(…) “On January 3rd, 2017, the new congressional year began. SSCI Vice-Chair Dianne Feinstein abdicated her position within the Gang-of-Eight, and turned over the reigns to Senator Mark Warner. Warner was now the vice-chair of the SSCI and a Go8 member. On January 6th, 2017, the Obama White House published the Intelligence Community Assessment, and declared: We assess Putin and …
January 2, 2017 – Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, posts a video clip of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar and Marie Yovanovitch supporting Ukrainian soldiers to battle with Russia
A video is posted to YouTube on January 2, 2017, titled “President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko Together with US Senators Under Shirokino” and by the account name of “Office of the President of Ukraine.” The video shows John McCain and Lindsey Graham meeting with Petro Poroshenko and a Ukrainian military unit, encouraging them to war with Russia. Minnesota Senator Amy …
January 3, 2017 – Schumer says Trump is ‘really dumb’ for attacking intelligence agencies
“New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities. “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “So even for a …
January 3, 2017 – Obama signs an executive order that dramatically expands government officials’ access to Americans private information
On Jan. 3, 2017, another section of Executive Order 12333, Section 2.3 Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the NSA [National Security Agency], was signed into effect by the Obama administration. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, signed off on Section 2.3 on Dec. 15, 2016, and the order was finalized when Attorney General Loretta …
January 3, 2017 – Mary McCord first learns about the Flynn Investigation during a phone call with Andy McCabe
McCord’s notes indicate it was Bob Litt that raised the Logan Act violation. pic.twitter.com/NLOJpian8n — CiceroConsultancy (@CiceroConsulta1) October 3, 2020 Those aware at the time (Jan 3rd) were Clapper, Litt, Baker,Anderson and McCabe. pic.twitter.com/P3vgkNnXgO — CiceroConsultancy (@CiceroConsulta1) October 3, 2020 (Mary McCord FBI 302, 8/10/2017)
January 4, 2017 – FBI Washington field office found “no derogatory information” on Flynn and wanted to close Crossfire Razor…Strzok says not so fast
The operation that targeted Flynn: CROSSFIRE RAZOR January 4, 2017: FBI field office found “No derogatory information” on Flynn and decided to close RAZOR. January 4, 2017: FBI leadership (STRZOK) went off the rails and targeted Flynn: “Don’t close RAZOR” FBI Washington Field Office Report: FBI and US Govt (CIA?) databases showed “no derogatory information” on Flynn. Flynn determined to …
January 4, 2017 – FBI agent Joseph Pientka approves FBI report to close General Flynn’s investigation
The FBI files a report on January 4, 2017 to close General Flynn’s investigation and it is approved by Joseph Pientka. The case is not closed as recommended. The report is finally declassified and released to the public on May 7, 2020 as Exhibit 1 in the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the charges that are erroneously filed against General Flynn.
January 4, 2017 – Lisa Page emails the legal statute for the Logan Act to James Baker as a possible means to charge General Flynn
Catherine Herridge has a twitter thread in which she provides images of two internal FBI email exchanges early in the workday of January 4, 2017. Those email exchanges involve Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and James A. Baker. First, here is an image of the emails: The first email is from Lisa Page to James Baker, and is captioned: “code section …
January 3-4, 2017 – FBI SA William Barnett begins to close the Flynn case; then is told there is a potential Logan Act violation
A few random facts about .@GenFlynn and the Logan Act. Barnett was told there was a potential Logan Act violation on Jan 4th, 2017. pic.twitter.com/TAoABALVAS — CiceroConsultancy (@CiceroConsulta1) October 3, 2020
January 5, 2017 – Key players offer contrasting accounts of Obama White House discussion about Flynn
“Top administration officials involved in a key Jan. 5, 2017, discussion with outgoing President Barack Obama about incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn provided contrasting accounts of what transpired, according to recently declassified records. By all accounts, Obama and top officials discussed phone calls between Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during a White House meeting in the final days of the Obama administration. …
January 5, 2017 – Obama knows details of Michael Flynn’s call with Russian Ambassador
“Then-President Barack Obama was intimately aware of the details of December 2016 intercepted phone calls between President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, and then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, according to court documents released Thursday. The former president’s knowledge and role in his administration’s investigations of the Trump campaign have long been an open question. The revelation puts the …
January 5, 2017 – Obama holds WH briefing with Intel leaders to discuss ICA report he ordered on Trump/Russian activities
“January 5 was the day President Obama was presented with the ballyhooed report he had ordered to be rushed to completion by multiple intelligence agencies before his administration ended, “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.” The briefing that day was conducted by four intelligence-community leaders: James Comey, Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Clapper, directors respectively of the …
January 5, 2017 – Steele “wipes” his communications with Fusion GPS and documented evidence of meetings with his primary source for Trump dossier
“Christopher Steele told a British court last month that he no longer has documents and other information from his meetings with the main source for his Trump dossier, suggesting that the former British spy has no way of backing up his side in a dispute with the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG), according to a deposition transcript obtained by the Daily …
January 5, 2017 – Brennan meets with Obama in the Oval Office re Russiagate, then discusses the meeting at the Institute of Politics in Chicago
h/t @theconservador/Twitter: #NEW Oh Boy! Jan 5 2017. The same day as the Oval Office Meeting, Brennan said this. #WATCH! 📺 It is as if John already cracked the case wide open. He has the whole story already planned out. And was Rogers at the meeting, or did he back out? pic.twitter.com/pA8tIMDQ6D — the conservador (@theconservador) September 5, 2020 As …
January 5, 2017 – Obama tells the FBI to hide its Russia intel from the Trump administration
Even after Obama had left office and Comey had a new commander-in-chief to report to, Comey continued to follow Obama’s prompt by withholding intel from Trump. Recently released documents included as exhibits to the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges against Flynn reveal this reality. During that same January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting in which Obama …
January 5, 2017 – The initial Flynn/Kislyak leak was not to David Ignatius but to WaPo reporter, Adam Entous
The INITIAL Flynn/Kislyak leak was not to David Ignatius – it was to WaPo reporter Adam Entous. The leak came directly from “sources [who] saw a transcript and described it to [Entous].” We suspect the Flynn/Kislyak [leak] occurred around January 5, 2017 – the same date Obama was allegedly briefed on the call by Clapper. This date coincides with Entous …
January 5, 2017 – Obama State Dept official Jonathan Winer destroys records at Christopher Steele’s request
“Winer, a former legislative assistant to former Sen. John Kerry who became the State Department’s Special Envoy for Libya when Kerry was Secretary of State – was Steele’s contact at the State Department, and received the now-debunked reports claiming that President Trump had been compromised by the Russians. According to the Senate report, Winer disclosed that he destroyed reports that Steele …
January 5, 2017 – FBI texts discuss Obama WH briefing; Flynn case stays open; people are scrambling; it’s a mad house; Trump was right
“FBI employees discussed the January 5, 2017, briefing of Obama: “What’s the word on how O’s briefing went”? asked one employee, to which the other replied, “Don’t know but people here are scrambling for info to support certain things and it’s a mad house.” “Trump was right. Still not put together…why do we do this to ourselves. What is wrong …
January 06, 2017 – Intel chiefs present Trump with Russian operatives claims of Russian efforts to compromise him
“Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN. The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The …
January 6, 2017 – Comey writes in a memo that pressure from CNN prompted his dossier briefing with Trump
“Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a newly released memo that pressure from news outlets — “CNN in particular” — convinced him to brief then-President-Elect Donald Trump on the infamous Steele dossier during a meeting at Trump Tower on Jan. 6, 2017. “I said media like CNN had [the dossier] and were looking for a news hook,” Comey wrote …
January 6 – 10, 2017: Senator Ron Johnson has questions for “Sensitive Matters Team” – New emails show FBI and DOJ discussing dossier briefing for CNN release
“The footnotes in a letter from Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson outline a series of previously unknown emails between top FBI and DOJ officials as they discuss the Steele Dossier and prepare for a release by CNN. The emails show that hours before FBI Director James Comey briefed President-Elect Trump on the dossier, Comey’s chief-of-staff James Rybicki e-mailed …
January 6, 2017 – Comey’s statement for the record on his first briefing with President-elect Trump re Russian meddling
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence James B. Comey June 8, 2017 Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on subjects that I understand are of interest to …
January 6, 2017 – Emails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN
(…) “Comey claimed that he was compelled to brief Trump on the dossier because “CNN had [it]” and was “looking for a news hook.” Hours before Comey briefed Trump, FBI chief of staff James Rybicki e-mailed staff that Comey “is coming into HQ briefly now for an update from the sensitive matter team.” Just as the same officials dubbed the …
January 6, 2017 – Comey visits Trump at Trump Tower as part of a FBI counterintelligence investigation
(…) Comey told Horowitz that the information he obtained from his conversation with Trump “ought to be treated…[like] FISA derived information or information in a [counterintelligence] investigation.” In other words, his meeting with Trump had very direct surveillance overtones and intentions—and directly counters what he had testified to Congress. According to his Congressional testimony, Comey had told Trump at the …
January 6, 2017 – The DOJ OIG report on Comey’s memos details plans to ambush Trump with Moscow sex allegation
(…) “On Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, Comey, along with CIA head John Brennan, national intelligence chief James Clapper, and NSA Director Mike Rogers, met with Trump in Trump Tower in New York. Together, they briefed the president-elect on the findings of the intelligence community investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. But the group, and especially Comey, …
January 6, 2017 – Clapper personally briefs CNN’s Jake Tapper about the Comey-Trump meeting, almost immediately after it occurs
“…Clapper had personally briefed Tapper about the Comey-Trump meeting almost immediately after it occurred. We know this from findings contained within the House’s Final Report on Russian Active Measures: “It is important to note that Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper, and Carl Bernstein of CNN reported on January 12, 2016 [original publication was on January 10, 2017], that President-elect …
January 6, 2017 – James Clapper leaks details about dossier to CNN, then lies about it to Congress
(…) “In one of the findings within the 253-page report, the House intelligence committee wrote that Clapper leaked details of a dossier briefing given to then-President-elect Donald Trump to CNN’s Jake Tapper, lied to Congress about the leak, and was rewarded with a CNN contract a few months later. “Clapper flatly denied discussing the dossier [compiled by Steele] or any …
January 7, 2017 – The Intelligence Community Assessment is released and Brennan withholds dissenting evidence that Russia favors Hillary
Former CIA Director John Brennan personally edited a crucial section of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and assigned a political ally to take a lead role in writing it after career analysts disputed Brennan’s take that Russian leader Vladimir Putin intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump clinch the White House, according to two senior …
January 7, 2017 – The origins of the Russiagate Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) – Part 1, 2, and 3
The first important incident (or one of the first) in the metastasis of Clinton campaign “dirty tricks” into institutional resistance to the incoming Trump administration was the commissioning of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which sabotaged incoming Trump administration. The commissioning of the ICA – and its use in destabilizing the new administration – was neatly choreographed by the outgoing …
January 8, 2017 – A McCabe email is at odds with Comey’s concerns ahead of publication of the dossier
“Comey wrote in a January 7, 2017 email to FBI leadership that he told Trump that he was providing the briefing about the dossier because “media like CNN had [the dossier] and were looking for a news hook.” “I said it was inflammatory stuff that they would get killed for reporting straight up from the source reports,” Comey continued. On …
January 9, 2017 – Strobe Talbott shares a copy of the dossier with Fiona Hill the day before Buzzfeed publishes it
“Fiona Hill, who served as a top Russia adviser to President Donald Trump, testified at an impeachment hearing Thursday that a longtime Clinton insider showed her a copy of the Steele dossier a day before it was published by BuzzFeed News. Hill testified that Strobe Talbott, the former president of the Brookings Institution, shared the salacious document with her on …
January 10, 2017 – Buzzfeed publishes the Clinton/DNC/Steele dossier
“A dossier making explosive — but unverified — allegations that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for years and gained compromising information about him has been circulating among elected officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks. The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, includes specific, unverified, and …
January 10, 2017 – Flynn attorney Sidney Powell calls for the release of a letter from James Clapper who allegedly asks David Ignatius to, “in words to the effect of take the kill shot on Flynn”
In an October 24, 2019 court filing by Flynn attorney Sidney Powell, on page 15 she requests the phone records of James Clapper to confirm his contacts with Washington Post reporter, David Ignatius. In particular, she’s interested in getting a copy of a letter that Clapper sent to Ignatius, dated January 10, 2017, where Clapper asks that he “take the kill …
January 10, 2017 – A Lisa Page email shows direct evidence of investigative leaking and bias – IG Horowitz later finds no bias
Within the small group conducting the 2016 FBI investigation of the Trump campaign, the Steele Dossier was called “Crown Material“. A name relating to Christopher Steele’s British intelligence position. [James Comey testimony to congress] The “Crown Material” has become more interesting recently against the backdrop of U.S. Attorney John Durham seeking the documents and communication from former CIA Director John Brennan and …
January 10, 2017 – An email suggests the FBI knew McCain leaked the Steele dossier to Buzzfeed
“Judicial Watch announced today it received 138 pages of emails between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page. The records include an email dated January 10, 2017, in which Strzok said that the version of the dossier published by BuzzFeed was “identical” to the version given to the FBI by McCain and had “differences” from the dossier provided to …
January 10, 2017 – Buzzfeed publishes the Steele dossier and on the same day, Richard Engel warns Maddow there is no evidence to support its claims
TRANSCRIPT: But amidst all of that today there was the news broken by CNN tonight and then bolstered later by Buzzfeed this evening about Russia. And on the surface this looks like really red-hot stuff. I will tell you the amount of it. It`s been verified by U.S. Intelligence agencies or by NBC news is very thin. What we can …
January 10, 2017 – The Dossier Structure
The dossier is 35 pages long and has the following layout and structure (see the sample from page 13 below): Section 1 – Company intelligence report number date/running total Section 2 – Report subheading “Russia/USA Growing Backlash in Kremlin…” Section 3 – Summary of report usually in bullet point format (the ‘raw intelligence’) Section 4 – Detailed discussion of summary points with a citation …
January 10, 2017 – A Peter Strzok email reveals there are three versions of the dossier
(…) “We know from public testimony that dossier author and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shared his findings with the FBI in summer and fall 2016 before he was terminated as a confidential source for inappropriate media contacts. And we learned that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) provided a copy to the FBI after the November 2016 election — out …
January 10, 2017 – Strzok seeks to capitalize on news reports about dossier, text message suggests
“A newly revealed text message suggests that former FBI official Peter Strzok sought to capitalize on news reports in January 2017 that President Donald Trump had been briefed about allegations in the infamous Steele dossier. Strzok wanted to use a CNN report related to the dossier as a reason to interview witnesses as part of the FBI’s investigation into possible …
January 10, 2017 – CNN reports on the Clinton/DNC/Steele Dossier and Trump’s meeting with Intel chiefs
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN. (CNN also reports that Christopher Steele was vetted and is a credible source.)
