by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the New Testament. In the Hebrew [[Old Testament]] the idea is expressed in the Hebrew word ''hessed'', which is variously translated as loyal love, tender mercy, steadfast love, mercy, goodness, etc. in the [[New Testament]] the same idea is expressed in the Greek word ''agape'', which is variously translated as love, compassion, charity, etc.

There has been endless debate over how a person should express love for God in his or her moral behavior. This moral dialogue found expression in the New Testament, where the [[Apostle Paul]] addressed such controversies as [[circumcision]] ([[Epistle to the Romans|Romans]] 2:25-29), eating meat that was sacrificed to [[pagan]] deities (1 Corinthians 8), speculating about myths and genealogies (1 Timothy 1:3-5), and observing ceremonial dates and seasons (Galatians 4:9-11).

Regardless of a person's ethical interpretations, adherents commonly point to New Testament passages John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 as scriptural depictions of love. The former states that <blockquote>"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life".</blockquote> The latter characterizes love, saying <blockquote>"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things".</blockquote>

Jesus Christ affirmed, "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another". (John 13:35) In trying to understand the reason for the growth of Christianity in a pagan culture, it has been noted that while love of one's neighbor is not an exclusively Christian virtue, it appears that the primitive Christian church practiced it much more effectively than any other group.<ref>E.R. Dodds, 1970:136-137</ref>

In addition to sacrificially showing care for those within the community as well as to those without, (cf. Gal. 6:10) the Christians elevated the sanctity of life, opposing abortion, infanticide, child abandonment, suicide, and gladiatorial contests.<ref>Kenneth Scott Latourette, ''A history of Christianity'' p. 244</ref><ref>Ted Cabal, Chad Owen Brand, Paul Copan, The Apologetics Study Bible, 274</ref> While the primitive church tolerated the existing and pervasive cultural economic institution of slavery in the [[Roman Empire]], the mandate of equal pay and just treatment (Col. 4:1; Eph. 6:9) greatly ameliorated the treatment of slaves, while advising them to seek freedom if possible, (1Cor. 7:21) and requiring that the escaped slave Onesimus be received back not "as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved". (Philemon 1:6) The Christian ethos of love also motivated a great expansion in the building of hospitals.<ref>Albert John Ochsner, Meyer Joseph Sturm, ''The organization, construction and management of hospitals'', p. 17</ref><ref>Roderick E. McGrew, ''Encyclopaedia of Medical Care'', p. 135</ref> By A.D. 500, most large towns in in the Roman Empire had erected them.<ref>George D. Pozgar, ''Legal aspects of health care administration', p. 2</ref>

===Atonement===
[[Image:Dalí The Christ of St. John of the Cross.jpg|thumb|The Christ of St. John of the Cross by [[Salvador Dalí]], 1951.]]
Christians believe with the New Testament that the death of Jesus, in conjunction with His resurrection, is an indispensable event for the reconciliation of lost sinners with God. There are three elements they see to the understanding of His death on the cross.

- Jesus having the knowledge that His path would lead to his own death, desired and willed that that take place, and persevered in that path though there was opportunity for Him to avoid it. "I have power to take my life and I have power to lay down my life. I lay down my life for the sheep".

- Jesus saw that in His death there would be a way for people to be brought back to the God from whom they were alienated and lost because of their sins. This would involve a substitution of Himself to effect, i.e. atone for, that development. "For the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many". How this would take place was not new to the Jews of His day from their understanding of contemporary everyday practice of substitute payment - as in redemption of the first-born (Pidyon Ha Ben), or in the understanding of what aggadic stories such as the Binding of [[Isaac]] implied (see [[Midrash]]), but it was not the prevalent view that the Messiah was to be that payment. Though while alive on earth, he had hinted at it in sayings such as "unless a seed falls and dies, it remains alone, but when it dies, it brings forth."; it was only after He had risen from the dead that He explained Scripture (the Old Testament) clearly about the necessity of His death to have taken place. The disciples would henceforth preach, and Peter among them, that the death of Jesus the Messiah and His resurrection was for-planned and for-ordained by God the Father, and foretold in the Scripture (Isaiah 53).

- Christians of all generations have looked to the perfect [[Atonement]], and the hope for reconciliation, accomplished by Jesus on the cross, to provide the means of understanding the solution to the vexing problems of the mind and of life itself.

===Salvation===
The Bible teaches that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". (Romans 3:23) This is often interpreted to mean that everyone has displeased God and is now separated from him in a kind of alienation and enmity that results from the fundamental conflict between selfish human interests and God's interests (Romans 8:5-8; James 4:4). Jesus offered a solution to this Biblical dilemma in that, by [[repentance]] of sins and faith in him (Jesus), their sins would be forgiven. He said that "...the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins" ([[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 2:10). Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life" (John 5:24).

Jesus Christ taught that "unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" ([[Gospel of John|John]] 3:3). [[Repentance]], or a turning away from sin and toward God is necessary. Protestant Evangelical Christianity often uses the terms "saved" and "born again" to mean conversion, with conscious acknowledgment of immediate divine juridical exoneration of all guilt, complete amnesty and full eternal pardon issued on acceptance of the redemptive, saving sacrifice of Jesus dying on the cross in the place of each guilty sinner (Hebrews 1:3; 7:25-27), while other Christians, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, use the phrase ''born again'' as a synonym for [[baptism|baptized]], referring to the [[sacrament]] of baptism through which the divine life of God in the blood of Jesus is actually infused by the power of his grace directly into the soul of the baptized by the washing of water with the word (Ephesians 5:25-27) and is entirely healed of the eternal deadly effect of all past sins, effecting an ontological change of spiritual birth by washing away the defect of sin, the power of God unto salvation flowing abundantly through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, through whom the baptized is united to Him and actually partakes of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

Christians are expected to continue living by Christ's teachings (John 8:31), as is appropriate for "children of Light". (Ephesians 5:8-10) Some believe that this is necessary in order to be saved. Others say that this is a common misconception of the text, that it refers instead to the "fruits" of saving faith. Still others say that the free, unmerited gift of salvation from sin and death in hell must be maintained or retained by actively producing the fruits of [[corporal and spiritual works of mercy]] according to ability, or it will be lost (Ephesians 2:8-10; Hebrews 6:4-8), unless before death the fallen away believer repents and returns (James 5:19-20; 1 John 5:16-17). Christians in the [[Reformed]] tradition (following the teaching of the 16th century French lawyer and theologian [[John Calvin]]) say that salvation [[Eternal security (salvation)|cannot be lost]]. One Bible passage often cited is John 10:28-29 in which Jesus said of his own Apostles that they could not be snatched from his hand.

== Resurrection of Jesus Christ ==
[[Image:Jesus resurrected.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"The Resurrection" by Carl Heinrich Bloch]]
The [[resurrection of Jesus Christ]] is critical to the Christian faith. The Apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain" (I Cor:15:14). Traditionally, Christianity has believed in a physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.<ref>http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0056a.txt</ref>

In recent history, [[Gary Habermas]] is considered a leading [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] for defending the resurrection of Jesus.<ref>Habermas, Gary, [http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/dialog_rexperience/dialog_rexperiences.htm Experiences of the Risen Jesus: The Foundational Historical Issue in the Early Proclamation of the Resurrection], ''Dialog: A Journal of Theology'', Vol. 45; No. 3 (Fall, 2006), pp. 288-297.</ref><ref>"Wildcat" and Holding, J.P., [http://www.tektonics.org/books/lichabrvw.html Book review of "The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus"], 22nd June, 2004 (Tektonics)</ref><ref>Habermas, Gary, [http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/NTeSources/NTArticles/CTR-NT/Habermas-Resurrection1-CTR.pdf Jesus' Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic] ''Criswell Theological Review'' 4.1 (1989) 159-74.</ref><ref>Habermas, Gary, [http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/crj_explainingaway/crj_explainingaway.htm Explaining Away Jesus' Resurrection: The Recent Revival of Hallucination Theories], Christian Research Journal / vol. 23, no. 4, 2001.</ref><ref>Habermas, Gary, [http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/historical_apologetics/habermas-nt.html Why I Believe The New Testament Is Historically Reliable] (Apologetics.com)</ref>
Other notable defenders of the resurrection include: [[William Lane Craig]],<ref>Craig, William Lane, [http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/historical.html Articles: Historical Jesus]</ref> [[Lee Strobel]], [[Josh McDowell]],<ref>McDowell, Josh, [http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/josh2.html Evidence for the Resurrection], 1992.</ref> [[Edwin M. Yamauchi]],<ref>Jamauchi, Edwin M., [http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/yama.html Easter: Myth, Hallucination, or History?]</ref> [[N.T. Wright]]<ref>Wright, N.T., [http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Early_Traditions.htm Early Traditions and the Origins of Christianity], ''Sewanee Theological Review'' 41.2, 1998.</ref> and [[Michael Horner]].<ref>Horner, Michael, [http://www.michaelhorner.com/articles/resurrection/index.html Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?]</ref>

===The Meaning of the Resurrection for Christians===
The fact of the Resurrection of Christ is also believed to produce certain effects on the lives of Christians.

1. It is because Jesus rose from the dead that believers now can resort to a living Savior to help and deliver them from sin and from situations overwhelming for them by their own powers.

2. The New Testament sees in the resurrection of Christ a certain vindication of what apparently to the world and to all beings was a failure and an overcoming of Him by His crucifixion.

3. The coming of Jesus back to life means to the believer that, indeed, his sins are totally forgiven. This is because believers know that His death was as a payment for sins - a "wage of death" for our sins that He received in our stead. If He remained dead, believers would know that the wage had not been fully paid.

4. It is a now-living Savior that Christians know can go before them, can closely lead them through life — as He did when He was on earth. This makes following Him practical and real.

5. The New Testament reveals that it is the Risen Christ who received from the Father the Holy Spirit and He, through Himself, ascended to the Father, has given the Holy Spirit to us. This gives the believer in Christ both the knowledge and the power to live a godly life and live a life that can be an intimately and personally directed one.

6. The resurrected Christ was no mere reassembling of the molecules and particles of the Body that had been crucified. It was, indeed, a physical body, but one that was fully glorified. It was a "spiritual body". Christians know that likewise, they will one day be granted the nature of a spiritual body, and be full of health. They therefore are full of hope and consolation, and consider that, even now in this life, there is an overcoming through Him.

==Worship and the Sacraments==
Christians normally attend worship services at once a week, typically on Sundays. Some denominations, such as the [[Seventh Day Adventist]]s, worship on Saturdays. Commonly, [[megachurch]]es often hold services on both Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings to accommodate growing crowds. More conservative denominations, such as independent Baptists and churches of Christ, hold services on Sunday evenings and Wednesday evenings as well.

The [[Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox]] denominations have seven sacraments: [[baptism]], [[eucharist]], [[confirmation]], [[Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation|confession]], [[Anointing of the Sick|anointing of the sick]], [[marriage]], and [[Holy Orders|holy orders]]. Of these, Protestants observe only baptism and eucharist as sacraments,<ref>The term "eucharist" is rarely used within Protestant circles; common terms include Communion (often used in more traditional denominations) and The Lord's Supper (more frequent in conservative denominations who consider Communion to be a Catholic term).</ref> which are the only two for which they find Scriptural support.<ref>Although Protestants, especially conservative ones, hold to high views of marriage and believe it is taught in the Bible, they do not consider it to be a sacrament.</ref>

==Evangelism==
In what is called the [[Great Commission]], Jesus sent his disciples out into the world to preach the Gospel (literally "good news") and make disciples.
:'''Great Commission'''
:''But the eleven disciples proceeded to [[Galilee]], to the mountain which Jesus had designated. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful. And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in [[heaven]] and on [[earth]]." Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the [[#God the Father|Father]] and the [[#God the Son|Son]] and the [[#God the Holy Spirit|Holy Spirit]], teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."'' --[[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 28:16-20 [[New American Standard Bible|NASB]]
[[Image:Gleyre The Departure of the Apostles.jpg|thumb|240px|The Departure of the Apostles by [[Charles Gleyre]].]]
 

==Internet Evangelism==

{{See also|Internet evangelism}}

Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI) is one of the world's largest evangelism organizations within Christendom and has over 25,000 full-time missionaries. In 2006, Alan Beeber of CCCI predicted that internet evangelism will result in more conversion that all other forms of evangelism for CCCI combined.<ref>http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/pdf/issues/LWP0206.pdf</ref> At [[YouTube]], Christians and Christian creationists have faced problems with [[atheist bullying|atheist cyberbullies]], but they [[Essay: Sharing your Christian/creationist videos on the internet|have developed methods to overcome this problem]]. [[Eternal Word Television Network]] (EWTN) is a worldwide broadcast and internet online and Facebook ministry proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord 24 hours a day with [[Christian apologetics]] programs, News Nightly news broadcast from a Catholic Christian perspective, The World Over with Raymond Arroyo, and daily broadcast worship and prayer seven days a week four times a day.<ref>https://www.ewtn.com https://www.facebook.com/ewtnonline</ref> EWTN claims to be the largest religious media network in the world.

== Explosive growth of worldwide Christianity ==
[[File:Hong Kong Christians at Gateway Camp.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|[[Hong Kong]] Christians at Gateway Camp. In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western World Christians as there were [[Western World]] Christians.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077</ref>

(photo obtained from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mckln/4815046728/in/set-72157624550425162 Flickr], see [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en license agreement])]]
''see also:'' [[Global Christianity]] and [[Internet evangelism]] and [[Evangelical Christians]] and [[Resources on becoming a Christian]]

Christianity has seen tremendous growth over its 2000-year history.<ref>http://users.adam.com.au/bstett/BChristianIncrease12.htm</ref> Christianity has recently seen explosive growth outside the [[Western World]].<ref>
*[http://pewforum.org/Christian/Faith-and-Conflict-The-Global-Rise-of-Christianity.aspx The global rise of Christianity - Pew Forum]
*[https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]
*[http://pewforum.org/Religion-News/The-stunning-growth-of-Christianity-in-China.aspx The stunning growth of Christianity in China]
*[http://gratefultothedead.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/the-african-apostles-how-christianity-exploded-in-20th-century-africa/ The African apostles: How Christianity exploded in 20th century Africa]</ref> In 2000, there were twice as many non-Western Christians as Western Christians.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077 Is Christianity taking over the planet?]</ref> In 2005, there were four times as many non-Western Christians as there were [[Western World]] Christians.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077</ref> There are now more non-Western missionaries than Western missionaries.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30077</ref>

In 2011, the ''American Spectator'' declared concerning research published in the ''International Bulletin of Missionary Research'':
{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new Christians every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer [[atheism|atheists]] every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref>}}

Despite strong persecution in the [[Middle East]], thousands of [[Muslims]] are turning to Christ.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/11/thousands-muslims-reportedly-turning-to-christ-in-middle-east.html Thousands of Muslims reportedly turning to Christ in Middle East]. ''Fox News'' (from ''The Christian Post''). January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.</ref>

==Early Church Community and Commitment: The Biblical Period==
[[File:Hoffman Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.jpg|thumb|left|110px|[[Jesus Christ|Christ]] in the Garden of Gethsemane by Heinrich Hofmann.]]

The Bible records that that, at least initially, the church saw itself as united. In the community:

"...they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. {43} And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. {44} And all that believed were together, and had all things common; {45} And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. {46} And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."(Acts 2:42-47; 4:32)

This community was soon "scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles," due to determined persecution which resulted in the dispersed disciples going "every where preaching the word." (Acts 8:1,4) Christian communities were primarily to be found in two separate cultural and liguistic entities—the Greek and Latin-speaking empires of Europe and the mid-east, and the Aramaic speaking sphere of the Parthian empire of the mid-east and far-east. This latter sphere encompassed not only the eastern portions of Syria, the Arabian peninsula, and Persia, but also extended to portions of southern India and even China. To this day there are many [[Aramaic Church]] members in the Kerala province of south India.

==Early Church Community and Commitment: the Post-Biblical Period==

[[Image:Orthodox churches icon artwork.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Orthodox Church's icon artwork.]]
'''Justin martyr 100 A.D. - 165 A.D. From the "First Apology" (Defense)
'''

<blockquote>
But we, after we have thus washed him who has been convinced and has assented to our teaching, bring him to the place where those who are called brethren are assembled, in order that we may offer hearty prayers in common for ourselves and for the baptized [illuminated] person, and for all others in every place, that we may be counted worthy, now that we have learned the truth, by our works also to be found good citizens and keepers of the commandments, so that we may be saved with an everlasting salvation. Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss. There is then brought to the president of the brethren bread and a cup of wine mixed with water; and he taking them, gives praise and glory to the Father of the universe, through the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy to receive these things at His hands. And when he has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings, all the people present express their assent by saying Amen. This word Amen answers in the Hebrew language to genoito [so be it]. And when the president has given thanks, and all the people have expressed their assent, those who are called by us deacons give to each of those present to partake of the bread and wine mixed with water over which the thanksgiving was pronounced, and to those who are absent they carry away a portion. (Chapt. LXV - administration of the sacraments)</blockquote>

<blockquote>
And this food is called among us Eukaristia [the Eucharist = the Thanksgiving], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, "This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;" and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, "This is My blood;" and gave it to them alone... (Chapt. LXVl - of the Eucharist)
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead...(Chapt.LXVll - weekly worship of the Christians)
</blockquote>

'''Tertullian (A.D. 160 -220), an Early ecclesiastical leader and writer, in his ''Apology'' (response to pagan charges) in describing the early church community wrote, ca. AD 197: '''

:We are a body knit together by one faith, one discipline and one hope. We meet together as a congregation, uniting together to offer prayer to God. We pray for the emperors and all in authority, for the welfare of the world, for peace and for the delay of the final end. We read our holy scriptures to nourish our faith, hope, steadfastness and good habits. We hear exhortations and rebukes. We take such judging very seriously – as befits those who believe they are in the sight of God – especially seriously when anyone sins so grievously we have to cut them off from our prayer, our congregation and all sacred things. Our elders preside over us, obtaining that honor not by money, but by their established character. There is no buying and selling in the things of God. Though we have a fund, but not because people can buy religion. Once a month, anyone who wants to makes a small donation – but only he who is able and willing; there is no compulsion. It is not spent on feasts, but to support and bury poor people, to provide for orphans, the elderly old persons, victims of shipwreck and those in prison for their faith.<ref>Defense by Tertullian (39), Trans. Rev. S. Thelwall. Modernized, abridged and introduced by Stephen Tomkins. Edited and prepared for the web by Dan Graves.</ref>

'''Pliny the Younger, the Roman governor of Pontus & Bithynia (northern Turkey) from A.D. 111–113, reporting to emperor Trajan of Christians, whom such pagan rulers found intolerable:'''

:... Those who denied that they were or had been Christians, when they invoked the gods in words dictated by me, offered prayer with incense and wine to your image, which I had ordered to be brought for this purpose together with statues of the gods, and moreover cursed Christ--none of which those who are really Christians, it is said, can be forced to do--these I thought should be discharged. Others named by the informer declared that they were Christians, but then denied it, asserting that they had been but had ceased to be, some three years before, others many years, some as much as twenty-five years. They all worshipped your image and the statues of the gods, and cursed Christ.

:They asserted, however, that the sum and substance of their fault or error had been that they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of food — but ordinary and innocent food.<ref>Pliny the Younger Letters, 10.96</ref>

=== Implications of the growth of worldwide Christianity ===

''see also:'' [[Global Christianity]] and [[Internet evangelism]]

Given the increase in the public's access to global communications, it is thought that the more [[theology|theologically]] [[conservative]] non-Western Christian churches could influence Western Christianity to move in a more theologically [[conservative]] direction.<ref>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18774</ref> For example, non-Western [[Anglican]]s are exerting influence within the worldwide Anglican Communion against the stance of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion's North American provinces with regard to [[homosexual]] practices.<ref>http://www.maravipost.com/malawi-politics/district/5751-bishop-mw-anglicans-totally-against-homosexuality.html</ref><ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2156406/Anglican-church-schism-declared-over-homosexuality.html</ref>

== Positive effects of Christianity on societies ==
[[Image:Stbasil.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Saint Basil|St. Basil]] of Caesarea founded the first hospital. Christian hospitals subsequently spread quickly throughout both the East and the West.<ref>[http://biblemesh.com/blog/the-christian-origins-of-hospitals/ The Christian origin of hospitals]</ref> See: [[Christianity and hospitals]] ]]
''See also:'' [[Christianity statistics]]

Historically, Christianity has had a positive effect on societies and there are a number of statistics which demonstrate this matter (see: [[Christianity statistics]]).

=== Christianity and social stability ===

See: [[Christianity and social stability]]

=== Christianity and hospitals ===

See: [[Christianity and hospitals]]

== Atheism vs. Christianity ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism vs. Christianity]]

In the latter half of the 1600s, there was [[French atheism#Clandestine French atheism in the 1600s and 1700s|an increase]] in the degree of ideological conflict between [[atheism]] and Christianity in the [[Western World]]. At first the conflict was of a secretive nature via the use of clandestine tracts.<ref>[http://fivebooks.com/interview/jonathan-israel-on-the-enlightenment/ Jonathan Israel on The Enlightenment]</ref><ref>The material was formerly at the University of Cambridge's Investigation Atheism website. A website which closed down. The material has been transferred to [http://www.mmfase.com/18th-century.html 18th Century History], Investigating Atheism</ref>

As a result of [[militant atheism]] in the 20th century, there was widespread persecution against Christians in [[Communist]] countries such as the former [[Soviet Union]] and various Communist countries such as China continue to persecute Christians (see: [[Communism and religious persecution]]).

The 21st century is projected to be a century of [[desecularization]] and atheists are expected to lose influence in the West (and the world as a whole) as a result of religious immigration and the religious conservatives having a much higher fertility rate (see also: [[Growth of global desecularization]]).

In 2011, the ''American Spectator'' declared about the global population:
{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new Christians every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>[http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity Thriving Christianity]</ref>}}

== Resources related to becoming a Christian ==

''see also:'' [[Essay: Resources on becoming a Christian|Resources on becoming a Christian]]

'''Below are some resources on becoming a [[Christian]]:'''

*[https://creation.com/good-news Are you a good person?]

*[http://www.newchristian.org.uk/ New Christian - UK]

*[http://www.thewordfortoday.org/?page=C2000 Free audio Bible and Bible audio streaming]

*[http://www.allaboutgod.com/ AllAboutGod.com]

*[[Christian apologetics|Evidence for Christianity]]

*[[Christian video testimonies]]

*[https://www.gotquestions.org/repentance.html Repentance]

* [https://reasonsforhopejesus.com/what-if-you-die-today/ What Must You Do To Be SAVED?]

'''Tips on choosing a Christian church:'''

*[http://www.allaboutreligion.org/choosing-a-christian-church-faq.htm Choosing a Christian Church]

'''Spiritual growth as a Christian:'''

*[http://www.navpress.com/product/9781576839324/The-Pursuit-of-Holiness-Jerry-Bridges The Pursuit of Holiness] by Jerry Bridges
*[http://www.navpress.com/product/9780891099413/The-Practice-of-Godliness-Jerry-Bridges The Practice of Godliness] by Jerry Bridges
*[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529785.The_Complete_Book_of_Discipleship The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of Christ]

==See also==

'''Denominations or branches of Christianity'''
*[[Roman Catholic Church]]
*[[Pentarchy]]
*[[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Churches -- Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East]]
*[[Protestantism|Protestant]]
**[[Anglican]] ([[Church of England]])
***[[Episcopal Church]] (USA affiliate)
**[[Baptist]]
**[[Congregationalist]]
**[[Disciples of Christ]] and [[Churches of Christ]]
**[[Evangelical Christianity]]
**[[Religious Society of Friends|Friends (Quaker)]]
**[[Fundamentalism]]
**[[Lutheran]]
**[[Mennonite]]
***[[Amish]]
**[[Messianic Judaism]]
**[[Methodist]]
**[[Pentecostal]]
**[[Plymouth Brethren]]
**[[Presbyterian]]
**[[Reformed]]

'''Disputed'''
*[[Christian Science]]
*[[Jehovah's Witnesses]]
*[[Latter-day Saints]]
*[[Unitarian]]
*[[Seventh-day Adventist]]
*[[Liberal Catholic Church]]
*Oneness [[Pentecostalism]]
*[[Liberal Christianity]]
'''Christianity in the World'''

*[[Global Christianity]]
*[[List of countries by number of Christians]]

'''American Christianity:'''

*[[American Christianity]]

'''Other articles'''

*[[Future of Christianity]]
*[[Christianity and social stability]]
*[[Adiabene]]
*[[Essay: The earliest Christian Church, a prison in Armageddon]]
*[[Aramaic Church]]
*[[Cathedral]]
*[[Catholicism]]
*[[Apostolic Tradition]]
*[[Christian apologetics]] (Defense of Christianity)
*[[Christians and the Law of Moses: an essay]]
*[[Christianity and Science]]
*[[Christianity and women's rights]]
*[[Church]]
*[[Conservative Christianity]]
*[[Eucharist]]
*[[Evangelical Apostolic Church of North America (Syro-Chaldean)]]
*[[Ex opere operato and ex opere operantis]]
*[[Christian apologetics|Evidence for Christianity]]
*[[Gospel reading in the Church: the Turgama]]
*[[Infant baptism]]
*[[Inspiration of Holy Scripture: An Eastern Christian and Jewish Perspective]]
*[[Jesus Christ]]
*[[Judaism]]
*[[Messiah]]
*[[New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective]]
*[[Jewish Biblical way of interpretation: a solution for New Testament understanding]]
*[[Early Aramaic Jewish Christian prophesying]]
*[[First Century Aramaic Jewish Christian Gospel and poetry]]
*[[Aramaic Judaism, Jewish Aramaic Christianity, and John 1:1]]
*[[God on earth, the original!: an essay]]
*[[Passover Seder]]
*[[Persecution of Christians]]
*[[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)]]
*[[Red-letter Christian]]
*[[Sign of the Cross]]
*[[The Sign of the Cross: of Jewish Origin]]
*[[Essay: The Way of Salvation]]
*[[Gates of Hell]]
*[[Anti Abortion activism: a personal essay]]
*[[Transmigration of Words in Religion: an essay]]
*[[Singing the Hebrew Scriptures]]
*[[Christmas in the Holy Land: an essay]]
*[[Essay: How to "get" a church]]
*[[Essay: How to choose a Bible]]
*[[Essay: Water baptism cannot save, the Church cannot save, Born again by faith alone]]
*[[Bible translations]]
*[[Essay: The superiority of the King James Bible: Looking through!]]
*[[Essay:Christianity Needs Conservatism]]
*[[Essay:Christian First, Conservative Second]]
*[[Essay:How Many Christians In The World]]
*[[Essay:How Conservatism Is Essential to the Future of Christianity]]
*[[Essay:Important Christian Cities]]
*[[Essay:Virtue: Christian vs secular]]
*[[Essay:Counter-cultural Christianity]]
*[[Essay:Why Christianity is incompatible with Liberalism]]

==Further reading==
===Encyclopedias===
* Bodensieck, Julius, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church,'' (3 vol 1965), ECLS perspective
* Brauer, Jerald C. ''The Westminster Dictionary of Church History'' (1971), 880pp
* [http://newadvent.org/cathen/index.html ''The Catholic Encyyclopedia'' (1907-1913)], old but highly detailed and online
** '' New Catholic Encyclopedia'', edited by the Catholic University of America, 17 vol. 1967–1979.
*Cross, F. L., and E. A. Livingstone, eds. ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' (3rd ed. 1997), 1840pp; [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-Christian-Church/dp/0192802909/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b excerpt and text search]; online at [[OUP]]
* Elwell, Walter A., ed. ''Evangelical Dictionary of Theology‎'' (2001) 1312 pages; articles by over 200 Evangelical or Fundamentalist scholars
*Hastings, Adrian et al. eds. ''The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought'' (2000) 808pp; 600 articles by 260 Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox scholars; [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0198600240/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-4292297-2766841#reader-link excerpt and text search]; online at [[OUP]]
*''New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge'' (1911), major sources of older scholarly articles; mainline Protestant perspective
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.toc.html Vol. 1: Aachen - Basilians]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc02.toc.html Vol. 2: Basilica - Chambers]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc03.toc.html Vol. 3: Chamier - Draendorf]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc04.toc.html Vol. 4: Draeseke - Goa]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc05.toc.html Vol. 5: Goar - Innocent]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc06.toc.html Vol. 6: Innocents - Liudger]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc07.toc.html Vol. 7: Liutprand - Moralities]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc08.toc.html Vol. 8: Morality - Petersen]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc09.toc.html Vol. 9: Petri - Reuchlin]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc10.toc.html Vol. 10: Reutsch - Son]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc11.toc.html Vol. 11: Son of Man - Tremellius]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc12.toc.html Vol. 12: Trench - Zwingli]
**[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc13.toc.html Vol. 13: Index]

===Histories===
*Briggs, J. H. Y., Robert D. Linder, and David F. Wright. ''Introduction to the History of Christianity: First Century to the Present Day'' (2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-History-Christianity-Century-Present/dp/0800638123/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200823548&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
*Gonzalez, Justo L. '' A History of Christian Thought: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon'' (2nd ed. 1987); [https://www.amazon.com/History-Christian-Thought-Beginnings-Chalcedon/dp/0687171822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200823941&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 1]; ''A History of Christian Thought: Volume 2: From Augustine to the Eve of the Reformation'' (2nd ed. 1987) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Christian-Thought-Augustine-Reformation/dp/0687171830/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200823941&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search vol 2]; ''A History of Christian Thought: Volume 3: From the Protestant Reformation to the Twentieth Century'' (1987) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Christian-Thought-Protestant-Reformation/dp/0687171849/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200808706&sr=8-12 excerpt and text search vol 3]
*Horsley, Richard A. ''Christian Origins: A People's History Of Christianity, Vol. 1'' (2006), 318pp [https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Origins-Peoples-History-Christianity/dp/080063411X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200886474&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
*Latourette, Kenneth Scott. ''A History of Christianity'' (2 vol 1975) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Christianity-Beginnings-1500-Revised/dp/0060649526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200823548&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search vol 1, to 1500], by leading Baptist scholar
*Latourette, Kenneth Scott. ''A history of the expansion of Christianity'' (7 vol 1939–1970), monumental history of missionary work worldwide
*MacCulloch, Diarmaid. ''The Reformation'' (2005), influential recent survey [https://www.amazon.com/Reformation-Diarmaid-MacCulloch/dp/014303538X/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200808706&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
*McGonigle, Thomas D., and James F. Quigley. ''A history of the Christian Tradition: From Its Jewish Orgins to the Reformation'' (1988); ''A History of the Christian Tradition, Vol. II: From the Reformation to the Present'' (1996) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Christian-Tradition-Vol-Reformation/dp/0809136481/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200808706&sr=8-15 excerpt and text search vol 2]
*Pelikan, Jaroslav. ''Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine'' (5 vol 1975–91) [https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Tradition-Development-Doctrine-Medieval/dp/0226653757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201083460&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search v. 3, 600 AD -1300]; [https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Tradition-Development-Reformation-1300-1700/dp/0226653773/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201083460&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search vol 4, 1300-1700]; [https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Tradition-History-Development-Doctrine/dp/0226653803/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201083460&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search vol 5, 1700-present] This is the standard history of Christian doctrine.
*Ward, Keith. ''Christianity: A Beginner's Guide'' (2008), 195pp

===United States===
* Ahlstrom, Sydney E. ''A religious history of the American people‎'' (1979) 1192 pages; classic history from broad perspective [https://books.google.com/books?id=5kFF6a1viGcC&dq=inauthor:ahlstrom&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES excerpt and text search]
* Balmer, Randall. ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism'' (2nd ed. 2004), 655pp [http://www.questia.com/library/book/encyclopedia-of-evangelicalism-by-randall-balmer.jsp ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism'' online edition]
* Lippy, Charles H. and Peter W. Williams, eds. ''Encyclopedia of the American religious experience: studies of traditions and movements'' (3 vol 1988) 1872 pages; standard reference work; long essays by scholars
* Noll, Mark A. '' A history of Christianity in the United States and Canada‎'' (1992), by leading Evangelical historian [https://books.google.com/books?id=VGF3wbzzy9QC&dq=intitle:christianity+inauthor:noll&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES excerpt and text search]
* Queen, Edward L. et al., eds. Encyclopedia of American Religious History'' (3rd ed. 2 vol. 2009) 1200pp
* Reid, Daniel G. et al. eds., ''Dictionary of Christianity in America'' (199)
* Wooley, Davis C. ed. '' Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists‎'' (5 vol 1958–19820; 2565 pages)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/category/christians/ What Liberals Say - Category: Christians], [[Accuracy In Media]]
*[http://www.churchbud.com Christian] Social Network
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/2012/11/jesus-through-fabric-of-our-lives.html Jesus through the Fabric of our Lives]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ Real Life and Death: the interplay of Bible, Israel, America]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.de/2013/05/who-can-be-saved-who-can-not-be-saved.html Who can be saved? Who can not be saved?]

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<center>''This page chronicles an ongoing event and is updated regularly; for the current version see '''[[FISA abuse timeline]]'''; please link back as the story unfolds.</center>
[[File:Clinton-Tweet-300x406.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hillary Clinton and Biden [[National Security Advisor]] Jake Sullivan were the sources of the Trump-Russia smear.]]
The '''Obamagate timeline 2016 election year''' is a record of unproven and false allegations about [[President Obama]]'s alleged misuse of foreign intelligence gathering for domestic political spying,<ref>Vadum, Matthew (September 22, 2017). [http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267945/unmasking-powers-abuse-power-matthew-vadum#.WcWGLkg3qWs.facebook "Unmasking power's abuse of power"]. ''FrontPageMag'' website archive.</ref> media manipulation, wiretaps, intimidation of journalists and critics, use of government intelligence agencies to influence domestic elections,<ref>Baldwin, Steve (November 20, 2017). [https://spectator.org/should-the-fbi-be-abolished/ "Should the FBI be abolished?"] ''The American Spectator'' website.</ref> efforts to thwart the election of President Donald Trump, [[subversion]] of the new administration's personnel and agenda,<ref>Crabtree, Bryan (July 10, 2017). [https://townhall.com/columnists/bryancrabtree/2017/07/10/obamas-political-weapon-against-trump-n2352631 "Obama's political weapon against Trump".] ''Townhall'' website.</ref> and to delegitimize and undermine his presidency.<ref>Neumayr, George (February 4, 2018). [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/02/03/memo_obamagate_confirmed_433265.html "Memo: Obamagate Confirmed"]. ''The American Spectator'' website. Reprinted at ''RealClear Politics'' website.</ref>

During and immediately after the [[2016 Presidential election]] CIA director [[John Brennan]], along with the Department of Justice and the FBI, targeted Donald Trump. This covert [[disinformation]] campaign became widely known in the [[fake news]] [[mainstream media]] as [[Trump-Russia]], alleging [[collusion]] between Trump and associates with Russia. The side that actually colluded with foreign powers was that of Hillary Clinton and the [[Democratic party]].<ref>Margolis, Matt (May 11, 2020). [https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/11/hillary-knew-about-trump-opposition-research-in-2016-according-to-podesta-testimony-n389856 "Uh-oh. Podesta says Hillary knew about Trump oppo research that ended up in Steele Dossier".] ''PJ Media'' website.</ref>

After [[President Donald Trump]] took office in January 2017, [[sedition|seditious]] activity, and an unwillingness to accept the results of a democratic election by Obama holdovers in the US [[Intelligence Community]], came to light.
[[File:Crossfire-hurricane-3.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Deputy Peter Strzok referred to as the Espionage Machine Party. A small group within the FBI and intelligence community conspired to prevent the election of Donald Trump through the illegal use of FISA wiretaps and to continue this use as an "insurance policy" to remove him from office after he won.]]
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==2009-2014 Vanguardism==
:''See : '''[[Obamagate timeline 2009-2014]]'''''
[[File:Bill-clinton-moscow-speech.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Pay day: Bill Clinton in Moscow to pick up a $500,000 bribe for his wife Hillary Clinton's approval of the Russian purchase of an American uranium mining company. Clinton recieved [[Vladimir Putin]]'s personal thanks.]]
The [[Obamagate|Obamagate scandal]] refers to several scandals during President Barack Obama tenure, notably the misuse of government agencies, [[Uranium One bribery scandal]],<ref>Solomon, John and Spann, Alison (October 17, 2017). [https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow"]. ''The Hill'' website.</ref> media manipulation, illegal wiretaping, and domestic spying on American citizens to harass political opponents and critics.

Seven large scale scandals have tainted the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] legacy:
*Misuse of the [[IRS scandal|IRS targeting political opponents]];
*[[Operation Fast and Furious]] illegal arms selling;
*[[Uranium One bribery scandal]];
*[[Benghazi massacre]];
*Squashing [[Project Cassandra|Iranian drug trafficking investigations]] to gain the [[Iranian nuke deal]];
*[[Obstruction of justice]] in the [[Clinton email whitewash]];
*[[Russia collusion hoax]].

''Circa'' reported "As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama's top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats. ...Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser [[Susan Rice]], his CIA Director [[John Brennan]] and then-Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]]."<ref>Solomon, John and Carter, Sara (March 29, 2017). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170329111420/http://circa.com/politics/barack-obama-changed-how-nsa-intercepts-of-americans-like-donald-trump-could-be-shared "Obama's rule changes opened door for NSA intercepts of Americans to reach political hands"]. ''Circa'' website. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> In 2013 ''[[The Guardian]]'' quoted [[Edward Snowden]] saying,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref>
{{Quotebox|“'''I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone''', from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to '''even the president''' if I had a personal e-mail. 

It’s getting to the point you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you have ever made.”<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>}}

The abuses came to light when [[Mark Levin]] cited mainstream press reporting of [[Obama administration]] leaks about government agencies spying on the presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]] and surrogates, including then U.S. Senator and later Trump Attorney General [[Jeff Sessions]].<ref>[https://spectator.org/investigate-obamagate/ Investigate Obamagate], ''The American Spectator''</ref>

==2015 The Progressive Police State==
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:''See : '''[[Obamagate timeline 2015 progressive police state]]'''''
What [[Nixon]] contemplated - misuse of the FBI and CIA against domestic opponents - but failed to accomplish yet was nevertheless forced from office, Obama achieved beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The post-[[Watergate]] reform [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] to supervise [[Executive Branch]] power was systematically and wantonly circumvented to harass political opponents in an attempt to dictate the outcome of the [[2016 presidential election]], and [[blackmail]] the winner with illegally gathered evidence should the Obama coterie of conspirators fail.

Obamagate timeline 2015 - the progressive police state documents how the [[Leftist]] [[authoritarian]] [[utopia]] under [[President Barack Obama]] was firmly in place to cover-up the [[crimes]] of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], compromise whomever the 2016 [[GOP]] nominee would be, and rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton. This assault on American [[democracy]] is indisputable.

The origins of intelligence lures, FBI [[provocateur]]s or Spygate. [[Sally Yates]] terminates independent Inspector General oversight of the [[DOJ-National Security Division]]. [[Nellie Ohr]] hired as an FBI contractor to begin illegal [[FISA]] 702 surveillance on [[Michael Cohen]] and others. [[Papadopoulos]] set up.

Comey gives immunity to Clinton cronies who destroyed evidence under Congressional [[subpoena]].

During a period of November 2015 through April 18, 2016, Justice Department political insiders and outside political contractors, including [[FusionGPS]], accessed the [[NSA]] and FBI database using FISA-702(17) “About Queries”. They gathered information on political opposition of candidate [[Hillary Clinton]], including Donald Trump campaign officials and affiliates. NSA Director Mike Rogers suspected illegal abuse and instructed the NSA compliance officer to conduct a full [[FISA]] audit. The NSA began querying [[DOJ]] and [[FBI]] activity.<ref>https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc</ref>

The unlawfully obtained [[FISA]] intelligence information ended up with Fusion GPS. The key personnel in FusionGPS are husband and wife [[Glenn Simpson]] and [[Mary Jacoby]]. Mary Jacoby’s relationship with the Clintons’ goes back to the Rose Law Firm.<ref group=note>
Hillary Clinton was the intellectual property lawyer for Systematics. According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in Little Rock that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in Arkansas. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"

Part of this "intellectual property" would involve a banking transaction software system based on the stolen PROMIS software. A federal bankruptcy court had ruled in 1987 that the US Justice Dept. 'stole' the PROMIS software from a small company called [[Inslaw Inc]] when the DOJ refused to pay Inslaw for it. US intelligence took the PROMIS software and added a hidden "backdoor" for monitoring banking transactions and money laundering. Systematics was the marketing firm the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) was using to get the PROMIS software with the hidden backdoor into the hands of banks worldwide. The intellectual property that Hillary handled, and that Systematics was marketing, had been stolen from Inslaw.

Systematics was founded in 1968 by University of Arkansas graduate Walter Smiley, who learned of the high software costs and other difficulties faced by small banks in trying to use data processing software from his experiences working with IBM and in the banking industry. Smiley recognized a niche that could be filled for medium-sized banks in this space, and sought funding to start his own company. http://walton.uark.edu/abhf/walter-v-smiley.php Through Jon Jacoby, Smiley was introduced to the Stephens family, who agreed to invest $400,000 in Smiley and Systematics in return for 80% equity stake. http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies Jon Jacoby is the father of Mary Jacoby, wife of [[Glenn Simpson]], http://library.fora.tv/speaker/6818/Glenn_Simpson the founder and owner of FusionGPS.</ref>

==2016 Election year==
:{{See also|Ukrainian collusion}}
A month after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the presidency in 2015, Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]] blocked the Office of Inspector General (OIG) from oversight of the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). The OIG, [[Michael Horowitz]], requested oversight and Sally Yates responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation essentially denying the request. All of the DOJ was subject to oversight, except the National Security Division.<ref>https://t.co/b2VmsRhQ42</ref>

Obama’s political operatives within the DOJ-NSD were conducting illegal surveillance to monitor the Trump campaign. The NSD unit was working in coordination with [[Peter Strzok]] and others of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.

Sometime in early 2016 NSA Director Admiral [[Mike Rogers]] became aware of “ongoing” and “intentional” violations of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA) - Section 702 surveillance. Specifically item #17 “About Queries” of US persons. Rogers suspected FISA 702 (#17 – email and phone calls) surveillance activity was being used for reasons he deemed unlawful. Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance. In October 2016 Rogers told the FISA court he became aware of unlawful surveillance and collection of US persons. The FBI counterintelligence division was monitoring Trump through FISA 702(17) upstream surveillance collected by a DOJ National Security Division that had no oversight.

Ten days after the election, on November 17, 2016, Dir. Rogers traveled to Trump Tower without telling DNI [[James Clapper]]. Rogers likely informed President-elect Trump of the illegal activity by the FBI and DOJ, including the probability that all of Trump Tower’s email and phone communication were being collected. Clapper then demanded Rogers be fired. It appears Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is complicit as well.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/05/operation-condor-how-nsa-director-mike-rogers-saved-the-u-s-from-a-massive-constitutional-crisis/</ref>

The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the FISA Court into granting a FISA warrant - what Peter Strzok called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election.

===January 2016===
CIA operative Eric Ciaramella, working in the White House, requested Ukrainian officials to re-open an investigation into Paul Manafort which the FBI had dismissed in 2014. The FBI under James Comey re-opened the investigation at the same time Ciaramella met with Ukrainian officials in the White House. Ciaramella later became the Adam Schiff's alleged "whistleblower" in the [[Trump impeachment]] inquiry after the failure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to produce sufficient evidence to remove President Trump from office in 2019.

*'''4 January.''' John Podesta emails Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, "Look forward to working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States,” Sandberg replies she was “thrilled” by the progress that Clinton was making.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2AGJAI2</ref>

*'''7 January.''' NSA Inspector General, George Ellard, released a report on NSA Controls & FISA compliance:<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/NSA_IG_Report_1_7_16_ST-15-0002.pdf (pp. 6-7)]</ref> {{Quotebox|"We identified another [redacted] queries that were performed outside the targeting authorization periods in [Executive Order] 12333 data, which is prohibited by the E.O. 12333 minimization procedures. We also identified queries performed using [United States Persons] selectors [phone numbers, emails] in [FISA Amendments Act of 2008] §702 upstream data, which is prohibited by the FAA §702 minimization procedures."}}
Material [[FISA abuse]]s were routinely taking place. Following IG Ellard’s report, Adm. Mike Rogers implemented a tightening of internal rules at the NSA. By law, [[John Carlin]] of the [[DOJ-NSD]] should have informed the FISA court immediately of the results of the IG’s Report, but the court was not informed until NSA Dir. [[Adm. Mike Rogers]] ''personally'' told the court on October 23, 2016, two days ''after'' the Obama DOJ hoaxed the FISA court into granting FISA Title I authority over [[Carter Page]], which then extended throughout the [[Trump transition]] well into the first year of Trump's presidency.
*'''12 January.''' Christopher Steele emails [[Bruce Ohr]]: {{quotebox|"I heard from [[Adam Waldman|Adam WALDMAN]] [a Deripaska lawyer/lobbyist] yesterday that OD [ [[Oleg Deripaska]] ] is applying for another official US visa ice [sic] APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] business at the end of February."}}
Steele said Deripaska was being "encouraged by the Agency guys who told Adam [Waldman] that the USG [United States Government stance on [Deripaska] is softening." Steele concluded: "A positive development it seems." Steele also asked Ohr when he might be coming to London, or somewhere in Europe, "as I would be keen to meet up here and talk business." Ohr replied warmly the same day and said he would likely travel to Europe, but not the U.K., at least twice in February.
[[File:Jill and Andy.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|The fix was in from the gitgo. 5 days after the Hillary email investigation began, former Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe "recruited" McCabe's wife to run for the Virginia senate. He and his PACs gave nearly $700,000. Much of the money was unspent after her loss. [[Mainstream media]] ignored the naked corruption until late October 2016.]]
*'''13 January.''' Strzok informed that he had failed his polygraph exam.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4738037/peter-strzoks-scope-polygraph</ref><ref>https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1531070425</ref>
*'''14 January.''' FBI inspector general notifies Senate that [[Hillary Clinton]]'s servers had been flagged for classified information. Clinton servers are in New York; FBI Director [[James Comey]] runs the case out of Washington office, Deputy Dir. [[Andrew McCabe]] put in charge. McCabe's wife received $675000 from Virginia Gov. [[Terry McAuliffe]]'s political action committee for an unsuccessful state senate bid in 2015.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/prominent-democrat-connected-clintons-donated-675000-campaign-deputy-fbi-directors-w</ref> McAuliffe. a former DNC chairman and [[United States presidential election, 1996|Presidential campaign manager for Bill Clinton]], later [[Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign|Hillary Clinton in 2008]] and Clinton Foundation Board member, came under FBI investigation for illegal campaign donations from a Chinese businessman.<ref>http://time.com/4348675/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-china-investigation/</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-investigation-campaign-contributions/</ref> Despite evidence, McCabe refused to merge the McCauliffe investigation into the ongoing pay-to-play investigations of the [[Clinton Foundation]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/30/fbi-investigation-bribery-clinton-foundation-spans-nation-multiple-field-offices-says-wsj/</ref>
:*Per Patrick Byrne: Hillary Clinton meets with FBI bagman to accept $18 million bribe in Operation Snowglobe sting.<ref>hhttps://reclaimthenet.org/rumble-odysee-sue-threat/</ref>
*'''15 January.''' Inspector General for the intelligence community Charles McCullough tells members of Congress that several dozen additional classified emails have been identified in Clinton’s stash, including some with a higher classification than top secret, regarding highly sensitive programs.
*'''16 January.''' Strzok and Lisa Page texted each other about Strzok’s imminent departure from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which was set for two weeks time.
*'''17 January.''' Barack Obama announces final agreement on the [[Iran nuke deal]]. David Asher, Veteran illicit finance investigator at the [[Pentagon]] serving on the [[Project Cassandra]] task force looking into the Hezbollah criminal enterprise said that Obama administration officials expressed concerns to him about alienating [[Tehran]] before, during and after the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. This was part of an effort to “defang, defund and undermine the investigations that were involving Iran and Hezbollah. The closer we got to the [Iran deal], the more these activities went away,” Asher said. “So much of the capability, whether it was special operations, whether it was law enforcement, whether it was [Treasury] designations — even the capacity, the personnel assigned to this mission — it was assiduously drained, almost to the last drop, by the end of the Obama administration.” Within months, task force officials said, Project Cassandra was all but dead. Some of its senior officials, including Jack Kelly the veteran DEA supervisory agent who created and led the task force, were transferred to other assignments. As a result, according to ''Politico'', the US government lost insight into not only drug trafficking and other criminal activity worldwide, but also into Hezbollah’s illicit conspiracies with top officials in the Iranian, Syrian, [[Venezuela]]n and Russian governments — all the way up to presidents [[Nicolas Maduro]], [[Bashar Assad]] and [[Vladimir Putin]], according to former task force members and other current and former U.S. officials. The derailment of Project Cassandra also undermined U.S. efforts to determine how much [[cocaine]] from the various Hezbollah-affiliated networks is coming into the United States, especially from Venezuela, where dozens of top civilian and military officials have been under investigation for more than a decade.<ref>https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/</ref>
*''New York Post'' reports former State Dept. Inspector General Howard J. Krongard regarding Clinton server says: {{quotebox|“It will never get to an indictment." For one, any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women” — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]]; Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]]; and top White House adviser [[Valerie Jarrett]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2016/01/31/this-was-all-planned-former-ig-says-hillary-state-dept-are-lying/</ref><ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/hillary-rakes-nearly-75000-justice-department-employees/</ref>}} The ''NYP'' further reports: {{quotebox|from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries. “That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without email?” He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton’s entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5½-year vacancy was unprecedented. “This is a major gap. In fact, it’s without precedent,” he said. “It’s the longest period any department has gone without an IG.”}}
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[[File:Ciaramella-telizhenko-600x111.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ciaramella/Telizhenko meeting at the White House to discuss killing the Hunter Biden investigation and reviving allegations against Paul Manafort.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>]]
*'''19 January.''' '''[[Eric Ciaramella]] hosts [[Andriy Telizhenko]],<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> a political officer in the Ukrainian DC Embassy at the [[White House]] to discuss killing the [[Hunter Biden]] investigation and reviving allegations against [[Paul Manafort]] which the [[FBI]] dismissed in 2014.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86awAp4uIw</ref>
:{{Quotebox|The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ)....Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ '''objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President [[Joe Biden]]’s family and one that involved a lobbying [Manafort's] firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>}}
:*'''January.''' '''FBI initiates politically motivated money laundering and tax evasion investigation of Paul Manafort predicated on his activities as a political consultant to members of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian politicians.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf FISA Abuse Report], p. 66 fn 185, pp. 291, 391-392, 398 and fn 521.</ref>
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*'''25 January.''' FBI receives an invoice from Orbis International (Christopher Steele's firm) requesting payment "for consultancy services, including 7 meetings with contact, briefing, and reports" as well as for travel and accommodations. The '''FBI paid Christopher Steele''' personally, not Orbis International, $15,000 in May 2016 '''for services rendered from July 2015 through February 2016.'''<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 88 fn 206.</ref>
*'''26 January.''' Strzok texted Lisa Page, where he expressed zero worries about Andrew McCabe being able to use his office political power to give him a permanent job working for McCabe.
*'''29 January.''' Comey promotes McCabe to FBI Deputy Director even though McCabe's wife has already received $700,000 from Clinton donors and [[Terry McAuliffe]], who is also under an FBI investigation McCabe is overseeing.
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he enjoyed his new job.
*'''January.''' FBI opens Clinton Foundation investigation.

===February 2016===
*'''Early February.''' Papadopoulos leaves Carson campaign.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/11/07/questions-for-george-papadopoulos/</ref> 
*'''2 February.''' [[Christopher Steele]] is already on the FBI payroll, receives "admonishments," or instructions in FBI Guidelines for Confidential Human Sources (CHS).<ref>https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Cleveland8.5.a-768x648.jpg</ref><ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/06/4-things-learned-fbis-mostly-redacted-steele-documents/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=c8f63f08b9-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-c8f63f08b9-84014745</ref>
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:*Ukrainian Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] obtains a court order to seize [[Mykola Zlochevsky]]’s property.<ref>https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/322395.html</ref> Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden in April 2014.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>
:*Vice President Joe Biden then spoke with Ukraine’s [[President Poroshenko]] three times by telephone on February 11, 18, and 19, 2016.<ref>https://perma.cc/FC8V-P2AG</ref>
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*'''4 February.''' Strzok sent an e-mail to [REDACTED] about his and four other agents’ out of scope polygraphs from January 2016 in order to send him their read-in requests.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/JW-v-DOJ-Strzok-Page-emails-00154.pdf</ref>
*'''8 February.''' Steele and Bruce Ohr exchange emails: "our old friend OD [Oleg Deripaska] apparently has been granted another ''official'' [emphasis in original] visa to come to the US later this month." Steele wrote, "As far as I'm concerned, this is good news all round although as before, it would be helpful if you could monitor it and let me know if any complications arise." Ohr replied that he knew about Deripaska's visa, and "to the extent I can I will keep an eye on the situation." Steele again asked to meet anytime Ohr was in the U.K. or Western Europe.
[[File:Image zpsj30a6zuj.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|'''John Poindexter (left) shakes hands with Barack Obama (right).''' Justice Anton Scalia was found dead in Poindexter's home days after the Podesta "wet works" email. Poindexter is a major Democrat donor.]]
*'''9 February.''' John Podesta emails Steve Elmendorf:
{{Quotebox-float|"Didn't think wet works meant pool parties at the Vineyard."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56753</ref>}}
:* "Wet works" is an old Russian idiom for "murder" and "assassination."<ref>https://www.quora.com/What-is-wet-work</ref>
*'''11 February.''' DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells CNN [[Superdelegate]]s exist "really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.”<ref>https://youtu.be/w5llLIKM9Yc</ref> Later news breaks that Wasserman Schultz quietly rescinded a 2008 ban on donations to the DNC from corporate lobbyists and PACs. The decision paves the way for the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee between the DNC and the Clinton campaign.<ref>https://observer.com/2017/04/hearing-set-dnc-class-action-lawsuit-bernie-sanders/</ref>
*'''12-14 February.''' [[Estonia]]n President Toomas Hendrick Ives attended the 52nd Munich Security Conference, alongside others such as James Clapper, Director [[Robert Hannigan]], Dmitry Alperovitch (founder of CrowdStrike), John Kerry, John McCain and Robert Bertholee.
*'''13 February.''' [[Supreme Court]] Justice [[Anton Scalia]] found dead in the home of Democrat donor John Poindexter.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html?utm_term=.d9fe30f3e508</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160217173504/http://dcwhispers.com/justice-scalia-dies-at-ranch-resort-owned-by-democrat-party-donor-obama-award-winner/</ref><ref>https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2018/07/05/accountability/executive/antonin-scalia-murder/</ref>
*'''18 February.''' Strzok informed of the anomaly on Hillary Clinton's email server by Intelligence Community Inspector general (ICIG) investigator Frank Rucker. Rucker later told Congress that Strzok was “aloof and dismissive.".<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/hillary-clintons-emails-were-sent-to-gmail-address-with-a-chinese-companys-name_3043380.html</ref>
*'''21 February.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr, headlined "Re: OVD - Visit To The US." Steele told Ohr he had talked to [Adam] Waldman and to Paul Hauser, who was [[Deripaska]]'s London lawyer. Steele reported that there would be a U.S. government meeting on Deripaska that week — "an inter-agency meeting on him this week which I guess you will be attending." Steele said he was "circulating some recent sensitive Orbis [Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's company] reporting" on Deripaska that suggested Deripaska was not a "tool" of the [[Kremlin]]. Steele said he would send the reporting to a name that is redacted in the email, "as he has asked, for legal reasons I understand, for all such reporting be filtered through him (to you at DoJ and others)." Deripaska's rehabilitation was a good thing, Steele wrote: "We reckon therefore that the forthcoming OVD [Oleg V. Deripaska] contact represents a good opportunity for the USG." Ohr responded by saying, "Thanks Chris! This is extremely interesting. I hope we can follow up in the next few weeks as you suggest."
*'''22 - 28 February.''' An inter-agency meeting was held by the United States Government, where they discussed the incoming visit of Oleg Deripaska.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-2016-links-among-steele-ohr-simpson-with-russian-oligarch-in-background</ref>
*'''26 February''' [[Michael Flynn]] reported to have joined Trump team.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-advisor/trump-being-advised-by-ex-u-s-lieutenant-general-who-favors-closer-russia-ties-idUSMTZSAPEC2Q6G3JRH</ref> Actual start date isn’t clear.
*'''29. February.''' Manafort first contact to Trump campaign. Manafort had not been in contact with Trump for many years.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html</ref> According to CNN 2017/9/18, Manafort is under FISA surveillance at this time.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-government-wiretapped-fisa-russians/index.html</ref>

*'''February or March:''' [[Patrick Byrne]] was told by FBI handlers to focus [[Marina Butina]]’s attention to the campaign of Donald Trump and to diminish any attention toward Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz.

