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| − | <center>''This page | + | <center>''This page documents a historical event;<br>for more recent events see the '''[[NATO war in Ukraine]]'''.</center> |
| − | [[File: | + | [[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 [[ | + | The '''Russiagate scandal''', originally dubbed the '''Obamagate scandal''', was misconduct by [[Democrat]]s and foreign allies that later became [[fake news]], fomented by the [[liberal media]] and [[Opposition to Donald Trump|opponents of Donald Trump]]. This began approximately in June 2015 and lasted throughout the [[Trump 1.0|First administration]] of [[President Donald Trump]] and beyond, including the improper [[Trump impeachment 1.0]], [[Trump impeachment 2.0]], and [[Lawfare against Trump]] during the [[Biden regime]]. |
| − | [[ | + | This page documents the events of '''Obamagate timeline 2016 election year,''' a record of known facts about [[President Obama]]'s 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> The fraudulent Russiagate hoax served the dual purpose of hampering the Trump administration and destroying friendly relations between the United States and the [[Russian Federation]]. |
| − | + | 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 [[Democrat 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== | ||
| + | [[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 received [[Vladimir Putin]]'s personal thanks.]] | ||
| + | :''See: '''[[Obamagate timeline 2009-2014]]''''' | ||
| + | The [[Obamagate|Obamagate scandal]] refers to several scandals during President [[Barack Obama]]'s 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 wiretapping, and domestic spying on American citizens to harass political opponents and critics. | ||
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| + | 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]]. | ||
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| + | ''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 the 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-float|“'''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.<br><br> | ||
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| + | 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>}} | ||
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| + | 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> | ||
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| + | ==2015 The Progressive Police State== | ||
| + | :''See: '''[[Obamagate timeline 2015 progressive police state]]''''' | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Comey gives immunity to Clinton cronies who destroyed evidence under a Congressional [[subpoena]]. | ||
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| + | From 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> | ||
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| + | 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.'" | ||
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| + | 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> | |
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| + | 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> | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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 communications were being collected. Clapper then demanded that 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> | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ===January 2016=== | ||
| + | [[File:Ciaramella Ukraine.png|right|300PX|thumb|Eric Ciaramella (middle right) collusion with Ukrainian officials in a meeting at the White House, flanked by Biden security adviser [[Michael Carpenter]] and Ciaramella's NSC colleague Liz Zentos.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016 to Stop Putin. That Bet Backfired Badly.] By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations, March 10, 2022</ref>]] | ||
| + | CIA operative Eric Ciaramella, working in the White House, requested Ukrainian officials to reopen an investigation into Paul Manafort which the FBI had dismissed in 2014. The FBI under James Comey reopened the investigation at the same time Ciaramella met with Ukrainian officials in the White House. Ciaramella later became 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. | ||
| + | <!--*'''1 January.''' Mikk Marran officially became the Director General of the Estonian Information Board.--> | ||
| + | *'''2 January.''' Donald Trump says at a campaign rally the [[Obama/Biden administration]], along with [[Hillary Clinton]], created [[ISIS]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/QcEMH5YuI6E 'Clinton Created ISIS with Obama']</ref> | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''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-float|"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-float|"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.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/08/12/the-bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-conversations/#</ref> | ||
| + | [[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 the [[Washington, D.C.]], 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-float|“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-float|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?”<br>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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| + | *'''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> | ||
| + | [[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>]] | ||
| + | {{Quotebox-float|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. | ||
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| + | ===February 2016=== | ||
| + | *'''Early February.''' Papadopoulos leaves Carson campaign.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/11/07/questions-for-george-papadopoulos/</ref> <!--Early Feb. 2016 Papadopoulos joins London Center for International Law Practice (LCILP). https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/05/maria-bartiromo-interviews-spygate-predicate-george-papadopoulos/ [conflicts with earlier information].--> | ||
