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Obamagate timeline 2009-2014

2020-07-05T19:47:48Z

D33pState: Adding Chris Steele note from FOIA request.

:<center>''This is a timeline. For updated events see '''[[Obamagate timeline]]'''. For a detailed presentation, see [[Barack Hussein Obama]] and [[Barack Obama Controversies]].''</center>

The [[Obamagate|Obamagate scandal]] refers to several scandals during President Barack Obama tenure, notably the misuse of government agencies, [[Uranium One bribery scandal]],<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration</ref> media manipulation, illegal wiretaping, and domestic spying on American citizens to harass political opponents and critics.

Seven large scale scandals have tainted the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] legacy:
*Misuse of the IRS targeting political opponents;
*[[Operation Fast and Furious]] illegal arms selling;
*[[Uranium One bribery scandal]];
*[[Benghazi massacre]];
*Squashing [[Project Cassandra|Iranian drug trafficking investigations]] to gain the [[Iranian nuke deal]];
*[[Obstruction of justice]] in the [[Clinton email whitewash]];
*[[Russia collusion hoax]].

''Circa'' reported "As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats. ...Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser [[Susan Rice]], his CIA Director [[John Brennan]] and then-Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]]."<ref>http://circa.com/politics/barack-obama-changed-how-nsa-intercepts-of-americans-like-donald-trump-could-be-shared</ref>

The abuses came to light when [[Mark Levin]] cited mainstream press reporting of [[Obama administration]] leaks about government agencies spying on the presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]] and surrogates, including then U.S. Senator [[Jeff Sessions]], who was appointed the Attorney General of the United States.<ref>[https://spectator.org/investigate-obamagate/ Investigate Obamagate], ''The American Spectator''</ref>
[[File:Bill-clinton-moscow-speech.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Pay day: Bill Clinton in Moscow to pick up a $500,000 bribe for his wife Hillary Clinton's approval of the Russian purchase of an American uranium mining company.]]
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==2009==
TENEX was a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSC Atomenergoprom, which was a wholly-owned subsidiary of The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM ("ROSATOM"). TENEX operated as the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide. In about October 2010, TENEX established TENAM Corporation ("TENAM") of Bethesda, Maryland as its wholly-owned subsidiary and official representative in the United States.

Vadim Mikerin was a Director of the Pan American Department of TENEX from about 2004 through about 2010, and was the President of TENAM from about October 2010 through about October 2014.

Between 2004 and October 2014, Mikerin conspired with others to transmit funds from Maryland and elsewhere in the United States to offshore shell company bank accounts located in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland for the purpose of promoting a corrupt payment scheme that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The payments were made to influence Mikerin and to secure improper business advantages for U.S. companies that did business with TENEX. Mikerin used consulting agreements and code words such as “lucky figure,” “LF,” “cake” and “remuneration” to disguise the corrupt payments.

According to court filings in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, in 2009, the [[FBI]] began an investigation into corruption and extortion by senior managers of JSC Techsnabexport (Tenex), a subsidiary of Rosatom, a Russian entity. The extortion racket against American energy companies was permitted to continue into the summer of 2014 until the [[Crimea|Crimean crisis]] and passage of the Russian sanctions bill. The Obama administration wanted to avoid an embarrassing trial highlghting its failure to prosecute a national security case four years earlier in order to protect Russia’s takeover of U.S. nuclear assets.

The investigation was centered in Maryland, Tenam’s home base. The US Attorney in Maryland was Bush appointee [[Rod Rosenstein]], and [[Robert Mueller]] was FBI Director at the time the investigation into the Rosatom subsidiary began.<ref>Government’s Response to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Pre-Indictment Delay, United States v. Vadim Mikerin, Criminal No. TDC-14-0529 (D. MD) at 1. http://fcpa.stanford.edu/enforcement-action.html?id=583</ref>
===January 2009===
*'''13 January.''' clintonemail.com domain established.
*'''21 January.''' Obama inaugurated 44th president.

*'''January.''' Gullenist contractors receive their first loan to begin building Charter schools for Turkish immigrants in the US. The Gullenist fronts move quickly within two years to become the largest charter school operator in Texas, with 33 schools receiving more than $100 million a year in taxpayer funds.<ref>http://www.vdare.com/posts/the-economics-of-the-gulen-cults-american-charter-schools</ref><ref>http://info.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/pdf/CharterContribs.pdf</ref>

===February 2009===
*'''6 February.''' Italian government ratifies historic Friendship Agreement with Libya.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.alarabonline.org/english/display.asp?fname=2009%5C03%5C03-02%5Czbusinessz%5C988.htm&dismode=x&ts=02/03/2009%2004:42:49%20ã|title=Libya agrees pact with Italy to boost investment|date=2 March 2009|accessdate=|publisher=[[Al-Arab]] }}</ref> Under its terms, Italy would pay $5 billion to Libya as compensation for its former colonial occupation. In exchange, Libya would take measures to combat [[illegal immigration]] coming from its shores.<ref name="rep">{{cite news|publisher=La Repubblica|url=http://www.repubblica.it/2008/05/sezioni/esteri/libia-italia/accordo-firmato/accordo-firmato.html|title=Italia-Libia, firmato l'accordo|language=Italian|date=30 August 2008|accessdate=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000538/http://www.repubblica.it/2008/05/sezioni/esteri/libia-italia/accordo-firmato/accordo-firmato.html|archivedate=3 December 2013}}</ref>

[[File:2015-08-07-d47f891b large.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The '''Russian reset''' after a period of strained relations blamed on [[George W. Bush]] paved the way from the sale of 20% of America's uranium mining capacity to Russia for which the Clinton's pocketed $500,000 from the Moscow bank that financed the deal. Once the deal was completed, the Obama administration had no more need for improved relations with Russia.]]
===March 2009===
*'''6 March.''' Russian reset. Hillary Clinton in a high-profile photo-op, "resets" relations with Russia which had been strained after the Russian occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, paving the way for the Uranium One deal.

