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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.

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

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.'"

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>

==2015 progressive police state==

*'''2 February.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Sarawak Report: HEIST OF THE CENTURY - How Jho Low Used PetroSaudi As "A Front" To Siphon Billions Out Of 1MDB!<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/02/heist-of-the-century-how-jho-low-used-petrosaudi-as-a-front-to-siphon-billions-out-of-1mdb-world-exclusive/</ref>

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*'''9 February.''' U.S. Senate forms Ukrainian caucus to further Ukrainian interests. Sen. John McCain is a member.

[[File:Mass beheading of Christians in Libya.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Libya was an ally of the US against the jihadis until Obama armed the jihadis to overthrew the government. One of their first acts was the mass beheading of Christians.]]

*'''12 February.''' 21 [[Coptic]] [[Christian]]s mass beheaded in Libya after Obama liberated the country for "humanitarian" purposes.

*'''2 March.''' ''New York Times'' discloses former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's illegal use of private email server while Sec. of State.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html</ref>

*'''4 March.''' Congressional committee issued subpoena to Hillary Clinton for her emails held on Platte River Networks server relating to Benghazi events.

*John Podesta emails Cheryl Mills to suggest that Clinton's “emails to and from [[President of the United States|potus]]" should be “held” — i.e., not disclosed — because “that’s the heart of his [[Executive Privilege|exec privilege]].”<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6391 </ref>

*'''5 March.''' Office of Inspector General (OIG) sends report to Congress titled ''Open and Unimplemented IG Recommendations''. It lays the Obama administration bare before Congress - illustrating among other things how the administration was wasting $67 billion by ignoring the recommendations made by the OIG.<ref>https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Staff-Report-Open-Unimplemented-IG-Recs.pdf</ref>

*'''7 March.''' Obama tells ''CBS News'' that he had found out about Clinton's use of personal email to conduct State Department business “the same time everybody else learned it through news reports.” Obama communicated with Clinton about 20 times on the illegal server. Right after the interview aired, Clinton campaign secretary Josh Scherwin emailed [[Jennifer Palmieri]] and other senior campaign staffers, stating: “Jen you probably have more on this but it looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it on the news.” Scherwin's alert was forwarded to Cheryl Mills. Shortly afterwards, an Mills emailed John Podesta: {{Quotebox|“We need to clean this up — he has emails from her — they do not say state.gov.” (That is, Obama had emails from Clinton, which he knew were from a private account since her address did not end in “@state.gov” as State Department emails do.)<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/455696/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-emails-key-decision-not-indict-hillary</ref>}}

===April 2015===

*'''8 April.''' Full list of [[mainstream media]] anchors, reporters, journalists, and interviewers sent out for dinner at John Podesta's house.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12063</ref>

*'''12 April.''' Clinton announces candidacy for President.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4&feature=youtu.be</ref> John Podesta serves as her campaign chairman; Brian Fallon, former DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director, serves as her campaign spokesman; and [[Jennifer Palmieri]] serves as her Director of Communications.

*'''15 April.''' Nearly two years after Congress first issues subpoena for Accountability Review Board (ARB) documents, the State Dept. produces 1,700+ pages; an additional 2,500 pages are produced eight days later.

*'''17 April.''' Former Hillary Clinton Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez emails John Podesta: "I would like to do all I can to support Secretary Clinton, and would welcome your advice and help in steering me to the right persons in the campaign." Fernandez was State Dept. principal representative to CFIUS in 2010.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/2053</ref>

*'''23 April.''' Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) for the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) [[Peter Kadzik]] emails Brian Fallon asking for a job for his son with the Clinton campaign.

*'''25 April.''' Hillary Clinton camp now paying online trolls to attack anyone who disparages her online.<ref>https://archive.fo/wn6Lg </ref>

*'''5 May.''' Kadzik's son emails Podesta his resume and asks for a job with the Clinton campaign. Podesta forwards the email to Palmieri, who replies that Kadzik's wife had contacted her and that she told Kadzik's wife that there were currently no openings with the campaign but positions might become available in July. (Email released by WikiLeaks).