===March 2016===
:{{See also|FISA abuse timeline}}
The FBI's illegal surveillance had been ongoing since at least November 2015 through its contractors (FusionGPS, CrowdStrike, Daniel Richman, ''et al'') who had access to the FISA database. FBI contractors were performing massive amounts of illegal FISA 702 "About queries," i.e., entering the name of a US person in the FISA database to cull their entire history of email, text, and voice electronic communications. 702 is specifically, by law, intended for use only on non-US persons residing ''outside'' the United States, and is considered a "serious Fourth Amendment violation" when applied to American citizens.
[[File:Photo Collage-20180428 235136.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Nellie Ohr (left) was performing illegal FISA searches beginning in late 2015; Christopher Steele (right), an agent of a foreign power, was hired in early 2016 by the FBI and Hillary Clinton to meddle in U.S. elections. The fabrications of the foreign agent is the only basis of the [[Mueller investigation]].]]
NSA Dir. Adm. Mike Rogers first became aware of the Obama FBI's abuse of the FISA database on March 9 (see Lisa Page text) and ordered a review. On March 9, Carter Page was not associated with the Trump campaign yet and still listed as a paid FBI informant. On April 18 Rogers cut off FBI contractor access completely (Strzok April 30 text reveals an immediate stop gap workaround for direct surveillance) which set off a flurry of activity within the White House, the Department of Justice and FusionGPS to circumvent the ban and continue the illegal surveillance. [[Mary Jacoby]] visited the White House, along with Jim Baker ("Mr. FISA") of the FBI, and Trish Anderson of DOJ; Christopher Steele was added to the FusionGPS team with Nellie Ohr who was hired in 2015;<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/bruce-ohr-dossier-fbi/</ref><ref>Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group in a 2010 "expert working group report on international organized crime" along with Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson. Open Source Works, the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. The directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. CIA says the existence of any such records is a classified fact.</ref> [[Nellie Ohr]] applied for a Ham radio license to funnel FISA data from her husband, Asst. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr, to Steele outside normal NSA electronic monitoring processes.

After Carter Page became associated with the Trump campaign, the Obama FBI took details of the original Russian intelligence approach to Carter Page in 2013, in which Carter Page fully assisted the FBI to build a case against Russian spies, and fraudulently represented to the FISA court that the 2013 Russian recruitment effort against Page had been successful, leaving out the facts (or "exculpatory evidence") of the case in which the DOJ publicly thanked and acknowledged Page as UCE-1 on March 11, 2016 without whom prosecution of the Russian spy network was not possible.

As March 2016 began the only anti-Trump measures in place were the illegal FISA 702 search queries on US persons (the Trump campaign) and John Brennan's network of "oconus lures." By mid June, the entire anti-Trump "Espionage Machine" (in Strzok's words) was fully operational to workaround the loss of FBI contractor access to the FISA database. Evidence points to White House consent, direction and complicity.

In March 2017, the bogus Carter Page FISA application, with the Steele allegations (Steele was a paid opposition researcher, a fact not widely known in March 2017) was [[leak]]ed to the media by the Senate Intelligence Committee giving [[mainstream media]] impetus to the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/former-trump-adviser-page-previously-targeted-by-russian-spies-913292867813 BuzzFeed reporter Ali Watkins received the full classified Carter Page FISA application from the Senate Intelligence Committee director of security, James Wolfe, in March 2017. [[James Wolfe indictment|Wolfe was arrested and indicted]] in mid 2018 and Watkins, who parlayed the illegal leak into a job with the ''New York Times'', was reassigned away from reporting on national security matters. https://amgreatness.com/2018/06/13/moms-to-daughters-dont-be-ali-watkins/</ref>

*'''Early March.''' Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie—the law firm used by the Clinton campaign and the DNC—expressing interest in an “engagement.” Perkins Coie “engaged Fusion in April of 2016, to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle.” The law firm noted that “the engagement concluded prior to the November 2016 Presidential election.”<ref>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4116755/PerkinsCoie-Fusion-PrivelegeLetter-102417.pdf</ref>

*'''Early March.''' Sources agree [[George Papadopoulos]] is head of the London Center of International Law Practice (LCILP) by this time.<ref>"Centre for International Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security," in some sources.</ref><ref>Brian White reports "Papadopoulos had previous connections in the UK. He had studied at University College London and had spent four months with Energy Stream, a British consultancy firm. Immediately prior to joining LCILP he had spent six weeks working for [[Ben Carson]], a Republican contender for the US presidency. Carson’s campaign was flagging and Papadopoulos left at the end of January. He wasn’t without work for long, however, and swiftly stepped into two new roles: one as a foreign policy adviser to Trump, the other with LCILP." https://medium.com/@Brian_Whit/the-trump-russia-affair-and-an-odd-company-in-london-9437e0343db2</ref> Papadopoulos has been associated with the group for about two weeks; some sources say he may have been associated with the group since November 2015. LCILP appears to be a store front for Halkuyt,<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/994010717866090497</ref> a UK firm of retired UK intelligence officers associated with Kissinger McClarty<ref>https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hakluyt_%26_Company_Limited&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#SourceWatch_resources</ref> (Kissinger McClarty was formed in 1999 and dissolved in 2008 after Hillary lost to Obama).<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/996018929649770496?s=20</ref>

*'''March.''' FBI attempts entrapment sting against [[Roger Stone]] and [[Michael Caputo]] using convicted [[felon]], Russian national, and FBI informant [[Henry Greenberg]].<ref>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article213359854.html</ref>

*'''March.''' An FBI agent started to work with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine, which was funded by the US Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.<ref>https://www.unian.info/society/1338755-us-embassy-in-ukraine-fbi-donates-500000-worth-of-equipment.html</ref>

*'''March.''' [[Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] threatens Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General '''[[Viktor Shokin]]''' who was investigating his son, [[Hunter Biden]], on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings.
:*“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>

*'''2 March.''' Carter Page meets with an FBI and SDNY Assistant United States Attorneys in the New York field office in preparation for the trial of Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence officer, in which Page was a paid informant.<ref>https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/1038941607054266369</ref> Page informs the FBI he intends to volunteer to work for the Trump campaign. After the meeting the FBI agent contacted FBI Headquarters to ask what type of investigation to open on Page.
:*Papadopoulos emails Trump campaign again, looking for role.
*'''3 March.''' Sam Clovis sets up interview with Papadopoulos.
*'''4 March.''' Strzok-Lisa Page text exchange during GOP presidential debate:
[[File:Peter-strzok-and-lisa-page.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Peter Strzok (left) and Lisa Page (right), prime low level suspects in the Obama administration's efforts to influence the outcome of a US election, and later remove President Trump. [[Lisa Page]], a DOJ lawyer specializing in money laundering, makes more money than a Member of Congress, Senator, Cabinet Secretary or Supreme Court Justice, and only $1000 less than the Vice President.<ref>http://heavy.com/news/2017/12/peter-strzok-lisa-page-fbi-trump-texts-affair/</ref> Many Obama Progressives view themselves as an enlightened self-anointed clique of anti-democratic elites in the mold of a Leninist [[revolutionary vanguard]] movement. Their self-importance confirmed by payscales above the nation's top leaders. They view their job as controlling the destiny of a nation through a corrupt and privileged bureaucracy, and to save the ignorant masses from the masses' own misguided impulses.]]
{{Quotebox-float|Page - God Trump is loathsome human.

Strzok – Yet he may win.

Strzok – Good for Hillary.

Page – It is.

Strzok – Would he be a worse president than [[Ted Cruz|Cruz]]?

Page –Trump?, yes I think so

Strzok – I’m not sure.

Strzok – Omg he’s an idiot.

Page – He’s awful

Strzok – America will get what the voting public deserves.

Page – That’s what I’m afraid of.}}
:Later,
{{Quotebox-float|Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.

Page – I know

Page – Also did you hear him make a comment about the size of his d**k earlier? This man cannot be president.

Strzok – Yes I did. In relation to this size of his hand. All the [[Marco Rubio|“Lil Marco”]] blah blah blah... Ok I may vote for Trump.

Page – What? Poor [[John Kasich|Kasich]]. He’s the only sensible man up there.

Strzok – He was pretty much calling for death for [[Snowden]]. I’m a single-issue voter. ;) [[Deep State|Espionage Machine Party]]}}

*'''6 March.''' Sam Clovis interviews Papadopoulos.

*'''7 March.''' BakerHostetler, the law firm representing the Russian-controlled firm Prevezon Holdings and its owner Denis Katsyv, makes a payment to FusionGPS. [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] hired BakerHostetler, who the hired FusionGPS by BakerHostetler to dig up dirt on [[Bill Browder]]. Browder is the driving force behind passage of the [[Magnitsky Act]], or Russia sanctions bill. Glenn Simpson, founding partner of Fusion GPS, compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. Simpson found dirt on Clinton donors, which he gave to Veselnitskaya, who presented it to Donald Trump, Jr. at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
:*Through October 31, 2016 BakerHostetler paid FusionGPS $523,651.
:*Dr. [[Christine Blasey Ford]]'s brother is an attorney at BakerHostetler.
*'''7-13 March.''' James Comey visited [[Australia]] and met with Attorney General George Brandis and Justice Minister Michael Keenan.
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[[File:Fisa-abuse-improper-decisionmaking.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Chief FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer outlined Obama FISA abuse: "''this seems to be the result of deliberate decision making''".]]
*'''9 March.''' '''Obama FISA abuse detected.''' '''Everything after March 9, 2016 are operations from both the CIA and FBI to hide the political surveillance that was going on before March 9, 2016.''' The surveillance was happening through exploitation of the NSA database through unauthorized FISA search queries; and involved both the CIA and FBI.
:*DOJ auditors conducting a minimization review (minimization is the process of masking identities of US persons incidentally collected while executing a foreign surveillance warrant) of FBI [[FISA abuse]] discover that the FBI disclosed raw FISA information (the identities of US persons) to private contractors (FusionGPS and CrowdStrike).<ref>FISC Judge Collyer, Memorandum Opinion &
Order, Apr. 26, 2017, pp. 83 - 89.</ref><ref>[https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/15/the-uncovering-section-702-about-queries-independent-contractors-a-new-narrative/ The Uncovering – Section 702 “About” Queries, Independent Contractors & a New Narrative], January 15, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA.</ref><ref>[https://exposefacts.org/institutional-lack-of-candor-fisa-violations/ Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations] A primer on recent unauthorized activity by the Intelligence Community, January 24, 2018. Demand Progress.</ref>

:*Lisa Page sends text referencing “HUGE f-up," evidently about the FBI caught by auditors misusing the FISA database (performing illegal 702 queries and the unmasking of real life identities of US persons to outside contractors), i.e. "serious [[Fourth Amendment]] violations" in the words of the FISA court.
::*Judge Collyer wrote, "[CIA] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding enter into [redacted],” presumably in 2012 as a result of another section of the report and the emphasis that Collyer is placing on the time-frame throughout her full report. Collyer also wrote: “Despite the existence of an interagency memorandum of understanding no notice of this practice was given to the [[FISC]] until 2016.”<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/02/big-puzzle-pieces-connecting-the-cia-fbi-and-2016-political-surveillance-is-merging/</ref>

*Coincidentally the same day ''Reuters'' reports on an "undercover FBI employee" who helped the FBI catch Russian spies. The "undercover FBI employee" is later identified as [[Carter Page]]. Page had been thoroughly vetted by the FBI for his loyalty to United States before the FBI recruited and paid him to wear a wire to help set up Russian spies: {{Quotebox|FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said. The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a [[Cold War]]-style spy ring. ...According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference. Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information. In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM</ref>}}
[[File:8E9Ep9Nb.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Evegeny Buryakov sentenced as a spy for Russia. DOJ national security head [[John Carlin]] vetted [[Carter Page]] for his loyalty to the U.S. and publicly thanked him for helping convict Buryakov. 10 days later Carter Page joined the Trump team. 7 months later Carlin was part of a scheme to commit a fraud against the [[FISA court]] claiming Carter Page was a Russian spy, all the while Carlin oversaw and approved [[Nellie Ohr]]'s abuse of the [[FISA]] database and violations of the Trump campaign's civil and constitutional rights. Nellie Ohr was paid by [[Hillary Clinton]] and the [[DNC]], while her husband Asst. Attn. Gen. [[Bruce Ohr]] passed the ficticious lies written by Nellie and [[Chris Steele]] in the ''[[Steele dossier]]'' to [[Peter Strzok]], who used it to commit fraud on the FISA court and secure a blanket electronic surveillance warrant on Trump and associates with the Carter Page FISA warrant.]]
*'''11 March.''' Two days after the ''Reuters'' article appears, [[John Carlin]] and [[Preet Bharara]] congratulate themselves in a DOJ press release. Honorable mention is given to an unnamed person that assisted them, UCE-1, later identified as Carter Page:
{{quotebox-float|"Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General...The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev '''attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”) [Carter Page]''' who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, [Carter Page] provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by [Carter Page] and supporting documentation relating to [Carter Page's] reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>}} Carlin, Strzok, and others took the "attempt to recruit Carter Page," left out the exculpatory evidence Carter Page worked for the FBI, and perpetrated a fraud on the FISA court claiming the recruitment was successful. The Carter Page FISA warrant granted authority for electronic surveillance of Carter Page's entire network of contacts, i.e. voice, email, and text messages of the Trump campaign, Trump transition, and Trump administration. Despite the investigation of Carter Page being instrumental to starting the FBI and Mueller investigations, Carter Page has never been interviewed by Robert Mueller more than two years after the investigations began.
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*'''12 March.''' Strzok-Page txt msg exchange: {{Quotebox|Lisa Page – What the f is wrong with people? A Texas Candidate pushes the boundary to the far right. (NYT)<ref>http://nyti.ms/1TqBqj</ref> Strzok – That Texas article is depressing as hell. But answers how we could end up with President trump Lisa Page – Wasn’t it? Seriously, how are people so incredible ignorant? Strzok – I have no idea, but it depresses me. Same people who drive more when they get extra daylight from daylight savings, I’m guessing.}}

*'''14 March.''' John Brennan travels to Moscow. Meets with Russia’s federal intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service.<ref>https://themoscowtimes.com/news/cia-director-brennan-made-secret-trip-to-moscow-52284</ref>
[[File:Mifsud with Boris Johnson.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|'''FBI/CIA spy [[Joseph Mifsud]] (left) with [[UK]] prime minister [[Boris Johnson]] (center)''' two weeks after [[George Papadopoulos]]' plea agreement in the [[Mueller investigation]].<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-pictured-with-london-professor-from-fbi-russia-probe/amp/ </ref> The enite Trump-Russia conspiracy hoax was hatched by [[Obama administration|Obama]] CIA director [[John Brennan]] on the false allegation that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Mifsud had been working for Brennan and [[Jimmy the Weasel]] Comey all along.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZ8XI_ncas Why the Mifsud Story Matters], DECLASSIFIED with Gina Shakespeare,- ''The Epoch Times'', Aug 5, 2019.</ref>]]
*Papadopoulos travels to Rome as part of LCILP role. Papadopoulos claims he was introduced by Vincenzo Scotti, former Italian Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, to [[Joseph Mifsud]]. Mifsud was introduced as professor for London Academy for Diplomacy, London England.

*Trump tweeted “N.A.T.O. is obsolete and must be changed to additionally focus on terrorism as well as some of the things it is currently focused on!”<ref>https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/712969068396093440</ref>

*'''15 March.''' FusionGPS contract with the ''Washington Free Beacon'' ends after [[Marco Rubio]] drops out of the primary race. ''Free Beacon'' hired FusionGPS on 15 Oct 2015 to perform opposition research on Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. None of the research done for ''Free Beacon'' is related to Russia or the ''Steele dossier''. Christopher Steele has not even been hired by FusionGPS yet.

*'''16 March.''' Strzok text: “Our guy is talking,” a possible reference to the Mifsud/Papadopoulos contact two days earlier.
*Lisa Page texts Strzok, "I can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president."

*James Clapper arrived in Australia from [[New Zealand]] via a C-17 Globemaster.

*'''17 March.''' Steele wrote a brief email asking if Bruce Ohr had any update on plans to visit [[Europe]] "in the near term where we could meet up." Ohr said he did not and asked if Steele would like to set up a call. There are no emails for more than three months after March 17.
*Papadopoulos returns to London.
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*'''21 March.''' [[Carter Page]] and George Papadopoulos join the Trump Campaign as [[foreign policy]] advisors, according to the ''Daily Caller''.
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*'''22 March.''' ''Washington Post'' reports "Papadopoulos, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, directs an international energy center at the London Center of International Law Practice;" ''WaPo'' neglects to state he held the position for a few weeks at most.

*'''24 March.''' Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Olga Polonskaya (introduced as "Putin's neice") and unknown fourth party (designated the “Russian Ambassador to London – who also acts as the Deputy Foreign Minister”) meet in a London cafe.
*John Kerry, [[Victoria Nuland]] and [[Jonathan Finer]] visited Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
*'''25 March.''' Photo posted on Twitter of Papadopoulos with a group of people and the [[Togo]] ambassador in London to "discuss water management."<ref>https://twitter.com/rebeccampeters/status/702847531621949440?s=20</ref>'''
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[[File:Alexandra-chalupa-and-ukraine-embassy-in-the-us.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman [[Marcy Kaptur]]’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy staff.<ref>https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/how-to-finance-your-congressional-campaign-with-arms-sales/</ref>]]
*Ukrainian-American '''employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) [[Alexandra Chalupa]]''' meets with top Ukrainian officials at Ukrainian Embassy in Washington D.C. to “expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia,” according to ''Politico''. Chalupa previously worked for the [[Clinton administration]]. Ukrainian embassy proceeds to work “directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions,” according to an embassy official (though other officials later deny meddling in election-related activities.)

*'''28 March.''' [[Paul Manafort]] joins Trump Campaign as campaign convention manager.
*[[Michael Kortan]] briefed James Comey to prepare for a counterterrorism session hosted by the Department of Homeland Security with President Obama.

*'''29 March.''' *Ukraine fires top prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings under pressure from Joe Biden and the Obama administration.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/political-stability-in-the-balance-as-ukraine-ousts-top-prosecutor.html</ref> In September 2016 a Ukrainian court cancelled the arrest warrant for Mykola Zlochevsky.

*'''30 March.''' ''Bloomberg'' interview with Carter Page;<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/trump-russia-adviser-carter-page-interview</ref> Page describes himself as having advised the state-controlled natural gas giant [[Gazprom]] and helped it attract Western investors. Julia Ioffe reported for ''Politico'' that Carter Page was a mid-level executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role in any of the big deals he boasted about. Almost no one in Moscow remembered Carter Page. Until Trump read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a March interview with the ''Washington Post'', almost no one in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Carter Page either.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160924010026/http:/www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283 The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow], Reports of deep Russian ties swirl around Trump advisor Carter Page. Oddly, nobody in Russia seems to have heard of him. By JULIA IOFFE, ''Politico'', September 23, 2016.</ref>

*'''31 March.''' Papadopoulos attends D.C. “national security” meeting with Trump and other foreign policy advisors. [[Jeff Sessions]] in attendance. Papadopoulos states he “had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin.” This is Papadopoulos’ only known direct visit with the Trump Campaign.

*Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa briefs DNC staff on alleged Russia ties to Paul Manafort and Trump. With “DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asks Ukrainian embassy to arrange meeting with Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] to discuss Manafort’s lobbying for Ukraine’s former president [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. The embassy declines to arrange meeting but becomes “helpful” in trading info and leads. Ukrainian embassy officials and Democratic operative Chalupa “coordinat[e] an investigation with the Hillary team” into Paul Manafort, according to a source in Politico. This effort reportedly includes working with U.S. media.
*'''Spring.''' Lynch and Comey discuss defensive briefing for Trump of Carter Page's activities in the Buryakov case but decide against it.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/17/halper-trump-page-papadopoulos/</ref>

===April 2016===
*'''Spring.''' ''[[McClatchy]]'' reports, {{quotebox|'''The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump'''.<ref>http://archive.is/Uscjk</ref>}}
[[File:Brennan's Inter-agency working group.png|left|500px|thumb|John Brennan's Inter-agency working group. The Working Group operated out of the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters, where it worked in secrecy away from the other members of the various intelligence agencies. Agents that participated in the Working Group had to sign non-disclosure agreements to access the shared intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-e4ab7d8188ac</ref>]]
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Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes: '''April 18th through July 31st 2016''': At the same time as NSA Director Mike Rogers discovered a significant and unauthorized uptick in FISA-702(16)(17) database queries, and subsequently blocked access (April 18th, 2016), candidate Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee for the presidential race. It was within this period where Fusion-GPS was commissioned by Hillary Clinton to focus exclusively on candidate Trump. Fusion held the prior search findings, and Fusion contracted Christopher Steele who later contacted the FBI through official channels. On July 31st, 2016, FBI counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane became official. An official investigation targeting the campaign of Donald Trump now held a legal, albeit sketchy and politically motivated, justification. Under the auspices of investigating Russian involvement with George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort and General Michael Flynn, the FBI was now conducting full-blown surveillance on the political campaign of Donald Trump. Crossfire Hurricane was the legal cover; ‘Spygate’ begins.
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The Clinton Campaign and DNC hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research, 'cash for trash' with a Russian emphasis. FEC records show [[Obama for America]] also paid $972,000 to [[Perkins Coie]], the surrogate law firm for FusionGPS, beginning in April 2016.
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Christopher Steele was already on the FBI payroll. [[Michael Isikoff]] published a story on Yahoo News about Paul Manafort’s business dealings with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Chalupa met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, Manafort, and Russia.

*'''[[Burisma]]'''-funded '''[[Atlantic Council]]''' event [[Devon Archer]] and Olga Bielkova both attend. “Huge” State Dept. Presence. Blue Star Strategies—the lobby firm '''[[Hunter Biden]]''' was also involved with is there.<ref>https://www.ii.co.uk/discussion/t/9pm-tonight/1035589</ref>
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*'''Early April.''' Papadopoulos works with Mifsud and Polonskaya to attempt to arrange a meeting between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government.
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*'''1 April.''' FusionGPS is hired by DNC & HRC Campaign (via Perkins Coie lawfirm to mask the identity of clients by attorney/client privilege) and tasked with further "opposition research." Perkins Coie's lead attorney representing DNC & HRC Campaign is [[Marc E. Elias]] (who is also HRC's personal attorney). In addition, Perkins Coie also employs former Obama White House Chief Legal Counselor, Robert Bauer.<ref>Confessore, Scott Shane, Nicholas; Rosenberg, Matthew (11 January 2017). "How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump". The New York Times.</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.10bece00087f</ref>
:*FBI New York field office receives an email from the Counterespionage Section advising to open a investigation on Carter Page/ Between April 6 and the Crossfire Hurricane team's opening of its investigation of Page on August 10, 2016, there was limited investigative activity in the NYFO (FBI New York Field Office) on the Carter Page.
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*'''2 April.''' FBI lawyer Lisa Page texts Hillary email investigator Peter Strzok: "So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now."

:*Email exchanges from 2009 to 2011 exist in which both Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin directly discussed or were involved in discussing Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Both denied knowledge of it to FBI investigator Peter Strzok. Neither were prosecuted for lying to the FBI despite the FBI being in possession of emails with damning evidence they lied.
[[File:Screen-Shot-2017-12-04-at-3.58.58-PM-620x152.png|right|450px|thumb|Huma Abedin lied to FBI investigator Peter Strzok.]]
*'''5 April.''' Huma Abedin lies to FBI investigator Peter Strzok. "Abedin did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago when it became public knowledge.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/04/clinton-aides-went-unpunished-after-making-false-statements-to-anti-trump-fbi-supervisor/</ref> Abedin and Cheryl Mills were involved in an Aug. 30, 2011 exchange in which State Department official Stephen Mull mentioned that Clinton’s “email server is down.” In a Jan. 9, 2011 email exchange, Cooper told Abedin that Clinton’s server had been malfunctioning because “someone was trying to hack us.” “Had to shut down the server,” wrote Cooper, who told the FBI in his interviews that he discussed Clinton’s server with Abedin in 2009, when it was being set up.
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*James Baker (DOJ) and Michael Sussmann attend Global Privacy Summit.
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*'''5 April.''' '''[[John Podesta]] linked to [[Russia]]n bank in the [[Panama Papers]].'''<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-campaign-chief-linked-to-russian-bank-listed-in-panama-papers?_amp=true</ref><ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/panama-papers-implicate-podesta-client/amp/</ref><ref>https://amp.dailycaller.com/2016/04/05/hillary-clinton-ties-emerge-in-panama-papers</ref>
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*'''6 April.''' FBI New York filed office prepares summaries of the Carter Page counterintelligence investigation for FBI Headquarters to be used for a "Director's note" and a separate "Director's Brief" to be held on April 27, 2016.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 75-76, fn 193.</ref>
*'''6-10 April.''' Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa and office of Rep. Mary Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair of Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, discuss possible congressional investigation or hearing on Paul Manafort-Russia “by September.” Chalupa begins working with investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, according to WikiLeaks and her later account.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>
*'''7 April.''' '''''[[Daily Kos]]'' and John Schindler both report John Podesta [[collusion]] with Russia.'''<ref>https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/7/1512166/-Podesta-Group-Connected-to-Bank-Named-in-Panama-Papers</ref><ref>https://observer.com/2016/04/panama-papers-reveal-clintons-kremlin-connection/amp/</ref>
*'''8 April.''' '''[[Salon.com]] reports Clinton campaign collusion with Russia.'''<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/with_saudi_and_russian_ties_clinton_machines_tentacles_are_far_reaching_according_to_panama_papers/ With Saudi and Russian ties, Clinton machine's tentacles are far reaching, according to Panama Papers: The [[Podesta Group]], a lobbying firm headed by Clinton operatives, has made a pretty penny working for Saudi & Russia], Ben Norton, ''Salon'', April 8, 2016 10:21PM (UTC)</ref><ref>https://www.truthdig.com/articles/panama-papers-name-client-of-podesta-group-a-lobbying-firm-with-ties-to-the-clintons/</ref>
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[[File:Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-5.45.33-AM-620x143.png|right|450px|thumb|Cheryl Mills lied to FBI investigator Peter Strzok.]]
*'''9 April.''' Cheryl Mills lies to Strzok. “Mills did not learn Clinton was using a private server until after Clinton’s [Department of State] tenure...Mills stated she was not even sure she knew what a server was at the time." Mills asked about it in a Feb. 27, 2010 email to Abedin and an aide to Bill Clinton who helped set up the Clinton Chappaqua server. “Ur funny. We are on the same server,” Cooper replied.

*'''10 April.''' '''Obama proposes "careless" language alternative to criminal negligence in public statement.''' Obama intervened in an ongoing criminal investigation when he publicly states that Hillary Clinton has shown “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security which is not an element of the criminal statutes relevant to her e-mail scandal. Obama acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Sec. Clinton’s server, but he suggested its importance was overstated.

:Strzok texts Lisa Page that he was {{quotebox|“increasingly profoundly bothered by JBs [ [[James A. Baker (Department of Justice attorney)|FBI General Counsel James Baker]] ] call and the lack of ANY heads up. Deeply. It was wrong given what I had already been asked to do...I’m not sure if I want to be part of this.”}} Lisa Page responds, {{quotebox|“You are part of this and that’s not going to change. But I think you have every right to be angry and frustrated about being left out of the loop on your investigation, especially when you’re going to be left holding the bag. . . . Big big case, big big problems.”}}
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*'''11 April.''' Polonskaya responds to Papadopoulos' email the day prior that she “would be very pleased to support your initiatives between our two countries.” Papadopoulos then asked Polonskaya, in an email cc’ing Professor Mifsud, about setting up “a potential foreign policy trip to Russia.” Later discovered Mifsud actually writing Polonskya emails. Papadopoulos returns to London, U.K.
*Mifsud emails Papadopoulos about his upcoming travel to Russia. Suggests meeting for following day, April 12.
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*'''12 April.''' Deputy AG [[Sally Yates]] and Comey meet to discuss public announcement of Hillary whitewash.
*Papadopoulos and Mifsud meet at Andaz Hotel in London, U.K. This meeting is in advance of Mifsud traveling to Russia.
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*Ukrainian parliament member Olga Bielkova and a colleague meet with McCain associate [[David Kramer]] with the McCain Institute. Bielkova also meets with Liz Zentos of Obama’s National Security Council, and State Department official Michael Kimmage.
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*'''13 April.''' Comey appoints Dianne Upchurch to head FBI Little Rock field office.<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/diane-upchurch-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-little-rock-division</ref> Upchurch is a lieutenant of Andrew McCabe. She served as a section chief (SES) in the Counterterrorism Division for nearly three years. McCabe, who was promoted to assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division by then-Director Robert S. Mueller in 2012, was Upchurch’s supervisor. Little Rock is the home of the Clinton Foundation. FBI field offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Little Rock have been collecting information on the charity since late 2015. The New York office did the most work on the case, with help from Little Rock. The L.A. office picked up information about the foundation in an unrelated public-corruption case.
*Evelyn Farkas and John Carlin attend Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Washington Forum.
[[File:Mifsud Roh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Mifsud (right). Stephan Roh (far left). Roh hired Mifsud as a “business-development consultant” in 2015, and is Mifsud’s “partner and best friend” and “the money behind him." Roh is a co-owner of Link Campus University, which trains intelligence officials for [[NATO]] and the [[FBI]], where Mifsud taught. In 2017, [[CNN]] was going to do a broadcast with Mifsud hosting from Link University, but cancelled it when Mifsud dropped out of sight.]]
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*'''14 April - 10 May.''' Papadopoulos leaves LCILP. Details are vague.<ref>https://medium.com/@Brian_Whit/the-trump-russia-affair-and-an-odd-company-in-london-9437e0343db2</ref>

*'''16 April.''' Mifsud and [[Stephan Roh]] speak at the Valdai Club.<ref>http://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/photos/global-energy-development/</ref>
*'''''McClatchy'' reports on Clinton collusion with Russia.'''<ref>http://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html</ref>
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*'''18 April.''' '''FBI contractor (FusionGPS) access cutoff from FISA database.''' As a result of [[NSA Dir. Mike Rogers]] compliance review of [[FISA abuse]] queries by contractors authorized by Obama DOJ & FBI conspirators, contractor access to ongoing FISA intelligence was cut off.<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf pp. 83-84]</ref><ref>https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fisa-legislation-0#</ref>
[[File:Nellie-ohr-3.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson, longstanding collaborators with contractor access to the Obama intelligence community.]]
:*After being shut out by the FISA Compliance Audit, and contracted by the Clinton campaign, [[FusionGPS]] needed a back-door for continued access to FISA information. [[Nellie Ohr]], wife of DOJ Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]], worked with Christopher Steele as a Russian expert. Nellie, a part of the CIA network, could use Bruce’s high level DOJ-NSD access to continue gathering FISA-702 data; Nellie, Bruce and Simpson collaborated on other projects in the past.<ref>[https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>
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[[File:Clinton Roh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton [[collusion|colluding]] with Stephan Roh in 2012. Roh is co-owner of Link Campus University where Prof. Mifsud taught.]]
*Mifsud introduces Papadopoulos by email to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs Council. Timofeev tells Papadopoulos he has connections to the Russian Ministry of Affairs (MFA). Timofeev is referred to as the “Russian MFA Connection” in the October 5, 2017 unsealed Statement of Offense and Foreign Contact 2 in the July 27, 2017 Affidavit.
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*DNC alleges they were hacked.

*Wikileaks lawyer John Jones thrown in front of train in London. The death is ruled a suicide. Coroner's inquest later overturns ruling.<ref>http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/10/banker-deaths-and-wikileaks-deaths-have-a-common-thread/</ref>
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*'''19 April.''' '''[[Mary Jacoby]] attends White House meeting.'''<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mary-jacoby-1.jpg</ref>

*'''25 April.''' '''FISA lawyers meet at White House.''' Two White House meetings between [[FBI Counsel James Baker]], [[Trisha B Anderson]] (FBI), [[Tashina Gauhar]] ( DOJ), John T Lynch (DOJ), John (Brad) Wiegmann (DOJ), Alan Rozenshtein (DOJ), Norman (Christopher) Hardee (DOJ), and Iris Lan (DOJ). DOJ attorneys Guahar, Hardee, Wiegmann are FISA attorneys.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/10/a-political-battle-over-dossiers-fisa-warrants-and-surveillance-clouds-a-much-bigger-story/comment-page-4/#comment-4835429</ref><ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db6pdVnUwAEeTaj.jpg</ref><ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db6pfSIVwAAXZ39.jpg</ref><ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/Jali_Cat/status/948270513075474432</ref>
*Mifsud returns to London from Russia after stopover in Rome.
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*'''26 April.''' [[Michael Isikoff]] publishes story on Yahoo News about Paul Manafort’s business dealings with Oleg Deripaska. [[Victoria Nuland]] and [[Alexandra Chalupa]] are sources.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/trumps-campaign-chief-ducks-questions-about- 214020365.html</ref><ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/09/victoria-nuland-alexandra-chalupa-ukrainian-ties-the-steele-dossier/</ref>
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[[File:Mifsud and Theresa May.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Joseph Mifsud]] with [[UK]] [[Prime Minister]] [[Theresa May]]. Mifsud worked for UK Intelligence vetting agents and for [[NATO]] training intelligence agents and diplomats. According to American [[mainstream media]], the Obama [[deep state]], and [[Robert Mueller]], Mifsud is a Russian agent. Mifsud was not arrested in February 2017 when he visited Washington as an honored speaker at a State Department conference and was interviewed by the FBI. On the day Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 DAYS for betraying his country and destroying [[democracy]],<ref>http://www.abajournal.com/voice/article/is_it_treason_with_trump</ref> the [[Democratic National Committee]] claimed Mifsud was dead.]]
*Mifsud tells Papadopoulos he’s met with high-level Russian government officials who have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”. There are only two possibilities: Mifsud was lying to Papadopoulos, in which case he was trying to set up Papadopoulos for the FBI, or the Russians actually told Mifsud this, in which case Mifsud was working for the Russians.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/05/15/maltese-professor-may-hold-key-fbi-really-began-surveiling-trump/</ref> In February 2017 while in Washington as a featured speaker for the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program - the same program Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]]'s translator, Anatoli Samochornov is a program officer for - Mifsud told the press that he spoke to the FBI. The FBI seemed unconcerned about Mifsud. Mifsud was not arrested as a Russian spy who infiltrated the State Department, although Mueller's indictment of Papadopoulos alludes to the court that he is. Mifsud told ''La Repubblica'' magazine,
{{quotebox-float|"You know which is the only foundation I am member of? The [[Clinton Foundation]]."<ref>[http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/11/01/news/russiagate_mystery_professor_joseph_mifsud_speaks_out_dirt_on_hillary_clinton_nonsense_-179948962/amp/ Russiagate, mystery professor Joseph Mifsud speaks out: "Dirt on Hillary Clinton? Nonsense"], di PAOLO G. BRERA, Repubblica.it, 01 Novembre, 2017.</ref>}}
*Papadopoulos will falsely tell the FBI he heard of Mifsud's information prior to joining the Trump Campaign.
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*'''27 April.''' Comey briefed on Carter Page counterintelligence investigation.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 75-76 fn 193.</ref>
Trump delivers major foreign policy speech: “We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and [[China]]. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes, but we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based on shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of [[Islamic]] [[terrorism]]. I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength only, is possible, absolutely possible. Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a deal under my administration, a deal that’s great — not good, great — for America, but also good for Russia, then we will quickly walk from the table. It’s as simple as that. We’re going to find out.”
:*'''Spring.''' Comey and McCabe provide information about Carter Page to Loretta Lynch, which Lynch believed they learned from another member of the Intelligence Community. Corney and McCabe provided Lynch with information indicating that Russian intelligence reportedly planned to use Carter Page for information and to develop other contacts in the United States.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 75.</ref>

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*'''28 April.''' Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa is invited to discuss her research about Paul Manafort with 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine at Library of Congress for Open World Leadership Center, a U.S. congressional agency. Chalupa invites investigative reporter Michael Isikoff to “connect(s) him to the Ukrainians.” After the event, reporter Isikoff accompanies Chalupa to Ukrainian embassy reception.
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*DNC CEO Amy Dacy spoke with '''[[Michael Sussmann]]''', a DNC lawyer and partner with Perkins Coie. Sussmann contacted '''[[Shawn Henry]]''', CSO and President of Crowdstrike Services. Dacy “resigned” as CEO of DNC on August 2, 2016.

*'''29 April.''' DNC learns it's computer system has been breached. They claim to have been "tipped-off" that the hacking was by Russians.
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[[File:DeiTcmdVAAA7FvD.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|After Adm. Rogers cut off contractor access to the FISA database (referred to here as "the Patriot Act"), Agent Strzok had to turn to other methods of spying, among other things, the NSA's codename TEMPEST, or surveillance of leaking electro-magnetic emmissions (referred to as "wire carrying current").]]
*'''30 April.''' After Adm. Rogers cuts off contractor access, Strzok texts, "And now we’ve switched from the Patriot Act to a wire carrying current.” (See Tempest (codename))

*DNC hires [[CrowdStrike]], a private firm, to install software that is meant to identify who gained access, when, and how. The next day, on May 1, CrowdStrike claims the "intrusion had originated in Russia."
:In June 2019 the DOJ admitted that the FBI never saw the Crowdstrike report on DNC Russian hacking claims.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/doj-admits-fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-report-on-dnc-russian-hacking-claim/</ref> Lawyers for [[Roger Stone]] requested the full Crowdstrike report on the DNC hack. Not only did the FBI not review the DNC server, the FBI/DOJ never even saw the Crowdstrike report. The FBI and DOJ were only allowed to see a “draft” report prepared by Crowdstrike, and that report was redacted. That redacted draft is the “last version of the report produced”; meaning, there are no unredacted & final versions. The FBI and DOJ, and all claims by the intelligence community, including the 2017 ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' to President Obama, the final Mueller Report, [[Mueller show trials|Mueller team indictments]], and illegal [[IC]] [[fake news]] [[leak]]s to [[mainstream media]] were based on taking the word of a hired contractor for the [[Democrat party]]. As of 2019, there still exists no official evidence of the claim that 'Russia hacked the DNC'.

*Papadopoulos thanks Mifsud for his “critical help” and remarked: ”It’ s history making if it happens.”
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*'''April. FBI and the US Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs donated a $500,000.00 package of scanning equipment, hardware and software to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.unian.info/society/1338755-us-embassy-in-ukraine-fbi-donates-500000-worth-of-equipment.html</ref>
*''' Ukrainian member of parliament '''[[Olga Bielkova]]''' reportedly seeks meetings with five dozen members of U.S. Congress and reporters including former New York Time reporter Judy Miller, David Sanger of New York Times, David Ignatius of Washington Post, and Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.
*According to BBC's Paul Wood, CIA's John Brennan got a tape from the Baltic States about money from the Kremlin going into the US Presidential campaign in April. Note that the article DOES NOT specify the Trump campaign.
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'''Spring 2016.''' John Brennan developed a false narrative:{{quotebox|"CIA Dir. John Brennan received information from British GCHQ intelligence as part of an allegedly "routine" intelligence sharing agreement about Trump associates' business dealings in Russia.<ref>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/interview-richard-dearlove-europe-intelligence-mi6</ref> The information is said to have originated with Estonian intelligence. [[Estonia]] is requesting a missile defence system at this time,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/b9453544-228c-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d</ref><ref>http://linkis.com/atlanticcouncil.org/fAWKh</ref> while Trump adviser [[Newt Gingrich]] refers to the country of 1.3 million inhabitants as a 'suburb of St. Petersberg', which has 5.3 million inhabitants. Gingrich, rumoured to be on the short list for Secretary of State, says he doubts American leaders would risk [[nuclear war]] over [[Putin]]'s actions in the region. Allegedly, the information that triggered Brennan to act was a tape recorded conversation that mentioned money from the Kremlin to the Trump Campaign."}} [[File:Full-spectrum-cyber-effects-final-p4-large.gif|right|300px|thumb|US Government document from 2010 part of the Snowden leaks and sharing agreements with the [[UK]]. The [[Five Eyes]] program of the English speaking world (United States, United Kingdom, [[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]]) use [[social media]] for “[[propaganda]],” “[[deception]],” “mass messaging,” “pushing stories”, and "discrediting” the intelligence agencies' enemies with false information spread online.<ref>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/04/04/full-spectrum-cyber-effects/</ref>]] In actuality, John Brennan received nothing from UK intelligence.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref> Nonetheless Brennan shared his invented narrative with Clapper and Comey to form a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force (FBI, DOJ and Treasury) and the Foreign task force (CIA, ODNI and NSA). The FBI is investigating Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about US domestic spying under the Patriot Act to cover information that was gleaned from the Torture Program which Brennan oversaw.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>
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===May 2016===
The Inspector General found that Comey began considering the possibility of an FBI-only public statement in late April and early May 2016, well in advance of the late June tarmac meeting in which Lynch compromised herself.

Comey put out a draft statement on May 2 for FBI leadership to review and edit. Senate Homeland Security chairman Ron Johnson said, "The edits to Director Comey’s public statement,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-14-at-3.59.10-PM-620x363.png</ref> made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI’s public evaluation of the implications of her actions." Johnson further declared the edits to Comey’s statements “raise profound questions about the FBI’s role and possible interference in the 2016 presidential election and the role of the same agents in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump.”<ref>https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/comey-concluded-hillary-hacked.htm</ref> The Homeland Security Committee found in February 2018 that
*The FBI did not use a grand jury to compel testimony and obtain the vast majority of evidence, choosing instead to offer immunity deals and allow fact witnesses to join key interviews.
*There were substantial edits to Dir. Comey’s public statement that served to downplay the severity of Sec. Clinton’s actions, and that the first draft of the memo was distributed for editing two months before key witnesses were interviewed.
*Dir. Comey stated that he had not consulted with the Justice Department or White House, when text messages suggest otherwise. We have text messages in which two key investigators discuss an “insurance policy” against the “risk” of a Trump presidency, and “OUR task.”
*Messages discuss “unfinished business,” “an investigation leading to impeachment,” and “my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.”
*Senior FBI officials—likely including Dep. Dir. McCabe— knew about newly discovered emails on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner for almost a month before Director Comey notified Congress.
*Over the period of at least four months, the FBI did not recover five months’ worth of text messages requested by DOJ OIG and two Senate committees; however, when pressed, DOJ OIG was able to recover missing texts in less than one week.
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When the FBI got the tip from Alexander Downer that the Russians had Hillary’s 33k emails, the appropriate action would have been to re-open Mid Year Exam. Rather than re-examine the “Mid-Year Exam”, the FBI instead opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.
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*'''1 May.''' CrowdStrike determines that DNC system had an "intrusion that originated in Russia," although they would later retract.

*'''2 May.''' '''Comey initial draft citing criminal negligence.''' Comey writes internal memorandum saying Hillary Clinton and others guilty of gross negligence punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment;<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/report-comey-accused-clinton-of-gross-negligence-in-email-case/</ref> Comey sends draft copies of his memo to Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe, general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)|James Baker]] and chief of staff [[James Rybicki]].<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/14/comey-draft-said-it-was-reasonably-likely-that-hillarys-server-was-hacked/ Comey Draft Said It Was ‘Reasonably Likely’ That Hillary’s Server Was Hacked], CHUCK ROSS, ''Daily Caller, December 14, 2017.</ref>

*The FBI admits it recovered thousands of State Dept. emails that originated or passed through Clinton’s private server — some which had been deleted — that were never turned over to the State Department as government records by Clinton’s team. Comey told Sen. Grassley that the FBI did investigate whether violations of Federal Records Act occurred.

*Perkins Coie signs service agreement with CrowdStrike on behalf of Marc Elias clients; DNC and [[DCCC]].<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427619989/DEMOCRATIC-NATIONAL-COMMITTEE-AND-DCCC-S-NOTICE-REGARDING-FILING-OF-SUPPLEMENTAL-EXHIBITS</ref>

*'''3 May.''' '''Evidence of DNC collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump campaign:
{{quotebox|From: Chalupa, Ali 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM 
To: Miranda, Luis 
Subject: Re: You saw this, right? 

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the program to speak specifically about Paul Manafort and I invited Michael Isikoff whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm working on you should be aware of. 

Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often: 

[image1.JPG] 

Sent from my iPhone 

On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: 

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/ 

<http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director 
Democratic National Committee 
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC><ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>}}
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*'''4 May.''' Papadopoulos gives an interview to the ''London Times'' stating then-UK Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] should apologize to Trump for negative comments.<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/say-sorry-to-trump-or-risk-special-relationship-cameron-told-h6ng0r7xj</ref> It is not well-received in London or the Trump campaign.

*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok react to Trump sealing GOP nomination:
{{Quotebox|Page – And holy sh*t Cruz just dropped out of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable.

Strzok – What?!?!??

Page – You heard that right my friend

Strzok – I saw Trump won, figured it would be a bit

Strzok - Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE [ [[Mid Year Exam]] - codename for the Clinton investigation]<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/fbi-agents-felt-pressure-wrap-up-clinton-email-probe-trump/</ref> ….

Page - It sure does. We need to talk about follow up call tomorrow. We still never have.}}
*Mifsud tells ''Novosti'' news in [[Moscow]], "the [[EU]] today needs Russia as a strong partner."<ref>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://ria.ru/person_Dzhozef_Mifsud/&prev=search</ref>

*'''5 May.''' '''[[Lisa Page]] attends White House meeting''';<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/944747473360375808</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-1.jpg</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-2.jpg</ref> on the same day the ''[[Washington Post]]'' carries a ‘sources say’ story about the meeting. The subject was the Hillary Clinton email investigation.<ref>https://archive.is/QdFda</ref>
*Papadopoulos has a phone call with the Campaign Supervisor, and then forwards the May 4 MFA Email to him, adding to the top of the email: “Russia updates.”

*'''6 May.''' '''Papadopolous meets with Erika Thompson.''' Mueller/Weissmann report says Russia collusion information came from [[Erika Thompson]], political aide to Alexander Downer. Papadopolous met with Erika Thompson and repeated the false information fed to him by UK intelligence asset [[Joseph Mifsud]], who had posed as a Russian intelligence operative. Thompson passed the false information to her boss Alexander Downer, who later met with Papadopolous then passed the false allegation of Russia collusion with the Trump campaign on to the U.S. embassy in London. None of the false allegations Thompson passed to Downer were vetted by Australian intelligence. The U.S. State Department, via its Embassy in London, was used as a conduit for the false information from the Brennan/Mifsud deception operation that was passed to Comey's FBI, to justify opening an official counterintelligence against the Trump campaign. These actions contravened the official [[Five Eyes]] intelligence sharing process.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/downer-7.jpg</ref>
:*Sundance comments, "Mueller cites the content of May 6, 2016, meeting as communicating “clinton emails” from Papadopoulos; however, Mueller conflates and falsely attributes the content material of this Erika Thompson meeting. Mueller attributes content to Ambassador Downer meeting with Papadopoulos on May 10, 2016. Conflation appears intentional."
:*'''[[Bill Priestap]] is in London'''.
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[[File:Downer-and-halper.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Halper and Downer, along with Mifsud, were recruited by John Brennan to frame Papadopoulos and Carter Page. Richard Dearlove, the head of UK's [[MI6]] also worked closely with Brennan. They didn't like Trump's talk of making [[NATO]] allies pay more for their own defense. The future of the [[military industrial complex]] was at stake ]]
*'''10 May.''' CrowdStrike installs its Falcon software on DNC servers, two weeks before the last dated email in WikiLeaks' DNC collection. Adam Carter noted Falcon should have prevented an outside hack, according to its product claims: "either CrowdStrike's flagship product failed miserably to deliver on its claimed capabilities or it could mean CrowdStrike withheld evidence."<ref>http://g-2.space/cs2/</ref>

*Papadopoulos meets with Australian High Commissioner [[Alexander Downer]] in a London pub. Papadopoulos was introduced to Downer through Erika Thompson, a counselor to Downer in Australia’s London embassy. Thompson reached out to Papadopoulos two days after Papadopoulos gave an interview to the ''London Times''. Thompson said Downer wanted to meet with Papadopoulos. Thompson is the "foreign intelligence source" that the Mueller Report (pg. 89) cryptically claims the false information of Russia collusion came from. Neither the July 28, 2017 Affidavit signed by FBI Agent Robert M. Gibbs (Gibbs Version) nor the October 5, 2017 Statement of the Offense signed by Robert Mueller (Mueller Version) make mention of the May 10, 2016 Downer meeting. Downer said,
{{quotebox-float|"nothing [Papadopoulos] said in that conversation indicated Trump himself had been conspiring with the Russians to collect information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton — but whether Trump knew or not? He didn’t say Trump knew or that Trump was in any way involved in this. He said it was about Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn’t about Trump. He didn’t say dirt; he said material that could be damaging to her. No, he said it would be damaging. He didn’t say what it was.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/27/downer-papadopoulos-trump/</ref>}}
:*Papadopoulos notes that Ambassador Downer is recording their conversation.
:*The dirt that the Russians had on Clinton related to surveillance activity Russians gathered on Clinton during her time as Secretary of State while she was in Moscow, and not to Clinton emails (Clinton had communicated with Obama via her unsecured server while she was in Russia, and the communications were intercepted by Russian intelligence. James Comey covered up Obama's knowledge of Clinton's illegal server by '''referring to President Obama as "another senior government official'''" at Comey's July 5, 2019 press conference). Neither Papadopolous nor Downer ever claimed that Clinton emails were discussed. Although Papadopoulos is not mentioned in the ''Steele dossier'', the substance of the what Papadopoulos said to Downer appears nearly identical to information later contained in the first memo from Christopher Steele that the FBI obtained in early July 2016.

*'''FBI Head of Counterintelligence [[Bill Priestap]] is in London at the same time Downer met with Papadopolous.<ref>https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/999971153811857408</ref> Tapes are known to have been made during Papadopolous' encounters with FBI informants.<ref>https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1057715472110641152</ref> Brennan later alleges he heard tapes of Trump workers with Russian officials he obtained from UK sources.'''

*'''11 May.''' Downer files notes to Australian government about the content of the conversation and the outlook of the Trump campaign foreign policy.
*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he had a friend in the CIA.

*Wikileaks lawyer Michael Ratner dead in New York.
:*In the fall of 2016, Ellen Ratner, a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted Ed Butowsky, a Texas businessman, about a meeting she had with [[Julian Assange]]. Ratner’s brother, the late Michael Ratner, was an attorney who had represented Assange. According to Ellen Ratner, she made a stop in [[London]] during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Julian Assange for approximately six hours in the [[Ecuador]]ean embassy. Ratner said Assange told her that [[Seth Rich]] and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the [[DNC]] emails to [[Wikileaks]].<ref>http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019.07.15-Amended-complaint-stamped.pdf</ref>

*'''12 May.''' Prevezon Holdings settles with the U.S. government for $6 million in a Russia money-laundering suit. Natalie Veselnitskaya remains in US to lobby for repeal of Russian sanctions. She has overstayed her immigration parole status which was specially authorized by Loretta Lynch's office because the clients she represents (the Katsyv family) are on the Russian sanctions list. Veselnitskaya hires Glenn Simpson and FusionGPS to illegally lobby for repeal of sanctions (the [[Magnitsky Act]]). Neither Veselnitskaya nor FusionGPS register as Russian agents under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]] (FARA).

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*'''May 13–15.''' Lennart Meri Conference was hosted, where it was attended by President Toomas Hendrik Ives, Ian Brzezinski, [[David Kramer]], Kurt Volker and Michael Weiss.<ref>https://lmc.icds.ee/lennart-meri-conference/choose-year/2016-2/agenda/</ref>
*'''13 May.''' Mifsud emails Papadopoulos an update of “recent conversations”. Last contact between Mifsud and Papadopoulos until October 1, 2016.

*'''14 May.''' Papadopoulos emails the High-Ranking Campaign Official and states that the ” Russian government[] ha[s] also relayed to me that they are interested in hosting Mr. Trump.”
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*'''16 May.''' '''Comey spends morning at White House; "extreme carelessness" replaces "gross negligence" by afternoon.''' FBI Dir. James Comey meets with [[President Obama]] in the White House;<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-2.jpg</ref> by afternoon Comey's revised draft memo is circulating among FBI leadership, Comey, Andrew McCabe, [[Bill Priestap]], Peter Strzok, [[James Rybicki]], [[Johnathan Moffa]], James Baker, [[Trisha Anderson]], David Bowdich and several other redacted names.<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/drafts-of-director-comeys-july-5-2016-statement-regarding-email-server-investigation/Drafts%20of%20Director%20Comeys%20July%205%2C%202016%20Statement%20Regarding%20Email%20Server%20Investigation%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view Drafts of Director Comeys July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server Investigation Part 01 of 01], FBI Records: The Vault.</ref><ref>http://thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/386625/</ref>

*[[Strzok]] changes the language of draft memo from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless." The pre-edited statement of Comey’s May 2 memo stated that “we assess it is reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s private email account.” However, Comey’s July 5 public statement read, “Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.”

*Sen. Grassley noted that 17 witnesses including Clinton were interviewed after the decision not to prosecuted was made. “Making a conclusion before you interview key fact witnesses and the subject herself violates the very premise of good investigation. You don't lock into a theory until you have the facts." The evidence shows the FBI locked into a theory that Clinton was innocent and then edited out the facts that contradicted it.

*Podesta Group files disclosure notice with Senate on behalf of the Gulenist organization, the Alliance for Shared Values.<ref>https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=0a81a759-8815-40cf-96ec-b778bd2b49b2&filingTypeID=1</ref> The group’s executive director Alp Aslandogan is also a Clinton donor.

*'''[[Joe Scarborough]] and Mark Halperin defend [[Jeffrey Epstein]] on [[MSNBC]]'''.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-clintons-jeffrey-epstein-connection-could-blow-up-campaign/ MSNBC: Clinton's Jeffrey Epstein Connection Could ‘Blow Up’ Campaign].</ref> Halperin also faced charges of sexual misconduct from at least 5 women dating to the impeachment and Democrats' exoneration of Bill Clinton.<ref>https://nypost.com/2017/10/27/the-mark-halperin-scandal-becomes-more-sordid/</ref>

*'''17 May.''' Early attempt by ''WaPo'' to establish loose Russian ties to the Trump Campaign. Sater’s role as an FBI Informant is unexpectedly reminiscent of Carter Page who provided evidence and served as an informant in the Evgeny Buryakov spy case.<ref>https://t.co/lhefPshInP</ref>

*'''19 May.''' Paul Manafort promoted to campaign chairman and chief strategist for Trump Campaign.

*'''20 May.''' Paul Manafort, on the day after becoming Trump's Campaign Chairman & Chief Strategist, rebuffs [[George Papadopoulos]] attempts to arrange contact between Russian contacts and Trump campaign. {{Quotebox|Papadopoulos persisted, forwarding the same invitation to Manafort several weeks later. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos wrote. Manafort appears to have shrugged at the idea. He forwarded the message to his business partner, Rick Gates, saying that “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.” Manafort’s response to Papadopoulos’ request is “concrete evidence that the Russia collusion narrative is [[fake news]],” Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni told The Post. “Mr. Manafort’s swift action reflects the attitude of the campaign — any invitation by Russia, directly or indirectly, would be rejected outright.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/trump-campaign-officials-rebuffed-volunteers-attempts-to-broker-meeting-with-russian-government/</ref>}}
*'''21 May.''' Gavin MacFadyen receives email transfer from Seth Rich.
*Papadopoulos emails another high-ranking Campaign official, with the subject line “Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump.”

*'''22 May.''' DNC alerted to in-house breach "industry hack"

*'''23 May.''' Nellie Ohr applies for HAM radio license, a communication tool that would allow Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele the ability to communicate outside the normal risk of communication intercepts.<ref>http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?archive=Y&licKey=12382876</ref> Extra caution was needed as soon as Nellie recognized that Admiral Mike Rogers (NSA) was investigating anyone with access to the database. Former Naval intelligence officer J.E. Dyer notes it significant that the cyber intrusion on the DNC email system was detected on April 29, 2016. Dyer writes, “one can obviously think of more than one reason why the use of amateur radio for communications with certain parties might have seemed like a good idea at that point, to at least some of the people involved.” Dyer says “only a fool would fail to look into it.”<ref>https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/11/demoted-doj-officials-wife-obtain-unusual-license-went-work-fusion-gps-2016/</ref>
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*FBI probe into Virginia governor and Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe becomes public. (McCabe ultimately does not not charge McAuliffe with a crime.)