*'''13 March.''' Hillary Clinton invites Vladimir Putin to [[Clinton Foundation]] event.

*'''21 March.''' State Dept. spokesman Sean McCormack confirms that John Brennan’s private firm, The Analysis Corp., had contractor access to State Department passport files and that the Inspector General had an ongoing investigation.

===April 2009===
*'''1 April.''' Email to Huma Abedin from a Fethullah Gulen follower, Gokhan Ozkok, asks to arrange a meeting between Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and Obama during an upcoming visit to Turkey. Obama met Ihsanoglu days later in Istanbul and invited him to the White House. Ihsanoglu is [[Premier Erdogen]] chief domestic political opponent.

*'''5 April.''' ''Washington Times'' reports John Brennan's private consulting firm under investigation for illegally hacking State Department computers.
[[File:Judge Sullivan.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. In 2014, Sullivan presided over ''[[Judicial Watch]] v. [[IRS]],''<ref>{{cite news |title=Motion for Status Conference |author=Judicial Watch |newspaper=Judicial Watch |date=June 27, 2014 |url=http://nblo.gs/Zd7kv |accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref> related to Obama's [[IRS scandal]]. There was an attempt to determine where the deleted emails of former IRS employee [[Lois Lerner]] had gone, what damage to her computer hard drive occurred, and what steps the IRS had taken to recover the information contained in the emails and on the hard drive.<ref>{{cite news |title=Judge Prods IRS on Effort to Save Lois Lerner’s E-Mail |author=Andrew Zajac |newspaper=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |date=August 14, 2014 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-14/judge-prods-irs-on-effort-to-save-lois-lerner-s-e-mail.html |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Group: Inquiry ordered into lost IRS emails |author=Kevin G. Hall |newspaper=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |date=August 14, 2014 |url=http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/08/14/6044045/group-inquiry-ordered-into-lost.html |accessdate=}}</ref> In 2015 Sullivan presided over a [[Freedom of Information Act|FOIA]] case in the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Jason Donner|title=Judge orders State Dept. to work on recovering emails, suggests Clinton violated policy|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/20/judge-orders-state-to-work-with-fbi-on-clinton-email-investigation/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork|accessdate=August 27, 2015|work=Fox News|date=}}</ref> in 2017, Sullivan took over the sentencing phase of former [[National Security Advisor]] [[Michael Flynn]] when it was discovered [[Robert Mueller]] used tainted evidence gathered by [[Peter Strzok]] who was also a personal friend of the judge who entered a guilty conviction.]]
*'''7 April.''' Judge [[Emmet G. Sullivan]] set aside the conviction of Alaska Sen. [[Ted Stevens]] and appointed an outside lawyer to investigate the [[Department of Justice]]'s "Public Integrity Section" for [[criminal]] [[contempt]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/07/ted.stevens/index.html|work=CNN|title=Sen. Ted Stevens's conviction set aside|date=2009-04-07}}</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040700338.html</ref> Subsequently, one of the four prosecutors held in contempt committed [[suicide]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092706613.html |first=Paul |last=Duggan |title=Justice Dept. lawyer kills self |publisher=[[Washington Post]] |date=September 28, 2010 |accessdate=}}</ref>

*'''19 April.''' Key witness in the Inspector General's investigation into John Brennan's illegal hack of State Department files found murdered.

*'''April.''' Unmasked name of Rep. Jane Harmon leaked to the press. NSA incidentally recorded phone conversations with pro-Israel [[lobbyist]]s who were under investigation for espionage. Story broken by ''Congressional Quarterly''’s Jeff Stein.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-danger-of-nsa-spying-on-members-of-congress/282827/</ref>

===June 2009===
*'''June.''' After being in power for 40 years, for the first time, Mumammar Gaddafi is invited and travels to [[Rome]] to visit with Prime Minister Berlusconi, under the terms of the new Italian-Libyan Friendship Agreement.

*[[Hunter Biden]], son of Joe Biden, and Chris Heinz, stepson of John Kerry form Rosemount Seneca. The firm partners with the Thornton Group run by Devon Archer, and the Bank of China, to form Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) in China. Devon Archer is the nephew of Whitey Bulger, head of the Boston Irish mafia who enjoyed federal protection under FBI director [[Robert Mueller]] as an informant. Bulger was convicted of 19 murders that occurred while under Mueller's protection; some have linked the Bulger klan to as many as 52 murders while Mueller ran the Boston FBI field office. The Bank of China is owned by the Chinese government and closely connected with the Chinese military and intelligence services. Biden, Heinz, and Archer transfered and sold "duel use" technology to the Chinese military which was used to create the Chinese drone program and replicate the Chinese version of the F-15 fighter.<ref>https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/</ref>

===July 2009===
[[File:14ihohf.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama holding hands with a [[gay]] lover in 1981. Obama traveled to Pakistan in 1981 on an Indonesian passport under the name Barry Soetero. John Brennan hacked into State Department computers in March 2008 to "cauterize" Obama's passport file. Obama never obtained a US passport until 2004. Obama authorized his literary agent in 1991 to promote Obama as having been born in Kenya.<ref>https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/exposing-the-original-birther-2/</ref> A key [[whistleblower]] witness was founded murdered on April 19, 2009, shortly after the investigation into Brennan's hack was opened.]]
*'''July.''' State Department Inspector General’s report cites Obama Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan, while outside government, as hacking into State Department computers in March 2008 to obtain Barack Obama's passport file. Brennan served as an advisor and contributor to the Obama campaign. The file was accessed in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information. “They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion,” one knowledgeable source told [[Newsmax]]. "But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file."<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/kentimmerman/brennan-passport-breach/2009/01/12/id/337482/</ref> Obama traveled to [[Pakistan]], [[Indonesia]], and [[Kenya]] in 1981<ref>“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college—I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . .” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-says-no-to-foreign_b_95357.html</ref> as a foreign citizen on an Indonesian passport. Obama never obtained a US passport until 2004 when he became a US Senator. A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department, Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., was murdered a few weeks after the hack occurred and was reported by the ''Washington Times''.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/</ref>