January 10, 2017 – FBI texts reveal analysts saying “the whole thing is pretty ugly” and they purchased professional liability insurance
On January 10, 2017, FBI analysts knew it was so bad that they “all went and purchased professional liability insurance.” The same employees worried that “the whole thing is pretty ugly…we shall see how things pan out” and “[t]he concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going …
January 11, 2017 – James Clapper refutes CNN reports on the Clinton/Steele dossier, says it’s not a “U.S. Intelligence Community product”
“In addition to the Trump transition team and NBC reporting, Fox News is now also reporting the original claims by CNN were entirely manufactured, “fake news” by four CNN agenda-driven reporters: Nothing reported as fact by the CNN constructionists actually took place. Against, the backdrop of CNN’s destroyed credibility, pundit Anderson Cooper attempts to obfuscate and push back against the collapse during a contentious …
January 11, 2017 – Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
“Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found. …
January 11, 2017 – NYT reports dossier contains “unsubstantiated accounts” and “unproven claims,” Strzok calls it “pretty good reporting”
“The newly released records include a January 11, 2017, email from Strzok to Lisa Page, Priestap, and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Jon Moffa, a New York Times report which refers to the dossier as containing “unsubstantiated accounts” and “unproven claims.” In the email, Strzok comments on the article, calling it “Pretty good reporting.” (Judicial Watch, 7/17/2020) “Seven months ago, a respected former British spy named Christopher Steele …
January 12, 2017 – Flynn’s defense claims there is a letter from UK National Security Advisor Sir Mark Lyall Grant that invalidates Steel info, undermines Russiagate, and is being suppressed
On page 30 of Sidney Powell’s most recent court filing on behalf of Lt. General Flynn, she states there is a letter written by the UK’s National Security Advisor, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, that questions Christopher Steele’s credibility, undermines Russiagate, and it is being suppressed. The letter was hand-delivered to the incoming National Security team in New York. Powell writes:
January 12, 2017 – Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate FBI’s handling of Clinton email inquiry
“The Justice Department inspector general’s office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into the decision in October by James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to inform Congress about a new review in the Hillary Clinton email investigation — a move Mrs. Clinton has said cost her the election. The inquiry is not a blow for Mr. Comey only. …
January 12, 2017 – The Clinton Foundation shuts down the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
“The Clinton Foundation’s long list of wealthy donors and foreign government contributors during the 2016 elections provoked critics to allege conflicts of interests. Clinton partisans defended the organization’s charitable work and dismissed claims that it served as a means for the Clintons to sell off access, market themselves on the paid speech circuit, and elevate their brand as Hillary Clinton …
January 12, 2017 – DOJ’s Sean Newell takes part in interview of Steele’s primary sub-source
Sean Newell, deputy chief of counterintelligence and export control at the Justice Department. Newell may have been the assistant to Laufman who took part in the January 2017 interview with Steele’s source. The IG report said that a deputy to Laufman conducted the second half of the interview with the Steele source.
January 12, 2017 – Comey tells Clapper FBI unable to ‘sufficiently corroborate’ Steele — then renews Carter Page’s FISA warrant
(…) The FBI had been warned the previous summer that Hillary Clinton’s campaign may have planted the false Russia collusion story as a way to “vilify” Trump and distract from her email scandal, and agents were about to interview Steele’s primary sub-source, who would discount much of the information in the dossier attributed to him as bar talk and unconfirmed …
January 12, 2017 – The communications between Flynn/Kislyak is leaked to David Ignatius at the Washington Post
David Ignatius writes: (…) Question 3: What discussions has the Trump team had with Russian officials about future relations? Trump said Wednesday that his relationship with President Vladimir Putin is “an asset, not a liability.” Fair enough, but until he’s president, Trump needs to let Obama manage U.S.-Russia policy. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s choice for national security …
January 13, 2017 – FBI text shows an employee mocking the leak of Flynn/Kislyak calls to the WSJ
On January 13, 2017, FBI employees messaged that “someone leaked the Flynn calls with Kislyak to the WSJ.” In a response reeking with sarcasm, an FBI employee messaged “I’m so sorry to hear that. I’ll resume my duties as Chief Morale Officer and rectify that.”
January 14, 2017 – Strzok takes issue with a report claiming Steele suspects a “cabal” in FBI put Clinton email investigation above Trump Russia probe
In a January 2017 email, Strzok takes issue with a UK Independent report which claimed Steele had suspected there was a “cabal” within the FBI which put the Clinton email investigation above the Trump-Russia probe. Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent, was at the heart of both the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations. (Judicial Watch, 7/17/2020) (…) In the same month Mr Steele produced a …
January 15, 2017 – FBI & NYPD: It is distinctly possible the Clinton Foundation has conducted business with terror-backed financial concerns
(…) The FBI’s probe of the Clinton Foundation is actually a compartmentalized investigation. Field offices in Los Angeles and New York are spearheading the case but other offices are involved and contributing, sources said. According to federal sources, transactions linked to Clinton corporate holdings have raised several regulatory eyebrows even beyond of the Justice Department, specifically in the Financial Crimes …
January 16, 2017 – Biden travels to Ukraine in his last days as VP
“Vice-president Joe Biden, on a last foreign trip before leaving office, met Ukraine’s president on Monday and called on the incoming Donald Trump administration to retain Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia. Biden’s comments at a briefing with Petro Poroshenko came after Trump indicated in an interview with the Times and Bild that he could end sanctions imposed in the aftermath Russia’s 2014 annexation of …
January 17, 2017 – CNN reports the dossier is opposition research (long before it was officially reported in October 2017 that Hillary paid for it)
I’ve been waiting for anyone to be able to explain to me how CNN was able to report on air the ‘Dossier’ contained OPPOSITION RESEARCH 3 days BEFORE Trump’s inauguration when that wasn’t reported until Oct. 2017! Anyone?https://t.co/iJWuHKefrD — David Gray (@DGrayTexas45) April 20, 2023 CNN reporting on the “Russian Dossier” on January 17, 2017 (THREE DAYS BEFORE TRUMP’S INAUGURATION) …
January 17, 2017 – Obama fuels Russia collusion lies in secret White House meeting with journalists
In 2022, Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold obtained a transcript of a secret briefing that Barack Obama held with a group referred to in the transcript as “progressive journalists.” The meeting took place during the final days of the Obama administration on January 17, 2017. A Bloomberg article regarding the secret meeting focused on the part of the briefing in which Obama alleviated the journalist’s concerns …
January 19, 2017 – Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page ‘interned’ ‘under Clinton,’ texts reveal
Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whose Trump-bashing texts made it clear who she backed in the 2016 presidential election, refers in a newly revealed message to serving as an intern “under Clinton.” Page, who exchanged tens of thousands of texts with disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok, revealed the information in one message among a new batch exclusively obtained by Fox News. …
January 19, 2017 – Obama’s White House counsel emails a “top secret” letter to Comey and McCabe regarding Comey’s spies placed in the WH
Recent revelations reveal that Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s team was out to “get Trump”: An FBI agent who played a lead role investigating Michael Flynn told the Justice Department there was never evidence of wrongdoing by the retired general or Russian collusion by President Trump, but the probe was kept open by Special Counsel Robert Mueller because his team had a “get …
January 19, 2017 – Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, joins the Atlantic Council’s Advisory Board who then partners with Burisma Holdings
(…) “In addition to being a Clinton Foundation donor, Pinchuk is also on the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council – a NATO-aligned American think tank specializing in the field of international affairs. Pinchuk’s fellow Advisory Board members are industry leaders and former heads of state. Their Board of Directors list is equally – if not more – impressive. The Atlantic …
January 19, 2017 – The shady arrangement between the Atlantic Council and Burisma Holdings
“The shady arrangement between the Atlantic Council and Burisma – the gas company at the center of the ‘Ukrainegate’ scandal – is just one dubious deal out of many at a DC think tank that has become a clearinghouse for legal corruption. With its relentless focus on corruption in Russia and Ukraine, the Atlantic Council has distinguished itself from other …
January 19, 2017 – Documents reveal Obama State Department urgently provides classified ‘Russiagate’ documents to multiple senators immediately ahead of Trump inauguration
“Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. …
January 20, 2017 – A Vatican-Democratic party coup/alliance? (Catholics ask Trump administration to investigate)
“Did billionaire speculator George Soros, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope Francis? Did they use America’s intelligence agencies, and our nation’s diplomatic machinery, political muscle, and financial power to coerce and blackmail “regime change” …
January 20, 2017 – Atlantic Council ignores Soros-backed Director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center and her warnings about Burisma
(…) A top foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C. rejected warnings from a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist against forming a partnership with Burisma Holdings, the energy firm linked to Hunter Biden that has faced allegations of corruption. Daria Kaleniuk, the executive director of a Ukrainian group called the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC), contacted John Herbst, a director at the Atlantic …
January 20, 2017 – 2018: James Comey planted spies in the White House to keep an eye on President Trump
(…) “Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the president, starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a “counterintelligence assessment” of …
January 20, 2017 – April 2017: James Comey has a mole in the White House, keeping tabs on President Trump and his aides
“Former FBI Director James Comey had an inside man at the White House, feeding the bureau information about President Trump and his aides in 2017. Now this individual, who after leaving the government was hired by BuzzFeed to verify parts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, may be tied to an investigation into alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and …
January 20, 2017 – Susan Rice writes an email to herself
At 12:15pm on January 20th, 2017, Obama’s outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice writes a memo-to-self. Many people have called this her “CYA” (cover your ass) memo, from the position that Susan Rice was protecting herself from consequences if the scheme against President Trump was discovered. Here’s the email:
January – May, 2017: Senator Johnson claims 62 leaks threatened national security in early days of Trump administration
“A top Republican senator called the number of leaks during the first several months of President Trump’s tenure “completely out of control.” Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo that there were dozens of leaks that threatened national security in those days and argued they were part of …
January 20, 2017 – Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, resigns
“Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that he has submitted his resignation to President Barack Obama and will not stay on past the transition to Donald Trump. Clapper offered the news during his opening statement in a rare open hearing of the House Intelligence Committee after the panel’s ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff of California, said he had heard …
January 21, 2017 to Present: Former top staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be directing the post-election efforts of Fusion GPS
“New evidence suggests that a former top staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) may be directing the post-election efforts of Fusion GPS, a Democrat-linked political opposition research firm, to vindicate a series of memos alleging illegal collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian officials. Congressional documents and recently leaked texts between Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and a registered foreign …
January 22, 2017 – While the FBI was investigating Lt. General Flynn for possible collusion with Russia, he was also on the FBI payroll as a consultant
Twitter user and independent researcher, Rosie memos@almostjingo, raises an interesting question after perusing a copy of Lt. General Michael Flynn’s Executive Branch Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e). He was required to submit this report after Trump appointed him as his National Security Advisor. Flynn’s financial disclosure report was linked in this Hill report. This Fox News report verifies Flynn was under …
January 23, 2017 – The day before the Flynn interview Peter Strzok says: “I can feel my heart beating harder, I’m so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails.” Weird!”
♦ Strzok replies: “I know. I just talked with John, we’re getting together as soon as I get in to finish that write up for Andy [McCabe] this morning.” Strzok agrees with Page about being stressed that “THIS” could go off the rails…(Strzok’s meeting w Flynn the next day) ♦Why would Page & Strzok be stressed about “THIS” potentially going …
January 23, 2017 – The director of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, resigns
“The director of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, is to stand down early for personal reasons, mainly health issues involving his wife and other family members. Hannigan only took over at the UK’s surveillance agency in November 2014 to oversee a more open approach after revelations by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden put GCHQ on the defensive in 2013. His …
January 24, 2017 – FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences
“Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, …
January 24, 2017 – DOJ’s Sally Yates was upset with FBI for interviewing Michael Flynn
“It is unclear why Yates was upset with the FBI for meeting with Flynn. She has since testified to the Senate that she informed the White House general counsel days after Flynn’s interview that she believed he was lying to the FBI. Flynn was fired as national security adviser on Feb. 13, 2017. The White House claims he was fired …
January 24-February 15, 2017: Tracking the original Flynn FD-302 report that mysteriously disappears
“FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka interviewed National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. According to documents presented in the court case, agent Peter Strzok did the questioning and agent Joe Pientka took most of the notes. Following the interview agent Pientka then took his hand-written notes and generated an official FD-302; an FBI report of the …
January 24, 2017 – Comey brags about bypassing protocol and sending FBI agents to interview Flynn…it wasn’t a ‘by the book’ moment
On December 10, 2018, The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway discusses how former FBI Director James Comey admitted to sending FBI agents to interview Michael Flynn without telling the White House.