| + | *'''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/ 4 Things We Learned From The FBI’s Mostly Redacted Steele Documents], [[Margo Cleveland]], ''The Federalist'', AUGUST 06, 2018.</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/ Antonin Scalia: murder?], Published July 5, 2018, By Terry A. Hurlbut. cnav news</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> | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | :{{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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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> | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''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."<br>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 Hakluyt & Company Limited], Source Watch. </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> | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''1 March.''' Peter Fritsch of FusionGPS sent an e-mail to a “senior figure in the Democratic Party” and conveyed his belief that Trump “had to be stopped.” The Democratic contact responded by stating “Yes. Let’s talk.” The “senior figure in the Democratic Party” arranged for Fritsch and Simpson to meet with Marc Elias of Perkins Coie.<ref>Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, ''Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump'', p. 55-56.</ref> | ||
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| + | *'''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.<br><br>[[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><br><br>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. | ||
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| + | Strzok – Yet he may win. | ||
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| + | Strzok – Good for Hillary. | ||
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| + | Page – It is. | ||
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| + | Strzok – Would he be a worse president than [[Ted Cruz|Cruz]]? | ||
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| + | Page –Trump?, yes I think so | ||
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| + | Strzok – I’m not sure. | ||
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| + | Strzok – Omg he’s an idiot. | ||
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| + | Page – He’s awful | ||
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| + | Strzok – America will get what the voting public deserves. | ||
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| + | Page – That’s what I’m afraid of.}} | ||
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| + | {{Quotebox-float|Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0. | ||
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| + | Page – I know | ||
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| + | Page – Also did you hear him make a comment about the size of his d**k earlier? This man cannot be president. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Page – What? Poor [[John Kasich|Kasich]]. He’s the only sensible man up there. | ||
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| + | Strzok – He was pretty much calling for death for [[Snowden]]. I’m a single-issue voter. ;) [[Deep State|Espionage Machine Party]]}} | ||
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| + | *'''6 March.''' Sam Clovis interviews Papadopoulos. | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | :*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> | ||
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| + | :*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-float|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.<br>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.<br>...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.<br>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.<br>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-float|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><br>Strzok – That Texas article is depressing as hell. But answers how we could end up with President trump<br>Lisa Page – Wasn’t it? Seriously, how are people so incredible ignorant?<br>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.}} | ||
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| + | *'''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 then [[UK]] foreign 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> Johnson was the head of UK intelligence at the time. The Trump-Russia conspiracy hoax was hatched by [[Obama administration|Obama]] CIA chief [[John Brennan]] on the false allegation that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Mifsud had been working for Western intelligence, 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. | ||
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| + | :*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> | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | *'''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." | ||
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| + | :*James Clapper arrived in Australia from [[New Zealand]] via a C-17 Globemaster. | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | *'''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.) | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | :*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> | ||
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| − | *'''18 April.'''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> | + | *'''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>}} |
| − | *'''27 April.''' 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.” | + | [[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:<br>'''April 18 through July 31, 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 18, 2016), candidate Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee for the presidential race.<br>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 31, 2016, FBI counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane became official.<br>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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| + | To develop the ''Steele dossier'', the Clinton Campaign, the DNC, Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS turned to Orbis Ltd., a private intelligence firm, and its owner, Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer. Orbis Ltd. was chosen to partake in the scheme based on the ties between one of its analysts, Igor Danchenko, and an individual with intimate ties to the Clinton Campaign and one its close associates, Charles Dolan. | ||
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| + | Danchenko, a Russian citizen, had been working as a contractor/analyst with Orbis Ltd. Since 2011, focusing primarily on Russian and Eurasian geo-political matters. Dolan, then an employee of public relations firm, Kglobal, was a longtime participant in Democratic politics, having previously served as chairman of the DNC, state chairman of former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, adviser to Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and having been appointed by Clinton to two four-year terms on an advisory commission at the U.S. State Department. With respect to the 2016 Clinton campaign, Dolan actively | ||