===August 2009===
*'''August.''' Responsibility for interrogations of terror suspects shifted away from the CIA, and the White House assumes direct control.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302598.html ''New Unit to Question Key Terror Suspects - Move Shifts Interrogation Oversight From the CIA to the White House]'', Anne E. Kornblut, ''[[Washington Post]]'', August 24, 2009.</ref> John Brennan, a holdover from the Bush torture program,<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/no-way-no-how-no-brennan/208302/</ref> placed in charge. Unlike executive departments and agencies such as the [[FBI]], CIA, or [[Department of Justice]], the [[National Security Council]] is on the personal staff of the president, is not subject to Congressional oversight, and functions outside of public view.<ref>[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/j-e-dyer/78202 National Security Council Reloaded], J. E. Dyer, ''Commentary blog'', 08.25.2009.</ref> This arrangement was based on the model of [[Iran Contra]] headed by Col. [[Oliver North]] of the NSC. The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] called attention to this before Obama appointed the NSC staff to serve an operational role.<ref>[https://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35595prs20080610.html?s_src=RSS ACLU Urges Congress to Examine White House National Security Council as Central Decision-Maker on Torture], ACLU Press Release, (6/10/2008).</ref> The Tower Commission Report specifically criticized a major abuse in the Iran Contra affair was the President using his personal staff to carry out operations.<ref>Tower Commission Report, p. 13.</ref>

===September 2009===
.'''4 September.''' Mike Levine of Fox News reports:<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/09/04/al-qaeda-linked-american-terrorist-unveiled-as-charges-await-him-in-u-7092.html</ref>
{{Quotebox|"In October 2008, 27-year-old college student Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis became "the first known American suicide bomber" when he blew himself up in Somalia, killing dozens, according to the FBI. Since then at least four more men from Minneapolis have been killed in Somalia, according to their families. 

A grand jury in Minneapolis has been investigating the case for several months, and three men have already pleaded guilty to terror-related charges, including providing material support to terrorists. The indictments said the men traveled to Somalia "so that they could fight jihad" there."}}
:In January of 2011 Holder's Justice Dept. obtains a warrant against Levine to compel him to reveal his source. The case raises significant First and Sixth Amendments issues.

*'''21 September.''' FBI Director Robert Mueller personally selected by Sec. of Star Hillary Clinton to hand deliver 10 grams of highly enriched [[uranium]] to [[Moscow]].<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE85588_a.html</ref><ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE85588_a.html#efmBbpBlP</ref>

*'''23 September.''' Obama's first speech before the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Obama insists that no country, least of all America, has the right to tell other countries how to organize their political lives. “Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside,” said Obama. “Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. Each country will pursue a path rooted in the culture of its people and in its past traditions.”

*'''30 September.''' ''The Atlantic'' reports {{Quotebox|In a pro-forma press release today, the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD) released the names of its leadership today. Reporting to David Kris, the assistant attorney general in charge of the NSD, are several credentialed [[national security]] lawyers with '''significant connections to the [[Democratic Party]]'''. But there are also officials — Brad Weigman, Sheryl Walter, [[Tanisha Guahar]], Leonard Bailey, Carol Cordero and [[George Toscas]] — who have served more than one president."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/09/career-staff-get-key-posts-at-justices-national-security-division/27469/</ref><ref>A few weeks after Obama's election, former [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist]] [[Mark Rudd]] wrote, "the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment. Look to the second level appointments. There's a whole govt. in waiting that Podesta has at the [[Center for American Progress]]. They're mostly progressives." http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-rudd-lets-get-smart-about-obama.html?m=1</ref>}}

*'''Fall.''' Operation Fast and Furious conceived locally in Phoenix ATF office.

===October 2009===
*'''26 October.''' State Department's routine International Religious Freedom Report for 2009 said of Libya under Gaddafi:<ref>U.S. Department of State, [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/rellibya09.html International Religious Freedom Report 2009,] Released by the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC, (October 26, 2009). www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>
{{QuoteBox|The Government tolerates most minority religions but '''strongly opposes militant forms of Islam, which it views as a security threat'''... There were '''no reports of forced religious conversion''' ...There were '''no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice.'''}}

*'''27 October.''' State Dept. cable from Italy says of Italian Prime Minister Sivio Berlusconi "a growing list of scandals, adverse court decisions and health issues have weakened him; and led some erstwhile Berlusconi allies to begin hedging their bets on his political longevity... Berlusconi's frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard mean he does not get sufficient rest." The same cable also says that: "Separately, on October 21, Northern League leader Umberto Bossi, commenting on Berlusconi's troubles, told the Ambassador that organized crime figures had probably set the trap for Berlusconi on some of the sex scandals." When Berlusconi accused Washington of "provoking" Moscow by recognizing the independence of [[Kosovo]], a [[Serbia]]n province, an Italian official visited the US Embassy. A cable from the embassy said the official "took back a terse message to the [Italian Foreign Minister] that such comments risk substantial and lasting damage to Italy's credibility in Washington....Berlusconi was losing credibility for Italy as a reliable partner, which he could ill afford to do," the cable added.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/02/wikileaks.berlusconi/</ref>

===November 2009===
*'''Early November.''' Obama administration directs [[Department of Homeland Security]] to delete information collected on hundreds of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups from its database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). The records are the basis for the ability to “connect dots.” DHS Customs and Border Protection officers monitor entering and exiting individuals associated with known terrorist affiliations, and detect patterns.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/268282-dhs-ordered-me-to-scrub-records-of-muslims-with-terror</ref>

===December 2009===
*'''17 December.''' Obama administration prosecutes FBI contractor Shamai Leibowitz for leaking documents to the media in April 2009. Leibowitz says he leaked because he felt FBI practices were “an abuse of power and a violation of the law” which he reported to his superiors at the FBI “who did nothing about them.”
*'''25 December.''' Christmas Day underwear bombing attempt. Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab fails to detonate plastic explosives sewed into his underwear onboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from [[Amsterdam]] to [[Detroit]] over US territory with 290 on board. Passengers wrestled the bomber to the floor of the cabin and put out a fire.

