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| | *The committee is also seeking to determine the extent to which the FBI relied on the ''Steele dossier'' in its investigation. Chairman Grassley has requested documentation from Fusion GPS as to who hired and paid them, when Steele was hired, how the FBI got involved and whether Fusion GPS was aware of the FBI paying Steele.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref><ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/trump-dossier-financier-accused-of-improper-work-for-kremlin/</ref> Fox News reports both a Senate and House committee are investigating the FBI for leaks and civil rights violations.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/fbi-scrutinized-by-congress-over-probe-into-alleged-russia-trump-link.html</ref> Adam Housley reports "The person who did the unmasking is "very well known, very high up, very senior, in the intelligence world & is not in the FBI,"<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847858385798049793?s=09</ref> and that "unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847859134888239105</ref><ref>McCabe, Neil W. (March 31, 2017). [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/31/fox-news-senior-obama-intelligence-official-unmasked-trump-associates/ Fox News: Senior Obama Intelligence Official Unmasked Trump Associates]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 1, 2017.</ref> | | *The committee is also seeking to determine the extent to which the FBI relied on the ''Steele dossier'' in its investigation. Chairman Grassley has requested documentation from Fusion GPS as to who hired and paid them, when Steele was hired, how the FBI got involved and whether Fusion GPS was aware of the FBI paying Steele.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref><ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/trump-dossier-financier-accused-of-improper-work-for-kremlin/</ref> Fox News reports both a Senate and House committee are investigating the FBI for leaks and civil rights violations.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/fbi-scrutinized-by-congress-over-probe-into-alleged-russia-trump-link.html</ref> Adam Housley reports "The person who did the unmasking is "very well known, very high up, very senior, in the intelligence world & is not in the FBI,"<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847858385798049793?s=09</ref> and that "unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847859134888239105</ref><ref>McCabe, Neil W. (March 31, 2017). [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/31/fox-news-senior-obama-intelligence-official-unmasked-trump-associates/ Fox News: Senior Obama Intelligence Official Unmasked Trump Associates]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 1, 2017.</ref> |
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| | + | The FBI and DOJ intentionally leaked information to the media and then cited the subsequent media reports for their ongoing investigative purposes. Within this circular echo chamber journalists became “sources” and media reports became “methods”. Thus, the FBI and DOJ stonewalled Congress and the public for nearly two years to protect “''sources and methods.''” Behind the familiar catch-phrase is an outline of procedural corruption, carrying out Obama's instructions to do everything. “''by the book''“. |
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| | + | *'''1 April.''' President Trump calls for investigation into the Clinton's. |
| | + | [[File:Rice Benghazi.jpg|right|250px|thumb|National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Sept. 16, 2012. Rice blatantly misled the American people while an American outpost was under terrorist attack.]] |
| | + | *'''2 April.''' [[Susan Rice]] identified as unmasking incoming Trump administration officials. Rice worked at the elbow of President Obama. As National Security Advisor to Obama, she unmasked the identity of Trump National Security Advisor [[Michael Flynn]] which was leaked to the press. The action caused harm to US [[national security]], and is a felonious criminal act.<ref>https://medium.com/@Cernovich/susan-rice-requested-unmasking-of-incoming-trump-administration-officials-30085b5cff16</ref><ref>Housley, Adam (April 3, 2017). [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/03/susan-rice-requested-to-unmask-names-trump-transition-officials-sources-say.html Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 3, 2017.</ref> Questions remain if and why Rice would have violated the law on her own without President Obama's approval. Rice was denied the position of [[Secretary of State]] by the [[Democratic]] Senate in 2013 to succeed [[Hillary Clinton]] because of lying and deception about the [[Benghazi attack|Benghazi Massacre]]. Nevertheless, Obama kept her at his side in the White House as head of the [[National Security Council]] staff. It was to examine White House logs on the handling of classified information why Chairman Nunes made several trips to the White House that confirmed Susan Rice behind efforts to smear Trump and officials in a supposed foreign intelligence gathering operation. |
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| | + | *IC issues 2016 Transparency Report.<ref>https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/ic_transparecy_report_cy2016_5_2_17.pdf </ref><ref>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/05/intelligence-reports-raise-questions-about-obama-administration-surveillance.php </ref> |
