“When ODNI James Clapper walked into the oval office on January 4, 2017, with “tech cuts” (transcript excerpts) from the Flynn/Kislyak phone call, essentially Clapper infected the White House with a paper record that the Obama administration was aware of the FBI investigating the incoming administration. Re-creating plausible deniability was the primary motive behind the January 5th meeting and the subsequent Susan Rice …
August 3, 2020 – Were “contractors” extracting business and financial secrets from the NSA to sell/trade?
“Lots of discussions amid multiple circles about what West Texas USAO John Bash might be looking into. Is he looking back in time into the FISA(702) abuses that took place during the 2016 primary season?…. That would be in addition to the familiar “unmasking” aspect?… and, if yes, what would that indicate? Short answer is: no-one is certain. AG Barr did …
August 4, 2020 – Senators Grassley and Johnson write to Pelosi, Schumer, Warner and Schiff, warning of their false narratives for political purposes
Senators Grassley and Johnson write a letter to Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader Schumer, Senator Mark Warner, and Congressman Adam Schiff: “It is certainly our goal to eradicate foreign influence from our elections. But your use of this issue to knowingly and recklessly promote false narratives for political purposes is completely contrary to that goal.”
August 4, 2020 – FBI raids the offices of Ukraine oligarch Igor Kolomoisky in Ohio and Florida
“The FBI on Tuesday raided the Cleveland offices of a real estate company tied to a Ukrainian oligarch that owns several downtown buildings. FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said agents were searching the offices of the Optima Management Group in One Cleveland Center at East 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue. Optima is a conglomerate of companies across the United States …
August 6, 2020 – Justice Department seeks forfeiture of two commercial properties purchased with funds misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine
“The United States filed two civil forfeiture complaints today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleging that commercial real estate in Louisville, Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas, both acquired using funds misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine, are subject to forfeiture based on violations of federal money laundering statutes. Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of …
August 09, 2020 – Senator Ron Johnson subpoenas FBI Director, ex-State official as Russia-Ukraine probe intensifies
“A powerful Senate committee chairman has subpoenaed FBI Director Chris Wray and a former State Department official in an intensifying investigation into possible U.S. corruption in Russia and Ukraine and declared there is evidence Joe Biden’s family engaged in a “glaring conflict of interest.” Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson announced the actions Monday, strongly accusing …
August 9, 2020 – Sen. Graham asks who in FBI gave false dossier talking points to SSCI … Sleuths find McCabe testified to SSCI that day
“It would be an extreme long-shot if these two documented events were not analogous. Senator Lindsay Graham asked today (Go Deep), who was the FBI official that delivered a set of false talking points to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on February 14,2018? Now we look within the SSCI Russian Active Measures Report… [Page #10, Footnote #25] [Hat Tip …
August 11, 2020 – Igor Danchenko and a 34 Month Long DOJ/FBI Cover-Up Operation
“CTH friend, researcher and producer John Spiropoulos helps connect the dots within the operation to cover-up corrupt activity by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Christopher Wray, Dana Boente and the entire special counsel group. In this video John walks us through the internal evidence showing how the FBI intentionally hid the statements by Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source Igor Danchenko. …
August 11, 2020 – Flynn hearing: DOJ lawyers hint at new evidence that led Barr to drop charges against Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn’s case took center stage again Tuesday, as his attorney Sidney Powell argued to the D.C. Circuit Court that dismissing the case against her client is the judicial and appropriate legal action to take since Justice Department prosecutors had asked for the case to be dismissed. Stunningly, it appears that there is more evidence that has not been made …
August 13, 2020 – John Durham questions former top FBI lawyer, James Baker
“United States Attorney John Durham has interviewed the former top FBI lawyer during the Russia investigation. James Baker, who recently was hired by Twitter, met with Durham’s team in recent weeks and was quickly brought back for follow-up questions, a source told CNN. The report noted that witnesses who have spoken with Durham are unable to figure out who is a major …
August 14, 2020 – Clinton gets another pass: Appeals court spares her from deposition in email scandal
“Four-plus years after the James Comey-led FBI chose not to file charges against Hillary Clinton, despite evidence she transmitted classified information on an insecure email server, a federal appeals court Friday gave the former secretary of state another legal pass in the case. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a writ of mandamus requested by …
August 14, 2020 – Johnson and Grassley ask Warner and Rubio for SSCI transcripts and records relating to the CIA’s contacts with Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias
Johnson/Grassley Letter, 8/14/2020: On September 14, 2020, Warner and Rubio reject their request: “The Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee rejected a broad request from two Republican Senate leaders seeking access to the panel’s records to assist in their investigation into the Trump-Russia investigators. Acting Chairman Marco Rubio of Florida and Vice Chairman Mark Warner of Virginia rejected a …