==2010==
===January 2010===
*'''21 January.''' ''Citizens United'' overturned.

*'''26 January.''' Operation Fast and Furious organized in Washington as a joint Strike Force with agents from ATF, FBI, [[DEA]], and the [[ICE]] run through the U.S. Attorney's office rather than the ATF. Designation as a Strike Force allowed it to use sophisticated surveillance techniques such as federal wiretaps, which would require court orders and interaction from Justice Department (DOJ) officials in Washington, D.C. since federal law requires certain individuals to review evidence and certify the necessity of such techniques.<ref name="oversight.house.gov">[http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Update-on-Fast-and-Furious-with-attachment-FINAL.pdf Darrell Issa, "Update on Operation Fast and Furious"] House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 3, 2012.</ref> ATF agents were prevented from making arrests by federal prosecutors with Eric Holder's office.<ref name="Fortune">Fortune</ref> Wiretaps were employed of suspected straw-buyers.<ref name="Fortune"/>

*'''27 January.''' Obama insults the [[Supreme Court]] in his State of the Union address over the ''Citizens United'' ruling.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2010/01/29/obama-was-wrong-to-criticize-the-supreme-court</ref>

*'''31 January.''' Villas de Salvárcar massacre, Juárez, Mexico.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211289/Operation-Fast-Furious-Guns-failed-gun-program-used-2010-Mexico-massacre.html</ref> A birthday party attended by high school students was intruded upon by a group of 20 La Línea drug cartel hitmen. 15 teenagers were killed and 12 received injuries.<ref>Reyes, Gerardo and Santiago Wills. "[https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/fast-furious-scandal-details-emerge-us-government-armed/story?id=17352694#.UGmiKqpfr4- Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels]." ''[[ABC News]]''. September 30, 2012. Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref><ref>"[http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/835001.2010-ocurre-en-juarez-la-masacre-de-salvarcar-15-jovenes-fueron-asesinados.html 2010: Ocurre en Juárez la 'Masacre de Salvárcar'; 15 jóvenes fueron asesinados]." ''El Siglo de Torreón''. Thursday January 31, 2013. Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref> The brutality of the crime outraged people both in and outside Mexico.<ref>Martínez-Cabrera, Alejandro. "[http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_20185715/villas-de-salvarcar-massacre-suspect-tortured-by-mexican-army Official: Villas de Salvarcar massacre suspect tortured by Mexican army]." ''El Paso Times''. March 16, 2012. Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref> The weapons used came from President Obama's Fast and Furious program.

===March 2010===
*'''1 March.''' Hillary Clinton arranges meeting with former Russian President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] and current Russian President Vladimir Putin.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/officials-tied-to-russian-nuclear-bribes-have-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-accusations_2338496.html</ref> Clinton then travels to Russia where she met with Putin and Medvedev. Soon after, it is announced that Renaissance Capital, a regime-tied Russian bank, offered Bill Clinton $500,000 to make a single speech — five times more than Clinton's usual speaking fee.

*'''March.''' [[IRS]] employees in Cincinnati instructed from Washington to scrutinize tax-exempt applications using the words "Tea Party" or "Patriots" in the name.

===April 2010===
*'''7 April.''' James H. Thessin,<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-h-thessin-27951a10/</ref> State Department Deputy Legal Advisor and Designated Deputy Ethics Advisor approves conflict of interest review request from Bill Clinton to address Renaissance Capital in Moscow. Copy forwarded to [[Cheryl Mills]].<ref>https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/362127538/Citizens-United-Releases-Clinton-Russia-Related-FOIA-Documents-From-State-Dept p.20</ref>

*'''15 April.''' Obama administration pursues espionage charges against NSA [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Thomas Drake.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nsa-senior-executive-charged-illegally-retaining-classified-information-obstructing</ref> Charges were later dropped and Drake pled guilty to a misdemeanor. The judge called the government’s conduct in the case “unconscionable.”

*'''April.''' Obama Attn. Gen. Eric Holder renews a subpoena of ''New York Times'' reporter James Risen in a leak investigation. Risen and a colleague reported on warrantless wiretaps. The coverage won Risen and colleague a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for “carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate.” The Justice Dept. opened an investigation into the wiretap stories. John Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by Risen. Brennan later admitted that he relied on information from CIA’s torture program rather than domestic spying, which was used as a cover. In a frontpage May 13, 2004 story the torture program was exposed with Risen as the lead reporter.
[[File:Feinstein.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Sen. Diane Feinstein, Chair of the Intelligence Committee entrusted with oversight of CIA was hacked by Brennan's CIA looking into Brennan and CIA use of torture. This egregious abuse of power by the Obama Executive branch was papered over by the Democrats in the administration and Senate by having Brennan offer Feinstein an apology. No one was prosecuted. No one went to jail. No reforms were initiated or proposed in Congress.]]

===May 2010===
*'''May.''' Sixty documents disappear from the computers of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Torture Review investigation. Chairwoman Feinstein said that CIA personnel at first denied that the documents were missing, then blamed the IT contractors, then informed her it was at the behest of the [[White House]].<ref>https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/torture-report</ref>

*'''Mid May.''' Through its confidential informant the FBI could prove three extortion payments Tenam (Rosatom subsidiary) received from the informant. The informant also learned from Vadim Mikerin and others that Rosatom officials were trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons.

