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Then-Deputy Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] justified Comey’s firing by criticizing his handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton’s emails]]. After Comey’s firing, he leaked information from some of his memos to the media in order to prompt the appointment of a special counsel.</small><br>https://pjmedia.com/columnist/tyler-o-neil/</ref> In the days after Comey’s firing, this presidential action was used to further political and media calls for the appointment of special counsel [[Robert Mueller]] to investigate supposed ‘Russia collusion.’ However, Ciaramella was dismissed from the Trump White House in June 2917 and accused of illegal [[leak]]s and working against the interests of the [[United States]] government. Ciaramella returned to the CIA.
Then-Deputy Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] justified Comey’s firing by criticizing his handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton’s emails]]. After Comey’s firing, he leaked information from some of his memos to the media in order to prompt the appointment of a special counsel.</small><br>https://pjmedia.com/columnist/tyler-o-neil/</ref> In the days after Comey’s firing, this presidential action was used to further political and media calls for the appointment of special counsel [[Robert Mueller]] to investigate supposed ‘Russia collusion.’ However, Ciaramella was dismissed from the Trump White House in June 2917 and accused of illegal [[leak]]s and working against the interests of the [[United States]] government. Ciaramella returned to the CIA.
The Mueller Report undercut its own core Russia-neddling claims.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html ''RealClearInvestigations"'' CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims.]</ref> The report claimed that the interference operation occurred “principally” on two fronts: Russian military intelligence officers hacked and leaked embarrassing Democratic Party documents, and a government-linked troll farm orchestrated a sophisticated and far-reaching social media campaign that denigrated Hillary Clinton and promoted Trump. But a close examination of the report shows that none of those assertions are supported by the report’s evidence or other publicly available sources. They are further undercut by investigative shortcomings and the conflicts of interest of key players involved.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkK-DSeFNs&feature=youtu.be</ref>
The Mueller Report undercut its own core Russia-neddling claims.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html ''RealClearInvestigations"'' CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims.]</ref> The report claimed that the interference operation occurred “principally” on two fronts: Russian military intelligence officers hacked and leaked embarrassing Democratic Party documents, and a government-linked troll farm orchestrated a sophisticated and far-reaching social media campaign that denigrated Hillary Clinton and promoted Trump. But a close examination of the report shows that none of those assertions are supported by the report’s evidence or other publicly available sources.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkK-DSeFNs&feature=youtu.be</ref>
The report's timeline of events defy logic. According to its narrative, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the publication of Democratic Party emails not only before he received the documents but before he even communicated with the source that provided them. Mueller never interviewed Assange – a central figure who claims Russia was not behind the hack.
The report's timeline of events defy logic. According to its narrative, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the publication of Democratic Party emails not only before he received the documents but before he even communicated with the source that provided them. Mueller never interviewed Assange – a central figure who claims Russia was not behind the hack.
Neither U.S. law enforcement nor intelligence officials ever examined DNC servers. Instead, they relied on the forensics of [[CrowdStrike]], a private contractor for the DNC that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiler [[Christopher Steele]], also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignored.
Neither U.S. law enforcement nor intelligence officials ever examined DNC servers. Instead, they relied on the forensics of [[CrowdStrike]], a private contractor for the DNC founded by a Ukrainian oligarch that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiler [[Christopher Steele]], also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignored.
The FBI allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel to submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.
The FBI allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel to submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.
The Mueller report conspicuously does not allege that the Russian government carried out the social media campaign. Instead it blames, as Mueller said in his closing remarks, "a private Russian entity" known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA). It makes no connection between IRA and the Russian government. Mueller falls far short of proving that the Russian social campaign was sophisticated, or even more than minimally related to the 2016 election. As with the collusion and Russian hacking allegations, Democratic officials had a central and overlooked hand in generating the alarm about Russian social media activity.
==Alleged "whistleblower" complaint==
==Alleged "whistleblower" complaint==