(…) “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 …