*'''14 May.''' Bill Clinton lists Arkady Dvorkovich, a top aide to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and a key Rosatom board member as one of 15 Russians he wanted to meet with. Rosatom is the parent company of Tenex, then under investigation by FBI Dir. Robert Mueller for money-laundering and extortion of American energy companies. Processing of Rosatom's request to purchase Uranium One was in the works by Hillary's State Dept. at the time.<ref>
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/356323-bill-clinton-sought-states-permission-to-meet-with-russian-nuclear</ref> Carter Page is said to have met Dvorkovich about this time as well.<ref>https://thesternfacts.com/carter-page-met-russian-politician-behind-uranium-one-deal-during-trump-campaign-10cdfa078642</ref> Clinton met with Putin and Medvedev during the excursion to Moscow, where he received $500,000 from the bank financing the Rosatom-Uranium One purchase.

*'''18 May.''' John Brennan tells a Washington conferernce including Lebanese leaders that the Obama administration is looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within Hezbollah. “Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” saying it had evolved from “purely a terrorist organization” to a militia and, ultimately, a political party with representatives in the Lebanese Parliament and Cabinet. “There is certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing,” Brennan said. “And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.”

*In practice, the administration’s willingness to envision a new role for Hezbollah, combined with Obama's desire for the Iran nuke deal, translated into a reluctance to move aggressively against the top Hezbollah operatives, according to Project Cassandra members and others.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-usa-hezbollah/u-s-wants-to-build-up-hezbollah-moderates-adviser-idUSTRE64I0UM20100519?type=politicsNews</ref> Hezbollah was known to be selling approximately $200 million a month in illegal narcotics in the United States at this time.

*'''28 May.''' Justice Dept. applies for a warrant to obtain [[Google]] email information of Fox News reporter James Rosen without telling Rosen.<ref>http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/memorandum-and-order/169/</ref>

===June 2010===
*'''June.''' Operation Fast and Furious suspects have purchased 1,608 firearms thus far at a cost of over $1 million at [[Phoenix]]-area gun shops. ATF is aware of 179 of those weapons being found at crime scenes in [[Mexico]], and 130 in the United States.<ref>CBS</ref> As guns traced to Fast and Furious began turning up at violent crime scenes in Mexico, ATF agents stationed in Mexico voice opposition to the program.<ref name="Washington Post">Washington Post</ref>

*'''8 June.''' Uranium One announces it has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake to the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency. Uranium One's two licensed mining operations in [[Wyoming]] amount to about 20 percent of all uranium mining production capacity in the U.S, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The deal requires a [[national security]] review by the [[Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States]] (CFIUS).

*'''9 June.''' Obama administration announces $900 million in aid to a designated terror organization in [[Gaza]].<ref>A violate of section 301c of the Foreign Assistance Act.</ref><ref>[https://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/03/The-Gaza-Aid-Package-Time-to-Rethink-US-Foreign-Assistance-to-the-Palestinians The Gaza Aid Package: Time to Rethink U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Palestinians, Heritage.org, March 9, 2009]</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/barack-obama-gaza-israel-aid Barack Obama announces $400m aid package to Gaza and West Bank, Guardian.uk, June 9, 2010]</ref><ref>[http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21913 Visiting journalist finds Hamas is stealing Gaza's aid, Israel Today, September 22, 2010]</ref>

*'''29 June.''' Bill Clinton receives $500,000 for a Moscow speech to Renaissance Capital in a pay-to-play bribery scam arranged by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton for State Dept. approval of Russian purchase of Uranium One, an American mining company. Clinton was thanked personally by Russian President Vladimir Putin after the speech.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?mtrref=www.breitbart.com&gwh=18536F8B60E8680A988CF8CB1C3C10B2&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now</ref> Renaissance Capital is a controlled entity of the Russian government. Bill & Hillary Clinton file joint taxes, are a joint economic unit, therefore any money received by one spouse is joint income to both spouses.

*'''June.''' Uranium One and Rosatom notifies Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) of the Russian government’s intent to acquire twenty percent of the United States’ uranium assets.<ref>Jo Becker and Mike McIntire, “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal,” THE NEW YORK TIMES(April 23, 2015).</ref>

===July 2010===
*'''July.''' Renaissance Bank of Moscow reportedly assigned Uranium One a “buy” rating, a move that would principally benefit its Russian investors. Later the Department of Justice investigation into Prevezon Holdings determined that $13 million from the crime that Sergei Magnitsky uncovered, exposed, and was killed over went to the bank accounts of Renaissance Capital in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections:
Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations, Testimony from Mr. [[Bill Browder]] at 20-21 (July 27, 2017).</ref>
[[File:Abedin-weiner-wedding-bill-clinton 409.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner were wed July 10, 2010 in a ceremony officiated by former President [[Bill Clinton]].]]
*One of the nineteen guns Mexican authorities said they found at the hideout of Joaquin Guzman aka El Chapo, after his January 2016 capture, was associated with the Fast and Furious operation. The Justice Department confirmed that the .50-caliber rifle was bought in July 2010 in a straw purchase by someone not known to the ATF at the time.<ref>[http://time.com/4261176/el-chapo-hideout-gun-fast-furious/?xid=homepage Gun From El Chapo’s Hideout Linked to Fast and Furious Operation]; ''Time''; Eric Tucker & Alicia A. Caldwell; March 16, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/20/rifle-capable-taking-down-helicopter-found-at-el-chapo-hideout-purchased-through-fast-and-furious-program.html ‘Fast & Furious’ rifle capable of taking down helicopter found in 'El Chapo' cache], Fox News, January 20, 2016.</ref>

*Catherine Engelbrecht of [[Texas]] filed with the IRS seeking tax exempt status for her organizations, King Street Patriots and True the Vote. FBI makes 6 contacts with the family or the nonprofit entities over the next 18 months, including harassment from ATF and OSHA as well.

