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DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel wanted a "legal" way to spy on the Trump campaign. The highest levels of the Obama DOJ and FBI asked for and received [[FISA]] Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page in October 2016. The Obama DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew Carter Page was not a Russian spy, misreprsented facts and perpetrated a fraud upon the FISA court. The authority became the "legal" cover for their own criminal intent and actions.

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The “Title I” designation as a foreign agent applied retroactively to any action taken by Mr. Page, and auto-generates an exponential list of other people he came in contact with. Each of those people, groups or organizations could now have their communication reviewed, unmasked and analyzed by the DOJ/FBI with the same surveillance authority granted upon the target, Mr. Page.

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The “Title I” designation as a foreign agent applied retroactively to any action taken by Mr. Page, and auto-generates an exponential list of other people he came in contact with. Each of those people, groups or organizations could now have their communication reviewed, unmasked and analyzed by the DOJ/FBI with the same surveillance authority granted upon the target, Mr. Page. The [[Stormy Daniels]] payment scheme, for example, was discovered by the Obama DOJ illegal FISA Title I abuse. All electronic communications by the Trump campaign are in the hands of [[Robert Mueller]]. James Comey never informed Congress of the surveillance, as required by law, because Comey knew it was illegal.

FISA Title I surveillance of U.S. citizens is the most intrusive, exhaustive and far reaching type of search, seizure and surveillance authority, permitting the FBI to look at every aspect of Mr. Page’s life. All communication, travel and contact can be opened and reviewed. All aspects of any of Mr. Page’s engagements are subject to being secretly monitored. This is an entirely different level of surveillance authority, the highest possible, and outside FISA-702 search queries (Title VII) of US persons.

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The Clinton emails on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop were never looked at. The FBI and DOJ fully expected Hillary Clinton to win.

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FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe instructed FBI lawyer [[Lisa Page]] and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to work with ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Devlin Barrett on reports about sizeable campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia state senate. McCabe subsequently denied he authorized the leaks, and in March 2018 was fired for lying to investigators when Lisa Page's text messages proved otherwise.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/05/new-details-about-basis-for-andrew-mccabes-firing-from-fbi-revealed.html </ref> In the interim, McCabe served as Acting FBI Director while Deputy Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Robert Mueller to head up the Russia collusion hoax investigation.

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FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe instructed FBI lawyer [[Lisa Page]] and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to work with ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Devlin Barrett on reports about sizeable campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia state senate. McCabe subsequently denied he authorized the leaks, and in March 2018 was fired for lying to investigators when Lisa Page's text messages proved otherwise.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/05/new-details-abo

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*'''October.''' FBI offers to pay Christopher Steele for work on the ''Steele dossier''.

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*'''3 October.''' Story breaks of Hillary Clinton's suggestion to murder Julian Assange.<ref>Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" -- report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ https://t.co/qy2EQBa48y</ref>

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<!--*'''5 October.''' Petty Russian hacker, unrelated to DNC inside leak, detained in Prague at FBI's request. Meets with FBI on 24-15 Nov. & 7 Feb.<ref>https://www.currenttime.tv/a/28478942.html </ref>

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*WikiLeaks asks Donald Trump Jr. to ask Trump Sr. to tweet [http://wlsearch.tk this link].-->

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*'''5 October.''' Obama Justice Dept. abruptly drops charges against arms dealer which would have led to open disclosure of Hillary Clinton's role in arming the [[Islamic State]].<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/05/doj-abruptly-drops-case-against-gun-runner-who-threatened-to-reveal-clintons-libya-dealings.html</ref>

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*'''7 October.''' WikiLeaks dumps a trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman [[John Podesta]]’s personal email account. The emails inspire the [[PizzaGate|Pizzagate]] conspiracy theory.<ref>http://victuruslibertas.com/2016/11/do-john-and-tony-podesta-have-a-connection-with-missing-child-madeleine-mccann/</ref>

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*'''11 October.''' Hillary email to campaign manager John Podesta leaked that acknowledges Saudi Arabia and Qatar are “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/11/podesta-leaks-show-clinton-email-linking-saudi-arabia-qatar-to-isis.html</ref>

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*'''13 October.''' Donald Trump says in West Palm Beach, [[Florida]] campaign rally:{{quotebox|...They control the Department of Justice, and they even clandestinely meet with the Attorney General of the United States – in the back of her airplane, while on the runway – for 39 minutes – to most likely discuss her reappointment in a Clinton Administration just prior to the Attorney General making a decision over whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Likewise, they have corrupted the Director of the FBI to the point at which stories are already saying the great men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed to what he’s done to one of our great institutions. Hillary Clinton is guilty of all of the things that Director Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more – and yet he let her off the hook, while others lives are being destroyed for far less.<ref>http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=119180 </ref>}}