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| | + | *'''3 April.''' '''Ali Watkins of ''BuzzFeed'' writes article about Carter Page FISA warrant application''' leaked by James Wolfe from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/wolfe-indictment-4.jpg</ref><ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alimwatkins/a-former-trump-adviser-met-with-a-russian-spy</ref> Watkins appeared on [[Rachel Maddow]]'s television show to discuss Watkins' news article. Maddow and Watkins discuss the 2013 spy case Carter Page was involved in, alleging Page was recruited by Russian spies.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/former-trump-adviser-page-previously-targeted-by-russian-spies-913292867813</ref> In fact, Carter Page was a paid FBI informant in that case, who wore a wire for the FBI to frame up the Russian spies.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref><ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/02/05/doj-documents-show-carter-page-helped-fbi-catch-russian-spies-n2444651</ref><ref>http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/carter-page-setup-by-fbi-he-was-fbi-employee-fbi-told-fisa-court-he-was-a-russian-spy/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''4 April.''' ''NYT'' reports: {{Quotebox|Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit an American businessman and eventual foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is now part of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the American election, according to federal court documents and a statement issued by the businessman.<br>The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of three Russians who were eventually charged with being undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the [[KGB|S.V.R]].<br>The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.<br>The court documents say that Mr. Page [UCE-1 or FBI undercover employee in court documents, Carter Page] who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians. ... To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence operatives during an energy conference, according to a former United States intelligence official.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/carter-page-trump-russia.html</ref>}} |
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| | + | *Carter Page was working for the FBI. Page was the “analyst from a New York-based energy company” who “began providing Sporyshev with the binders“, or FBI UCE-1 (Undercover Confidential Employee-1) in court documents. However, in this April 2017 [[fake news]] article, the ''New York Times'' conflates the FBI/Page relationship and attempts to entirely change the relationship between Carter Page and the FBI. |
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| | + | *Susan Rice begins backpeddling early denials.<ref>https://youtu.be/3hX38jkK5vwm</ref> Rice tells Andrea Mitchell that Obama "requested the compilation of the intelligence, which was ultimately provided in January." |
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| | + | :*Rice tells Mitchell "sometimes it was necessary to find out who that U.S. official was.” Neither Trump, Flynn or others were U.S. officials. |
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| | + | :*Rice admits asking specifically for the names of members of Donald Trump’s transition team, but tries to deny it was "for political purposes." |
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| | + | :*Rice corroborates Dir. Comey's testimony the pace of requests picked up with increasing information particularly after August 2016.<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/04/susan-rice-admits-to-unmasking-u-s-persons-in-intelligence-reports-denies-leaking-video/</ref> |
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| | + | :*Several news organizations report Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce spreadsheets revealing Trump associates picked up in surveillance of foreign officials and then leaked the names.<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/susan-rice-ordered-spy-agencies-to-produce-detailed-spreadsheets-involving-trump/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''5 April.''' '''Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian spy whom Carter Page helped the DOJ to convict, is released from prison and deported to Russia before reporters can question him about his relationship with Carter Page'''. |
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| | + | *Private security firm, CrowdStrike, employed by DNC which first claimed Russia hacked the election refuses to cooperate with Congressional investigations. DNC has yet to allow FBI to examine servers to establish whether or not the servers were hacked.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4376628/New-questions-claim-Russia-hacked-election.html</ref> FBI continues its investigation into "Russian hacking" based on discredited information (''Steele dossier'') and unestablished facts (DNC hacking). |
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| | + | *Reports say CIA Dir. John Brennan targeted [[Sean Hannity]] and [[Blackwater]] founder, Erik Prince<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/</ref> between the election on November 8 and the inauguration in January, according to White House and House intelligence sources. Hannity was reportedly unmasked by Susan Rice at Brennan’s behest because of a perceived relationship with Trump and [[Julian Assange]]. Prince has long criticized the CIA’s incompetence, including the Brennan's handling of the [[drone]] program and its failure to target terrorists properly and the collateral damage done to [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] [[civilian]]s. Brennan was behind the removal of Flynn. The motivations for Brennan’s intense dislike of Michael Flynn date back years to when Flynn was producing intel documents that showed how the supposed 'Syrian moderates' were funded by persons and groups in [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Qatar]]. Brennan also brought in to the CIA disgraced Syria analyst Elizabeth O’Bagy. O’Bagy was outed for manufacturing her credentials and for being paid by the Syrian rebels.<ref>http://gotnews.com/breaking-barackobamas-cia-director-john-brennan-allies-targeting-trump-supporters-surveillance/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''7 April.''' '''Second Carter Page FISA warrant renewal.''' |