*'''10 July.''' Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner wedding.

===August 2010===
*'''16 August.''' Def. Sec. Robert Gates announces intention to resign.
*'''31 August.''' Uranium One shareholders approved ARMZ’s, a Rosatom subsidiary, acquisition of controlling interest in Uranium One.<ref>http://eng.bizmedia.kz/news/subject_of_the_day/846-rosatom-launches-global-charm-offensive.html</ref><ref>http://odysseus.prometeus.nsc.ru/science/scidig/10/sept.ssi#1</ref>
*'''August'''. The IRS distributes its first BOLO (Be on the Lookout) list to examiners nationwide. The criteria on the BOLO list were Tea Party organizations applying for section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.<ref>http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf</ref>
*'''August.''' [[Robert Mueller]] [[rape]] allegations first occur.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/doc-3.jpeg?itok=HxzZqOp9</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/doc-4.jpeg?itok=So4Dwaij</ref>

===September 2010===
*'''21 September.''' Internal email entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at “global intelligence” company Stratfor claims Obama’s then-White House adviser [[John Brennan]] is targeting [[journalist]]s.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120925054433/http://wikileaks.org:80/gifiles/docs/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2013/05/22/wikileaks-stratfor-e-mail-brennan-behind-witch-hunt-of-journalists-reporting-leaks/</ref>
{{Quotebox|"Brennan is behind the [[witch hunt]]s of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,” writes one Stratfor official to another. The email continues: “Note — '''There is specific tasker from the [White House] to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda''' (oh my.) Even the FBI is shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode…”}}
:“The Wonder Boys” reportedly refers to the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA).<ref>Credit:Sharyl Attkisson. https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref>

===October 2010===
*'''October.''' {{Quotebox|"The IRS apparently considered political speech by nonprofit groups to be so troublesome that it illegally assisted federal law-enforcement officials in assembling a massive database of the lawful political speech of thousands of American citizens, weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, using confidential taxpayer information."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/irs-sent-massive-database-of-tax-exempt-groups-to-fbi-weeks-before-2010-election</ref>}}

*'''6 October.''' ''Washington Post'' reports {{Quotebox|Office of Intelligence Policy and Review handled applications for secret surveillance warrants in intelligence investigations. "We were separate in almost every way," said [[George Z. Toscas]], who is the deputy assistant attorney general over counterterrorism and counterespionage. The new division, launched on Sept. 26, 2006, was designed to change that. Intelligence lawyers and criminal prosecutors now work together when a threat is identified - in partnership with U.S. attorneys' offices and the FBI - in what are considered broad [[national security]] investigations. Toscas and [[Tashina Gauhar]], the deputy assistant attorney general for intelligence, have offices next to each other and say they are in constant communication. The division is the liaison between Justice Department headquarters and the [[intelligence community]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100600015_2.html</ref>}}

*'''22 October.''' Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) certifies to Congress sale of Uranium One to Rosatom of the Russian Federation.<ref>CFIUS Certification to Congress, Case 10-40: Rosatom (Russian Federation)/Uranium One, Inc, (October 22, 2010).</ref>

*'''26 October.''' In a campaign speech, Obama promises to "punish our enemies and reward our friends."<ref>https://youtu.be/TeT67BvYzo4</ref>

===November 2010===
*'''2 November.''' Republicans sweep Midterms. GOP gained 63 seats in the House and took control, the largest for any midterm election since 1938 in the [[Great Depression]]. All 63 seats came from wins over Democrats who voted on a straight partyline for Obamacare. The GOP also gained six seats in the U.S. Senate. In state legislatures the GOP gained 680 seats.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/11/in-redistricting-year-gop-gains-a-big-edge/66128/|title=In Redistricting Year, GOP Gains a Big Edge|date=November 4, 2010|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/national-affairs/blogs/NationalAffairs_May2010/231048/66235|title=Four More Lessons from the GOP Landslide|date=November 4, 2010|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/11/devastation-gop.php|title=Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats|date=November 4, 2010|accessdate=}}</ref> to break the previous majority record set by Democrats in the immediate post-[[Watergate Scandal]] Midterms of 1974.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Republicans controlled 26 state legislatures, compared to 15 still by Democrats, and 29 of 50 Governorships. Obama referred to this outcome as his "shellacking".

*Sarkozy and Cameron sign Lancaster House Treaties to "develop co-operation between British and French Armed Forces, the sharing and pooling of materials and equipment including through mutual interdependence, the building of joint facilities, mutual access to each other’s defence markets, and industrial and technological co-operation."

*Berlusconi sex scandal breaks; Berlusconi responds, "It is better to be fond of beautiful girls than to be [[gay]]." The statement is offensive to Barack Obama,<ref>https://youtu.be/3QK0eGp3N6A</ref> Hillary Clinton,<ref>http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/09/19/hillary-clinton-bisexual-bill-clinton-gennifer-flowers-interview/</ref> and [[Homosexual agenda|numerous others]] in mass media.

*'''7 November.''' Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi targeted in a number of press and news articles alleging deviant sex lifestyle.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/07/silvio-berlusconis-bunga-bunga-parties.html</ref>

*'''23 November.''' Hillary Clinton suggests murdering [[Julian Assange]].<ref>http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-proposed-drone-strike-on-julian-assange/</ref>

*'''28 November.''' Wikileaks begins publishing classified information from [[Bradley Manning]] revealing, among other matters, that the US is extensively spying on the [[United Nations]].<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/long-list-what-we-know-thanks-private-manning/</ref>

===December 2010===
*'''14 December.''' US Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and others were patrolling Peck Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona 11 miles from the Mexican border. The group came across five suspected [[illegal]] [[immigrant]]s. When they fired non-lethal beanbag guns, the suspects responded with live fire. Agent Terry was killed. Four of the suspects were apprehended and two AK-47 type weapons.<ref name="Washington Post"/> The Eric Holder's office was immediately notified of the shooting incident by email.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/27/146010135/emails-show-how-fast-and-furious-ambush-news-unfolded-at-justice-dept Carrie Johnson, "Emails Show How 'Fast And Furious' Ambush News Unfolded At Justice Dept"]. NPR, January 27, 2012.</ref> The weapons were traced within hours to a purchase involved in the Fast and Furious operation.<ref name="Washington Post"/>

==2011==
It is clear in reading Hillary Clinton's emails that, in the glow of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Hillary embraced the call to spike the football and clearly was planning to use Libya as evidence of her leadership and skill that qualified her to become President.

