“According to agreements on international technical support, the British government is going to provide the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine with equipment for its forensic lab. The US Federal government for its part is going to hand over equipment for converting case materials to electronic format, as reported by Artem Sytnyk in his interview for the Channel 112. The Director …
February 2, 2016 – The hearsay whistleblower chairs a meeting with FBI and Treasury officials re Paul Manafort
“On February 2, 2016, according to White House logs, Eric Ciaramella chaired a meeting in Room 374 of the Eisenhower Executive Office, which seems to be a planning session to re-open an investigation of Paul Manafort (Note: one of the crimes of which Manafort was accused was money laundering, an area covered by the Department of the Treasury). The attendees …
February 2, 2016 – Bloomberg’s report that Burisma investigation was dormant when Biden had prosecutor fired, is incorrect
Bloomberg reported that “at the time Biden made his ultimatum [to fire prosecutor], the probe into the company — Burisma Holdings, owned by Mykola Zlochevsky — had been long dormant” This appears to be untrue. Bloomberg’s statement is based on information from Kasko, the rival to prosecutor Shokin. In May 2019 interview, Shokin says that they had been planning to …
A State Department official claims someone tried to hack her private email account two years earlier, in early 2014.
Wendy Sherman is interviewed by the FBI. Sherman served as deputy secretary of state under Clinton (the third highest ranking post), and as under secretary of state for political affairs. Her name will later be redacted in the FBI summary of the interview, but the Daily Caller will identify the interviewee as Sherman due to details mentioned elsewhere in the …
Colin Powell writes, “I didn’t tell Hillary to have a private server at home.”
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell writes an email to former Reagan White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. “I didn’t tell Hillary [Clinton] to have a private server at home, connected to the Clinton Foundation, two contractors, took away 60,000 emails, had her own domain.” On the same day, in a separate email to Condoleeza Rice, who succeeded him …
The FBI is unable to obtain any of Clinton’s BlackBerrys to examine them; two useful Clinton iPads are found, but they only contain three previously unknown emails.
The FBI’s Clinton email investigation determines that Clinton used 11 BlackBerrys while she was secretary of state, and two more using the same phone number after she left office. On February 9, 2016, the Justice Department requests all 13 BlackBerrys from Williams & Connolly, the law firm of Clinton’s personal lawyer David Kendall. Williams & Connolly replies on February 22, …
February 17, 2016 – Hunter Biden and partners try to help CCP-linked company purchase Westinghouse and their nuclear reactor technology
(…) Lawmakers told Just the News that the story of CEFC fits a pattern that Hunter Biden was willing to take money from countries or companies adversarial to the United States, including helping them try to acquire prize assets like the Michigan-based Heninges firm that Just the News reported Hunter Biden helped sell to a Chinese firm tied to the People’s Liberation Army. …
A Platte River Networks employee is interviewed twice by the FBI and gives contradictory answers.
Platte River Networks (PRN) is the computer company managing Clinton’s private server from June 2013 until at least October 2015, and PRN employee Paul Combetta played a pivotal role in the deletion of Clinton’s emails from her server. On February 18, 2016, Combetta is interviewed by the FBI for the first time. He says that between March 25 and 31, …
February 18, 2016 – FBI documents show evidence of “cover-up” discussions related to Clinton emails and Platte River Networks
“Judicial Watch announced that it uncovered 422 pages of FBI documents showing evidence of “cover-up” discussions related to the Clinton email system within Platte River Networks, one of the vendors who managed the Clinton email system. (…) FBI notes of an interview with an unidentified Platte River Networks official in February 2016 (almost a year after the Clinton email network …
February 18, 2016 – VP Biden calls Ukraine president Poroshenko to thank him for firing Prosecutor General Shokin
Biden demanded the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko fire his Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin. Petro Poroshenko responded by firing Viktor Shokin on February 16, 2016. Biden responds with a phone call to thank Poroshenko on February 18, 2016. The video begins with their call.
February 19, 2016 – Poroshenko’s office announces receipt of Shokin resignation
Ukraine’s embattled prosecutor-general has officially submitted his resignation, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Twitter. The presidential administration has received an official letter of resignation from Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin, presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tsegolko wrote on February 19. Calls for Shokin’s resignation mounted after Deputy Prosecutor-General Vitaliy Kasko resigned on February 15, accusing Shokin of hindering corruption …
The FBI trusts Clinton’s account and does not check if her latest private server contains any of her old emails.
In December 2014, a hrcoffice.com domain was created on a different private server, and apparently Clinton switched to using an email account on that server around that time. On February 22, 2016, Williams & Connolly, the law firm of Clinton’s personal lawyer David Kendall, tells the FBI in a letter: “Secretary Clinton did not transfer her clintonemail.com emails for the …
February 24, 2016 – Hunter Biden’s Ukraine gas firm, Burisma, presses Obama State Department to end corruption allegations
“Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released memos show. During that February 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a …
February 25, 2016 – Texts show Strzok and Page were worried about being too tough on Hillary Clinton during email investigation
“FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were concerned about being too tough on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the bureau’s investigation into her email practices because she might hold it against them as president, text messages released on Thursday indicated. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released new messages between bureau officials Page and Strzok, who were having …
February 26, 2016 – Podesta emails reveal the Clinton campaign discussing a ‘Trump swift boat project’
“The Clinton campaign discussed assembling a “swift boat project” earlier this year to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to newly released emails from WikiLeaks. In a Feb. 26, 2016, exchange involving Democratic strategist Joel Johnson, as well as Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri and chairman John Podesta, assembling a group to destroy Trump was discussed. Swift-boating refers to the …
Jake Sullivan is interviewed by the FBI; he claims he never felt any unease about the many above top secret emails he sent to Clinton.
When Clinton was secretary of state, Sullivan first served as her deputy chief of staff for policy and then as the director of policy planning. The interview will remain secret until it’s mentioned in a September 2016 FBI report. The FBI determined that seven email chains containing 22 emails were sent by Sullivan to Clinton were later deemed classified at …
February 28, 2016 – Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, and Timothy Thibault travel to the Czech Republic and attend the same seminar
(…) FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, a name previously unknown to most SpyGate sleuths, was recently brought to the public’s attention through some astonishing revelations from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Politically motivated activism by Thibault included the shutting down of an investigation into Hunter Biden in October 2020. Thibault did so by labeling information relating to Hunter …
February/March – June, 2016: Lisa Page testifies there were lots of disagreements between the FBI and DOJ over Clinton’s private server
“As Page noted during her testimony, “there were lots and lots and lots of disagreements between the FBI and the department.” One issue of ongoing contention was Clinton’s actual email server: “There was a great deal of discussion between the FBI and the department with respect to whether to proceed, obtain the server which housed the bulk of Secretary Clinton’s …
February 29, 2016 – Biden shares anti-Hillary Clinton column with aides, family amid 2016 campaign
“President Biden sent his inner circle a devastating analysis of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s looming legal troubles during the 2016 race after he opted against running, according to an email stored on his son Hunter’s infamous laptop. “Interesting,” Biden wrote in the subject line of the email, which contained a link to a column published by Real Clear Politics. In it, University of Chicago …