January 25, 2017 – Nellie Ohr suggests Department K of Russian intelligence Service FSB “would be a pretty good candidate for listening in on Hillary”
On January 25, 2017, Bruce Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, forwarded text messages to him that she’d sent to her “colleagues,” where she refers to the Steele dossier as the “yellow rain dossier” and the “yellow showers dossier.” In the same set of forwarded texts, Nellie speculates that Department K of the Russian intelligence service FSB “would be a pretty good candidate …
January 27, 2017 – Comey’s statement for the record on his second meeting with President Trump which includes a dinner
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence James B. Comey June 8, 2017 Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on subjects that I understand are of interest to …
January 30, 2017 – Danchenko tells FBI the info he shared with Steele was “bar talk over beers”…then they classify it as “secret”
(…) Danchenko was another matter. The FBI first interviewed him in late January 2017 after he was identified as Steele’s subsource. His interview was documented on an electronic communication, or EC, an internal FBI communication, and not on an FD-302, which is used to document interviews of witnesses. Nor was it logged on a specific source report form. Since it …
January 30, 2017 – Sally Yates is fired, Andrew Weissmann emails her to say “I am so proud…and in awe”
Judicial Watch released two productions (335 pages and 44 pages) of Justice Department (DOJ) documents showing strong support by top DOJ officials for former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ refusal to enforce President Trump’s Middle East travel ban executive order. In one email, Andrew Weissmann, one of Robert Mueller’s top prosecutors and formerly the Obama-era Chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section, applauds …
January 30, 2017 – A Justice Department memo exonerates Flynn of any collusion with Russia but it is never turned over as exculpatory evidence in his defense
“A bombshell revelation was barely noticed at National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s hearing Tuesday, when his counsel revealed in court the existence of a Justice Department memo from Jan. 30, 2017 exonerating Flynn of any collusion with Russia. The memo, which has still not been made available to Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell, is part of a litany of Brady material she is …
January 30, 2017 – The hearsay whistleblower is overheard discussing with ally how to remove Trump
Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous “whistleblower” who touched off Trump’s impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to …
January 30, 2017 – An internal memo shows the FBI’s Russia collusion case fell apart in first month of Trump presidency
“The piecemeal release of FBI files in the Russia collusion investigation has masked an essential fact: James Comey’s G-men had substantially debunked the theory that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow by the time the 45th president was settling into the Oval Office, according to declassified memos, court filings, and interviews. And that means a nascent presidency and an entire …
January 30, 2017 – Ten days into Trump’s presidency, the attorney for the ‘hearsay whistleblower’ tweets: “#coup has started. As one falls two more will take their place. #rebellion and #impeachment”
“A few people have started looking at the connections behind Mark Zaid, the attorney for CIA “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella. What is starting to emerge is evidence of what CTH outlined yesterday; the current impeachment process is part of a coup continuum, and everything around the whistleblower is part of a long-ago planned and pre-constructed operation. Two strong examples are very poignant: This …
January 30, 2017 – McCabe investigates not just Trump but Sessions as well
“Top FBI official Andrew McCabe did not just investigate President Trump. As he notes in a little-publicized part of his new book, McCabe even investigated his department boss — then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions — after Senate Democrats asked McCabe to look into allegations Sessions perjured himself during his confirmation hearings when he denied meeting with Russian officials during the 2016 …
January 31, 2017 – John Podesta sets up fundraising meetings for Fusion GPS after Trump’s election victory
“Former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was one of Fusion GPS’s “most helpful” resources in an effort to raise money after the 2016 election to continue investigating President Donald Trump, the co-founders of the opposition research firm revealed in a book released on Nov. 26. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the co-founders of Fusion GPS, wrote in “Crime in Progress” …
January 31, 2017 – Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele text messages reveal alarm and concern over Sally Yates and James Comey terminations
Newly revealed emails show Trump dossier author Christopher Steele was uneasy when President Trump fired Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in January 2017. In a brief correspondence between Steele and Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, Steele pressed for a back-up plan to be put in place if his back-channel to the FBI was ever placed in jeopardy. “B, doubtless a …
February 1, 2017 – Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. joins a gas industry company that does business in Ukraine, and Nancy appears in their promo video
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. visited Ukraine in 2017 to meet with government officials in connection to a business initiative. Now, unearthed records reveal that Paul Pelosi Jr. was an executive of a gas industry company that did business in Ukraine – and his mother Nancy Pelosi was featured in one of the company’s promotional videos. Journalist …
February 8, 2017 – A DOJ memo clears General Flynn of Logan Act violations but it is never turned over as exculpatory evidence
Today Michael Flynn and his attorney Sidney Powell returned to federal court for a status hearing before Judge Emmet Sullivan. Generally status hearings are uneventful; however, this hearing falls on the heels of an explosive filing by Flynn’s defense outlining allegations of serious prosecutorial misconduct; and claims the DOJ is withholding Brady material. (…) “A DOJ memo exists dated February …
February 9, 2017 – The FBI corruption is so bad, they ask Trump to authorize his own surveillance via an Executive Order
“Last month the DOJ admitted to the FISA court that two of the four FISA warrants used against Carter Page were fraudulently obtained. However, what the DOJ did not admit publicly was how the current FBI Chief Legal Counsel, Dana Boente, participated in obtaining the April 2017 warrant. In hindsight, this story explains the ongoing issues within the FBI. The original FISA …
February 9, 2017 – Steele’s primary subsource is interviewed by the FBI, DOJ-NSD David Laufman negotiates the terms
(…) From the IG Report — Footnote 336 — is that David Laufman, Chief of the Export Control Section of the National Security Division of DOJ, told the IG that he negotiated the terms of the Danchenko interview with Danchenko’s attorney. Laufman told us that he negotiated with the Primary Sub-source’s counsel to facilitate the FBI’s interview and sought to …
February 10, 2017 – John Podesta and Jake Sullivan re-engage with Fusion GPS and Dan Jones after 2016 election to push Clinton/Steele dossier
“Top officials with the Hillary Clinton campaign re-engaged with the opposition researchers behind the Steele dossier just three weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration, newly declassified congressional witness transcripts reveal, indicating her campaign’s participation in an ongoing and well-funded effort to undermine the president by casting him as a tool of the Kremlin. Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta testified that he …
February 10, 2017 – Newly released texts reveal Strzok made major edits to Flynn’s lost FD 302 report
“Peter Strzok, former FBI head of counterintelligence operations, significantly changed an early draft of the official FBI report from its questioning of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, newly released text messages indicate. To this day, the FBI hasn’t shown the early draft to Flynn. An eye-witness said the draft included exculpatory information, which was removed in the final version, Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, …
February 10, 2017 – Lisa Page edits General Flynn’s FBI 302 reports
Late last week General Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell released her filing to the court. …It is clear that as requested by Powell, General Flynn’s case must be dismissed based on the many crimes committed by the government to set him up. Techno Fog was first on the Internet to analyze the document – Powell describes how the Flynn 302 was altered …
February 10, 2017 – Peter Strzok emails a pic of General Flynn and Russian Ambassador Kislyak to Lisa Page
“The records also include a February 10, 2017, email from Strzok to Page mentioning then-national security adviser Michael Flynn (five days before Flynn resigned) and includes a photo of Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Strzok also makes a joke about how McCabe had fat-shamed Kislyak.” (Judicial Watch, 7/17/2020)
February 11, 2017 – Professor Joseph Mifsud tells the FBI his contacts with Papadopoulos were mostly innocuous
(…) “Documents I obtained from sources show Mifsud told the FBI in February 2017 that his contacts with Papadopoulos a year earlier, during the 2016 presidential campaign, were mostly innocuous. He made that point both in an FBI interview and a follow-up email to agents. He described the contacts as an academic exercise in pursuit of peace, not a global …
February 13, 2017 – General Flynn resigns
“President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned late Monday night amid mounting accusations that he had illicit communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States that positioned him as a potential target for blackmail. Flynn submitted his letter of resignation to the president just three weeks into the administration, saying he “inadvertently” gave Vice President Mike Pence “incomplete information” …
February 13, 2017 – Clinton and her aide, Philippe Reines, troll General Flynn and his son with a reference to Pizzagate
Hillary Clinton is putting her newly-found extra free time to good use and trolls General Flynn and his son via Twitter. The two-time failed presidential candidate responds to a tweet from long-time confidante Phillipe Reines directed at General Michael Flynn and his son saying “what goes around ‘COMETS’ around,“ a reference to the Pizzagate scandal. Reines tweets late in the …
February 14, 2017 – Mar-a-Lago has a SCIF
(…) There is a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago, which is used when President Donald Trump is in town. Ironically, the existence of the SCIF at the president’s private club in Palm Beach was first revealed in a White House press briefing on February 14, 2017, to rebut criticism Trump himself had put sensitive discussions at risk. That was days after Trump held …
February 14, 2017 – State Dept official, Kathleen Kavalec, forwards a HuffPo article to Nellie Ohr that touts the Clinton/Steele dossier, Ohr then forwards to the FBI
On February 14, 2017, former-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Kathleen Kavalec forwarded Ohr a Huffington Post article touting the Steele Dossier’s claim that an alleged deal between Russian oil company Rosneft and Trump supporter Steve Schwarzman constituted a “high crime of treason worthy of impeachment.” Ohr forwarded the article to the FBI’s Washington Field …
February 14, 2017 – Comey’s statement for the record on his Oval Office meeting with Trump
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence James B. Comey June 8, 2017 Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on subjects that I understand are of interest to …
February 14, 2017 – Strzok forwards NYT article to Priestap and says it contains “flat out inaccuracies”
On February 14, 2017, Strzok forwards Priestap a New York Times article titled “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.” In his cover note, Strzok states, “This is the article Mike K [presumably Kortan] gave a heads up on earlier. Contains flat out inaccuracies. I will sit down with [redacted] early and draft some comments in advance of …
February 2017-June 2019: The Penn Biden Center is being investigated for receiving anonymous donations from China
“A government watchdog is demanding the US attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden. The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million …
February 2017 – Comey intervenes to kill a limited immunity deal arranged between the DOJ and Julian Assange
(…) “This yarn begins in January 2017 when Assange’s legal team approached Waldman — known for his government connections — to see if the new Trump administration would negotiate with the WikiLeaks founder, holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy. They hoped Waldman, a former Clinton Justice Department official, might navigate the U.S. law enforcement bureaucracy and find the right people …
February 15, 2017 – McCabe tells Priebus the NYT Russia and Trump campaign story is a “bunch of BS”
CNN framed a story of White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus asking the FBI to rebuke an earlier story, based on anonymous leaks, of Trump campaign contacts with Russia. According to the agenda, CNN wanted to make it look like the administration was pressuring the FBI to provide the White House political cover. However, the truth behind the entire …
February 15, 2017 – The GSA helps the FBI use the Logan Act to spy on Trump
“In our last article, we went through a series of warrants related to the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigation of Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.). DOJ disclosed the warrants late in 2020 in response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by a coalition of corporate media outlets. We left off by asking: “The warrants in Attachments 4 and 5 specifically name …
February 15, 2017 – Mitt Romney adviser and former CIA official Cofer Black joins Burisma board of directors in Ukraine
“Mitt Romney’s national security adviser in his 2012 campaign — a career CIA spook who rose to its top levels — sits on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that formerly paid Hunter Biden $50K a month despite his complete lack of credentials or qualifications. It is also an odd coincidence that Mitt has, as CNN puts it, …
February 18, 2017 – Opinion: No one mentions that the Russian trail leads to Democratic lobbyists – Podesta and Sberbank
(…) “The media’s focus on Trump’s Russian connections ignores the much more extensive and lucrative business relationships of top Democrats with Kremlin-associated oligarchs and companies. Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony) lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, …
February 23, 2017 – A Chinese-American Clinton fundraiser feared being murdered for admitting to funneling money from Chinese officials to Clinton 1996 reelection
“A Chinese-American businessman at the center of a Clinton campaign finance scandal secretly filmed a tell-all video as an ‘insurance policy’ – because he feared being murdered.” (…) “In the never-before-released footage, [Johnny] Chung described how he feared for his life after he publicly admitted to funneling money from Chinese officials to President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign. He also …
2017 – 2019: Jake Sullivan and Hunter Biden serve together on a national security think tank board
President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, served alongside the president’s son Hunter on a national security think tank board for two years before joining the Biden 2020 presidential campaign, an archived web page shows. Both Sullivan and Hunter Biden served on the board of the Truman National Security Project between 2017 and 2019, according to an archived version of the …
March 2, 2017 – Jeff Sessions recuses himself from oversight of the Russia investigation
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing a storm of criticism over newly disclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States, recused himself on Thursday from any investigation into charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. (…) Mr. Sessions insisted there was nothing nefarious about his two meetings with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, even though he …
March 2, 2017 – Comey testifies the FBI and Intel Community were “tasked” to watch Flynn and Russia
The DOJ files a motion to dismiss the evidence against General Flynn on May 07, 2020. The government moved to dismiss with prejudice the criminal information filed in this case pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48 and as an exercise of its prosecutorial discretion. Exhibit 5 is included with the filing and it is a clipping from Comey’s …
