Senator Charles Grassley (R), head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, writes a letter to the State Department. He asks if some of Clinton’s former top aides, including Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan, and Philippe Reines have kept their security clearances “in light of the fact that classified information has been discovered” on Clinton’s private server. However, the State Department declines to …
May 2, 2016 – Comey drafts conclusion in Clinton probe prior to interviewing key witnesses
“Transcripts reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee reveal that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting an exoneration statement in the Clinton email investigation before the FBI had interviewed key witnesses. Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, requested all records relating to the drafting of the statement as the committee …
May 2, 2016 – Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties
“In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win. That’s what will happen.” But less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised by that effort has stayed in the state parties’ coffers, …
Hacking attacks on a DNC consultant researching pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine lead DNC leaders to conclude the Russian government is behind such attacks.
Alexandra Chalupa, a consultant for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has been working for several weeks on an opposition research file about Paul Manafort, the campaign manager of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Manafort has a long history of advising politicians around the world, including controversial dictators. Logging into her Yahoo email account, she gets a warning entitled “Important action …
May 3, 2016 – Burisma execs set up bank account for Hunter Biden; two years later it was shut down for money laundering violations
Hunter Biden had executives at Burisma set up a bank account for him at a bank that later closed because of a money laundering investigation. Emails taken off of Hunter Biden’s laptop reveal that he provided Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, with his passport and multiple bank statements to open up an account with Satabank in 2016. The bank went under due to money laundering investigations in 2018. In …
May 3, 2016 – DNC Alexandra Chalupa writes to DNC Luis Miranda, about Isikoff, Manafort, and “a big Trump component that will hit in the next few weeks”
From a Wikileaks email sent by Alexandra Chalupa to Luis Miranda, Communications Director of the DNC: Two points. Open World is a supposedly non-partisan Congressional agency. Michael Isikoff is the same journalist Christopher Steele leaked to in September 2016: The Carter Page FISA application extensively cited a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focused on Page’s …
May 3, 2016 – Donald Trump becomes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee
“Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday with a landslide win in Indiana that drove his principal opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, from the race and cleared the way for the polarizing, populist outsider to take control of the party.”
May 3, 2016 – Justice Dept. takes steps to restore IG watchdogs’ access to records
“The Justice Department took steps Tuesday to restore the access of some government watchdogs to sensitive internal records, but officials called on Congress to enact a permanent, wider fix. The inspector general offices for 72 agencies across the federal government charged that legal policy changes made by the Obama administration over the last several years had curtailed their access to …
May 4, 2016 – The FBI, CIA and Russia know what the Clinton campaign is doing with its Trump-Russia collusion plan
“Barack Obama’s spy chiefs never believed that Donald Trump was a Russian spy. The Trump-Russia collusion narrative originated as a diversionary tactic in the event emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server went public. FBI Headquarters attached itself to the project, devoting manpower and resources to investigating Trump, when the Bureau learned that foreign intelligence services had her correspondence. U.S. Attorney John Durham’s nearly two-year-long …
May 4, 2016 – Strzok and Page text “Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE (Mid Year Exam)…”
At the same time Donald Trump becomes the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page feel an added pressure to end the Clinton email investigation.
Some of Clinton’s emails may remain private because of a legal precedent involving former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger made transcripts of some of his work-related phone calls. After he left office in January 1977, he took the only copies with him and eventually had them transferred to the Library of Congress, with tight restrictions on who could access them. A watchdog group sued for access, but the US Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-two decision that the …
May 9, 2016 – Judge Napolitano appears on Fox quoting a Russian report that says thousands of Clinton emails are missing and the Kremlin is threatening to release them
On May 6, 2016, an obscure source reports the following: “An intriguing Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today suggests that a “war of words” has broken out between the Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov and Chairwoman of the Council of Federation Valentina Matviyenko over the issue of releasing to the Western media tens-of-thousands of top secret and …
May 10, 2016 – George Papadopoulos, Alexander Downer & the Opening of the FBI Investigation
By: Jeff Carlson (themarketswork.com) “The New York Times provided us an introduction to FBI reasoning in launching the Trump-Russia Inquiry – drunken comments from George Papadopoulos: During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in …
May 12, 2016 – Biden friendly, Yuriy Lutsenko, replaces Viktor Shokin as Ukraines Prosecutor General
After then-Vice President Joe Biden succeeded in pressuring Ukraine to remove its prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, the next person to hold the job had ties to Hunter Biden. Yuri Lutsenko, the prosecutor general who took over for Shokin after his ouster in 2016 [May 12, 2016], had relied on the same lobbyists representing Ukrainian energy company Burisma and its chief executive for years, State Department emails suggest. Hunter …
May 13, 2016 -Biden and Poroshenko discuss financing the “Samopomich” in the Ukrainian Parliament
The audio recording of a conversation between @JoeBiden and @poroshenko on May 13, 2016. Discussion of the issue of financing the “Samopomich” fraction in the Ukrainian Parliament.
May 13, 2016 – Biden and Poroshenko discuss the new tariff and “clearing obstacles”
An audio recording of a conversation between Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on May 13, 2016. Discussion of the new tariff.