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*'''15 October.''' Obama administration rewrites FISA application.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/04/summary-of-media-articles-discussing-obamas-fisa-warrants-to-monitor-candidatepresident-trump/</ref>

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*'''18 October.''' Assange internet access cutoff by embassy.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-18/wikileaks-says-julian-assange-internet-access-cut-by-ecuador/7941532]</ref>

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*'''19 October.''' The ''Shearer dossier'' written by Clinton operative [[Cody Shearer]] with allegations about the sexual and financial activity of Donald Trump. Shearer gave his memo to Clinton confidant [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who transmitted it to State Department official Jonathan Winer, who then gave it to Christopher Steele, who passed it on to the FBI. The ''Shearer dossier'' was not included in BuzzFeed's January 10, 2017 release. After the fraud of the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed in early 2017 Stormy Daniels claimed she was paid to keep silent about an affair with Trump, and a stranger threatened her and her child. Kathleen Willey was a volunteer at the White House in 1993 when President Bill Clinton grabbed her, fondled her, and pressed her hand against himself in the Oval Office. Willey told her story in a [[60 Minutes]] interview and became a target of a smear campaign directed by the Clintons.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007 ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref> In 1998, just before Willey was to testify in the [[Paula Jones]] trial, Willey was approached by a stranger who asked her menacing questions about her children, naming them by name. On ''Hardball'' in 1999, [[MSNBC]] host [[Chris Matthews]] identified the mysterious stranger as Cody Shearer.<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477 </ref>

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*'''20 October.''' NSA Dir. Mike Rogers is briefed by the NSA compliance officer on several strange 702 “About Queries” that were being conducted. These were violations of the [[Fourth Amendment]] (search and seizure), ie. unlawful surveillance and gathering. As a result of Rogers suspecting [FISA 702 (#17 – email and phone calls)] surveillance activity being used for reasons he deemed unlawful, in mid 2016 Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance. Section 702 of the FISA Act is basically spying on Americans; the actual “spying” part is 702. Item 17 is “About Queries“, which allows queries or searches of content of email and phone conversations based on any subject matter put into the search field. Rogers ordered the “About Query” activity to stop, reported the activity to the DOJ, and then to the FISA court. Rogers also stopped “About Query” permanently.<ref>https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/statements/2017-04-28-702-statement.shtml</ref>

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*'''21 October.''' DOJ and FBI sought and receive a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance of Carter Page from the FISA court. Carter Page is a US citizen who served as a volunteer advisor to the Trump campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application first has to be certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then has to be certified by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division. The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant and three FISA renewals from the FISA court.

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*As required by statute, a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed every 90 days by the FISA court and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause to avoid a 'fishing expedition'. Director James Comey signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Deputy Attorneys General Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein each signed one on behalf of the DOJ. In the case of Carter Page, relevant information and potentially exculpatory material was not provided to the FISA court on these four separate occasions over one year.

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*The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Carter Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Christopher Steele and outlined in the ''Steele dossier''. The application contains no additional corroboration other than a Sept 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article the Obama DOJ/FBI represents to the court as supposed "independent corroboration" which was peddled to ''Yahoo News'' by Christopher Steele's himself.

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*The ''Steele dossier'' was compiled on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC and formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was paid $168,000 by the Clinton campaign and DNC. Neither the initial application nor any renewals disclose or reference the Clinton campaign or DNC in funding the dossier, '''although the origins of the dossier was known to the DOJ and FBI at the time. The FISA application does not mention that the FBI authorized payment to Steele for the same information''' [''emphasis in original''].<ref>https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_memo_key_points.pdf </ref>

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*Someone from SDNY calls “Main Justice” (the DOJ National Security Division in DC) and notifies DOJ-NSD Deputy Asst. Attorney General George Toscas of the Huma Abedin/Hillary Clinton emails via the “weiner investigation”. Toscas calls Strzok cause he “wanted to ensure information got to Andy [McCabe]". Strzok told George Toscas “we know”.

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~~Strzok then tells Bill Priestap.~~

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~~McCabe already knew about the emails since September 28, more than three weeks earlier.~~

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Comey and Lynch now are informed of the Clinton emails that McCabe has been sitting on for 23 days. Comey claims this call is about a search warrant, but there is no need for a search warrant since the emails were already in SDNY's possession. Internal debate ensues about McCabe's recusing himself.