*'''12 May.''' ''Washington Post'' reports that [[David Brock]]’s Correct The Record would work directly with the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], “testing the legal limits” of campaign finance “by relying on a 2006 [[Federal Election Commission]] regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as [[blog]]s, is off-limits from [[regulation]].” Brock's PAC wiol be “disseminating information about Clinton on its Web site and through its [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]] accounts, officials said."<ref>https://archive.fo/RXUfB#selection-1561.82-1561.222</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-16/muellers-investigation-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls </ref>

*'''21 May.''' Internal Hillary Clinton Podesta email reads, {{quotebox|"With the help of the research team, we killed a [[Bloomberg]] story trying to link HRC's opposition to the [[Magnitsky bill]] to a $500,000 speech that WJC [Bill Clinton] gave in Moscow."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/303#efmANkAQP</ref>}} The [[Magnitsky Act]] is the Russian Sanctions bill. The emails refers to a half-million bribe the Clinton's received for Sec. Clinton's approval of the transfer and sale of Uranium One, an American mining company to Russian interests.

*'''27 May.''' DOJ indicted 9 FIFA officials and 5 corporate executives for racketeering conspiracy and corruption. The charges were announced by Loretta Lynch and James Comey.

===June 2015===

*'''2 June.''' Senate voted to pass the USA Freedom Act, at a vote of 67–32. [[John Carlin]] — informed the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] that the USA Freedom Act would allow for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance to continue for another six months as part of a transition period, despite the fact that it had ‘officially’ shut down on May 30, 2015.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/congress-surveillance-reform-edward-snowden</ref>

*'''4 June.''' Facebook Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg emails John Podesta, "I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070#efmACIAD6</ref>

*'''9 June.''' Obama lawyers asked [[FISA court]] to ignore public court's decision on spying.<ref>https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records </ref>

*'''11 June.''' Obama denies lethal aid to Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/defying-obama-many-in-congress-press-to-arm-ukraine.html</ref>

*'''26 June.''' [[IC]] Inspector General Charles McCullough III notified James Clapper and the Senate of the potential leak of classified information from May 22, 2015, when one of Hillary Clinton's e-mails released by the State Department should have been marked as classified.<ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2032/view</ref>

*'''28 June.''' Tony Podesta relays invitation to [[John Podesta]] to attend “Spirit Cooking dinner” from Marina Abramovic.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893</ref> Abramovic is the author of “Spirit Cooking with Essential Aphrodisiac Recipes” using “ingredients” such as “fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk.” Another recipe calls for “fresh morning [[urine]]."<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/4/wikileaks-john-podesta-invited-to-spirit-dinner-ho/</ref> Tony Podesta heads a lobbying firm with close ties to the Democratic party and the Obama administration.<ref>Elliott, Justin (January 28, 2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903140357/https://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/28/egypt_in_washington/index.html Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?], ''[[Salon.com]]</ref>

*'''June.''' [[George Papadopoulos]] reaches out to [[Corey Lewandowski]] for job in Trump Campaign.

===July 2015===

Ten days after Hillary Clinton was referred to the FBI for investigation of her emails, Deputy AG Sally Yates issued a legal opinion barring Inspector General oversight of the DOJ-National Security Division.

*'''July.''' [[Citizens United]] calls on Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch to appoint a special counsel in the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal]] and related matters, including the Uranium One bribery scandal.

*FBI hired [[CrowdStrike]] for a 1-year contract for a total of $150,000.00.<ref>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article131308584.html</ref>

*'''6 July.''' Charles McCullough makes Section 811 referral to FBI for classified leak of Hillary Clinton's emails.

*'''10 July.''' FBI begins Hillary Clinton email investigation based on report from the Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III finding of Chinese hackers;<ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2001%20of%2032/view</ref> [[Andrew McCabe]] is “running the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office, which provided personnel and resources to the Clinton email probe.” People assigned to the [[Midyear Exam investigation]] included [[Sally Moyer]], [[Peter Strzok]], [[Lisa Page]], [[Kevin Clinesmith]], [[Randall Coleman]], [[James Rybicki]], [[Joseph Pientka]], [[Trisha Anderson]], [[James A. Baker (DOJ)]], [[Jonathan Moffa]], [[David Laufman]], [[Bill Priestap]], [[Carl Ghattas]] and [[Michael Kortan]].