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| | + | *'''Assange immunity talks break down'''. Assange releases a new cache of CIA documents through its Vault 7 series. Negotiations between Waldman and DOJ (Laufman) for Assange immunity ends.<ref>https://thehackernews.com/2017/04/wikileaks-cia-malware.html?m=1</ref> |
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| | + | *'''8 April.''' In direct messages released by actress-model Robin Young and Guccifer 2.0, Guccifer 2.0 claims Seth Rich was his whistleblower source;<!--and that he created the ruse that he was a Russian hacker to protect his source. In reality, Guccifer 2.0 is a Clinton false flag operation set up to discredit the Seth Rich revelations at Wikileaks.--> Adam Carter writes, {{quotebox|"one particular group would have been particularly desperate precisely at that time, for the emergence of a narrative about Russian hackers to discredit proper leaks / justify claims that all leaks are 'probably doctored' and they will have very likely known [Warren] Flood too.<br>That group is the Clinton Campaign.<br>As of June 12th, [2016] they were in a position where Julian Assange had just announced WikiLeaks' upcoming release of Hillary's emails, she was still under FBI investigation, and Trump was attacking Hillary for her use of a private server with his supporters frequently chanting "lock her up!" at rallies.<br>The campaign was in a desperate position and really needed something similar to a Russian hacker narrative and one where they would be fortunate to have a seemingly clumsy hacker that leaves lots of 'fingerprints' tainting files and bringing the reputation of leaks into question... Sure enough, 2-3 days later, Guccifer2.0 - the world's weirdest hacker - was spawned and started telling lies in an effort to attribute himself to the malware discoveries, etc."</ref>http://g-2.space/#7</ref>}} |
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| | + | :*Susan Rice net worth estimated at $50 million, an increase of $30 million since she entered the White House. Rice has never worked in the [[private sector]] nor earned more than $172,000 has a career civil servant.<ref>http://theblacksphere.net/2017/04/susan-rice-worth-almost-50-million/</ref>}} |
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| | + | *'''9 April.''' ''Washington Post'' Fact Checker gives Susan Rice four Pinocchios. |
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| | + | *'''10 April.''' Adam Waldman texts Mark Warner: {{quotebox|"Hi. [[Christopher Steele|Steele]]: would like to get a bi partisan letter from the committee; [[Assange]]: I convinced him to make serious and important concessions and am discussing those w DOJ; [[Deripaska]]: willing to testify to congress but interested in state of play w [[Manafort]]. I will be with him next tuesday for a week."}} Deripraska is said to have ties to organized crime. Waldman collected nearly $1.1 million from Deripaska in 2016 and 2017.<ref>https://www.fara.gov/docs/5934-Supplemental-Statement-20161213-15.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.fara.gov/docs/5934-Supplemental-Statement-20171221-17.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371101285/TEXTS-Mark-Warner-texted-with-Russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-Christopher-Steele#from_embed</ref> |
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| | + | *Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{quotebox|“I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about '''media leak strategy with DOJ''' before you go.”}} |
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| | + | *''Washington Post'' admits the FBI obtained wiretap information from Carter Page in the summer of 2016 before the October FISA warrant was issued. |
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| | + | *''Washington Post'' reports Rice herself asked to unmask the identities of some of the Trump associates and chronicles list of misleading statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/10/susan-rices-track-record-is-taking-a-beating/?utm_term=.ed514af67621</ref> Rice under fire over claims of destroying Syrian chemical weapons.<ref>https://youtu.be/m05QXZhvPNw</ref><ref>http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/16/510047606/obama-adviser-susan-rice-cites-syrian-war-as-biggest-disappointment</ref> |
| | + | [[File:Peter-strzok-and-lisa-page.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two [[Progressive]] pustules on the rump of the Marxist deep state, could not restrain their hatred and bigotry toward their fellow citizens or American democracy on taxpayer-funded communication devices or from interfering with their duties as civil servants in national security positions.]] |
| | + | *'''11 April.''' ''Washington Post'' published an article, ''FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Former Trump Adviser Carter Page'' by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous. It reads in part, {{quotebox|"The FBI obtained a secret court order in October 2016 to monitor the communications of a former adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part by of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.<br>The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.<br>The court documents in that spy case only identify Page as “Male 1.’’ Officials familiar with the case said that “Male 1’’ is Page."}} It is the '''first disclosure of the October 2016 Carter Page FISA warrant'''. |