March 4, 2017 – Trump begins SpyGate accusations that serve as genesis for the counter-investigation into Crossfire Hurricane
The next day, the White House issued a formal statement demanding investigation into the claims.https://t.co/8poj0DpPkU — MonsieursGhost (@MonsieursGhost) December 18, 2021
March 6, 2017 – Page/Strzok discuss how the GAO determined the FBI and other agencies work in buildings owned by China
“On March 6, 2017, Page forwards to Strzok a Washington Examiner article sent to her from the General Counsel’s Office discussing how the GAO determined many sensitive US government offices and officials were being housed in property owned by companies connected to foreign governments like China, posing a security threat. Page asked Strzok, “Did you hear about this?” Strzok replies, “I hadn’t, …
March 7, 2017 – Adam Schiff is “happy” to initiate an investigation into Trump’s claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower right before election
March 7: Trump’s provocation was instrumental in hoodwinking @AdamSchiffCA into being “HAPPY” to call for an investigation into Trump’s claims, making initiation of investigation into FBI coup a bipartisan operation. Schiff smells impeachment blood. https://t.co/noXO0LDstV pic.twitter.com/VQWV9OXN3X — MonsieursGhost (@MonsieursGhost) December 18, 2021
March 8, 2017 – Lisa Page memo reveals Comey misled the Gang of Eight about Russiagate
“The FBI deceived the House, Senate and the Justice Department about the substance and strength of evidence undergirding its counterintelligence investigation of President Trump, according to a recently declassified document and other material. A seven-page internal FBI memo dated March 8, 2017, shows that “talking points” prepared for then-FBI Director James Comey for his meeting the next day with the …
March 9, 2017 – Nunes and Schiff send demand to DOJ for any info related to surveillance of Trump team
March 9: Nunes & Schiff send demand to DOJ for “any applications to the FISA Court, any orders that court released, and any copies of warrants issued by federal judges” relating to surveillance of Trump Team. The deadline is March 13th. archive.is/8uf5e (@MonsieursGhost, ThreadReader, 12/18/2021) (Archive)
March 9, 2017 – Carter Page is interviewed by the FBI for the first time
March 9 & 10: coincidentally, @carterwpage is interviewed by FBI for the first time since opening of Crossfire, on same day that bi-partisan demand for any surveillance warrants is issued. (@MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021) All five of Carter Page’s interviews with the FBI during March 2017: 1. 3/09/17 <—- added tonight 2. 3/10/17 3. 3/16/17 4. 3/30/17 5. 3/31/17 pic.twitter.com/Em9iaY5Rnu — La Cosa …
March 13, 2017 – The DOJ asks for an extension to collect evidence of Trump’s wiretapping claims
March 13: Deadline is here and DOJ wants an extension of time. CNN goes out of their way to note that the SENATE Intel Committee has no such deadlines, and further that Richard Burr has got all the answers he needs from “conversations”. Nunes responds by threatening to serve subpoenas at THE BIG SHOWDOWN, which is the March 20th “House …
March 14, 2017 – Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Intelligence pushing Pence takeover of presidency
“On the heels of the explosive release of Wikileaks’ “largest ever publication of confidential documents” originating from the CIA, Wikileaks editor Julian Assange recently revealed startling information regarding the intelligence community’s plans to impeach President Donald Trump and replace him with Mike Pence, his vice president. Assange, tweeting early Tuesday morning, claimed that two intelligence officials close to Vice President Mike Pence …
March 14, 2017 – Sources inform Fox News that Obama used GCHQ to spy on Trump campaign
(…) “Sources have told me that the British foreign surveillance service, the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, most likely provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s calls. The NSA has given GCHQ full 24/7 access to its computers, so GCHQ — a foreign intelligence agency that, like the NSA, operates outside our constitutional norms — has the digital versions of …
March 15, 2017 – Trump appears on Tucker to discuss wiretap claims and says “we have it before the committee, we’re submitting some things”
March 15: Trump makes appearance w Tucker, asked about wiretap claims. Aside from clarifying that ‘wiretap’ is catch-all for #SpyGate surveillance en toto, Trump states two times for effect: “WE HAVE IT BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. WE’RE SUBMITTING SOME THINGS.” (@MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021)
March 15, 2017 – A formal complaint is filed against McCabe for saying at an “invite only” FBI Executive Management gathering, “Fuck Flynn and then we Fuck Trump”
On Page 7 of the “Deputy Director McCabe Office of Professional Responsibility Investigation, Part 1 of 2”, there was a complaint received by the Inspection Division’s Internal Investigations Section on March 15, 2017. The day before the complaint was received, True Pundit published the article “EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s Own Political Terror Plot; Deputy Director and FBI Brass Secretly Conspired to Wage …
March 16, 2017 – FBI agents discuss Carter Page’s “Top Secret FISA” worrying about it leaking and Page’s reaction if it goes public
March 16: Boone and McGonigal discuss @carterwpage‘s “Top Secret FISA” being briefed to House HPSCI tomorrow”. Already worried about possible leaks. Coincidentally, Page is being interrogated at same moment in New York, and they’re also worried he’ll go AWOL if FISA goes public. (MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021) [Timeline note: “McGonigal” is identified here as Charles McGonigal – Special Agent in charge of the …
March 17, 2017 – Top NSA official, Rick Ledgett, ridicules ‘nonsense’ allegation Britain spied on Trump
“Allegations from the United States that British spy agency GCHQ snooped on Donald Trump during his election campaign are “arrant nonsense,” the deputy head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) said in an interview on Saturday. President Trump has stood by unproven claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 White House race. On Thursday his spokesman …
March 17, 2017 – The Senate Intel Cmte. security director, James Wolfe, leaks the Carter Page FISA application to Buzzfeed reporter, Ali Watkins, DoD and FBI coverup
“In the first part of this research into the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) we outlined how the committee was engaged in the 2017 effort –with specific evidence of communication– to support Robert Mueller and the ‘soft coup‘ team. [See Here] When you understand what the group was doing in early 2017, you understand why the FBI had to …
March 17, 2017 – Page’s leaked FISA docs include classified, secret and top secret national security info
March 17: the FISA document containing SECRET & TOP SECRET national security info concerning C Carter Page is sent to SSCI at the last minute on Friday before BIG SHOWDOWN on Monday the 20th. As soon as Wolfe was in receipt of TOP SECRET information about Page, he contacts @AliWatkins to inform. Later that night, they discuss details over …
March 18, 2017 – Steele writes to Ohr voicing concern about Comey’s upcoming testimony and hopes ‘important firewalls’ will hold
“In March 2017, two days before former FBI Director James Comey testified to lawmakers that the bureau had an open counterintelligence investigation into President Trump’s campaign, former British spy Christopher Steele sent an urgent message to Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr hoping that “important firewalls will hold” when Comey testified. The text message from Steele, who compiled the infamous …
March 18-19, 2017: Strzok and Small Team obsess over Trump tweets; the next day they prepare for Comey’s testimony
March 18, 12:30am: later into the night, Pete Strzok and Lisa Page discuss @nakashimae’s prior reporting and likelihood she has a Source at HSCI. March 18: for some reason, Strzok and Small Team are now obsessing over Trump’s breakout claims from the 4th… March 19: Its Sunday, but the Small Team is not resting. They are reviewing additional …
March 20, 2017 – Ukrainian official Serhiy Leshchenko releases documents alleging Manafort tried to hide his “black ledger” payments
Manafort’s work in Ukraine was highlighted in late July, and on Aug. 14, 2016, The New York Times reported that payments to Manafort had been uncovered from the Party of Regents’ black box: “Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National …
March 20, 2017 – Rep. Elise Stefanik reveals Comey’s failure to inform the Gang of Eight about the FBI counter-Intel investigation of Trump
“Representative Elise M. Stefanik is a young, freshman republican congresswoman from the Albany New York area. And using a probative questioning timeline, she single-handily pulled the mask from FBI Director James Comey, yet no-one seemed to notice. Obviously Ms. Stefanik has not been in the swamp long enough to lose her common sense. In the segment of the questioning below …
March 20, 2017 – FBI investigates whether McCabe leaked info about Flynn and Trump to media
“The FBI opened an investigation into an unauthorized media leak of a comment made by former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe about former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Trump, according to bureau documents released Monday. The documents show that the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs received a complaint about an alleged leak that involved “a statement overheard in …
March 20, 2017 – Comey: Obama political appointees had the ability to “unmask” American citizens
Rep. Trey Gowdy attempts to question FBI director James Comey about how many people have the power to ‘unmask’ the name of a U.S. citizen in communications intercepted by the intelligence services. This information would serve as the basis for any investigation into who has been leaking classified documents. Transcript GOWDY: Admiral Rogers said there are 20 people within the …
March 20, 2017 – Comey acknowledges the FBI is investigating whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia
March 20: Comey & NSA Director Rogers testify at a HSCI hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Comey acknowledged his agency was investigating whether members of the Trump campaign collaborated w Russian Government. After @DevinNunes openly asks for whistleblowers to come forward with information about leaking or surveillance of Trump campaign, a whole series of events transpires, causing the …
March 21, 2017 – Hillary’s Hypersonic Missile Gap
Starting in May 2010, The Washington Examiner reported, drawing on emails obtained by Citizens United, “Clinton Foundation staff pushed Hillary Clinton’s State Department to approve a meeting between Bill Clinton and a powerful Russian oligarch as her agency lined up investors for a project under his purview.” His name was Viktor Vekselberg of Renova (a Clinton Foundation donor) and the project under …
March 22, 2017 – Devin Nunes holds a press conference claiming the Trump transition team was under ‘incidental’ surveillance
“The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that some of the communications of the Trump transition team were “monitored” after the election as part of an “incidental collection.” Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said these surveillance operations produced “dozens” of reports which eventually unmasked several individuals’ identities and were “widely disseminated.” Nunes would not …
March 22, 2017 – CIA whistleblower, Dennis Montgomery, provided proof Trump was under “systematic illegal” surveillance and the FBI refused to investigate
“The same day House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes gave a press conference disclosing that President Trump had been under “incidental surveillance,” Attorney and FreedomWatch Chairman, Larry Klayman, sent a letter to the House Committee on Intelligence imploring them to pursue the claims and evidence presented under oath at a Washington DC FBI Field Office by his client – CIA / NSA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery – who Klayman claims “holds the keys …
March 23, 2017 – NYT reporter Michael Schmidt emails FBI’s Michael Kortan saying Kushner met with a Russian banker from “Alpha” [sic] Bank
On March 23, 2017, New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt emails FBI Asst. Dir. Michael Kortan saying: Schmidt’s email is forwarded by Kortan to Lisa Page. Page forwards it to Strzok and Moffa, saying “Just wanted you both to have this.” (Judicial Watch, 8/28/2020) (Timeline editor’s note: Other emails and articles also misspell Alfa Bank just as it does in …
March 24, 2017 – A WaPo reporter email’s FBI officials asking about a Clinton doc that is noted as “Grand Jury Material”
On March 24, 2017, reporter Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post emails two unidentified FBI officials, noting that, in his review of government records relating to Hillary Clinton, he discovered a page in which “a box is checked to indicate the material is ‘Grand Jury Material.’ Is that right? I don’t think anyone had ever been aware of a sitting grand jury …
March 27, 2017 – Nunes calls a press conference to discuss the unmaskings of Trump campaign officials
March 27, 2017, then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Devin Nunes, held a brief press conference and stated he was provided intelligence reports brought to him by unnamed sources including ‘significant information’ about President-Elect Trump and his transition team. These reports included unmaskings of President Trump campaign officials; and included Donald Trump himself…. You know what that means: 1.) …”On numerous occasions the [Obama] …
March 30, 2017 – Comey’s statement for the record on his phone call with Trump
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence James B. Comey June 8, 2017 Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on subjects that I understand are of interest to …
March 30, 2017 – Senator Mark Warner contacts lobbyist for Russian oligarch, seeking access to dossier author, Christopher Steele
“Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist [Adam Waldman] for a Russian oligarch [Oleg V. Deripaska], who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages …
Late March, 2017 – Cabal of wealthy donors financing $50 million Trump-Russia investigation
“A group of wealthy donors from New York and California have forked out $50 million to fund a Russia investigation being conducted by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former Senate staffer for Dianne Feinstein. That bombshell revelation is made in a footnote to the House Intelligence Committee’s newly released report on Russian interference in the presidential campaign. While the …
March 30, 2017 – Strzok and Moffa are advised to read a Gizmodo article about Comey’s private Twitter account named after prominent American Marxist, Reinhold Niebuhr
On March 30, 2017, a redacted official emails Moffa and Strzok, advising them to read Gizmodo about the “D’s [Director’s] private Twitter acct.” Moffa replies, “I did not already know but I just read the whole thing. I have to say I didn’t expect that …” The unidentified official replies, “[I]f true, my respect for the D only solidifies when …
March 31, 2017 – Evgeny Buryakov, Russian indicted in same Carter Page FISA case, is quietly released
March 31: Evgeny Buryakov, Russian agent indicted in same case involving @carterwpage‘s FISA, is quietly released “early” from DOJ to ICE custody prior to being deported. At this point, @AliWatkins & @nakashimae have been sitting on FISA leak for 14 days. (MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2022)
March 31, 2017 – WikiLeaks’ latest release of CIA cyber-tools could blow the cover on agency hacking operations
“WikiLeaks’ latest disclosure of CIA cyber-tools reveals a technique used by the agency to hide its digital tracks, potentially blowing the cover on current and past hacking operations aimed at gathering intelligence on terrorists and other foreign targets. The release Friday of the CIA’s “Marble Framework” comes less than a month after the WikiLeaks dumped onto the Internet a trove …
April 3, 2017 – A redacted FBI official warns Strzok of a Guardian article about General Flynn that has “gotten too deep”
“On April 3, 2017, a redacted official in the FBI Washington Field Office emails Strzok a link to a Guardian article titled “Michael Flynn: New Evidence Spy Chiefs Had Concerns about Russia Ties,” saying, “Im [sic] sure you are tracking, but this has gotten too deep.” Strzok replies, “I wasn’t. WTF is this…” Strzok then forwards the exchange to Page, …
April 3, 2017 – Ali Watkins and Brian Ross tell Carter Page they are going to leak his protected ID in Buryakov case
April 03: @AliWatkins & @BrianRoss (!?) approach @carterwpage, informing him they are going to leak his Protected Identity (MALE-1) in Buryakov case to the wider world. Most are not aware of Ross’ participation in this leak case. How did he come about the info? Fusion GPS? Within 48hrs Buryakov had been deported from the country. Agent Strzok was in communication with Gregg Cox of …