*Justice Department Inspector General confirms it’s looking into Andrew McCabe for alleged conflicts of interest in handling of Clinton and Gov. McAuliffe probes in light of McAuliffe directing campaign donations to McCabe’s wife.

*'''24 May.''' Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $91,500 to FusionGPS.
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*'''25 May.''' Report from the Inspector General for the State Department finds Clinton personally violated federal records law, that there were attempts to hack into her system, that some Clinton aides also used personal email accounts exclusively for government business and did not fully cooperate with the IG investigation and that Clinton failed to turn over all of the emails she was required to turn over to investigators.<ref>https://archive.md/wip/wRONr</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/state-department-report-on-clintons-email-practices/2039/?tid=a_inl</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/KT7201pDtYo Clinton Server Scandal_Segment 5]</ref>
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*Evegeny Buryakov sentenced to 30 months in prison. The conviction of the Russian spy was not possible without the help of paid FBI informant Carter Page, who wore a wire for the FBI. Buryakov is released early and deported to Russia days before the leaked Carter Page FISA warrant is widely reported in April 2017 so that reporters could not interview Buryakov.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-spy-evgeny-buryakov-deported-united-states/story?id=46601947</ref> [[John Carlin]] and [[Preet Bharara]] are deeply involved in the case.
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*Photo posted by Nagi Idris on Twitter of Papadopoulos among a LCILP delegation visiting Link Campus University in Italy where Mifsud is an official in charge of a three-year degree course in [[political science]] and [[international relations]].<ref>https://twitter.com/nkidris/status/735421959757008896?s=20</ref> Papadopoulos has officially left the LCILP already.
*Date of the last email in the DNC Email Archive released by Wikileaks.
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*'''26 May.''' Trump secures the number of delegates needed to gain the Republican Party nomination.
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*'''31 May.''' Shahriar Zolfaghari, husband of [[Georgia]] 's Assistant Attorney General for child sex trafficing, shot down.<ref>https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/husband-of-georgia-assistant-attorney-general-found-dead/316412664</ref>
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*'''May.''' U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph "Rudy" Contreras, a personal friend of lead FBI counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok appointed to [[FISA court]] (FISC).
*Christopher Steele provided information to American intelligence agencies on Mikhail Kalugin, the Head of the Russian Embassy’s Economics Section.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786</ref>

===June 2016===
Julian Assange announced in a televised interview on June 12 that he was in possession of DNC emails; on June 13, 2018 (two years later) special counsel [[Robert Mueller]] alleged in [[The indictment of 12 Russian nationals, 13 July 2018|an indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers]] that alleged Russian "hackers" did not contact Assange with DNC emails until June 14.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which includes among members two former Technical Directors of the National Security Agency, has repeatedly called attention to its conclusion that the DNC emails were leaked — not “hacked” by Russia or anyone else.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/</ref> In analyizing the time sequence:

:*June 12, 2016: Assange announces WikiLeaks is about to publish “emails related to Hillary Clinton;”

:*June 14, 2016: DNC contractor Crowdstrike, (with a dubious professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announces that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians;

:*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"

VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171112090338/https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref>}}
"Cozy Bear" and "[[Fancy Bear]]", whom CrowdStrike alleged to belong to Russian intelligence, are hacker groups that have been identified as associated with Ukrainian intelligence. James Comey never pursued the matter.
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Russian hacking claims relied entirely on a report by a private company the DNC hired called [[CrowdStrike]] of Irvine, CA. Crowdstrike was founded by Dimitry Alperovitch, a Ukrainian oligarch.<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref>

Neither the FBI nor the [[Dept. of Homeland Security]] ever examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.

The [[mainstream media]] ran with the CrowdStrike version of a hack in an attempt to delegitimize Trump. Starting in June 2016 and continuing forward the DNC, ''Washington Post'', ''New York Times'', and other MSM outlets have been using CrowdStrike's allegations in an attempt to delegitimize Donald Trump while providing an excuse for Hillary Clinton's loss. From there followed claims that "Russia hacked the U.S. elections."
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[[FusionGPS]] hired by [[Veselnitskaya]] through [[BakerHostetler]] to do dirt digging for a Russian defendant (Prevezon) in a civil forfeiture case arising out of alleged money laundering activities uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky (whose name was given to the Russia sanctions bill, the [[Magnitsky Act]]). [[Glenn Simpson]] acknowledged that the [[Kremlin]]'s interests in the work Simpson did for Veselnitskaya and the Katsyv's aligned with his client against the [[U.S. Government]]. Russian lawyer [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] hired BakerHostetler, the law firm for which Simpson was working, and that firm retained the services of Russian-American lobbyist [[Rinat Akhmetshin]], both of whom attended a meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. During the Prevezon litigation, Veselnitskaya received, via the law firm, memoranda summarizing [redacted, likely Magnitsky Act] research. Certain topics - including the Ziff Brothers (a venture capital firm specializing in capital investment) - were the-subject of both (1) memoranda Veselnitskaya received from Simpson and (2) the presentation Veselnitskaya made to Trump campaign officials. Simpson acknowledged being with Veselnitskaya at a court hearing in New York on the morning of June 9, 2016, prior to her meeting at Trump Tower. He further recalled having drinks and dinner with her and others, including Akhmetshin, in Washington, D.C. a day or two later.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, p. 88.</ref> The Ziff Brothers were Clinton Foundation donors who Simpson dug up dirt on in his effort to discredit the Magnitsky Act for the Katsyvs.

Contrary to media, Comey FBI, and [[Mueller office]] leaks and false reporting, Veselnitskaya's "dirt" had nothing to do with Clinton emails. It was "dirt" about Clinton Foundation donors. And the "dirt" was dug up by the same outfit Hillary Clinton paid to dig up "dirt" on Donald Trump.
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Bruce Ohr made his first contact with the FBI about Trump-Russia collusion evidence in late July and early August 2016. Bruce, Nellie and Christopher Steele met for breakfast at a Washington hotel. Trump had made statements about making [[NATO]] allies pay their fair share. Steele of British intelligence was desperate for Trump not to win. Bruce called McCabe at the FBI after they ate. Strzok of the FBI counterintelligence division opened an investigation on Trump the next day.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405484-bruce-ohrs-efforts-to-secretly-reshape-the-trump-probe-started-earlier-in</ref>
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[[File:John-mccain-sergei-millian-600x395.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Alleged Russian agent Sergei Millian colluding with Sen. John McCain.]]
*'''1 June.''' Mueller Version of Papadopoulos Statement of Offense becomes vague about Papadopoulos' alleged foreign contacts between now and August, with no reference to Sergei Millian. Millian is known throughout the Trump-Russia affair as Steels Source D (Report 80) and Source E (Reports 94, 95 and 102), "a person known to the FBI", and Person 1 in the FISA Abuse Report''. Millian is cited as the source of the statements of "a well developed conspiracy" and the golden shower allegations.
:*Steele's allegations, attributed to Millian, was the foundational probable cause for the Carter Page FISA application. When the Crossfire Hurricane team interviewed Millian in January 2017 at the time of the first FISA warrant renewal, Millian stated that Steele lied and embellished statements Millian made to Steele, which Steele had attributed to Millian in the ''Steele dossier''. No corrections were ever made in any of the Carter Page FISA applications, and the FBI deliberately hoaxed the FISA court for one year, well into the first nine months of the Trump presidency. Under the two-hop rule, the FBI and Mueller team was able to pursue the most invasive surveillance possible of all past and present electronic communications, on all Trump appointees for the first nine months of the Trump administration.
:*DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] established that Millian is being both Source D and E in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>FISA Abusae Report, pp. 163-165.</ref>
::*The ''Wall Street Journal'' reported: {{Quotebox|Sergei Millian, a 38-year-old American citizen who has claimed he helped market Trump properties to Russian buyers, wasn’t a direct source for the 35-page dossier, this person said. Rather, his statements about the Trump-Russia relationship were relayed by at least one third party to the British ex-spy who prepared the dossier, the person said. Among the unverified allegations of Mr. Millian’s that an intermediary passed along, the person said: The claim that the Russians had compromising video of Mr. Trump that could be used to blackmail him, and a claim that there was a “conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump camp and Russian leadership that involved hacking the computers of Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponents. In the dossier, the source believed to be Mr. Millian is referred to at various times as both Source D and Source E and is cited as somebody “speaking in confidence to a compatriot” or “speaking in confidence to a trusted associate.”<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/key-claims-in-trump-dossier-came-from-head-of-russian-american-business-group-source-1485253804</ref>}} The Daily Caller New Foundation reported: {{Quotebox|Papadopoulos’ wife, is now drawing attention to two other encounters that Papadopoulos has had over the past two years that she considers “highly suspicious.” One of those contacts [Millian] offered to pay Papadopoulos $30,000 a month while he worked inside the [[Trump administration]], she told The Daily Caller News Foundation. ...Sergei Millian, a [[Belarus]]-born businessman who is alleged to be a major source for the infamous ''Steele dossier''..... Mangiante, an Italian national, confirmed to TheDCNF that Millian is the individual Papadopoulos described in a July 22, 2016 Facebook message that is cited in documents the special counsel’s office released in October. Papadopoulos and Millian met days after the July 22, 2016 Facebook message.... Mangiante also said that Papadopoulos and Millian met multiple times in [[Chicago]] and [[New York City]] before the election. In one encounter in Chicago, Millian offered Papadopoulos a substantial sum of money as part of an energy-related business deal. The catch was that Millian said Papadopoulos would have to remain in the Trump administration while carrying out the work.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/george-papadopoulos-millian-suspicious/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push</ref>}} By contrast, Mueller's Statement of Offense is strangely silent on Millian: {{Quotebox|From mid-June through mid-August 2016, PAPADOPOULOS pursued an “off the record” meeting between one or more Campaign representatives and “members of president putin’s office and the mfa [Ministry of Foreign Affairs].”}}
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*'''7 June.''' Carter Page attended a private meeting with foreign policy experts at Blair House attended by Ashton Carter and Loretta Lynch.
[[File:PhotoEditor-20181005152829.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''[[Glenn Simpson]] was working for both [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] ''and'' [[Hillary Clinton]] at the time of the Trump Tower meeting.''' Simpson gave the alleged "dirt" to Veselnitskaya, which she carried into the meeting; all it amounted to was "dirt" on [[Clinton Foundation]] donors.]]
*'''9 June.''' '''Trump Tower meeting'''.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/30/facts-behind-trump-tower-meeting-incriminating-not-trump/</ref> Natalia Veselnitskaya,<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-seeks-more-information-pro-russia-lobbyist-present-trump-jr-meeting</ref> Rinat Akhmetshin, an American citizen and lobbyist employed by BakerHostetler,<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rinat-akhmetshin-who-russian-lobbyist-who-met-trump-team-n783161</ref> Ike Kaveladze<ref>https://ru.linkedin.com/in/ikekaveladze</ref> and Anatoli Samochornov meet with [[Donald Trump Jr.]], Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref> Samochornov was Veselnitskaya’s translator. Samochornov also worked as a translator for Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and [[John Kerry]]. Samochornov also translated for Barack Obama and [[Joe Biden]]'s United Nations speeches and summits.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/02/inspect-fisa-applications-closely-mysteries-arise-joseph-mifsud/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d44356c9be-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d44356c9be-84014745</ref> Anti-Russian [[bigot]]s use the Russian sounding names to sow hate and mistrust.<ref>https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-british-collusion-and-criminality</ref>

:*Samochornov is the Program Officer for the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program,<ref>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2010/nyfo021710-1.htm</ref> a program which later invites Prof. [[Joseph Mifsud]] as a featured speaker in Washington.

:*Veselnitskaya was hired by Denis Katsyv of the Russian Katsyv family to represent Prevezon; when in the United States, Veselnitskaya hired BakerHostetler to discredit [[Bill Browder]], who pushed through Russian sanctions, the Magnitsky Act. Katsyv and Veselnitskaya wanted to limit sanctions and discredit Browder. Browder claimed corrupt Russian businessmen and the government stole $350 million of his money and killed his employee, Sergei Magnitsky. Veselnitskaya hired BakerHostetler to hire FusionGPS and Simpson to compile an anti-Browder dossier.

:*Browder renounced his American citizenship in 1998 to avoid U.S. taxes and returned in 2010 to lobby Sens. [[John McCain]] and [[Ben Cardin]] for passage of the Magnitsky Act, named for his employee who died in jail while serving a sentence on evasion of Russian taxes. How a person who renounced their American citizenship and didn't pay U.S. taxes has the power to move Congress to help reclaim his wealth through sanctions is anybody's guess.

:*Simpson gave four pages of the anti-Browder research to Veselnitskaya, who carried it into the meeting with Trump associates. It contained information about “financial misconduct by major contributors [the Ziff brothers, allied with Bill Browder] to the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the [[Clinton Foundation]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/fusion-gps-dossier-targeted-clinton-foundation-donors/</ref>

:*Browder filed a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) complaint against Simpson and FusionGPS with the FBI for unregistered lobbying to repeal sanctions, which [[Andrew McCabe]] never acted on.

:*Simpson obviously had a [[conflict of interest]], working to remove sanctions for Prevezon while at the same time working to impugn Trump as a violator of sanctions with false information on behalf of his DNC and Hillary Clinton clients.

:*[[Robert Mueller]] was never contacted Veselnitskaya for an interview about the meeting.
*Susan Rice informed attendees at a ''Washington Post'' event that peace between Russia and Ukraine could be accomplished before the end of 2017.
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*'''10 June.''' FBI enters immunity deal with Cheryl Mills and [[Heather Samuelson]] that resulted in laptops with evidence being turned over to agents late in the probe. The decision to grant immunity to the Clinton advisers as well as the computer technician involved in the email deletions was made “with the idea it would be better to know all the circumstances” before the case was closed out.
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*'''12 June.''' FusionGPS hires [[Christopher Steele]] (former British Intelligence Officer) of Orbis Business Intelligence (Steele's London-based firm) to begin compiling the ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' alleging ties between Trump and Russia. Steele discloses this and his period of employment with FusionGPS (12 Jun 2016 through 30 Oct 2016) in court filings stemming from a lawsuit against him and the dossier.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele</ref>
:*Steele provided Fusion GPS with something that Simpson’s firm was lacking: access to individuals within the FBI and the State Department. These contacts could be traced back to at least 2010, when Steele had provided assistance in the FBI’s investigation into FIFA over concerns that Russia might have been engaging in bribery to host the 2018 World Cup.
:*Steele provided informal reports to the State Department in the latter half of 2014. “During the [[Ukraine crisis]] in 2014 and ‘15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them,” said '''Victoria Nuland''', assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
:*Steele was identified as a British spy in 1999, and head of the Russia desk when Russian assassins killed [[FSB]] defector Alexander Litvinenko in a sushi restaurant in London.
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*[[Julian Assange]] tells UK TV of more Clinton leaks to come.<ref>https://archive.is/mil9q</ref>

*'''13 June.''' Newseum hosts screening of anti-Magnitsky Act movie attended by members of Congress and journalists; Simpson lobby's journalists to push the pro-Putin propaganda.<ref>https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/30/extraordinary-timeline-dnc-fusion-hillary-trump-dossier-crowdstrike-hirings-payments-2016-primaries/</ref><ref>http://russialist.org/russian-gun-for-hire-rinatakhmetshin-lurks-in-shadows-of-washingtons-lobbying-world-russia-lobbyists-assassinations-magnitsky/</ref>

*'''14 June.''' '''DNC cover-up of whistleblower leak'''. DNC claims ''Trump Opposition Research'' stolen in alleged hack;<ref>https://archive.is/mIlwc</ref><ref>''Washington Post'' puts out sensational [[fake news]] story of Russian hacking the DNC. CrowdStrike is reported as discovering the hack, but the hack has never been independently verified by the FBI or any other independent firm or government agency. CrowdStrike, [colloquially referred to as "industry" by the IC] under contract to the DNC, is assisting the DNC to brace for embarrassing Wikileaks revelations of the document dumps procured by DNC [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich by blaming Russian hackers. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9c00be4c3957] https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/muzzled-breitbart-wh-correspondent-ordered-not-ask-televised-question-discrediting-d *'''15 June.''' Someone purporting to be Guccifer2.0 claims responsibility for DNC hack and claims to be a source for Wikileaks. The first 5 documents he posts are purposefully tainted with 'Russian Fingerprints' and the first of those documents just so happens to be the ''Trump Opposition Research'' the DNC announce on the previous day.</ref>
[[File:Obama-plouffe-2.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama and one of his reliable henchmen, David Plouffe. Plouffe was urging action against Donald Trump even before Trump was nominated.]]
*'''15 June.''' First Guccifer 2.0 document created by [[Warren Flood]] at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB - a blatantly amatuerish attempt to create Russian fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. Warren Flood was Joe Biden's former IT director at the White House. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of John Podesta's emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.

*'''16 June.''' Obama operative [[David Plouffe]] declares war on Trump and the Trump movement. He tweets: "It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again."

*'''17 June.''' Victoria Nuland meets with Eric Ciaramella in the the White House.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>

*'''19 June.''' Despite repeated rebuffs, Papadopoulos emails the High-Ranking Campaign Official, with the subject line “New message from Russia” – I am willing to make the trip off the record if it’s in the interest of Mr. Trump and the campaign to meet specific people.”
*[[Lisa Monaco]] visited the ODNI, where she met with Clapper and Tonya Ugoretz.
*John Kerry met with newly appointed UK Prime Minister [[Theresa May]].
*John Brennnan participated in the Leadership Dinner at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, where he discussed the modernisation of the CIA and the Open Source Enterprise.
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*'''20 June.''' '''Christopher Steele files' first memo''' entitled ''Company Intelligence Report'': “A dossier of compromising information on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services.” Steele sends it to Fusion GPS via enciphered mail.
:*The memo's opening summary, first page, fourth bullet point contains the following: {{quotebox|"A dossier of compromising information on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services over many years and mainly compromises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.}} The memo makes no mention of emails - more similiar to the discription of information Papadopoulos mentioned to Alexander Downer.
:*The memo also alludes to Donald Trump sexual antics in the Moscow Ritz Hilton in 2013.
*Last payment was made to Alexandra Chalupa for $25,000, records filed with the Federal Election Commission show.
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*'''22 June.''' '''Wikileaks documents that the DNC rigged the nomination for Hillary Clinton and obstructed Bernie Sanders campaign.'''<ref>https://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/</ref> Sanders supporters vow lawsuits.

*FBI held a close-up meeting of their future 10 day training course at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine.<ref>https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/fbi-conducted-training-nabu-special-forces</ref>
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*FBI conspirators Lisa Page & Peter Strzok exchange texts: "Page – Just leaving my meeting now. How we make law in this country is offensive and irresponsible." "Strzok – I know it is. Its why I LOATHE congress. Can’t wait to hear the story."
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*'''24 June.''' Glenn Simpson contacts Christopher Steele to arrange to receive a copy of the ''Steele dossier'', which was sent via courier from the UK.
[[File:Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meet in P 0 41315067 ver1.0 640 480.jpg|right|350px|thumb|'''Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac collusion, June 27, 2016. Phoenix airport.''' Lynch's long awaited announcement on the disposition of the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton email investigation]] never occurred when she compromised herself in a secret meeting with the husband of the accused. The Clintons had effectively compromised Obama, when Obama responded to emails Hillary sent from Russian territory which likely were hacked.
FBI Dir. Comey surprisingly announced days later he decided against recommending prosecution, usurping the authority of the Attorney General. The Justice Dept. immediately tried to cover up the meeting and denied it had any paper trail of its existence. The reporter who broke the story, Christopher Sign, was found dead at the age of 45 under suspicious circumstances after receiving death threats in 2021.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/06/13/christopher-sign-alabama-news-anchor-who-broke-clinton-tarmac-story-dead-at-45/</ref>]]
*'''27 June.''' '''Tarmac collusion.''' [[Bill Clinton]] meets Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch in a face-to-face meeting on board her plane at an airport hanger in Phoenix, apparently to make final arrangements for Hillary Clinton's July 3 interview.

*The head of Clinton's [[Secret Service]] detail contacted the head of Lynch's FBI security detail before her arrival hours in advance to arrange the meeting. Clinton's private plane waited for Lynch's arrival, yet Clinton lied to Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] that he did not know Lynch was coming to Phoenix until her arrival, and it was a last minute, spontaneous decision to board her plane and speak with her.<ref>Clinton email IG Report, pp. 203-204.</ref>

*The Inspector General criticised Lynch's participation and failure to recuse an error in judgement, her explanations did not adequately address the situation, and created confusion among the public whether the justice system works.

*Clapper signed the “''Coordination of Clandestine Human Source and Human-Enabled Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Activities in the United States''”.<ref>[https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD%20311%20-%20Coord%20of%20Clandestine%20Human%20and%20Human-Enabled%20FI%20and%20CI%20inside%20the%20US%20%2827%20June%202016%29.pdf Intelligence Community Directive 311: ''Coordination of Clandestine Human Source and Human-Enabled Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Activities in the United States''], Office of the Director of National Intelligence. </ref>

*Brennan and [[MI6]] Chief Alex Younger spoke with each other.<ref>https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2016-speeches-testimony/director-brennan-speaks-at-the-council-on-foreign-relations.html</ref>

*'''28 June.''' VOA: Russia Calls Former U.S. Ambassador 'Incompetent,' Complains Of FBI, CIA Harassment.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-calls-mcfaul-incompetent/27826757.html</ref>

*'''29 June.''' Justice Dept. and FBI begin efforts to kill the story about the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting and Lynch's conflict of interest with regard to making a decision to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information.<ref>http://media.aclj.org/pdf/Clinton-Lynch-Flag.pdf</ref><ref>https://aclj.org/government-corruption/doj-document-dump-to-aclj-on-clinton-lynch-meeting-comey-fbi-lied-media-collusion-spin-and-illegality</ref><ref>http://bb4sp.com/lynch-grandmothers-name-alias-doj/#</ref>

*FBI and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on international money laundering asset recovery and Ukrainian high-level officials’ bribery and corruption, which was attended by Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and Acting Deputy Assistant Director Mathew S. Moon.<ref>https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/nabu-has-signed-memorandum-understanding-fbi</ref> Leaked tapes of Sytnyk confirm that that Ukrainian officials colluded with the DNC to hurt Donald Trump and help the Clinton campaign.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>
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*'''30 June.''' '''Obama complicity whitewashed.''' The FBI investigation concluded that Sec. of State Clinton communicated with President Obama via email. The fact that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were emailing each other, indicates President Obama did in fact know of Clinton’s illegal email account. FBI Draft statement on Hillary's exoneration reads, {{Quotebox|We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including '''from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. ''That use included an email exchange with the President'' while Secretary Clinton was on the territory of such an adversary'''. [Emphasis added.] Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/455696/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-emails-key-decision-not-indict-hillary</ref>}}
From the txt msg. between Strzok and Lisa Page, we see that Asst. FBI Dir. W.H. “Bill” Priestap helped create the carefully worded announcement Dir. Comey delivered in July 2016 to extricate Clinton from her illegal problems.
{{Quotebox|Strzok – K. Rybicki just sent another version.

Page – Bill [Priestap] just popped his head in, hopefully to talk to him.

Strzok – Hope so. Just left Bill [Priestap]. Talked about the speed, the [redacted; likely Obama. Hillary and Obama communicated with each other from Hillary's unsecured server while Hillary was in Russia which likely was monitored by Russian intelligence] was relating to the case, and what I told you about earlier.

Strzok – He '''[Priestap] changed "President" to "another senior government official'''".}}

*Bill Priestap was Strzok’s direct boss. As head of FBI counterintelligence, Priestap would have to sign off on the use of FusionGPS (aka: Bean LLC, aka, Glenn Simpson), Crowdstrike, and/or any FBI contractor who was allowed access to, or received information from, the FBI database.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/22/fbi-shadow-figure-surfaces-to-protect-president-obama-amid-released-fbi-text-messages/</ref> Priestap would have needed to authorize Strzok to engage with Christopher Steele over the ''Steele dosssier''. Priestap would have to approve the underlying documents that were used for both FISA applications (June/July and Sept/Oct). Priestap would be the person to approve of paying, or reimbursing, Christopher Steele for the ''Steele dossier'' used in the FBI counterintelligence operation and subsequent FISA application.

*'''June.''' Steele meets in Rome with FBI Agent [[Mike Gaeta]] from the Eurasian Joint Organized Crime Squad with whom Steele had worked on the European FIFA soccer scandal. Reports vary: ''The Guardian'' reported that “in June, Steele flew to Rome to brief the FBI contact with whom he had cooperated over FIFA.” ABC News reported that “Steele sent the FBI agent in Rome the opposition research on Trump he generated working for Fusion GPS.” Following Gaeta’s initial meeting with Steele, the FBI sought permission from the office of [[Victoria Nuland]], who gave the go-ahead for the more formal meeting.
:*Steele was first introduced to Gaeta in 2010 by Bruce Ohr, and Gaeta signed up Steele as a paid confidential human source for the FBI in 2013.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 85.</ref>
*'''June.''' Sergei Skripal visited Estonia and met with intelligence officials at the time.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/14/sergei-skripal-briefed-european-intelligence-services-reports-say</ref>

*'''Late June.''' Justice Dept. seeks [[FISA]] warrant to eavesdrop on Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos (earlier reports listed Donald Trump, Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Boris Epshteyn). FISA court denies request.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap-may-have-been-sought</ref> Ordinary procedures call for the [[Justice Department]] to ask a FISA Court for a warrant. It is improbable that [[Attorney General]] [[Loretta Lynch]] acted on her own against a presidential nominee of another party without consulting President Obama.<ref>https://youtu.be/5CSZKmssG2o</ref>

*FBI agent Peter Strzok has direct contact with Christopher Steele and receives preliminary draft of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> According to Robby Mook, the partial dossier information was also given to the DNC and Clinton campaign.

*Late June 2016: DCLeaks website begins publishing Democratic National Committee emails.

*The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine signs evidence-sharing agreement with FBI and will later publicly release the Black Ledger File implicating Paul Manafort in allegedly improper payments.

*'''June & July.''' FBI agents requested Patrick Byrne to focus on developing a closer romantic relationship with Maria Butina and to use his influence to target her to closer proximity with the Trump family and Trump campaign. Byrne said the specific instructions were coming to the agents from Peter Strzok as he relayed the requests of those above him Byrne named James Comey, Andrew McCabe, [[Bill Priestap]], [[John Carlin]] (DOJ-NSD).
*'''Summer.''' Robert Hannigan, head of [[GCHQ]], flew from London to meet personally with CIA Director John Brennan.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2</ref>

===July 2016===
FBI counterintelligence investigations generally proceed sequentially from what is called a preliminary investigation or inquiry (PI) to a full investigation (FI). To move from a PI to an FI requires substantial information — predication — indicating investigative targets acted as agents of a foreign power. There are strict guidelines governing when the FBI can task a confidential source or a government undercover operative to collect against a U.S. citizen. Normally this is restricted to a full investigation, and normally restricted to the United States, not overseas. The FBI tasked sources to spy on the Trump campaign before an investigation was even officially opened.

The question that has yet to be answered is, who did FBI agent Mike Gaeta give the ''Steeele dossier'' to, and when. Was it transmitted to FBI leadership? If so, why did the counterintelligence team have to travel to Rome in September to get their first copy from Steele? And the biggest question: Did CIA director John Brennan receive a copy of the dossier via Gaeta—or whomever he transmitted a copy to—in the summer of 2016 following Gaeta’s return?
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Oversight protocol requires the FBI Director to tell the congressional intelligence [[Gang of Eight]] (Go8) of any counterintelligence operations. The Go8 has oversight into these operations at the highest level of classification. In July 2016, at the time the Obama FBI Counterintelligence Division operation began, oversight was the responsibility of Speaker [[Paul Ryan]], Minority leader [[Nancy Pelosi]], Senate Majority leader [[Mitch McConnell]], Senate Minority leader [[Harry Reid]], [[House Intel Committee]] chair [[Devin Nunes]], ranking member [[Adam Schiff]], Senate Intel chair [[Richard Burr]], and ranking member [[Diane Feinstein]]. Comey and the Obama FBI kept hidden from the Go8 its counterintelligence operation against a presidential candidate, Donald Trump. FBI Agent Peter Strzok referred to the Obama administration's illegal counterintelligence operation as an “insurance policy”.
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Throughout July, August and Sept 2016 Fusion GPS paid journalists from the ''New York Times'', ABC, Ken Dilanian of NBC and others to listen to Christopher Steele and simultaneously shopping the fake ''Steele dossier'' to them. Court papers confirm payments.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-gps-paid-journalists-court-papers-confirm/article/2641454</ref> The list of journalists and media outlets made aware of Steele’s tripe is extensive. Those journalists include ''New Yorker'' editor David Remnick, ''Atlantic'' editor Jeffrey Goldberg, former ''New Republic'' editor Franklin Foer, and ''Washington Post'' columnist Anne Applebaum. ''Reuters'' reported that it, too, was briefed on the dossier,<ref>http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/veracity-of-trump-dossier-holding-up-despite-republican-attacks-1070959683973?playlist=associated</ref> and while it refrained from reporting on it before the election, its national security reporter Mark Hosenball became an advocate of the dossier’s findings after Trump's victory in November 2016.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/trump-dossier-on-russia-links-now-part-of-special-counsels-probe-sources-idUSKBN1C92WN</ref> [[BBC]]'s Paul Wood wrote in January 2017 that he was briefed on the dossier a week before the election. ''Newsweek’s'' Kurt Eichenwald likely saw Steele’s work around the same time, because he published an article days before the election based on a “Western intelligence” source (i.e., Steele) who cited names and data points that could only come from Steele's opposition research.
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The Clintons effectively compromised Obama and Lynch to whitewash the email investigation. Hillary Clinton emailed President Obama from Russia using her Blackberry tied to the Chappaqua server. Obama took the bait and responded. Russian intelligence likely monitored the exchange from its point of origin in Russia. Whether Hillary deliberately set up Obama with compromising evidence to protect her email scam, or it was just stupidity on her part, is a matter of speculation.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/09/obama-email-alias-clinton-why-fbi-didnt-prosecute-hillary/</ref>

But the entire incident certainly was used by the Clinton's in an "If I go down, you go down, too" negotiation by late June 2016. Loretta Lynch had to compromise herself when she met Bill Clinton to finalize the whitewash.

James Comey, knicknamed [[Jimmy the Weasel]] for his overblown sense of self-importance couched in a Boy Scout veneer, was the perfect stooge and useful idiot who volunteered himself as the fall guy to hide Clinton and Obama corruption and carry the message to the American media and public.
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*'''July.''' Ukraine minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov attacks Trump and Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort on Twitter and Facebook, calling Trump “an even bigger danger to the US than terrorism.” Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk writes on Facebook that Trump has “challenged the very values of the free world.”
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*'''1 July.''' Lynch announces that she would accept whatever recommendation Comey and career prosecutors made about charging Clinton. Strzok and Lisa Page exchange txt msg saying that Lynch knew in advance of FBI's decision to whitewash the investigation:

{{Quotebox-float|Strzok – Holy cow....[[New York Times|nyt]] breaking [Matt] Apuzzo,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html</ref> Lync[h] will accept whatever rec[ommendation] and career prosecutors make. No political appointee input.

Strzok – Lynch. Timing not great, but whatever. Wonder if that's why the coordination language added.

Page – No way. '''This is a purposeful leak following the zairplane snafu'''.

Strzok – Timing looks like hell. Will appear to be choreographed. All major news networks literally leading with "AG to accept FBI D[irector]'s recommendation."

Lisa Page – Yeah, that is awful timing. Nothing we can do about it.

Strzok – What I meant was, did [[DOJ]] tell us yesterday they were doing this, so D[irector] added that language.

Strzok – Yep. I told Bill [Priestap] the same thing. Delaying just makes it worse.

Lisa Page – And yes. I think we had some warning of it. I know they sent some statement to [Comey Chief of Staff James] rybicki, bc he called andy [McCabe].

Lisa Page – And yeah, it's a real profile in couragw [sic], since '''she [Lynch] knows no charges will be brought'''.}}

:*Lynch, having failed to recuse herself, retained authority over both the final prosecution decision and the Department’s management of the Clinton email investigation.

:*Christopher Steele emails Bruce Ohr:
{{quotebox-float|"I am seeing [redacted; likely Gaeta] in London next week to discuss ongoing business, but there is something separate I wanted to discuss with you informally and separately. It concerns our favourite business tycoon!"}} Steele said he had planned to come to the U.S. soon, but now it looked like it would not be until August. He needed to talk in the next few days and suggested getting together by Skype before he left on holiday. Ohr suggested talking on July 7. Steele agreed.

:*Shawn Lucas serves papers on DNC for lawsuit on behalf of [[Bernie Sanders]] supporters alleging election fraud.<ref>https://youtu.be/D3FMgZruOXE</ref> DNC claims they were improperly served, delaying a hearing til after the election. The subject of the rebuttal, 38 year old Shawn Lucas the process server, will be dead in a month.

*'''2 July.''' '''Hillary Clinton interview.''' Obama donor and "career" employee Dept. of Justice Chief of Counterintelligence [[David Laufman]] and [[Peter Strzok]] conduct long delayed personal interview with [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton in email investigation]]. Two unnamed DOJ representatives as well as the two confidential FBI agents also conduct the interview. David Kendall, Katherine Turner, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson are with Clinton.<ref>https://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbi-used-agents-as-pawns-to-insulate-hillary-aides-clinton-foundation-from-prosecutions/</ref> Mills and Samuelson are fact witnesses in the investigation who were granted immunity, and now are acting as lawyers representing Clinton. No video, transcript or oath is made. White House and Justice Department claim that the investigators are independent and nonpartisan.<ref>http://www.trunews.com/article/doj-clinton-investigation-revealed-as-less-than-apolitical</ref> The FBI interviewers later are referred for disciplinary action.

:*John Ashe, former President of the [[UN General Assembly]], crushes his own throat days before slated to testify against Hillary Clinton in a corruption trial.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-02/un-official-accidentally-crushes-own-throat-right-testifying-against-hillary-clinton</ref>

*'''3 July.''' Comey and Rybicki started to rehearse the Clinton exoneration statement at FBI Headquarters.<ref>Senator Ron Johnson Appendix C - Documents and Text Messages.</ref>

*'''4 July.''' Franklin Foer writes in ''[[Slate]]'', an article enitled ''Putin’s Puppet,'' which appears to come from [[Christopher Steele]] and the ''Steele dossier''. Foer’s piece argues the Trump campaign was overly Russia-friendly. Foer discusses Trump’s team, including campaign convention manager Paul Manafort, who worked with former Ukrainian president [[Victor Yanukovich]], and [[Carter Page]].<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html Putin’s Puppet], By Franklin Foer, ''Slate'', July 4, 2016.</ref>

:*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he was waiting for clarification on the Clinton e-mails from the Department of Justice, and whether or not they were classified, while he fact-checked Director Comey’s statement.
:*Obama offered Hillary a ride in [[Air Force One]] for her July 5th trip to Charlotte, NC.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/obama-clinton-air-force-one-trump/index.html</ref>
[[File:112 2016 b4-napo-comey-hoove8201 c0-389-1420-1216 s885x516 (1).jpg|right|300px|thumb|James Comey oversaw the FBI's role in a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton of criminal allegations, and frame Donald Trump for crimes he did not commit.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0062872745</ref>]]
*'''5 July.''' '''Hillary whitewash announced. Comey gives Hillary ''get-out-of-jail-free'' card.''' in violation of existing DOJ regulations, Dir. James Comey usurped the power of the Attorney General, and DOJ prosecutors, to publicly announce his intention not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for felonious acts which the investigation determined she and her staff committed. Comey stated "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges, intimidating reasonable DOJ prosecutors ''before'' they ever read the report or examined evidence. Nowhere in America do the [[police]] determine ''who'' to [[prosecute]], other than in Obama, Lynch and Comey's [[progressive]] America.
:*Comey states that Sec. Clinton and staff were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," and "there is evidence of potential violations of the [[statute]]s regarding the handling of classified information…There is [[evidence]] to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation." Comey referred the matter to the Justice Dept. for a prosecutorial decision. In the absence of prosecution, security or administrative sanctions are the norm.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system Statement by Director James Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System] (July 15, 2015).</ref> Comey's decision to by-pass DoJ rules and take matters into his own hands may have been part of a counterintelligence operation.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-comey-is-maxwell-smart-1501022653?mod=e2fb</ref>
:*Comey violated longstanding departmental policy of the FBI not commenting on investigations in public.
:*Comey lied about colluding with Lynch: “I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/fbi-agents-felt-pressure-wrap-up-clinton-email-probe-trump/</ref>
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:*Christopher Steele provides FBI agent Mike Gaeta at the offices of Orbis in London. a report captioned "Company Intelligence Report 2016/080-U.S. Presidential Election: Republican Candidate Donald Trump's Activities in Russia and Compromising Relationship with the Kremlin," and is dated June 20, 2016 (Report 80). It contains numerous allegations about Trump, including that: (1) the "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting [Trump] for at least 5 years;" (2) "[Trump] and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals;" (3) Trump's activities in Moscow, including "perverted sexual acts," make him vulnerable to blackmail; (4) Russian Intelligence Services have collected "compromising material" on Hillary Clinton; and (5) the Kremlin has been "feeding" information to Trump's campaign for an extended period of time. <ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/30/a-complete-timeline-of-the-events-behind-the-memo-that-threatens-to-rip-d-c-in-two/?utm_term=.5cfaeec5c162</ref> The Schiff memo denies these facts.
:*Steele's contemporaneous notes reflect that Steele told Gaeta that "Democratic Party associates" were paying for Fusion GPS's research, the "ultimate client" was the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign, and "the candidate," Hillary Clinton. was aware of Steele's reporting.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 96.</ref>
:*Permission was given by [[Victoria Nuland]] to meet with Steele. Nuland receives a copy by mid July and passes it to FBI.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/03/14/new-details-of-victoria-nulands-role-in-the-steele-dossier/</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/370633759/Christopher-Steele-Affidavit-Work-With-GPS-Dossier-Lawsuit</ref>
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*Reports say FBI Little Rock office smothering the Clinton Foundation investigation.<ref>https://truepundit.com/fbi-clinton-foundation-probe-is-a-sham-mccabe-loyalist-running-little-rock-fbi-not-investigating-bogus-charity/</ref>
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*In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref>

*Obama speaks with Putin by phone; no mention whatsoever of alleged "Russian hacks."<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/06/readout-presidents-call-president-vladimir-putin-russia</ref>

*'''6 July.''' Loretta Lynch announces that no charges would be brought against Hillary Clinton in the email investigation. Apparently "no reasonable prosecutors" in the DOJ are willing to challenge Comey.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-17/inspector-general-finds-fbi-doj-broke-law-clinton-email-probe-refers-criminal</ref>
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*'''~6-7 July.''' First installment of the ''Steele dossier'' is shared with the State Department’s Victoria Nuland and passed on to the FBI. Both Manafort and Carter Page are referenced in an early undated ''Steele dossier'' memo (page 7). Paul Manafort, Carter Page, [[Michael Cohen]], Michael Flynn and Corey Lewandowski are not referenced and only listed in later memos in the ''Steele dossier''. George Papadopoulos is never mentioned in any Steele memo.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html</ref> Nuland later says "when [Steele] was doing this other work and became concerned … he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That’s something for the FBI."

*'''7 July.''' Bruce Ohr's phone log notes, "Call with Chris Steele" from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. eastern time."
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*Lisa Page texts Strzok ''NYT'' article: "Lisa Page – Thought this was spot on. Hillary Clinton: Survivor https://NYTi.ms/29z0oku <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/opinion/hillary-clinton-maam-survivor.html</ref>

*James Comey in testimony before the House Oversight Cmte. refuses to answer questions about whether the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation.
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*[[Carter Page]] delivers graduation commencement speech at Moscow's New Economic School. Carter Page has no role in the campaign nor has ever met or briefed Trump. Nonetheless, Obama agents eventually obtain a FISA warrant to monitor Carter Page, convincing a judge there’s probable cause to believe Carter Page is a Russian agent based on the speech which is critical of Obama's policy toward Russia. President Obama addressed graduates of the same institution in 2009.<ref>https://youtu.be/bu8vI4js_OE</ref> Surveillance of Page allows government officials to “incidentally” collect communications of the Trump campaign if they communicate with Page.<ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/when-incidental-intel-collection-isnt-incidental/</ref>
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[[File:Sethrich-e1494948876256.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Seth Rich (1989-2016), an American hero. Rich represents the first rumblings among the [[Millennial generation]] of the [[WalkAway movement]].]]
*'''8 July.''' House Select Committee on Beghazi votes on final version of report. Report finds "Susan Rice’s comments on the Sunday talk shows were met with shock and disbelief by State Department employees in Washington. The Senior Libya Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, wrote: “I think Rice was off the reservation on this one.” The Deputy Director, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, responded: “Off the reservation on five networks!” The Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications, Bureau of Near East Affairs, State Department, wrote: “WH [White House] very worried about the politics. This was all their doing.” [pg. 132]<ref>http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo</ref>
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:*'''4:19 EDT.''' '''[[Murder of Seth Rich]]'''. Rich was an IT staffer working in DNC headquarters disillusioned by Democrat party corruption.<ref>https://medium.com/@panegron/the-accidental-journalist-part-vi-stuffformike-f8e6027f0234</ref> Evidence suggests Rich leaked the Podesta emails to Gavin MacFadyen of Wikileaks.<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/controversy-over-wikileaks-podesta-emails-opens-debate-future-journalism</ref>


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*Strzok and Lisa Page discuss problem of getting [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters onboard the Democrat train: "Strzok – And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protestors, right now, chanting “no justice no peace” around DoJ and the White House… Lisa Page – That’s awful."
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*'''11 July.''' [[Stefan Halper]] invited Carter Page to attend a symposium held at Cambridge University in England regarding the upcoming election. The speaker list included: [[Madeleine Albright]] (former U.S. Secretary of State); [[Vin Weber]] (Republican Party strategist and former Congressman now with Mercury LLC);<ref>Vin Weber was a member of the Conservative Opportunity Society caucus of the House along with [[Newt Gingrich]] and [[Jack Kemp]] that orchestrated the Republican Revolution of 1994.</ref> Ambassador Peter Ammon (German Ambassador to the UK); Sir Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6); Bridget Kendall (BBC diplomatic correspondent and the next Master of Peterhouse College); Sir Malcolm Rifkind (former Defence and Foreign Secretary). Carter Page attended the symposium four days after his Moscow trip. Carter Page met with Halper during the London visit.
:*Halper claims (a) Carter Page invited Halper to join the Trump campaign, and (b) Carter Page informed Halper that Page had never met Paul Manafort, nor had Manafort ever respodened to any of Page's emails. The excuplatory information Halper reported, that Carter Page had never had contact with Manafort, was never relayed by the FBI to the NSD Office of Intelligence which prepares FISA applications.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 79-80.</ref> Rather, the ''Steele dossier'', alleging that Carter Page was Manafort's main contact to Moscow, was used.
:*Halper remained in contact with Carter Page for the next fourteen months. Halper stopped contact exactly as the Final FISA Warrant on Carter Page expired.
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*'''12 July.''' ''Washington Times'': Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust [[Netanyahu]].<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/</ref>
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*'''13 July.''' Gaeta instructs New York Field Office FBI (NYFO) Assistant Special Agent in Charge to identify Glenn Simpson as a client of a law firm, and include the following: "law firm works for the Republican party or Hillary and will use the information described in ''Steele dossier'' Report 80 at some point."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 97-98.</ref>
:*[[Florida]] Sanders supporters file suit alleging DNC’s favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders amounted to [[fraud]], misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2016_0722_dnc_wilding2.pdf</ref>

:*Ties emerge between Hillary Clinton and Fethullah Gulen.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2016/07/13/new-ties-emerge-between-clinton-and-mysterious-islamic-cleric/</ref>

*'''14 July.''' Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discuss [[blowback]] from Clinton whitewash:
{{Quotebox-float|Lisa Page – Have you read this? It’s really frightening. For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance http://NYTI/ms/29WCu5!

Strzok – I have not. But I think it’s clear he’s capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$

Lisa Page – Yeah, it’s not good.

Strzok – Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/29RV5gf

Lisa Page – It is}}
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*Papadopoulos emails FBI informant Timofeev and proposed a “meeting for August or September in the UK (London) with me and my national chairman, and maybe one other foreign policy advisor and you, members of president putin’s office and the mfa.”

*'''15 July.''' Papadopoulos sends a private Facebook message to a Facebook account identified with FBI informant Timofeev.
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*[[Bill Browder]]'s Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation and others file formal complaint with the [[US Justice Department]] against FusionGPS alleging that Fusion GPS was working as a [[lobbyist]] for Russian interests and failed to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.<ref>https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2016/12/fara-complaint-alleges-pro-russian-lobbying-217776</ref> The Obama administration ignores complaint.

*[[Perkins Coie]], the surrogate for Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $107,399.74 to FusionGPS.

*Gulenist coup attempt in [[Turkey]];<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/middleeast/fethullah-gulen-profile/index.html</ref> Fethullah Gulen and many of his followers are Clinton Foundation donors.<ref>https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/88991622</ref> Obama administration tied directly to meddling in Turkish affairs.<ref>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22738/turkish-lawyers-demand-raid-on-incirlik-air-base-and-arrest-of-u-s-military-personnel</ref>
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*'''18 July.''' RNC Convention platform completed. It reads,
{{Quotebox-float|Repressive at home and reckless abroad, their policies imperil the nations which regained their self-determination upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]. We will not accept any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine or elsewhere, and will use all appropriate measures to bring to justice the practitioners of aggression and assassination. We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored. We also support providing appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.}}

:*Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News interviews Flynn live:
{{quotebox-float|'''Isikoff:''' You flew over to Moscow to participate in the 10th anniversary—a celebration of RT—Russian television, a propaganda arm of the Russian government. And you sat next to Vladimir Putin at a celebratory dinner. Why did you attend that event? '''Flynn:''' Because I wanted to tell Russia to get [[Iran]] the hell out of the four proxy wars that they’re involved in in the [[Middle East]] in order for us to settle the situation down … my intent for speaking at that event—and they allowed me to do it—was to talk about Russia’s influence over Iran and to essentially tell Russia that they have got to get Iran out of the situations they are involved in in the region … Iran has got to back out of many of the things they’re doing.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-defends-payment-russian-175611942.html</ref>}} Isikoff ignored Flynn’s entire response and continued his line of questioning:
{{quotebox-float|'''Isikoff:''' Were you paid for that event?}} Following the Isikoff interview, the matter was pursued further by ''Washington Post'' reporter Dana Priest, who published a combined an-person and telephone interview with Flynn in an August 15, 2016.

*'''19 July.''' Steele sent an email to Gaeta that included Report 94, which was captioned "Company Intelligence Report 2016/94-Russia: Secret Kremlin Meetings Attended by Trump Advisor Carter Page in Moscow (July 2016)." Report 94 was one of 4 reports the FBI relied upon to support the [[probable cause]] in the Carter Page FISA applications, alleged that during a visit to Moscow in July 2016, Page met with: (1) Igor Sechin, Chairman of Russian energy conglomerate Rosneft, and discussed the "lifting of western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine;" and (2) Igor Divyekin, a staff member in the Russian Presidential Administration, who informed Page of compromising information the Kremlin possessed on Hillary Clinton and its possible release to the Republican campaign. Report 94 further alleged that Divyekin advised Page that the Russians had derogatory information on Trump, which the candidate should bear in mind in future dealings with Russian leadership. Report 94 described conversations involving a limited number of persons (e.g., Sechin confided the details of a secret meeting with Page; Sergei Ivanov confided in a compatriot that Divyekin had met secretly with Page).
:*Brennan attended a Leadership Dinner at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, where he discussed the modernisation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Open Source Enterprise.<ref>https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/07/spy-chief-excited-about-agencys-revamp-effort/130194/</ref>

:*Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page during the Republican National Convention FBI investigator: "TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE DOUCHEBAGS ARE ABOUT TO COME OUT.” Lisa Page replied: "And wow, Donald Trump is an enormous d*uche."

:*Hours later Strzok texts Lisa Page, “Hi. How was Trump, other than a douche? Melania?" Lisa Page responds, "Trump barely spoke, but the first thing out of his mouth was 'we’re going to win sooo big.' The whole thing is like living in a bad dream.”

:*Strzok & Lisa Page go on to say they hope Trump’s “disorganization comes back to bite him hard in November,” with Strzok saying he feels “Panicked” about the election.

:*Strzok and Lisa Page also trade comments on other Republican leaders, calling [[Ben Carson]] “crazy-ass grain storage pyramid Ben Carson,” Senate Majority Leader [[Mitch McConnell]] “a turtle,” and Paul Ryan “a jerky.”


*'''20 July.''' Trump receives Republican nomination.
:*Susan Rice begins to show increased interest in National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence material including “unmasked” Americans’ identities around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination (July 20, 2016) and accelerated after Trump’s election in November launched a transition that continued through January 2017.<ref>http://archive.is/uIMdo</ref>

*'''1MDB scandal.''' Justice Department announced the filing of [[civil asset forfeiture]] complaints seeking the recovery of more than $1 Billion in connection with an international [[conspiracy]] to launder funds misappropriated from the state-owned 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB) fund. From 2009 through 2015, more than $3.5 Billion in funds belonging to 1MDB was allegedly misappropriated by 1MDB and associates. The US government is seeking to recover more than $1 Billion laundered through the US and traceable to the conspiracy.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seeks-recover-more-1-billion-obtained-corruption-involving-malaysian-sovereign</ref>
:*Money paid by 1MDB to DuSable Capital Management found its way into the campaigns of at least 7 [[Democrat]]s in the 2013/14 election cycle.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/11/1mdb-sleaze-spreads-to-us-democrats-on-eve-of-obama-visit-investigation/</ref> DuSable is headed by [[Frank R. White, Jr.]],<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0882477D:US</ref> Obama’s chief fundraiser during the 2012 re-election campaign.
:*''Bloomberg'' reported DuSable is one of “a small group of money managers founded by former political figures and public officials, who have sought to parlay their connections to invest in industries that rely on direct or indirect government support”.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-10/obama-fundraiser-said-to-seek-1-billion-for-private-fund</ref>
:*1MBD and the Government of Malaysia was DuSable's only client.
:*DuSable registered as a foreign agent.
:*DuSable paid $25,000 to the campaign of Gov. [[Terry McAuliffe]] in late 2013 and $5,200 each to Democrat Senate candidates [[Dick Durbin]], [[Mark Begich]] and Michelle Nunn in 2014. The campaigns of [[Ro Khanna]], Don Beyer and Kevin Strouse also received money.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/cache/2/1/9/d/5/219d54d76ef12728657447c587fb3f0a3090412d.jpg</ref>

*'''Late July.''' Undated ''Steele dossier'' Report 95 entitled "Russia/US Presidential Election: Further Indications of Extensive Conspiracy Between Trump's Campaign Team and the Kremlin" and cited repeatedly to information provided by "Source E." Report 95 alleged the existence of "a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" between the Trump campaign and Russian leadership, and claimed that the campaign's manager, Manafort, used Carter Page and others as "intermediaries" to further the conspiracy. According to Source E, the "Russian regime" was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks with the "full knowledge and support" of Trump and his campaign team, and the Wikileaks platform was used by Russia to afford it "plausible deniability" of its involvement in the leak.
:*Report 95 included an allegation that Carter Page and possibly others agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue in exchange for Russia's disclosure of hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks. The FBI used this information in all of the Carter Page FISA applications to support its assessment that Page helped influence the Republican Party to change its platform to be more sympathetic to Russia's interests by eliminating language from the Republican platform about providing weapons to Ukraine.
*'''21 July.''' Anne Applebaum of the ''Washington Post'' writes a “Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.” The issue, she explained, was Trump’s positive attitude toward Putin. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum. She named Carter Page and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the kenard that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for Ukraine” from the Republican National Committee’s platform. Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort’s ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]]. The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''Steele dossier''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref> The talking points come directly from Hillary Clinton opposition research, FusionGPS and the ''Steele dossier''.

:*Jeffrey Goldberg of the ''Atlantic'' publishes an article entitled, ''It’s Official: Hillary Clinton is Running Against Vladimir Putin'' using the same opposition research material from the ''Steele dossier'' paid for by Hillary Clinton: “The Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has chosen this week to unmask himself as a ''de facto'' agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump’s admiration for Putin and other “equivocating, mercenary statements are unprecedented in the history of Republican foreign policymaking.” However, insofar as Trump’s fundamental aim was to find some common ground with Putin, it’s a goal that has been a 25-year U.S. policy constant across party lines. Starting with George W.H. Bush, every American commander-in-chief since the end of the Cold War sought to “reset” relations with Russia. But Trump, according to Goldberg, was different. “Trump’s understanding of America’s role in the world aligns with Russia’s geostrategic interests.” Goldberg alleged “watered down” the RNC’s platform on Ukraine and “questioned whether the U.S., under his leadership, would keep its [NATO] commitments,” including Article 5. Thus, Goldberg concluded: “Donald Trump, should he be elected president, would bring an end to the postwar international order.”<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-putin-nato/492332/</ref>

:*According to ''WaPo'', White House officials convened a high-level security meeting, which featured people from the [[National Security Council]], Department of Defense, FBI and Homeland Security. During the meeting, the officials discussed the reports that Russia allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161113132652/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-campaign--and-some-cyber-experts--say-russia-is-behind-email-release/2016/07/24/5b5428e6-51a8-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html</ref>

:*Papadopoulos sends another private Facebook message to FBI informant Timofeev.
::*Papadopoulos reported as the "director of the Center for International Energy & Natural Resources Law at the London Centre of International Law Practice" by the ''Cleveland Jewish News'' despite having left the organization some two months earlier.<ref>https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/politics/rnc/ajc-panel-dissects-america-s-role-in-global-affairs/article_7d91f20a-4f3f-11e6-97b6-ab6586eff87a.html</ref>
[[File:Shawn Lucas at the DNC.png|right|300px|thumb|Shawn Lucas at the DNC, from the viral video of Lucas serving papers in the election fraud lawsuit. DNC attorney's argued the papers were not properly served. Ten days later Lucas was found dead effectively delaying a hearing until after the November election.]]
*'''22 July.''' Second WikiLeaks dump: documents and 20,000 emails (sent/received) between Jan. 2015 and May 2016 showing the [[collusion]] between the DNC and Clinton campaign to rig the nomination for Hillary Clinton and defeat the Sanders movement.<ref>https://youtu.be/Kp7FkLBRpKg</ref> The DNC has never disputed the authenticity of the documents.