The attack on US diplomats and CIA officers in Benghazi on 11 September 2012 however, destroyed that dream. The dream became a nightmare and Hillary scrambled to pretend that she was not the mover-and-shaker that destabilized Libya and made it a safe haven for [[ISIS]], uncorking the bottle for the [[European migrant crisis]].
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2011
U.S. intel community vastly expands its surveillance authority, giving itself permission to spy on Americans who do nothing more than “mention a foreign target in a single, discrete communication.” Intel officials also begin storing and entering into a searchable database sensitive intelligence on U.S. citizens whose communications are accidentally or “incidentally” captured during surveillance of foreign targets. Prior to this point, such intelligence was supposed to be destroyed to protect the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens. However, it’s required that names U.S. citizens be hidden or “masked” –even inside U.S. intel agencies –to prevent abuse.<ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/05/20/collusion-against-trump-timeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29</ref>
===January 2011===
*'''11 January.''' IRS begins 3-day on-site audit of the Engelbrechts business and personal tax returns. Catherine Engelbrecht of Texas had applied for tax exempt status for True the Vote 6 months earlier.

*'''25 January.''' First public disclosures about Operation Fast and Furious. Obama and Holder's Justice Dept. denies that guns had been deliberately allowed to walk into Mexico.<ref name="Washington Post"/><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-gunwalking-serious-mistake-may-have-been-made/</ref> Altogether, about 2,000 firearms were bought by straw purchasers during Fast and Furious.<ref name="Washington Post"/><ref>Department of Justice report</ref> These included AK-47 variants, Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifles, .38 caliber revolvers, and FN Five-sevens.<ref name=staffrep072611>{{cite web |title=The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Fueling Cartel Violence |url=http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/FINAL_FINAL.pdf |publisher=United States Congress |accessdate=|format=PDF}}</ref> 389 had been recovered in the US and 276 had been recovered in Mexico. The rest remained on the streets, unaccounted for.<ref name=miher1>{{cite web |last=Yost |first=Pete |title=2007 Justice memo mentioned gun-walking probe |url=https://news.yahoo.com/2007-justice-memo-mentioned-gun-walking-probe-194543784.html |publisher=Yahoo! News |accessdate=June 20, 2012}}</ref> The total number of recovered firearms was 710.<ref>Department of Justicebreport</ref> Most of the guns went to the Sinaloa drug cartel, while others made their way to El Teo and La Familia Michoacana crime organizations.<ref name="Washington Post"/><ref name="Christian Science Monitor">Christian Science Monitor</ref>

*'''26 January.''' US Treasury Dept. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designates the Hassan Ayash Exchange Company and the Ellissa Exchange Company as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act related to their roles in the money laundering activities of Ayman Joumaa, a Lebanese narcotics trafficker linked to Hezbollah. Joumaa is also designated as a Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker.

*'''27 January.''' Acting on a whistleblower tip, Grassley wrote a letter to the ATF Acting Director requesting information about the ATF-sanctioned sale of hundreds of firearms to straw purchasers. The letter mentioned a number of allegations that walked guns were used in the fight that killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.<ref name=azre1>{{cite web |last=Wagner |first=Dennis |title=Phoenix-area gun store, ATF sting may be linked to shootout |url=http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2011/02/01/20110201phoenix-gun-store-atf-sting-border-shootout.html |publisher=The Arizona Republic |accessdate=}}</ref> A second letter from Grassley on January 31 accused the ATF of targeting whistleblowers.<ref name=fox020211>{{cite news |last=Lott |first=Maxim |title=Senator Calls ATF on Allegations Agency Is Allowing Guns Into Mexico |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/02/senator-calls-atf-allegations-agency-allowing-guns-mexico/ |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=|date=February 2, 2011}}</ref>

*'''January.''' Justice Dept. persuades a federal grand jury in Washington DC to subpoena Mike Levine of Fox News to learn confidential sources after reporting that several Somali-Americans were secretly indicted in [[Minneapolis]] for joining an al Qaeda-linked group in [[Somalia]].<ref name="abcnews.go.com">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-dept-vows-jail-reporters-jobs/story?id=23915952</ref>

===February 2011===
*'''2 February.''' Sen. Grassley’s investigators interview a whistleblower.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/07/04/senator-grassley-reveals-damaging-fast-furious-memo/</ref>
*'''4 February.''' Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the US Attorney's Office in Phoenix, and ATF Headquarters,<ref>Department of Justice Inspector General report</ref> Ronald Weich sends a response to Sen. Grassley regarding his two January letters. Weich said claims "...that (the) ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them to Mexico [are] false. ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico.”<ref name=bloom120211>{{cite news |last=Salant |first=Jonathan |title=Erroneous Gun Letter Based on U.S. Attorney, Documents Show |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-02/erroneous-gun-letter-based-on-u-s-attorney-documents-show.html |publisher=Bloomberg |accessdate=|date=}}</ref><ref name=weich020411>{{cite web|last=Weich |first=Ronald |title=Letter dated February 4, 2011, from U.S. Department of Justice to Senator Charles E. Grassley |url=http://www.grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/Judiciary-ATF-02-04-11-letter-from-DOJ-deny-allegations.pdf |publisher=United States Senate |accessdate=|format=PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508031440/http://grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/Judiciary-ATF-02-04-11-letter-from-DOJ-deny-allegations.pdf |archive-date=May 8, 2011 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy }}</ref>