April 4, 2017 – Peter Strzok’s wife discovers Lisa Page affair on his phone, DOJ reveals
“Former FBI special agent Peter Strzok’s wife discovered his affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page on his phone in 2017, the Justice Department revealed in its response to his claims he was wrongfully fired. The department filed a 151-page motion to dismiss the wrongful termination lawsuit Strzok filed in August, with the DOJ arguing Strzok betrayed the trust placed in him …
April 06, 2017 – Strzok and Page discuss timing of upcoming NYT piece about Carter Page FISA, a week before publication
April 06, Strzok is talking with DOJ attorney Lisa Page about timing of upcoming @nytimes piece to be cleared by FBI assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan. The NYT piece is an article about the Carter FISA, being discussed a week before publication. The premeditation of this NYT piece is prima facie evidence of a “leak strategy”. Why would @FBI be authorizing the …
April 10, 2017 – Strzok wants to talk with Page about the ‘media leak strategy’ with the DOJ
April 10: Strzok wants to review the “LEAK STRAT” with Lisa before work. When he arrives at the office, all hell has broken loose! The new administration wants to change the “media leak regulations” due to Buryakov leak. The “media leak regs” being discussed refer to how aggressively the DOJ investigates reporters, news agencies, and other entities with first Amendment …
April 2017 – Texts reveal FBI and DOJ leaked information to the press to damage Trump
“Newly released text messages and documents obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reveal that senior members of the FBI and Department of Justice led a coordinated effort to leak unverified information to the press regarding alleged collusion with Russia to damage President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a letter sent by the committee to the DOJ Monday. …
April 11, 2017 – Comey’s statement for the record on his last conversation with Trump
Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence James B. Comey June 8, 2017 Chairman Burr, Ranking Member Warner, Members of the Committee Thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I was asked to testify today to describe for you my interactions with President-Elect and President Trump on subjects that I understand are of interest to …
April 11, 2017 – Leak Strategy is initiated, Andrew Weissmann briefs four AP reporters; WaPo’s Nakashima publishes first FISA story
April 11: Leak Strategy initiated. Weismann briefs 4 @AP reporters that result in at least 4 downstream articles, some cited in SCO warrants against Manafort. Essentially, @FBI cited a leak that the DOJ had facilitated just like in @carterwpage FISA. Also on Tues April 11, @nakashimae at @WaPo publish their FISA story for the first time. (@MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021)
April 11, 2017 – Mueller’s top investigator arranges meeting with reporters to discuss Manafort investigation
“Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller’s “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort. The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before …
April 11, 2017 – Judicial Watch: AP reporters push FBI to prosecute Manafort
“The Associated Press, founded in 1846 as a cooperative association of newspapers, has enjoyed a reputation for independence and fairness over the years. Lately, however, it has come under criticism for what some see as a left/liberal bias. Certainly, what we have just learned about its dealings with anti-Trump partisans in the Justice Department does nothing to improve our perception of …
April 12, 2017 – A Strzok/Page text reveals approximately when Jeff Sessions assigns John Durham to investigate leaks
Thanks to Sidney Powell and the defense team’s latest filing in the Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn case, John Durham and the people working under him are now revealed publicly to be exactly what I claimed they were: Silent professionals embarked on a great leak hunt that led them straight to the biggest national security case ever. Screenshots of newly disclosed text messages between former FBI …
April 12, 2017 – Federal prosecutors “promptly open an investigation” into Carter Page’s FISA leak to the media
According to federal prosecutors in the James Wolfe case, the FBI “promptly opened an investigation” into the leaks after @nakashimae’s article on April 11th. Given the security measures designed to protect the sensitive nature of the FISA, the pool of potential suspected leakers was small. The FBI learned that Wolfe had been involved in the logistical process for transporting the …
April 12, 2017 – In tandem with the media leak strategy, the NYT publishes article about Carter Page FISA warrant
April 12: @nytimes *follows* with their story, including a reach out to @GeorgePapa19 over the *false lead* for a FISA. (@MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021)
April 2017 – April 2019: The Fourth Branch of U.S. government targets Julian Assange for kidnapping or assassination
“On September 26, 2021, Yahoo News published an extensive article about the CIA targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 and the extreme conversations that were taking place at the highest levels of the U.S. government about how to control him. There is a much bigger story transparently obvious when overlapped with CTH research files on the Intelligence Branch of …
April 13, 2017 – British intelligence passed Trump associates’ communications with Russians on to US counterparts
“British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN. The communications were captured during routine surveillance of Russian officials and other Russians known to …
April 13, 2017 – GCHQ admits the British spy agency was digitally wiretapping Trump associates in 2015
“The British Guardian posted a report on April 13 claiming that its sources now admit that the British spy agency GCHQ was digitally wiretapping Trump associates, going back to late 2015. This was presumably when the December 2015 Moscow meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lt. General Michael Flynn took place. This runs contrary to the blanket nature of …
April 14, 2017 – Damning new Strzok text to Page: “The Times is angry with us about the WP scoop”
“A series of text messages released Wednesday reveal that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok was in contact with reporters at the New York Times and Washington Post regarding stories they published about the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and President Trump’s campaign during the spring of 2017, according to a series of texts obtained by SaraACarter.com. The …
April 14, 2017 – The NYT complains to Strzok they were shafted on the FISA story and were scooped by WaPo
April 14: @nytimes is bitching to Strzok abt getting shafted on FISA story *and* no HGCQ angle. They got scooped by WaPo *and* were fed inaccuracies. Strzok tells Kortan they were “dealing in good faith” as they were in the middle of “leak strategy” crisis mitigation. (@MonsieursGhost, 12/17/2021)
April 25, 2017 – Donna Shalala calls it a wrap as president and chief executive of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
“Donna Shalala, the former Clinton Cabinet secretary who brought dynamism and seasoned leadership to the Clinton Foundation after leaving the helm of the University of Miami, is returning to Miami and teaching — full time. After a two-year stint amid a bruising U.S. presidential campaign for the Clintons, Shalala, 76, called it a wrap Tuesday as president and chief executive …
April 25, 2017 – May 15, 2017: Mark Warner, Chris Steele’s lawyer/lobbyist, Adam Waldman, and the importance of Dan Jones
When Dianne Feinstein stepped down as Vice-Chair from the Senate Intel Committee after the 2016 election, it was Senator Mark Warner who took her place. This puts Warner on the Gang-of-Eight in 2017. Coincidentally, the Gang-of-Eight conduct all oversight over DOJ and FBI covert and counterintelligence operations…. including those covert actions that took place in 2016. (Text Messages Between Feinstein’s replacement, …
April 26, 2017 – An unsealed FISC Report reveals systematic abuses in accessing 702 data
“A damning 99-page unsealed ruling from the FISC, dated April 26, 2017, and issued by presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, provided further insight into additional FISA abuse engaged in by the Intelligence Community in relation to Section 702 data and minimization procedures. Section 702 permits the government to surveil foreign persons located outside the United States for the purpose of acquiring foreign …
April 26, 2017 – Rod Rosenstein is sworn in as the new Deputy Attorney General
“On April 26, 2017, Rosenstein found himself appointed as the new Deputy Attorney General. He was placed into a somewhat chaotic situation as Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the ongoing Russia investigation a little less than two months earlier on March 2, 2017. This effectively meant that no one in the Trump Administration had any oversight into the ongoing investigation being conducted …
April 26, 2017 – DOJ oversight conducted a review of Section 702 Acquired Information between November 2015-May 2016 and found 85% of U.S. persons queries were unlawful or non-compliant
“Research indicates the modern political exploitation of the NSA database, for weaponized intelligence surveillance of politicians, began mid 2012. The FISA-702 database extraction process, and utilization of the protections within the smaller intelligence community, was the primary process. Start by reviewing the established record from the 99-page FISC opinion rendered by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer on April 26th, 2017; and explain the …
April 26, 2017 – The FISC report reveals the Obama administration conducted political surveillance as early as mid-2012
“Former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia, Joe diGenova, discusses the declassification of intelligence documents relating to political surveillance; and the origin of the database abuses outlined by FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer. Given last weeks visit to Main Justice by congressman Mark Meadows; and considering the visit was specifically to review unredacted Page-Strzok-McCabe messages; it could be surmised …
May 1-2, 2017 – Bobulinski texts reveal Hunter Biden wants to avoid registering as foreign agent in Chinese business venture and a meeting with Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden
“Hunter Biden suggested setting up a shell company to do business with a Chinese firm in order to avoid registering as a foreign agent, and to be able to bid on contracts with the U.S. government, according to documents from May 2017 obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. A day after sending the message, Biden arranged a meeting between …
May 2, 2017 – Tony Bobulinski meets with Joe Biden at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski describes his May 2017 meeting with former Vice President Joe Biden at the Beverly Hilton in an interview with FOX News host Tucker Carlson. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com CARLSON: OK, so I want to fast forward to 2017, early May, 2017, and at this point you’ve agreed to become part of …
May 2, 2017 – New Huma Abedin emails reveal additional instances of Clinton sending and receiving classified emails through unsecure server
“Judicial Watch today released 894 pages of new State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent additional classified information through her unsecure clintonmail.com email account by top aide Huma Abedin. The Abedin emails also include repeated instances of Clinton’s detailed daily schedules being sent to top Clinton Foundation officials at …
May 8, 2017 – Strzok is texting with Page while Sally Yates is testifying and writes, “unmasking” is irrelevant, “incidental collection” is the “incorrect narrative”
(…) On May 8, 2017 Senator Lindsey Graham questioned former DAG Sally Yates and former DNI James Clapper. Within the questioning, Sally Yates tipped her hand. There was never an unmasking of Flynn because Flynn was a target, it was not an incidental collection. Sally Yates doesn’t directly say Flynn was a target, but by now we all know he …
May 8, 2017 – How sleeper patriot Carter Page reacts to the media leaks with a clever use of tradecraft
Weeks after FBI opened its investigation & narrowed to Wolfe as a suspect, Carter was emailing taunts to @WaPo & @nytimes reporters with James Wolfe *blind copied* as a recipient. This email from @carterwpage would as a tracer for the FISA leak recipient, directly identifying @nakashimae for prosecutors when she was the only reporter of 5 to “respond” to the “invisible” copied target, James Wolfe. Take a moment …
May 8-20, 2017 – Rod Rosenstein’s communications with Eric Holder, John Huber, other senior Obama officials and the media, at the same time he appoints Mueller
“Judicial Watch announced today it received 382 pages of documents showing former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s communications with former Obama officials, including Eric Holder and information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation. These documents were obtained in response to a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Justice …
May 9, 2017 – McCabe lies to FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) regarding media leaks
(…) On May 9, 2017, Rosenstein wrote a letter recommending FBI Director Comey be fired. The subject of letter was: Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI. Comey would be fired that day. Unknown to everyone in the Trump Administration, that same day Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was being interviewed by agents from the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) regarding apparent leaks that …
May 9, 2017 – Trump fires FBI Director Comey
“President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, the White House announced Tuesday afternoon. Trump fired Comey based on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters. “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with …
May 9, 2017 – Rod Rosenstein’s letter recommending Comey’s dismissal
“President Donald Trump followed the recommendation of his deputy attorney general when he fired FBI boss James Comey. What did Rod Rosenstein say? This is his letter in full. Memorandum for the Attorney General FROM: Rod J Rosenstein SUBJECT: Restoring public confidence in the FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long been regarded as our nation’s premier federal investigative …
May 9, 2017 – NSA chief Adm. Mike Rogers, explains ‘discrepancy’ over claim that Russia sought to boost Trump
NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers cast a dash of doubt Tuesday on the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia-tied hackers sought to help Donald Trump in the 2016 election, explaining for the first time in public testimony why his agency had only “moderate confidence” in that judgment. Testifying before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Rogers affirmed he and the NSA …
May 10, 2017 – Eric Ciaramella (CIA), Generals John Kelly and H.R. McMaster, conspire to get Trump before the Ukraine call
Did you all know that Eric Ciaramella tried to “whistleblow” and get Trump impeached BEFORE the Ukraine call? HR McMaster had Ciaramella (who was a CIA analyst) set up outside the Oval Office door. Ciaramella felt that Trump has coordinated the firing of Comey by consulting with… pic.twitter.com/b2oCMWas3Y — Truth Ninja (@TruthNinja316) March 12, 2024 Did you all know that …
May 10-17, 2017: Former top FBI lawyer, James Baker, details 2 Trump Cabinet officials are ‘ready to support’ 25th Amendment effort to remove Trump from office
“Former top FBI lawyer James Baker, in closed-door testimony to Congress, detailed alleged discussions among senior officials at the Justice Department about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, claiming he was told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said two Trump Cabinet officials were “ready to support” such an effort. (…) Baker did not identify the two …
May 10, 2017 – Andrew McCabe orders an obstruction of justice investigation into Trump, the next day he testifies there has been no interference to date
“Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says he ordered an obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump [the day] after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in 2017, to ensure the Russia probe wouldn’t “vanish in the night without a trace.” “I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible …
May 10 – 11, 2017 – DOJ OIG Report/Comey Memos: FBI efforts to secure information and devices from Comey’s office
(DOJ OIG Report/Comey Memos, page 33-34, 8/28/2019)
May 10, 2017 – McCabe notes on his briefing of Senate Intel Cmte, trying to pin something on General Flynn
Newly produced notes of Andrew McCabe show that at 5:15 p.m. on May 10, 2017, McCabe briefed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. They were trying very hard to pin something on General Flynn. Exhibit B. “Flynn – Open: nothing Closed: everything Blackmail: theoretically possible, not the strongest theory.
