Changes

:*Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.

:*Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.

[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. The FBI asked Deripaska for assistance peddling the Russia collusion hoax. Andrew McCabe has been the FBI's chief contact with Deripaska since 2009.]]

[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. The FBI asked Deripaska for assistance peddling the Russia collusion hoax. Andrew McCabe has been the FBI's chief contact with Deripaska since 2009.]]

:*According to [[Adam Waldman]]'s account, [[Oleg Deripaska]] was approached by three FBI agents in New York; at least one agent (McCabe) had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. According to [[David Ignatius]] of ''[[WaPo]]'': {{quotebox-float|“We think Russia is colluding with the Trump campaign, and we think Manafort is the key guy,” one of the agents told Deripaska, according to the knowledgeable source. The oligarch responded, “I hate Manafort, and I’m suing him.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>}} [[John Solomon]] of ''The Hill'' reported, {{Quotebox-float|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}

:*According to [[Adam Waldman]]'s account, [[Oleg Deripaska]] was approached by three FBI agents in New York; at least one agent (McCabe) had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. According to [[David Ignatius]] of ''[[WaPo]]'':  

{{quotebox-float|“We think Russia is colluding with the Trump campaign, and we think Manafort is the key guy,” one of the agents told Deripaska, according to the knowledgeable source. The oligarch responded, “I hate Manafort, and I’m suing him.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>}}  

:[[John Solomon]] of ''The Hill'' reported,  

{{Quotebox-float|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}

:*[[Adam Lovinger]], who holds a doctorate in law and is a professor at [[Georgetown University]], was working in the [[Office of Net Assessment (ONA)]] as a strategist. His position within the specialized think tank required a top-level security clearance. Lovinger had grown increasingly concerned over the ONA’s use of outside contractors, due in part to the “problem of [[cronyism]]” and a growing “revolving door policy” that resulted from ONA analysts leaving to join the better-paid ranks of private contractors. Lovinger wrote the first in a series of emails to ONA’s new director, James H. Baker, who had recently been appointed by Obama’s Defense Secretary. From Lovinger’s September email: {{quotebox|"On the issue of quality, more than once I have heard our contractor studies labeled ‘derivative,’ ‘college-level’ and based heavily on secondary sources. One of our contractor studies was literally cut and pasted from a [[World Bank]] report that I just happened to have read the week before reading the contractor study itself. Even the font was the same.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/24/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-dod-official-awarded-investigators-of-his-case-with-military-medals/</ref>}} The contractor being referenced was Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), whose president is Jacqueline Newmyer. [[Chelsea Clinton]] and Newmyer were at each other’s weddings, and in 2011 Chelsea referred to Newmyer as her “best friend.”<ref>http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/chelsea-clinton-talks-shakespeare-5312140/</ref> According to USAspending.gov, LTSG has received approximately $14 million in contracts since 2007.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/3ec765b6f0e1469daea629338557b208</ref> In a 2015 article by [[Bill Gertz]] of the ''[[Washington Free Beacon]]'', it was reported that in 2009, Hillary Clinton had arranged meetings between Newmyer and Pentagon officials that involved contracting discussions.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-sought-pentagon-state-department-contracts-chelseas-friend/</ref>

:*[[Adam Lovinger]], who holds a doctorate in law and is a professor at [[Georgetown University]], was working in the [[Office of Net Assessment (ONA)]] as a strategist. His position within the specialized think tank required a top-level security clearance. Lovinger had grown increasingly concerned over the ONA’s use of outside contractors, due in part to the “problem of [[cronyism]]” and a growing “revolving door policy” that resulted from ONA analysts leaving to join the better-paid ranks of private contractors. Lovinger wrote the first in a series of emails to ONA’s new director, James H. Baker, who had recently been appointed by Obama’s Defense Secretary. From Lovinger’s September email: {{quotebox|"On the issue of quality, more than once I have heard our contractor studies labeled ‘derivative,’ ‘college-level’ and based heavily on secondary sources. One of our contractor studies was literally cut and pasted from a [[World Bank]] report that I just happened to have read the week before reading the contractor study itself. Even the font was the same.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/24/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-dod-official-awarded-investigators-of-his-case-with-military-medals/</ref>}} The contractor being referenced was Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), whose president is Jacqueline Newmyer. [[Chelsea Clinton]] and Newmyer were at each other’s weddings, and in 2011 Chelsea referred to Newmyer as her “best friend.”<ref>http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/chelsea-clinton-talks-shakespeare-5312140/</ref> According to USAspending.gov, LTSG has received approximately $14 million in contracts since 2007.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/3ec765b6f0e1469daea629338557b208</ref> In a 2015 article by [[Bill Gertz]] of the ''[[Washington Free Beacon]]'', it was reported that in 2009, Hillary Clinton had arranged meetings between Newmyer and Pentagon officials that involved contracting discussions.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-sought-pentagon-state-department-contracts-chelseas-friend/</ref>

----

----