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and Hunter Biden served on the board of the Truman National Security Project between 2017 and 2019, according to an archived version of the …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 …