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| | + | *'''[[Andrew Weissmann]] leaks [[grand jury]] information in the [[Manafort]] case to the [[Associated Press]].<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/mueller-manafort-journalist-leak/</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/20cfc75c82eb4a67b94e624e97207e23</ref> FBI officials issued a complaint to the Justice Department suggesting Weissmann didn’t follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.''' |
| | + | <!--*FBI Director Comey appoints Stephen Laycock as special agent in charge of Counterintelligence Division for Washington Field Office.--> |
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| | + | *'''12 April.''' Strzok congratulates Lisa Page on a job well done while referring to two derogatory articles about Carter Page. In the text, Strzok warns Page two articles are coming out, one which is “worse” than the other about Lisa’s “namesake" (Carter Page). |
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| | + | *'''Podesta Group'''<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?priv=Podesta+Group</ref> '''discloses unregistered lobbying for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU) - the same group Manafort is associated with.''' Podesta Group lobbied from 2012 through 2014 on behalf of a [[Brussels]]-based non-profit, the ECMU, a Ukrainian front. U.S. lobbying laws require reporting payments from a foreign government. The lobbying firm run by Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary for America campaign chairman John Podesta, reported in its filing that it was paid more than $1.2 million.<ref>http://bertdohmen.com/what-is-fake-news/</ref> |
| | + | <!--Trigger man in Fast and Furious scandal arrested.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/12/fast-and-furious-scandal-suspected-triggerman-in-border-agents-murder-arrested.html</ref>--> |
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| | + | *'''13 April.''' '''FusionGPS refuses to answer the Senate Judiciary Committee's question as to who in the Clinton machine hired them'''. The ''Steele dossier'' formed much of the basis for the Obama administration's attacks on Donald Trump and its authorization to use the US Intelligence Community to harass domestic political opponents. {{Quotebox|"When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics.”<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/research-firm-behind-trump-dossier-is-refusing-to-answer-senate-committees-questions/#ixzz4eLwyp4Oe</ref>}} |
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| | + | *'''Reports of Britains GCHQ spying agency passing information to John Brennan starting the FBI Trump Russia investigation debunked.'''<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/22/nunes-no-official-intelligence-used-start-fbi-inve/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia</ref><ref>pre-dating any FISA warrant or "incidental collection." This allegation has its roots in the ''Steele dossier'' and claims US involvement in the Trump investigation began in April 2016 when John Brennan received "routine" intelligence sharing information from British intelligence, including sharing activities from one of the Baltic States, now rumored to be Estonia. Some Estonian figures reacted negatively to Trump comments about defending the Baltics and making NATO allies pay their fair share.</ref><ref>http://upnorth.eu/if-trump-wins/</ref><ref> |
| | + | https://web.archive.org/web/20161014165625/https://arvamus.postimees.ee/v2/3786189/jueri-luik-kui-trump-voidab</ref> Brennan lied repeatedly. There was '''no legal basis to begin a counterintelligence investigation on Trump associates'''. Likewise the Papadopoulos drunken binge narrative starting the FBI probe is false. |
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| | + | *Both House and Senate expand investigation into Susan Rice and the Obama administration's domestic spying for political purposes.<ref>http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-rice-full-blown-investigation/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''17 April.''' Senate to investigate Rice's contacts with Bannon, Clapper, and others.<ref>http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/17/senator-explains-why-the-susan-rice-surveillance-allegations-are-a-big-deal/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''18 April.''' '''CNN finally reports FBI used bogus ''Steele dossier'' to obtain FISA warrant. What's more, both the FBI & the Clinton campaign paid Steele to write the opposition research attacks'''.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/fbi-dossier-carter-page-donald-trump-russia-investigation/index.html</ref> |
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| | + | *The bogus document has been cited by FBI Dir. Comey in some of his briefings to members of Congress in recent weeks, as one of the sources of information the bureau used to bolster its investigation. |
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| | + | *The bogus evidence also was presented to the FISA court to win approval to surveillance on Carter Page. Page commented, "I look forward to the Privacy Act of 1974 [[lawsuit]] that I plan to file in response to the civil rights violations by Obama administration appointees last year. The discovery process will be of great value to the United States, as our nation hears testimony from them under oath, and we receive disclosure of the documents which show what exactly was done in 2016." |