August 14, 2020 – Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement
“Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, two sources close to the matter tell Fox News. Clinesmith was referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, which conducted …
August 16, 2020 – Crowdstrike co-owner Dmitri Alperovitch, voices concern for America’s 2020 election
The following is a transcript of an interview with Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, that aired Sunday, August 16, 2020, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to turn now to the question of election security, we go to Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a cyber-technology company. Good morning to …
August 18, 2020 – Why John Brennan, Peter Strzok and DOJ needed Julian Assange arrested – and why UK officials obliged
“According to reports in November of 2019, U.S Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr were spending time on a narrowed focus looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. One recent quote from a media-voice increasingly sympathetic to a political deep-state notes: “One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that …
August 18, 2020 – Carter Page says Kevin Clinesmith’s hearing is a “turning point for justice in our country”
“Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page called the recent indictment of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith the “first step on the road to justice” on Tuesday, four years after the feds began spying on Page in 2016 and his life was “overturned.” Friday was just a first step on the road to justice because it was the first time that I started to see …
August 18, 2020 – Senate Intel Committee releases the final volume of their Russian Campaigns and Interference in 2016 US Election Report
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a redacted version of the final volume of its report on RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS AND INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION. All five volumes of the report are accessible here. Volume 5 (pages 941-943) states ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS RISCH, RUBIO, BLUNT, COTTON, CORNYN, AND SASSE. Here is their statement (emphasis in original): (U) Volume …
August 18, 2020 – Senate Intelligence Report leaves big stones unturned, two named Mifsud and Assange
(…) The FBI maintains that the years-long Trump-Russia probe was triggered by a single barroom conservation [sic]. Over drinks in London in May 2016, a low-level Trump campaign adviser named George Papadopoulos reportedly told an Australian diplomat that he had been tipped off that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos later told the FBI that the information came from …
August 18, 2020 – Senate Intel Russia report shows Committee allowing Dan Jones, Fusion-GPS and Cody Shearer to avoid questioning
“A fantastic catch by Twitter user @15poundstogo highlights a key phrase within the Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SSCI) Russia Report Volume-5, showing how the SSCI allowed those who created the Trump-Russia narrative to avoid questioning: This is a very important detail to underpin the report we shared yesterday about former Dianne Feinstein top staffer Dan Jones attempting to avoid a subpoena from U.S. Attorney …
August 19, 2020 – Kevin Clinesmith pleads guilty to one count false statements, key exchange goes to intent
CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge tweets this exchange that occurred between Kevin Clinesmith and Judge Boasberg during the plea hearing on August 19, 2020. (Reformatted for an easier read.) Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleads guilty 1 count false statements, but key exchange goes to intent. Judge Boasberg: Did you read plus understand this document before you signed it? Clinesmith: …
August 23, 2020 – Joseph Mifsud worked for Saudi prince Nawaf Obaid, who worked for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment and Link Campus Rome
Joseph Mifsud was working with Nawaf Obaid. Obaid worked for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. He also got Mifsud the job working with CNN’s Freedom Project at Link Campus. If the Senate Intelligence Committee was using open sources why did they leave those facts out? Nawaf didn’t need to be in the Mueller Report or the Senate Intelligence Committee’s …
August 25, 2020 – Carter Page outlines five FBI interviews in March of 2017
“Carter Page appears on Fox News for an interview with Maria Bartiromo to discuss a book he is publishing about the DOJ and FBI targeting him for surveillance and identifying him as “an agent of a foreign government” in 2016 and 2017. Interestingly, Page notes [@02:56] he had five interviews with the FBI in March of 2017, and he connects …
August 27, 2020 – Sources tell CBS News FBI agent Joe Pientka has been interviewed by the Senate Judiciary and Oversight Committees
“Two sources close to the Senate probe tell CBS News that FBI agent Joe Pientka has been interviewed behind closed doors for “multiple hours” by investigators with Senate Judiciary and Senate Oversight/Government Affairs. In 2018, then Chairman Chuck Grassley first sought Pientka’s testimony but the request was denied until now. WHY IT MATTERS: Pientka is at the intersection of key …
August 30, 2020 – Ratcliffe says he is coordinating with John Durham, plans to declassify more Trump-Russia documents
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, has been coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham and plans to soon declassify more documents related to the Trump-Russia probe, he said Sunday. “The question now is, did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all, and that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and also …