May 11, 2017 – McCabe testifies “there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date” – 5 days later Rosenstein and McCabe discuss wearing a wire to secretly record Trump
“On the morning of May 16, 2017, Rosenstein allegedly suggested to McCabe that he secretly record Trump. This remark was reported in a New York Times article that was sourced from memos from the now-fired McCabe. Rosenstein immediately issued a statement denying the accusations. The alleged comments by Rosenstein occurred at a meeting where McCabe was “pushing for the Justice …
May 11, 2017 – The New York Times publishes an article describing Comey’s one-on-one dinner with President Trump at the White House in January 2017 (Memo 2)
(DOJ OIG Report/Comey Memos, pages 35-36, 8/28/2019) (New York Times, 5/11/2017)
December 12, 2017 – Text message reveals Hunter Biden proposes meeting for dad, uncle and Chinese exec in NYC
Newly released messages from the House Ways and Means Committee appear to show Hunter Biden proposing a meeting in New York City between the boss of a Chinese energy company and Joe Biden, the former vice president at the time, along with Joe’s brother, Jim Biden. “Can you meet this evening early,” Hunter Biden asked Yadong Liu, CEO of CEFC Global Strategic …
May 13, 2017 – Emails reveal Hunter Biden planning to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese energy firm
“Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show. One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture. Biden …
May 14, 2017 – “Onward Together” Inside Hillary’s Latest Political Tax Scandal
“Most people are aware that “Onward Together” is a political organization to raise funds for the Democratic party, but what they don’t realize, is the fact that this tax-exempt 501(c)(4) is operating ILLEGALLY, on multiple levels. IRS laws, FEC documents, and Onward Together’s tax return create one heck of a recipe, burning for an investigation. Not only does Onward Together …
May 14, 2017 – James Comey leaks memos earlier than he officially claims
“Fired FBI chief James Comey was already plotting to share memos summarizing his conversations with President Trump with a pal who later leaked the info to the media before his supposed middle-of-the night epiphany about the president’s claim that he had “tapes” of their conversations. The discrepancies in his timeline, as outlined in the Justice Department’s top watchdog’s scathing, 83-page report …
May 15, 2017 – McCabe’s FBI tries to re-engage Christopher Steele after Comey is fired
“An Aug. 28, 2018, testimony before Congress by Ohr, which was reviewed for this article, sheds new light on McCabe’s involvement in the investigation. His testimony also illustrates how Steele and Simpson passed their information targeting Trump to the FBI, using Ohr as an unofficial back-channel. (…) In May 2017, the FBI suddenly decided to reach out to Steele through …
May 2017 – Perkins Coie turns over a copy of Seth Rich’s DNC laptop to the FBI in San Francisco
(…) According to this email from a redacted person to “Rush” at “LRA” (?), it was a redacted person from Perkins Coie who turned over a copy of Seth Rich’s DNC laptop to the FBI in San Francisco in May 2017. What was that again? Perkins Coie, legal counsel of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, has its fingerprints …
May 15, 2017 – Adam Schiff is connected to BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Investments, two companies named in the $7.4B Burisma/US-Ukraine corruption claim
Schiff is connected to both BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Investments, two companies that were named in the $7.4B Burisma/US-Ukraine corruption claim that was announced…https://t.co/enhuAplCUE https://t.co/WuEZfwdTGt pic.twitter.com/rzjVyDibGd — M3thods (@M2Madness) November 21, 2019
May 2017 – Rod Rosenstein Suggests Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment
“The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit. Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s …
May 16, 2017 – A Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit releases a new McCabe memo that offers new insight
“A 2019 Judicial Watch FOIA Lawsuit resulted in the release of a May 16, 2017, memo written by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. [Link Here] At the time of the FOIA release most people focused on Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein’s willingness to wear a wire to record the President; however, the memo content actually revealed much more. There are three …
May 16, 2017 – Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein meet with President Trump in the White House
With a larger portion of the U.S. electorate now beginning to realize there never was a Trump Russia-Collusion-Conspiracy case to begin with; and with people now realizing almost all of Mueller investigative time was spent gathering evidence for an ‘obstruction case’; and with new revelations from Andrew McCabe, John Dowd and Mueller officials overlayed on the previous Strzok/Page texts; we …
May 16, 2017 – Not obstruction: The FBI knows DOJ was preparing to fire Comey long before Trump orders it
“Newly declassified FBI memos provide startling new details that undercut the frenzied 2017 effort to investigate Donald Trump for obstruction, revealing the FBI knew Director James Comey’s firing had been conceived by Justice Department leadership long before the president pulled the trigger during a key moment in the Russia probe. The memos written in May 2017 by Acting Director Andrew …
May 16, 2017 – According to Andrew McCabe’s book, Robert Mueller left his cell phone behind after meeting with Trump in the Oval Office
“Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former acting FBI director, reveals in his new book that Robert Mueller temporarily left his cell phone behind after a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office and that the phone “later had to be retrieved.” (…) In his anti-Trump book, titled, “The Threat: How the F.B.I. Protects America in the Age of Terror and …
May 17, 2017 – A Rosenstein email conflicts with Mueller testimony that he was not interviewed for the FBI Director’s position
“Mueller testified under oath he did NOT interview with Trump for the job of FBI Director on May 16, 2017 Yet new FOIA’d emails show, DAG Rosenstein sending an email the very next day, May 17, saying that “Mueller” has now “withdrew from consideration for FBI Director” Mueller’s testimony to the House. Mueller is clear that he was never “applying” …
May 17, 2017 – Comey, Strzok and Page testimonies confirm the FBI began the Mueller probe before proving a connection between Trump and Russia
(…) “It’s a reflection of us still not knowing,” Page told Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) when questioned about texts she and Strzok exchanged in May 2017 as Robert Mueller was being named special counsel to take over the Russia investigation. With that statement, Page acknowledged a momentous fact: After nine months of using some of the most awesome surveillance powers afforded to …
May 17th, 2017 – Rosenstein appoints Mueller as Special Counsel, Strzok/Page text plans for the team
“May 17th, 2017 Mueller is appointed. The Strzok/Page text messages reveal discussions of team being assembled. Strzok notes “emailing with Aaron.” Well that’s Aaron Zebley former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s Chief of Staff who was selected for Special Counsel position. He’s also a partner at WilmerHale, and Strzok mentions to Page that she might find herself working at WilmerHale if …
May 18, 2017 – DOJ’s Scott Schools grants an ethics waiver to Robert Mueller and authorizes his appointment as special counsel
(…) The Justice Department is refusing to reveal details of the process that led up to former FBI Director Robert Mueller being granted an ethics waiver to serve as special counsel investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. In response to a POLITICO Freedom of Information Act request, the agency released a one-sentence memo …
May 18 – 19, 2017: Emails Show FBI Advised Comey to Consult with Mueller’s Office Prior to June 2017 Testimony
“Judicial Watch today released new emails from the Department of Justice (DOJ) showing that former FBI Director James Comey was advised by FBI officials in May 2017 to consult with Special Counsel Robert Mueller prior to testifying before any congressional committees regarding Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and his firing as FBI director. According to numerous news reports, …
May 18, 2017 – Lisa Page joins Robert Mueller’s special counsel team
(…) “Page testified that she joined the team of special counsel Robert Mueller around May 18, 2017—and that FBI agent Peter Strzok was considered for inclusion shortly thereafter. Page’s role was to “bridge the gap and transition between what we as a team knew and the evidence that we had gathered to date on the collusion investigation and sort of …
May 19, 2017 – Two days after Mueller is appointed, Strzok hesitates to join his team and tells Lisa Page, “because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there”
Newly released text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and his colleague Lisa Page reveal that Strzok was reluctant to join special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference because he feared the team wouldn’t find anything noteworthy. “You and I both know the odds are nothing,” Strzok said in a text to Page on May 19, 2017. “If …
May 20, 2017 – Hunter Biden partner James Gilliar text to Tony Bobulinski: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when you are face to face”
“U need to stress to H[unter], does he want to be the reason or factor that blows up his dad’s campaign,” James Gilliar told Tony Bobulinski about the specter of Hunter’s foreign business dealings torpedoing Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign plans. pic.twitter.com/akezdtsbOQ — Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 22, 2020
May 23, 2017 – Brennan lies; Gowdy claims a classified email can prove Brennan insisted the Steele dossier be included in the presidential intelligence community assessment (ICA)
“The Christopher Steele dossier was called “Crown Material” by FBI agents within the small group during their 2016 political surveillance operation. The “Crown” description reflects the unofficial British intelligence aspect to the dossier as provided by Steele. In May 2019 former House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy stated there are emails from former FBI Director James Comey that outline instructions from CIA …
May 16, 2017 – Andrew McCabe writes a confidential memo recounting details on the firing of James Comey
“The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing of Mr. McCabe’s predecessor, James B. Comey, according to several people familiar with the discussion. Mr. Comey’s firing is a central focus of the special counsel’s investigation into whether President Trump tried to obstruct the …
June 1, 2017 – Elizabeth Lee Beck, attorney suing the DNC, receives an odd call from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s Florida office
A bit of humorous news just came in regarding the ongoing lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee. According to a court filing, a “highly irregular” incident occurred on Thursday afternoon. Just before 5p on Thursday, Elizabeth Lee Beck’s office received a mysterious phone call. A caller with a voice that “sounded robotic and genderless – along the lines of the voice …
June 4, 2017 – Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann offers to drop Ukrainian oligarch’s bribery charges for dirt on Trump
“The ink was still drying on special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment papers when his chief deputy, the famously aggressive and occasionally controversial prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, made a bold but secret overture in early June 2017. Weissmann quietly reached out to the American lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with a tempting offer: Give us some dirt on Donald Trump in the Russia case, and Team Mueller might …
June-July, 2017 – DOJ documents show Andrew Weissmann leads the hiring effort for Mueller Special Counsel
“Judicial Watch announced today the U.S. Department of Justice released 73 pages of records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the investigation that targeted President Trump. Weissmann was formerly the Obama-era chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section. …
June 5-13, 2017 – Special Counsel prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, leads the hiring effort for the Mueller team
“According to 73 pages of records obtained by Judicial Watch, Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann led the hiring effort for the team that investigated the Trump campaign. Notably, Weissman attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party in 2016, and wrote a positive email to former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she refused to defend the Trump administration’s travel ban. And as you will …
June 2017 – Priestap’s testimony about the Strzok/Page affair notification
(…) “It was Priestap that sat down with Strzok and Page and told them he’d heard rumors about their ongoing affair. Priestap noted during his June 5 interview that he had this discussion “about a year ago,” placing the meeting in mid-2017. Priestap was informed of the possibility of the affair by one of Strzok’s two co-managers in the Clinton …
June 7, 2017 – The day before Comey testifies to congress, the FBI visits his home and collects four memos “as evidence”
A recent FOIA release from Judicial Watch (full pdf below) reveals that two of Mueller’s initial FBI agents, based on dates and redactions – likely Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, visited James Comey on June 7th, 2017, to retrieve a collection of his memos. (However, a word of caution, one of the memos was titled “last night at 6:30pm” and is being …
June 8, 2017 – Opinion: Coleen Rowley – Comey and Muller: Russiagate’s Mythical Heroes
“Shortly after former FBI Director Robert Mueller was announced as the special counsel for the Russia investigation, the screeching hordes of America’s “always wrong about everything” punditry class cheered in near unison, lauding the man as some sort of second coming. This sort of thing should always be seen as a red flag, and thanks to an excellent article written …
June 8, 2017 – Joe Biden pays nearly $2.75 million cash for Rehoboth Beach house within weeks of Hunter sending ‘threatening’ text to Chinese business partner demanding to close $10 million deal
Joe Biden paid nearly $2.75million CASH for Rehoboth Beach house within weeks of Hunter sending ‘threatening’ text to Chinese business partner demanding to close $10million deal. (…) DailyMail.com has discovered that then-private-citizen Biden, who had spent virtually all his adult life in public service, bought the home for slightly under $2.75million – in cash. And making the transaction even stranger …
June 9, 2017 – The State Department is reviewing Clinton’s mishandling of classified information, yet she and her aides retain their security clearances
“The State Department confirmed that it is continuing to review the mishandling of classified information that passed through Secretary Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email server as she and seven former aides retain access to sensitive information. In a recent letter from the State Department to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Department outlined its procedures for safeguarding and addressing potential …
June 11, 2017 – Lindsey Graham mentions the document proving Clinton-Lynch collusion: Comey “never mentioned it was a fake”
“Sen. Lindsey Graham tells ‘Face The Nation‘ host John Dickerson that in his classified testimony, former FBI director James Comey never said that alleged documents proving collusion between the Clinton campaign and Barack Obama’s Justice Department was fake, and that Russia might still have copies. The story has been floating around Washington that James Comey made the decision to go …
June 13, 2017 – FOIA documents show evidence of a Weissmann/Mueller entrapment scheme against George Papadopoulos
“Recently release FOIA documents into the special counsel team of Robert Mueller reveal the remarkable trail of a 2017 entrapment scheme conducted by Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann to target George Papadopoulos. (Hat Tip to Undercover Huber and Rosie Memos who have been reviewing documents.) Before digging into the details it is important to note this is a DOJ/FBI entrapment operation being conducted in 2017 by the special …
June 22, 2017 – Nancy Pelosi explains the political tactic called the wrap-up smear
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi discusses the political tactic “The Wrap-Up Smear.” She is explaining to her audience how Republicans use this tactic, but if she were being honest, the Democrats are well known for projecting their own behavior onto others. We are witnessing this happen to Republicans in Russiagate, Spygate, and to anyone they accuse of being a Russian …
June 22, 2017 – Grassley, Feinstein, Graham and Whitehouse write to former AG Lynch with questions about the Russian intel that alleges she made private assurances to Clinton aide, Amanda Renteria
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham, and Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse sought information about alleged political interference by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The bipartisan inquiry comes as the Judiciary Committee is examining …
June 29, 2017 – FBI submits third FISA warrant application on Carter Page suggesting his plan to write a book is proof of Russia collusion
“Nine months into a relentless effort to spy on Carter Page with the most awesome surveillance tools the U.S. possesses, the FBI had no proof the former Trump adviser had colluded with Russia to hijack the 2016 election. In fact, the bureau hid from the FISA court the fact that it knew Page was actually a U.S. asset who had …
July 5, 2017 – Clapper confirms the “17 intelligence agencies” Russia story was false
“During congressional testimony on July 5, 2017, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirms that the story originally reported by the New York Times that “17 intelligence agencies” confirmed Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 election has been false all along.