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| | + | *Cause of Action (CoA), a watchdog group, files suit seeking records on the relationship between the FBI and Christopher Steele, author of the ''Steele dossier'':{{quotebox|"According to a news report, Mr. Steele entered an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the November 2016 election to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump while, at the same time, he was employed by an opposition research firm to collect information for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton."<ref>https://causeofaction.org/coa-institute-sues-records-potential-fbi-payment-democratic-opposition-researcher-compiled-infamous-trump-dossier/</ref>}} |
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| | + | *'''19 April.''' Intelligence Community pushes to keep surveillance powers. Maintaining existing powers is "the intelligence community’s top legislative priority for 2017."<ref>https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/159752601288/fisa-amendments-act-qa-april-19-2017-in</ref><ref>http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/19/intelligence-community-pushes-to-keep-surveillance-powers/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''20 April.''' Americans for Limited Government president Rick Manning calls for Comey's firing: {{quotebox|“The FBI’s incredible incompetence and outright complicity with the politicization of government spying removes the last shred of credibility that Director James Comey has and he needs to either resign or be fired. The failure to even secure and independently examine the DNC server while relying on the self-serving innuendo by the DNC’s computer consultant CrowdStrike for verification is unbelievable. But their reliance on an easily disprovable political hit piece dossier to get a FISA warrant against Carter Page, paid for by Democrat supporters of Hillary Clinton and produced by the private firm Fusion GPS, to attempt to undermine the Trump campaign in 2016 effort is inexcusable."<ref>http://getliberty.org/2017/04/alg-calls-on-fbi-director-james-comey-to-step-down-or-be-fired/#sthash.GlAIxCBf.dpuf</ref>}} |
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| | + | *NSA submits remedies for 702 surveillance violations revealed in October 2016 to the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] promising to “no longer collect certain internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target.” The NSA also begins deleting collected data on U.S. citizens it had been storing. |
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| | + | *'''21 April.''' [[Landmark Legal Foundation]] files [[Amicus brief]] with FISA court.<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/levin-landmark-legal-foundation-filed-memo-asking-secret-court-investigate</ref> Landmark submits that the Obama administration "abused the judicial process, placing the integrity of this Court and the constitutional rights of individuals at risk." Landmark asks the Court to examine: |
| | + | {{Quotebox|1. Have this Court’s order or orders been used by intelligence and law enforcement entities of the federal government as a subterfuge to surveil private citizens and at least one United States Senator for political purposes? |
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| | + | 2. Did government officials seek one or more national security surveillance warrants from this Court as a pretext to conduct an investigation for the purpose of affecting an ongoing national presidential campaign and subsequent transition of an incoming president? |
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| | + | 3. When applying to this Court for one or more warrants in this matter, did the FBI inform this Court that it had apparently paid some of the expenses of a former British spy who prepared the dossier reportedly relied on, in whole or part, in its application to convince this Court to issue a warrant, and that it had apparently negotiated to make further payments to the former British spy, which efforts were ultimately unsuccessful? |
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| | + | *'''22 April.''' Strzok texts Lisa Page: “article is out!” and “Well done, Page.” |
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| | + | *''New York Times'' reports '''FBI offered Christopher Steel $50,000 if he could corroborate the ''Steele dossier;''''' nothing has been paid.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html</ref> |
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| | + | *Document reveals Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch instructed FBI Dir. Comey to cover-up Hillary investigation.<ref>http://consjournal.com/document-reveals-lynch-instructed-comey-to-cover-up-hillary-investigation/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''23 April.''' CIA Director John Brennen started the false narrative the he was fed Five Eyes intelligence which was used to begin the Trump-Russia investigation. There is no legal basis to begin a counterintelligence investigation. |
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| | + | *'''24 April.''' ''Politico'' reports on Obama concessions to Iran for Iranian nuke deal.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-prisoner-release-236966</ref> |
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| | + | *'''25 April.''' '''Russian lobbyist colludes with Democrat Senator to impede key witness testimony in Russia investigation.''' Adam Waldman texts Sen. Mark Warner: {{quotebox|“I spoke w Steele. He repeated the same position which is that he wants to be helpful but is fearful of the triumvirate of cost, time suck and reputation.<br>He asked me what your concern was about a letter first and I explained it but he would still like as a first protective step from you and [Sen. Richard] Burr asking him and his partner to assist w the investigation by answering questions. He said he will also speak w [[Dan Jones]] whom he says is talking to you.<br>I pointed out there is no privilege in that discussion although Dan [Jones] is a good guy and very trustworthy guy. I encouraged him again to engage with you for the sake of the truth and of vindication of the dossier."}} Waldman represents Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]]. Dan Jones is an ex-Dianne Feinstein staffer who currently is employing Christopher Steele and FusionGPS to keep the Trump-Russia narrative alive. |