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Meanwhile, the Clinton emails are not, and have not, been looked at. All discussion is about the public perception of coverup, which is actually the correct perception of what is happening in the DOJ-FBI.

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*'''22 October.''' Wikileaks cofounder and Seth Rich contact Gavin MacFadyen dead "after a short illness."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gavin_MacFadyen&oldid=745664281#Personal_Life]</ref>

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*'''23 October.''' Devlin Barrett of the ''WSJ'' exposes, ''Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe''.<ref>https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/790350274061803520</ref> The article questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing Clinton investigations and claimed that McCabe ordered the termination of the Clinton Foundation investigation due to DOJ pressure. Lisa Page was the legal counsel to McCabe at this time. McCabe instructed Lisa Page and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to refute the assertion of a conflict of interest in a series of leaks in coming days.

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*'''24 October.''' Devlin Barrett emails the FBI press officer Mike Kortan about a follow up story. Barrett asks {{quotebox|in the summer [2016], McCabe himself gave some instruction as to how to proceed with the Clinton Foundation probe, given that it was the height of election season and the FBI did not want to make a lot of overt moves that could be seen as going after [Clinton] or drawing attention to the probe.}}

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*Benjamin Wittes of lawfareblog.com publishes article on an "insurance policy" should Trump win.<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-iii-what-if-trump-wins </ref>

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*'''25 October.''' ''NYT'' reports "Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html </ref> Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody.

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*'''26 October.''' The FISA court issues a decision that reveals that the upper echelon of the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to FusionGPS. Assoc. Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]] was the lynchpin between Attn. Gen. Lynch, the FBI and FusionGPS. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for FusionGPS on the ''Steele Dossier'' portions of which were presented to the FISA court to get the court’s approval for the FBI’s previous and continuing unlawful surveillance of Trump associates. The Court noted “an institutional ‘lack of candor’ on NSA’s part and emphasized that ‘this is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.’” On March 9, 2016, the {{quotebox|“DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review of the FBI’s *** [redacted] learned that the FBI had disclosed raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information....certain *** [redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems. ***[redacted] the ***[redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests.”}} According to the Court, the {{quotebox|“FBI discontinued the above-described access to raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.”}} The court continued, noting {{quotebox|“Restrictions were not in place with regard to the *** [redacted] contractors; their access was not limited to raw information for which the FBI sought assistance and access continued even after they had completed their work in response to an FBI request."}} Pg. 83: {{quotebox|"FBI gave raw Section 702–acquired information to a private entity [FusionGPS] that was not a federal agency and whose personnel [Simpson, Steele, Nellie Ohr] were not sufficiently supervised by a federal agency for compliance minimization procedures [protecting the Fourth Amendment rights of US persons]."}} Footnote 68 of the Court’s decision includes the statement that {{quotebox|“the government acknowledges that those disclosures were improper for other reasons.”}} In Footnote 69 the decision reads that {{quotebox|“'''improper access granted to the * * *[redacted] contractors . . . * * *[redacted] . . . seems to have been the result of deliberate decision-making'''. * * *[redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding (presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers), no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016.”<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>}}

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*NSA Dir. Mike Rogers personally informed the FISA court of the Obama administration's 702(17) violations. The abuses covered the period from November 2015 to May 2016 and centered around the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and DOJ’s National Security Division.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/ </ref>

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*[[Joe diGenova]] claims FusionGPS and CrowdStrike are two of the redacted contractors; Daniel Richman is also a possibility.

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*In the closed door hearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Obama administration lawyers admit to routinely violating American privacy protections for the past five years while scouring through overseas intercepts. More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011.<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years</ref>

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With McCabe' sitting on the Clinton emails from Weiner's computer for three weeks, along with pressure from the SDNY, Loretta Lynch, and media leaks, the internal debate about McCabe recusing himself from the Clinton investigations continues.

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*OIG report states, {{quotebox|"McCabe and the New York Assistant Director in Charge (NY-ADIC) participated in what McCabe described as “a hastily convened conference call with the Attorney General [Loretta Lynch] who delivered the same message to us” about leaks, with specific focus being on leaks regarding the high-profile investigation by FBI’s New York Field Office into the death of Eric Garner. McCabe told us that he “never heard her use more forceful language.” NY-ADIC confirmed that the participants got “ripped by the AG on leaks.”}}

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*Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages while watching debates, {{Quotebox|Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer. Strzok - I CAN'T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?! Page-- I don't know. But we'll get it back. We're America. We rock. Strzok-- Donald just said "bad hombres" Strzok-- Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.}} Strzok quoting Trump "what the FBI did is disgraceful" relates to Comey's July announcement exonerating Clinton and the FBI small group's [[obstruction of justice]] in the case.