:*[[Brexit]] vote organizer and financier George Cottrell was arrested by the FBI when he attempted to return to London with [[Nigel Farage]] after attending the Republican National Convention.<ref>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/18/the-russia-conspiracy-is-unraveling-across-the-pond/</ref>
:*DNC seeks to delay election fraud lawsuit brought by Sanders supporters arguing, improper service of papers. Shawn Lucas, the process server, videotaped himself serving the papers along with an associate.
*'''23 July.''' Alexander Downer informed Elizabeth Dibble at the US Embassy in London about his conversation with George Papadopoulos from May 10, 2016.<ref>https://archive.is/20180601201327/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075</ref>
:*Dibble then transmitted this information to FBI headquarters.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/390228-london-bridges-falling-down-curious-origins-of-fbis-trump-russia-probe</ref>
:*Strzok receives Papadopolous information from London embassy. This is outside normal process for intelligence sharing. According to the FBI as reported in ''[[NYT]]'', this becomes the official Obama FBI [[fake news]] narrative used to open the counterintelligence investigation on Team Trump.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075</ref>
:*Papadopoulos messaged FBI informant Ivan Timofeev [Foreign Contact 2 in FBI Agent Robert M. Gibbs Version, July 28, 2017 Affidavit] on Facebook to ask whether Timofeev knew a particular individual with extensive ties to Russian-based businesses and persons. Papadopoulos asked Timofeev “[i]f you know any background of him that is noteworthy before I see him, kindly send my way.” The referenced individual is Sergei Millian.<ref>The FBI were aware of Sergei Millian through a 2011 investigation into Yury Zaytsev, the head of Washington’s Rossotrudnichestvo. https://archive.fo/T2uvf</ref> No reference to these and coming days events relating to Millian are made in Robert Mueller's Version, October 5, 2017 Statement of Offense.
*'''~23-25 July.''' Papadopoulos meets with [[Sergei Millian]]. This meeting appears nowhere in FBI investigator Gibbs Affidavit or the Mueller Statement of Offense.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/06/07/missing-timeline-from-papadopoulos-statement-of-offense-hides-millian/</ref>

*'''24 July.''' [[Robby Mook]] of the Clinton campaign was interviewed on [[ABC]]’s ''[[This Week]]'' with [[George Stephanopoulos]], where he claimed that the DNC’s e-mails had been leaked by Russians who wanted to help Donald Trump become the next President, and cited [[CrowdStrike]] Services as his source.
:*ABC News, NPR, [[Rachel Maddow]] and other mainstream outlets report [[fake news]] that the Trump campaign "weakened the Republican platform on aid to Ukraine."<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/clinton-campaign-chief-russians-trump-pro-russian-platform/story?id=40824946</ref><ref>
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine</ref><ref>http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-details-put-the-spotlight-back-trumps-russia-scandal</ref> The fake news comes directly from Hillary Clinton's opposition research, the ''Steele dossier''.
:*Rep. Mike Pompeo tweets, "Need further proof that the fix was in from Pres. Obama on down? BUSTED: 19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks"<ref>https://archive.is/p0ij6</ref>

*'''25 July.''' '''Day 1 of the [[Democrat Convention]]. Wikileaks began their DNC releases. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook [[CNN]] interview begins spinning the Trump Russia conspiracy theory.''' This was planned, prepared, purposeful and the beginning of one of the most damaging psy op disinformation campaigns in US history.<ref>https://twitter.com/sethjlevy/status/963977316547399680</ref>

:*''Daily Beast'' published fake news headline, “FBI Suspects Russia Hacked DNC; U.S. Officials Say It Was to Elect Donald Trump."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-suspects-russia-hacked-dnc-us-officials-say-it-was-to-elect-donald-trump</ref> The FBI never investigated if or who "hacked" DNC emails.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-fbi-had-private-company-examine-dncs-hacked-servers</ref><ref>https://www.wired.com/2017/01/fbi-says-democratic-party-wouldnt-let-agents-see-hacked-email-servers/</ref>
:*[[Fox News]] reporter James Rosen emails Clinton Foundation investigator Charles Ortel, "Am told Wikileaks will be doing a massive dump of HRC emails relating to the CF [Clinton Foundation] in September." Ortel forwards the email to Roger Stone.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-10-22-at-2.09.59-PM-1-768x302.jpg</ref>

:*Wasserman Schultz resigns [[DNC]] chair amidst WikiLeaks revelations of improprieties and election rigging to defeat Bernie Sanders. [[Donna Brazile]] appointed interim successor. Brazile later admits the Clinton machine was in control of the DNC's budget throughout the primary election process contested by Bernie Sanders.

:*Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages about Strzok's personal friendship with FISA court Judge Rudy Contreras. In December 2017 Contreras accepted a guilty plea from Gen. Michael Flynn for allegedly lying to Strzok. Strzok originally reported Flynn did not lie,<ref>Comey testified Flynn did not lie.</ref> however FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe altered the interview report to say Flynn did lie.
{{Quotebox-float|Lisa Page: Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]! Did you know that? Strzok: Just appointed two months ago Strzok: I did. We talked about it before and after. I need to get together with him Strzok: He mentioned thinking about it even though he was junior, they needed people and they especially needed minorities, and then he said he’d gotten on a month or two ago at a graduation party we were both at. Strzok: [Redacted] brought up a good point about being circumspect in talking to [Contreras] in terms of not placing him into a situation where he’d have to recuse himself. Lisa Page: I can’t imagine either one of you could talk about anything in detail meaningful enough to warranted recusal Strzok: Really? Rudy, I’m in charge of espionage for the FBI. Any espionage FISA comes before him, what should he do? Given his friend oversees them? Lisa Page: Standards for recusal are quite high. I just don’t think this poses an actual conflict. And he doesn’t know what you do? Strzok: Not the level or scope or area. But he’s super thoughtful and rigorous about ethics and conflicts. [redacted] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting.}}
[[File:Hillary on the campaign trail.jpg|right|350px|thumb|After a rigged primary process, Hillary was nominated on July 26, 2018. Notably absent from her crowds were the faces of minorities and people of color.]]
*'''26 July.''' '''Hillary Clinton approves foreign policy advisor's proposal to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.'''<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-29-20_Letter%20to%20Sen.%20Graham_Declassification%20of%20FBI's%20Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Investigations_20-00912_U_SIGNED-FINAL.pdf</ref>
:*''Steele dossier'' memo alleges extensive Russian government hacking operation.
:*'''Mueller report claims (pg 89, fn465) that Australia informed the U.S. government of Papadopoulos statements about Clinton emails. Both Papadopoulos and Downer deny Clinton emails were ever discussed (the reference was to "dirt," i.e. Clinton's use of a Blackberry tied to her unsecured server to communicate with President Obama from the territory of Russia which Comey claimed was likely hacked at his July 5, 2016 press conference. Comey also kept Obama's identity secret and referred to him as "another senior government official").'''
:*Lisa Monaco attended the International Conference On Cyber Security.
:*Obama signed a presidential directive to place the FBI in charge of responding to all cyber threats, and to allow the federal government an active role in investigating, preventing and mitigating attempts to hack into state election board computer networks.
:*Kerry met with Sergey Lavrov in Vientiane, Laos.
*'''27 July.''' Brennan, Clapper, Comey, [[John P. Carlin]] and Rep. [[Adam Schiff]] attend Aspen Security Forum.<ref>https://aspensecurityforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ASF-2016-Agenda-PUBLIC-7.21.16-1.pdf</ref> Schiff flies with Russian Ambassador [[Sergey Kislyak]] to the meeting after the DNC Convention;<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/flashback-adam-schiff-flew-with-russian-ambassador-kislyak-to-aspen-forum/</ref> unlike Jeff Sessions, Schiff never recused himself from the HPSCI investigation into Russian collusion after meeting with Kislyak, nor ever faced [[treason]] charges from U.S. mainstream media.
:*Strzok calls Bernie Sanders supporters “stupid*ass” and “idiots,” to which Lisa Page replies she “really really” likes former Vice President [[Joe Biden]], apparently referring to Biden's convention speech attacking Trump. Strzok responds "Opened on Trump? If Hillary did, you know five field offices would…" Five field offices refer to five FBI field offices. If Hillary attacks Trump, five FBI field offices would support her.
:*Trump jokes at press conference: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
:*Fake news outlet ''Focus.ua'' (Ukrainian language) in Europe headlines, ''The Russians are creeping. Is Ukraine ready for an open war with Russia?'' The article states, "the total number of troops threatening our country from Russia, Crimea, Donbass, Belarus and Transnistria, including terrorists of the "DPR / LPR", will reach almost 100 thousand."<ref>https://focus.ua/politics/354223</ref>

*'''28 July.''' '''According to his handwritten notes, John Brennan briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the "approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services."'''<ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/09/29/report-president-obama-was-briefed-on-russias-knowledge-of-hillary-clintons-plans-to-cook-up-a-scandal/</ref>
:*Gaeta sends ''Steele dossier'' Reports 80 and 94 to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the FBI New York Field Office (NYFO), who forwarded them to NYFO Special Agent in Charge (SAC).
:*Strzok and Lisa page exchange messages about [[Lawfare group]] postings:<ref>https://www.archive.org/stream/StrzokPageTexts/FBI-texts_djvu.txt</ref>
::*00:36:58, Thu OUTBOX Lisa Page: Ha. First line made me smile. \n\nWhat Does the US Government Know About Russia and the DNC Hack? -Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/what-does-us-government-know-about-russia-and-dnc-hack
::*00:42:34, Thu INBOX Strzok: Interesting. Good comments about Comey, too\n\nTrump and the Powers of the American Presidency, Part III -Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/trump-and-powers-american-presidency-part-iii
::*Carter Page contacted by a ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter inquiring whether Page had met with Sechin and Divyekin.
:*Kim Dotcom pledges to raise $1 million for Wikileaks after harassment, threats and reprisals against whistleblowers for Wilkileaks.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/28/kim-dotcom-promises-raise-1-million-wikileaks-foll/</ref>

*'''29 July.''' Strzok and Lisa Page texted each other about a new case and whether Page had discussed it with McCabe.
:*Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $99,166.83 to FusionGPS.
:*Steele emails Bruce Ohr advising that he would "be in DC at short notice on business" later that day and Saturday. He asked if Ohr and wife Nellie were free for breakfast on Saturday morning. Steele finished installments of the dossier on July 19 and 26.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-2016-links-among-steele-ohr-simpson-with-russian-oligarch-in-background?platform=hootsuite</ref>
:*The Obama Justice Department never acted on the formal complaint that FusionGPS itself was an unregistered Russian agent lobbying for repeal of the [[Magnitsky Act]].

:*Gianni Pittella, leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S & D) in the EU Parliament, campaigns for Hillary Clinton:
{{Quotebox-float|"I have taken the unprecedented step of endorsing and campaigning for Hillary Clinton because the risk of Donald Trump is too high. '''I believe it is in the interest of the [[European Union]] and [[Italy]] to have Hillary Clinton in office.''' A Trump victory could be a disaster for the relationship between the U.S.A. and Italy.” “This campaign is not between Democrat or Republican. It’s between democracy and no democracy in the U.S. It’s between having a relationship between the U.S. and the E.U. and the U.S. and other countries, or not. And '''Italian citizens, together with the world, have the duty not only to intervene, but to act, to support Hillary’s campaign.'''”<ref>https://archive.is/4jyO1</ref>}} Gianni Pittella is a very close friend and associate of Joseph Mifsud.<ref>https://jonworth.eu/gianni-pittella-caro-amico-joseph-mifsud/</ref>
*'''30 July.''' '''Bruce Ohr, [[Nellie Ohr]], Christopher Steele anda younger Steele associate Washington Mayflower Hotel breakfast'''.
:*Steele relayed information from his dossier and claimed that “a former head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the [[SVR]], had stated to someone … that they had Donald Trump over a barrel.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
:*Steele also referenced Deripaska’s business dealings with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s meetings in Moscow.
::*"Paul Hauser, Oleg Deripaska's London attorney, had information that Paul Manafort had entered into some kind of business deal with Oleg Deripaska, had stolen a large amount of money from Oleg Deripaska, and that Paul Hauser was trying to gather information that would show that, you know, or give more detail about what Paul Manafort had done with respect to Deripaska.” The money relates to a failed Ukrainian cable TV project Deripaska invested money with Manafort in.
::*Ohr also noted that Steele told him he had been in contact with the FBI but now had additional reports. “ Chris Steele had provided some reports to the FBI, I think two, but that Glenn Simpson had more,” he said.
::*Bruce Ohr said it was "clear" that Steele and Simpson were hired by a party "related to the Clinton campaign."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 272.</ref> Bruce Ohr memorialized each of his meetings with Steele and Simpson with detailed notes about what they told him.<ref>Ibid, fn 411.</ref>
::*Steele emails Bruce Ohr later: "Great to see you and Nellie this morning Bruce. Let’s keep in touch on the substantive issues/s (sic). Glenn [Simpson] is happy to speak to you on this if it would help.”
:*'''Bruce Ohr calls Andrew McCabe. They meet in McCabe’s office with Lisa Page in early August. Ohr wanted the FBI to have the information and be aware of his meeting with Steele.
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page and wondered if he would be able to bring her to London with him.
:*''Steele dossier'' memo alleges eight-year Russian effort to cultivate Trump. Says Kremlin worried of political fallout from DNC email hack.
*'''31 July.''' '''Priestap and Strzok formally open Crossfire Hurricane investigation'''.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/20/judicial-watch-receives-originating-fbi-ec-electronic-communication-the-start-of-crossfire-hurricane/</ref>
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page:
{{Quotebox-float|Strzok: And '''damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one [Clinton email investigation] did, too, but that was to ensure that we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS'''.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/strzok-page-texts-trump-russia-investigation-origins/</ref>}}
:*'''Peter Schweitzer publishes ''From Russia With Money'' about Clinton collusion with Russia over the Uranium One sale and cronyism redounding to the Podesta's benefit.'''<ref>https://nypost.com/2016/07/31/report-raises-questions-about-clinton-cash-from-russians-during-reset/amp/</ref><ref>https://www.g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Report-Skolkvovo-08012016.pdf</ref>
:*Andrea Chalupa interview with Nataliya Gumenyuk on Skype.<ref>https://youtu.be/x4ojpSTbxBA</ref>
[[File:Chalupa-ciaramella.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa (left) Deep State informant [[Eric Ciaramella]] (right).<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/huge-cia-whistleblower-eric-cairamella-worked-with-dnc-operative-alexandra-chalupa-in-creation-of-trump-russia-collusion-hoax/</ref>]]
*'''July.''' CIA Counterintelligence Mission Center started to serve as a conduit to the FBI by using contacts developed by the CIA between Russian individuals and members of the Trump campaign.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-e4ab7d8188ac</ref>
*'''Late July.''' Democratic operative and Ukrainian-American Chalupa leaves the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to work full-time on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia; and provides off-the-record guidance to “a lot of journalists.”
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*'''July to September.''' German newspaper ''Die Welt''<ref>https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article159791364/Bundesregierung-zahlte-Millionen-an-Clinton-Stiftung.html?campaign_id=A100</ref> reported:
{{quotebox-float|[German] Ministry for Environment transferred millions to the [Clinton] Foundation. In the third quarter of 2016, at the height of [Clinton’s] campaign, German taxpayers gave up to five million dollars to the family foundation. Some observers believe that German government has some explaining to do for the donation that appears under the heading “Donors and Grantors”. “Why does a Ministry supports the election campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate?” asked Vera Lengsfeld — former civil rights activist and German parliamentarian — in her blog. “It seems German taxpayers unwittingly financed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.”}}
*'''Late July/Early August.''' '''Brennan briefs Obama''' and three senior Obama advisors (Rice, Biden, Ben Rhodes?). Brennan suggests Russia is helping Trump.

===August 2016===
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stu Evans was the person within the DOJ who was in charge of the entire FISA process, but the FBI chose not to tell Evans that they had opened a counterintelligence investigation. According to Lisa Page's testimony, the only DOJ official they told was George Toscas, the deputy assistant attorney general in the National Security Division. Without forewarning to the FBI, Toscas informed Stu Evans in August 2016—possibly earlier—of the FBI’s newly opened investigation.
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The ongoing attempts by [[George Papadopoulos]] are similar to those made by [[Joseph Mifsud]] and [[Stefan Halper]]. Use intentionally manufactured meetings and contacts to create perceived associations with Russia.
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*'''First week of August.''' Brennan contacted Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines via telephone, as he had received intelligence in relation to President Vladimir Putin. An envelope which contained “eyes only” instructions was sent by courier from the Central Intelligence Agency to the White House. The contents of the envelope were shown to four people: President Barack Obama, and three of his senior aides, most likely [[Chief of Staff]] [[Denis McDonough]], [[National Security Advisor]] Susan Rice and deputy Avril Haines. Within the envelope was information from a valuable source, Oleg Smolenkov,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/14/the-spy-who-failed/</ref> that Director Brennan had used to ascertain certain information, a source which he intentionally kept away from the Presidential Daily Brief. This was because, by 2013, the Presidential Daily Brief was being received by over 30 recipients. According to ''The Washington Post'', "The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objects — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.” Brennan created a secret task force at the Central Intelligence Agency’s Headquarters, which was composed of several dozen analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Working Group reported to two different groups:
::(1) President Barack Obama and less than 14 senior United States Government officials.
::(2) A team of operations specialists at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.e0ebd1a1dbf5</ref>
::*The Crossfire Hurricane investigation team, in conjunction with a number of agents at the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) under US Attorney [[Dana Boente]], reported to the Working Group,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html</ref> including the CIA. During this time, they investigated the four main targets of Crossfire Hurricane, Papadopoulos , Carter Page, Michael Flynn Paul Manafort and they also investigated Roger Stone as part of their expanded WikiLeaks investigation.
::*As part of the secrecy surrounding the Working Group and Crossfire Hurricane, the Crossfire Hurricane team was provided their own source of funding, and they worked in a secure area, titled the “war room”, within FBI Headquarters, which required special clearance to enter.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbis-russia-investigation/story?id=47346117</ref>
:*Obama ordered his aides to determine ways to retaliate or deter against the Russian Government through three steps: (1) Gain a high-confidence assessment from the United States intelligence agencies on Russia’s role and intent; (2) Check vulnerabilities in state-run election systems; (3) Seek bipartisan support from Congressional leaders for a statement condemning Moscow and urging states to accept federal assistance.
:*The same week, Susan Rice, Avril Haines and Lisa Monaco convened meetings in the White House Situation Room, which would later be referred to as “Deputies Meetings”. These meetings were initially attended by Brennan, Clapper, Comey and Lynch. As time passed Vice President [[Joe Biden]] joined the Deputies Meetings.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.21f20bdb10a8</ref> At a later time, agendas were directly sent to Cabinet secretaries, including Secretary [[John Kerry]] and Secretary [[Ashton Carter]]. When an agenda was received, their subordinates were ordered never to open the envelopes. Further to this, some agendas were withheld until the participants had arrived in the Situation Room and sat down.
::*Ordinarily, a video feed from the White House Situation Room is fed into various [[National Security Council]] offices to allow senior aides to view the events with zero sound. However, during the Deputies Meetings, the video feeds were switched off.
:::One of these Deputies Meetings was hosted by Avril Haines, where the attendees of the meetings argued that any deliberative attempt to strike back against Russia would become a tool of propaganda for President Vladimir Putin, while another was concerned about the potential effect any action may have on Election Day 2016. Haines would later note she was “very concerned” during this time about the potential of Russians gaining influence within the Trump campaign, although she apparently remained unaware of the existence of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
:::*As an aspect, or an offshoot, of one of these meetings, Susan Rice informed both Michael Daniel and Celeste Wallander (who would later gain access to the ''Steele dossier'') to cease their planning of retaliation against Russia for their cyber attacks on companies and political campaigns and to stand down.
::*Comey also met with Obama in the Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting, where Comey suggested that he write an opinion piece for ''The New York Times'' about the potential for Russian interference in the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. Comey planned to avoid mentioning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in the opinion piece; "they never took me up on it. The Obama administration deliberated until the beginning of October."<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723</ref>
:*Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warned officials and Congress that both American citizens’ and residents’ banking and financial data had been illegally searched and stored. Those breaches extended to other intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

::This was accomplished as the Office of Intelligence and Analysis opened a back door to give access to the intelligence agencies. Another aspect was that the Treasury Dept. attempted to transfer the work of FinCEN to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, which was fought back by employees at the FinCEN.
[[File:3 hop.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Illustration of how the 3 hop rule works after a FISA warrant is obtained. A typical subject has 50 contacts in their phone or email. The same legal surveillance authority is applied to those 50 contacts, and then to your contacts' contacts.<ref>https://youtu.be/eFltYybG5aI</ref>]]
::At the time, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis was ran by the Asst. Sec. for Intelligence and Analysis, S. Leslie Ireland, whom also simultaneously worked as the National Intelligence Manager For Threat Finance at ODNI. She started both positions in July 2010, and left both positions in November 2016.

::In the summer of 2016 FinCEN inquired about reviewing the Office of Intelligence and Analysis’ guidelines<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/us-intelligence-unit-accused-of-illegally-spying-on#.lo7LWGkZJ</ref> under [[Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act#cite_note-15|Executive Order 12333]],<ref>https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/eo12333.html</ref> but they were ultimately removed from the [[e-mail]] chain surrounding the issue.
::*In 2016 the NSA collected the records of 151 million American phone calls through the use of [[FISA Court]] orders to collect information from 42 individuals.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nsa-surveillance-phone-records-millions-despite-reforms-court-orders-a7716561.html</ref> This involved the distribution of 3,914 reports which contained information about Americans gathered in warrantless surveillance programs.
*'''Early August — presumably the first week .''' Federal Bureau of Investigation agents met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, where they questioned her about a letter they had received in early March 2016 from a foreign source, supposedly written by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Leonard Benardo of the Open Society Foundations regarding the [[Midyear Exam investigation]]. The agents offered to give Lynch a “defensive briefing”. Shortly after this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the Benardo letter was an unreliable document.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html</ref>
*'''1 August - 15 August.''' Papadopoulos continues to communicate with Trump Campaign officials regarding a potential “off the record” meeting with Russian officials.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/george-papadopoulos-trump-collusion/</ref> There are probably foreign contacts made during this time but no details are disclosed in either the Mueller indictments or FBI releases.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download</ref> Papadopoulos was unsuccessful in establishing any meetings between the Trump Campaign and Russian Officials.

*'''August.''' Paul Wood of [[BBC]] News spoke with a retired spy, whom said that they had heard about the existence of potential “kompromat” on Donald Trump from the head of an East European intelligence agency.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427</ref>
:*Estonia started to conduct intelligence gathering operations on executives from the Trump Organization whom visited Europe.
{{quotebox-float|“The Western European intelligence operations began in August, after the British government obtained information that people acting on behalf of Russia were in contact with members of the Trump campaign. Those details from the British were widely shared among the NATO allies in Europe. The Baltic nation has been gathering intelligence for at least that long, and has conducted surveillance of executives from the Trump Organization who were traveling in Europe.”<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/allies-intercept-russia-trump-adviser-communications-557283] Kurt Eichenwald, [[Newsweek]]</ref>}}

*'''1 - 3 August.''' '''Strzok travels to London to interview a "key witness,"''' [[Stefan Halper]] a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, [[MI6]].
:*Halper's job was to locate then dirty-up anyone he could convince: 1) to meet with him; 2) engage in his requests; and 3) engage contacts he set up. Halper provided the underlying optics needed for the Electronic Communication (EC) referral which Brennan used to trigger Comey to originate the FBI Counterintelligence Operation. The fraudulent origin, in combination with the October FISA warrant needed for surveillance gathering, would drive the insurance policy that Peter Strzok described to Lisa Page.

*'''2 August.''' Priestap notifies David Laufman, George Toscas, and Adam Hickey of the DOJ-NSD of official opening of Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
:*Strzok and another agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with Downer in London.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html</ref>
:*Strzok received reading materials, which he texted about to Lisa Page.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371002694/Senator-Ron-Johnson-Appendix-C-Documents-and-Text-Messages</ref>

:*Corsi email to Stone from Rome.<ref>https://cdn01-dailycaller-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-11.51.14-AM.jpg</ref> Makes no reference to Podesta emails. In fact, Stone is curious if Corsi can discover what Assange has other than information on Podesta. Corsi tries but fails to get information from Assange through London sources.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/28/email-between-roger-stone-jerome-corsi/</ref> No evidence exists of a link between Assange and Russia - the Wikileaks/Russia collusion narrative is developed later to cover up the murder of Seth Rich.

:*Shawn Lucas, 38 year-old process server for lawsuit against DNC on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters alleging election fraud, found dead.<ref>http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/08/sanders-supporters-stunned-by-sudden-death-of-38-year-shawn-lucas-who-served-the-lawsuit-on-the-dnc-and-wasserman-shultz/</ref> The lawsuit is now effectively delayed until after the November 8 election.

*'''3 August.''' '''Brucr Ohr meets with Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page to discuss information relayed by Christopher Steele'''.
:*Bruce Ohr had known Lisa Page for some time as she previously had worked under his supervision at the DOJ for a period of “5-6 years.”
:*Ohr later testifies that he told McCabe that his wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion, noting, “I wanted the FBI to be aware of any possible bias.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
::*The Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch required Bruce Ohr to recuse himself from participating in activity related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation because of Nellie Ohr's prior work for Fusion GPS as an independent contractor. Specifically, 5 C.F.R. § 2635.502(a) provides that an employee should not participate in a matter, unless agency ethics counsel authorizes participation, "[w]here an employee knows that a particular matter involving specific parties is likely to have a direct and predictable effect on the financial interest of a member of his household ... and where the employee determines that the circumstances would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts to question his impartiality in the matter .... " Section 402(b)(1) defines "direct and predictable effect" as "a close causal link between any decision or action to be taken in the matter and any expected effect of the matter on the financial interest."
::*Nellie Ohr was paid $44,000 for her work with FusionGPS.
::*Bruce Ohr never consulted the DOJ ethics counsel for authorization.
::*As of January 2020, one month after the FISA Abuse Report was released, Bruce Ohr was still employed by the U.S. Justice Department.
:*Strzok and Lisa Page debate what would be shared with DOJ prosecutors when Strzok returns to Washington (investigators typically do not share information with prosecutors until an investigation is completed for fear of leaks which can compromise confidential informants. Additionally, unlike a criminal investigation, the Trump investigation is a [[counterintelligence]] investigation, which can be quite lengthy over years or decades, and rarely result in criminal indictments against the main targets. The object is to neutralize rather than convict. Hence [[due process]] requirements can be much lower than [[probable cause]] necessary in criminal inquiries):
{{quotebox-float|Strzok - I think we need to consider the lines of what we disclose to DOJ. For example, the last stipulation notes we will not disclose.}}
:*David Remnick writes an article in the ''New Yorker'' entitled, ''Trump and Putin: A Love Story.'' Citing the “original reporting” of Franklin Foer’s July 4, 2016 ''Slate'' article, Remnick contends “that one reason for Trump’s attitude has to do with his business ambitions.” As Remnick elaborated, “one of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers," Carter Page, "has longstanding ties to Gazprom, a pillar of Russia’s energy industry.” Remnick also worried about Trump’s lack of support for Ukraine and the fact that Trump “has declared NATO ‘obsolete’ and has suggested that he might do away with Article 5.”<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-putin-a-love-story</ref>

*'''4 August.''' John Brennan has regularly scheduled intelligence sharing phone call with Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s [[FSB]].
:*Bruce Ohr meets CRM Deputy Assistant Attorney General [[Bruce Swartz]] to provide specific details of the Ohr's/Steele Mayflower Hotel breakfast mereting. Both Ohr and Swartz continue to keep their immediate supervisors and political appointees in the dark about the DNC/Pekins Coie conspiracy.
*'''5 August.''' Former Acting CIA Director and Clinton campaign advisor, [[Mike Morell]] publishes an op-ed in the ''New York Times'', fueling the Clinton-inspired Russian conspiracy narrative: {{quotebox|”In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”… (~Mike Morell)<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html</ref>}} Morell is deeply connected to the Clinton camp, particularly surrounding his prior efforts to defend then Secretary of State Clinton over thew [[Benghazi massacre]]. According to former CIA Director [[Leon Panetta]] it was Mike Morell (Intel) and [[Ben Rhodes]] (White House) who wrote the infamous Susan Rice talking points, which were all lies.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/29/dni-john-ratcliffe-presents-senate-with-brennan-notes-showcasing-clinton-campaign-intent-to-create-russian-conspiracy-narrative-july-2016/</ref>
:*Strzok and Lisa Page engage in a tense conversation which involves an imminent meeting with “agency people” — an apparent reference to the CIA. Strzok suggested that, for the new case, they should conduct Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning meetings “with [REDACTED]” just “like we did with mye” — Mid Year Exam, the Clinton probe. After some back-and-forth over who should be invited to a major meeting about the new case, a meeting was held. In the aftermath Strzok and Lisa Page have an exchange implying Obama ordered the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign: {{Quotebox|Strzok: And hi. Went well, best we could have expected. Other than [REDACTED] quote: “'''the White House is running this'''.”<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/strzok-page-texts-trump-russia-investigation-origins/</ref> My answer, “well, maybe for you they are.” And of course, I was planning on telling this guy, thanks for coming, we’ve got an hour, but with Bill [Priestap] there, I’ve got no control…. Lisa Page: Yeah, whatever (re the WH comment). We’ve got the emails that say otherwise.}}
:*Steele memo alleges growing backlash in Kremlin to DNC email hack and Trump support operation. Identifies Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as a key figure in the DNC hack.
:*Donna Brazile attends Obama birthday party at the White House. At the party she was pulled to the side by Susan Rice (a member of the Deputies Meetings) and [[Eric Holder]], separately. Bboth encouraged Brazile to place "Russian hacking" at the top of her priority list.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190824105841/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brazile-i-considered-replacing-clinton-with-biden-as-2016-democratic-nominee/2017/11/04/f0b75418-bf4c-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.0a2cdcd0efd7</ref>

*'''6 August.''' Hillary Clinton tweets: “Seriously, what is going on with Trump and Russia?” with a 1 minute, 45 second video attached.<ref>https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/762059962101198848</ref>
:*Lisa Page sends Peter Strzok an article about Khizr Khan who spoke against Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
{{Quotebox|Page – Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHulE0

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

Page – And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end comma, read this:

Page – Trump Enablers Will Finally Have to Take A Stand http://nyti.ms/2aFakry

Strzok – Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps }}

*'''8 August.''' Strzok texted Lisa Page about a joint intelligence piece for Comey to prepare for him to brief Denis McDonough on August 10, 2016. {{Quotebox|Strzok - Internal joint cyber cd intel piece for D [Director Comey], scenesetter for McDonough brief, Trainor [head of FBI cyber division] directed all cyber info be pulled. I’d let Bill [Priestap] and Jim [Baker (DOJ)] hammer it out first, though it would be best for D [Comey] to have it before the Wed WH [White House] session.”<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/documents-suggest-possible-coordination-between-cia-fbi-obama-wh-and-dem-officials-early-in-trump-russia-probe-investigators</ref>}}

*'''9 August.''' {{Quotebox|'''Lisa Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?! Strzok - No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.''' }}
:The Inspector General found Strzok's statement '''"antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice."'''
:*Wikileaks offers a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
:*Brennan prepares for White House and [[Gang of Eight]] (Go8) briefings on ''Steele dossier''.
:Robert Parry of ''Consortium'' news writes:
{{quotebox-float|While lacking any verifiable proof, Clinton’s campaign and its allied [[mainstream media]] have blamed Russian intelligence for hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s emails and then publicizing them through Wikileaks. This [[conspiracy theory]] holds that Putin is trying to influence the U.S. election to put his secret agent, Donald Trump, into the White House.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/09/hillary-clintons-turn-to-mccarthyism/</ref>}}
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*'''10 August.''' Brennan briefs White House on Christopher Steele reporting.
:*Andrew McCabe briefs Sally Yates on the Downer-Papadopoulos meeting.
:*As paraphrased by a congressional investigator in July 2018, a message between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok read: {{quotebox|“I remember what it was, Toscas already told Stu Evans everything. Sally [Yates] called to set up a meeting.”}} The congressional investigator asked Lisa Page, “What you’re saying is when the director [Brennan, in this case] briefed the White House 2 days prior to that, on August the 8th, or prepared for it, actually briefed him on the 10th, that it had nothing to do with any campaign. Even though George Toscas and Stu Evans knew about it.” Lisa Page responded, “Sir, I would be shocked. I would truly be stunned to discover that the director [again, Brennan] had briefed the president on the substance of our investigation or even the existence of our investigation. I would be—I can’t say it didn’t happen, I wasn’t there, but I would be stunned to discover that.” From Brennan’s congressional testimony, it is known that he had briefed the White House at some point in early August 2016, prior to Aug. 11. Brennan testified in 2017, “In consultation with the White House, I personally briefed [the Gang of Eight] between 11 August and 6 September."<ref>http://angrystaffer.blogspot.com/2017/05/brennan-testimony-transcript.html</ref>
:*Go8 members were Sens. Richard Burr, Dianne Feinstein, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Speaker Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff.
::*Pelosi makes public statement saying that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee was a modern version of the [[Watergate]] scandal, conducted by the Russians.
:*Comey briefed McDonough.
:*Steele memo claims Putin is generally satisfied with anti-Clinton efforts to date, notes [[Kremlin]] support for General Flynn and [[Green Party]] Candidate Jill Stein: {{quotebox|''"Kremlin engaging with several high profile US players, including STEIN, PAGE and (former DIA Director Michael Flynn) and funding their recent visits to Moscow. Speaking separately, also in early August 2016, a Kremlin official involved in US relations commented on aspects of the Russian operation to date … This had involved the Kremlin supporting various US political figures, including funding indirectly their recent visits to Moscow. S/he named a delegation from [[Lyndon Larouche|Lyndon LAROUCHE]]; presidential candidate JILL STEIN of the Green Party; TRUMP foreign policy advisor Carter PAGE; and former DIA Director Michael Flynn.”''}}
::All other names are capitalized, in the manner of intelligence briefings. Flynn’s name isn’t capitalized and in one case, appears within parentheses. It’s almost as if his name was suddenly added at the last minute—and by someone other than Steele.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/04/were-events-surrounding-flynns-moscow-visit-intentionally-misframed/</ref>
:*Separate Steele memo says DNC email leaks aimed at switching Sanders voters to Trump.
:*Carter Page investigation transferred from New York field office to Crossfire Hurricane team.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 313 fn 465.</ref>
:*Shane Harris published the article ''Is It Okay for Spies to Elect a President'' in ''The Daily Beast''.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-it-ok-for-spies-to-elect-a-president</ref>
:*Strzok forwards Seth Rich email chain.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/has-fbi-been-lying-about-seth-rich</ref>
[[File:Strzok-page-code-name.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The ''New York Times'' has persistently printed [[fake news]] CYA leaks by FBI insiders to mislead Congress and the public about the origins of the Trump investigation contradicted by the evidence. There was no legal basis to begin the Trump investigation, which was taken over by Robert Mueller.]]
*'''11 August.''' FBI meets with Stefan Halper. Halper agrees to work with the Crossfire Hurricane team by reach out to George Papadopoulos allowing the Crossfire Hurricane team to collect assessment information on Papadopoulos and conduct an operation. Halper informs FBI of his July contact with Carter Page and previous contact with Flynn related to the Lokhova incident. Halper also informs the FBI he knew Manafort. Halper claims Carter Page offered him a position with the Trump campaign in their July 2016 meeting. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 314-315.</ref>
:*George Toscas contacts Deputy AAG Stuart Evans who oversaw NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI), which prepares and files FISA applications. Evans meets with Toscas, Adam Hickey, and FBI representatives. The FBI invited NSD to attend weekly meetings with the Crossfire Hurricane team. According to Evans, he and Toscas attended some of the meetings, as did representatives from CES, including Laufman, and OI. Hickey attended some of the meetings as well.
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page:
{{Quotebox-float|"OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THESE ALLEGATIONS AND THE PERVASIVE CONNECTIONS."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-fbi-agents-account-insurance-policy-text-referred-to-russia-probe-1513624580</ref>}}
:*Redacted FBI text reads,
{{quotebox-float|“[D]oing all this election research – I think some of these guys want a [C]linton presidency.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-right-explosive-new-fbi-texts-detail-internal-furor-over-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/</ref>}}
:*James Clapper visited Estonia.<ref>https://twitter.com/USEmbTallinn/status/763691547061784577</ref>

*'''12 August.''' McCabe receives stand down order from DOJ’s Principal Assistant Attorney General (PADAG) on the [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/did-mccabe-issue-stand-down-order-on-fbi-clinton-email-investigation/</ref>

*'''14 August.''' Sally Yates receives the first Carter Page FISA application.
:Deripaska's revenge: ''New York Times'' publishes ''Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief''” two weeks after Bruce Ohr’s meeting with Steele. The article states: “Mr. Deripaska would later say he invested $18.9 million in Pericles [Manafort's company] in 2008 to complete the acquisition of Black Sea Cable. But the planned purchase—including the question of who ended up with the Black Sea assets—has since become the subject of a dispute between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html</ref>

*'''15 August.''' John Brennan briefs [[Harry Reid]] on Christopher Steele and Spygate material. Reid asked Brennan if he could include the information they discussed on Russia in a letter to Comey to ask for investigation of Trump.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/john-brennans-leak-to-harry-reid-is-now-under-scrutiny/</ref>
:*Bruce Ohr talks directly with Strzok. Within a month of Bruce Ohr passing along Steele’s dirt, the FBI scheduled a follow-up meeting with Steele. The path was laid for the ''Steele dossier'' to support a FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
::*Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy [McCabe]'s office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40..."<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/24643/one-insane-text-message-may-have-just-fatally-ben-shapiro</ref>}}
:*Dana Priest of ''WaPo'' publishes follow up on Isikoff's July 18 interview with Flynn: {{quotebox|'''Priest:''' Tell me about the RT [state-run Russian Television] relationship? '''Flynn:''' I was asked by my speaker’s bureau, LAI [Leading Authorities, Inc.]. I do public speaking. It was in Russia. It was a paid speaking opportunity. I get paid so much, the speaker’s bureau got paid so much, based on our contract. The gig was to do an interview with [RT correspondent] Sophie Shevardnadze. It was an interview in front of the forum, probably 200 people in the audience. My purpose there was I was asked to talk about [[radical]] [[Islam]] in the Middle East. They asked me to talk about what was going on in the situation unfolding in the Middle East. '''Priest:''' Have you appeared on RT regularly? '''Flynn:''' I appear on [[Al Jazeera]], Sky News Arabia, RT. I don’t get paid a dime. I have no media contracts. … [I am interviewed] on CNN, Fox … '''Priest:''' Why would you go on RT, they’re state-run? '''Flynn:''' Well, what’s CNN?}}
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*'''1MDB scandal.''' [[Frank White]], Obama chief fundraiser in 2012, under investigation for embezzling $3 Billion from the Government of Malaysia. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating officials at the Malaysian state-owned 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB) and their associates for misappropriating $3.5 billion between 2009 and 2015. The U.S. government is seeking to recover $1 billion that was laundered through the United States and connected to the scandal.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-bundler-partnered-malaysian-fund-investigation-embezzling-3-billion/</ref> White's firm partnered with 1MDB and profited $69 million on an investment that the firm had no money in, according to Malaysian investigators. 1MDB was White's only client, and some of the funds ended up in the campaigns of several Democratic party candidates.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/11/1mdb-sleaze-spreads-to-us-democrats-on-eve-of-obama-visit-investigation/</ref> White currently is fundraising for Hillary Clinton.
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*'''17 August.''' Trump, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Gov. [[Chris Christie]] attended their first classified briefing held by intelligence officials — the officials were from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and it was held at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York Field Office.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/u-s-official-donald-trump-s-body-language-claim-doesn-n644856</ref><ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-receive-classified-briefing-tomorrow/story?id=41419607</ref><ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-briefing/index.html</ref>
:*The Crossfire Hurricane team received a memorandum from the CIA detailing its prior relationship with Carter Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the agency from 2008 to 2013 and information that Page had provided to the CIA concerning Page's prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers. This information was not provided to NSD attorneys and was not included in any of the FISA applications. After receiving the August 17 Memorandum, the Crossfire Hurricane team requested no additional information from the CIA perior to submission of the first FISA application in order to deconflict on issues relevant to the October 21, 2016 FISA application.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 79.</ref>

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*'''19 August.''' Ukrainian parliament member '''[[Sergii Leshchenko]]''' holds news conference to draw attention to Paul Manafort and Trump’s “pro-Russia” ties.
:*Manafort resigns.
:*Randy Credico texts Roger Stone: “I’m going to have Julian Assange on my show next Thursday. Kunstler wife is his lawyer or at least one of them.” “I’m best friends with [Assange’s] lawyer and leave it at that and leave it alone.”

*'''21 August.''' Roger Stone tweets, "it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel."

*'''22 August.''' Bruce Ohr received an email from Glenn Simpson with the subject line "Can u ring." 
:*Bruce Ohr meets with Glenn Simpson. Simpson claims either [[Sergei Millian]], [[Michael Cohen]] or Carter Page are intermediaries between Russia and the Trump campaign. Millian is a subsource for Christopher Steele referred to as Source E in Report 95,<ref>In Report 80, this sub-source was referred to as "Source D" and in Report 102 as an "associate" of candidate Donald Trump. ''FISA Abuse Report'', p. 163 fn 300.</ref> which attributed to the "Russian regime" the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks with the "full knowledge and support" of Trump and his campaign team. Millian is also the source of the golden shower allegations.
::"Steele described Millian as a "boaster" and "egotist" and "may engage in some embellishment." The FBI did not provide this description of Millian to NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI) for inclusion in the Carter Page FISA applications despite relying on Millian's information to establish [[probable cause]] in the applications.
::*Simpson lied to Congress on Novemeber 14, 2017 claiming that he did not meet with Bruce Ohr prior to the November 2016 presidential election. He stated further that he met with Bruce Ohr one time after Thanksgiving 2016.<ref>Interview of Glenn Simpson Before the Executive Session of the H. Perm. Select Comm. On Intelligence, 115th Cong. 78 (November 14, 2017).</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/10/more-suspicions-confirmed-glenn-simpson-lied-during-congressional-testimony/#more-145397</ref>
::*Bruce Ohr admitted he knew Simpson and his wife were working for Hillary Clinton and the DNC at this point.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
*Christopher Steele finishes another installment of the dossier. The memo details payments to Manafort from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
:*Steele had produced eight reports from June 20, 2016, through the end of August 2016 (there is also one undated report included in the dossier). No further reports were generated by Steele until Sept. 14, 2016.
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*'''23 August.''' Turkish authorities issue arrest warrant and begin massive manhunt for Clinton donor Adil Oksuz, whom they accuse of coordinating the July 2016 coup attempt against the government.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/23/turkey-coup-plotter-clinton-donor/88991622/</ref>

*'''24 August.''' The Office of Net Assessment, which paid Stefan Halper $250,000 as part of Brennan's network of informant's, comes under attack for wasting money on "research projects."<ref>https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/24/pentagons-offic-of-threat-assement-under-fire-from/</ref>
:*Bruce Ohr and Mike Gaeta discuss the substance of Ohr's August 22, 2016 meeting with Glenn Simpson.
*'''25 August.''' '''Brennan briefs Reid; Reid asks Comey to investigate Trump.''' John Brennan gives an unusual private briefing to Democrat Minority Leader [[Harry Reid]] in which he told Reid the FBI should take the lead in an investigation of the Trump campaign because the FBI is the federal agency in charge of domestic intelligence and, unlike the CIA, can spy on U.S. citizens.
:*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok have message exchange: '''“What are you doing after the CH [Crossfire Hurricane] brief?”'''
[[File:JohnBrennan.jpg|right|180px|thumb|'''Brennan''' managed Obama's 'kill list' and created a false narrative of 'warrantless wiretaps' to mask information from the Torture program which he oversaw. When investigated, he hacked into the investigators' computers. ''The Guardian'' says over 1100 were killed targeting 41 individuals on the kill list.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147</ref> He also oversaw the Obama administration's censorship program targeting journalists.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref> Brennan authored the ''ICA'' memo which was widely circulated with unmasked names in the closing days of the Obama administration alleging President-elect Trump was a [[KGB]] agent and Putin-stooge. Brennan later admitted to Rachel Maddow he never had any evidence of Russian collusion with Trump.]]
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:*Assange interview with Megyn Kelly.
:*Assange interview with Randy Credico on WBAI radio.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/03/credico-roger-stone-wikileaks/</ref>

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*'''26 August.''' Strzok texts Lisa Page about a trip to a Walmart in southern Virginia and he could “SMELL the Trump support.…” Page responds she is out to lunch with [redacted] and said they both “hate everyone and everything.” Strzok responds “I want to be there and hate with you, or charm you back to happy.” Page says, “Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country.”
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*'''27 August.''' Two days after Brennan’s special briefing, Reid sent a letter to Comey stating, “evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s campaign continues to mount.”
:*Reid’s letter was leaked within days to the New York Times.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/29/us/politics/document-Reid-Letter-to-Comey.html</ref> Documents obtained by Congress revealed senior bureau officials were already expecting Reid’s letter even before the senator wrote it.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/brennan-denies-dossier-allegations-but-congress-wants-answers/</ref> This evidence of Brennan, Comey, and FBI's direct meddling in the election remained stonewalled and hidden for the next two years, until August of 2018.
::*The letter demands an investigation targeting “individuals tied to Trump” to determine if they coordinated with the Russian government “to influence our election.” “The Trump campaign has employed a number of individuals with significant and disturbing ties to Russia and the Kremlin."<ref>https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*w1SItcPqBgDBecaIKAkwgw.png</ref>
::*Reid alludes to Carter Page and repeats an unproven charge from Hillary Clinton's dossier that Page met with two Kremlin officials in Moscow in July 2016 to discuss removing U.S. sanctions on Russia. “Any such meetings should be investigated,” Reid asserted. Brennan is known to have given more than one briefing.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/11/former_cia_director_john_brennan_investigated_for_perjury.html</ref>
::*Brennan briefs Majority Leader McConnell three days after Reid was briefed and sent letter to Comey.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/trump-russia-cia-john-brennan.html</ref>
::*Hillary Clinton then received her first classified briefing — alone, for 2 hours — from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at a Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in White Plains, NY.
:*Randy Credico tells Roger Stone, "Julian Assange has kryptonite on Hillary."
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*'''28 August.''' Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, tells the the ''Financial Times'' of London that “a Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy.” Leshchenko gave the Black Ledger file of the Ukrainian Party of Regions to Alexandra Chalupa and Glenn Simpson; Chalupa gave it to Mike Isiskoff and Simpson gave it to Nellie Ohr. When Isikoff published allegations about Paul Manafort from the files, Manafort resigned the next day. Nellis Ohr and Christopher Steele used some of the Black Ledger file in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>
*'''29 August.''' Obama FBI [[Agent provocateur]] Stefan Halper emails Sam Clovis:
{{quotebox-float|"I am a professor at Cambridge University lecturing on US politics and foreign policy. I am what is called a ‘scholar practitioner,’ having served in the White House and four presidential campaigns — two as policy director. Over the past month I have been in conversation with Carter Page who attended our conference in Cambridge on US elections. Carter mentioned in Cambridge, and when visiting here in Virginia, that you and I should meet. I have enjoyed your comments and appearances in the media; you hit the sweet spot focusing Trump’s appeal to working America. May I suggest that we set a time to meet when you are next in Washington. Meanwhile, all the best, Stefan Halper.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-campaign-vet-informant-used-me-to-get-to-papadopoulos?platform=hootsuite</ref>}}
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*'''30 August.''' Pientka notes on Trump briefing filed.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/dni-declassifies-trump-flynn-defensive-briefing-from-2016-revealing-bureau-was-spying-and-collecting-information-at-the-time-on-trump/</ref>
:*Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages: {{quotebox|09:45:20 Strzok - No, you heard the prebrief for to Andy, then the one to the D. Then you heard the prebrief on Fri to Andy, then this one. You've heard it at least FOUR times. Here we go: Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/harry-reid-russia-tampering-election-fbi.html But Mr. Reid argued that the connections between some of Donald J. Trump\u2019s former and current advisers and the Russian leadership should, by itself, prompt an investigation. He referred indirectly in his letter to a speech given in Russia by one Trump adviser, Carter Page, a consultant and investor in the energy giant Gazprom, who criticized American sanctions policy toward Russia.\n\n\u201cTrump and his people keep saying the election is rigged,\u201d Mr. Reid said. \u201cWhy is he saying that? Because people are telling him the election can be messed with.\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers say they are concerned that unnamed elites could rig the election for his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Lisa Page - D [Dir. Comey] said at am brief that Reid called him and told him he would be sending a letter.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/StrzokPageTexts/FBI-texts_djvu.txt</ref>}} In Lisa Pages July 13 and 16, 2018 interview with the joint House committee Page noted that she remembered the letter sent by Reid, but seemed confused as to Brennan’s involvement and possible knowledge of the ''Steele dossier''. While some within the FBI had parts of the dossier in July, the counterintelligence investigative team didn’t receive it until mid-September during a trip to Rome, where they met personally with Steele. The questioner focused on precisely how Brennan might have been aware of the dossier in August:
:{{quotebox|'''Q''': “So what you’re saying is, is that you had no knowledge of these potential unverified memos prior to the middle part of September in your investigation?” '''Page''': “That is correct, sir.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref>}}
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Strzok and Lisa Page discuss how to circumvent FBI investigation document preservation laws: {{Quotebox|Page - Have a meeting with turgal about getting iphone in a day or so Strzok - Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues? Page - No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . . I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an Clinton email that says everyone is failing. But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/371853-new-fbi-messages-reveal-agents-searching-for-way-to-evade-record</ref>}}
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*'''31 August.''' Perkins Coie makes a payment of $157,753.61 to FusionGPS.

*'''August.''' Strzok and [[Jonathan Moffa]], the section chief over counterintelligence analysis, discuss the use of Confidential Human Sources (CHS) or spies, and the use of liaison with foreign intelligence agencies.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/fbi-official-testimony-surveillance-trump-campaign/</ref>

*'''Late August.''' White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice orders U.S. cyber-security team warning of Russian election meddling to stand down and "knock it off."<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/stand-obama-team-blew-response-russian-meddling-100024634.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw</ref><ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/why-the-hell-are-we-standing-down/</ref>
:*NSA Dir. Admiral Mike Rogers pushed for a counter-cyber-strike against Russia for their actions, proposing a number of potential scenarios, although none of them were presented to President Obama.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html</ref>
:*Christopher Steele goes to Sir Andrew Wood to ask him to act as a go-between to reach Sen. John McCain, trying to give his fake dossier credibility.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/inside-trump-dossier-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html</ref>


===September 2016===
Using a series of intermediaries, the DNC and [[Hillary for America]] (Clinton campaign) paid a private firm to conduct opposition research on candidate Trump and his ties with Russia. FusionGPS (fusion) is the trade name of a Washington, D.C.-based company that conducts research primarily on behalf of corporate clients. [[Marc Elias]], chair of Perkins Coie's election law practice who represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign, hired Fusion in Spring 2016 and paid Fusion $1 million to conduct opposition research on candidate Trump. Fusion subsequently hired former British Secret Intelligence Service officer Christopher Steeie for $160,000 to obtain information on candidate Trump via a Russia-based primary subsource and numerous sub-sub-sources network who were purported to be current and former Russian government officials. The information Steele collected was reported back through a series of memos to Fusion and Perkins Coie. Steele produced sixteen memos, which comprise what has become known as the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2028, pp. 111-112.</ref>

By the end of September 2016 - in addition to Fusion and Perkins Coie - Steele provided the information in the ''Steele dossier'' to the [[DOJ]], [[Department of State]],<ref>"Former State Department official [redacted] has stated publicly that, over a period of approximately two years, he provided over "100 of Steele's reports with the Russia experts at the State Department," including Assistant Secretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]]. In Septemberer 2016, Jonathan Winer was personally briefed by Steele on the dossier, and shared a two-page summary with Nuland, who ensured that Secretary of State [[John Kerry]] was made aware of Steele's information. Additionally, [redacted] received from Clinton associate [redacted] information collected by an individual named [redacted] [[Cody Shearer|Shearer]] which, "alleged the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a sexual and financial nature." Winer shared [redacted]r information with Steele, who provided it to the FBI. [redacted], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/devin-nunes-is-investigating-me-heres-the-truth/2018/02/08/cc621170-0cf4-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4382a310654c "Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here's the truth.,"] ''Washington Post'', Feb. 8, 2018; Susan B. Glaser, "Victoria Nuland: The Full Transcript." ''POLITICO'', Feb. 5, 2018; Appendix G. The Committee believes that additional State Department officials were aware of Steele's efforts in 2016." Footnote 4, p. 113, HPSCI ''Russian Active Measures in the 2016 Election'', March 22, 2018.</ref> numerous press outlets,<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/373131-former-obama-official-confirms-steele-dossier-was-given-to-state</ref> and the FBI.

Marc Elias of Perkins Coie recalled personally being briefed by Christopher Steele on his findings during a late September or early October meeting and formed the impression that "the Fusion folks thought it was important that Mr. Steele hear from me directly that I was aware of his work and was appreciative."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, p. 90.</ref>
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The Obama DOJ's illegal FISA warrant on Carter Page was built on an echo chamber of Hillary Clinton's opposition research among journalists, law enforcement and the intelligence community - all reinforcing each other with the manufactured allegations of the ''Steele dossier''. Michael Isikoff’s September 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article, provided by Christopher Steele, was used to corroborate the Obama DOJ's evidence to the FISA court, which likewise was provided by Christopher Steele.
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The FBI used an informant in an attempt to ensnare Papadopoulos and establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia’s alleged hacking of the DNC emails. Then in January 2017, after Papadopoulos confirmed Mifsud was the source of his claim that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary, and had agreed to cooperate and contact Mifsud, and after the FBI “located” Mifsud in D.C., the FBI didn’t use Papadopoulos to ensnare the supposed Russian-agent whose purported foreknowledge of the hack justified the launch of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
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*'''1 September.''' Agent Provocateur Stefan Halper meets with Sam Clovis. The plan for this operation was for Halper to ask about Papadopoulos and Carter Page "because they were ... unknowns" and the Crossfire Hurricane team was trying to find out how "these two individuals who are not known in political circles ... [got] introduced to the campaign."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 80.</ref>
*'''2 September.''' Lisa Page wrote about preparing talking points for Dir. James Comey: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “'''[[POTUS|potus]] wants to know everything we’re doing.'''”<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2018/02/fbi-text-message-potus-wants-know-everything/</ref>}} The text raises questions about Obama’s involvement in an ongoing FBI investigation.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-texts-obama-wants-know-everything-we-re-doing-n845531</ref>

:*Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts about writing an op-ed, likely the same opinion piece Director Comey discussed with President Obama in August 2016: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “Got it. But we are still writing the op-ed, yes?” Strzok - “Yes, ish. He said too much data would be good to identify the key pieces of data and frame it in an argument, but not to spend ‘too much time on the opening or closing.’ I told him we were too much of perfectionists to not do all of it.”}}

:*Stefan Halper initiates unsolicited contact with George Papadopoulos by email. Halper offers Papadopoulos $3,000 to write a policy paper on issues related to Turkey, [[Cyprus]], [[Israel]] and the Leviathan natural gas field. Halper offers to pay for Papadopoulos’s flight and a three-night stay in London. In London Halper introduces Papadopolous to CIA/FBI asset [[Azra Turk]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html</ref>
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*FBI releases some documents from the now terminated Hillary Clinton email investigation under the [[Freedom of Information Act]].<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-documents-in-hillary-clinton-e-mail-investigation</ref><ref>http://wordpress.redirectingat.com/?id=725X1342&site=theconservativetreehouse.wordpress.com&xs=1&isjs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F322860635&xguid=&xuuid=588a6ed7067ae07312dcf83a11d9c228&xsessid=&xcreo=0&xed=0&sref=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2F2018%2F02%2F08%2Fmike-is-out-michael-p-kortan-quits-fbi%2F&pref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F&xtz=420</ref> The release includes interviews (FBI form 302). Some details from the July 2, 2016 (302) interview with Hillary Clinton is intentionally withheld.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/322860731/Clinton-FBI-Emails-File-2?ad_group=725X700959X044dae4a90d5eb36212ea25ed72daf15&campaign=Skimbit%2C+Ltd.&content=10079&irgwc=1&keyword=ft750noi&medium=affiliate&source=impactradius</ref>

*'''5 September.''' Lisa Page sends Strzok a link to the ''Washington Post'' article titled, ''U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections'':<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-community-investigating-covert-russian-influence-operations-in-the-united-states/2016/09/04/aec27fa0-7156-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5d63642955aa</ref> {{quotebox|Strzok - “This is the one [redacted] was talking about I think.” Lisa Page - “Yup. It is very well sourced. 100% authorized.” Strzok - “Just read the article. We say a lot of the same things. I guess that’s O.K.” Lisa Page - “Yeah, but that’s why ours is going to need to be more folksy. So it’s not like a news article.”<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-page-and-strzok-texts-reveal-they-discussed-writing-a-folksy-op-ed-on-russia/</ref>}} The ''WaPo'' story refers to the Harry Reid briefing, stating, “After Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) ended a secure 30-minute phone briefing given by a top intelligence official recently, he was “deeply shaken,” according to an aide who was with Reid when he left the secure room at the FBI’s Las Vegas office.”
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page: {{quotebox|Strzok - “I have really no faith the administration will deal with it effectively.”}}
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{quotebox|Strzok - “And ooh, you’re at ODNI on Wed. LX? Me too!” “Gotta figure that out tomorrow. Insider threat perhaps. Maybe Electoral shenanigans. I’m between Clapper and Evanina and another person or two.”}}
:*Brennan completes Gang of Eight briefings.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371002694/Senator-Ron-Johnson-Appendix-C-Documents-and-Text-Messages</ref>
:*Hillary Clinton accuses Russia of interfering with U.S. election.

