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*'''18 October. Steele finishes the infamous Russians-offer-Carter-Page-millions-of-dollars installment allegation used in the FISA warrant application three days later.

*'''18 October. Steele finishes the infamous Russians-offer-Carter-Page-millions-of-dollars installment allegation used in the FISA warrant application three days later.

:*''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr at 6:51 a.m. with a pressing matter. "If you are in Washington today, I have something quite urgent I would like to discuss with you, preferably by Skype (even before work if you can)." Ohr suggested they do it immediately. "Thanks Bruce. 2 mins," Steele replied. A few hours later Steele emailed Ohr again: {{quotebox|"Further to our Skypecon earlier today," Paul Hauser had asked Steele to forward to Ohr information about a dispute between the government of Ukraine and RUSAL, [[Oleg Deripaska]]'s aluminum company.<ref>http://iiac20.ir/en/?page_id=1271</ref><ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 276.</ref>  "Naturally, he [Hauser] wants to protect the client's [Deripaska's] interests and reputation," Steele wrote. "I pass it on for what it's worth."}} Paul Hauser is Oleg Deripaska's London attorney.  

:*''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr at 6:51 a.m. with a pressing matter. "If you are in Washington today, I have something quite urgent I would like to discuss with you, preferably by Skype (even before work if you can)." Ohr suggested they do it immediately. "Thanks Bruce. 2 mins," Steele replied. A few hours later Steele emailed Ohr again:  

:*Deripaska apparantly is willing to help frame Manafort in exchange for sanctions relief on Deripaska's company, Rusal.

{{quotebox-float|"Further to our Skypecon earlier today," Paul Hauser had asked Steele to forward to Ohr information about a dispute between the government of Ukraine and RUSAL, [[Oleg Deripaska]]'s aluminum company.<ref>http://iiac20.ir/en/?page_id=1271</ref><ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 276.</ref>  "Naturally, he [Hauser] wants to protect the client's [Deripaska's] interests and reputation," Steele wrote. "I pass it on for what it's worth."}} Paul Hauser is Oleg Deripaska's London attorney.  

:*Deripaska apparently is willing to help frame Manafort in exchange for sanctions relief on Deripaska's company, Rusal.

:*Bruce Ohr requests a meeting with, and that same day met with Andrew McCabe to share Steele's request from Deripaska and Hauser, and Simpson's information with him. Lisa Page was also present. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 276-277, 391.</ref>

:*Bruce Ohr requests a meeting with, and that same day met with Andrew McCabe to share Steele's request from Deripaska and Hauser, and Simpson's information with him. Lisa Page was also present. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 276-277, 391.</ref>

::*Ohr also told MCabe and Lisa Page that Steele and Simpson were working for a political client and not for the U.S. government,  and were sharing their information with others outside the FBI.

::*Ohr also told McCabe and Lisa Page that Steele and Simpson were working for a political client and not for the U.S. government,  and were sharing their information with others outside the FBI.

::*Lisa Page's notes of the meeting show Ohr talked about Deripaska and provided background information on Steele.

::*Lisa Page's notes of the meeting show Ohr talked about Deripaska and provided background information on Steele.

::*Lisa Page also wrote that Bruce Ohr met Deripaska in 2015 and "Need report?"  

::*Lisa Page also wrote that Bruce Ohr met Deripaska in 2015 and "Need report?"  

*Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with Michael Isikoff of ''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 official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele, and demonstrates that Bruce Ohr funneled allegations from FusionGPS and Steele to the FBI.

*Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with Michael Isikoff of ''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 official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele, 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.<ref>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/by-the-way-the-fbi-was-investigating-the-clinton-foundation.html</ref> According to the IG 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.”}}

*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 acknowledgment that the Clinton Foundation was under FBI investigation.<ref>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/by-the-way-the-fbi-was-investigating-the-clinton-foundation.html</ref> According to the IG 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>

*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>

*'''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...<br><br>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?...<br><br>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...<br><br>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...<br><br>''Mother Jones'' has reviewed that report and other memos [Steele] wrote....<br><br>[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"....<br><br>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>}}

*'''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...<br><br>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?...<br><br>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...<br><br>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...<br><br>''Mother Jones'' has reviewed that report and other memos [Steele] wrote....<br><br>[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"....<br><br>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>}}

[[File:Clinton-Tweet-300x406.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Hillary Clinton spews proven fabricated lies she paid Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson to conjure up and funnel to alleged journalists with some of the nation's formerly most respected media platforms. Some news organizations were even paid by Clinton and the Democrats to run the [[fake news]] stories against Donald Trump in [[mainstream media]] news outlets.<br>During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] of 2018 the same technique was employed.<ref>https://youtu.be/SMJdDwQlcc8</ref><br>The media, complicit in the hoax to exonerate Hillary  Clinton and  smear Donald Trump by colluding with the Obama Justice Department and Democrat paid operatives, continued the hoax for two more years, finding it impossible to walkback the lies they committed themselves to.<br>Ironically, the same day as this tweet, ''The New York Times'' reported the FBI found no evidence of Russian collusion with Trump.]]

[[File:Clinton-Tweet-300x406.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Hillary Clinton spews proven fabricated lies she paid Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson to conjure up and funnel to alleged journalists with some of the nation's formerly most respected media platforms. Some news organizations were even paid by Clinton and the Democrats to run the [[fake news]] stories against Donald Trump in [[mainstream media]] news outlets.<br>During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] of 2018 the same technique was employed.<ref>https://youtu.be/SMJdDwQlcc8</ref><br>The media, complicit in the hoax to exonerate Hillary  Clinton and  smear Donald Trump by colluding with the Obama Justice Department and Democrat paid operatives, continued the hoax for two more years, finding it impossible to walkback the lies they committed themselves to.<br>Ironically, the same day as this tweet, ''The New York Times'' reported the FBI found no evidence of Russian collusion with Trump.]]

:*''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.<br><br>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...<br><br>'''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>}}  

:*''New York Times'' headlines, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia:''  

{{Quotebox-float|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.<br><br>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...<br><br>'''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".  The Inspector General reported:

:*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".  The Inspector General reported:

{{Quotebox|While the only direct evidence regarding this McCabe-Comey conversation were the recollections of the two participants, there is considerable circumstantial evidence and we concluded that the overwhelming weight of that evidence supported Comey’s version of the conversation. Indeed, none of the circumstantial evidence provided support for McCabe’s account of the discussion; rather, we found that much of the available evidence undercut McCabe’s claim. (February 2018)}}

{{Quotebox-float|While the only direct evidence regarding this McCabe-Comey conversation were the recollections of the two participants, there is considerable circumstantial evidence and we concluded that the overwhelming weight of that evidence supported Comey’s version of the conversation. Indeed, none of the circumstantial evidence provided support for McCabe’s account of the discussion; rather, we found that much of the available evidence undercut McCabe’s claim. (February 2018)}}

*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 in Trump Tower 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>  

*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 in Trump Tower 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>