*'''14 July.''' Obama announces [[Iran nuke deal]].

*'''20 July.''' DOJ Dep. Attn. Gen. [[Sally Yates]] issues 58 page legal explanation denying the Office of Inspector General and Michael Horowitz oversight of the DOJ National Security Division.<ref>https://t.co/b2VmsRhQ42</ref><ref>https://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/OLC%20IG%20Act%20Opinion%20-%207-20-15%20.pdf</ref> DOJ IG [[Michael Horowitz]] raised concerns that his office would be required to seek the Department's permission. That procedure is “inconsistent with the Inspector General Act, impairs the OIG’s independence, and fails to account for the over 20 year record of Department and FBI compliance with OIG document requests,” according to the OIG's report.<ref>http://www.pogo.org/blog/2015/06/20150624-watchdog-barks-for-access-to-fbi-records.html </ref>

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*'''23 July''' ''New York Times'' reports that two Inspectors General have asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Clinton mishandled sensitive government information.

*'''31 July.''' The federal judge in a [[Judicial Watch]] [[FOIA]] suit, Emmet Sullivan, orders State Dept. to request that Clinton and top aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hillary Clinton's email server to conduct government business.

===August 2015===

*'''3 August.''' Several news reports say Hillary Clinton FBI email investigation is a criminal probe.<ref>http://nypost.com/2015/08/05/fbi-investigation-of-hillarys-emails-is-criminal-probe/</ref>

*'''5 August.''' State Dept. sends letter to Clinton including Judge Sullivan's order.

*'''7 August.''' Facebook CEO [[Mark Zuckerberg]] emails Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, "I enjoyed spending time with you yesterday and our conversation gave me a lot to think about...I hope it’s okay if I reach out as my thinking develops to get your ideas and reactions. If there are any other folks you think I should talk to, please let me know. Thanks again. I look forward to continuing our conversation."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50406#efmAP8AQAAQCAQRAQ0AQ4ARCARQARdARfARiARuAUhAV-AXzAZLAZMAba</ref>

*'''11 August.''' Inspector General report to the Senate contradicts Clinton claims; some Clinton emails, says the IG, contained information that was classified at the time.

*'''26 August.''' Agreement reached between DNC and Hillary Clinton. Donna Brazile described the agreement: {{quotebox|that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics and mailings.}}

*'''28 August.''' FBI agent sends notification to preserve records to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Dept. of Treasury]]; Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper); National Counter Terrorism Center; and the [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy]] (DoE),<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2015%20of%2015/view Hillary Clinton emails, FBI Vault, Part 15, page 7.]</ref> agencies is involved in the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) approval process of the Uranium One deal.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-1.jpg</ref>

*'''10 September.''' Former Clinton campaign staffer and State Dept. official [[Bryan Pagliano]], who helped set up Clinton's personal server, pleads the Fifth Amendment before Congress and refuses to testify.

*'''Fall.''' Radicals linked to [[Hezbollah]], the Lebanese militant group, stashed thousands of disposable ice packs containing ammonium nitrate - a common ingredient in homemade bombs. Hezbollah is an arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, directly under control of Iran.

They were notified that their polygraph tests were out of scope — meaning they had either failed them or their tests were expired — and they quickly completed new ones. But Strzok's access to high-level Sensitive Compartmented Information, or SCI — which is segregated to reduce the potential scope of a security breach — was never suspended.<ref>https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/beneath-politics-house-gop-quietly-touts-legitimate-oversight-fbi-doj</ref>

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*'''12 October.''' FBI Director Comey replaces head of FBI Counterintelligence Division at New York Field Office with Louis Bladel.