*'''7 September.''' U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Corney and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding "U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server."<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/29/breaking-russia-believed-clinton-was-planning-anti-trump-collusion-campaign-in-2016-and-u-s-officials-knew-it/</ref>

*'''7 - 8 September.''' Intelligence and National Security Summit was held, which was attended by Clapper, Shawn Henry, Adam Schiff, Andrew McCabe, John Carlin, Stuart Evans, Adm. Mike Rogers, William Evanina, Comey and Brennan. Strzok may have also attended.<ref>http://events.jspargo.com/inss16/public/sessions.aspx?View=Sessions&ID=61671&sortMenu=102001</ref>

*'''8 September.''' Ken Dilanian, Robert Windrem and William Arkin published the article ''What Really Happened at Donald Trump’s Intelligence Briefing'' in NBC News.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/u-s-official-donald-trump-s-body-language-claim-doesn-n644856</ref>
:*Congress discovers that [[Paul Combetta]] of Platte River Networks (PRN), who wiped Hillary Clinton's email server with BleachBit, was granted immunity by the DOJ.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/22/how-reddit-ruined-the-hillary-clinton-campaign/</ref>

*'''10 September.''' Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|Strzok - “there are VERY inflammatory things in the 302s we didn’t turn over to [Congress]…that are going to come out in FOIA and absolutely inflames Congress. I’m sure Jim [Baker] and Trisha [Trisha Beth Anderson] and Dave [Laufmen] and Mike [Kortan] are all considering how things like that play out as they talk amongst themselves.”}}
:*"302s" is a reference to Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 FBI interview withheld from Congress; Strzok is admitting that a group at the highest levels of the FBI including himself, James Baker, Trisha Anderson, Lisa Page, and others conspired to withhold information from the September 2, 2016 release of Hillary Clinton's FBI interview from Congress and the American people.

*'''11 September.''' Brennan on CBS’s ''Face the Nation'' claims the FBI is investigating the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails. The FBI never investigated the alleged DNC hack.

*'''13 September.''' Papadopoulos meets with Halper in London. Halper is Source 2 in OIG Michael Horowitz's ''FISA Abuse Report'' and has connections to CIA & UK Intelligence.
:*Halper asked Papadopoulos whether help "from a third party like Wikileaks for example or some other third party like the Russians, could be incredibly helpful" in securing a campaign victory, Papadopoulos responded that the "campaign, of course, does not advocate for this type of activity because at the end of the day it's illegal." Papadopoulos also stated that the campaign is not "reaching out to Wikileaks or to whoever it is to tell them please work with us, collaborate because we don't, no one does that. " The Crossfire Hurricane team did not provide information about this meeting to the NSD Office of Intelligence attorneys handling the Carter Page FISA applications.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 80.</ref>
:*The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office also reached out to Papadopoulos sometime in September. Papadopoulos later tweeted, {{quotebox|"Stefan Halper lured me to London so that the British [[MI6]] could spy on the campaign, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited me to their offices to talk about Trump and what a threat him supporting Brexit was.”}}

:*Paul Combetta of Platte River Networks appears before a Congressional oversight committee and invokes the [[Fifth Amendment]] privilege against self-incrimination, refusing to testify.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-23/hillary-emailgate-how-one-twitter-user-proved-intent-fbi-missed-after-months-investi</ref>
:*The nonprofit First Draft, funded by [[Google]], whose parent company is run by major Hillary Clinton supporter and donor [[Eric Schmidt]], announces initiative to tackle “fake news.” It appears to be the first use of the phrase in its modern context.
[[[[File:Jake 'al Qaeda is on our side' Sullivan.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Jake Sullivan was intimately involved in the Russiagatte conspiracy early on. He later worked as Biden's National Security Advisor and was deeply invovled in the 2022 Donbas war provocation.]]
*'''14 September.''' Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announces that no Intelligence Community-wide damage assessment into Secretary Clinton’s email practices would be conducted, in violation of Intelligence Community Directive ICD 732. ODNI ignores all subsequent [[FOIA]] requests.
:*Strzok attended an NSA briefing.
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*'''15 September.''' Marc Elias exchanged emails with John Podesta, Jennifer Palmeri, and [[Jake Sullivan]] concerning Alfa Bank allegations the [[Michael Sussmann]] had recently shared with a reporter. Elias billed his time for this correspondence to the Clinton Campaign with the billing entry, "email correspondence with Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Jennifer Palmeri re: Alfa Bank Article.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/23/biden_security_adviser_sullivan_tied_to_16_clinton_plan_to_co-opt_cia_and_fbi_to_tar_trump_795498.html</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/u1xGYDMjG5E</ref><ref>https://www.justice.gov/sco/press-release/file/1433511/download</ref>
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*Steele dated three installment memos of the dossier on this date. One of the memos referenced a Russian bank named Alfa Bank, misspelled as “Alpha” in his memo.
:*The SIGINT or signals intelligence, used to frame the false Alfa Bank story, appears to have come from entities with access to the NSA database who were doing work to assist the overall Trump-Russia narrative construction. Those unlawfully obtained findings were manipulated and unlawfully extracted; then passed along to computer scientists who had the role to provide technical support for the media to use in selling a false story.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/08/evidence-surfaces-of-john-durham-grand-jury-team-following-deep-state-rabbit-hole-leading-to-ssci-effort/</ref> Evidence of more illegal FISA abuse and spying by contractors.

*'''Mid-to-late September.''' Michael J. Gaeta,<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/the_war_economy/status/990900084190666754?lang=en</ref> Steele’s FBI contact, tells Steele the agency wants to see his opposition research “right away” and offers to pay him $50,000 for solid corroboration of his salacious, unverified claims. Steele flew to Rome, Italy to meet with FBI and provide a “full briefing.” FBI paid Steele's airfare.
:*Lisa Page testified that the team working on Crossfire Hurricane received documents and a briefing from Steele in mid-September, reportedly at a meeting in Rome, where Gaeta was also present. The team received the “reports that are known as the dossier from an FBI agent who is Christopher Steele’s handler in September of 2016.” She would later clarify the timing, noting, “We received the reporting from Steele in mid-September.”
:*Fusion boss Glenn Simpson later testified what Steele told him about the meeting: {{Quotebox|"Essentially, what [Christopher Steele] told me was [the FBI] had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source, and that — that they — my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump campaign."}}

*'''16 September.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr to say that he would be back in Washington soon "on business of mutual interest." Ohr said he would be out of town Sept. 19-21.
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*CNN reports [[John Brennan]] voted for the presidential candidate of the [[Communist party]] during the [[Cambodian genocide]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/</ref> Both the CPUSA and [[Khmer Rouge]] who carried out the communist genocide of 3,000,000 innocent people, where [[Moscow]] funded and directed agents of Soviet foreign policy.<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/841</ref>
[[File:Sussman.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Origins of Alfa Bank hoax]]
*'''19 September.''' FBI general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] met with Perkins Coie partner [[Michael Sussmann]], who had sought out the meeting. Baker told Congressional lawmakers that Sussmann presented him with “a stack of material I don’t know maybe a quarter inch half inch thick something like that clipped together, and then I believe there was some type of electronic media, as well, a disk or something.” The information that Sussmann gave to Baker was related to what Baker described as “a surreptitious channel of communications” between the Trump Organization and “a Russian organization associated with the Russian Government.”<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/21/baker-testimony-reveals-perkins-coie-lawyer-provided-fbi-with-information-on-alfa-bank-allegations/</ref>
:*Baker was describing alleged communications between Alfa Bank and a server in the Trump Tower. These allegations, which were investigated by the FBI and proven to be false, were widely covered in the media.
:*Baker’s testimony also shows that Sussmann was speaking with the media at the same time he had approached Baker, who noted that '''Sussmann had also provided the info to the media''' and had told him that “the ''New York Times'' was aware of this.”
:*Comey, McCabe, Stzok and Priestap were all involved.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/21/baker-testimony-reveals-perkins-coie-lawyer-provided-fbi-with-information-on-alfa-bank-allegations/</ref>
:*Baker testified that the FBI approached ''The New York Times'' and convinced the newspaper to hold off on its reporting while the FBI investigated Sussmann’s information.

*Hillary Clinton meets with Ukrainian President Poroshenko meets at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
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*'''21 September.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr to say he was in Washington and was "keen to meet up with you." The two agreed to have breakfast on Sept. 23. Meeting on that date would be "more useful," Steele said, "after my scheduled meetings" the day before.

*''Daily Mail'' publishes interview with 15 year old and her father alleging she had an online sexual relationship with [[Anthony Weiner]] beginning 23 January 2016. FBI New York Field office, led by Preet Bharara, issues Weiner [[subpoena]] for his electronic devices shortly after. First indication of the [[Weiner laptop]] controversy.
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*'''22 September.''' In motion to dismiss class action lawsuit brought by Sanders supporters, DNC lawyers argue plaintiffs knew that the DNC was biased toward Clinton over Sanders when they donated, so therefore how could they have been duped if they already knew.<ref>http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dnc-files-scathing-rebuttal-wants-fraud-lawsuit-filed-by-bernie-backers-thrown-out/</ref>

*'''23 September.''' Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele meet for breakfast. Ohr testified that “Steele was in Washington, D.C., again, and he reached out to me, and, again, we met for breakfast, and he provided some additional information.” Ohr said this meeting concerned similar topics that were discussed at the July 30, 2016, meeting, but did not provide further details.

:*'''''Yahoo News'' and Michael Isikoff'''.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref> Michael Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' publishes an article based on the information Steele personally leaked to Isikoff and several other media outlets at the direction of FusionGPS. The information focuses on Carter Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. [[Perkins Coie]] hosted the journalists' meeting with Steele where the matter was discussed.
::*Isikoff’s article would later be used by the FBI in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant application to spy on Carter Page, as if it were corroborating information despite the FBI knowing Steele was the source.
:::*Steele is later fired from the FBI as an unreliable for leaking to media and violating agency rules.
:::*According to the Isikoff article, Congress was briefed on the contents of the ''Steele dossier'' by the FBI.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref>
:::*Following the publication of Isikoff’s article, [[Hillary for America]] released a statement on the same day touting Isikoff’s “bombshell report” with the full article attached.
:::*Steele testified that he “briefed” ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Yahoo News'', ''The New Yorker'', and CNN at the end of September 2016.
:::*Steele would engage in a second round of media contact in mid-October 2016, meeting again with ''The New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', and ''Yahoo News''. Steele testified that all these meetings were “conducted verbally in person.”<ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzgzy2KXyxqtVUxEb2pwRmphOXM/view</ref>
::*''Politico'' publishes a lengthy article, “Who Is Carter Page? The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow,” by Julia Ioffe. This article appears to highlight FusionGPS's media campaign: {{quotebox|“As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate ‘corporate investigators’ digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians. One is working on behalf of various unnamed Democratic donors; the other won’t say who turned him on to Page’s scent. Both claimed to me that the FBI was investigating Page for allegedly meeting with Igor Sechin and Sergei Ivanov, who was until recently Putin’s chief of staff—both of whom are on the sanctions list—when Page was in Moscow in July for that speech.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283</ref>}} Ioffe noted that “seemingly everyone I talked to had also talked to the ''Washington Post'', and then there were these corporate investigators who drew a dark and complex web of Page’s connections.” Her article also mentioned rumors regarding Alfa Bank: {{quotebox|“In the interest of due diligence, I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings because Sechin and Ivanov were both sanctioned for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”}}
*'''24 September.''' Nellie Ohr leaves FusionGPS for full-time employment elsewhere.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 271, 396.</ref> Nellie Ohr and the Ohr family household benefited and had been paid $44,000 for the false reporting on the Trump campaign. Bruce Ohr never reported the financial [[conflict of interest]] to his superiors.
*'''26 September.''' Carter Page resigns from Trump campaign.
:*John Carlin files DOJ-NSD proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications. Carlin failed to disclose the January 7, 2016 Inspector General Report and associated FISA Abuse to the FISA Court in his 2016 Certification. Carlin also failed to disclose Adm. Rogers’ ongoing Compliance Review.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>

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*A federal search warrant was obtained for Anthony Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.
:*Comey finds out about Weiner laptop.<ref>[https://t.co/fcXkUbth6C Comey transcript, December 8, 2018. Question and response from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, p. 172-173].</ref>

*'''26-27 September.''' Clinton email IG Report states: {{quotebox|'''The case agent assigned to the Weiner investigation was certified as a Digital Extraction Technician''' and, as such, had the training and skills to extract digital evidence from electronic devices. The case agent told the OIG that he began processing Weiner’s devices upon receipt on September 26. The case agent stated that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop.” The case agent told us that on either the evening of September 26 or the morning of September 27, he noticed the software program on his workstation '''was having trouble processing the data''' on the laptop.}}
:*The case aagent saw at least one BlackBerry PIN message between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, as well as emails between them. He saw emails associated with “about seven domains,” such as yahoo.com, state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hillaryclinton.com. The case agent immediately notified his FBI New York Office (NYO) chain of command, and the information was ultimately briefed to NYO Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC)
::Sundance summarizes: {{quotebox|The New York Case Agent then describes how inconsistent metadata within the computer files for the emails and Blackberry communications, made it impossible for successful extraction. The FBI NY case agent and the Quantico FBI forensics agent agree on the metadata issue and the inability to use their software programs for extraction and layered comparison for the purposes of de-duplication. Both NY and Quantico contradict the statement to the IG by FBI Agent Peter Strzok. However, that contradiction, while presented in a factual assertion by the IG, is entirely overlooked and never reconciled within the inspector general report.}}
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*'''27 September.''' [[John Carlin]] tenders resignation effective October 15, 2016 in the wake of the NSA compliance officer's investigation of FISA Section 702 abuses, i.e. illegal domestic spying and data collection on US persons by the Obama administration,<ref>https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-justice-departments-national-security-division-to-step-down/2016/09/27/59cb95c4-84e6-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.639ad0793c2d</ref> From here until October 21, 2016 it becomes a race between the DOJ-NSD and Adm. Mike Rogers to the FISA Court - Carlin's NSD to get a 90 day FISA Title I approval for the conspirators "insurance policy" against the [[Trump transition]], and Rogers to report Obama administration abuses to the Court uncovered in the Compliance review.
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*Agent Provocateur Stefan Halper paid $244,960 by US Government.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/23673597</ref>
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*'''28 September.''' On Capital Hill for a day of testimony, FBI Dir. James Comey [[perjury|perjurors]] himself before the House Governmental Affairs Oversight Committee. In response to a question from Rep. [[John Ratcliffe]], Comey testified his decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton came after her 2 July interview with the FBI. Subsequent internal FBI documents reveal Comey decided against recommending prosecution more than six weeks earlier, while the investigation was still in progress.<ref>https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/01/james-comey-may-have-committed-perjury-chaffetz-says</ref>
{{Quotebox|Mr. RATCLIFFE. ...If there was ever any possibility that something Hillary Clinton might have said on July 2 could have possibly resulted in criminal charges that might possibly have resulted in a trial against her relating to this classified information, well, then, to use your words, Director, I don’t think that there is any reasonable prosecutor out there who would have allowed two immunized witnesses central to the prosecution proving the case against her to sit in the room with the interview, the FBI interview, of the subject of that investigation. And if I heard you earlier today, in your long career, I heard you say that you have never had that circumstance. Is that—did I hear you correctly? Mr. COMEY. That is correct, but—— Mr. RATCLIFFE. Okay. And I never have either, and I have never met a prosecutor that has ever had that. So, to me, the only way that an interview takes place with the two central witnesses and the subject of the investigation is if the decision has already been made that all three people in that room are not going to be charged. Mr. COMEY. Can I respond? Mr. RATCLIFFE. Yes. Please. Mr. COMEY. I know in our political lives sometimes people casually accuse each other of being dishonest, but if colleagues of ours believe I am lying about when I made this decision, please urge them to contact me privately so we can have a conversation about this. All I can do is to tell you again, the decision was made after that, because I didn’t know what was going to happen in that interview...<ref>
[https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjudiciary.house.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2F114-91_22125.pdf%3Ffref%3Dgc%26dti%3D158028727907294&h=ATPoKhbdjYgraEMzI5tXw7b9qJ5bNXpaJDgnxKgy4gSp4G5hewfV31hRR6DB-dyJ3_3-C6gk-G63C486UxMct8CG6_6O6z11jpVIhVL7onBqxxDXLMtXf8rxrEGqeBh0Tjvh5QHOCgw OVERSIGHT OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 page 88 PDF]</ref>}}That same day in response to questions from the House Judiciary Committee about an ongoing [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation, Comey said "our standard is we do not confirm or deny the existence of investigations." Comey says of the Clinton email investigation: {{quotebox|This case was investigated by a group of professionals, so if I blew it, they blew it too. Career FBI agents, the very best we have were put on this case.}} Three of these career professionals, McCabe, Strzok, and Lisa Page, have since been fired or resigned. All face criminal prosecution. Comey complains, "Don't call us weasels."<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/james-comey-not-weasels-clinton-email-228835</ref>
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*'''McCabe notified of Weiner laptop.''' McCabe and 39 senior FBI executives notified by NY Assistant Director In Charge (ADIC) via secure video teleconference (SVTC) of 347,000 emails relevant to the Clinton email investigation on Weiner's laptop. Comey was not present for the SVTC.<ref>https://youtu.be/sBNkLF6_vHQ</ref>
:*McCabe told the OIG that he recalled talking to Comey about the issue “right around the time [McCabe] found out about it.”
:*The emails in question appear to be insurance Weiner held to pull strings with Hillary Clinton as leverage should he get into trouble.
:*McCabe informs Priestap and Strzok.
:*Strzok to Lisa Page text message: {{quotebox|“Got called up to Andy [McCabe]’s earlier ...hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by [[Anthony Weiner|Weiner]]’s atty to sdny [ [[Preet Bharara]] ], includes a ton of material from spouse [ [[Huma Abedin]] ]. Sending team up [to New York] tomorrow to review... this will neverend...”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senior-fbi-agents-knew-of-new-clinton-emails-from-anthony-wieners-laptop-weeks-before-congress-was-informed-report/article/2647765</ref>}} Strzok later said a conference call with NYO was scheduled instead.

*'''28-29 September.''' Priestap and NY ADIC discuss the limited scope of the Weiner search warrant (i.e., the need to obtain additional legal process to review any Clinton-related email on the Weiner laptop).

*'''29 September.''' '''FBI in possession of Weiner laptop'''. Conference call between NYO and five members (Strzok and [[Tashina Gauhar]] included) of the Clinton email team participated. Notes from the conference call indicate the participants discussed the presence of a large volume of emails (350,000) on the Weiner laptop and specific domain names, including clintonemail.com and state.gov. The Clinton email investigation Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) said that NYO also mentioned seeing BlackBerry domain emails on the Weiner laptop.
*OIG found that by this date FBI executives and the FBI Midyear [Clinton email investigation] team had learned every fact necessary that was cited by the FBI in late October as justification for obtaining the search warrant for the Weiner laptop, including that the laptop contained:
:* Over 340,000 emails, some of which were from domains associated with Clinton, including state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hiyllaryclinton.com;
:* Numerous emails between Clinton and Abedin;
:* An unknown number of Blackberry communications on the laptop, including one or more messages between Clinton and Abedin, indicating the possibility that the laptop contained communications from the first three months of Clinton’s tenure; and
:* Emails dated beginning in 2007 and covering the '''entire period of Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State''' [i.e., including the supposed "lost" emails].
:*Strzok, Gauhar, and [[Sally Moyer]] appointed to review Weiner laptop.
::*The Washington FBI Clinton email team claimed in interviews with the OIG that they did not learn these facts until the October 26, 2016 conference call with the New York field office and SDNY. They thought the case had been whitewashed and closed, and Hillary would win anyway. Now the New York office and prosecutors were in possession of relevant facts.
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*Randy Credico, WikiLeaks source for Roger Stone, exchanges texts with Stone prior to Podesta email leak:
:Credico - “You are not going to drag my name into this are you"
:Stone - "No"
:Credico - “Leave my name out Im going to be all screwed up today."
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*CEPA Forum was hosted at the Meridian International Center in Washington, DC, where it was attended by Director General Mikk Marran, Michael Weiss and Lawfare’s [[Benjamin Wittes]], a friend of James Comey and James Baker (DOJ).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170713171014/https://www.cepaforum.org/2016/Program</ref>
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*'''30 September.''' Inspector General report on [[Awan investigation|Imran Awan]] and his family members; they were logging into the servers of members who had previously fired him, funneling data off the network, and that evidence “suggests steps are being taken to conceal their activity.” Shortly after the Clinton email IG Report came out in September 2016, the Caucus server — identified as prime evidence in the cybersecurity case — physically disappeared. No official body has ever publicly provided any information about the case.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/20/ig-pakistani-mystery-man-imran-awan/</ref>
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*Perkins Coie makes a payment of $144,643.46 to FusionGPS.
*'''September.''' Steele admitted to [[Bruce Ohr]] that he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," according to Ohr and FBI documents. In the same period Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by FusionGPS to assist in writing the ''Steele dossier''. Bruce Ohr's relationship with Steele and FusionGPS was concealed by the DOJ and FBI from the FISA court.
:*Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.
[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. The FBI asked Deripaska for assistance peddling the Russia collusion hoax. Andrew McCabe has been the FBI's chief contact with Deripaska since 2009.]]
:*According to [[Adam Waldman]]'s account, [[Oleg Deripaska]] was approached by three FBI agents in New York; at least one agent (McCabe) had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. According to [[David Ignatius]] of ''[[WaPo]]'':
{{quotebox-float|“We think Russia is colluding with the Trump campaign, and we think Manafort is the key guy,” one of the agents told Deripaska, according to the knowledgeable source. The oligarch responded, “I hate Manafort, and I’m suing him.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>}}
:[[John Solomon]] of ''The Hill'' reported,
{{Quotebox-float|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}
:*[[Adam Lovinger]], who holds a doctorate in law and is a professor at [[Georgetown University]], was working in the [[Office of Net Assessment (ONA)]] as a strategist. His position within the specialized think tank required a top-level security clearance. Lovinger had grown increasingly concerned over the ONA’s use of outside contractors, due in part to the “problem of [[cronyism]]” and a growing “revolving door policy” that resulted from ONA analysts leaving to join the better-paid ranks of private contractors. Lovinger wrote the first in a series of emails to ONA’s new director, James H. Baker, who had recently been appointed by Obama’s Defense Secretary. From Lovinger’s September email: {{quotebox|"On the issue of quality, more than once I have heard our contractor studies labeled ‘derivative,’ ‘college-level’ and based heavily on secondary sources. One of our contractor studies was literally cut and pasted from a [[World Bank]] report that I just happened to have read the week before reading the contractor study itself. Even the font was the same.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/24/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-dod-official-awarded-investigators-of-his-case-with-military-medals/</ref>}} The contractor being referenced was Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), whose president is Jacqueline Newmyer. [[Chelsea Clinton]] and Newmyer were at each other’s weddings, and in 2011 Chelsea referred to Newmyer as her “best friend.”<ref>http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/chelsea-clinton-talks-shakespeare-5312140/</ref> According to USAspending.gov, LTSG has received approximately $14 million in contracts since 2007.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/3ec765b6f0e1469daea629338557b208</ref> In a 2015 article by [[Bill Gertz]] of the ''[[Washington Free Beacon]]'', it was reported that in 2009, Hillary Clinton had arranged meetings between Newmyer and Pentagon officials that involved contracting discussions.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-sought-pentagon-state-department-contracts-chelseas-friend/</ref>
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:*Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]], George Kent, emphasized in an email to his colleagues, {{quotebox|“Furthermore, the presence of [[Hunter Biden]] on the [[Burisma]] board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.”}} In early 2015 Kent raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a [[conflict of interest]] with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns went unaddressed.<ref>[https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns], U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. September 23, 2020, p. 4.</ref>
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*'''Late September.''' Jonathan Winer is shown copy of [[Cody Shearer]] Memo by Sidney Blumenthal. Winer shares a copy of Shearer’s Memo with Steele. Steele will later share Shearer’s Memo with the FBI.
:*Steele and Simpson meet with the ''Washington Post'' for two hours.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-or-hired-gun-how-a-british-former-spy-became-a-flash-point-in-the-russia-investigation/2018/02/06/94ea5158-0795-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.adf409679cbf</ref>

*'''End of September.''' Simpson and Steele meet with reporters, including ''New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', Yahoo News, the ''New Yorker'' and CNN or ABC. One meeting is at office of Democratic National Committee general counsel [[Marc Elias]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/the-crusade-of-a-democratic-super-lawyer-with-multimillion-dollar-backing/2016/08/07/2c1b408c-5a54-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ca1b2370c49f</ref> Elias is secretly the front man paying FusionGPS on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
:*Agents at both the FBI and CIA, people on Capitol Hill, and other people at other intelligence agencies were leaking information on the investigation of Trump and Russia to ''The New York Times''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/public-editor/trump-russia-fbi-liz-spayd-public-editor.html</ref>

*'''Fall.''' Christopher Steele and Orbis International business partner [[Christopher Burrows]] meet with Sir [[Richard Dearlove]]. Dearlove advised Steele and Burrows to work discreetly with a top British government official to pass along information to the FBI.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-or-hired-gun-how-a-british-former-spy-became-a-flash-point-in-the-russia-investigation/2018/02/06/94ea5158-0795-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.79f2e9f6fa14</ref>
:*"'''As Obama’s director for Ukraine on the NSC, [Eric] Ciaramella was the main force pushing Trump-Russia conspiracy theories."'''<ref>https://archive.is/JLK0t#selection-213.16-213.131</ref>
:*FBI general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] met with attorney from [[Perkins Coie]], lawyer for the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before</ref>

*'''Late September or early October.''' Bruce Ohr had a meeting with Strzok, Lisa Page, and two or three DOJ career officials from the criminal division: Bruce Swartz, [[Zainab Ahmad]], and [[Andrew Weissmann]]; Ohr testified that he was unsure whether Weismann was at this or a later meeting.

===October 2016===
In October 2016 there are at least five major issues consuming the Obama Department of Justice and FBI simultaneously:
:*The rebuke of the [[FISA court]] for 702 contractor abuse;
:*Hoaxing the FISA court to obtain a FISA Title I surveillance warrant;
:*The [[Weiner laptop]];
:*Andrew McCabe's conflict of interest and recusal;
:*Andrew McCabe directing leaks to the ''Wall Street Journal'' to refute allegations of a conflict of interest.
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From 2013 until ten days before he joined the Trump camapiagn, [[Carter Page]] was a paid informant for the U.S. government to help convict a Russian intelligence agent. Carter Page was listed as an Under-Cover Employee [UCE-1 in court documents].

DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel wanted a "legal" way to spy on the Trump campaign. The highest levels of the Obama DOJ and FBI asked for and received [[FISA]] Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page in October 2016. The Obama DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew Carter Page was not a Russian spy, misreprsented facts and perpetrated a fraud upon the FISA court. The authority became the "legal" cover for their own criminal intent and actions.

The “Title I” designation as a foreign agent applied '''retroactively''' to any action taken by Mr. Page, and auto-generates an exponential list of other people he came in contact with. Each of those people, groups or organizations could now have their communication reviewed, unmasked and analyzed by the DOJ/FBI with the same surveillance authority granted upon the target, Mr. Page. The [[Stormy Daniels]] payment scheme, for example, was discovered by the Obama DOJ illegal FISA Title I abuse. All electronic communications by the Trump campaign are in the hands of [[Robert Mueller]]. James Comey never informed Congress of the surveillance, as required by law, because Comey knew it was illegal.

FISA Title I surveillance of U.S. citizens is the most intrusive, exhaustive and far reaching type of search, seizure and surveillance authority, permitting the FBI to look at every aspect of Mr. Page’s life. All communication, travel and contact can be opened and reviewed. All aspects of any of Mr. Page’s engagements are subject to being secretly monitored. This is an entirely different level of surveillance authority, the highest possible, and outside FISA-702 search queries (Title VII) of US persons.

Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a US citizen is so serious, only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants. One of the four people authorized to make such a filing is the Asst. Attn. Gen. [[John P. Carlin]] who was head of the DOJ National Security Division. Carlin who, together with the FBI counterintelligence unit, vetted Carter Page as an FBI Under-Cover Employee to gain a guilty plea from a Russian operative in early 2016, then turned around six months later in October 2016 when things weren't going so well for [[Hillary Clinton]] and accused Carter Page of being a Russian Spy.

There was a secret agreement between the CIA and the FBI that was kept hidden from the FISA court until October 2016 when NSA Director Mike Rogers exposed and reported it. The agreement centered around “access to FBI systems“; the overarching issue was “deliberate decision making” that led to “contractor access to the NSA database”, and the fact those contractors were searching “U.S. persons”.

CIA contractors were using FBI portal access ''per'' the secret agreement to exploit the NSA database and extract search results. The CIA is not supposed to be conducting surveillance, aka “spying”, inside the U.S. on American citizens.

In the secret agreement, unknown to the FISA court, the CIA was hiding their extraction of U.S. person information by using FBI database access through the DOJ-NSD ([[Department of Justice-National Security Division]]).

In 2015 the Office of Inspector General requested oversight and it was Deputy AG [[Sally Yates]] who denied access. All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the NSD. The secret MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the CIA and FBI was the reason why the DOJ-NSD would not allow inspector general oversight.
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The information in the FISA application relied upon to establish probable cause to believe that Carter Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential election activities was based upon Christopher Steele's reporting. This reporting included the alleged secret meetings between Page and Russian officials in July 2016 described in Steele's Report 94. The most descriptive information in the FISA application of alleged coordination between Carter Page and Russia came from Steele's Report 95, which attributed the information to "Source E," Serge Millian.

The FISA application stated that, according to Millian, Carter Page was an intermediary between Russian leadership and an individual associated with the Trump campaign (Manafort) in a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" that led to the disclosure of hacked DNC emails by Wikileaks in exchange for the Trump campaign team's agreement, which the FBI assessed included at least Carter Page, to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue. The application also stated that this same sub-source provided information contained in Steele's Report 80 that the Kremlin had been feeding information to Trump's campaign for an extended period of time and that the information had reportedly been "very helpful," as well as information contained in Report 102 that the DNC email leak had been done, at least in part, to swing supporters from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. The FBI had no independent corroboration for this information.

Although Christopher Steele was fired by the FBI for speaking to the media and violating FBI regulations days after his unverified information was used to hoax the FISA court, not only was the court never informed the initial FISA application was based on information that FBI regulations deemed unreliable, the DOJ/FBI used the Steele information three more times over the next year to secure three more 90 day warrant extensions. While they were busy hoaxing the FISA court with bogus information, Comey, Clapper and Brennan all testified to Congress the information was unverified.
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[[File:Screenshot-www.salon .com-2019.07.22-15 07 59.png|right|350px|thumb|Patrick Lawrence of ''Salon'' was on to the hoax from the start.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/22/ray-mcgovern-a-non-hack-that-raised-hillarys-hackles/</ref>]]
To kill speculation about reopening Hillary Clinton's email investigation, the New York FBI and DOJ Eastern District of New York (EDNY) prosecutors were threatened by Washington DC Main Justice and FBI headquarters, via [[Loretta Lynch]] and [[Andrew McCabe]], to drop the Clinton/Abedin/Weiner email investigation, concede the Clinton email investigation to DC, or else the DOJ Civil Rights Division would be used as leverage against the New York Police Department (NYPD, whom NY FBI and SDNY work closely with) to re-open the Eric Garner case (Garner was a black man killed in police custody while in a choke hold in 2014). Loretta Lynch had the Southern District of New York (SDNY) US Attorney [[Preet Bharara]] on stand by as the enforcer.
The Clinton emails on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop were never looked at. The FBI and DOJ fully expected Hillary Clinton to win.
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FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe instructed FBI lawyer [[Lisa Page]] and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to work with ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Devlin Barrett on reports about sizeable campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia state senate. McCabe subsequently denied he authorized the leaks, and in March 2018 was fired for lying to investigators when Lisa Page's text messages proved otherwise.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/05/new-details-about-basis-for-andrew-mccabes-firing-from-fbi-revealed.html</ref> In the interim, McCabe served as Acting FBI Director while Deputy Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Robert Mueller to head up the Russia collusion hoax investigation.
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The IG found
{{quotebox-float|In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related [Clinton] investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations. Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, and the implication in some of these text messages, particularly Strzok’s August 8 text message (“we’ll stop” candidate Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. Under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.}}
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*'''October.''' U.S. State Department Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden personally, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian [[disinformation]] efforts and risked undermining U.S. anticorruption policy in Ukraine.<ref>Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. September 23, 2020, p. 4.</ref>
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*'''Early October.''' Crossfire Hurricane team meets with Christopher Steele in Europe. Gaeta, Moffa other members of the Crossfire Hurricane team in attendance.
:*Steele identifies Oleg Deripaska as his primary subsource, and Serge Millian as Deripaska's subource 1. Paul Manafort was involved in litigation with Deripaska, and Steele had a relationship with Adam Waldman and possibly Paul Hauser, attorneys representing Deripaska.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 108-114.</ref>
:*Steele describes Millian as a "boaster" and "egotist" and "may engage in some embellishment." FBI did not provide this description of Millian to NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI) for inclusion in the Carter Page FISA applications despite relying on Millian's information to establish probable cause in the applications.
:*Steele claims the Russian intelligence officer whom Carter Page assisted the Department of Justice to gather evidence against was Page's Russian handler; the DOJ investigated Steele's allegation and no evidence was found to substantiate Steele's allegation.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 111.</ref>
:*Steele informs Crossfire Hurricane team that he has given reports to Jonathan Winer of the State Department.
:*Crossfire Hurricane team discloses classified information on the Papadopoulos, Flynn, Manafort, and Carter Page investigations to Christopher Steele. Steele advised that he was unaware of Papadopoulos.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 114, fn 250.</ref>
:*FBI offers to pay [[Christopher Steele]] for physical evidence of specific individuals involved in facilitating the supposed Trump campaign-Russian relationship, such as emails, photos, ledgers, memorandums etc.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 109-110, 113.</ref>
*'''Early October.''' Steele meets in New York with David Corn, Washington-bureau chief of ''Mother Jones''.
:*Adam Lovinger wrote a second email to [[James H. Baker (DOD)]] identifying another individual as a source of contractual concern. Lovinger wrote of
{{quotebox-float|“the moral hazard associated with the Washington Headquarters Services contracting with [[Stefan Halper]].”<ref>https://www.vetr.com/posts/5000196251-Pentagon-Whistleblower-Demoted-After-Exposing-Millions-Paid-To-FBI-Spy-Halper-Clinton</ref><ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/search/?q=stefan+halper&sort=date_desc</ref>}} Halper {{quotebox-float|“was being used by [[Net Assessment]] to go out essentially and engage with foreign government officials. As a contractor that’s totally illegal.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/16/stefan-halper-pentagon-outrageous/</ref>}} Halper had been awarded $1.06 million in contracts through five payments beginning in 2012.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/keyword_search/halper%252C%2520stefan</ref>
:*Melissa Hodgman-Strzok, wife of Peter Strzok, promoted to [[SEC]] Associate Director as Strzok delays examining the Weiner laptop; the SEC is involved in Clinton Foundation investigations.

*'''1 October.''' Papadopoulos sends Mifsud a private Facebook message with a link to an article from Interfax.com, a Russian news website. Last contact between Papadopoulos and Mifsud. This contact is only disclosed in the FBI’s July 28, 2017 Affidavit, signed by FBI Agent Robert Gibbs. Notably, it is not disclosed in the October 5, 2017 Statement of the Offense signed by Robert Mueller.
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*Randy Credico tips off Roger Stone that WikiLeaks will release Podesta emails in coming days:
:Credico - “big news Wednesday"
:Credico - “now pretend u don’t know me”
:Stone - “U died 5 years ago"
:Credico - ")great"
:Credico - “Hillary’s campaign will die this week”
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*'''3 October.''' Steele meets in Rome with FBI Eurasian Joint Organized Crime Squad Team. Steele is asked to “explain how he had compiled his reports, and to give background on his sources."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke</ref>
:*Story breaks of Hillary Clinton's suggestion to murder Julian Assange.<ref>Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" -- report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ https://t.co/qy2EQBa48y</ref>

*'''3-4 October.''' Additional discussions between NYO and Washington HQ about Weiner laptop, however the Inspector General found
{{quotebox-float|"no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear [Clinton email] investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24, and then did so only after the Weiner case agent expressed concerns to SDNY, prompting SDNY to contact the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) on October 21 to raise concerns about the lack of action."}} They were anticipating a Hillary win.

*'''4 October 8:15 am – 9:00 am.''' '''Comey briefed on Weiner and Clinton Foundation child sex crimes.''' Comey briefing with Executive Assistant Director Randy Coleman. Coleman notes state topic:
{{quotebox-float|(1) Anthony Wiener [sic] (2) [Unrelated] (3) Wiener [sic] – texting 15 yo – Sexually Explicit 9/26 – Federal SW [search warrant] IPhone/IPAD/Laptop Initial analysis of laptop – thousands emails Hillary Clinton & Foundation Crime Against Children<ref>Clinton email IG Report, p. 293.</ref>}}

:*Standard follow-up hearing on the DOJ-NSD 2016 Section 702 Certification was held before the FISA court.<ref>United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Memorandum Opinion and Order, April 26, 2017, p. 19.</ref> John Carlin was present at the hearing. Again, Carlin made no disclosure of FISA abuse. This would be noted by the Court later.
:*FBI Director Comey replaces head of Counterintelligence Division, New York Field Office with Charles McGonigal.
*'''5 October.''' Obama Justice Dept. abruptly drops charges against arms dealer which would have led to open disclosure of Hillary Clinton's role in arming the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/05/doj-abruptly-drops-case-against-gun-runner-who-threatened-to-reveal-clintons-libya-dealings.html</ref>
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*'''7 October.''' WikiLeaks dumps a trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman [[John Podesta]]’s personal email account. The emails inspire the [[PizzaGate|Pizzagate]] conspiracy theory.<ref>http://victuruslibertas.com/2016/11/do-john-and-tony-podesta-have-a-connection-with-missing-child-madeleine-mccann/</ref>
:*Patrick Lawrence of ''[[Salon]]'' was on to the hoax from the start and publishes '' “How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal … a disturbing resemblance to Cold War red-baiting.”''
:*DNI James Clapper accuses the Russian government of hacking the DNC “to interfere with the US election process.”
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*'''Early to mid October.''' Comey, FBI investigators and DOJ-NSD lawyers are aware of [[intelligence community]] concerns about the reliability of the ''Steele dossier''. The FBI is also aware of Steele's media contacts.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/419901-fbi-email-chain-may-provide-most-damning-evidence-of-fisa-abuses-yet</ref>
[[File:State-department-email-chris-steele.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Smoking gun: State Department email proves political motivation of the ''[[Steele dossier]]'' ten days before the FBI used it to hoax the FISA court.]]
*'''11 October.''' '''A smoking gun for FISA fraud - Kavalec notes of the Steele, Winer, and Kavalec meeting.'''
:*Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [[Kathleen Kavalec]]’s written account of her meeting with Christopher Steele shows that Steele admitted his research was political and facing a November 8, 2016 Election Day deadline. The admission occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s false information as evidence to procure a FISA warrant on the Trump campaign. Steele's client, the Clinton campaign, “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8.”<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt#.XNIAVvr8PT0.twitter</ref> The Kavalec memo was shared with the FBI who were preparing the FISA warrant.
:*[[Jonathan Winer]], who arranged the meeting, was also present.
:*Kacalec was suspicious of the information.
:*The Kavalec notes indicate Steele claimed the Russians, Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov, were “sources” for the ''Steele dossier''. Trubnikov and Surkov were not identified by name in the ''Steele’s dossier''. Trubnikov, the former head of the SVR, has links to Stefan Halper.
::*Stefan Halper arranged for Trubnikov to visit intelligence seminars at the University of Cambridge on May 4, 2012, and May 11, 2015. He also tapped Trubnikov to contribute to a study he did in 2015 for the Pentagon’s [[Office of Net Assessment]] (ONA) published in 2015.
::*[[Bruce Ohr]] told Congress in 2018 that Steele told him during a July 30, 2016 meeting that a former head of the SVR had told someone that the Russian government “had Donald Trump over a barrel.”
:*The notes highlight several of Steele's inaccuracies, including that Russia was running operations out of its consulate in Miami. As Kavalec pointed out, Russia does not have a consulate in Miami.
:*There is no evidence the compromising material mentioned in the dossier actually exists, raising questions about whether Steele was given disinformation.
:*The State Department inspector general who later investigated Winer and the meeting, never interviewed Winer or Kavalec and never released a report.<ref>{{cite web|title=2019-09-12 RHJ, CEG to State OIG re Christopher Steele Meeting.pdf|url=https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-09-12%20RHJ,%20CEG%20to%20State%20OIG%20re%20Christopher%20Steele%20Meeting.pdf|format=PDF|date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
:*FBI informs Stu Evans of the NSD Office of Intelligence that Christopher Steele is working for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 135-139, 259.</ref>
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page:
{{Quotebox-float|6:21 p.m. Strzok: "Currently fighting with Stu [Evans] for this fisa." 6:50 p.m., Strzok: "Hey-The FISA will probably not go forward without a call from [McCabe].}}
:*Hillary email to campaign manager John Podesta leaked that acknowledges [[Saudi Arabia]] and Qatar are “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/11/podesta-leaks-show-clinton-email-linking-saudi-arabia-qatar-to-isis.html</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/12/senators-state-department-watchdog-christopher-steele/</ref>

*'''12 October.''' Comey attended the Special Agent-In-Charge Conference, where he gave a speech about combating supposed misinformation surrounding his July 5 announcement.

*'''13 October.''' Kathleen Kavelec forwards typed summary of her meeting with Christopher Steele to the FBI.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged</ref>
*Donald Trump says in West Palm Beach, [[Florida]] campaign rally:
{{quotebox-float|...They control the Department of Justice, and they even clandestinely meet with the Attorney General of the United States – in the back of her airplane, while on the runway – for 39 minutes – to most likely discuss her reappointment in a Clinton Administration just prior to the Attorney General making a decision over whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Likewise, they have corrupted the Director of the FBI to the point at which stories are already saying the great men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed to what he’s done to one of our great institutions. Hillary Clinton is guilty of all of the things that Director Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more – and yet he let her off the hook, while others lives are being destroyed for far less.<ref>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=119180</ref>}}
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*'''1MDB scandal.''' ''WSJ'': Malaysian Fund 1MDB Linked to White House Visit.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/suspect-malaysian-fund-tied-to-lobbying-of-white-house-1476403764</ref>
:*Investigators look into whether money embezzled from the fund paid for lobbying seeking closer U.S.-Malaysian relations.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/video/1mdb-scandal-investigation-reaches-the-white-house/ED62A831-8E61-4C9E-B29E-5B9B57FF0E59.html</ref>
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*Obama proposes media [[censorship]].

*'''Early-Mid-October.''' New FISA Warrant on Manafort, ''per'' CNN 2017/9/18 article, likely issued. Possibly a [[National Security Letter]] (NSL).
*'''Mid October.''' FBI and NSD OI are aware Steele is acting in bad faith after their early October 2016 meeting with Steele in Europe.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 113, 114.</ref>
*'''14 October.''' Strzok and Lisa Page exchange emails with the subject line '''“Crossfire FISA”: "At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him."''' Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get Andrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/395776-memos-detail-fbis-hurry-the-f-up-pressure-to-probe-trump-campaign</ref>

*Lisa Page texted Andrew McCabe:
{{quotebox-float|Lisa Page - “Just called. Apparently the DAG [Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates] now wants to be there, and WH wants DOJ to host. So we are setting that up now. We will very much need to get Cohen’s view before we meet with her. Better, have him weigh in with her before the meeting. We need to speak with one voice if that is in fact the case.”}}

*'''Mid October.''' Steele again briefs reporters about Trump political opposition research. The reporters are from the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', and ''Yahoo News''.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/steele-dossier-state-department/</ref>
[[File:800px-Benjamin Wittes, 2013.jpg|175px|right|thumb|'''Benjamin Wittes''' of [[Lawfare]], associated with the Brookings Institution, has been in the forefront of the political weaponization of Law providing the sketchy legal framework under which both the 2017 [[Deep State coup]] and the 2019 [[impeachment inquiry]] were carried out.]]
*Detailed talking points were issued to Special Agents-In-Charge at the FBI to assist them in answering questions surrounding Comey’s July 5, 2016 statement about exonerating Hillary for the [[Midyear Exam investigation]].<ref>https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download</ref>

*'''15 October.''' Obama administration rewrites Carter Page FISA application.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/04/summary-of-media-articles-discussing-obamas-fisa-warrants-to-monitor-candidatepresident-trump/</ref>

*'''Carlin's last day.''' DOJ-NSD Principle Deputy Asst. Attorney General [[Mary McCord (DOJ)|Mary McCord]] replaces John Carlin. It was specifically John Carlin’s responsibility to ensure a valid legal basis for the FISA application submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Carlin does a [[kamikaze]] dive shortly before the application is submitted.

*'''17 October.''' [[Benjamin Wittes]], in the first part of a series of [[seditious]] ramblings, blames Donald Trump for a violent [[leftist]] attack on a [[North Carolina]] GOP office.<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-i-political-focus-whats-truly-important</ref>

*'''18 October. Steele finishes the infamous Russians-offer-Carter-Page-millions-of-dollars installment allegation used in the FISA warrant application three days later.

:*''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr at 6:51 a.m. with a pressing matter. "If you are in Washington today, I have something quite urgent I would like to discuss with you, preferably by Skype (even before work if you can)." Ohr suggested they do it immediately. "Thanks Bruce. 2 mins," Steele replied. A few hours later Steele emailed Ohr again:
{{quotebox-float|"Further to our Skypecon earlier today," Paul Hauser had asked Steele to forward to Ohr information about a dispute between the government of Ukraine and RUSAL, [[Oleg Deripaska]]'s aluminum company.<ref>http://iiac20.ir/en/?page_id=1271</ref><ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 276.</ref> "Naturally, he [Hauser] wants to protect the client's [Deripaska's] interests and reputation," Steele wrote. "I pass it on for what it's worth."}} Paul Hauser is Oleg Deripaska's London attorney.
:*Deripaska apparently is willing to help frame Manafort in exchange for sanctions relief on Deripaska's company, Rusal.
:*Bruce Ohr requests a meeting with, and that same day met with Andrew McCabe to share Steele's request from Deripaska and Hauser, and Simpson's information with him. Lisa Page was also present. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 276-277, 391.</ref>
::*Ohr also told McCabe and Lisa Page that Steele and Simpson were working for a political client and not for the U.S. government, and were sharing their information with others outside the FBI.
::*Lisa Page's notes of the meeting show Ohr talked about Deripaska and provided background information on Steele.
::*Lisa Page also wrote that Bruce Ohr met Deripaska in 2015 and "Need report?"
::*McCabe told the Inspector General that he and Bruce Ohr first met in 2003, when McCabe was assigned to NYFO's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force and Ohr was Chief of OCRS. McCabe said the two spoke periodically between 2003 and 2016 regarding Deripaska.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 277 fn 420.</ref>
::*Bruce Ohr told McCabe and Lisa Page that Nellie Ohr had also worked for Fusion GPS
:*Bruce Ohr also stated that he wanted to ensure McCabe knew about Simpson's information.
::*Strzok's notes dated October 18 detail information concerning Bruce Ohr. Strzok told the OIG that he believed either Lisa Page or McCabe provided the information to him. Strzok's notes also stated: "Bruce's wife fluent Russian speaker," "Simpson hired Ohr's wife to find connections," and "She saw no connections [at] first."
::*Additionally, Priestap's notes, which reflect an entry dated October 19 that states: "DOJ Bruce [Ohr]-Steele is providing reporting to a variety of people."
:::*Bruce Ohr reports back to Christopher Steele and at Ohr's request. Call log shows Skype meetings on Oct. 18 and 19.
:*'''Strzok and Lisa Page exchange emails with the subject line “Re: Dragon FISA.” "Still an expedite?” one of the emails asked, as the FBI tried to meet the requirements of a process known as a Woods review before a FISA warrant can be approved by the courts. “Any idea what time he can have it woods-ed by?” Strzok asked Page. “I know it’s not going to matter because DOJ is going to take the time DOJ wants to take. I just don’t want this waiting on us at all.”'''
::*Lisa Page testified in 2018, "I’m not talking about the Woods file. I’m talking about a separate effort that was undertaken in order to try to verify for investigative purposes, not for purposes of the FISA, but a separate effort undertaken to try to validate the allegations contained within the Steele reporting.” Crossfire Hurricane was one of the code names for four separate investigation. The '''subject of the Dragon FISA remains unknown.'''

:*Joe Biden invites Deep State informant [[Eric Ciaramella]] to attend luncheon for Italian Prime Minister [[Matteo Renzi]]. Brennan, Clapper, and Comey also in attendance.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html]</ref>
::*The invitation is unusual for a low level GS-13 [[civil service system]] employee.

:*Assange internet access cutoff by Ecuador Embassy.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-18/wikileaks-says-julian-assange-internet-access-cut-by-ecuador/7941532]</ref>

*'''19-20 October.''' Steele finishes two more installments of the dossier concerning Manafort's alleged role in alleged [[collusion]].

*'''19 October.''' Lisa Page texted Andrew McCabe:
{{quotebox-float|Lisa Page - “Hey can you give me a call when you get out? Meeting with WH counsel is finally set up and I want to talk about timing. Thanks.”}}
*The ''Shearer dossier'' written by Clinton operative [[Cody Shearer]] with allegations about the sexual and financial activity of Donald Trump. Shearer gave his memo to Clinton confidant [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who '''transmitted it to State Department official [[Jonathan Winer]], who then gave it to Christopher Steele''', who passed it on to the FBI. The ''Shearer dossier'' was not included in [[BuzzFeed]]'s January 10, 2017 release. After the fraud of the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed in early 2017 Stormy Daniels claimed she was paid to keep silent about an affair with Trump, and a stranger threatened her and her child. Kathleen Willey was a volunteer at the White House in 1993 when President Bill Clinton grabbed her, fondled her, and pressed her hand against himself in the Oval Office. Willey told her story in a [[60 Minutes]] interview and became a target of a smear campaign directed by the Clintons.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007 ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref> In 1998, just before Willey was to testify in the [[Paula Jones]] trial, Willey was approached by a stranger who asked her menacing questions about her children, naming them by name. On ''Hardball'' in 1999, [[MSNBC]] host [[Chris Matthews]] identified the mysterious stranger as Cody Shearer.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477</ref>
*False date put on Carter Page FISA application March 17, 2017 leak hunt.
*'''October.''' IG Midyear report says:
{{quotebox-float|The case agent told us that he scheduled a meeting on October 19 with the two SDNY AUSAs assigned to the Weiner investigation because he felt like he had nowhere else to turn. … The AUSAs both told us that the case agent appeared to be very stressed and worried that somehow he would be blamed in the end if no action was taken.}}
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*'''20 October.''' NSA Dir. Mike Rogers is briefed by the NSA compliance officer on several strange 702 “About Queries” that were being conducted. These were violations of the [[Fourth Amendment]] (search and seizure), ie. unlawful surveillance and gathering. As a result of Rogers suspecting surveillance activity being used for reasons he deemed unlawful, in mid 2016 Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance. Section 702 of the FISA Act is basically spying on Americans; the actual “spying” part is 702. Item 17 is “About Queries“, which allows queries or searches of content of email and phone conversations based on any subject matter put into the search field. Rogers ordered the “About Query” activity to stop, reported the activity to the DOJ, and then to the FISA court. Rogers also stopped “About Query” permanently.<ref>https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/statements/2017-04-28-702-statement.shtml</ref>

*The Origins of the Prague Narrative: ''Steele’s dossier'' memo reads:
{{quotebox-float|''“Kremlin insider reports Trump lawyer COHEN’s secret meeting/s with Kremlin officials in August 2016 was/were held in Prague."''<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/12/29/why-did-foreign-intel-agencies-leak-info-on-alleged-cohen-prague-visit-now/</ref>}} No more Steele memos until Dec. 13.
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*Clinton email IG Report states:
{{Quotebox-float|AUSAs met with their supervisors at SDNY and informed them of their conversation with the Weiner case agent. The AUSAs stated that they told their supervisors the substantive information reported by the case agent, the case agent’s concerns that no one at the FBI had expressed interest in this information, and their concern that the case agent was stressed out and might act out in some way. (pg 304)}}
:Midyeaar Clinton email IG Report Page 274, footnote #165:
{{Quotebox-float|No electronic record exists of the case agent’s initial review of the Weiner laptop. The case agent told us that at some point in mid-October 2016 the NYO ASAC '''instructed the case agent to wipe his work station'''. The case agent explained that the ASAC was concerned about the presence of potentially classified information on the case agent’s work station, which was not authorized to process classified information. The case agent told us that he followed the ASAC’s instructions, but that this request concerned him because the audit trail of his initial processing of the laptop would no longer be available. The case agent clarified that none of the evidence on the Weiner laptop was impacted by this, explaining that the FBI retained the Weiner laptop and only the image that had been copied onto his work station was deleted. The ASAC recalled that the case agent “worked through the security department to address the concern” of classified information on an unclassified system. He told us that he did not recall how the issue was resolved.}}
:*Devin Nunes says FBI whistleblowers in NYO informed him the FBI was sitting on Weiner laptop.<ref>pic.twitter.com/BU6ysY7Xwn</ref>
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*'''21 October.''' '''Carter Page FISA warrant'''. DOJ and FBI sought and receive a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance of Carter Page from the FISA court. The warrant application was signed by Sally Yates and James Comey. The FISA order was ultimately used by Brennan’s Working Group, as the information gathered gave them multiple investigative leads into the Trump campaign.<ref>''per Lisa Page testimony, day 2.</ref>

:*Carter Page is a US citizen who served as a paid FBI informant up to March 2016 at which time he became a volunteer advisor to the Trump campaign. The [[FISA Court]] at this time is still unaware of the Section 702 violations.

:*The application first has to be certified by the FBI Director or Deputy Director. It then has to be certified by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). With [[John Carlin]]'s resignation days earlier, the application was signed by [[Sally Yates]] who terminated DOJ-NSD cooperation with the independent Inspector General in mid 2015, giving license to the massive number of 702 abuses which started shortly after.<ref>In 2013, there were 9,600 FISA 702 search queries involving 195 Americans. But in 2016 after Yates terminated IG oversight there are 30,355 searches of 5,288 Americans, https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/05/20/collusion-against-trump-timeline/ http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/05/intelligence-reports-raise-questions-about-obama-administration-surveillance.php essentially, the entire Trump campaign in 50 states.</ref>

:*The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant and three FISA renewals from the FISA court over the next year, well into the Trump presidency.

:*The “insurance policy” is short-hand to describe an effort to conduct surveillance on candidate Trump, which could later ensure a strategic plan to disrupt and possibly eliminate Trump if elected, via the Russia collusion narrative. That plan needs retroactive legal authority for the FBI to conduct surveillance – which can be used to weaponize intelligence. The plan culminates in the Carter Page Title-1 FISA warrant as the deployment mechanism.

:*As required by statute, a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed every 90 days by the FISA court and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause to avoid a 'fishing expedition'. Director [[James Comey]] signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Deputy Attorneys General Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein each signed one renewal on behalf of the DOJ. In the case of Carter Page, relevant information and potentially exculpatory material was not provided to the FISA court on these four separate occasions over one year.

:*The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Carter Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Christopher Steele and outlined in the ''Steele dossier''. The application contains no additional corroboration other than a Sept 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article the Obama DOJ/FBI represents to the court as supposed "independent corroboration" which was peddled to ''Yahoo News'' by Christopher Steele's himself.

:*The ''Steele dossier'' was compiled on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC and formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was paid $168,000 by the Clinton campaign and DNC. Some of the money Steele paid to Russians for "dirt" on Hillary's opponent. Neither the initial application nor any renewals disclose or reference the Clinton campaign or DNC in funding the dossier, '''although the origins of the dossier was known to the DOJ and FBI at the time. The FISA application does not mention that the FBI authorized payment to Steele for the same information''' [''emphasis in original''].<ref>https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_memo_key_points.pdf</ref>
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*Comey briefs retired FBI agents to describe decisions made during the Clinton email investigation to enlist their help so that they, too, might counter “falsehoods and exaggerations” while the Weiner laptop - with 600,000 emails including the missing emails - is being ignored.

*Someone from SDNY calls “Main Justice” (the DOJ National Security Division in DC) and notifies DOJ-NSD Deputy Asst. Attorney General [[George Toscas]] of the Huma Abedin/Hillary Clinton emails via the “[[weiner investigation]]". McCabe never informed DOJ of the new evidence. Toscas calls Strzok cause he “wanted to ensure information got to Andy [McCabe]". Strzok told George Toscas “we know”. Strzok then tells Bill Priestap.