May 13, 2016 – Biden and Poroshenko discuss the newly appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaces Viktor Shokin
An audio recording of Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko on May 13, 2016. They discuss the newly appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaces recently fired Viktor Shokin.
May 15, 2016 – Financial analyst alleges major holes in Clinton Foundation records
(…) “The Clinton Foundation network is actually comprised of several different charities that all perform seemingly similar functions. Those include the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Climate Initiative and several more, all with varying degrees of overlapping finances. Ortel said the foundations’ complex paper trails are littered with mistakes and repeat filings. In November, the …
May 15, 2016 – Comey asks Rybicki to create a list of all cases charged in the last 20 years for mishandling classified information
“On May 15, 2016, James Rybicki, former chief of staff to Comey, sends FBI General Counsel James Baker; Bill Priestap, former assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division; McCabe; Page; and others an email with the subject line “Request from the Director.” Rybicki writes: By NLT [no later than] next Monday, the Director would like to see a list of …
May 17, 2016 – A Strzok email says “we know foreign actors obtained access” to some Clinton emails, including at least one “secret” message
“Foreign actors” obtained access to some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails — including at least one email classified as “secret” — according to a new memo from two GOP-led House committees and an internal FBI email.” (…) “The House committees, which conducted a joint probe into decisions made by the DOJ in 2016 and 2017, addressed a …
May 23, 2016 – Luis Miranda’s emails are a part of the first to be exported from the DNC and are not addressed in the Mueller report
The Special Counsel that was formed to investigate “RussiaGate” appears to have been oblivious to the fact that emails were exported from Luis Miranda’s mailbox on May 23, 2016. Did the Special Counsel choose to omit information or did the evidence from Crowdstrike not inform them of all activity that occurred at the DNC? For those who don’t already know, analysis …
The FBI interviews Heather Samuelson
Samuelson is one of three Clinton lawyers who sorted Clinton’s emails to decide which ones were work-related and which ones were personal. She did most of the sorting, but she was supervised by Clinton lawyers Cheryl Mills and David Kendall. The FBI mostly asks her about this sorting process. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9/2/2016)
May 25, 2016 – The 9 biggest revelations in the State IG report on Clinton’s emails
“The State Department’s inspector general report on Wednesday offered little absolution for Hillary Clinton or several of her top aides who refused to cooperate with the investigation into the former secretary of state’s exclusive use of a private email server. The 83-page document, which was given to lawmakers and leaked to the press, noted systemic problems with records at the …
May-June, 2016 – According to Donna Brazile’s 2018 book, Crowdstrike was asked by DNC to wait a month before removing hackers; DNC refutes her claim
“The Democratic National Committee last month denied a claim made by its former chairwoman, Donna Brazile, about the timeline of the hacking of the committee’s systems, the latest of many contradictions related to the crucial days when thousands of emails were allegedly stolen from the party’s mail server. In her 2018 book, Brazile wrote that after learning that alleged Russian hackers …
State Department official John Bentel denies all allegations of wrongdoing in an FBI interview.
According to a 2016 State Department inspector general’s report, department officials alleged that John Bentel, the director of the Office of the Executive Secretariat for Information Resource Management, discouraged them from raising concerns about Clinton’s use of personal email. The report also alleges that Bentel falsely claimed that Clinton had legal approval for the use of her computer system. At …
In an FBI interview, Guccifer says he lied about getting into Clinton’s private server.
Guccifer, whose real name Marcel-Lehel Lazar, is interviewed by the FBI as part of the FBI’s Clinton email investigation. He appears to have spoken to the FBI previously, but these may have been about other matters, since he hacked dozens of US citizens. Around the end of April 2016, Guccifer had high-profile interviews with Fox News and NBC News. It …
May 27, 2016 – Obama White House includes Hunter Biden in email to his VP dad about Ukraine
A White House scheduling email sent to then-Vice President Joe Biden ahead of a call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was also sent to his son, Hunter, who was serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm looking to escape a corruption probe. In the call, the elder Mr. Biden urged Mr. Poroshenko to continue reforming Ukraine’s prosecutor general office. It’s unclear whether Hunter Biden was …
Colin Powell expresses anger and frustration over being tied to Clinton’s email scandal.
Many of Powell’s emails indicate he’s angry about being tied to Clinton’s emails and his disdain is not just reserved for Trump. The Washington Post suggests, “Clinton’s decision to cite his use of private email as secretary of state to justify her private email server has clearly proven a sore spot — both in these emails and in previous Powell …
May 29, 2016 – NABU leaks the existence of the “black ledger”
“Manafort joined Trump’s campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016. NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the campaign in August 2016.” (Read more: The …
May 30, 2016 – Nellie Ohr sends an email titled “Reported Trove of Documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ ‘Black Cashbox’
“On May 30, 2016, Nellie Ohr sent an email to Bruce Ohr, Holtyn, Ivana Nizich, and Joe Wheatley—then both trial attorneys in the DOJ’s Organized Crime and Gang Section. Nizich had previously worked for Bruce Ohr. The email held a subject line that read “Reported Trove of Documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ ‘Black Cashbox.’” Within the email was the text from an article penned the …