*'''19 October.''' ''Albany Times Union'' reports Seagram's heiress [[Clare Bronfman]] allegedly implanted a "key logger" virus on the computer of her late father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., so the sex cult NXIVM could hack his email exchanges with Hillary Clinton and world leaders.<ref>https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Records-NXIVM-hacked-billionaire-s-emails-with-6576310.php</ref> Bronfman is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.<ref>https://nypost.com/2007/10/01/hillarys-30000-fans-are-her-cult-following/</ref>

*'''22 October.''' Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi that 90 to 95 percent of her emails “were in the State’s system” and “if they wanted to see them, they would certainly have been able to do so.”<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-federal-court-ordered-hillary-clinton-to-answer-additional-email-questions-under-oath/</ref> In response to a question from Rep. [[Jim Jordan]], Clinton responds, {{quotebox|"There was nothing marked classified in my emails either sent or received."}}

*'''1 November.''' Minimisation requests started to be carried out in relation to [[FISA]]s, although they did not match the applicable minimisation procedures, at the National Security Agency.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/30/dots-connecting-quickly-bruce-ohr-worked-with-andrew-weissmann-while-nellie-ohr-worked-for-fusion-gps-in-2015/</ref>

*'''5 November.''' Michael Lesin, founder of the Russian television network [[RT]], found beaten to death in [[Washington D.C.]] hotel room.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/fbi-releases-docs-claiming-rt-founder-beat-himself-death-his-hotel-room</ref>

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*'''15 November.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Money paid by 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) to the US company DuSable Capital Management found its way into the 2013/14 election campaigns of at least 7 [[Democrat]]s. DuSable is headed by [[Frank White]],<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0882477D:US</ref> who was Obama's chief fundraiser during the 2012 re-election campaign. 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) is a Malaysian strategic development company, wholly owned by the Malaysian Minister of Finance. The company has been under heavy scrutiny for suspicious transactions, [[money laundering]], [[fraud]], and [[theft]].

*'''26 November.''' Strzok and Lisa Page texted each other about Strzok's potential opportunity to join the Senior Executive Service (SES).<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371002694/Senator-Ron-Johnson-Appendix-C-Documents-and-Text-Messages</ref>

*'''November.''' Department of Justice (DOJ), replies to Sen. Chuck Grassley's inquiry into the Rosatom/Uranium One deal. “The Department of Justice's National Security Division (NSD) reviewed this transaction in consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CFIUS agencies. In accordance with standard procedure, NSD evaluated the factors listed in section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and ultimately communicated to CFIUS the Department's clearance of this transaction.”<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-10-12%20CEG%20to%20OSTP%20(Uranium%20One%20Follow%20up).pdf p.2 fn.4.</ref>

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*FBI lawyer Lisa Page texts Clinton email investigator Peter Strzok saying she hopes [[Republican]] [[House Speaker]] [[Paul Ryan]] “falls and crashes in a blaze of glory.” Strzok replies: “Yes, And me too. At some point the Rep party needs to pull their head out of their *ss. Shows no sign of occurring any time soon.”

Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes:<br><font color="brown">'''December 2015 through April 2016''': The first phase leading into ‘Spygate’ is the period of time where opposition research of the republican candidate field was taking place. It is in this period where Fusion-GPS hired CIA Open Source researcher Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ-NSD official Bruce Ohr, to do research.<br>In the background of this time period the FBI and NSA database was being exploited by unknown FBI contractors; it is highly suspected that Nellie Ohr and/or Fusion-GPS was one of those contracted agencies with access to the massive electronic and metadata files.</font>

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*'''9 December.''' [[Amnesty International]] reports Obama armed ISIS.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/politics/amnesty-international-isis-weapons-u-s-/index.html</ref>

*'''10 December.''' [[Michael Flynn]] and [[Jill Stein]] attend RT dinner in Moscow with Putin.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/jill-stein-says-nothing-happened-at-her-dinner-with-putin/</ref>

:*Before Flynn made the trip he alerted his former employer, the DIA. He then attended a “defensive” or “protective” briefing before he ever sat alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia Today (RT) dinner, or before he talked with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The briefing educated and sensitized Flynn to possible efforts by his Russian host to compromise the former high-ranking defense official and prepared him for conversations in which he could potentially extract intelligence for U.S. agencies such as the DIA. When Flynn returned from Moscow, he spent time briefing intelligence officials on what he learned during the Moscow contacts. Between two and nine intelligence officials attended the various meetings with Flynn about the RT event, and the information was moderately useful, about what one would expect from a public event.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/423558-exculpatory-russia-evidence-about-mike-flynn-that-us-intel-kept-secret#.XC0yisc_S_4.twitter</ref>