*McCabe knew about the emails since September 28, more than three weeks earlier.

*Comey and Lynch now are informed of the Clinton emails that McCabe has been sitting on for 23 days. Comey later claimed the call from New York was about a search warrant, but the FBI had all the information necessary for a new warrant three weeks earlier. They were stalling for a Hillary victory in November. Internal discussion focuses now on McCabe recusing himself. The recusal debate is just another bureaucratic delaying tactic til after the election when hopefully Hillary Clinton will win - the hunt for someone to take over the investigation and the time necessary for a fresh face to become familiar with the case.

*McCabe fights back, publicly by authorizing Lisa Page to make illegal leaks about ongoing investigations to the ''Wall Street Journal'', and privately inside the DOJ by trying to blame illegal leaks on the New York field office.

*Meanwhile, the Clinton emails are not, and have not, been looked at. All discussion is about the public perception of coverup, which is actually the correct perception of what is happening in the DOJ-FBI.
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*'''22 October.''' Wikileaks cofounder and Seth Rich contact Gavin MacFadyen dead "after a short illness."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gavin_MacFadyen&oldid=745664281#Personal_Life]</ref>
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*'''23 October.''' Devlin Barrett of the ''WSJ'' exposè, ''Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe''.<ref>https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/790350274061803520</ref> The article questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing Clinton investigations and claimed that McCabe ordered the termination of the Clinton Foundation investigation due to DOJ pressure. Lisa Page was the legal counsel to McCabe at this time. McCabe instructed Lisa Page and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to refute the assertion of a conflict of interest in a series of leaks in coming days.

*'''24 October.''' Devlin Barrett emails the FBI press officer Mike Kortan about a follow up story. Barrett asks
{{quotebox-float|in the summer [2016], McCabe himself gave some instruction as to how to proceed with the Clinton Foundation probe, given that it was the height of election season and the FBI did not want to make a lot of overt moves that could be seen as going after [Clinton] or drawing attention to the probe.}}

*Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts: Lisa Page - "Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it." Strzok - “Wsj? Boy that was fast. Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”

*George Toscas told the IG that he asked McCabe about the Weiner laptop after a routine meeting between FBI and Department leadership. McCabe told the IG that this interaction with Toscas caused him to follow up with the FBI Midyear [Clinton emai] team about the Weiner laptop and to call [[Mary McCord (DOJ)|Mary McCord]].

*[[Benjamin Wittes]] of lawfareblog.com publishes article on an "insurance policy" should Trump win.<ref>Excerpted:"The point is that there is no reason at this stage to imagine that the legislature will be a viable venue for push-back, which is a shame considering the powerful set of tools at its disposal.

The Coalition of All Democratic Forces should certainly see what kind of use it might make of the legislature, but realistically, we should probably expect that the coalition’s job in Congress will be to prevent Trump from passing anti-democratic legislation. That is, the task in Congress will be a negative one of denying Trump the use of the Article I powers, not the positive one of the coalition’s using them itself.

That leaves the tool that will certainly be available: the courts. The courts have a few obvious advantages, starting with hundreds of independent judges of both parties whom Trump cannot remove from office and who don’t have to face his supporters in forthcoming elections." https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-iii-what-if-trump-wins</ref>

*'''25 October.''' '''Loretta Lynch blackmails New York law enforcement to back off [[Weiner laptop]].''' ''NYT'' reports "Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref> Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody.
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*'''26 October.''' '''Illegal FISA 702 abuse'''. The FISA court issues a decision revealing that the upper echelon of the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]]. Assoc. Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]] was the lynchpin between Attn. Gen. Lynch, the FBI and FusionGPS. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for FusionGPS on the ''Steele Dossier'', portions of which were presented to the FISA court to win approval for the FBI’s previous and continuing unlawful surveillance of Trump associates. '''The Court noted “an institutional ‘lack of candor’ and emphasized ‘this is a very serious [[Fourth Amendment]] issue.’”''' On March 9, 2016 when [[Adm. Rogers]] ordered a compliance audit, the
{{quotebox-float|“DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review of the FBI’s *** [redacted] learned that the FBI had disclosed raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information....certain *** [redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems. ***[redacted] the ***[redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests.”}} When Adm. Rogers cut off FBI contractor access, the {{quotebox-float|“FBI discontinued the above-described access to raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.”}} The court noted
{{quotebox-float|“Restrictions were not in place with regard to the *** [redacted] contractors; their access was not limited to raw information for which the FBI sought assistance and access continued even after they had completed their work in response to an FBI request."}} Pg. 83:
{{quotebox-float|"FBI gave raw Section 702–acquired information to a private entity [FusionGPS] that was not a federal agency and whose personnel [Simpson, Steele, [[Nellie Ohr]] ] were not sufficiently supervised by a federal agency for compliance minimization procedures [protecting the Fourth Amendment rights of US persons]."}} Footnote 68 of the Court’s decision includes the statement that
{{quotebox-float|“the government acknowledges that those disclosures were improper for other reasons.”}} In Footnote 69 the decision reads that
{{quotebox-float|“'''improper access granted to the * * *[redacted] contractors . . . * * *[redacted] . . . seems to have been the result of deliberate decision-making'''. * * *[redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding (presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers), no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016.”<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>}}

*'''Adm. Rogers personally notifies court of Obama administration [[FISA abuse]].''' NSA Dir. Adm. Rogers personally informed the FISA court of the Obama administration's 702(17) violations. The abuses covered the period from November 2015 to May 2016 and centered around the FBI Counterintelligence Division and DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD)<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/</ref> ''after'' Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates denied Inspector General oversight. The FISA Court was unaware of the FISA/Query violations until they were presented to the Court by NSA Dir. Adm. Rogers, and ''after'' Comey and Yates presented fraudulent evidence for the FISA Title I Carter Page warrant. The court was not made aware of the fraudulent basis of the Carter Page warrant until ''after'' the removal of Dir. Comey, Acting Dir. McCabe, and the appointment of Dir. Wray. The Obama administration hoaxed the FISA court for both Title I authority ''and '' to perform illegal Section 702 search queries on several occasions for over a year, to spy on domestic political opponents on a scale [[Richard Nixon]] only dreamed of, assuming Nixon had insight into the technological development of the past 50 years.

:*[[Joe diGenova]] claims FusionGPS and [[CrowdStrike]] are possibly two of the redacted contractors; Daniel Richman,<ref>https://youtu.be/4G48P1cTK-E</ref> and Orbis International are also possibilities.

:*After Rogers ratted out the conspirators to the Court, Clapper tried to get rid of Rogers.

*'''Obama lawyers admit to FISA Court to routinely violating Americans' Fourth Amendment rights'''. The criminal behavior of the [[progressive]] administration had been ongoing for five years. More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the Section 702 database violated safeguards Obama and his intelligence commissars vowed to follow in 2011.<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years</ref>
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With McCabe' sitting on the Clinton emails from Weiner's computer for three weeks, along with pressure from the SDNY, Loretta Lynch and media leaks, the internal debate at the DOJ and FBI about McCabe recusing himself from the Clinton investigations continues.

:*Clinton email IG Report states,
{{quotebox-float|"McCabe and the New York Assistant Director in Charge (NY-ADIC) participated in what McCabe described as “a hastily convened conference call with the Attorney General [Loretta Lynch] who delivered the same message to us” about leaks, with specific focus being on leaks regarding the high-profile investigation by FBI’s New York Field Office into the death of Eric Garner. McCabe told us that he “never heard her use more forceful language.” NY-ADIC confirmed that the participants got “ripped by the AG on leaks.”}}

:*McCabe told OIG that he proposed that the Clinton email team meet with Comey the following day after the conference call between the the NYO and SDNY.

:*The OIG found explanations for sitting on the Weiner laptop unpersuasive for not acting sooner, given the FBI leadership’s conclusion about the importance of the information and that the Clinton investigation team had sufficient information to take action after the October 4 conference call, and knew at that time that it would need a new search warrrant to review any Clinton-Abedin emails. Moreover, given the FBI’s extensive resources, the fact that Strzok and several other FBI members of the Clinton investigation team had been assigned to the Russia investigation, which was extremely active during this September and October time period, was not an excuse for failing to take any action during this time period on the Weiner laptop.
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*Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages while watching debates,
{{Quotebox-float|Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer. Strzok - I CAN'T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?! Page-- I don't know. But we'll get it back. We're America. We rock. Strzok-- Donald just said "bad hombres" Strzok-- Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.}} Strzok quoting Trump "what the FBI did is disgraceful" relates to Comey's July announcement exonerating Clinton and the FBI small group's [[obstruction of justice]] in the case.

*[[Evelyn Farkas]] tells Warsaw Security Forum "if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking."<ref>https://youtu.be/pl_RATH89UM</ref> Farkas, who left government in Sept. 2015, later admitted to being the recipient of intelligence information on Donald Trump in the summer of 2016: "last summer I was getting winks and hints from inside that there was something really wrong here." At the forum Farkas discussed the rise of Trump from a purely domestic, partisan, political perspective and urged something must be done to counter the forces of [[nationalism]] and [[populism]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/08/ex-state-staffer-who-advocated-spying-on-trump-boasted-getting-winks-from-inside-obama-admin/</ref>
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*'''27 October.''' Comey Chief of Staff [[Jim Rybicki]] wants McCabe recused from Clinton investigations.

*The small group (or "tight group" as Comey calls it) has had the Weiner laptop emails for 29 days and has reviewed none. They are debating if [[probable cause]] exists to re-open the investigation. Main Justice, across the street from FBI HQ, now knows of the existence of emails, and is fearful New York police and prosecutors are ready to go public with their existence.

*'''Comey goes public.'''<ref>https://youtu.be/sBNkLF6_vHQ</ref> Fearful of leaks if he didn't act, Comey notifies Congress of the re-opening the Clinton email investigation.<ref>Coney sent out 16 letters to the chairmen and ranking members of 8 congressional committees. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/30/hillary-clinton/clinton-wrongly-says-fbi-director-sent-letter-abou/</ref>

*'''28 October.''' Conference call between Main Justice and FBI investigators about Hillary email cover-up. SDNY and New York FBI field office asking why has Washington (McCabe) sat on the Clinton emails for three weeks with no action? All focus within the DOJ and FBI is on news reporting and narrative spin, and no one looking at Clinton emails.

:*Internal discussions claim no probable cause against Hillary in July, none now, and debate on recusal of Andrew McCabe in the Clinton non-investigation.

:*Comey goes public to create the appearance of re-opening the Clinton email investigation after New York Police Department (NYPD) plans to hold press conference about the evidence seized on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop. 650,000 classified State Department emails and other damning evidence found.<ref>https://youtu.be/MVvKw_Ez6es</ref>
::*Clinton lawyer [[David Kendall]] in direct email contact with Comey general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]].<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/399428924/Kendall-to-Baker-Email-October-28-2016</ref>
:*Comey's action made Steele mad, Steele felt it may cost Hillary the election.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/eric-felten/the-fbis-long-break-up-with-christopher-steele</ref>
*'''Steele [[leak]]s to David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' magazine an outline of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax narrative'''.<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1017080498009591809</ref>
[[File:Allen garnerchokeweb 850 593.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Loretta Lynch threatened to re-open the 2014 Eric Garner case with federal civil rights charges against police if New York officials didn't back off the Weiner laptop.]]
*Daughter of Eric Garner criticizes Clinton campaign over Podesta emails about her father's death (Podesta wrote, "we know we have an Eric Garner problem," i.e. motivating Blacks to the polls to vote in light of Hillary's Superpredator comment).<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/erica-garner-rips-clinton-camp-emails-father-death-article-1.2847478</ref><ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/28/daughter-eric-garner-slams-clinton-campaign-over-emails-about-fathers-death.html</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uCrA7ePno</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/IsSDqbot-EI</ref>


:*Comey's public statement about re-opening Hillary's email case throws the Clinton campaign and poll numbers into a tailspin.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-she-would-have-won-the-election-if-it-were-held-oct-27/</ref> The "insurance policy" becomes operational: allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.


:*Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigator [[Kevin Clinesmith]] texts' that reopening the Clinton email case “broke the momentum” of Clinton’s campaign and warned that it could initiate “the destruction of the republic.”
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*Andrew McCabe instructs [[Lisa Page]] to leak a rebuttal to Devlin Barrett of the ''Wall Street Journal'' about McCabe's [[conflict of interest]] with Clinton donors and the Clinton investigations. The illegal leak confirms the existence of the [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation. While on the phone with Barrett, Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts about breaking news of the Clinton email investigation being reopened. Two minutes later, Barrett tweets the new found emails on Weiner's laptop may have already been examined, "per sources".
{{Quotebox-float|Page: 5:19pm “Still on the phone with Devlin [Barrett of ''WSJ'']. [FBI Public Affairs officer] Mike [Kortan]’s phone is ON FIRE.” Strzok: 5:29pm “You might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there’s news on.” Page: 5:30pm “He knows. He just got handed a note.” Strzok: 5:33pm “Ha. He asking about it now?” Page: 5:34pm “Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now.”}}
:*At 5:36pm Devlin Barrett tweets:
[[File:Devlin-1.jpg|left|500px]]

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*Lynch pleads [[Fifth Amendment]] against incrimination to Congress in probe of Obama administration illegal secret payment to Iran in ransom deal.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/</ref><ref>"Charles Krauthammer reacted to a new Wall Street Journal report that the Justice Department objected to the Obama Administration sending $400 million in non-U.S. currency just hours before Iran released four imprisoned Americans. The DOJ was overruled by the State Department, according to the report. Krauthammer said "of course the Justice Department objected; it was illegal." He said that not only was the payment bad optics and a quid pro quo for the release of the Americans, but it skirted statute against dealing with Iran in U.S. dollars. "They had to print the money here, ship it over to Switzerland, turn it into Swiss francs and Euros and ship it over to Iran." https://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/03/krauthammer-not-only-did-obama-admin-pay-ransom-it-also-laundered-money</ref>

*Clinton email investigator [[Sally Moyer]] texts' that she was “sick” of Trump and called his supporters “retarded.”
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*Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $365,275.33 to FusionGPS.

*'''30 October.''' '''Christopher Steele suspended, and then terminated by the FBI''' for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations - unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in a ''Mother Jones'' article by David Corn.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/</ref> The FBI was well aware of Steele's previous contacts with media - the FBI used Steele's leaks to Isikoff's ''Yahoo News'' article to hoax the FISA court nine days earlier.

*Corn's article, that cited an FBI informant and stressed the FBI was in possession of the unverified information, was the cause of Steele's firing.

*Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with Michael Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' and other media outlets in September 2016 - before the Carter Page application was submitted to the FISA court in October 2016 - but Steele improperly concealed and lied to the FBI about earlier contacts. DOJ official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele, and demonstrates that Bruce Ohr funneled allegations from FusionGPS and Steele to the FBI.
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*Devlin Barrett of the ''Wall Street Journal'' publishes an article entitled, ''FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe,'' based on illegal leaks ultimately leading to the firing of [[Andrew McCabe]] for misconduct and lying to investigators.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/376296306/DOJ-OIG-Report-on-Andrew-McCabe-April-13th-Release?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=725X700959X71d69d99c58d16967f9220546379e02c&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate</ref> The article was the first public acknowledgment that the Clinton Foundation was under FBI investigation.<ref>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/by-the-way-the-fbi-was-investigating-the-clinton-foundation.html</ref> According to the IG Report on McCabe,
{{quotebox-float|The article highlighted the campaign donations to McCabe’s wife by PACs associated with Gov. [[Terry McAuliffe]], who was described as “a longtime ally of the Clintons and . . . a Clinton Foundation Board member.” The article identified McCabe as the FBI official who “sought to refocus the Clinton Foundation probe,” and reported that '''agents “further down the FBI chain of command” had been told to “stand down” on the Clinton Foundation''' investigation with the understanding that “the order had come from the deputy director — Mr. McCabe.”}}
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*Democrat Minority leader [[Harry Reid]] issues open letter to James Comey: Reid says from his communications with “other top officials in the national security community [John Brennan for example, August 15, 2016] it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government."<ref>https://m.facebook.com/SenatorReid/posts/1524069540941657</ref>

*'''31 October.''' [[David Corn]] of ''[[Mother Jones]]'' magazine article appears: ''A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump: Has the bureau investigated this material?'', the first public hint of the ''Steele dossier'' in print.
{{Quotebox-float|[A] former senior intelligence officer [Christopher Steele] for a Western country [UK] who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells ''Mother Jones'' that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump—and that the FBI requested more information from him... Does this mean the FBI is investigating whether Russian intelligence has attempted to develop a secret relationship with Trump or cultivate him as an asset? Was the former intelligence officer and his material deemed credible or not?... In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm [FusionGPS] that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump’s dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to [Steele] and his associates in [FusionGPS]....Before [Steele] was retained, the project’s financing switched to a client allied with [[Democrat]]s... This was, [Steele] remarks, “an extraordinary situation.” He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiative—without the permission of the US company that hired him—he sent a report he had written for [FusionGPS] to [Peter Strzok] at the FBI, according to [Steele] and his American associates...[Steele] says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was “sufficiently serious” to share with the FBI... ''Mother Jones'' has reviewed that report and other memos [Steele] wrote.... [Steele] says the response from the FBI was “shock and horror"...in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession...[Steele] forwarded to the bureau several memos—some of which referred to members of Trump’s inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. “It’s quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on,” he says. “This is something of huge significance, way above party politics".... There’s no way to tell whether the FBI has confirmed or debunked any of the allegations contained in [Steele's] memos.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>}}
[[File:Clinton-Tweet-300x406.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Hillary Clinton spews proven fabricated lies she paid Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson to conjure up and funnel to alleged journalists with some of the nation's formerly most respected media platforms. Some news organizations were even paid by Clinton and the Democrats to run the [[fake news]] stories against Donald Trump in [[mainstream media]] news outlets. During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] of 2018 the same technique was employed.<ref>https://youtu.be/SMJdDwQlcc8</ref> The media, complicit in the hoax to exonerate Hillary Clinton and smear Donald Trump by colluding with the Obama Justice Department and Democrat paid operatives, continued the hoax for two more years, finding it impossible to walkback the lies they committed themselves to. Ironically, the same day as this tweet, ''The New York Times'' reported the FBI found no evidence of Russian collusion with Trump.]]
:*''New York Times'' headlines, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia:''
{{Quotebox-float|For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead – which they ultimately came to doubt – about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank. Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government... '''Hillary Clinton’s supporters, angry over what they regard as a lack of scrutiny of Mr. Trump by law enforcement officials, pushed for these investigations.'''<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref>}}
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:*Comey and McCabe meet privately one-on-one to discuss the ''WSJ'' leak regarding the Clinton Foundation and McCabe's conflict of interest. In sworn statements later Comey testifies McCabe "definitely" did not say he authorized leaks; McCabe says he did tell Comey, and Comey thought it was a "good idea". The Inspector General reported:
{{Quotebox-float|While the only direct evidence regarding this McCabe-Comey conversation were the recollections of the two participants, there is considerable circumstantial evidence and we concluded that the overwhelming weight of that evidence supported Comey’s version of the conversation. Indeed, none of the circumstantial evidence provided support for McCabe’s account of the discussion; rather, we found that much of the available evidence undercut McCabe’s claim. (February 2018)}}
*Hillary Clinton tweets about leaked info from the October 21 FISA warrant.<ref>Check out @HillaryClinton's Tweet: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?s=09</ref> The text was written by Jake Sullivan.<ref>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-from-jake-sullivan-new-report-exposing-trumps-secret-line-communication-russia</ref> Some speculate the server in Trump Tower was hacked by the CIA with malware in order to obtain a FISA warrant.<ref>https://me.me/i/pay-close-attention-the-server-in-trump-tower-with-alleged-10790639</ref>

:*BakerHostetler, the law firm Veselnitskaya hired to hire Glenn Simpson, makes final payment to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was hired by BakerHostetler to discredit [[Bill Browder]] who helped push through Russian sanctions. Glenn Simpson compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. Katsyv, a Russian businessman, hired Veselnitskaya to limit the impact of the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions. Payments from BakerHostetler to FusionGPS since March 2016 total $523,651.

:*Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter file complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>

===November 2016===
:{{See also|Trump transition}}
Even though Christopher Steele was terminated as a paid FBI confidential source on November 1 for violation of agency rules, the FBI continued to receive information from Steele in violation of its own rules for another year through [[Bruce Ohr]],<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/400810-opinion-how-a-senior-justice-official-helped-dems-on-trump-russia-case</ref> as the FISA warrant was renewed three times. Neither was the FISA court ever informed Steele had been terminated and his work deemed "not suitable for use," the DOJ and FBI continued to hoax the FISA court with dirt on Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid Russia for with campaign funds.
*'''1 November.''' '''Steele fired.''' Mike Gaeta, Christopher Steele's Handling Agent, determined that Steele should be closed as an FBI informant following the October 31 publication of the ''Mother Jones'' article. Gaeta spoke with Bruce Ohr that same day and recommended to Ohr that he read the article and told Ohr that he was not engaging with Steele anymore, warned Ohr to be careful when dealing with Steele, and said that Steele could not be trusted.'''
:*Beginning late November, Bruce Ohr and Steele communicate regularly for another full year, until November 2017. Bruce Ohr relayed all communications with Steele to the FBI through Joe Pientka and possibly two other handlers.
*Former [[Clinton Administration]]-era FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom says in radio interview the Clinton's are a crime family, the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool of corruption, Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch impeded the email investigation by not empaneling a [[grand jury]], and that Dir. James Comey and the top leadership held back the investigation.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/303458-former-fbi-official-clintons-are-a-crime-family</ref>
*WikiLeaks releases the May 5, 2015 email chain that begins with Deputy Assistant Attorney General [[Peter Kadzik]]’s son asking John Podesta for a job with the Clinton campaign.
*Kim Dotcom says more Clinton emails to be released and Hillary Clinton is in "serious trouble."<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/01/kim_dotcom_more_emails_are_coming_hillary_clinton_is_in_serious_trouble.html</ref>

*'''2 November.''' ''True Pundit'' reports {{quotebox|New York Police Department detectives and prosecutors working an alleged underage sexting case against former Congressman [[Anthony Weiner]] have turned over a newly-found laptop he shared with wife Huma Abedin to the FBI with enough evidence “to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away for life,” NYPD sources told True Pundit. NYPD sources said Clinton’s “crew” also included several unnamed yet implicated members of Congress in addition to her aides and insiders. The NYPD seized the computer from Weiner during a search warrant and detectives discovered a trove of over 500,000 emails to and from Hillary Clinton, Abedin and other insiders during her tenure as secretary of state. The content of those emails sparked the FBI to reopen its defunct email investigation into Clinton on Friday. But new revelations on the contents of that laptop, according to law enforcement sources, implicate the Democratic presidential candidate, her subordinates, and even select elected officials in far more alleged serious crimes than mishandling classified and top secret emails, sources said. NYPD sources said these new emails include evidence linking Clinton herself and associates to: [[Money laundering]], Child exploitation, [[pedophilia|Sex crimes with minors (children)]]; [[Perjury]]; [[Pay to play]] through [[Clinton Foundation]]; [[Obstruction of justice]]; Other [[felony]] crimes. NYPD detectives and a NYPD Chief, the department’s highest rank under Commissioner, said openly that if the FBI and Justice Department fail to garner timely indictments against Clinton and co- conspirators, '''NYPD will go public with the damaging emails now in the hands of FBI Director James Comey and many FBI field offices.''' “What’s in the emails is staggering and as a father, it turned my stomach,” the NYPD Chief said. “There is not going to be any Houdini-like escape from what we found. We have copies of everything. We will ship them to [[Wikileaks]] or I will personally hold my own press conference if it comes to that.” The NYPD Chief said once Comey saw the alarming contents of the emails he was forced to reopen a criminal probe against Clinton. “People are going to prison,” he said. Meanwhile, FBI sources said Abedin and Weiner were cooperating with federal agents, who have taken over the non-sexting portions the case from NYPD. The husband-and-wife Clinton insiders are both shopping for separate immunity deals, sources said. “If they don’t cooperate they are going to see long sentences,” a federal law enforcement source said. NYPD sources said Weiner or Abedin stored all the emails in a massive [[Microsoft]] Outlook program on the laptop. The emails implicate other current and former members of Congress and one high-ranking Democratic Senator as having possibly engaged in criminal activity too, sources said. Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney [[Preet Bharara]] have issued a subpoena for Weiner’s cell phones and travel records, law enforcement sources confirmed. NYPD said it planned to order the same phone and travel records on Clinton and Abedin, however, the FBI said it was in the process of requesting the identical records. Law enforcement sources are particularly interested in cell phone activity and travel to the [[Bahamas]], U.S. Virgin Islands and other locations that sources would not divulge. The new emails contain travel documents and itineraries indicating Hillary Clinton, President [[Bill Clinton]], Weiner and multiple members of Congress and other government officials accompanied convicted pedophile billionaire [[Jeffrey Epstein]] on his Boeing 727 on multiple occasions to his private island in the U.S [[Virgin Islands]], sources said. Epstein’s island has also been dubbed Orgy Island or Sex Slave Island where Epstein allegedly pimps out underage girls and boys to international dignitaries. Both NYPD and FBI sources confirm based on the new emails they now believe Hillary Clinton traveled as Epstein’s guest on at least six occasions, probably more when all the evidence is combed, sources said. Bill Clinton, it has been confirmed in media reports spanning recent years, that he too traveled with Epstein over 20 times to the island. '''Laptop Also Unveiled More Classified, Top Secret Breaches.''' According to other uncovered emails, Abedin and Clinton both sent and received thousands of classified and top secret documents to personal email accounts including Weiner’s unsecured campaign web site which is managed by Democratic political consultants in Washington D.C. Weiner maintained little known email accounts that the couple shared on the website anthonyweiner.com. Weiner, a former seven-term Democratic Congressman from New York, primarily used that domain to campaign for Congress and for his failed mayoral bid of [[New York City]]. At one point, FBI sources said, Abedin and Clinton’s classified and top secret State Department documents and emails were stored in Weiner’s email on a server shared with a dog grooming service and a western Canadian bicycle shop. However, Weiner and Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton’s closest personal aide, weren’t the only people with access to the Weiner’s email account. Potentially dozens of unknown individuals had access to Abedin’s sensitive State Department emails that were stored in Weiner’s email account, FBI sources confirmed. FEC records show Weiner paid more than $92,000 of congressional campaign funds to Anne Lewis Strategies LLC to manage his email and web site. According to FBI sources, the D.C.-based political consulting firm has served as the official administrator of the anthonyweiner.com domain since 2010, the same time Abedin was working at the State Department. This means technically Weiner and Abedin’s emails, including top secret State Department emails, could have been accessed, printed, discussed, leaked, or distributed by untold numbers of personnel at the Anne Lewis consulting firm because they can control where the website and it emails are pointed, FBI sources said. According to FBI sources, the bureau’s newly-minted probe into Clinton’s use and handling of emails while she served as secretary of state, has also been broadened to include investigating new email-related revelations, including: *Abedin forwarded classified and top secret State Department emails to Weiner’s email *Abedin stored emails, containing government secrets, in a special folder shared with Weiner warehousing over 500,000 archived State Department emails. *Weiner had access to these classified and top secret documents without proper security clearance to view the records *Abedin also used a personal yahoo address and her Clintonemail.com address to send/receive/store classified and top secret documents *A private consultant managed Weiner’s site for the last six years, including three years when Clinton was secretary of state, and therefore, had full access to all emails as the domain’s listed registrant and administrator via Whois email contacts. *Because Weiner’s campaign website is managed by the third-party consultant and political email guru, FBI agents are burdened with the task of trying to decipher just how many people had access to Weiner’s server and emails and who were these people. Or if the server was ever compromised by hackers, or other actors. Abedin told FBI agents in an April interview that she didn’t know how to consistently print documents or emails from her secure Dept. of State system. Instead, she would forward the sensitive emails to her yahoo, Clintonemail.com and her email linked to Weiner. Abedin said, according to FBI documents, she would then access those email accounts via webmail from an unclassified computer system at the State Dept. and print the documents, many of which were classified and top secret, from the largely unprotected webmail portals. Clinton did not have a computer in her office on Mahogany Row at the State Dept. so she was not able to read timely intelligence unless it was printed out for her, Abedin said. Abedin also said Clinton could not operate the secure State Dept. fax machine installed in her Chappaqua, NY home without assistance. Perhaps more alarming, according to the FBI’s 302 Report detailing its interview with Abedin, none of the multiple FBI agents and Justice Department officials who conducted the interview pressed Abedin to further detail the email address linked to Weiner. There was never a follow up, according to the 302 report.<ref>https://truepundit.com/breaking-bombshell-nypd-blows-whistle-on-new-hillary-emails-money-laundering-sex-crimes-with-children-child-exploitation-pay-to-play-perjury/</ref>}}

*DOJ Assistant Attorney [[Peter Kadzik]] outed as a mole for Hillary Clinton campaign.<ref>https://t.co/MNHzJ310Nl pic.twitter.com/uTQF6baWBC</ref> PADAG [[Matthew Axelrod]] recuses DAAG Peter Kadzik from signing letters to Congress in Clinton-related matters but Kadzik remains a Clinton operative in the DOJ involved in Clinton matters and Clinton investigations.

*[[Chuck Schumer]]: "I do not have confidence in [Comey] any longer."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/schumer-says-he-lost-confidence-in-fbi-s-comey-over-e-mail-probe</ref>

*'''3 November.''' Lisa Page wrote to Strzok, “The nyt [''New York Times''] probability numbers are dropping every day. '''I’m scared for our organization'''.” Probability numbers refers to the ''New York Times'' presidential election forecast, which gave Hillary Clinton as high as a 93% chance of winning on October 25, before dropping to an 85% chances as of November 3. The "our organization" comment, and how a democratic election makes government employees operating government owned telecommunications equipment "scared for ''our'' organization" remains unexplained.

*'''4 November.''' Erik Prince appears on radio and outlines discoveries within the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop that was being blocked by AG Loretta Lynch.<ref>https://youtu.be/KQF6ozkHPt8</ref> Prince claimed insider knowledge of the investigation to explain why Dir. James Comey had to announce he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s email server: {{quotebox|“Because of [[Weinergate]] and the sexting scandal, the NYPD started investigating it. Through a subpoena, through a warrant, they searched his laptop, and sure enough, found those 650,000 emails. They found way more stuff than just more information pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the guy was doing,” Prince claimed. “They found State Department emails. They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times,” he said. “The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments,’” Prince explained. “I believe – I know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine at 1PP, One Police Plaza in New York – the '''NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making in this investigation, and they’ve gotten huge pushback, to the point of coercion''', from the Justice Department, with the Justice Department '''threatening to charge someone that had been unrelated in the accidental heart attack death of Eric Garner''' almost two years ago. That’s the level of pushback the Obama Justice Department is doing against actually seeking justice in the email and other related criminal matters,” Prince said.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/</ref>}}

*'''Between 1–6 November.''' Paul Wood of the [[BBC]] met with Glenn Simpson at BBC’s Washington studio where Simpson provided Wood with a redacted copy of the ''Steele dossier''. Wood then contacted the CIA to attempt to corroborate the information, where he received an unofficial intermediary whom said the ''Steele dossier'' was credible and they had numerous outside sources to it. “Mr Wood said he had asked the CIA about the allegations made in the dossier, which is said to have circulated for months among major media outlets, who were not able to corroborate its contents, before it was published by ''BuzzFeed''. ‘I sent a message to the CIA at the beginning of November to ask them about these allegations...It was illegal for any official to talk to me about them, but I got a message back through an intermediary that said the allegations were regarded as credible. And more than that, there was more than a single source for them, not just this MI6 man.’” <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-claims-more-than-one-sex-tape-blackmail-cia-agents-bbc-paul-wood-a7523321.html</ref>

*'''6 November.''' [[Zerohedge]]: Clinton Foundation Admits It Broke The Law In Leaked "Smoking Gun" Memo.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-05/leaked-clinton-foundation-smoking-gun-memo-reveals-it-was-not-compliance-law</ref>

*'''7 November.''' Louise Mensch of ''HeatStreet'' reports two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community confirmed that the FBI was granted a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign.<ref>https://archive.is/0miO5</ref> While the BBC report suggests that the surveillance was meant to ferret out “transfers of money,” the Mensch article asserts that a “warrant was granted to look at the full content of [[email]]s and other related documents that may concern US persons" (FISA Title I authority).

*David Corn sends a copy of the ''Steele dossier'' to [[James Baker (DOJ)]].<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/a-new-right-wing-smear-campaign-targets-a-former-fbi-official-to-distract-from-russia-scandal/</ref> Baker testified, {{quotebox|“My recollection is that he had part of the dossier, that we had other parts already, and that we got still other parts from other people, and that — and nevertheless some of the parts that David Corn gave us were parts that we did not have from another source.”}} Baker testified that he received elements of the dossier from Corn that were not in the FBI’s possession at the time. He said that he immediately turned this information over to leadership within the FBI, noting, “I think it was [[Bill Priestap]],” the head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. Baker also testified regarding what he believed was the underlying source of the memos he received from Corn. {{quotebox|“I think I assumed at the time or knew, he may have told me, that he got it from Simpson or somebody acting on Simpson’s behalf.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-campaign-relied-on-former-spys-web-of-connections-to-frame-trump_2777189.html?ref=brief_News</ref>}} Steele wrote four memos after the FBI team received his information in mid-September. All of the memos were written in October—on the 12th, 18th, 19th, and the 20th. Baker said of Corn: “Even though he was my friend, I was also an FBI official. He knew that. And so he wanted to somehow get that into the hands of the FBI.”

*'''8 November.''' Election day. Counterintelligence and cyber teams at FBI Headquarters monitored a disinformation campaign spread across Twitter and Facebook, following a series of hoaxes aimed at Hillary Clinton. The effort carried out by the FBI was done in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where the three teams would then contact a specific team [Lisa Monaco, Susan Rice, Avril Haines] at the White House Situation Room every three hours.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/election-day-cyber-threat-fbi-monitoring/index.html</ref>

*FBI investigator Strzok and Lisa Page follow election returns: Strzok - "f*****g terrifying." Lisa Page - “OMG THIS IS F****** TERRIFYING.”

*Clinton email investigator Sally Moyer texts' that Clinton had “better win … otherwise i’m gonna be walking around with both my guns … and like quitting on the spot,” adding, “screw you trump.” In another message Moyer said, “f–k trump,” and told a colleague she would consider any presidential award for public service from Trump an “insult.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2018/06/19/house-goper-unmasks-identities-of-anti-trump-fbi-agents/</ref>

*Susan Rice’s interest in unmasking NSA materials accelerates.

*'''9 November.''' As election returns flow in during the wee hours, {{quotebox|Lisa Page - CNN projecting FL for Trump. Strzok - Damn Lisa Page - And there it is. Lisa Page - Analogous to the public editor article Bill [Priestap] handed out. n\nNews Media Yet Again Misreads America\u2019 Complex Pulse http://nyti.ms/2eCqXVM Strzok - Too hard to explain here. Election related. Which is also godawful bad. n\nSure Lisa Page - Are you even going to give out your calenders? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. Lisa Page - And Christ, we should just hit those thumb drives now. Their opinion is totally irrelevant. Strzok - No. And yes. Lisa Page - I'll mention to Andy [McCabe]. Strzok - Omg I am so depressed Lisa Page - Yes, maybe. I need to see what [redact] wants to do first.}}
[[File:Clinesmith.png|right|250px|thumb|[[Marxist]] [[subversive]] Kevin Clinesmith declared his loyalty to the Resistance early and texted during the [[Mueller probe]], "I have initiated destruction of the [[Republic]]."<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/i-have-initiated-the-destruction-of-the-republic-breaking-exclusive-adulterous-attorney-kevin-clinesmith-after-first-carter-page-fisa-app-originated/</ref>]]
*Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigator Kevin Clinesmith messaged several FBI employees, “I am numb.” He added, “I am so stressed about what I could have done differently.” Clinesmith messaged another FBI employee that he was “just devastated” over Trump’s victory and launched into a rant: “I just can’t imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we made over the last 8 years. ACA is gone. Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls, and crap is true. I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues, too, the crazies won finally. This is the [[tea party]] on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also [[Pence]] is stupid." The active Russiagate investigator added weeks later, “Viva le resistance."

*'''Weiner laptop now being investigated - day after election.''' Peter Strzok, for the first time,<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/huma-fbi-1.jpg</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/huma-fbi-3.jpg</ref> submits Weiner laptop to FBI lab for processing, contradicting both Comey's November 4 statement that the laptop had been reviewed and no evidence found, and Strzok's statements to Inspector General Horowitz (p. 388). Also, further evidence the FBI anticipated a Hillary win, obstructed justice, and delayed investigating the Weiner laptop.

*Alexandra Chalupa posted a message to Facebook about work done in conjunction between the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and an Anonymous-based organization known as “The Protectors” based in Washington, DC.
{{quotebox-float|“Homeland Security/DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington, D.C. called ‘The Protectors’. This group saw a lot of activity during Election Day from the Russians and believe that the voting results projected don’t match the internal and public polls because the voting results were manufactured in favor of Trump in heavily Republican counties in key states, and voting results may have been described for Clinton in key Democratic countries via malware that was placed by the Russians when they hacked the election systems of more than half our states.” <ref>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388</ref>}}

*[[Google]] considers burying ''[[Daily Caller]]'' and ''[[Breitbart]]'' search results in response to Trump victory.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/google-censorship-conservative-media/</ref>

*'''After Trump's win.''' Steele provides a full review of his dossier for a senior British official. Steele had told the FBI in Rome he would take this step in the event of a Trump victory.<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1075535589154394117</ref>
[[File:Moore duped.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Michael Moore, a voracious producer and consumer of Leftist junk media, was duped by Putin's cybertrolls into leading an anti-Trump rally at Trump Tower.]]
*'''10 November.''' President-elect Trump met with President Obama in the Oval Office. Obama warned Trump to avoid hiring Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn for his future Administration.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316</ref>

*Lisa Page texts Strzok a [[Lawfare Group]] link:
:*10:45:55, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: The Burden on Donald Trump - Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/burden-donald-trump
:*11:11:57, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: You clear verizon?
:*11:15:42, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: Okay, I've gotta go. Read that lawfare article. It's really sobering.

*Andrea Chalupa, sister of Alexandra Chalupa, then tweeted: “All election day Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ updated my sister: they were at war w/RU hackers in our systems”.<ref>https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796932400878063617</ref>
*Facebook CEO & founder Mark Zuckerberg calls Clinton campaign & Deep State theory that Russian fake news influenced the U.S. presidential election "a pretty crazy idea."<ref>https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/10/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-fake-news/index.html</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/11/501743684/zuckerberg-denies-fake-news-on-facebook-had-impact-on-the-election</ref>

*'''12 November.''' Russian stooge [[Michael Moore]] attends Russian organized BlackMattersUS march in front of Trump Tower.<ref>http://www.dailywire.com/news/23037/thousands-including-michael-moore-duped-attending-emily-zanotti</ref>

*'''14 November.''' [[Jerry Nadler]]: Obama should immediately fire FBI Director James Comey for influencing the election.<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jerry-nadler-obama-fire-james-comey/2016/11/14/id/758729/</ref>

Read Newsmax: Dem Rep. Jerry Nadler: Obama Should Fire Comey for Influencing Election | Newsmax.com

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*'''15 November.''' ''WaPo'' op-ed reports that former Republican Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. [[Michael J. Rogers]] fired from Trump Transition. The former congressman was seen as {{quotebox|"a widely respected former FBI agent...a figure of stability and continuity in intelligence matters. He was mentioned as a possible next director of the CIA or director of national intelligence."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/15/why-mike-rogerss-departure-from-the-trump-team-is-alarming/?utm_term=.c0404c1ea829</ref>}} Rogers was responsible for the 2014 Rogers/Ruppersberger Report, a [[bipartisan]] whitewash and cover-up of the [[Benghazi massacre]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/11/22/the-motives-behind-the-november-rogersruppersberger-house-intelligence-panel-report-on-benghazi/</ref> Some suspect Michael J. Rogers as the FBI informant planted within the Trump campaign.<ref>https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1056668314204655616</ref> Rogers goes on to work for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) which partners with Facebook to [[censor]] American's [[free speech]] on the [[internet]].<ref>https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/about-us/advisory-council/</ref><ref>https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org</ref> (Rep. Michael J. Rogers should not be confused with Adm. Mike S. Rogers, the hero of the Obamagate scandal).
*An [[IP address]] associated with the Department of Homeland Security attempted unsuccessfully to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3234551-Georgia-Secretary-of-State-Letter-to-DHS-Secretary.html</ref> The Georgia Secretary of State oversees Georgia elections. At the same time, President-elect Trump started to receive top secret briefings.
*'''16 November.''' Bruce Ohr's advised CRM officials Bruce Swartz and Zainab Ahmad of information "about [Paul] Manafort and Trump and possible Russian influence that [Ohr] was getting from Steele and Glenn Simpson." This discussion led to subsequent meetings with them and Andrew Weissmann about the pre-existing MLARS investigation of Manafort and whether the Fraud Section could move the investigation forward. At the time of these meetings, Swartz was a CRM Deputy AAG and Weissmann was the Chief of the Fraud Section. During this period, Ahmad was initially Counsel to the Criminal Division AAG and then became an Acting CRM Deputy AAG.
:*None of these CRM officials had supervisory responsibility over the MLARS investigation. :*Ahmad and Weissmann did not have prior direct involvement in the investigation. Swartz had assisted MLARS with gathering evidence from abroad, and therefore, had extensive prior knowledge and involvement with the investigation, but was not responsible for investigative decisions.
:*The MLARS Manafort investigation was outside Ohr's areas of responsibility.
:*MLARS officials were not invited to these meetings or informed of them. The then Chief of MLARS, Kendall Day and the acting Chief who replaced him in January 2017, both told the OIG that they were unaware at the time that these CRM officials and Ohr were discussing the MLARS investigation and engaging with the FBI. The '''MLARS chief told the OIG that when he learned in March or April 2017 that Swartz, Ohr, Ahmad, and Weissmann were "collectively interested" in the Manafort investigation, he met with Swartz and Ahmad and told them that their "unusual level of interest" could create a perception that the Department was investigating Manafort for inappropriate reasons.'''<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 398.</ref>

:*At Ohr's suggestion, Ohr, Swartz, and Ahmad also met with FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in December 2016 to discuss the MLARS investigation because Ohr knew by that time that the FBI's Counterintelligence Division was working on a separate matter involving Manafort.
::*On January 31, 2017, one day after [[Sally Yates]] was removed as Deputy Attorney General, Ahmad, after consulting with Swartz and Weissmann, called a second meeting, citing to "a few Criminal Division related developments." '''None of the attendees of the meeting could explain to the DOJ Office of Inspector General what the "Criminal Division related developments" were.'''
:*Clapper tenders resignation as DNI.
*'''Mid November - December.''' Strzok and Priestap travel to London to finally begin vetting Christopher as a confidential human source. Priestap and Strzok notes stated: "[d]emonstrates lack of self-awareness, poor judgment;" "[k]een to help" but "underpinned by poor judgment;" "Judgment: pursuing people with political risk but no intel value;" "[d]idn't always exercise great judgment sometimes [he] believes he knows best;" and "[r]eporting in good faith, but not clear what he would have done to validate."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 182-183, 256-258.</ref> None of the findings were memorialized in Steele's Delta file and not considered in a validation review conducted by the FBI's Validation Management Unit (VMU) in early 2017. Additionally, relevant details about Steele's work-related performance in a prior position were not shared with the NSD OI and were not included in any of the Carter Page FISA renewal applications, even though the applications relied upon Steele's reporting. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 183.</ref>
:*Strzok makes another trip to London in December with Lisa Page, Pientka, Moffa, and Trish Anderson's flunky, this time without Priestap.
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*'''17 November.''' '''Adm. Rogers informs Trump of Obama administration surveillance.''' NSA Director Mike Rogers makes unannounced trip to Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Trump without notifying the White House.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/502980006/reports-suggest-nsa-director-mike-rogers-is-on-his-way-out</ref> Rogers warned Trump of Obama administration illegal spying on Trump and the transition team. Trump immediately moves transition headquarters from Trump Tower to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey to interview and discuss the most sensitive positions to fill, Defense, State, CIA, ODNI.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/17/donald-trump-moves-transition-meetings-private-gol/</ref>
{{Anchor|Evanina}}
*Strzok and Lisa Page discuss briefing the [[Trump transition]] team and recruiting informants: {{quotebox|Strzok: Talking with Bill [Priestap]. Do we want Joe [Pientka] to go with [William] Evanina<ref>William Evanina, National Counterintelligence and Security Center. https://www.congress.gov/115/chrg/CHRG-115shrg30120/CHRG-115shrg30120.htm</ref> instead of Charli [unknown] for a variety of reasons? Lisa Page: Hmm. Not sure. Would it be unusual to have show up again? Maybe another agent from the team? Strzok: Or, he’s “the CI [counter interintelligence] guy.” Same.might make sense. He can assess if there are any news Qs, or different demeanor. If Katie’s husband [Joshua Pitcock, Vice President-elect [[Mike Pence]]’s Chief of Staff], whose wife [Katherine whose name differs from Pitcock] is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships Lisa Page: Should I ask Andy [McCabe] about it? Or Bill [Priestap] want to reach out for Andy [McCabe]? Strzok: I told him I’m sure we could ask you to make the swap if we thought it was smart. It s not until Mon so Bill [Priestap] can always discuss with him tomorrow<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-25/fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-spy-bureau</ref>}}
:*Katie, wife of Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, is an FBI agent who worked with Peter Strzok on the [[Clinton email investigation]]. Katie is reported to have recused herself from the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation after Pence was nominated. Trump announced Pence as his pick on July 15, 2016. The two officially became nominees on July 21, 2016.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/</ref>

:*Strzok texts Lisa Page "Sessions for AG," along with a profanity. Page replies, "Good god."

*Congress renews calls for [[perjury]] charges against ODNI boss James Clapper.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/lawmakers-resume-calls-for-james-clapper-perjury-charges</ref>

*Obama administration votes against Russian sponsored UN Resolution entitled "''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance''," condemning the neo-fascist regime Obama and progressives brought to power in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

*'''Mid November.''' Steel and Wood meet for a second time. Sir Andrew Wood approaches Steele after the election “to discuss whether they needed to take further steps to ensure the U.S. government was aware of his information.”

*'''18-20 November.''' McCain and his longtime adviser, David Kramer–an ex-U.S. State Dept. official–attend a security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia where former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood tells them about the Fusion GPS anti-Trump dossier. (Kramer is affiliated with the “Ukraine Today” media organization). They discuss confirming the info has reached top levels of FBI for action.

*'''19 November.''' ''Washington Post'' reports Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and DNI James Clapper recommend to the White House that NSA Dir. Rogers be fired. Rogers traveled to New York to meet with President-elect Trump days earlier at Trump Tower, warning Trump about the Obama administration illegal surveillance of the Trump team. "That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to officials."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?utm_term=.d9d3bcfd83f3</ref>

*'''21 November.''' Bruce Ohr receives email from [[Kathleen Kavalec]], a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European Affairs in the State Department. (Kavalec is now President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to [[Albania]].) Kavalec sent Ohr information on Simon Kukes, a Russian-born executive who contributed more than $250,000 to Trump-supporting organizations after Trump won the Republican nomination. Kavalec said she met Kukes around 2014, when "Tom Firestone brought him in," a reference to former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone, now a partner at the Washington law firm [[BakerHostetler]]. Kavalec also linked to a ''Mother Jones'' article about Kukes. Ohr responded by saying, "I may have heard about him from Tom Firestone as well, but I can't recall for certain." Then Kavalec answered by saying she was "just re-looking at my notes from my convo with [[Chris Steele]]" and that "I see that Chris said Kukes has some connection to Serge Millian, an emigre who is identified by FT as head of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce." [In the book ''Russian Roulette'', authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn wrote that Millian claimed to have some sort of business relationship with the Trump organization — which the Trumps denied. Millian is reported to be Source D and E in the Dossier. More importantly, Millian went on to become Steele's source for the infamous "golden showers" allegation that Donald Trump had engaged in a kinky sex scene in a Moscow hotel room in 2013.]

:*'''Bruce Ohr recruited as conduit from Steele to Strzok - in violation of FBI rules.''' Bruce Ohr notes state that Ohr met with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The notes read, “no prosecution yet, pushing ahead on M case,” in reference to Paul Manafort." Ohr's notes indicate that the FBI "may go back to Chris [Steele]" just 20 days after firing Steele for violating bureau rules.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-bruce-ohr-docs-raise-serious-questions/</ref> Ohr is introduced to [[Joe Pientka]], who became Ohr’s FBI handler. Pientka was also present with Strzok during the Jan. 24, 2017, interview of then [[national security adviser]] [[Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn]].
:*Bruce Ohr conveys to FBI that Steele was "desperate" for Trump not to win.<ref>FBI FISA Abuse Report, p. 259.</ref>
:*Notes taken by other meeting participants indicate that Ohr shared Steele's reporting of Kremlin activities "may be exaggerated or [[conspiracy theory]] talk," so Steele cannot know whether all the reporting is true.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 279-280.</ref>
:*Ohr "knew" that Simpson was "hired by a lawyer who does opposition research" [Marc Elias] and that Steele's reporting was being distributed to "the Clinton Campaign, [[Jon Winer]] at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.
:*The FD-302 of this meeting with Bruce Ohr also documented that Ohr provided the FBI with copies of his notes of the July 30 Mayflower Hotel breakfast meetings and late September 2016 meetings with Steele. The FBI covered up this information and did not insert this FD-302 into Steele's closed CHS file.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 281</ref>
:*Pientka is said to written the FD-302. In total, 13 FD-302 interview reports were written with information conveyed to the FBI from Steele through Bruce Ohr into the middle of 2017; none of the FD-302s were added to Steele's Confidential Human Source file.
[[File:Stein and Putin.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Commie stooge [[Jill Stein]]<ref>https://thinkprogress.org/jill-stein-campaign-russia-ecf424ac3b7e/</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166</ref> accepted $2 million from Clinton donors<ref>https://newrepublic.com/article/140254/inside-story-trump-clinton-stein-presidential-election-recount</ref> - more than she spent on her entire 2016 Presidential campaign - to overturn the election of Trump. After funding her recount, Hillary Clinton later charged Jill Stein as a "Russian asset," rekindling allegations of from the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jill-stein-hillary-clintons-russian-asset-charge-is-a-completely-unhinged-conspiracy-theory</ref>]]
*'''22 November.''' Date of first of twelve Pientka interviews with Bruce Ohr; Form 302 for this interview dated December 19, 2016.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/421245115/Bruce-Ohr-302-Reports-Judicial-Watch-v-DOJ#download</ref><ref>"Numerous FD-302s demonstrating that Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Mr. Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Mr. Steele for unauthorized contact with the media, and demonstrating that Mr. Ohr otherwise funneled allegations from Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele to the FBI." https ://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/2018-02-28%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20OIG%20%28referral%29.pdf</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/07/suspicions-confirmed-congress-gets-bruce-ohr-documents-showing-back-door-communication-network/</ref><ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/08/18/the-bruce-ohr-302s/</ref> The Ohr 302s serve as CYA memos - the paper trail for probable cause information. Because of Christopher Steele's suspension his reporting is deemed unreliable; Bruce Ohr, who is not assigned to the case, is serving as a backdoor for information coming to the FBI from Steele. Pientka was transmitting all the information directly to Strzok.
:*In addition, shortly after the U.S. elections in November 2016, Bruce Ohr participated in several meetings with Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Deputy AAG) Bruce Swartz, Chief of the Fraud Section [[Andrew Weissmann]], and Counsel to the Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General [[Zainab Ahmad]] regarding the Department's money laundering investigation of Manafort. Two of these meetings included FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 391.</ref> The FBI opened the Manafort money laundering investigation in January 2016 at the time of [[Andriy Telizhenko]] of the Ukrainian Embassey's meeting with Eric Ciaramella meeting in the Obama White House. Bruce Ohr and the three officials he met with d!d not have supervisory authority over the Manafort criminal investigation, and they did not advise their supervisors in ODAG and CRM (Criminal and Money Laundering division) MLARS prosecutors of the meetings.<ref>FISA Abuse Rerport, p. 392.</ref>
:*Hillary's "computer scientists" urge election recount.<ref>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clinton-to-challenge-election-results.html</ref>

*'''24 November.''' ''Washington Post''’s Craig Timberg publishes a dubiously sourced report headlined, ''Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news.’'' The article hyped up a [[McCarthyite]] effort by a shadowy, anonymously run organization called PropOrNot to blacklist some 200 American media outlets as Russian “online propaganda.”<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref> PropOrNot was promoted widely by top Clinton staffers and celebrated by -Obama White House aide Dan Pfeiffer as “the biggest story in the world.”

*'''"Sometime around Thanksgiving."''' [[Glenn Simpson]] and [[Bruce Ohr]] meet and discuss the ''Steele dossier'', the Russia meddling investigation, and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.

*'''25 November.''' A senior Obama Administration official sent a statement to ''The New York Times'', where they stated that the results of the 2016 United States presidential election accurately matched the will of the American people.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html</ref>

*'''28 November.''' McCain associate David Kramer flies to London to meet Christopher Steele for a briefing on the anti-Trump research. Afterward, Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson gives Sen. McCain a copy of the “dossier.” Steele also passes anti-Trump info to top UK government official in charge of national security. Sen. McCain soon arranges a meeting with FBI Director Comey.

*'''30 November.''' David Kramer, Sen. McCain, and McCain’s chief of staff, Christopher Brose, meet to review the ''Steele dossier''. Kramer “advised McCain to share the reports with the FBI and CIA.” McCain later passed a copy of the dossier to Comey on Dec. 9, 2016.<ref>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5637781/Order-on-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment.pdf</ref>

*PropOrNot publishes "fake news" blacklist.<ref>http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html?m=1</ref> Among the criteria PropOrNot identified as signs of Russian propaganda were: “Support for policies like [[Brexit]], and the breakup of the [[EU]] and Eurozone” and “Opposition to Ukrainian resistance to Russia and [[Syria]]n resistance to [[Bashar Assad|Assad]].” PropOrNot called for “formal investigations by the U.S. government” into the outlets it had blacklisted. By the [[2018 Midterm elections]], [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]] had banned many on this list.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref>
*'''November.''' First time the Crossfire Hurricane team accessed Steele's FBI Delta file.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 103 fn 229.</ref> The Delta file for each Confidential Human Source (CHS, aka "spy" or "informant") contains all of the personal and administrative information about the CHS, as well as sub-files for unclassified reporting, classified reporting, validation documentation, and payment records. Ther file should have been reviewed when the FBI recieved the ''Steel dossier'' and before submission of the Carter Page FISA application.
*'''Late November.''' Comey and Obama sat with each other — alone — in the Oval Office.

===December 2016===
In reviewing leaks of classified information before and after November 8, 2016, a trend becomes evident: prior to the election, leaks focused on Russia's attempts to sow discord; leaks after the election focused on an alleged attempt to affect the outcome, rather than just undermining confidence in the electoral system.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, pp. 101-110.</ref>

As of December 5, 2016, the [[Obama administration]] had not acknowledged any attempt by Moscow to influence the election in favor of Trump. However, four days later on December 9, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller of ''[[Bezos Blog]]'' reported that John Brennan concluded a new assessment that Russia intervened in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]] to help candidate Trump.
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By "walking back" negative statements Trump made about the IC, in particular the CIA, and "going along" with congressional investigations into Russian collusion which ultimately would end in a whitewash, Trump could gain cooperation in deal making for career [[Civil Service Commission|civil service employees]] and appointments. If not, hearing Trump's promise to [[drain the swamp]], the Intelligence Community is "going to war."