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| + | In late April 2016, Danchenko began having discussions with Dolan about a potential business collaboration between Orbis Ltd. and Kglobal to create a “dossier” to smear Donald J. Trump and to disseminate the false accusations to the media. | ||
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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. | ||
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| + | *'''[[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." | ||
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| + | :*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. | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | :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> | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | :*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> | ||
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| + | *'''20 April.''' Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson of FusionGPS meet with DNC & Clinton Campaign General Counsel Marc Elias of Perkins Coie in Washington D.C. Elias and Perkins Coie retained Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS was hired to perform ‘opposition research’ for the Clinton Campaign and the DNC. | ||
| + | :*The Clinton Campaign, the DNC, Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS each understood that Fusion GPS’s true task was to prepare a fraudulent “dossier” that could be used to falsely implicate Donald J. Trump to derail his campaign, ruining his opportunity to be elected. The Clinton Campaign and the DNC funneled funds through Perkins Coie to finance Fusion GPS’s research. Fusion GPS would then report to the Perkins Coie attorney, Elias, the results of its “investigation.” Simpson and Fritsch reported only to Elias and did “not have any contact with the campaign brass.” | ||
| + | :*As Fritsch and Simpson recounted in their book, the relationship was set up that way for a specific reason; per Elias, Fusion GPS was walled-off from the Clinton Campaign and the DNC for “legal reasons: If Fusion’s communications were with a lawyer, they could be considered privileged and kept confidential.” | ||
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| + | *'''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. | ||
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| + | *'''29 April.''' DNC learns its computer system has been breached. They claim to have been "tipped-off" that the hacking was by Russians. | ||
| − | * | + | :*Igor Danchenko sent an email to Charles Dolan indicating that Danchenko had passed a letter to Christopher Steele on behalf of Dolan and intended to set up a meeting between the two. That same day, Danchenko sent an email to Dolan outlining certain work that Danchenko was conducting with Orbis Ltd. The email attached an Orbis Ltd. Report titled “Intelligence Briefing Note, ‘Kompromat’ and ‘Nadzor’ in the Russian Banking Sector.” |
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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)) | ||
| − | *FBI | + | :*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'. | ||
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| + | :*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-float|"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.<br>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> | ||
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| + | 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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| − | *'''11 May.''' Wikileaks lawyer Michael Ratner dead in New York. | + | 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. |
| − | *'''12 May.''' Susan Rice says there are "too many whites in top National Security positions."<ref> | + | |
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | *'''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> | ||
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| + | *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. | ||
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| + | *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> | ||
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| + | *'''3 May.''' '''Evidence of DNC collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump campaign: | ||
| + | {{quotebox|From: Chalupa, Ali<br> | ||
| + | Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM<br> | ||
| + | To: Miranda, Luis<br> | ||
| + | Subject: Re: You saw this, right?<br><br> | ||
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| + | 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.<br><br> | ||
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| + | Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often:<br><br> | ||
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| + | Sent from my iPhone<br><br> | ||
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| + | On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote:<br><br> | ||
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| + | http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/<br><br> | ||
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| + | <http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director<br> | ||
| + | Democratic National Committee<br> | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | *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. | ||
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| + | Strzok – What?!?!?? | ||
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| + | Page – You heard that right my friend | ||
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| + | Strzok – I saw Trump won, figured it would be a bit | ||
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| + | 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> …. | ||
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| + | 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> | ||
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| + | *'''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.” | ||
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| + | *Imran Awan mentioned in DNC emails;<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/41311</ref> members of the [[Awan investigation|Awan klan were paid $5 million]] through the Wasserman Schultz [[Superdelegate]] machine and would have scant motive as being the source of WikiLeaks.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/pakistani-suspects-in-house-it-probe-received-4-million-from-dem-reps/</ref>--> | ||
| + | *'''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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