July 12, 2017 – A recently declassified 302 report reveals the Mueller team learned early on there was no Trump Russia collusion and the interpreter at Trump Tower meeting exonerates Trump Jr.
“A tranche of FBI 302s (summaries of agent interviews) were declassified this week via a Freedom of Information Act request. Among them was a 302 from a July 12, 2017 interview with State Department translator Anatoli Samochornov, who attended the now infamous June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting. Fox News Contributor and investigator Dan Bongino explains the significance of this …
July 13 & 29, 2017 – FBI conducts two premise searches and collects improper cell phone pictures while spying on Carter Page
“In addition to filing inaccurate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, hiding evidence of innocence from the courts and falsifying a government document, the bureau collected inappropriate cell phone photos during two secret premises searches in summer 2017 while spying on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The revelations surfaced belatedly this week when the government declassified once-redacted footnotes from Justice Department Inspector …
July 14, 2017 – Lisa Page leaves the Mueller team and is asked to make sure she doesn’t delete any text messages
mishandling classified info. The “investigators” knew the rules for retention/preservation docs. CONSIDER: Statutes 18 USC 2071, 641, 1361 + 1663 “Protection of Government Property/Public Records + Documents” READ https://t.co/vacfiQrSzp — Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) September 11, 2020 (DOJ Docs, 9/10/2020)
July 17, 2017 – The improper association of Victor Pinchuk with Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton, and covered up by the US Media, DOJ and IMF
“Never in the field of American conflict with Russia has so much wool pulled over the eyes been owed to so few sheep. That was during the losing presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Now, in the investigations of President Donald Trump and his family, it’s a case of so many sheep producing so little wool. The case of the …
July 2017-September 2018: Emails show Mueller team has Lisa Page’s phone, yet claimed it was lost
“An official who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation wrote in a recently released email that he or she was in possession of an iPhone belonging to Lisa Page three days after the former FBI lawyer’s last day on the job and at a time when the device was thought to have been lost. The special counsel’s office …
July 18th, 2017 – Why Did DOJ Deputy Asst. AG Rod Rosenstein Reauthorize FISA Warrant on July 18th, 2017? – Mueller and Rosenstein Timeline
“One of the most frequent questions about Deputy Asst. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein circles around his decision to reauthorize the FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant used against Carter Page and by extension the Trump campaign. In this outline we take the timeline and overlay new information that helps to understand what was going on: Why did Rosenstein renew that sketchy FISA …
July 19, 2017 – Strzok testifies Pientka wrote Flynn’s FBI 302 report, evidence suggests he lied
(Timeline editor’s note: All documents posted in this timeline entry can be found in Sidney Powell’s 10/24/19 court filing here.) On 07/19/17 Strzok was interviewed by a Senior Assistant Special Counsel & an FBI Supervisory Special Agent This was Strzok’s “exit” interview after he’d been forced to leave the Special Counsel due to discovery of his biased text messages It’s a …
July 20, 2017 – Grassley writes Rosenstein re collusion between Chalupa, the Ukrainian government, the Clinton campaign, and the DNC
(Read more: Senate Judiciary Committee, 7/20/2017) (Archive)
July – September, 2017: Released Text Messages And Emails Show Mueller Team’s Cozy Relationship With Press
Released messages document how Mueller’s spokesman took dozens of meetings with reporters over three months in 2017. Reporters from nearly every major media outlet have been jockeying for influence and favoritism within the special counsel’s office. One awkward exchange illustrates a reporter from CNN trashing an article written by White House correspondent Jim Acosta. “Hundreds of pages of emails and …
July 24, 2017 – Intel vets challenge ‘Russia Hack’ evidence
In a memo to President Trump, a group of former U.S. intelligence officers, including NSA specialists, cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key Jan. 6 “assessment” that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails last year. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Was the “Russian Hack” an Inside Job? Executive Summary Forensic studies …
July 26, 2017 – FBI conducts predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home
“FBI agents raided the home in Alexandria, Va., of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, arriving in the pre-dawn hours late last month and seizing documents and other materials related to the special counsel investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The raid, which occurred without warning on July 26, signaled an aggressive new approach by special counsel Robert S. Mueller …
July 27, 2017 – The House Judiciary Committee makes a formal request to take a second look at the Clinton Foundation and email investigations
(Timeline editor’s note: While preparing this timeline entry, I discovered the links provided by Jeff Carlson to Rep. Goodlatte’s press release and letter, are no longer working links on the House Judiciary Committee website. I called Rep. Nadler’s office to ask why those documents are no longer available and they could not (or would not) give me an answer. With …
July 27, 2017: The FBI sets up a sting operation against Papadopoulos using a suitcase full of $10,000 in cash
“Washington power couple Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing appeared on Sebastian Gorka’s Salem Radio talk show “America First” Thursday, to talk about what they called a blatant FBI sting operation against former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos. During the show, Toensing, an attorney who partners with her husband at the Washington DC law firm diGenova & Toensing, accused the FBI of …
August, 2017 – Special counsel Robert Mueller removes Peter Strzok from his team of investigators
“It was revealed on Saturday that Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team in August after the Department of Justice’s inspector general discovered that he exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with his mistress, an FBI lawyer named Lisa Page who also worked on the Mueller team. Strzok was sent to the FBI’s human resources department. The circumstances of the …
August 2, 2017 – A secret memo reveals Rosenstein expands Mueller’s mandate
“Paul Manafort’s legal team has forced disclosure of a troubling secret memo issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that expanded the scope of the Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation beyond allegations of Russian election interference. Manafort’s lawyers have moved to have his initial and the subsequent superseding indictments for business dealings years ago dismissed because, among other reasons, Mueller had no legal authority beyond …
August 2, 2017 – Mueller outlines Rosenstein August 2nd, Scope Memo: investigate claims in Steele Dossier
“On Pages #11 and #12 of the Weissmann/Mueller report, the special counsel team outlines the purpose and intent of the probe as delivered by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Within these pages Mueller outlines the August 2nd Scope Memo that has previously been hidden and remains redacted through today. Read the highlighted portion carefully to understand the scope of the instructions. Note …
August 3, 2017 – Dana Rohrabacher cites ex-intel VIPS Report in denouncing Russian hacking
“Republican Congressman Rep. Rohrabacher released a statement earlier this month which indicated he had drawn congress’s attention to a Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) report. The VIPS memorandum, which was addressed to President Trump, stated that the DNC most likely had not been hacked, by Russia or anyone else. The report, signed by respected intelligence leaders such as former NSA technical …
August 5, 2017 – Biden and Chinese business partners form Hudson West III, funded entirely by the Chinese
Five days later, on August 5, 2017, Biden and Chinese formed Hudson West III, funded entirely by Chinese. Ultimately Hunter and Uncle Jim embezzled all the cash. See https://t.co/W3Uu0JulQa pic.twitter.com/y7pry43dal — Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) June 22, 2023
August 6, 2017 – The DOJ releases a partially redacted FOIA doc by Carter Page and he tweets an unredacted copy of the email
In response to a congressional FOIA request, the Department of Justice FOIA library releases records concerning Fusion GPS, Chris Steele and Nellie Ohr from January 13, 2016 – July 3, 2018. Interim – Part 1 (March 15, 2018 – June 28, 2018) Interim – Part 2 (January 5, 2018 – March 8, 2018) Interim – Part 3 (March 6, 2017 – January …
August 11, 2017 – Evidence is assembled by a private firm, FBH Analytics LLC, who are ex-federal criminal investigators alleging the Clinton Foundation engaged in illegal activities
(…) “Last week, news broke about a Clinton Foundation whistleblower who was the target of a very well publicized FBI raid. The public cover story about that raid went like this: Whistleblower Dennis Nathan Cain suddenly was outed publicly and it became known he had thousands of incriminating documents related to the Clinton Foundation, so he was almost instantly raided …
August 11, 2017 – Feds receive whistleblower evidence alleging Clinton Foundation “engaged in illegal activities”
“When a House subcommittee chairman bangs his gavel next week to convene an unprecedented investigative hearing into the Clinton Foundation, two questions will linger as preeminent: Is the Clinton family charity really the international do-gooder that earned a perfect four-star rating from Charity Navigator, or does it suffer from corruption and illegalities as conservatives allege? And if it is the …
August 2017 – David Archey joins Mueller’s team after Peter Strzok is removed
“As we discovered earlier this year, Mueller’s lead FBI agent for the corrupt Russia collusion-conspiracy investigation, was David W. Archey. Archey was selected by Robert Mueller when FBI Agent Peter Strzok was removed. The Mueller probe took over the counterintelligence investigation May 17, 2017, a few months later Special Agent Peter Strzok was removed (July) and David W. Archey was …
August 22, 2017 – Co-founder of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, testifies the dossier’s first “pre-election report” was useless and not believable
The first of Steele’s 16 “pre-election reports” is submitted to Fusion GPS on June 20, 2016, and alleges that Russia has been cultivating Trump for five years and has compromising material from the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow. Even though a number of Americans still believe the “Golden Showers” video exists, in Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on August …
September 2, 2017 – Opinion: It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s
By: Andrew MCCarthy (…) “In his [Obama’s] April 10 comments, Obama made the obvious explicit: He did not want the certain Democratic nominee, the candidate he was backing to succeed him, to be indicted. Conveniently, his remarks (inevitably echoed by Comey) did not mention that an intent to endanger national security was not an element of the criminal offenses Clinton was …
September 7, 2017 – Brazile promises Bernie she would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process
“Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call. I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether …
September 8, 2017 – Susan Rice’s testimony on being out of Russiagate loop doesn’t add up
“Susan Rice, the vice presidential contender with a high-profile history of questionable public statements, has another dubious claim in her past that until now has escaped scrutiny. Rice swore under oath that as President Obama’s national security adviser she was never told about the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. But former FBI Director James Comey testified that Rice was present when he …
September 10, 2017 – “Inclusive” Hillary tells Americans: “If you don’t support Democrats, go somewhere else.”