With the creation of [[ISIS]], the Obama White House and Intelligence Community had much to hide. The [[Benghazi massacre]] derailed their plans; rather than a quick overthrow of [[Bashar al-Assad|Assad]] it led to Russian troop deployments in [[Syria]] and a continuing war of attrition. Things hadn't worked out the way they planned. Anyone involved in fomenting the atrocity which is the [[Syrian war]] - Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Obama, McCain, ''et al.'' - the crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, felt vulnerable.
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[[Theresa May]] and [[Boris Johnson]] were briefed on the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://t.co/wP98IiUrUb?amp=1</ref>
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*'''December.''' Lisa Page, Strzok, Moffa, Pientka, and the OGC Unit Chief (Trisha Anderson's subordinate) traveled to London on McCabe's instructions<ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref> to access and attempt to validate Christopher Steel's reliability as an FBI informant.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 182 fn 326.</ref> In January 2017, the FBI's Validation Management Unit (VMU) established that Steele's reporting since he had been employed as an FBI informant beginning in 2013 had been "minimally corroborated" and had never been used in any criminal prosecution, despite representations made to the FISA Court in October 2016, and January, April and June of 2017.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 261.</ref>
*'''December.''' Stu Evans advised that Christopher Steele had "questionable judgment".
*'''2 December.''' Institute for Advanced Studies in [[Princeton University|Princeton]] bans Lucy Komisar from [[Bill Browder]] speech.<ref>https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2016/12/institute-for-advanced-studies-in-princeton-bans-lucy-komisar-from-wm-browder-speech/</ref>

:*Alexandera Chalupa met with convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin and Israeli Yoni Ariel in Washington in December 2016. Kimberlin earned the nickname “Speedway Bomber” by setting a string of bombs in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. Kimberlin served 17 years in prison for the bombing spree. He gained more notoriety in prison after he concocted a story about having once sold marijuana to then-Vice President Dan Quayle. The story was propagated by [[Cody Shearer]], a Clinton operative. Kimberlin now works on various voters’ rights initiatives, including in Ukraine.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/21/former-dnc-official-partnered-with-convicted-bomb-maker-to-investigate-trump/ Chuck Ross: Former DNC Official Partnered With Convicted Bomb Maker To Investigate Trump.</ref>

*'''4 December.''' [[FSB]] officer Sergei Mikhailov arrested by the Russian government and charged with accepting millions from CIA Director John Brennan in the phony Trump-Russia scam.<ref>https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/russia-fsb-colonel-sergey-mikhailov-the-spy-without-a-past/</ref>

:*[[New Zealand]] Prime Minister resigns after getting caught giving $13.7 million in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>http://galacticconnection.com/charles-ortel-on-clinton-foundation-charity-fraud-video-new-zealand-prime-minister-resigns-after-getting-caught-giving-13-7-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-the-clinton-foundation/</ref>

*'''5 December.''' Bruce Ohr's second interview with the FBI; FD-302 dated 12/19/16. '''Ohr passed along a memory stick from his wife Nellie.'''<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JW-v-DOJ-Ohr-comms-production-6-01854-pgs-300-312.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-doj-ohr-comms-production-6-01854-pgs-300-312/</ref>
:*The FBI, through Ohr, now had all the research Nellie had done during her time working for Fusion GPS.
:*Bruce Ohr emailed himself an Excel spreadsheet, seemingly from his wife Nellie Ohr, titled “WhosWho19Sept2016.” The spreadsheet purports to show relationship descriptions and “linkages” between Donald Trump, his family and criminal figures, many of whom were Russians. This list of individuals allegedly “linked to Trump” include: a Russian involved in a “gangland killing;” an Uzbek mafia don; a former KGB officer suspected in the murder of Paul Tatum; a Russian who reportedly “buys up banks and pumps them dry”; a Russian money launderer for Sergei Magnitsky; a Turk accused of shipping oil for ISIS; a couple who lent their name to the Trump Institute, promoting its “get-rich-quick schemes”; a man who poured him a drink; and others.
:*Nellie Ohr did not have a clue that Felix Sater was an active FBI informant.
:*Nellie Ohr is searching desperately to link Trump and Sater to dirty Russian money. What she does not suspect is that Sater was being used, via his company Bayrock, to try to gain access to Russians who were potential targets of the FBI.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/larry-c-johnson-the-unraveling-of-the-failed-coup-to-take-out-trump/</ref>
:*She uncovered no evidence implicating Trump working with the Russians, either thru Felix Sater or one of the other “suspects” she exhaustively listed.
:*Bruce Ohr never informed his DOJ superiors about his interactions with Steele, nor about his involvement with the FBI, or the income his wife received doing opposition research for Hillary Clinton. Although the FBI is technically a division of the DOJ, the FBI also did not alert senior DOJ leadership of their ongoing relationship with Bruce Ohr.

*FBI Dep. Dir. of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok gives false and misleading briefing to House Intelligence Committee investigators into Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''. House Intelligence Committee investigators later were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was obstructing the House probe into the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/12/texts-between-ex-mueller-team-members-emerge-calling-trump-loathsome-human-idiot.html</ref>

*'''8 December.''' *Bruce Ohr's arragnged meeting with Glenn Simpson for December 10.
:*McCain gives Comey his copy of Steele Dossier.<ref>https://t.co/ujPqB4bOLK?amp=1</ref>
*'''9 December.''' '''Russia collusion hoax narrative begins.''' Brennan provides assessment to Obama, claims Russia intervened in 2016 election to help Trump and impair Hillary Clinton’s chances.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.d12bb3f09dd9</ref> Obama orders a full review of Russian activities. Brennan hand-picked agents from both the CIA and the FBI to write the assessment, including Peter Strzok, who served as the liaison between Comey and Brennan.
:*Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann phoned CIA general counsel Caroline Krass while the agency was compiling the Intelligence Community Assessment and said he had information that may help. The review ended up including an annex with several unfounded and since-debunked allegations against Trump developed by the Clinton campaign.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020-06-10%20ODNI%20to%20CEG,%20RJ%20-%20ICA%20Annex.pdf</ref> After Sussmann conveyed the information to Krass, an Obama appointee, she told him she would consider it for the intelligence review of Russian interference, which tracks with Sussmann’s 2017 closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.<ref>https://www.dni.gov/files/HPSCI_Transcripts/2020-05-04-Michael_Sussman-MTR_Redacted.pdf</ref> (Krass’ name is blacked out in the declassified transcript, but sources familiar with Sussmann's testimony confirmed that he identified her as his CIA contact.)
:*Sussmann “stated falsely – as he previously had stated to the FBI general counsel – that he was ‘not representing a particular client,’ " according to Special Counsel John Durham's indictment, which cites a contemporaneous memo drafted by two agency officials with whom Sussmann met that memorializes their meeting. (The document refers to the CIA by the pseudonym “Agency-2.” Sources confirm Agency-2 is the CIA.)

*'''10 December.'''
:*In response to a reporter's inquiry whether the FBI agreed with Brennan's preliminary assessment report to Obama that Russia tried to help Trump and hurt Hillary, Strzok responded to the FBI press office stating,
{{quotebox-float|“We did not have information to differentiate what their [the Russians] ultimate goal was.”<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/407677-fbi-memos-detail-partisan-axes-secret-conflicts-behind-the-russia-election</ref>}}
:*IC goon John Schindler issues series of threats and ultimatums in open source medium (SOCMINT or Social Media Intelligence, part of a 5th "domain of war"). Schindler maintains the official talking points of "for years" "the Kremlin is behind Wikileaks," the quick way to deny the veracity of anything, including future leaks.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161215235756/https://storify.com/DemFromCT/john-schindler-with-a-look-at-donald-trump-s-war-w</ref>
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|*ATTN @realDonaldTrump: going to war with the IC is a truly colossally stupid thing to do, per this tweetstorm [ link to [[CNN]] article<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/10/politics/donald-trump-response-russian-hacking/ …</ref> ] /1 5:47 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*I've been telling you for years—esp last few months—that the Kremlin is behind Wikileaks. Now the IC is saying so openly. Big deal. /2 5:48 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*IC has hard proof at TS+ level that Moscow used Wikileaks to hurt Hillary and help Trump in 2016. These are facts that will not go away. [Ed. note: IC = Intelligence Community. TS+ = Top-Secret Plus.] /3 5:49 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*The investigation demanded by Congress will reveal what we already know—that Putin wanted US political chaos & if possible a Trump win /4 5:50 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Team Trump now has to decide to go along with the investigation of Russian interference or fight it'''; seems they have chosen the latter. /5 5:50 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Publicly attacking the IC as Trump has just done will end very badly for Don. Remember what happened when Hillary attacked the spooks?''' /5 5:51 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Have you really forgotten about #EmailGate already, @realDonaldTrump?''' Mocking the IC in public will result in big things you won't like. /6 5:52 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*The IC dislikes you intensely and they hate Flynn. The spooks have much more on you than they had on Hillary. This is a #YUGE mistake. /7 5:53 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*Only way Trump can make the issue of Russian interference worse is by impugning American intelligence. Which Don just did. Get popcorn /8 5:54 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*IC knows the full picture of what happened this year. They're not happy with you, @realDonaldTrump. '''You have the weekend to walk it back.''' /9 5:55 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*If Don won't walk back his foolish attack on the IC, watch for leaked terms like KGB, FSB, SVR, kompromat, Mogilevich, Organizatsiya... /10 6:00 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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*Bruce Ohr met with Simpson, who provided him with “additional information regarding the contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign.” Simpson also gave Ohr a memory stick that Ohr said he believed contained the ''Steele dossier''. Ohr passed the memory stick to Pientka.
:*John Solomon in ''The Hill'' wrote: {{quotebox|"Simpson told then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr during the Dec. 10, 2016, meeting in a Washington coffee shop that he believed Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, was the “go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign.” Yet, Simpson allegedly acknowledged that most of the information Fusion GPS and British intelligence operative Christopher Steele developed '''did not come from sources inside Moscow. “Much of the collection about the Trump campaign ties to Russia comes from a former Russian intelligence officer (? not entirely clear) who lives in the U.S.,” Ohr scribbled in his notes'''. Ohr made clear he took possession of some evidence from Simpson, writing: “Glen gave me a memory stick.”}} 
*Simpson begins fake news narrative about Russian funding of [[NRA]]. Simpson told Bruce Ohr, "An NRA lawyer named Cleta Mitchell found out about the money pipeline and was very upset, but the election was over,” according to Ohr’s handwritten notes. “Some of Glen’s [sic] people believe that the NRA received abnormally large amount of money to spread in the election, possibly indicating Russian involvement, but others disagree,” Ohr wrote in his notes.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/bruce-ohr-glenn-simpson-nra/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push</ref>
*'''11 December.''' Glenn Simpson emailed [[Nellie Ohr]] a link to an article in the left-wing ''ThinkProgress'' headlined, ''"Why has the NRA been cozying up to Russia?"'' The article focused on now-indicted [[Maria Butina]] and Russian Alexander Torshin. Nellie Ohr responded, "Thank you!" to which Simpson, the next day, answered, "Please ring if you can." Nellie Ohr forwarded the Simpson message to Bruce Ohr, saying, "I assume Glenn means you not me."

*'''12 December.''' Bruce Ohr's third interview with the FBI; FD-302 dated 12/19/16. Strzok recieves update.
:*''Per'' Bruce Ohr’s phone log - Ohr: Glenn Simpson. Some more news. Spoke with him.
*'''13 December.''' Steele writes his final dossier installment (no memos have been written since Oct. 20). Asserts a Michael Cohen August meeting occurred in Prague. Cohen has never been to Prague. Steele declared in court documents this memo was produced on request of David Kramer, a associate of Sen. John McCain. Steele gave a copy of this memo to a “senior UK government national security official” and to Fusion “with an instruction that Fusion was to provide a hard copy to Sen. McCain via Mr. Kramer.” Steele's Dec. 13 memo, also known as Report 166, to Kramer, an unidentified British security official [Robert Hannigan or Alex Younger?], Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council Celeste Wallander (spelled incorrectly as Wallender in the court document),<ref>https://www.wm.edu/offices/revescenter/news/2016/reves-hosts-dr.-celeste-wallander.php</ref> Rep. [[Adam Kinzinger]] (R-Ill.), and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s chief of staff, Jonathan Burks.
:*Bruce Ohr's phone log said, "Glenn Simpson. Some more news. Yesterday 9:27 a.m. Spoke with him."
[[File:Harvey-weinstein-Hillary-clinton-dinner-with-after-election-loss (2).jpg|right|200px|thumb|'''Hillary Clinton dines with Democrat mega donor Harvey Weinstein after the 2016 election, December 13, 2016.''' Weinstein, a charter founder of the Clinton Legal Defense Fund organized to defend President Clinton from sexual harassment and assault charges, has been accused of [[rape]] by 97 women.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-women-who-have-accused-harvey-weinstein-of-sexual-harassment-or-assault-2017-10</ref>]]
:*Bruce Ohr’s log also lists “[[Rod Rosenstein]] 5:48 pm.”
*Hillary Clinton dines with [[Harvey Weinstein]] in New York.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5976133/PICTURED-Hillary-Clinton-having-dinner-Harvey-Weinstein-election-loss.html</ref>

*'''14 December.''' ''New York Times'' published a [[fake news]] article titled ''Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says,'' citing “senior administration officials.” The "insurance policy" is operational.

:*Brennan and Clapper refuse to brief congress. HPSCI Chair Devin Nunes issued the following statement after Intelligence Community agencies declined a request to brief the House Intelligence Committee tomorrow on cyber-attacks during the presidential campaign:
{{quotebox-float|It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign. The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests. The Committee is vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign, and in particular we want to clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us. The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes. The Committee will continue its efforts and will insist that we receive all the necessary cooperation from the relevant leaders of the Intelligence Community.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170819223403/https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=738</ref>}}

*'''Mid December.''' Final Deputies Meeting held attended by Clapper, Brennan, John Kerry and McCabe. Susan Rice ran through a list of proposals described as ‘heavy, medium and light’ options to retaliate against Russia.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.21f20bdb10a8</ref>

*'''15 December.''' [[DNI]] Clapper signs off on directive to implement Obama's revision of E.O. 12333 providing new rules for expanded circulation of raw intelligence data; needs Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch's signature to take effect.

*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discuss Obama [[IC]] criminal conspiracy at length: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - "Oh, remind me to tell you tomorrow about the [''NYT''] times doing a story about the rnc [Republican National Committee] hacks." Strzok - “And more than they already did? I told you [Richard] Quinn [FBI chief of Media and Investigative Publicity Section in the Office of Public Affairs] told me they pulling out all the stops on some story…” Strzok - "Think our sister [agencies] have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried, and political, they’re kicking into overdrive.” Strzok - “And we need to talk more about putting C [Classified] reporting in our submission. They’re going to declassify all of it…” Lisa Page - “I know. But they’re going to declassify their stuff, how do we withhold…” Strzok - “We will get extraordinary questions. What we did what we’re doing. Just want to ensure everyone is good with it and has thought thru all implications. CD [Cyber Division] should bring it up with the DD [Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe].”<ref>http://theconservativecartel.com/trump-blasts-strzok-page-leaking-like-mad-text-as-a-disaster-embarrassment-for-fbi-doj/</ref>}}

*'''16 December.''' Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016 signed into law giving the OIG access to all information that a target agency possesses, reversing Obama administration's stonewalling IG investigations. This access not only includes the agency's internal documentation and data, but also that which the agency externally collected and documented. DOJ-NSD wrongdoing can now be reviewed.

*'''18 December.''' Strzok and Lisa Page exchange texts: {{quotebox|Strzok - “Man, our intel submission is going to be a BOMB." Lisa Page - "Oh god, why do you say that?” Lisa Page - “Was planning to try to go in early to reach it before our mtg with [[Jim Rybicki|Jim [Rybicki] ]].“ Strzok - “Oh it’s fine. You’ve heard it all. I’m just saying the C (classified) portion is absolutely different from the bulk of the stuff in the community. And the community and especially the WH [White House] will jump all over it since it’s what they WANT to say and they can attribute it to us, not themselves." Strzok - “All the benefit, none of the political risk. We get all of that.”}}

*'''19 December.''' First three Bruce Ohr FD-302 interview reports memorialized, signed December 15.

:*'''20:17pm.''' Lisa Page and Strzok boast about the number of news stories they had a hand in shaping: {{Quotebox|Lisa Page - “And this. It will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. Sheesh, this has been quite a year… NYTimes: The most-read stories of 2016 (with a link).” Strzok - “Jesus, I want to take people out for a drink. I want to take YOU out for a drink. I hope this upcoming presidency doesn’t fill my years with regret wondering what we might have done differently.” Lisa Page - ☹️}}

:*George Eliason: Russia Hacking the Election the Inside Story.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Russian-Hacking-the-Electi-by-George-Eliason-Coup_Euromaidan_Russian-Influence_Ukraine-161219-878.html#comment635302</ref>

*[[Electoral College]] meets in 50 state capitals to elect new president.

*'''20 December.''' Bruce Ohr's fourth FBI interview; FD-302 dated 12/27/16. Strzok receives update.
*'''22 December.''' Dmitri Alperovitch interview with Judy Woodruff of [[PBS]] ''NewsHour''.
:*Woodruff asked if Crowdstrike was still working for the DNC.
:*Woodruff asked Alperovitch about his [[conflict of interest]].
:*Crowdstrike CEO Dmitri Alperovitch story about Russian hacks that cost Hillary Clinton the election was broadsided by the SBU (Ukrainian Intelligence and Security) in Ukraine.<ref>https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/01/crowdstrikes-russian-hacking-story-fell-apart-say-hello-fancy-bear-2.html</ref>
:*Strzok recieves another update on Ohr's information from Steele.
*Jared Kushner directs Michael Flynn to contact officials of the various foreign governments on the [[UN Security Council]] to inform them Trump opposed Obama's anti-[[Israel]]i resolution.

*'''23 December.''' Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak informs Flynn that Russia would not vote against the Obama administration's resolution condemning [[Israel]] despite Trump's opposition to it.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/454293/robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-michael-flynn-obama-administration-foreign-policy-israel</ref>

*'''28 December.''' Perkins Coie final payment for the year to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was paid in excess of $1 million.<ref>Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC to write the ''Steele dossier'', makes a payment of $58,669 to FusionGPS. Payments total $1,024,408 since May. Donna Brazile later reveals the Clinton campaign was in control of the DNC budget since mid 2015.</ref> Some of the money made its way into Russian hands via Christopher Steele for "dirt" on Trump. Perkins Coie was a front for the Clinton campaign and DNC.

*After the election Steele and Fusion GPS were hired by former Feinstein staffer [[Daniel Jones]] and Penn Quarter Group to “continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” It appears that most of Ohr’s FBI interviews relate to this period of Steele & Fusion’s involvement with the Penn Quarter Group.

*Obama signs executive order with new round of sanctions against Russia. Flynn seeks guidance from K.T. McFarland about what to tell Kislyak. Flynn and McFarland discuss how the sanctions might affect Trump foreign-policy goals. McFarland tells Flynn that the transition team did not want Russia to escalate the situation — meaning, not to respond aggressively to Obama’s move.

*Flynn calls Kislyak, asking that Russia not escalate — that it restrict itself to a measured, reciprocal response.
[[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Mainstream news sources repeated fake news put out by the Obama administration stirring up anti-Russian hysteria to justify the illegal surveillance of Gen. Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador.]]
*'''29 December.''' David Kramer gives a copy of the ''Steele dossier'' to [[BuzzFeed News]] reporter [[Ken Bensinger]] during a meeting at the McCain Institute. Kramer told Bensinger, “some of the information was unverified.” Bensinger left the meeting at the McCain Institute with copies of “all seventeen memos.”

*Obama announced sanctions against Russia as retribution for alleged hacking activities. From this date until Trump’s inauguration January 20, the White House aggressively pumps into the media two streams of information: one about Russian hacking; the other about Trump’s Russia connection. The two streams are merged into one in the hands of sympathetic reporters.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/326331-how-obamas-white-house-weaponized-the-media-against#.WN2IVaoTssw.twitter</ref>

*Second CrowdStrike report – GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – is released.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/335307016/FBI-Russian-Hacking-Report</ref>

*'''30 December.''' CrowdStrike claim of Russian hacking, reiterated by the Obama White House, debunked.<ref>https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/fbi-dhs-joint-analysis-report-a-fatally-flawed-effort-b6a98fafe2fa</ref>

*''Washington Post'' falsely reports on a Russian effort to penetrate the electrical grid by hacking into a Vermont utility. The story offers a senior administration official speculating on Russian motives. The infrastructure hack is reported to be part of a broader hacking campaign that includes [[election]] hacking. The story then moves to Trump: “He…has spoken highly of Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]], despite President Obama’s suggestion that the approval for hacking came from the highest levels of the [[Kremlin]].”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.619af97ae363</ref> The story is repeated by news organizations throughout America. Only later the ''Washington Post'' retracts it regarding how far the Russian compromised computers.

*Mainstream fake news hysteria over "Russian vote hacking" put out by the Obama administration.<ref>https://nation.com.pk/30-Dec-2016/us-expels-35-russian-intel-agents-over-vote-hacking</ref>

*Putin announces that Russia will not take retaliatory measures against Obama sanctions at that time.

*'''31 December.''' '''''Moon of Alabama:'' New Russian Hacks? No, Old Ukrainian Malware Found.'''<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/12/fbi-dhs-wapo-falsely-claim-russian-hacks-for-use-of-old-ukrainian-malware-used.html</ref>

*Kislyak explains to Flynn no retaliatory measures to Obama sanctions was done in deference to Flynn’s request. Flynn made no promises to Russia about the sanctions.

==2017 Soft coup==
[[File:Mueller-and-yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Special Counsel Robert Mueller [[colluding]] with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Yanukovych is considered a Putin stooge by many [[Deep State]]rs.]]
:''See : '''[[Russiagate timeline 2017|Russiagate timeline 2017 soft coup]]''''' and '''''[[Ukrainian collusion]]'''''
The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the [[FISA]] court into granting a FISA warrant - what [[Peter Strzok]] called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election. When [[James Comey]] reopened the Clinton investigation ten days before the election in October 2016, and Hillary's lead in the polls started to drop, the "insurance policy" became operational: officially sanctioned leaks alleging collusion between Trump and Russia were rampant.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>

When James Comey asked for a private meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017 to present Trump with Hillary Clinton's fictional opposition research as a US intelligence product, Comey briefed Trump only on the sexual allegations and not a word about [[Carter Page]], [[Michael Flynn]], Paul Manafort, and [[Michael Cohen]] being targeted under the [[FISA]] Act. According to Comey, he acted on the instructions of [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]].<ref>"the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about because we knew it and thought it was about to become public." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cg.01.html</ref> Clapper dutifully [[leak]]ed the fact that Trump had been briefed on allegations that he consorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel in 2013 in an unsavory way to Jake Tapper of CNN.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> CNN reported the made-up news from the supposed "intelligence report" and linked to the opposition research report on [[BuzzFeed]], claiming it was some sort of official document in the hands of the US intelligence community that the government was acting on. The [[intelligence community]] had implemented the "insurance policy". Russiagate was no longer just [[Hillary Clinton]]'s political campaign directed against Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at [[liberal deceit|deceiving]] the American people.

In early March 2017, [https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/ Evelyn Farkas], Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia from the Obama Administration, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo</ref> and shared efforts to get information about Trump staff to The Hill in hopes to get information out. To many people this proved President Trump's claim that Obama had "his wires tapped" at Trump Tower.<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106</ref> Later in that same month she tries to backtrack and change the meaning of what she was saying.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-nDGSzQg4</ref>

==2018 Reckoning==
[[File:31D66D0A-82A4-40E7-A1C2-EBA55EEB357D.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Prime movers in the [[Deep State coup]]. Comey (first left) funneled raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]] to make it appear the FBI's illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign came from outside the government;<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/11/the-doj-and-fbi-worked-with-fusion-gps-on-operation-trump/</ref> Brennan (second left) collected the bogus ''[[Donald Trump–Russia dossier|Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' from British intelligence sources as part of a supposed routine "intelligence sharing" agreement;<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/09/john-brennans-role-in-the-fbis-trump-russia-investigation/</ref> Clapper (third from left) rubber stamped the operation, lied to Trump about the scheme and facilitated leaks to the press to impugn Trump.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> Adm. Rogers (end right), the lone hero of the group, detected the Obama FBI's abuse of the NSA's [[FISA]] computer system and personally reported the illegal activity to the FISA court.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/10/an-american-hero-the-death-of-a-fisa-narrative/</ref>]]
:''See:'' '''''[[Russiagate timeline 2018]]'''''
The '''Russiagate timeline''' chronicles [[Obama administration]] appointees and holdovers, in collusion with the [[2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign|Hillary Clinton campaign]] and [[DNC]], efforts to prevent the election of [[Donald J. Trump]] and, after he was elected, remove him from office. The Obama FBI Counterintelligence Division and [[DOJ]] National Security Division conducted an illegal [[counterintelligence]] operation against domestic political opponents.
Chris Blackburn said:
{{quotebox-float|"For those that still believe we are living in democratic, free and open societies it is sadly starting to look like fantasy. Democracies flourish when the checks and balances in the system are robust. We need them to work now more than ever.”}}
Elizabeth Vos observed:
{{quotebox-float|"In the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives, American and UK intelligence agencies appear to have recklessly and deceptively acted in the interest of a single political candidate, Hillary Clinton. This singularity of purpose speaks to the insecurity and magnitude of the unelected Western power structure, equaled by the scale of lies propping up the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives."}}

==2019 [[The Empire Strikes Back]]==
:''See : '''[[Muellergate timeline 2019]]'''''

The '''[[Muellergate scandal]]''' refers to efforts to cover-up Obama-era [[FBI]]/[[DOJ]] crimes and frame [[Donald Trump]] and campaign associates for crimes they did not do.
[[File:Biden text.png|right|300px|thumb|Hunter Biden telling his daughter Naomi that his "Pop" receives 50% of the Burisma [[kickback]]s.<ref>https://thespectator.info/2020/10/15/unlike-pop-joe-biden-i-wont-make-you-give-me-half-of-your-salary-video/</ref>]]
Since President Trump's inauguration, 26 people were fired or otherwise removed from the [[Department of Justice]] and [[FBI]] in the Obamagate scandal.

FBI Deputy Director [[Andrew McCabe]] and FBI chief legal counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] selected most of the special counsel investigators; those two then recommended to Deputy AG [[Rod Rosenstein]] that he hire [[Robert Mueller]] as special counsel lead.

[[James Comey]] was fired. The remaining ‘at-risk’ [[corrupt]] [[FBI]] leadership (McCabe and Baker), positioning to defend their own interests, selected the “small group”; then Mueller was selected and brought on his additional team members. The entire purpose of the special counsel operation was to cover-up the DOJ/FBI activity during the [[2016 presidential election]], [[Trump transition]], and early [[Trump administration]].

While DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] completed his review of the FBI mishandling of the [[Clinton email investigation]], Horowitz was prevented from looking at any of the prime suspects in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal. As was U.S. Attorney John Huber from prosecuting anyone involved. Mueller's ongoing investigation gave cover to corrupt Obama era officials, citing Mueller's "ongoing investigation." They successfully impeded investigations throughout the 2017-2019 Congressional session.

==2020 Deep State coup 2.0==
:{{See also|Deep State coup 2.0|Biden Putsch}}

Deep State coup 2.0 refers to the '''sham "impeachment" of Donald Trump''' by Democrat leaders [[Nancy Pelosi]], [[Adam Schiff]]. and [[Jerrold Nadler]] to obscure revelations in the [[Spygate]] and [[FISA Abuse]] scandals. The [[Democrat Party]], [[2016 Clinton campaign|Clinton campaign]], and [[Obama administration]] illegally [[collude]]d with foreign actors to interfere in the [[2016 presidential election]], and the [[FISA Court]] ruled the basis of the [[Mueller investigation]] was invalid.
[[File:Stop the coup.jpg|right|250px]]
After the failure of the [[Mueller office|Mueller investigation]] to depose [[President Donald Trump]], in September 2019 [[Democrat]]s manufactured evidence to begin an "impeachment inquiry". Under new House Rules adopted by Democrats in December 2018, [[due process]] rights were ignored and Republicans excluded from questioning witnesses while [[Articles of Impeachment]] were being drafted. The timing of the impeachment inquiry was to blunt information coming out regarding the [[fraud]]ulent [[counterintelligence]] investigation opened up on the [[2016 Trump campaign]], and the [[Russia collusion hoax]] perpetrated by the [[Obama]] [[intelligence community]] in [[collusion]] with the [[Democratic National Committee]], the [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]], foreign governments and intelligence agencies to meddle in American media, public opinion, sway elections and attack American [[democracy]].

Candidate Donald Trump had questioned why the [[United States]] was shouldering the burden of [[European Union]] defense costs while Europeans enjoyed free [[healthcare]] and Americans did not, and why [[China]] was taking over $500 billion in American wealth out of the country annually by [[trade deficit]]s while American communities were being destroyed.<ref>$500 billion = roughly 2.5% of [[GDP]]; under the eight years of the [[Obama administration]] GDP growth never exceeded 2%. America was becoming increasingly impoverished by design.But he roots of this impoverishment ("leveling the playing field") by trade policy pre-dated Obama's election.</ref> The [[military industrial complex]] and [[corporate]] [[globalist]]s considered Trump a threat to their security.

The alleged "whistleblower" filed a questionable hearsay complaint in an area outside the statutory purview of the intelligence community inspector general. The same day, August 12, 2019, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a supposedly "non-partisan" research service that provides legal analysis to committees and Members of both houses, issued an updated version of its report, ''The Impeachment Process in the House of Representatives''.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/429229553/Pelosi-116th-Congress-Impeachment-Rules</ref> "Coincidentally," six weeks later the CRS again issued a faulty report, using no statutory citations, informing Members that hearsay evidence was acceptable under the Whistleblower Act just two days before the alleged "whistleblower" complaint was received by House Intelligence Committee.

The Democrats so-called "impeachment inquiry" denied fundamental constitutional [[due process]] rights.

While the impeachment trial neared a vote, Democrats and fake news media were more obsessed with removing President Trump from office than with preparing for the [[CCP global pandemic]] which was known to be transmissible between humans. When President Trump took action to form the coronavirus Task Force and shut down travel from the epicenter of the deadly viral outbreak, [[Leftist]]s called President Trump "[[xenophobic]]".

==2020-2021 Election fraud timeline==
:{{See also|2020-2021 Election fraud timeline}}
[[File:Blue-red-election-fraud.png|right|200px|thumb|Iconic logo from the 2020 election forever engraved into a betrayed generation's consciousness.]]
The '''2020-2021 Democrat voter fraud timeline''' documents the pattern of [[voter fraud]] and election shenanigans in the [[2020 Presidential election]] and creation of the [[single party]] [[totalitarian]] state. An open letter published by The Democracy Institute entitled ''Reasons Why The 2020 Presidential Election Is Deeply Puzzling'' begins by noting the fact:
{{quotebox-float|“Something very strange happened in America’s [[democracy]] in the early hours of Wednesday November 4 [2020] and the days that followed...Trump earned the highest share of all minority votes for a Republican since 1960…Trump grew his support among black voters by 50 percent over 2016…Nationally, Joe Biden’s black support fell well below 90 percent, the level below which Democratic presidential candidates usually lose...We are told that Biden won more votes nationally than any presidential candidate in history...But he won a record low of 17 percent of counties; he only won 524 counties, as opposed to the 873 counties Obama won in 2008...Yet, Biden somehow outdid Obama in total votes...Victorious presidential candidates, especially challengers, usually have down-ballot coattails; Biden did not...The Republicans held the Senate and enjoyed a ‘red wave’ in the House, where they gained a large number of seats while winning all 27 toss-up contests...Trump’s party did not lose a single state legislature and actually made gains at the state level”.<ref>https://spectator.us/reasons-why-the-2020-presidential-election-is-deeply-puzzling/</ref>}}

==See also==
*[[List of names in Obamagate]]
*[[Barack Obama Controversies]]
*[[Barack Hussein Obama's unlawful acts]]
*[[Mainstream media and Donald Trump]]
*[[Obama's second term agenda]]
*[[Media intelligence complex]]
*[[Obama war crimes]]
*[[Trump-Russia scandal]]
*[[Clinton body count]]
*[[Clinton scandal]]
*[[Crisis in Ukraine]]
*[[Project Cassandra]]
*[[Trump transition]]
*[[Deep state coup]]
*[[FBI scandal]]
*[[Arab Spring]]
*[[Jim Sciutto]]
*[[FISA abuse timeline]]
*[[Biden family corruption timeline]]
*[[Ukrainian collusion timeline]]
*[[Timeline of COVID-19 Outbreak]]
*[[Marxist insurrection timeline]]
*[[2020 Voter fraud timeline]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-hacks-and-treason/247674/ George Eliason: Beyond the DNC - Leaks, Hacks, and Treason], August 14, 2018.
*[https://sharylattkisson.com/obama-era-surveillance-timeline/ Obama era surveillence timeline], sharylattkisson.co
*[https://www.robbinyoung.info/test-2 Twitter DM's Between @Guccifer_2 & @Robbin_Young]
*[http://thecompleteobamatimeline.com/the-timeline.html The Complete Obama Timeline]
*[http://nlpc.org/2017/11/08/new-book-details-hillarys-attempt-undo-election/ The Plot to Stop Trump: The Story of a Failed Effort to Overturn an Election, Fred Lucas] - Book review.
*[https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/all-the-presidents-enemies/ All the president's enemies], by ''The Washington Times''
*[http://www.magapill.com/o/obamagate-timeline-of-corruption.html ObamaGate Timeline of Corruption]
*[https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1003016971896619009 The War Economy]
*[https://youtu.be/6opPCj9gcII Lee Stranahan interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya] (uncut)
*[http://thespygateproject.org/ The Spygate Project]
*[https://youtu.be/tCutKd11kjg OFFICIAL EDITED VERSION: FBI Lovebirds Starring Dean Cain & Kristy Swanson], The Ann and Phelim Scoop, Oct 7, 2019. youtbube

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Resurrection

2022-02-23T01:23:12Z

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[[Image:Annibale Carracci 1585.jpg|left|300px]]

In mythology, the '''resurrection''' is the single most important event in world history: [[Jesus]]'s victory over death and the grave. According to the myths of the bible, Through [[Christ]] and his victory over death, all can have victory through Him. [[Liberal]] [[Christians]] tend to interpret the Resurrection symbolically and doubt its historicity, while [[atheists]] deny it outright; their arguments are rebutted by [[Christian apologetics]]<ref>[http://www.tektonics.org/TK-J.html See under Jesus-Resurrection]</ref><ref>[http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/theological-dictionary/TD1W0401.pdf Alternate Theories of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ— Part Two]</ref><ref>[http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/bodily.html The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Dr. William Lane Craig]</ref> and the transformational effects of faith in Christ.<ref>[http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing]</ref>

Resurrection is the act of coming back from the dead. Jesus' body laid in his tomb until the 3rd day, when Jesus rose again. His body was not like it had been before, being now able to walk through walls and appear suddenly among His disciples. He could also keep Himself from being recognized however He wished. Jesus stayed on the earth after his resurrection until [[Ascension of Christ|His ascension]].

At the '''[[Last Judgment]]''' all of the dead will also be physically resurrected and judged according to their works. {{cquote|Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things ''done'' in ''his'' body, according to that he hath done, whether ''it be'' good or bad. — [http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/5-10.htm 2 Corinthians 5:9-10]}}See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20%3A11-15&version=KJV Revelation 20:11-15] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=KJV Matthew 25:31-46]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+12%3A2-3&version=KJV Daniel 12:2-3] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A12-58&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 15:12-58]. Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21-27&version=KJV Matthew 7:21-27] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+2%3A14-28&version=KJV James 2:14-28].

== See also ==

* [[Resurrection Sunday]]
* [[Resurrection of Jesus Christ]]
* [[Easter]]
* [[Jewish Biblical way of interpretation: a solution for New Testament understanding]]
* [[Corporal and spiritual works of mercy]]
* [[Eternal security (salvation)]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0056a.txt I Believe...in the Resurrection of the Flesh]
*[http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/resurrection-sunday-faq.htm Resurrection Sunday]
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/22849-christ-s-resurrection-the-historical-record Christ’s Resurrection: The Historical Record], by Steve Byas, ''[[The New American]]''
*[https://answersingenesis.org/jesus-christ/resurrection/resurrection-no-doubt-about-it/ Resurrection—No Doubt About It], by Tim Chaffey, ''Answers in Genesis''
*[https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/even-caesar-confirmed-resurrection/ Even Caesar Confirmed the Resurrection], by Henry B. Smith, Jr., ''Answers in Genesis''

== References ==

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Tower of Babel

2022-02-23T01:15:39Z

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[[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Tower of Babel'' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]
In bible mythology, The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdal'') was the lofty structure built by the descendants of the [[Great Flood|Flood]] survivors according to [[Genesis]] 11, "whose top may reach unto heaven."

The Tower of Babel account provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve: '''''the different languages today that lack a common origin, and the immense diversity in ethnicity'''''.

==Biblical account==
The Tower of Babel is first mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the first great rebellion by mankind after the Flood; instead of spreading across the earth, they settled together in the land of Shinar and built a city and a great tower out of baked bricks in order to make a name for themselves:<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Tower_of_Babel</ref>
:''And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.''
:''And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.''
:''And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen had they for mortar.''
:''And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.''
:''And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.''
:''And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.''
:''Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''
:''So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.''
:''Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confuse the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:1-9, King James Version)''

==The Meaning of “Babel”==
The Tower was built in Babylon, on account of the confusion of languages. The word is based purely on the Hebrew etymological law, which makes ''bālal'', “to confuse,” or “mingle,” assume a reduplicate form; but as far as the numerous cuneiform inscriptions are concerned, ''balālu'', “to mingle” (the root in question), was an impossibility. On the Babylonian side the rendering of the name ''Bâb-îli'' (''-îlāni''), “gate of god” (or “of the gods”) was a folk-etymology, sharing the same meaning as the Sumero-Akkadian form ''Ka-dingira''. It is noteworthy, however, that one of the forms used by [[Nebuchadrezzar]] is ''Babilam'', with the mimmation or “emming,” which is a characteristic of the Babylonian language; moreover, a place-name ''Babalam'' also occurs, which may be a still earlier, and possibly the original, form. Notwithstanding that one would like to see in ''Babalam'', “the place of bringing together,” and in ''Babilam'', “the bringer together,” the termination ''-am'' would seem to be an insurmountable difficulty.

==General Form of Babylonian Temple-Towers==
[[Image:ZigguratUrreconstr.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Fanciful reconstruction of the ziggurat at Ur, based on archaeological evidence around 1900.]]
There was a great difference, however, between the ''mighdōl'' or watchtower, and the great Tower at [[Babylon]]. The watchtower was simply a high structure, probably without any special shape or form, which depended upon the will of the architect and the nature of the ground upon which it was erected. The Tower of Babel or Babylon was a structure peculiar to Babylonia and [[Assyria]]. According to ancient accounts as well as judging from the ruins of the various remains extant in those countries, Babylonian temple towers were square or rectangular in shape; they were built upward in stages, and provided with a stairway along each side to the top. These structures were finished with a small temple at its peak for religious ceremonies.

These buildings were called by the Babylonians ''ziqqurātu'' (Modern English: "ziggurat"), apparently meaning “peak,” or the highest point of a mountain; this word being applied to the mountain-height upon which Ut-napishtim, the Babylonian Noah of the Gilgamesh saga, offered sacrifices on coming forth from the ark (or ship) when the waters of the great Flood had sufficiently subsided. It has also been conjectured that they were used as observatories when the Babylonians studied the starry heavens. This is probable, but as the ziggurats were of no great height, it is possible that in the clear atmosphere of the Babylonian plains there was no real necessity to go above the surface of the earth when making their observations.

==Location==
[[Image:Fotobabiloniaa.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Archaeological reconstruction of the ziggurat ''Etemenanki'' at Babylon.]]
There has been much difference of opinion as to the geographical position of the Tower of Babel. Most writers upon the subject, following the tradition handed down by the Jews and Arabs, have identified it with the great Temple of Nebo in the city of [[Borsippa]], now called the ''Birs-Nimroud'' (explained as a corruption of ''Birj Nimroud'', “Tower of Nimrod”). Although an important religious structure to the Babylonians, it was never regarded by them as the actual tower. The great tower they referred to was located within Babylon and called ''Ê-temen-ana-ki'', “the Temple of the foundation of heaven and earth,” called by [[Nabopolassar]] and Nebuchadrezzar ''ziqqurat Bâbîli'', “the Tower of Babylon” - the world-renowned temple dedicated to Merodach and his consort Zēr-panîtum, Babylon's chief deities.

===Its Position at Babylon===
This structure was situated in the southern portion of the city, not far from the right bank of the Euphrates, and is now represented by a depression within which is the original rectangular core of unbaked brick. From its shape the Arabs have called this site Sahan, “the dish,” as the bricks of the structure (unlike other ziggurats which were built of dried mud-brick, Etemenanki was built of fired brick) were stripped in favor of other structures or to repair the banks of the Hindiyeh canal.

===Babylonian Description of the Tower===
Etemenanki consisted of six stages built upon a platform, and provided with a sanctuary at the top. A tablet seemingly giving a detailed description of this building was for a time in the hands of archaeologist George Smith in 1876; however he had not time to give a translation of the document or to publish the text, but his detailed account of it (''Athenaeum'', February 12, 1876) is exceedingly interesting.

First there was the outer court called the “grand court,” measuring, according to Smith's estimate, 1,156 ft. by 900 ft., and a smaller one, called “the court of Ishtar and Zagaga,” 1,056 ft. by 450 ft. Round the court were six gates admitting to the temples: (1) The grand gate; (2) The gate of the rising sun (east); (3) The great gate; (4) The gate of the colossi; (5) The gate of the canal; and (6) The gate of the tower-view.

====Platform====
After this came a space or platform apparently walled - a ''ki-gallu'' square in form, and measuring 3 ku each way. Its size is doubtful, as the value of the ku is unknown. The sides of this enclosure faced the cardinal points. In its walls were four gates, one on each side, and named from the points toward which they looked. Within this enclosure stood a large building measuring 10 ''gar'' (according to Smith, a ''gar'' is 20 feet; 10 ''gar'' = 200 ft.) each way. Unfortunately, the name of this structure was damaged, so that its nature and use are uncertain.

====Chapels and Shrines====
Round the base of the Tower were small temples or chapels dedicated to the various gods of the Babylonians. On the East were 16 shrines, the principal of them being dedicated to Nebo and Tašmêtu, his spouse; on the North were two temples dedicated to Êa. (Aê) and Nusku respectively; on the South was a single temple to the two great gods, Anu and Bel (Enlil?). It was on the West, however, that the principal buildings lay - a double house with a court between the wings 35 cubits (Smith: 58 ft.) wide. These two wings were not alike in dimensions, the structure on one side being 100 cubits by 20 (166 ft. by 34 ft.) and on the other 100 cubits by 65 (166 ft. by 108 ft.). In these western chambers stood the couch of the god, and the golden throne mentioned by [[Herodotus]], with other objects of great value. The couch was stated to have measured 9 cubits by 4 (15 ft. by 6 feet 8 inches).

====The First Stage====
In the center of these groups of buildings stood the great Tower in stages, called by the Babylonians “the Tower of Babel” (''ziqqurat Bâbîli''). The stages decreased from the lowest upward, but each was square in plan. The first or foundation-stage was 15 gar each way by 5 1/2 gar high (300 ft. by 110 ft. high), and seems to have been decorated with the usual double recesses which are a characteristic of Assyr-Bab architecture.

====The Remaining Stages====
The second stage was 13 gar square and 3 gar high (260 ft. by 60 ft.). A term was applied to it which Smith did not understand, but he notes that it probably had sloping sides. The stages from the 3rd to the 5th were all of equal height, namely, 1 gar (20 ft.), and were respectively 10 gar (200 ft.), 8 1/3 gar (170 ft.) and 7 gar (140 ft.) square. The dimensions of the 6th stage were omitted, but may be restored in accordance with the others, namely, 5 1/2 gar square (110 ft.) by 1 gar (20 ft.) high.

====The Chapel at the Top====
On this was raised the 7th stage or the upper temple or sanctuary of the god Bel-Merodach, 4 gar long, 3 1/2 gar broad and 2 1/2 gar high (80 ft., 60 ft., and 50 ft., respectively). Smith did not mention the statue of the god, but it was conjectured that the chapel did contain one. The total height of the tower from foundation to chapel was 15 gar (300 ft.), the same as the breadth of its base. It cannot be said that it was by any means a beautiful building, but there was probably some symbolism in its measurements, and in appearance it probably resembled (except the decoration) the temple tower of Calah as restored in the frontispiece to Layard's Monuments of [[Nineveh]], 1st series, in which a step-pyramid with a similarly highbasement stage is shown.

===Herodotus' Description===
The description of the tower as given by [[Herodotus]] agrees. He states that it was a temple square in form, two furlongs (1, 213 ft.) each way, in the midst of which was built a solid tower a furlong square (nearly 607 ft.). This, however, must have been the platform, which, with the six stages and the chapel on the top, would make up the total of eight stages of which Herodotus speaks. The ascent by which the top was reached he describes as running “outside round about all the towers” - wording which suggests, although not necessarily, that it was spiral in design - i.e. one had to walk round the structure 7 times to reach the top. Representations on Babylonian boundary-stones suggest that this view would be correct, though a symmetrical arrangement of inclined paths might have been constructed which would have greatly improved the design. At the middle of the ascent, Herodotus says, there was a stopping-place with seats to rest upon, which rather favors this idea. At the top of the last tower there was a large cell, and in the cell a large couch was laid, well covered; and by it a golden table. There was no image there, nor did any human being spend the night there, except only a woman of the natives of the place chosen by the god, “as say the Chaldeans who are the priests of this god.” These men told Herodotus that the god often came to the cell, and rested upon the couch, “but,” he adds, “I do not believe them.” After mentioning parallels to this at Egyptian Thebes and Patam in Lycia, he goes on to speak of another cell below (that referred to in G. Smith's tablet) wherein was a great image of Zeus (Bel-Merodach) sitting, with a footstool and a large table, all of gold, and weighing no less than 800 talents. Outside of this cell was an altar to the god, made of gold; and also another altar, whereon full-grown animals were sacrificed, the golden altar being for sucklings only. The Chaldeans also told him that there was, in the precincts of the building, a statue 12 cubits high, and of solid gold. Darius Hystaspis desired to take possession of this valuable object, but did not venture. His son Xerxes, however, was not so considerate of the feelings of the people and the priesthood, for he also killed the priest when he forbade him to meddle with it.

==The Builders of the Tower==
[[Image:Etemenanki.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Remains of Etemenanki today.]]
The Bible record does not state who the people were who journeyed in the East and built the city and the Tower. The indefinite “they” might be taken to mean whatever people were there at the time the record was written, and probably presupposes that the reader would certainly know. As the Tower of Babel bears, in the native inscriptions, a Sumero-Akkadian name, it may be supposed that the builders referred to belonged to that race.

===Traditions Concerning Its Destruction===
It is noteworthy that nothing is said in Genesis concerning the stopping of work on the tower, though they ceased to build the city. A Jewish tradition tells of the tower to have been split through to its foundation by fire which fell from heaven - suggested probably by the condition of the tower at “the second Babylon,” i.e. the ''Birs Nimroud''. Another tradition, recorded by [[Eusebius]] (Prep. Evang., ix; Chronicon, 13; Syncel. Chron., 44) makes it to have been blown down by the winds; “but when it approached the heavens, the winds assisted the gods, and overturned the work upon its contrivers: and the gods introduced a diversity of tongues among men, who, until that time, had all spoken the same language.”

==The Ultimate Destruction of the Tower==
That the building of the city would have been stopped when the confusion of tongues took place is natural - the departure of the greater part of the inhabitants made this inevitable. When the population increased again, the building of the city was continued, with the result that Babylon ultimately became the greatest city of then known world. The Tower remained on the site unfinished until the completion of the city; when its condition became ruinous several times, some energetic Babylonian king would restore it. Alexander the Great began clearing away the rubbish to rebuild the great temple of “bclus” (Bel-Merodach) connected with it and there is hardly any doubt that the Tower would have been restored likewise, but the untimely death of Alexander and the deficient mental caliber of his successors put an end to the work. The Tower therefore remained unrepaired - “The tower was exceedingly tall. The third part of it sank down into the ground, a second third was burned down, and the remaining third was standing until the time of the destruction of Babylon” (Rabbi Yēhānān, Sanhedhrīn, 109, 1).

==Other Non-Biblical references==

The Tower of Babel is mentioned in a number of other [[Apocrypha]]l and [[Pseudepigrapha|Pseudepigraphical]] texts, notably the [[Ethiopia]]n Book of Jubilees, and also in Rabbinic literature. A similar tale appears in the [[Koran]], and a number of other cultures have similar stories.<ref name="christiananswers">http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/confusionoflanguages.html</ref>

Today one can visit the [[Cahokia Mounds]] in Southern [[Illinois]], as built by [[Native Americans]] long before [[Christopher Columbus]]'s voyages. They appear to have some similarities to the Tower of Babel.

== Brick and Stone significance ==

Several authors have interpreted the repeated use of brick and stone as a metaphor for the evils of socialism<ref>[https://tammybruce.com/2007/03/europe_versus_god.html Europe Versus God]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BkX2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT62 Was Jesus a Socialist or a Capitalist?]</ref><ref>[https://rabbidaniellapin.com/is-the-word-bricks-a-code-word-in-the-bible/ Is the word ‘bricks’ a code word in the Bible?]</ref> and thus, the story of the Tower of Babel also serves as a warning against collectivism. In centralized planned economies, everybody is to be treated exactly the same, which makes everybody into bricks instead of being unique stones and having an individual place in God's plan.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin argues that [[Nimrod]] was the first socialist and attempted to set up the first socialist utopia.<ref>[http://acahnman.blogspot.com/2012/12/rabbi-daniel-lapin-moral-goodness-of.html Rabbi Daniel Lapin: The Moral Goodness of Free Enterprise]</ref>

== Linguistic evidence ==
Some Christian sources<ref name="christiananswers"/> cite 18th and 19th century observations from the field of comparative historical linguistics showing belief that all languages originated in a single language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. Some modern linguists now trace a number of language families to languages believed to be reconstructed at the time of the earliest known human civilizations or possibly before.<ref name="mcwhorter">John McWhorter. The Power of Babel.</ref> The Tower of Babel would have predated all known human civilizations outside of the area around modern Iraq. Linguists today are aware it is difficult to reconstruct the mother language for which there is no direct evidence apart from working with daughter tongues that have come down over time.<ref name="mcwhorter"/><ref>[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003036.html Language Log.]</ref>

To support the Biblical account, the [[Creation Museum]] in Kentucky reports the following:
<blockquote>The Bible claims that God created a number of human languages at the Tower of Babel "according to their families." Nineteenth-century linguists argued that languages evolved slowly, one by one. Today, linguists recognize languages fall into distinct "families" of recent origin.<ref name="langlog2">[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004667.html#more Language Log.]</ref></blockquote>

Since the 1950s in the field of linguistics based upon an evolutionary worldview, there has been a belief that human language has a partially biological origin.<ref name="mcwhorter"/><ref>Steven Pinker. The Language Instinct.</ref><ref>Ronald Wardaugh. Investigating Language: Central Problems in Linguistics.</ref><ref>Frederick J. Newmeyer. Linguistic Theory in America.</ref> If this hypothesis is correct, from the evolutionary perspective, then the original language (or languages) may have been spoken about 150,000 years ago.

''Text based in part on the 1913 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, a work in the public domain.''

== See also ==
* [[Tallest buildings in the world]]

==Further reading==
*Hodge, Bodie (2013). ''Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of Our Ancestors''. Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books. ISBN: 9780890517154.

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
*[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/confusionoflanguages.html Is there any reference to the confusion of languages at Babel in early Mesopotamian literature?]
*[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a021.html Is there archaeological evidence of the Tower of Babel?]
*[http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/babel.htm The Tower of Babel – Legend or History?]
*[http://www.towerofbabel.info The Encyclopedia of Babel]

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Age of the Earth

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Stanton: Content

[[File:Blue Marble.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|The historical and scientific evidence strongly indicates that the [[earth]] is approximately 6,000 years old.{{#tag:ref|cf.
*Age of the earth: 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe<ref name="101Evidences">{{cite web |title=Age of the earth; 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe |author=Don Batten |publisher= CMI |date= 4 June 2009 |url=https://creation.com/age-of-the-earth}}</ref>
*How old is the earth?<ref name="RefutingEvo">{{cite book |title=Refuting Evolution; How old is the earth? |author=Jonathan Sarfati |chapter =8 |url=https://creation.com/how-old-is-the-earth}}</ref>
*[https://creation.com/young-age-of-the-earth-universe-qa ‘Young’ age of the Earth & Universe Q&A]
*[https://creation.com/jesus-age-earth Jesus on the age of the earth]|group=note}}]]
{{See also|Counterexamples to an Old Earth}}

The '''Age of the Earth''' has been a matter of interest to humans for millennia. All verifiable evidence indicates that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

Old Earth advocates rely on one flawed assumption to the exclusion of other evidence, similar to how an investigator may mistakenly rely on one faulty eyewitness's opinion to the exclusion of all else. In fact, eyewitness testimony is proven to be less reliable than other indicators, just as the assumption by Old Earth proponents that the [[Radiometric dating|rate of radioactive decay]] has always been constant is flawed. Far from being constant, the rate of radioactive decay would almost certainly slow down as the universe cools.<ref>https://www.icr.org/article/nuclear-decay-evidence-for-young-world</ref><ref>https://www.icr.org/article/radioactive-decay-rates-not-stable</ref><ref>https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/the-fallacies-of-radioactive-dating-of-rocks</ref> At the very least, it is not consistent and easily predictable.<ref>http://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry/Nuclear_Chemistry/Radioactivity/Radioactive_Decay_Rates</ref>

Moreover, a large number of physical processes, such as neutron capture and fluctuations in solar radiation, affect the rate of radioactive decay of elements in the Earth's crust and render radioactive dating measurements unreliable, depending upon the specific methods used.<ref>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536205000138#bib6</ref>

Much scientific evidence points to a [[young earth creationism|young age]] of the earth and the universe and the biblical creation organization [[Creation Ministries International]] published articles entitled ''[https://creation.com/age-of-the-earth 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe]'' and [https://creation.com/how-old-is-the-earth How old is the earth?] which summarize some of the evidence for a young age of the earth.