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*Evelyn Farkas tells Warsaw Security Forum "if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking."<ref>https://youtu.be/pl_RATH89UM</ref> Farkas, who left government in Sept. 2015, later admitted to being the recipient of intelligence information on Donald Trump in the summer of 2016: "last summer I was getting winks and hints from inside that there was something really wrong here." At the forum Farkas discussed the rise of Trump from a purely domestic, partisan, political perspective and urged something must be done to counter the forces of [[nationalism]] and [[populism]].<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/08/ex-state-staffer-who-advocated-spying-on-trump-boasted-getting-winks-from-inside-obama-admin/</ref>

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*'''27 October.''' Comey Chief of Staff [[Jim Rybicki]] wants McCabe recused from Clinton investigations.

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*The small group (or "tight group" as Comey calls it) has had the Weiner laptop emails for 29 days and has reviewed none. They are debating if [[probable cause ]] exists to re-open the investigation. Main Justice, across the street from FBI HQ, now knows of the existence of emails, and is fearful New York police and prosecutors are ready to go public with their existence.

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*'''28 October.''' Conference call between Main Justice and FBI investigators about Hillary email cover-up. SDNY and New York FBI field office asking why has Washington (McCabe) sat on the Clinton emails for three weeks with no action? All focus within the DOJ and FBI is on news reporting and narrative spin, and no one looking at Clinton emails.

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*Internal discussions claim no probable cause against Hillary in July, none now, and debate on recusal of Andrew McCabe in the Clinton non-investigation.

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*Comey forced to go public and create the appearance of re-opening the Clinton email investigation after New York Police Department (NYPD) plans to hold press conference about the evidence seized on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop computer. 650,000 classified State Department emails and other damning evidence found.

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*Daughter of Eric Garner criticizes Clinton campaign over Podesta emails about father's death ("we know we have an Eric Garner problem").<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/erica-garner-rips-clinton-camp-emails-father-death-article-1.2847478 </ref><ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/28/daughter-eric-garner-slams-clinton-campaign-over-emails-about-fathers-death.html </ref>

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*There is a solid case that the emails Anthony Weiner’s lawyer brought to Preet Bharara of SDNY were Weiner’s leverage to escape prosecution.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/01/lou-dobbs-discusses-the-fbi-investigation-that-never-happened/ </ref>

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*Comey's public statement about re-opening Hillary's email case throws the Clinton campaign and poll numbers into a tailspin.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-she-would-have-won-the-election-if-it-were-held-oct-27/ </ref> The "insurance policy" becomes operational: allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.

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*Andrew McCabe instructs [[Lisa Page]] to leak a rebuttal to Devlin Barrett of the ''Wall Street Journal'' about McCabe's [[conflict of interest]] with Clinton donors in the Clinton investigations. The illegal leak confirms the existence of the [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation. While on the phone with Barrett, Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts about the breaking Clinton email investigation being reopened. Two minutes later, Barrett tweets the new found emails on Weiner's laptop may have already been examined, "per sources". {{Quotebox|Page: 5:19pm “Still on the phone with Devlin [Barrett of ''WSJ'']. [FBI Public Affairs officer] Mike [Kortan]’s phone is ON FIRE.” Strzok: 5:29pm “You might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there’s news on.” Page: 5:30pm “He knows. He just got handed a note.” Strzok: 5:33pm “Ha. He asking about it now?” Page: 5:34pm “Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now.”}}

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*Lynch pleads [[Fifth Amendment]] against incrimination to Congress in probe of Obama administration illegal secret payment to Iran in ransom deal.<ref>http://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/</ref><ref>"Charles Krauthammer reacted to a new Wall Street Journal report that the Justice Department objected to the Obama Administration sending $400 million in non-U.S. currency just hours before Iran released four imprisoned Americans. The DOJ was overruled by the State Department, according to the report. Krauthammer said "of course the Justice Department objected; it was illegal." He said that not only was the payment bad optics and a quid pro quo for the release of the Americans, but it skirted statute against dealing with Iran in U.S. dollars. "They had to print the money here, ship it over to Switzerland, turn it into Swiss francs and Euros and ship it over to Iran." http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/03/krauthammer-not-only-did-obama-admin-pay-ransom-it-also-laundered-money </ref>

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*Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $365,275,33 to FusionGPS.