“Hillary Clinton has a message for Bernie Bros, Democratic Socialists and other constituencies of the “Dirtbag Left.” (…) Demonstrating that she clearly hasn’t moved on from the embarrassment she suffered at the hands of Bernie Sanders, who nearly defeated her in the 2016 Democratic Primary after riding a wave of support for his socialist agenda (something that polls suggest is …
September, 2017 – Clinton attorney, Marc Elias, quietly sits next to Podesta as he denies any campaign involvement in the Russian Dossier
“Yesterday, we discussed the potentially precarious ethical position of Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer Marc Elias, who allegedly denied media reports that the Clinton campaign had any connection to the controversial Russian Dossier. After the Washington Post ran an extensive story on how the Clinton Campaign and Democratic National Committee hired controversial research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump …
September 19, 2017 – Rice tells House investigators why she unmasked senior Trump officials
“Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN. The New York meeting preceded a separate effort by the UAE to facilitate a back-channel communication between Russia and …
September 21, 2017 – The Biden Foundation uses office space within the law firm Perkins Coie, then shares office suite with Hunter and Gongwen Dong (CEFC)
Interesting.. Hunter Biden requested keys for new ‘office mates’ Joe Biden, and Gongwen Dong, ’emissary’ for CEFC Chair Ye Jianming – And here’s a Perkins Coie connection:https://t.co/YoZp2xDA49 pic.twitter.com/erEy040gYt — BenjaminT /Boycott 2022 Genocide Olympics (@BenjaminT0001) April 16, 2021 (…) In the email, Hunter Biden also requests keys for Gongwen Dong, whom he describes as an “emissary” for Chairman Ye Jianming …
September 21, 2017 – Hunter Biden calls his father and Chinese business partner, Gongwen Dong, ‘office mates’
“Hunter Biden sent an email to the manager of his Washington, D.C. office building in September 2017 asking her to make keys for his “office mates” Joe Biden and Gongwen Dong, who he said was the “emissary” for the chairman of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC. (…) “[P]lease have keys made available for new office mates,” Hunter Biden wrote in …
October 1, 2017 – Former top FBI lawyer, James Baker, reveals John Durham is investigating him for media leaks
“The former top lawyer at the FBI has been under federal investigation for leaking to the media, a letter from House Republicans revealed Tuesday. The letter from GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows cited the transcript of a congressional interview with former General Counsel James Baker and his lawyer last fall, where the probe conducted by seasoned U.S. Attorney …
October 4, 2017 – Emails show Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch warn the senior director of McCain Institute about Burisma corruption
“Judicial Watch announced today that it received 210 pages of records from the State Department which show that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings. During her November 2019 testimony in the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, Yovanovitch told lawmakers that she knew little about Burisma. (…) …
October 5, 2017 – George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI
“Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to one count of lying to FBI agents about the nature of his interactions with “foreign nationals” who he thought had close connections to senior Russian government officials. The plea was unsealed Monday. According to court documents, Papadopoulos misstated the timing of his interactions with an overseas professor [Joseph Mifsud] who apparently had connections …
Oct. 10, 2017 – Tracing the Origins of Congressional Democrats’ ‘Obstruction’ Strategy
(…) Brookings produced a 108-page report, “Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump,” authored by Barry Berke, Noah Bookbinder, and Norman Eisen, on Oct. 10, 2017. They followed up with a 177-page second edition on Aug. 22, 2018, which also came with a lengthy appendix. Eisen, a senior fellow at Brookings, served as White House special counsel for ethics and …
October 13, 2017 – Samantha Power testifies intel officials made ‘unmasking’ requests in her name
“House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday that President Obama’s former United Nations ambassador has testified that not all of the “unmasking” requests made in her name were directed by her. Samantha Power testified in Gowdy’s committee last week, and Fox News reported weeks before her appearance that she was thought to have made as many …
October 16, 2017 – Grassley: Mueller team mischaracterizes Trump campaign emails in court filing
“The special counsel’s office fed “speculation and innuendo” about possible collusion with Russia by withholding key details from emails cited in a court filing in the case of former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, a top Republican senator alleged in a newly released letter. “The public deserves to have the full context for the information the Special Counsel chooses to release. …
October 20, 2017 – Rosenstein’s third scope memo authorizes Mueller team to investigate Michael Flynn Jr; Flynn Sr. agrees to plea deal a month later
“The original authorization for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was May 17th, 2017. However, the released Weissmann report shows there were two additional scope memos authorizing specific targeting of the Mueller probe. The second scope memo was August 2nd, 2017, OUTLINED HERE, and is an important part of the puzzle that helps explain the corrupt original purpose of the …
October 20, 2017 – Rod Rosenstein issues a third scope memo to Robert Mueller, giving his team ammunition and authority to investigate specific targets
UPDATED: The released Weissmann/Mueller report showed after the origination authorization in May 2017 there were two additional scope memos authorizing specific targeting of the Mueller probe. The second scope memo was August 2nd, 2017, OUTLINED HERE, and is an important part of the puzzle that helps explain the corrupt original purpose of the special counsel. [Now Confirmed Here] Generally, the second …
October 20, 2017 – Court filings reveal Fusion GPS made payments to three reporters
“Newly filed court documents confirm that Fusion GPS, the company mostly responsible for the controversial “Trump dossier” on presidential candidate Donald Trump, made payments to three journalists between June 2016 until February 2017. The revelation could be a breakthrough for House Republicans, who are exploring whether Fusion GPS used the dossier, which was later criticized for having inaccurate information on …
October 20, 2017 – Michael Flynn Jr. becomes a target of Mueller’s team
Brandon Van Grack used a corrupt reading of FARA laws (since rejected by 2 courts) to target Mike Flynn Jr. Not to prosecute Flynn Jr., but to force General Flynn to plea. Flynn Jr. became an official target on 10/20/17. Flynn signed the plea deal on 11/30/17. HT @lastrefuge2 (Read more: @Techno_Fog, 11/29/2019) (Archive)
October 24, 2017 – CIA director Mike Pompeo meets with former NSA official, William Binney, to discuss the DNC “leak” vs “hack” theory
“CIA director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence. Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security Agency …
October 24, 2017 – Trump urges CIA director Mike Pompeo to meet with former NSA official, William Binney
“CIA Director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence. Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security …
October 24, 2017 – Former Podesta Group executive says Mueller team is focusing primarily on Russian access to the Obama administration, the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One deal
“Tucker Carlson gave an explosive monologue last night after a former executive of the Podesta Group contacted the Fox host with “direct personal knowledge” of a report that former FBI director Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel is investigating the Washington Lobbying firm founded by John and Tony Podesta. The former executive who has been “extensively” interviewed by Mueller’s team, said the FBI probe is now focusing on people in Washington who have …
October 25, 2017 – Editorial: When Scandals Collide – Clinton funded the “Trump/Russia Dossier”
By: Andrew McCarthy (…) “we have learned finally, courtesy of the Washington Post, that Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the notorious “Trump Dossier,” was funded by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Of course, the Clinton campaign and the DNC always want layers of deniability and obfuscation – and let’s note that it has …
October 31, 2017 – Editorial: The Papadopoulos Case
By: Andrew C. McCarthy (…) “Papadopoulos is a climber who was clearly trying to push his way into Trump World. We recall that much of the Republican foreign-policy clerisy shunned Trump during the campaign. Thus did comparatively obscure people like Carter Page get seats at the table. George Papadopoulos was another of these: a 30-year-old who graduated from DePaul in …
November 1, 2017 – Clinton defends campaign funding for Steele dossier
“Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended her campaign lawyer’s decision to pay for research that showed up in a salacious dossier about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. In an interview on “The Daily Show,” Clinton also dismissed any parallels between her campaign’s use of opposition research and Russian election interference that may have benefited Trump. “I think most serious people understand …
November 1, 2017 – Mifsud: “But do you know which is the only foundation of which I am a member? The Clinton Foundation, think a little. Between us, my thoughts are on the left”
From the Italian newspaper, la Repubblica, and translated via Google Chrome: The article is titled: The Russian-Trump contact prof: “It is true, I acted as a mediator but I am Clinton and left” (…) “Joseph Mifsud is the Maltese lecturer – who according to the Russiagate inquiry – would have approached George Papadopoulos, Trump’s advisor during the electoral campaign, opening …
November 8, 2017 – Translator at Trump Tower meeting testifies to previously interpreting for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, President Obama
“Anatoli Samochornov, a Russian translator who was present at the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with campaign officials, testified that he was previously an interpreter for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama.” (…) “Now it has emerged that, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Samochornov described his work personally interpreting on one occasion for Clinton, “two …
November 14, 2017 – The Russian-American lobbyist who attended the Trump Tower meeting, knows Clinton and her inner circle
“The Russian-American lobbyist who attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting had contacts with members of Hillary Clinton’s inner circle and knew Clinton herself, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017. “I knew [Clinton]; I knew some people who worked on her campaign,” the lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in closed-door testimony on Nov. 14. Akhmetshin, a …
November 2017 – K.T. McFarland says Mueller interrogators put her through ‘hell’ and left her ‘traumatized’
“Longtime Republican politico K.T. McFarland said in a radio interview Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team pressured her for “20, 30, 40 hours of hell” to either cop a plea or implicate other Trump associates in crimes, even though she didn’t think she or they did anything wrong. McFarland, who served a four-month stint under Trump’s short-lived national security …
November 22, 2017 – Jeff Sessions orders further scrutiny of Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation
“After it claimed no such document existed, the Justice Department just unearthed a letter Matt Whitaker delivered to the Utah U.S. attorney directing a review of how the department handled the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One issues. Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber. Matt Whitaker, who was Sessions’ …
November 22, 2017 – Chinese investors sue Terry McAuliffe and Clinton brother Anthony Rodham over green-car investments
“Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech Automotive, an electric car company that appears to be struggling to survive. A group of 32 Chinese citizens filed the suit last week in Fairfax County, Virginia court, claiming that they were swindled out …
November 24, 2017 – A former Clinton Foundation official is tied to a Chinese kindergarten embroiled in bizarre child sex abuse scandal
“A former Clinton Foundation official who is now an independent director at a company that operates private schools in China has found himself embroiled in a bizarre child abuse scandal involving needles, pills, “brown syrup,” nudity, and sexual molestation, according to parents. The head of a Beijing kindergarten has been fired after China launched a nationwide investigation into a chain …
November 30, 2017 – General Flynn signs a plea agreement
(Flynn Plea Agreement/Scribd)
November 30, 2017 – Ohr admits there are missing FBI 302 reports for some of his meetings with Steele and that he had 2 other FBI handlers in addition to Pientka
(…) “Ohr testified that he maintained contact with Steele beyond the date of the final 302—but this was either not documented in FBI 302s or the 302s weren’t provided to congressional investigators: Q: “On page 2 of the letter it lists 12 separate dates and 302s where the FBI interviewed you indicating the first interview took place on November 22, …
December 1, 2017 – CNN: White House claims Obama admin approved Flynn calls with Russian ambassador
“The White House said on Friday that it was the Obama administration that authorized former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during President Trump’s transition, according to CNN. Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak in the month before Trump took office, the first current or former …
December 1, 2017 – Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI
“Former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to a process crime of lying to FBI investigators about the content of a December 29th phone call with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. The conversation occurred the same day that then-president Barack Obama announced sanctions against Russia for its interference in the 2016 election. This is the same misleading information …
December 4, 2017 – Podesta testimony: Hillary Clinton knew in 2016 about Russia dirt digging on Trump
“In recently unsealed testimony to Congress, former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta acknowledged that both he and Hillary Clinton were aware that her campaign had purchase opposition research and was looking for dirt on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 election. (…) In a second appearance before the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017, Podesta testified that Clinton …
December 7, 2017 – The judge overseeing the prosecution of Michael Flynn, has been recused from the case
“The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday. According to a court filing, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, who presided over a Dec. 1 hearing where Flynn pleaded guilty …
December 7, 2017 – Opinion: THE BIG UGLY – Why U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras Recusal From Mike Flynn Case is a Big Deal
“Last night news broke that U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras “has been recused” from the case overseeing the prosecution of General Mike Flynn. Details are vague. According to Reuters, both the judge and the Flynn legal team have yet to comment. (…) Obviously, the customary reason for recusal is when there is a conflict of interest between the case …
December 12, 2017 – Judge Sullivan orders Mueller to turn over exculpatory evidence to Lt. General Michael Flynn’s legal team
On December 12th, 2017, Judge Sullivan ordered Robert Mueller to turn over to the Flynn defense team, anything that could be considered exculpatory: (…) if the government has identified any information which is favorable to the defendant but which the government believes is not material, the government shall submit the material to the Court for in camera review. (Order of Judge Sullivan …
December 13, 2017 – David Kramer’s deposition reveals he had contact with at least 14 members of the media regarding the Steele dossier
David Kramer, a longtime associate of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), revealed in an unsealed deposition that he had contact with at least 14 members of the media regarding the Steele dossier—a collection of 17 memos containing unverified allegations against Donald Trump. Additionally, Kramer gave a full copy of the unverified dossier to then-Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council Celeste Wallander, …
December 15, 2017 – FBI informant, William Douglas Campbell, is interviewed by FBI agents from Arkansas, regarding Clinton donors connected to Uranium One
(…) In his first on-camera interview, William Douglas Campbell told The Hill he was interviewed for about five hours in December by FBI agents from Little Rock, Ark., who were investigating whether donations to the Clinton’s charitable empire were used to influence U.S. nuclear policy during the Obama years. (…) “Campbell worked as an FBI undercover informant from 2008 through …
Dec. 18, 2017 – Hunter Biden agrees to defend China spy chief, Patrick Ho, charged with bribery, money-laundering and for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
“Federal investigators obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against one of Hunter Biden’s Chinese business associates, suggesting that the executive was suspected of acting as a covert agent of a foreign government. Prosecutors revealed the existence of at least one FISA warrant against Chi Ping Patrick Ho, known as Patrick Ho, in a Feb. 8, 2018 court filing obtained by The …
December 20, 2017 – The transcript of FBI’s Michael Gaeta is central to Russiagate
(…) “While the public has heard the story of many of the interviewees before, one of the transcripts may be the most complete account yet from a key figure in what has come to be known as “Russiagate.” Specifically, his role in allowing the now infamous Steele dossier to become the cornerstone in the FBI obtaining a FISA spy warrant …
December 21, 2017 – Andrew McCabe testimony to House Oversight and Judiciary Committees – Transcript
(Andrew McCabe Transcript 12/21/2017)
December 21, 2017 – Julian Assange’s Christmas Present
“…Throughout the months of November and December Wikileaks and Anonymous Scandinavia were throwing out teaser videos regarding a big Christmas present coming. The videos featured the 12 days of Christmas, and with each video there was a new disclosure of the corruption being exposed within the U.S. government. On December 21, 2017 Julian retweeted Wikileaks tweet regarding a CryptoKitties donation …
December 21, 2017 – Trump signs an EO that allows the freezing of US-housed assets belonging to foreigners or entities deemed “serious human rights abusers” or of those who “engage in corruption”
“The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along with government officials and executives of foreign corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, and corruption related …
December 21, 2017 – Prosecutors ask FBI agents for info on Uranium One deal
“On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News. The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department’s …
December 21, 2017 – Pence: I knew Flynn lied to me about Russian contacts when he was fired
“Vice President Mike Pence told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan Thursday that he knew former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied to him about his contacts with the Russians when Flynn was fired in February. Brennan spoke with Pence during the vice president’s surprise trip to Afghanistan. Flynn, who’s now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian election interference, …
December 21, 2017 – Trump EO targets 13 individuals with ties to the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, or their associates
“The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along with government officials and executives of foreign corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, and corruption related …
December 23, 2017 – Aaron Maté interviews Guardian reporter Luke Harding about Trump Russia collusion and the enabling of questionable evidentiary standards
Amid news the Mueller probe could extend through 2018, Guardian reporter Luke Harding and TRNN’s Aaron Mate discuss Russiagate and Harding’s new book “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.” TRANSCRIPT AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Maté. 2017 is almost over, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is not. In fact, …
December 26, 2017 – The anatomy of Hillary Clinton’s $84 million money-laundering scheme
In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of my client, Alabama engineer Shaun McCutcheon, in his challenge to the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) outdated “aggregate limits,” which effectively limited how many candidates any one donor could support. Anti-speech liberals railed against McCutcheon’s win, arguing it would create supersized “Joint Fundraising Committees” (JFCs). In court, they claimed these JFCs would …
December 27, 2017 – Accused “Russian hackers” of DNC admit to helping the U.S. and Ukraine, not Russia
(…) I explored Shaltai Boltai’s confession to the FBI that they were the DNC hackers. Shaltai Boltai (aka Humpty Dumpty) tried to confess to the FBI after they were caught by the Russian government for treason. They hoped to get extradited to the USA. Remember that fact for the moment. Shaltai Boltai’s Yevgeny Nikulin was interviewed by the FBI. According to Disobedient Media’s …
1997 – 2017 – Congress used a $17 million dollar secret “slush fund” for hush money payments to victims of sexual misconduct
(…) Meanwhile, our elected officials are dipping into our tax dollars to clean up all their messes. Don’t forget revelations from a few years ago that Congress has its own secret slush fund of hush money—all courtesy of you, the hapless taxpayer. Funny how that works, it’s like one rule for them, and another for everyone else. Indeed, Office of …
December 31, 2017 – Clinton’s resistance group, Onward Together, pockets millions from the DCCC
“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which works to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, disbursed millions of its funds to Hillary Clinton’s “resistance” group since late December 2017, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The DCCC made the millions in payments to Onward Together, a nonprofit founded by Clinton following her loss to President Donald Trump, for its …