== Historical views ==
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=== Widespread Historical Acceptance of Biblical Account ===
{{See also|Earth age opinions of prominent Christians - pre-1800|Scriptural geologists}}
For most of recorded history humans of many backgrounds, such as the first-century [[historian]] [[Flavius Josephus]],<ref name="FLuke2007">{{cite journal |title=Josephus says, ‘Genesis means what it says!’ |author=Frank Luke |journal=Creation |publisher=CMI |issue=29 |volume=3 |pages=15–17 |date=June 2007 |url=https://creation.com/josephus-says-genesis-means-what-it-says |quote=Josephus ... explicitly states that man had been around for only 3,000 years by the time of Moses. |accessdate=1 Oct 2017}}</ref> St. Barnabas and St. Irenæus,<ref>Burnet, p. 259.</ref> viewed the age of the Earth to be around 6,000 years.<ref>Burnet, p. 258.</ref>

Saint [[Cyril]], who came into Great Moravia (present day [[Slovakia]] and Moravia in [[Czech Republic]]) from [[Byzantine Empire]] in 863 [[AD]] as [[Christian]] [[missionary]], wrote in his poem ''Proglas'',<ref>{{cite web
|title=Proglas
|publisher=sme.sk
|url=http://zlatyfond.sme.sk/dielo/93/Filozof_Proglas
|language=Slovak
|access date=05.05.2012
|quote=The parchment version of Proglas in Cyrillic from 13th century was discovered in 1858 by Russian Slavic scholar Hilferding}}</ref> dedicated to his works on translation of the four [[Bible|biblical]] [[The Gospels|Gospel]]s to Slavonic language, the following sentence that brings testimony about the perception of the age of the world that time:
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| rowspan="4" |{{cquote|To the holy Gospels I am the Foreword: for as it was promised by the prophets long ago, Christ comes to gather the nations, for He sheds light on the world entire. That is what has happened ''in our '''seventh''' millennium.''}}
!''The seventh millennium'' since the [[Creation]] was calculated as follows:
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| '''5 508''' years that had passed since the Creation till [[Jesus Christ]]’s birth plus
|-
| '''863''' (the year when Constantine and Methodius had come to Moravia)
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|results in figure of '''6 371'''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Proglas, the foreword to the Old Church Slavonic translation of the four Gospels|publisher=The Centre for Information on Literature, Slovakia|url=http://www.litcentrum.sk/36106|access date=05.05.2012|quote=Explanations: '''in our seventh millennium''' – it means the seventh millennium since the Creation. It was calculated as follows: 5 508 years that had passed since the Creation till Jesus Christ’s birth plus 863 AD (the year when Constantine and Methodius had come to Moravia) added to the year 6 371 -- that is seventh millennium.}}</ref>
|}
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! style="font-size:120%; background:brown; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On the origin of [[mankind]]
|-
| style="padding:15px;" |''"For we have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from, and contradicting one another, [as the Greeks have], but only twenty-two books, which contain '''the records of all the past times'''; which are justly believed to be divine; and of them five belong to Moses, which contain his laws and the traditions of the origin of mankind till his death. '''This interval of time was little short of three thousand years'''; …we men are the most excellent of the creatures of [[God]] upon earth."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Flavius Josephus]]<ref name="FLuke2007"/>
</div>
|}
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Truly six natural days
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"the six days were '''truly six natural days''', because here [[Moses]] says that [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were created on the sixth day. One may not use [[Sophistry|sophistries]] with reference to this text."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Martin Luther]]<ref name="Luther">{{cite book |title=Luther's works: Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 1-5 |translator=George V. Schick |editor=Jaroslav Pelikan |publisher=Concordia Publishing House |place=Saint Louis |year=1958 |volume=1 |chapter=ONE |pages=69 |isbn=978-0-5700-6401-5 |url=https://www.cph.org/p-607-luthers-works-volume-1-lectures-on-genesis-chapters-1-5.aspx }}</ref>
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! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | [[Physicist]] on age of mankind
|-
| style="padding:15px;" |''"[[mankind]] could not be much older than is represented in [[Scripture]]"''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Isaac Newton]]<ref name="Newton1728">{{cite book
|author= Isaac Newton
|title= The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
|publisher=Originally: J. TONSON, J. OSBORN and T. LONGMAN (2005: Project Gutenberg)
|place=London
|year=MDCCXXVIII.(1728)
|chapter=I. Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks.
|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15784
|quote=
|accessdate=18 Sep 2020}}</ref>
</div>
|}
Prior to the onset of [[totalitarian]] and [[uniformitarianism|uniformitarian]] (i.e. long-age) [[scientism]] promoted by [[Charles Lyell|Lyell]], [[Darwin]], [[T. H. Huxley|Huxley]], and others in the 19th century, when most people and scientists in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] had a [[Christian]] or [[biblical]] worldview, the [[Atheism|atheist]]ic [[evolution]]ary concept of billions of years for the age of the earth was unknown to mainstream [[Western civilization|Western]] [[science]] beyond cursory [[philosophical]] speculations.<ref name="YECBritannica">{{cite web |title=Encyclopaedia Britannica: supporting a young earth! |publisher=creation.com |url=https://creation.com/encyclopedia-britannica-supporting-a-young-earth |quote=The concept of billions of years for the age of the earth was unknown to science (or to the church[4]) before the rise of uniformitarianism in the 19th century. This is strong evidence that modern long-age views of creation do not originate in Genesis, but are a misguided attempt by some Christian leaders to try to reconcile what God has said with the atheistic pronouncements of evolutionary ‘science’.|accessdate=November 8, 2014}}</ref>

For example, in his 1619 book the ''Harmonices Mundi'' (The Harmony of the World), [[Johannes Kepler]], [[mathematician]] and [[astronomer]] whose [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|discoveries]] are used in present-day rocket science,<ref>{{cite book |title=Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering |author=Travis S. Taylor |publisher=CRC Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781498772341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl&id=aAagDgAAQBAJ}}</ref> wrote that he does not care if his book will need to wait a century for a reader, as [[God]] has waited '''six thousand years''' for him as an [[Scientific observation|observer]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Harmony of the World |author=Johannes Kepler |publisher=American Philosophical Society |year=1997 |pages=IX, XXXVII, 391, 410 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEkLAAAAIAAJ&q=six+thousand#v=snippet&q=six%20thousand&f=false|quote=O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee! ... The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.}}</ref> Kepler calculated a Creation date of 3992 BC, and [[Isaac Newton]] also strongly defended [[Biblical chronology]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on Evolution |author=Jonathan Sarfati |publisher=Creation Books Publishers |year=2010 |place=Atlanta, Georgia, USA |pages=311 |isbn=978-1921-643064 |url=https://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php |quote=Kepler calculated a Creation date of 3992 BC, and Isaac Newton (1643-1727), probably the greatest scientist of all time, also strongly defended biblical chronology.}}</ref><ref name="Newton">{{cite book
|author= Isaac Newton
|title= Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
|publisher=Originally: J. DARBY and T. BROWNE (2005: Project Gutenberg)
|place=London
|chapter=PART I. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel.CHAP. I. Introduction concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament.
|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878?msg=welcome_stranger
|quote=The Pentateuch is composed of the Law and the history of God’s people together; and the history hath been collected from several books, such as were the history of the Creation composed by Moses, Genesis 2:4; the book of the generations of Adam, #Ge 5:1;
|accessdate=26 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Experimenting on a Small Planet: A Scholarly Entertainment
|author=William W. Hay |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2012 |pages=63|isbn=9783642285608 |url=http://books.google.no/books?id=teJYlWH9vg4C |quote=Ussher’s was not the first nor last attempt to determine the age of the Earth from the Bible. Estimates had been made by the Venerable Bede in 723 (3952 BC) and John Lightfoot in 1644 (3929), and later by Johannes Kepler (3992 BC), and Isaac Newton (4000 BC) among others.}}</ref> The latter also vigorously opposed to a naturalistic cosmic evolution and suggested [[chemical]] processes that might aid in explaining the creation of the earth's [[crust]] during the '''six days'''.<ref name="Rappaport1997">{{cite book |title=When Geologists Where Historians, 1665-1750 |author=Rhoda Rappaport |publisher=Cornell University Press |place=Ithaca and London |year=1997 |pages=138, 197 |isbn=978-0801-433863 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30U3W2kI7foC}}</ref> The vast majority of commentators in the past interpreted the days of [[Genesis]] as ordinary days. Furthermore, even those who did not, such as [[Origen]] and [[Augustine]], vigorously attacked long-age ideas and affirmed that the world was '''only thousands of years'''.<ref name="FLuke2007"/> The 17th century [[French]] [[philosopher]] and moralist Jean de La Bruyère wrote in his ''Des Ouvrages des esprits'' (''On works of the spirit'') that ''"Everything has been said, and one comes into the world too late after '''seven thousand years''' in which there have been thinking men."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Des Ouvrages des esprits (On works of the spirit) |author=Jean de La Bruyère |publisher=frenchphilosophes.weebly.com |url=http://frenchphilosophes.weebly.com/la-bruyegravere.html |accesdate=12 May 2019 |quote=Tout est dit, et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus '''de sept mille''' ans qu'il y a des hommes et qui pensent. Sur ce qui concerne les mœurs, le plus beau et meilleur est enlevé; l'on ne fait que glaner après les anciens et les habiles d'entre les modernes. |language=French}}</ref> 

In 1771, the first edition of the [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], the oldest English-language general encyclopedia that was first published as a 3-volume set in [[Scotland]], included a table of world events under the heading ‘[[Astronomy]]’ on page 493. These events begin with the [[creation]] of the world in the year 0, which they dated at 4007 years before Christ.<ref name="YECBritannica"/><ref>{{cite web |title= Encyclopaedia Britannica: supporting a young earth! |publisher= creation.com |url=https://creation.com/media-center?fileID=Rj4PFM_od9U |quote= The notion that the world in billions of years old has only been popular for about 200 years. Before that time most scientists understood that Noah's Flood was responsible for laying down the rocks which today are associated with millions of years. Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith discuss the details. |accessdate=November 8, 2014}}</ref> 

In 1830, Dr. Hales published a list of 120 historical authorities from various cultures who had decided on an official [[date of creation]].<ref name="Hales">{{cite book |title=Chronology and geography |author=William Hales |publisher=C.J.G. & F. Rivington |year=1830 |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNfVAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> These ranged from 6984 B.C. to 3616 B.C.<ref>Batten 2002 quotes from "Young’s Analytical Concordance of the Holy Bible", 1879 8th Edition, 1939, which relates this, and reproduces the selection of the dates from Young.</ref>

Included in Hales' list is [[James Ussher]], who calculated the '''famous date of 4004 B.C.''' for creation<ref name="Carson">{{cite book
|author=David G. Dunbar et al.
|title=Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon
|editor=D.A. Carson and J.D. Woodbridge
|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers
|year=1986 (Zondervan), 2005
|location=Eugene, Oregon
|chapter=Nine: The Biblical Canon
|pages=256
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHoFAQAACAAJ
|isbn=1-59752-118-3
|quote= Professor John Redwood describes the commitments of seventeenth century Christians: “To the seventeenth-century biblical chronology, the account of Moses, and the science of geology were all part of the same world of learning. No one seeking to enquire into rocks or minerals, into earth history of formation of the earth’s configuration could afford to ignore or deny the value of his primary source, the Bible.” James Ussher in the early seventeenth century had based his dating of creation at 4004 B.C. on a detailed and literal reading of the historical accounts.}}</ref> and published it in his ''magnum opus'', ''[[The Annals of the World]]'' during the mid-1600s. Young Earth creationists, essentially adopting the same method as [[Nikola Tesla]] who was taught by his mother ''"to seek all truth in the Bible,"''<ref>{{cite book |title=My inventions: The autobiography of Nikola Tesla |author=Nikola Tesla |publisher=NuVision Publications LLC |year=1982 |pages=41 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=no&id=uBafTxRVtkAC&q=Bible#v=snippet&q=Bible&f=false |quote= Up to that time I never realized that I possed any particular gift of discovery, but the Lord Rayleigh, whom I considered an ideal man of science, had said so, and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea. At this time, as many other times in the past, my thoughts turned towards my mother's teaching. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work.}}</ref> still consider this date to be close to the actual date.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Creation Seminar 1 - Age of the Earth (FULL)
|author=Kent Hovind
|publisher=Creation Science Evangelism
|page=31min:00sec
|url=https://youtu.be/szBTl3S24MY?t=1857
|accessdate=26 July 2015
}}</ref> The year 4004 [[B.C.]] was considered to be also a remarkable astronomical epoch by the great French astronomer [[Pierre Simon Laplace|Laplace]] who in his ''Méchanique Céleste'', Tom III.p. 113, announced a curious discovery - it was supposed to be a year when the great axis of the earth's [[orbit]] coincided with the line of the [[equinox]]es, and consequently true and mean equinoxes were united.<ref>{{cite book |title=Chronology and geography |author=William Hales |publisher=C.J.G. & F. Rivington |year=1830 |page=228|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNfVAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

=== Evolutionists vs. “odious spectre” Kelvin ===
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightgray; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Time as key hero for [[naturalistic]] ‘[[Fog displacement|explanation]]’
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| style="padding:15px;" | ''“Time is in fact the hero of the plot … given so much time the "impossible" becomes [[Logic of possibility|possible]], the possible probable and the probably virtually certainly certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs [[miracle]]s.”''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— George Wald<ref>{{cite book |title= The Physics and Chemistry of Life|author=George Wald |publisher=G. Bell |year= 1957 |pages=12 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IlCgnQEACAAJ }}</ref><ref name="West">{{cite web |title=Western culture and the age of the earth; Review of The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 2000 |author= Tas Walker |publisher= CMI |url= https://creation.com/cherry-lewis-the-dating-game-one-mans-search-for-the-age-of-the-earth-book-review |accessdate=13 June 2015
}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Ad. “time itself performs miracles” - cf. [[Evolution of the gaps]]: An 'explanation' that has no other than philosophical implication and that cannot be tested is regarded for a key symptom of ideological thinking. Moreover, the Slovak poet Ondrej Fabrici maintained that [[idol]]s of the old [[pagan]] belief systems have been refurbished and disguised in the changed setting of the modern era under the new name of scientific endeavor.<ref>{{cite book |title=Prorok Daniel (Prophet Daniel)|author= Jozef Ondrej Markuš|publisher=Matica slovenská|year=2001|page=39|isbn=80-7090-600-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpnkAAAACAAJ|language=Slovak |quote=
Či zmenil dačo Chronos starý na plánoch tých Babylonu, hoci sa ako dieťa tvári vek atómu, elektrónu?! Len tváre figúr vymenené, technika ťahov spresnená, idoly staré postavené odiali sa v nové mená! Kulisy zmenil Chronos – čas Babylon žije prostred nás! (Ondrej Fabrici)}}</ref> For example, the “incomprehensibly vast periods of time” invoked by evolutionism is in fact nothing more than refurbished and masqueraded belief in creative power of elapsing time represented either by ancient [[Babylonian]] god, transposed into Greek mythology as [[Chronos]], or antique Aeon,<ref>{{cite web |title= ЭОН |publisher= dic.academic.ru |url= http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_philosophy/3798/ЭОН |language=Russian |accessdate=14 June 2015 |quote= ЭОН (греч. ), термин др.-греч. философии, «жизненный век», «вечность», время в аспекте жизненного существования, как некая целостная самозамкнутая структура (ср. лат. aevum, рус. «век») в отличие от «хро-носа» как абстрактного, количественно-измерительного, объективного и аморфного времени. … В гностицизме зон – это силы, которые исходят от божества. … Эон в геологии длительный период времени, состоящий из нескольких эр.}}</ref> a divine power constituting a [[gnostic]] belief system.<ref name="Skarsaune">{{cite book
|author=Oskar Skarsaune
|title=In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influence on Early Christianity
|publisher=IVP Academic
|year=2002
|location=Downers Grove, IL
|pages=246
|chapter=12:Orthodoxy and Heresy
|isbn=978-0-8308-2844-9
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2q6qTb-A7GwC
|quote=There are several gnostic “systems,” with a great deal of variety in details, but one can newertheless discern a basic pattern that is common to most or all Gnostic texts: There exists a highest God, who within himself comprises several divine powers. The Gnostics called these powers aeons, and there were different systems of arranging aeons. … This aeon, confused and in despair, created the material world…
}}</ref>|group=note}}</div>
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! style="font-size:120%; background:red; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On rewriting the history
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"The first battlefield is the rewriting of [[history]]."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Materialist]] [[Karl Marx]]<ref name="FIORAZO2012">{{cite book |author=David Fiorazo |title=ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America |publisher=Life Sentence Publishing |place=Abbotsford, WA |year=2012 |chapter=3 |page=59 |isbn=978-1-62245-026-8 |url=http://davidfiorazo.com/2013/02/introduction-to-eradicate-blotting-out-god-in-america/}}</ref></div>
|}
Although [[materialism]] was at the time almost unanimously rejected by the scientific community,<ref name="Debré">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=151|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C|quote=}}</ref> George-Louis Lecrerc, Count of [[Buffon]], rejected [[Christianity]], adopted [[Evolutionism|evolutionary thought]], and thus searched for [[materialistic]] explanations for the [[origin science|origin]] of earth.<ref name="Larson">{{cite book
|author=E.J. Larson
|title=Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
|publisher=Modern Library
|location=New York
|year=2006
|pages=9, 13–18, 39, 58–62
|isbn=0-8129-6849-2
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzLRvxlJhzkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Larson+Evolution:+The+Remarkable+History&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PbZfVJugD83vaJengLgI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=rejected%20Christianity%20&f=false}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|cf. "Of course, no one can precisely gauge hom much [[Enlightenment]] thinking about material origin for life and organic species contributed to the political, social, and religious turmoil of the French Revolution, but some observers at the time saw a causal link. Notions of biological instability seemed to breed social disorder; ... and chaos ensued as the law of jungle became the rule in Paris. For [[Cuvier]], ... Speculative systems in natural history invited ruin. ... [He] took every opportunity to criticize the speculations of [[Buffon]] and other materialist-minded naturalists."<ref name="Larson"/>|group=note}} Despite his treatises lacking both a timescale and even a clearly developed sense of time, in 1778 he proposed, apparently following his own belief ''"past is so old and has left so few traces that one can say anything one likes about it"'',<ref name="Rappaport1997"/> that the Earth was about 74,832 years old,<ref name="ingv">INGV</ref> what was also in line with thinking that pushed God as [[Creator]] either back in time or out of the picture altogether.<ref name="Larson"/>
In the early nineteenth-century, the so called [[uniformitarian]]s conspired to overthrow the [[Biblical chronology]] that would measure geologic time in generations of man.<ref name="Richter">{{cite journal |title=Geological Notes: Kelvin and the Age of Earth |author=F.M. Richter |publisher=Journal of Geology |year=1986 |volume=94 |pages=395–401 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30068713}}</ref> The dictum as a fundamental maxim for their geological speculation and worldview<ref name="PerryInAS">{{cite web |title=Kelvin, Perry and the Age of the Earth |author=Philip C. England, Peter Molnar, Frank M. Richter |date= |url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/page2/kelvin-perry-and-the-age-of-the-earth |accessdate=13 June 2015 |quote=Before dissecting Kelvin's arguments, it is worth describing the worldview that he was opposing.}}</ref> was expressed through [[James Hutton]]’s aphorism,<ref name="ingv"/> coming from his 1785 book ''Theory of the earth'': ''“The revolt, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find [[Singularity#Antipathy to the idea of beginning|no vestige of a beginning]], [[Horror of a Divine Foot|no prospect of an end]].“''<ref name="KelvinOnDynamics">{{cite web |title=On Geological Dynamics |author=W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |publisher= Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow |year=1869 |url=http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_geological_dynamics.html |aaccessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. |author=James Hutton |publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh |year=1785 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjYAAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> Hutton's theory of the earth was not based on field observations but on his [[Wishful thinking|wishful]], speculative confusion of geological process with [[Newton]]ian [[physics]].<ref name="GOULDinNYT">{{cite web |title=IT'S AN OLD, OLD , OLD, OLD WORLD |publisher= NYT |author=D. R. Wallace |date= June 14, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/home/gould-arrow.html |accessdate=7 June 2015 |quote=Hutton's theory of the earth as a geological clockwork of eroding continents balanced against uplifting ocean basins was not based on field observations but on his wishful, speculative confusion of geological process with Newtonian physics....Hutton and Lyell were dedicated not to modern notions of geological dynamism but to antique ones of geological steady-state...The textbook legend of Hutton and Lyell seems dim and confused compared with that of Copernicus and Galileo. In demonstrating the shallowness of that legend}}</ref>

In 1822, [[Joseph Fourier|Fourier]] laid the groundwork for the mathematical analysis of the flow of [[heat]] in his treatise ''Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur''; and later, in 1827, he published arguments that the Earth must be cooling.<ref name="PerryKelvinCritique">{{cite journal | title=John Perry’s neglected critique of Kelvin’s age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics |author=P. England, P. Molnar, F. Richter |journal=GSA Today |volume= 17 |number= 1 |date=January 2007 |doi=10.1130/GSAT01701A.1 |url=http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/faculty/molnarpdf/2007GSAT.England.PerryKelvinBlownOpportunity.pdf |accessdate=5 June 2015 |quote= Fourier ... made arguments that the Earth must be cooling (Fourier, 1827), with which Lyell was certainly familiar (Lyell, 1830, p. 140–141).}}</ref> This was in line with so called [[Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis]], under which the earth would have gradually cooled from its assumed molten beginnings to its current state.

In 1830 [[Charles Lyell]], despite being familiar with Fourier's arguments,<ref name="PerryKelvinCritique"/> supported, with a convert's zeal, the Hutton's idea of a
steady-state Earth of indefinite age in ''Principles of Geology'',<ref name="ingv" /> a book that later influenced [[Darwin]]. Lyell started his book with a self-serving history of geology that [[Academician Burdenko syndrome|uncritically hailed]] any insight anticipating uniformitarianism and under the banner ''“to free the science from Moses”''<ref>{{cite book |author= Charles Lyell |title= Principles of Geology |volume= 1 |year=1881 (1990)|publisher=University of Chicago Press (reprint) |pages=268 (XVII) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WjnbzHpvfEC |quote=Most other geologists, whether or not they agreed with Lyell on specific issues, would in fact have considered themselves his allies in hoping “to free the science from Moses” (Lyell 1881, vol.1, p.268).}}</ref> [[Kerkut’s student syndrome|utterly dismissed]] the contributions of [[Catastrophism|catastrophists]] including [[Georges Cuvier]], the "lion of nineteenth-century French science" and founder of modern comparative anatomy and paleontology, who as early as 1796 announced ''"the existence of a world previous to ours, destroyed by some kind of catastrophe"'' and whose scientific arguments for the theory of [[special creation]] held back the tide of evolutionary thought for a generation.<ref name="Larson"/> Lyell shown up to be a disciple of Buffon, who resolutely refused to accept the notion of catastrophes, including the [[Noah's Flood|Biblical Flood]], which many of their contemporaries upheld. Before Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831, his Cambridge tutor Adam Sedgwick, who had supplied just twenty-two years old Darwin with a reading list for the voyage, conspicuously omitted controversial Lyell’s ''Principles''. Darwin was however given a copy of the book by the ship's aristocratic captain Robert FitzRoy, who wished to have some scientific person on board.<ref name="Larson"/><ref>{{cite web |title=The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 1 |publisher=BBC |year=1978 |pages=7-part series Part 1, 46min:15sec |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hoDaxVIVPE&feature=youtu.be&t=2850 |accessdate=May 17, 2015 |quote=}}</ref> Darwin was fascinated by book, he dedicated his own writings about the voyage to Lyell, and in his letters claimed that ''"I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brains ... the great merit of the Principles, was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Darwin Correspondence Database: Darwin, C. R. to Horner, Leonard 29 Aug 1844 |author=Ch.Darwin |publisher=Darwin Correspondence Project by Cambridge University Library |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-771 |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref>
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightgrey; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | About people who admit how incomprehensibly vast have been the past periods of time
|-
| style="padding:15px;" |''If the question "When?" is asked, the natural reply is merely a look of astonishment, and persistent enquiry elicits '''nothing more definite than a vague "Long ago."'''{{#tag:ref|Ad. ''“nothing more definite than a vague ’Long ago’”'' cf.
*''«I asked Ramsay how long a time he allowed for that history. He answered that he could suggest no limit to it. I said “You don’t suppose geological history has run through 1,000,000,000 years?” “Certainly I do.” “10,000,000,000 years?” “Yes.” “The sun is a finite body. You can tell how many tons it is. Do you think it has been shining for a million million years? ” “I am as incapable of estimating and understanding the reasons which you physicists have for limiting geological time as you are incapable of understanding the geological reasons for our unlimited estimates.” I answered, “You can understand the physicists’ reasoning perfectly if you give your mind to it.”»'' Lord Kelvin, conversation on geological time with Sir Andrew Ramsay during the meeting of the British Association at Dundee in 1867<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life
|journal=Science |publisher= American Association for the Advancement of Science |volume=9 |issue=228 |date= May 12, 1899 |page=668 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1626214?seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents |accessdate=July 18, 2105}}</ref>
*''“I don't have millions billions of years”'' Gail E. Kennedy, Associate Professor, Anthropology, [[UCLA]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Evolution Vs. God Movie |publisher=Living Waters |pages=14min:48sec|date=6 Aug 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0u3-2CGOMQ&feature=youtu.be&t=885 |accessdate=25 July 2015}}</ref>
*''“I require for my theoretical views '''a very long''' period before the Cambrian formation.”'' Ch. Darwin<ref name="DarwinToCroll31JAN1869"/>
*Vallisneri, who together with [[Leibniz]] urged Louis Burguet to consider ''biblical time'' as ''too restricted'', '''could add nothing more''' to his early conviction that the earth is ''"of '''nearly incomprehensible antiquity'''"''. Rappaport (p.195-7)<ref name="Rappaport1997"/>|group=note}} Anything else, of course, could not be expected from a people whose [[Big Bang theory|conceptions of the development of the universe]] are limited to a recognition of the [[Geologic system#The system|alternation of seasons]] and the [[Abiogenesis|insistent mysteries of life]] and death.''<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Arthur Holmes <ref name="Holmes1913">{{cite web |title= The age of the earth |author= Arthur Holmes |publisher= Harper |place=London |year= 1913 |pages=2, 11, 135 |url= https://archive.org/details/ageofearth00holmuoft |accessdate=July 18, 2015 |quote=As an example of one of the more extravagant demands, mention may be made of Darwin’s estimate in 1859 of the time elapsed since the latter part of the Cretaceous period. From the rate of chalk erosion in Kent, he deduced that the excavation of the Wealden valleys had required a period of 300 million years. Referring to this estimate, Jukes gave his opinion that while it might be a hundred time too great, it was equally probable that it was hundred times too small. Evidently 30,000 million years, in the absence of more reliable data, was not considered an absurdly excessive period for the erosion of the Weald. It should be noticed, however, that after the publication of Thomson’s views, Darwin withdrew this estimate from the origin of species.}}</ref></div>
|}
In his 1859 ''[[The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection|Origin of species by means of Natural selection]]'', Darwin declared that ''‘He who can read Sir Charles Lyell’s grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume.’''<ref name="KelvinOnDynamics"/><ref>{{cite book |title= On the Origin of Species |author= Charles Darwin |year=1859 |pages=282 |edition=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdIp_XRopbcC&q=incomprehensibly+vast#v=snippet&q=incomprehensibly%20vast&f=false}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|For partisans of [[Clifford's injunction]] closing this volume at once definitely appears to be a highly commendable suggestion.|group=note}} Darwin based his views on Hutton and Lyell who were dedicated not to modern notions of geological dynamism but to antique ones of geological steady-state.<ref name="GOULDinNYT"/> It is believed a feeling of guilt at having helped Darwin arrive at his heretical theories was a factor that might have contributed to FitzRoy’s tragic decision to suicide on 30 April 1865.<ref>{{cite web |title= FitzRoy's Bicentenary|publisher= The Friends of Charles Darwin |url=http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/fitzroy/ |quote= The ridicule over the weather forecasts was probably the last straw that drove FitzRoy to suicide on 30th April, 1865. But there were numerous other factors that might have contributed to his tragic decision: his failed New Zealand governorship; a feeling of guilt at having helped Darwin arrive at his heretical theories; his belief that suicide was a family trait; who knows what else might have helped push him over the edge? |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref><ref name="BBC67">{{cite web |title=The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Part 6&7 |publisher=BBC |year=1978 |pages=7-part series Part 6&7, 1h:49min:35sec |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXY-EWZU5qo&feature=youtu.be&t=6575
|accessdate=July 18, 2015 |quote=}}</ref>

The doctrine that the Earth was of unlimited age allowed Uniformitarian geologists to evade [[explanation in science|explaining]] any [[phenomenon|phenomena]] by laws of [[physics]] and resort to [[Fog displacement|blurring]] them by ''“reckless drafts on the bank of time”'' instead. For the legendary British physicist William Thomson, later known as [[Lord Kelvin]], this game without rules was simply not scientific. The speculations of uniformitarians on age of the Earth were forbidden by the laws of the thermodynamics, which he had helped in developing. He showed, with the full force and prestige of mathematical physics,{{#tag:ref|cf.
*''"God is mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe."'' [[Paul Dirac]]<ref name="Flew">{{Cite book|title=There is a God, How the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind|author=Antony Flew|publisher=HarperOne|year=2008|isbn=978-0-06-133530-3|pages=105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbL66ePcjpQC |quote= }}</ref>
*''"Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition … [and therefore] ‘On to God’"'' [[Max Planck]]<ref name="Flew"/>|group=note}} that, if one were to assume that the Earth is a solid body cooling from an initially high temperature, measurement of the rate of heat loss from its surface would clearly place limits on its age.

Kelvin started to advance his arguments under the title ''“Note on Certain Points in the Theory of Heat”'' first in 1844 in ''Cambridge Mathematical Journal''. After clarifying some of Fourier’s mathematics related to the conduction of heat and the dissipation of energy, he presented the upper boundary for the age of the Earth in his 1863 classic paper ''On the Secular Cooling of the Earth'' as '''98 millions of years'''.<ref name="OnSecularCooling">{{cite web |title= On the Secular Cooling of the Earth |author=W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |publisher= Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |year=1864 (Read 1862) |volume= XXIII |pages= 167–169 |url= http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_secular_cooling_of_the_earth.html |aaccessdate=June 14, 2015}}</ref> The figure was based i.a. on following assumptions and considerations:
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On the Kelvin's calculations
|-
| style="padding:15px;" | ''I have sometimes been asked by friends interested in geology to criticise Lord Kelvin's calculation of the probable age of the earth. I have usually said that it is hopeless to expect that Lord Kelvin should have made an error in calculation.''

<div style="padding-left:40px;">—John Perry<ref>{{cite journal |title= On the Age of the Earth |author=John Perry |journal=Nature |date= 3 January 1895 |issue=51 |pages=224–227 |doi=10.1038/051224a0 |url= http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v51/n1314/pdf/051224a0.pdf
}}</ref> </div>
|}
* The ‘celebrated’ '''Poisson’s hypothesis''', that the present underground heat of Earth is due to a passage, at some former period, of the Solar system through hotter stellar regions, would not serve uniformitarians and evolutionists right, since it either grants only short time periods with moderate temperature on earth’s surface or, if the transition from hot region to cold region is shifted further back in time, it leads to extreme temperatures that must have destroyed all animal and vegetable life.
* The '''[[Leibniz’s theory of earth|Leibnitz’s theory]]''', which simply supposes the earth to have been at one time an incandescent liquid, without explaining how it got into that state, is the best for view of the geologists who require the longest periods.
* The initial temperature of molten blob to be 7000 °F or 3888 °C, respectively, corresponding to a high estimate of generally assumed temperature of melting rock. Later Kelvin explained that he could take lower value as more probable, but was most anxious not to underestimate the age of the earth based on the very meager information then available.<ref name="KelvinNature1895"/>
* The measurements of underground temperatures near Edinburgh served as basis for the estimated “general increase of temperature in the Earth downwards” alias mean geothermal gradient of 1/50th of a degree Fahrenheit per foot (~ ca 36 °C/km).

After taking into account the estimated uncertainties in thermal gradient and thermal conductivity, Kelvin broadened an upper limit for the age of the Earth to interval between 20 and 400 millions of years (20 ~ 400 Ma). In a later paper, based on experimental results performed by Carl Barus (who found out that diabase, a typical [[basalt]] of very primitive character, melts between 1100 °C and 1170 °C and is thoroughly liquid at 1300 °C),<ref name="KelvinNature1895">{{cite journal |title=On the Age of the Earth |author= Lord Kelvin |journal= Nature (reprint in SA)|date= January 3, 1895 |pages= 334–337 |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lord-kelvin-on-the-age-of-the-earth/ |accessdate=14 June 2015 |quote= Carl Barus (Phil. Mag., 1893, first half year, pp. 186, 187, 301-305) that diabase, a typical basalt of very primitive character, melts between 1,100° C. and 1,170° and is thoroughly liquid at 1,300°.}}</ref> he modified the value for supposed initial molten rock temperature to 1200 °C,<ref name="Richter"/> thus by the end of the 1800s narrowed down the interval to 20 ~ 40Ma,<ref name="chemeu">{{cite web |title=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |publisher=chemeurope.com |url=http://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/William_Thomson%2C_1st_Baron_Kelvin.html |accessdate=14 June 2015 |quote= Thomson ultimately settled on an estimate that the Earth was 20-40 million years old }}</ref> with personal preference for the lower value which is also the most quoted one.<ref name="West"/><ref>{{cite book |title= The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth |author= Cherry Lewis |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year= 2012 |pages= 39 |isbn= 978-11076-59599 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vU1yZQ03Kz0C }}</ref>

{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | About theoretical views requiring a very long period
|-
| style="padding:15px;" | ''"When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about it is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."''

<div style="padding-left:40px;">—William Thompson, Lord Kelvin<ref>{{cite web |title=Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth |author=Evelyn Lamb |publisher=Scientific American |date= 26 June 2013 |url= http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/lord-kelvin-age-of-the-eart/ |accessdate=19 April 2016
}}</ref> </div>
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Many scientists liked these values, since they appeared to be consistent with calculations made by [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], who in 1854 estimated the age of sun to be between 20 and 40 million years,<ref name="ingv"/><ref>{{cite web |title= Trial balloons and the age of the earth |author= Tas Walker |publisher=CMI |url= https://creation.com/trial-balloons-geochronology |accessdate= 14 June 2015}}</ref> but for both evolutionists in biology as well as uniformitarians in geology they were distastefully low.<ref name="KelvinRevisited">{{cite web |title= Lord Kelvin revisited on the young age of the earth |author= John Woodmorappe |publisher=CMI |url= https://creation.com/trial-balloons-geochronology |accessdate= 14 June 2015}}</ref> Darwin wrote in his letters that he has ''“not as yet been able to digest the fundamental notion of the shortened age of the sun and earth,”''<ref>{{cite book |author= Loren Eiseley
|title=Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men who Discovered It
|publisher=Anchor
|place=New York
|year=1961
|pages=234, 235, 240
|isbn= 978-03850-81412
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Century-Evolution-Men-Discovered/dp/0385081413
}}</ref> and admitted that ''“Thompson's views of the recent age of the world”'' have been for some time one of his ''“sorest troubles.”'' (1869).<ref>{{cite web
|title= Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., Letter 6706
|author=Charles Darwin
|date= 14 Apr 1869
|publisher= Darwin Correspondence Database
|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-6706#mark-6706.f4
|quote=Thompson's views of the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles, & so I have been glad to read what you say.f4:William Thomson held that the crust of the earth had solidified only 100 million years ago, and had criticised [Charles Darwin]'s estimate in the first edition of Origin of 300 million years for the denudation of the Weald (see W. Thomson 1862a, pp. 391--2). See also Correspondence vol. 16, letter to G. H. Darwin, [9 December 1868].
|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> Notwithstanding some Croll's ''"excellent remarks on the work which can be effected within a million years,"'' he felt ''"greatly troubled at the short duration of the world according to Sir W. Thompson,"'' for Darwin required for his ''"theoretical views '''a very long period''' before the [[Cambrian]] formation"''.<ref name="DarwinToCroll31JAN1869">{{cite web
|title= Darwin, C. R. to Croll, James, Letter 6585
|author=Charles Darwin
|date= 31 Jan 1869
|publisher= Darwin Correspondence Database
|url= http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-6585
|quote= The physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) had calculated the age of the earth based on its cooling from a molten ball. He concluded that the earth could not possibly have existed with its crust in a similar state as at present for the length of time proposed by geologists (see W. Thomson 1865). In Origin 5th ed., p. 379, [Charles Darwin] noted that based on Thomson's calculation of the age of the earth and Croll's estimation that 60 million years had passed since the Cambrian period, the time left for the pre-Cambrian period (140 million years) was `hardly sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which certainly existed towards the close of the Cambrian period'.|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> After the publication of Kelvins’s views, Darwin first halved, in the second edition of the ''[[Origin of species]]'' (p. 287), his own estimate of the time (''"far longer than 300 million years"'') allegedly elapsed since the latter part of the conjectured ''"[[Geologic system#The system|Cretaceous period]]"'', and later withdrew the discussion altogether from the third edition.<ref name="Holmes1913"/><ref>{{cite web
|title= Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., Letter 6841
|author=Charles Darwin
|date= 24 July 1869
|publisher= Darwin Correspondence Database
|url= http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-6841#back-mark-06841.f7
|quote= In [Tait] 1869, p. 429, Tait had quoted [Charles Darwin]'s conjecture, based on his estimate of time needed for the denudation of the Weald, that far longer than 300 million years must have elapsed since the latter part of the secondary period (Origin, p. 287). In response to criticisms in the Saturday Review, 24 December 1859, however, [Charles Darwin] halved his estimate in the second edition of Origin, and removed the discussion altogether from the third edition.
|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref> In 1871 he even named Kelvin ''“an odious spectre”'' that came so that Darwin could not ''“rely much on pre-[[Silurian]] times.”''<ref>{{cite web
|title= Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., Letter 7858
|author=Charles Darwin
|date= 12 July 1871
|publisher= Darwin Correspondence Database
|url=https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-7858
|quote=I can say nothing more about missing links than what I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times; but then comes Sir W. Thompson like an odious spectre. Footnote: [Charles Darwin] discussed the absence of transitional forms in the fossil record in Origin 5th ed., pp. 208–15, 346–8. He thought William Thomson’s estimate of the time elapsed since the consolidation of the earth’s crust was probably too short for species to evolve according to his theory (Origin 5thed., p. 379)
|accessdate=21 July 2015}}</ref>

== Modernized pagan views ==
=== The game changer: Radioactivity mythmaking ===
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | The age of the earth is definite
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| style="padding:15px;" | ''"We do not say whether it is twenty million years or more, or less, but we say it is not indefinite. And we can say very definitely that it is not an inconceivably great number of millions of years."'' ''"We feel that there is no possibility of things going on for ever as they have done for the last six thousand years."''

<div style="padding-left:40px;">— William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)<ref name=" OntheMiracleofLife">{{cite web |title= "On the Miracle of Life" [Actual title unknown.] Excerpt from an address at the annual meeting of the Christian Evidence Society |author=W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |publisher= as quoted in Heros of the Telegraph by J. Munro.|year= 1889 |url= http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_miracle_of_life.html |accessdate=July 18, 2015 |quote= I may refer to that old, but never uninteresting subject of the miracles of geology. Physical science does something for us here. St. Peter speaks of scoffers who said that ‘all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation;’ but the apostle affirms himself that ‘all these things shall be dissolved.’ It seems to me that even physical science absolutely demonstrates the scientific truth of these words. We feel that there is no possibility of things going on for ever as they have done for the last six thousand years. ... The science of dead matter, which has been the principal subject of my thoughts during my life, is, I may say, strenuous on this point, that the age of the earth is definite. We do not say whether it is twenty million years or more, or less, but we say it is not indefinite. And we can say very definitely that it is not an inconceivably great number of millions of years.}}</ref></div>
|}

By the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Kelvin had completely demolished all opposition.<ref name="West"/> He made uniformitarian geological community to accept that the age of the earth must be finite and that estimating the age by quantitative reasoning instead of supporting steady-state theory with [[Horror of a Divine Foot|philosophical bias]] should be crucial part of the geological endeavor. Even ‘''Darwin’s bulldog''’ and [[T. H. Huxley|musketeer of Darwinism Huxley]], who previously attacked Kelvin by making indirect allusions about ''“the first passer-by who fancies that our house is not so well built as it might be”'', ventured to suggest, in front of the Geological society of London, that ''“limitation of the period during which living beings have inhabited this planet to one, two, or three hundred million years, may be admitted, without a complete revolution in geological speculation.”''<ref name="KelvinOnDynamics"/> This was in direct contradiction with [[Darwin]] who previously declared that ''“a far longer period than 300 million years has elapsed”'' since the latter part of period for which he declared to have available ''“a clear evidence of the existence … of whole groups of beings."''{{#tag:ref|cf.[[Evolutionary schizophrenia]]|group=note}} Materialistic philosophers, such as the British analytical [[Bertrand Russell]], realized that the Hutton's materialstic concept ''”no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end”'' is further unmaintainable, and de facto denounced it while starting to proclaim Biblically compatible apocalyptic views{{#tag:ref|cf."Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail." [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+51%3A6&version=NIV Bible, Isaiah 51:6 (NIV)]|group=note}}: ''“all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of Solar System”''. These things should be regarded, ''“if not quite beyond dispute,”'' ''“yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.”''<ref name="Signature">{{Cite book
| author = Meyer, Stephen C.
| title = Signature in the Cell
| publisher = HarperOne
| location= New York
| year= 2008
| isbn = 978-0-06-147279-2
| pages = 450
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUGKBdKawDUC| quote= }}</ref>

But T.C. Chamberlin, head of the Department of Geology at the [[University of Chicago]], was not prepared to concede defeat. While defending his faith in long-ages, he speculated, without any observational basis whatever, that there might yet be discovered new sources of energy that would allow more time than Kelvin had calculated.<ref>{{cite book |title=Earth |author= Frank Press, Raymond Siever |publisher=W. H. Freeman |edition=4 |year=1986 |pages=40 |isbn=978-0716717430 |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Frank-Press/dp/0716717433}}</ref> Thus, the quest for the age of the earth as a subjective, arbitrary and erratic pursuit, was set for an fascinating turn.<ref name="West"/> This came in 1896, when [[radioactivity]] was discovered by Henri Becquerel and when in 1903 [[Marie and Pierre Curie|Pierre Curie]] and Albert Laborde demonstrated that [[radioactive decay]] releases heat. Before long, several people argued that this source of heat was great enough to overturn Kelvin’s conclusion about the boundary for the age of the earth. The situation resembled the one in the previous two centuries when ''“those who sought to extend biblical time hardly knew where to begin, how to proceed, and what to conclude.”''<ref name="Rappaport1997"/> Among the followers of this effort was [[Ernest Rutherford]], who in 1904 suggested, in the Royal Institution, that ''“Lord Kelvin had limited the Age of the Earth, ‘provided no new source of heat was discovered.’ That prophetic utterance refers to what we are considering tonight, [[radium]]!”'' Later, Rutherford often repeated his tale of thinking on his feet in front of the “old bird” Kelvin who “beamed” at him. This episode and pleasing form of the anecdote, boosted by the eminence of its author, who was considered the father of the nuclear theory, provided a ready vehicle for mythmaking and uncritical acceptance of proposition that because the discovery of radioactive heat undermined an assumption behind Kelvin’s calculation, it also undermined his conclusion.<ref name="PerryKelvinCritique"/> As the half-life of radium's dominant isotope is 1600 yr, heat given out by radium obviously could not be the wanted missing energy.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"[Rutherford and Soddy] could not get away from the fact, however, that radium itself, although universally regarded as an element, decays far too rapidly to be as old as the minerals in which it is found. The only solution seemed to be that radium too must be a metabolon with a 'life' of a few thousand years."''<ref name ="BURCHFIELD">{{cite book |title=Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth |author=Joe D. Burchfield |publisher= The University of Chicago Press |place=Chicago |year=1975, 1990 |pages=173 |isbn=0-226-08043-9}}</ref>|group=note}} Nevertheless, later assumptions of equilibrium in decay series of [[uranium]] and [[thorium]] allowed to consider heat sources with half-lives in gigayears (Ga; 1 Ga = 109 years).

The 1911 edition of the [[Encyclopedia Britannica]] discussed dates up to 500 million years.<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica, pp 650-651.</ref>
By about 1930, J. H. Jeans was arguing for an age of the Earth of around two billion years.<ref>Universal History of the World, p.76.</ref>

The inclusion of radiogenic heat makes however only insignificant difference in terms of age limit inferred from the time required for the surface gradient to reach its present-day estimated value of 20 °C/km supported by observational evidence.
As a matter of fact, it is freely acknowledged that radioactive heat sources within the earth do not account for its present internal temperatures if the earth had really existed for 4.5 Ga. The statements such as ''"Thanks to Madame Curie, the inexhaustible energies of the atom of the globe … are potentially available to geological speculation"'' and ''"Kelvin overthrown"''<ref name="KelvinRevisited"/> are logically incorrect; Kelvin's conclusion would be undermined by that discovery only if incorporation of the Earth's radioactive heat into his calculations produced a substantially different age limits for the earth.

The general conclusion is that, even if Kelvin had included a reasonable radiogenic heat production in his thermal calculations, he would still have found grounds for arguing that the age limit of the earth was of the order of 108 years and his estimate would have been virtually unaffected.<ref name="Richter"/>

=== The Scientific Dogma of 4.5 billion years ===
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightgray; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Subjective biased approach to data selection
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"In general, dates in the correct ballpark are [[Paleoscience#Paleoscience.2C worldview of the scientists.2C sociological and psychological factors.2C political pressure|assumed to be correct]] and are published, but those in disagreement with other date are seldom published, nor are the discrepancies fully explained."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Richard K. Mauger<ref>{{cite journal |title= K-Ar ages of biotites from tuffs in Eocene rocks of the Green River, Washakie, and Uinta basins, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado |author= Richard L. Mauger |journal= |publisher=University of Wyoming |year=1977 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=17–42 (37)|url= https://geobookstore.uwyo.edu/sites/default/files/download/ConttoGeo_TOC.pdf |accessdate=13 June 2015 }}</ref> </div>
|}
In 1943 R.A. Daly of Harvard University published his authoritative paper ''“Meteorites and an Earth model,”'' where he studied the analogies between [[Rock (material)|terrestrial rocks]] and [[meteor]]ites, coupled with deductions on the probable nature of the Earth’s interior. He hypothesized that the latter ones originated by disruption of a planet once situated between Mars and Jupiter, in the region now occupied by [[asteroid]]s. At first textbooks have quoted his theory approvingly, but later it has been disfavored due to mineralogical discontinuities between different groups of meteorites which were interpreted as evidence against a single parent body hypothesis. Nevertheless, the meteorites, “enigmatic bodies,” have managed to attract the great resurgence of interest in scientific research.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Meteorites |author=Brian Mason|journal=American Scientist |volume=55| issue=4 |year=1967|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/27837038?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents}}</ref>

In his 1956 paper named ''Age of Meteorites and the Earth'', Claire Patterson, using ''“certain assumptions which are apparently justified,”'' introduced for meteor age a figure of '''4.55 ± 0.07 × 109yr.''' and commented that since earth lead meets the requirement for definition of ''“the isotopic evolution of lead for any meteoritic body,”'' it is therefore ''“believed that the age for the earth is the same as for meteorites”'' and that ''"this is the time since the earth attained its present mass"''.<ref>{{cite web |title= Age of meteorites and the earth |author= Claire Patterson |url=http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Patterson1956.pdf |accessdate= }}</ref> In spite of cautions and skepticism advised by the authors, this faith-based figure gradually became a scientific dogma that rarely anyone has dared to question.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ralph W. Matthews |title=Radiometric dating and the age of the Earth |date=December 1982 |publisher=Creation |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=41–44 |quote=In spite of cautions and skepticism advised by the authors this number has been widely and enthusiastically accepted and is usually quoted as if the evidence was decisive and conclusive. It has assumed something of the status of a universal constant to which all other data must be fitted, thus it has become common practice to assume that data which does not fit this result is either wrong or unintelligible. |accessdate=December 30, 2014}}</ref> Henry Morris explains that the unprovable assumptions are not the only problem with radiometric dating. One huge concern is that the results published are only a selected sample, chosen especially to agree with preconceived ideas about the earth, life, and [[evolution]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Once upon a time … A Review of The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods by John Woodmorappe |author=Michael J. Oard |url=https://creation.com/once-upon-a-time |accessdate=November 9, 2014}}</ref>

When in 1972 N.H. Gale tried to corroborate this established figure, he discovered that U-Pb ages ''"showed apparent large excess of radiogenic lead compared with the amount expected from the decay of Uranium in the meteorites over 4.5AE. ... For each of the 4 meteorites there was an excess of radiogenic lead not supported by uranium decay over 4.5AE.”'' After short analysis:
*''“The superior modern analytical methods used made it impossible that analytical contamination could explain the result.''
*''The circumstances ... make it extremely unlikely that terrestrial contamination could explain the results for this meteorites.''
*''... a considerable excess of radiogenic lead in most fractions ...is difficult to attribute to contamination,“''
rather than starting to reckon with possibility to challenge the established figures and methods, after recalling that ''“Patterson was the first to show that several stony meteorites yield a ... model of 4.5AE,”'' he proposed the new explanation for discovered discrepancy: ''"discordant results can be attributed to contamination."''{{#tag:ref|The claim on the contamination explaining the "discordant result" is in direct contradiction with previous statements that neither analytical nor extremely unlikely terrestrial contamination could explain the results. According to Ryan Dobson, author of a book on [[moral relativism]], a person that holds conflicting opinions about something and starts disagreeing with himself of herself is in trouble.<ref name="Dobson">{{cite book
|author=Ryan Dobson, Jefferson Scott
|title=Be Intolerant in Love: Because Some Things Are Just Stupid
|publisher=Tyndale House Publishers
|location=Sisters, OR, USA
|year=2007
|isbn=978-1590-521526
|pages=23–26
|pages=121
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yvSEGgAACAAJ
|quote= You can't recognize that you hold conflicting opinions about something and hang on to both of them for very long. When you start disagreeing with yourself, you're in trouble.}}</ref> The trouble maintaining a train of thought in logical and coherent manner is regarded by [[medical science]] as symptom and characteristic of [[schizophrenia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Types, Causes, and Early Warning Signs |publisher=helpguide.org |url= http://www.helpguide.org/articles/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-signs-types-and-causes.htm |accessdate=13 June 2015 |quote=Fragmented thinking is characteristic of schizophrenia. Externally, it can be observed in the way a person speaks. People with schizophrenia tend to have trouble concentrating and maintaining a train of thought. They may respond to queries with an unrelated answer, start sentences with one topic and end somewhere completely different, speak incoherently, or say illogical things.}}</ref>|group=note}}
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:lightgray; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Assault on scientific [[Socratic principle]]
|-
| style="padding:15px;" |''"Most advocates do not defend their theses out of conviction that they are true, but rather because they once declared them to be true."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg </div>
|}
Consequently, his research of the Earth’s age turned into calculation of ''"the correct sample ratios"'' from ''"observed ratios"'' so that the Table in his paper could finally show the “correct” preconceived age, established in this field of research.<ref name= "GALE1972">{{cite journal |title=Uranium-Lead Chronology of Chrondritic Meteorites |author= Gale, N.H., Arden, J.W. and Hutchison, R. |journal=Nature |issue=240 |pages=56–57 |date=20 November 1972 |doi=10.1038/physci240056a0
|url=http://www.nature.com/nature-physci/journal/v240/n99/pdf/physci240056a0.pdf
|quote= Considerable variations in uranium and lead concentrations are observed in different gram sized fragments of the same meteorite5·7,8, and fission track studies10 show that on the microscopic scale changes in uranium concentration by factors of 105 are observed over distances of ˜10˜2 cm. Because of experimental difficulties the uranium and lead concentrations and the lead isotopic abundances have not been measured hitherto in the same sample of a given meteorite, so that it is possible, but not proven, that the apparent lack of concordance between daughter and parent isotopes may be a direct consequence of these heterogeneities; this point of view has been well argued by Fisher11. Most of the early work on the determination of lead in meteorites was in any case badly hampered by analytical contamination by terrestrial lead.}}</ref><ref name="GALE1979">{{cite journal |title=U-Pb studies of the appley bridge meteorite |author=Gale, N.H., Arden, J.W. and Hutchison, R. |publisher=Naturwissenschaften |year=1979 |volume=66 |issue=8 |pages=419–420 |doi=10.1007/BF00368077 |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/r741164v5162r447}}</ref> This methodological flaw is known as [[data torturing]].

Using [[circular logic]] — assuming that decay rates remained constant despite necessarily changing physical characteristics as time approached the origin — Old Earth proponents insist that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old based on an assumption of constancy in [[Potassium-argon dating|Potassium-argon (K:Ar) decay rates]] and other radiometric methods.<ref>Peck, 2000, p.376.</ref>

===Turning science upside down===
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
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|-
| style="padding:15px;" | ''"If a theory or point of view is treated only as a doctrine to be validated, and not one to be challenged, it is not within the realm of science."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Randall Hedtke<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book
|author=Randall Hedtke
|title=Secrets of the Sixth Edition
|publisher=Master Books
|place=Portland, Oregon
|year=2010
|pages=57
|isbn=978-0-89051-597-6
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvyHquVubDoC}}</ref></div>
|}
{| class="infobox bordered" style="font-size:95%; width:25em;"
! style="font-size:120%; background:pink; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Feeling overconfident of the truth of one's doctrine
|-
| style="padding:15px;" | ''"I daresay I may have written too confidently from feeling so confident of the truth of my main doctrine."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Charles Darwin]]<ref name="DarwinToSedgwick26NOV1859">{{cite web |title=Darwin Correspondence Database: Darwin, C. R. To Adam Sedgwick 26 November [1859]|author=Ch.Darwin |publisher=Darwin Correspondence Project by Cambridge University Library |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2555.xml |quote=You could not possibly have paid me a more honourable compliment than in expressing freely your strong disapprobation of my Book. ... |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> to Prof. Sedgwick, 1859</div>
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After their acceptance of evolutionary dogma on ''“antiquity as a partially known factor”'' by faith, followers of evolutionary scientism started to assure that ''“the earth’s age must be very much greater than Kelvin calculated”''. Consequently, they commanded science to be turned upside down: ''”Kelvin’s problem must now be reversed”'' – instead of research finding the age of the earth, it should be already taken as given by their doctrine instead, and the only role left to science is to confirm it and determine the thermal history of the earth that would be in accord with it.<ref name="Holmes1913"/>

In 1978, ''Geotimes'' magazine published by American Geological Institute quoted John Eddy, a famous astronomer, who argued that due to ''“some new and unexpected results“'' scientists could live with bishop Ussher’s 4004 B.C. value for the age of Earth and Sun, ''a fortiori'' since there is not much in the way of [[Scientific observation|observational]] [[Scientific evidence|evidence]] in [[astronomy]] to conflict with his calculations.<ref>{{cite journal |author=John Eddy quoted by R.G. Kazmann |title= It’s About Time: 4.5 Billion Years (report on Symposium at Louisiana State University)|publisher= Geotimes magazine (from 09/2008 renamed to Earth magazine) of American Geological Institute |year=1978 |issue=23 |pages=18–20|quote=I suspect that the Sun is 4.5 billion years old. However, given some new and unexpected results to the contrary, and some time for some frantic recalculation and theoretical readjustment, I suspect that we could live with bishop Ussher’s value for the age of Earth and Sun. I don’t think we have much in the way of observational evidence in astronomy to conflict with that.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Jon Covey |title= Age of the Universe |publisher= Creation In The Crossfire |date= January 3, 2013 |url=http://www.creationinthecrossfire.com/documents/AgeOfUniverse/AgeOfTheUniverse.html |accessdate=December 30, 2014 |quote= Evolutionary astronomers confidently argue the universe is 12-20 billion years old, although there is no certainty about any astronomical observations. John Eddy, a famous astronomer, once said that there isn’t much in the way of observational astronomy that proves the universe is old. He said that with “frantic theoretical readjustment” if new evidence showed that astronomers have been wrong, they could live with Bishop Ussher’s date of 4,004 B.C.}}</ref> American astronomer Robert Jastrow maintains that for ''"the scientist who has lived by his faith in 'the power of reason', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak"'' and ''"as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."''<ref name="Jastrow">{{cite book
|author=Robert Jastrow
|title=God and the Astronomers
|location=New York
|publisher= W. W. Norton
|year=1992
|page=107
|isbn=978-0-393-85006-2
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IfLYHv5pyUC}}</ref>

== Geology ==

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[[William R. Corliss]] is a cataloger of scientific [[Anomaly|anomalies]] (observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific [[paradigm]]s) and has published many works on the subject.<ref name="sf">[http://www.science-frontiers.com/ Science Frontiers] (Corliss' web-site)</ref>
He also wrote 13 books for the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), a dozen educational booklets for the [[Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC), and a dozen articles for the [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF).<ref>Corliss, 2002</ref> The science magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'' had an article which focused on the career of William Corliss.<ref>Adrian Hope, "Finding a home for stray fact", ''New Scientist'', July 14, 1977, p. 83</ref>
''New Scientist'' wrote regarding Corliss's work: "All I can say to Corliss is carry on cataloging".<ref>Quoted on the [http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm Science Frontiers web-site]</ref> [[Arthur C. Clarke]] described Corliss as "[[Charles Fort|Fort]]'s latter-day — and much more scientific — successor."<ref>Clarke, Arthur C. (1990) ''Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography''. Gollancz. Page 110</ref>

Corliss's work on geological anomalies catalogs scores of anomalies which challenge the [[old-earth]] [[paradigm]].<ref>[http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm#Geology Geological Catalogs] (Science Frontiers)</ref>

==See also==
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]
*[[Arguments for a recent creation]]
*[[Literalist Bible chronology]]

== Bibliography ==
* Burnet, Thomas, [http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/ste/ste36.htm The Sacred Theory of the Earth, chapter V], 1691.
* Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling On-line page facsimiles].
* Hammerton, J.A. (Ed.), "Universal History of the World" (8 volumes) The Educational Book Co., London, c1930.
* Batten, Don, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/417 Old-earth or young-earth belief: Which belief is the recent aberration?], ''Creation'' 24(1):24–27, December 2001.
* [http://www.ingv.it/~roma/SITOINGLESE/activities/geomagnetismo/analysistheory/historicalresearch/age.html The age of the Earth] (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)).
*Peck WH, Valley JW, Wilde SA, and Graham CM (2000) Ion microprobe Evidence for Pre-4.4 Ga Continental Crust and Low Temperature Water/Rock Interaction. ''Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr'', vol 32, no. 7.

== External links ==
*[https://creation.com/age-of-the-earth Age of the earth] by [[Creation Ministries International]]
*[https://creation.com/refuting-evolution-chapter-8-how-old-is-the-earth How old is the earth?] - ''Refuting evolution'' - Chapter 8 by Dr. [[Jonathan Sarfati]] at [[Creation Ministries International]]
*[https://creation.com/young-age-of-the-earth-universe-qa Age of the Earth and Universe] by [[Creation Ministries International]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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