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*'''30 October.''' Christopher Steele suspended and then terminated by the FBI for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations - unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in a ''Mother Jones'' article by David Corn.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref> Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with ''Yahoo News'' and other media outlets in September 2016 - before the Carter Page application was submitted to the FISA court in October 2016 - but Steele improperly concealed and lied to the FBI about earlier contacts. DOJ offficial Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele on for unauthorized contact with the media, and demonstrates that Bruce Ohr funneled allegations from FusionGPS and Steele to the FBI.

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*Devlin Barrett of the ''Wall Street Journal'' publishes an article entitled, ''FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe,'' based on illegal leaks ultimately leading to the firing of [[Andrew McCabe]{ for misconduct and lying to investigators.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/376296306/DOJ-OIG-Report-on-Andrew-McCabe-April-13th-Release?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=725X700959X71d69d99c58d16967f9220546379e02c&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate </ref> The article was the first public acknowledgement that the Clinton Foundation was under FBI investigation. According to the OIG report on McCabe, {{quotebox|The article highlighted the campaign donations to McCabe’s wife by PACs associated with Gov. [[Terry McAuliffe]], who was described as “a longtime ally of the Clintons and . . . a Clinton Foundation Board member.” The article identified McCabe as the FBI official who “sought to refocus the Clinton Foundation probe,” and reported that '''agents “further down the FBI chain of command” had been told to “stand down” on the Clinton Foundation''' investigation with the understanding that “the order had come from the deputy director — Mr. McCabe.”}}

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*Democrat Minority leader Harry Reid issues open letter to James Comey: Reid says from his communications with “other top officials in the national security community [John Brennan for example, August 15, 2016] it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government."<ref>https://m.facebook.com/SenatorReid/posts/1524069540941657</ref>

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*'''31 October.''' [[David Corn]] of ''[[Mother Jones]]'' magazine article appears: ''A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump: Has the bureau investigated this material?'', the first public hint of the ''Steele dossier'' in print. {{Quotebox|[A] former senior intelligence officer [Christopher Steele] for a Western country [UK] who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells ''Mother Jones'' that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump—and that the FBI requested more information from him... Does this mean the FBI is investigating whether Russian intelligence has attempted to develop a secret relationship with Trump or cultivate him as an asset? Was the former intelligence officer and his material deemed credible or not?... In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm [FusionGPS] that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump’s dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to [Steele] and his associates in [FusionGPS]....Before [Steele] was retained, the project’s financing switched to a client allied with [[Democrat]]s... This was, [Steele] remarks, “an extraordinary situation.” He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiative—without the permission of the US company that hired him—he sent a report he had written for [FusionGPS] to [Peter Strzok] at the FBI, according to [Steele] and his American associates...[Steele] says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was “sufficiently serious” to share with the FBI... ''Mother Jones'' has reviewed that report and other memos [Steele] wrote.... [Steele] says the response from the FBI was “shock and horror"...in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession...[Steele] forwarded to the bureau several memos—some of which referred to members of Trump’s inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. “It’s quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on,” he says. “This is something of huge significance, way above party politics".... There’s no way to tell whether the FBI has confirmed or debunked any of the allegations contained in [Steele's] memos.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>}}

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*''New York Times'' headlines, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia:'' {{Quotebox|For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead – which they ultimately came to doubt – about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank. Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government... '''Hillary Clinton’s supporters, angry over what they regard as a lack of scrutiny of Mr. Trump by law enforcement officials, pushed for these investigations.'''<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref>}}

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*Comey and McCabe meet privately one-on-one to discuss the ''WSJ'' leak regarding the Clinton Foundation and McCabe's conflict of interest. In sworn statements later Comey testifies McCabe "definitely" did not say he authorized leaks; McCabe says he did tell Comey, and Comey thought it was a "good idea".

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*Hillary Clinton tweets about leaked info from the October 21 FISA warrant.<ref>Check out @HillaryClinton's Tweet: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?s=09</ref> Some speculate the server was hacked by the CIA with malware in order to obtain a FISA warrant.<ref>https://me.me/i/pay-close-attention-the-server-in-trump-tower-with-alleged-10790639</ref>

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*BakerHostetler, the law firm acting on behalf of Prevezon Holdings and its owner Denis Katsyv, makes final payment to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was hired by BakerHostetler to investigate Bill Browder who helped push through the Magnitsky Act. Glenn Simpson, founding partner of Fusion GPS, compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. He worked closely with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer. Katsyv, a Russian businessman, and Prevezon sought to limit the impact of the Magnitsky Act sanctions. Payments from BakerHostetler to FusionGPS since March 2016 total $523,651.

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*Senate Democratic Leader [[Harry Reid]] files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter files complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>

===November 2016===

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