*'''15 December.''' Vadim Mikerin, Director of Tenex, sentenced in [[extortion]] and [[money laundering]] scheme. Tenex operated as the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide. Tenam became Tenex's official representative in the United States. Vadim Mikerin, a Russian national and Director of the Pan American Department of Tenex from 2004 to 2010. In 2010, Mikerin became the executive director of Tenam until 2014. As director of Tenam, he oversaw the shipment of uranium from Russia for use in American power plants under the “Megatons to Megawatts” program. It has been reported that at one point the program fueled ten percent of U.S. electricity. Mikerin was involved in a multimillion-dollar [[conspiracy]] involving an extortion and money laundering scheme that awarded contracts to American companies to transport uranium in exchange for kick-backs. Mikerin pleaded guilty in 2014 “to helping orchestrate more than $2 million in bribe payments through a web of secret accounts in [[Cyprus]], [[Latvia]], and [[Switzerland]].” His actions, according to the US government, occurred “with the consent of higher level officials at Tenex and Rosatom…”. The investigation began as an intelligence probe into Russian nuclear officials. During the investigation, federal agents attempted to convince Mikerin to turn on his Russian colleagues by showing him evidence of relationships between “shell companies and other Russian energy officials, including President Vladimir Putin.” He refused to expose them and was subsequently arrested and charged.<ref>Joel Schectman, U.S. sentences Russian nuclear official to four years for bribe scheme, Reuters (Dec. 15, 2015). The “Megatons to Megawatts” program converted uranium from thousands of Russian nuclear warheads for civilian use in U.S.nuclear power plants.</ref>

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*'''22 December.''' ''Daily Caller'' reports that the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) asked the IRS to investigate a $350,000 payment that the Clinton Foundation made to Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign for an email list of potential donors.

*'''23 December.''' FBI Director Comey names [[Bill Priestap]] as assistant director of Counterintelligence Division.

*'''29 December.''' ''Wall Street Journal'' reports that the Obama administration 'incidentally' collected private communications by members of Congress while it spied on Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]. In sweeping up “private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups… raised fears [of]—an ‘Oh-sh*t moment,’ one senior U.S. official said—that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.”<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-net-on-israel-snares-congress-1451425210</ref>

*'''31 December.''' Press release naming E.W. Priestap as Assistant Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/e.w.-priestap-named-assistant-director-of-the-counterintelligence-division</ref>

==2016 election year==

The FBI 'small group' was participating in a plan to exonerate Hillary Clinton in her [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|email investigation]]. That same FBI small group was simultaneously conducting opposition research on candidate [[Donald Trump]] and his campaign team. Those FBI officials were allied by entities outside the government. The ‘outside group’ were “contractors”. One of the contractors was FusionGPS or entities in contact with FusionGPS.

==2017 soft coup==

The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the [[FISA]] court into granting a FISA warrant - what [[Peter Strzok]] called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election. When [[James Comey]] reopened the Clinton investigation ten days before the election in October 2016, and Hillary's lead in the polls started to drop, the "insurance policy" became operational: officially sanctioned leaks alleging collusion between Trump and Russia were rampant.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>

==2018 reckoning==

Chris Blackburn said: {{quotebox|"For those that still believe we are living in democratic, free and open societies it is sadly starting to look like fantasy. Democracies flourish when the checks and balances in the system are robust. We need them to work now more than ever.”}}

Elizabeth Vos observed: {{quotebox|"In the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives, American and UK intelligence agencies appear to have recklessly and deceptively acted in the interest of a single political candidate, Hillary Clinton. This singularity of purpose speaks to the insecurity and magnitude of the unelected Western power structure, equaled by the scale of lies propping up the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives."}}

==See also==

*[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1390759/251766258-attkissons.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiF-vLvsrvTAhVV-GMKHWwlDrQQFghSMBI&usg=AFQjCNHTrEnHFX0mCd0T35Mh2632wysE9A&sig2=8Bc7S9O2dx3DTtfHFTcDAQ ''Attkisson v Holder''] complaint

*[https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clintons-email-the-definitive-timeline/ Hillary Clinton’s Email: the Definitive Timeline], Sharyl Attkisson

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