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Russiagate: The Empire Strikes Back (view source)
Revision as of 07:48, November 14, 2019
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*'''19 April.''' Ukrainian prosecutors to US: Why don't you want our evidence on Democrats?<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/437719-ukrainian-to-us-prosecutors-why-dont-you-want-our-evidence-on-democrats</ref>
*'''19 April.''' Ukrainian prosecutors to US: Why don't you want our evidence on Democrats?<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/437719-ukrainian-to-us-prosecutors-why-dont-you-want-our-evidence-on-democrats</ref>
*[[Joseph Mifsud]] found alive and living near U.S. embassy in Rime.<ref>http://archive.is/OWWSx</ref> [[Democrat]]s alleged to the court that Mifsud was dead and unavailable to be interviewed.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/405672-dnc-lawyers-papadopoulos-uk-contact-may-be-dead</ref>
*[[Joseph Mifsud]] found alive and living near U.S. embassy in Rime.<ref>http://archive.is/OWWSx</ref> [[Democrat]]s alleged to the court that Mifsud was dead and unavailable to be interviewed.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/405672-dnc-lawyers-papadopoulos-uk-contact-may-be-dead</ref>
*'''20 April.''' Ukrainian plot to interfere in the 2016 election to help Clinton emerges.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435029-as-russia-collusion-fades-ukrainian-plot-to-help-clinton-emerges</ref>
*'''20 April.''' Ukrainian plot to interfere in the 2016 election to help Clinton emerges.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435029-as-russia-collusion-fades-ukrainian-plot-to-help-clinton-emerges</ref>
*'''21 April.''' Obama-backed [[fascist]]s ousted in [[Ukrainian]] elections.<ref>https://www.mondialisation.ca/u-s-government-backs-ukraine-fascists-who-want-to-destroy-russia/5513195</ref><ref>https://newrepublic.com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine</ref> [[Zelensky]] elected president with 73 percent of the vote.
*'''21 April.''' Obama-backed [[fascist]]s ousted in [[Ukrainian]] elections.<ref>https://www.mondialisation.ca/u-s-government-backs-ukraine-fascists-who-want-to-destroy-russia/5513195</ref><ref>https://newrepublic.com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine</ref> [[Zelensky]] elected president with 73 percent of the vote.
:*Mueller Report Shatters Credibility of Steele Dossier.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mueller-report-shatters-credibility-of-steele-dossier_2892999.html</ref>
:*Mueller Report Shatters Credibility of Steele Dossier.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mueller-report-shatters-credibility-of-steele-dossier_2892999.html</ref>
:*Everything After March 9, 2016 Was A Cover Up Operation.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/trump-tweet-uk-intelligence-spygate.jpg</ref>
:*Everything After March 9, 2016 Was A Cover Up Operation.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/trump-tweet-uk-intelligence-spygate.jpg</ref>
*'''25 April.''' President Trump for the first time used the terms “attempted coup” and “overthrow” to discuss the coordinated effort against his administration by the previous administration including James Clapper (ODNI), John Brennan (CIA), James Comey (FBI), and lower level officials within the intelligence apparatus.<ref>https://youtu.be/2xglDpABkCA</ref>
*'''25 April.''' John Solomon: How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>
:*10 days after the 2016 election, Strzok and Lisa Page discussed a Trump transition team informant, Joshua Pitcock, Vice President-elect [[Mike Pence]]’s Chief of Staff. Pitcock's wife, Katie, is an FBI agent who worked with Peter Strzok on the Clinton email investigation. Katie is reported to have recused herself from the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation after Pence was nominated. Trump announced Pence as his pick on July 15, 2016. Trump and Pence officially became nominees on July 21, 2016.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-25/fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-spy-bureau</ref> 10 days later on July 31, 2016 Strzok began the paperwork officially opening the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation.
:*In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington. The meeting brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ). Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.
:*Through Pitcock the FBI hoped to recruit other informants in the Trump transition team.
::*U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.
:*Questions remain about the lingering relationship between Strzok, Pitcock and his wife Katie after July 2016, during the transition, and into the start of the administration. Pitcock worked for Pence as his Chief of Staff from January, 2017 until he resigned in August, 2017.
::*Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions. That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort. The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort.
:*The connection raises questions regarding information that may have moved from the FBI into the vice president’s orbit regarding National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
::*DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans. “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.
::*Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump’s campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.” Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”
::*Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case. “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.” Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
::*Manafort joined Trump’s campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016. NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.
::*A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.
::*The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]]'s firm in 2014-15, bank records show.
::*U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.
::*The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions. "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."
::*Telizhenko’s claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ’s own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]]. Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton’s campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.
::*DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort’s prosecution. “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.
:::*Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele.
:::*The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.
::*''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.
[[File:State-department-email-chris-steele.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Smoking gun: Kathleen Kavalac's State Department email proves political motivation of the ''Steele dossier'' ten days before the FBI used it to hoax the FISA court.]]
:*President Trump for the first time used the terms “attempted coup” and “overthrow” to discuss the coordinated effort against his administration by the previous administration including James Clapper (ODNI), John Brennan (CIA), James Comey (FBI), and lower level officials within the intelligence apparatus.<ref>https://youtu.be/2xglDpABkCA</ref>
::*10 days after the 2016 election, Strzok and Lisa Page discussed a Trump transition team informant, Joshua Pitcock, Vice President-elect [[Mike Pence]]’s Chief of Staff. Pitcock's wife, Katie, is an FBI agent who worked with Peter Strzok on the Clinton email investigation. Katie is reported to have recused herself from the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation after Pence was nominated. Trump announced Pence as his pick on July 15, 2016. Trump and Pence officially became nominees on July 21, 2016.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-25/fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-spy-bureau</ref> 10 days later on July 31, 2016 Strzok began the paperwork officially opening the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation.
::*Through Pitcock the FBI hoped to recruit other informants in the Trump transition team.
::*Questions remain about the lingering relationship between Strzok, Pitcock and his wife Katie after July 2016, during the transition, and into the start of the administration. Pitcock worked for Pence as his Chief of Staff from January, 2017 until he resigned in August, 2017.
::*The connection raises questions regarding information that may have moved from the FBI into the vice president’s orbit regarding National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
*Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [[Kathleen Kavalec]]’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing a Novermber 8, 2016 Election Day deadline. The confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on the Trump campaign. Steele's client, the Clinton campaign, “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8.”
*Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [[Kathleen Kavalec]]’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing a Novermber 8, 2016 Election Day deadline. The confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on the Trump campaign. Steele's client, the Clinton campaign, “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8.”
:*[[FOIA]] notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET....Declassify on 12/31/2041,” 25 years after the 2016 election.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt#.XNIAVvr8PT0.twitter</ref>
:*[[FOIA]] notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET....Declassify on 12/31/2041,” 25 years after the 2016 election.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt#.XNIAVvr8PT0.twitter</ref>