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| | + | *'''26 April.''' '''October 2016 FISA court ruling released.''' DNI [[Dan Coats]] declassifies the October 2016 FISA Court Ruling exposing a number of criminal activities that Barack Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated in during his time in office. The FISA Court Ruling shows widespread abuse of the FISA mandate. According to the report, Obama’s FBI and DOJ performed searches on Americans that were against their 4th Amendment rights. This went on for years. One paragraph in the report states that 85% of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches made during this time were non-compliant with applicable laws and therefore criminal. FISA 705 warrants deal with US citizens outside of the country.<ref>https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/unsealed-fisa-court-ruling-shows-85-obamas-fbi-doj-704-5-fisa-searches-illegal-illegally-provided-government-outsiders/</ref> |
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| | + | *'''28 April.''' NSA press release announces suspension of President Obama's illegal [[4th Amendment]] civil rights violations of American citizens.<ref>https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/press-releases/2017/nsa-stops-certain-702-activites.shtml</ref> |
| | + | [[File:John-p-carlin-1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Carlin with James Comey and Loretta Lynch. As of 2018 Carlin, Comey and Lynch are subjects of the DOJ Inspector General's [[FISA abuse]] investigation.]] |
| | + | *'''April'''. Deputy Asst. Attn. Gen. [[Mary McCord (DOJ)|Mary McCord]] resigns as head of the DOJ-National Security Division after the Trump administration restores independent Inspector General oversight of the division. Former Deputy Attn. Gen. Sally Yates barred the Inspector General from oversight of the DOJ-NSD activities beginning in June 2015. Shortly thereafter, the FBI was allowing its contractors (FusionGPS) unfettered access to raw FISA data (upstream and downstream electronic communications) of American citizens under the guise of foreign intelligence surveillance to gather paid opposition research on Hillary Clinton opponents. The DOJ-NSD ultimately is responsible for applying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Obama Justice Drpartment had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Fourth Amendment rights of American citizens to be free of unreasonable searches (collection of FISA evidence) for at least five years by targeting the Obama administration's domestic political opponents as agents of foreign powers. When the FISA court issued a ruling in late September 2016 condemning the Obama administration and Dept. of Justice for its lawlessness, the DOJ-NSD head John Carlin was replaced the next day with McCord. Neither Yates, Carlin or McCord ever informed FISA judges that the Obama administration presented falsified evidence to the court, and was using Hillary Clinton's paid opposition research under the color of law to harass, intimidate, and violate the civil rights of Americans and domestic political opponents of Obama and Clinton, followed up by illegal press leaks from government sources designed to influence public opinion and the 2016 election. |
| | + | <!--*Vovan and Lexus, two Russian comedians, hoax ranking Democrat Adam Schiff into believing they had nude photos of Donald Trump from the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013.<ref>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/adam-schiff-pranked-by-russians-who-offered-nude-photos-of-trump/article/2648294</ref>--> |
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| − | [[File:Hillary-clinton-quid-pro-quo-fbi-emails-investigation-server-crimes-james-comey.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A classic case of [[white privilege]]: Susan Rice herself said there are "too many whites in top National Security positions."<ref>http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/05/12/susan-rice-too-many-white-people-top-national-security-positions</ref> He has earned the moniker "[[Jimmy the Weasel]]" Comey''' from his detractors.<ref>One of Comey's memos reads "I explained that he could count on me to always tell the truth. I said I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak, I don’t do weasel moves."<br>https://amp.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8dkggy/how_long_till_trump_tweets_jimmy_the_weasel_comey/ </ref>]] | + | [[File:Hillary-clinton-quid-pro-quo-fbi-emails-investigation-server-crimes-james-comey.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A classic case of [[white privilege]]: Susan Rice herself said there are "too many whites in top National Security positions."<ref>http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/05/12/susan-rice-too-many-white-people-top-national-security-positions</ref> He has earned the moniker "[[Jimmy the Weasel]]" Comey''' from his detractors.<ref>One of Comey's memos reads "I explained thaet he could count on me to always tell the truth. I said I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak, I don’t do weasel moves."<br>https://amp.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8dkggy/how_long_till_trump_tweets_jimmy_the_weasel_comey/ </ref>]] |
| | Reps. Devin Nunes, Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy joint statement on Comey memos: | | Reps. Devin Nunes, Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy joint statement on Comey memos: |
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