*'''10 February.''' US Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) identifies Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern. As a result, U.S. financial institutions ended their relationships with LCB, precluding LCB from sending money to the United States. The finding was based on FinCEN’s determination that LCB was used by drug traffickers and money launderers around the world, including at least one narco-trafficker who provided financial support to Hezbollah. LCB had permitted Hezbollah-related entities to conduct massive cash transactions, in some cases as much as $260,000 and 200 million Lebanese pounds per day, without disclosing the source or purpose of the money. Hassan Ayash Exchange was LCB’s main source of U.S. currency, and LCB allowed Ellissa companies to conduct large cash transactions through the bank without sufficient oversight or disclosures about the sources and purpose of the cash.

*'''11 February.''' CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson breaks news about “Fast and Furious” on The CBS Evening News.

*'''14 February.''' Maroun Saade charged in the Southern District of New York with participating in an international drug conspiracy in West Africa and conspiring to aid the [[Taliban]]. Saade is a member of the Free Patriotic Movement, a Lebanese Christian organization closely allied with Hizballah, and has provided extensive services to Hezbollah members engaged in narcotics trafficking and bulk cash smuggling in West Africa. Saade is a close associate of Oussama Salhab, who relied on Saade to pay bribes to release money couriers arrested for smuggling cash through West Africa. Saade and Salhab are subjects of the DEA's [[Project Cassandra]] operation.

*'''15 February.''' Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata killed on Texas-Mexican border.<ref name=lat5>{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Richard |title=Family of U.S. agent slain in Mexico demands to know gun source |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/nation/la-na-guns-cartel-20110718 |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate|date=July 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=houchr1>{{cite web |last=Carroll |first=Susan |title=Slain ICE agent's family still searching for answers |url=http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Slain-ICE-agent-s-family-still-searching-for-2230738.php |work=The Houston Chronicle |accessdate=}}</ref> The gun used to kill Zapata was purchased in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas,<ref name=broher>{{cite web |last=Perez-Trevino |first=Emma |title=Straw purchaser of guns pleads guilty in Dallas; defendant linked to Zapata death |url=http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/ice-132901-special-jaime.html |publisher=The Brownsville Herald |accessdate=}}</ref> outside the area of responsibility for the ATF Phoenix field division<ref name=atf2>{{cite web |title=Phoenix Field Division |url=http://www.atf.gov/field/phoenix/ |publisher=ATF |accessdate=}}</ref> which conducted Fast and Furious, and then smuggled into Mexico. Congressional investigators have stated the purchaser was known by the ATF to be a straw purchaser months before he purchased the gun used to kill Zapata, leading investigators to suspect the Obama administration was conducting a Texas-based operation similar to Fast and Furious.<ref name=textri1>{{cite web |last=Titus |first=Elizabeth |title=Cornyn Presses Holder on Alleged Texas Operation |url=http://www.texastribune.org/texas-representatives-in-congress/us-congress/cornyn-wants-answers-holder-hearing/ |publisher=The Texas Tribune |accessdate=}}</ref> Another of the guns involved in the Zapata shooting traced to the "Baytown Crew", shows that guns were allowed to walk during surveillance that began June 7, 2010. On August 20, 2010, a purchaser received a rifle later recovered in the Zapata ambush and sent it with nine others to Mexico. The warrant for the purchasers arrest was issued February 14, 2011, the day before Zapata was shot.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/baytown.pdf |title=Timeline of "Baytown Crew" case. |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=|work=CBS News |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602174559/https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/baytown.pdf |archivedate=June 2, 2013 }}</ref> On January 30, 2012, the purchaser of one of the guns in Zapata's killing, who claimed to be working with Los Zetas cartel in illegally exporting at least 44 weapons purchased through straw buyers, was sentenced to 100 months in prison.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57383089-10391695/second-gun-used-in-ice-agent-murder-linked-to-atf-undercover-operation/ Sharyl Attkisson, "Second gun used in ICE agent murder linked to ATF undercover operation"], CBS News, February 22, 2012.</ref>

*Italian [[Prime Minister]] [[Silvio Berlusconi]] indicted on sex charges.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/15/silvio-berlusconi-trial-teenage-sex |title=Silvio Berlusconi sent for trial accused of paying for sex with teenager |date=15 February 2011 |work=The Guardian |location=UK |accessdate= |first=John |last=Hooper}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Silvio Berlusconi faces Ruby sex charge trial in April |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12083491 |accessdate= |publisher=BBC News |date=15 February 2011}}</ref>

*'''23 February.''' Italian Foreign Minister expressed concern that the amount of Libyan refugees trying to reach Italy might reach between 200,000 and 300,000 people.<ref>{{cite news| author =Squires, Nick |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8343963/Libya-Italy-fears-300000-refugees.html |title=Libya: Italy Fears 300,000 Refugees |work =The Daily Telegraph|date=23 February 2011 |accessdate=|location=London}}</ref>

*'''25 February.''' Hillary Rodham Clinton announces the suspension of operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington.

*'''26 February.''' Hillary Clinton directs efforts to remove all US embassy personnel from Tripoli and orders the closing of the embassy.

*Hillary Clinton makes a series of calls to her foreign counterparts to help secure passage of UNSC 1970, imposing sanctions on Muamma Gaddafi and his family and refers Gaddafi and aides to the ICC.

*'''27 February.''' Transitional National Council announces in the city of Benghazi its purpose is to act as the "political face of the revolution." Spokesman made clear that the Libyan Transitional National Council was not a provisional government and added that the newly formed council was not in contact with foreign governments and did not want them to intervene.<ref>{{cite news |title=Libya Opposition Launches Council|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/2011227175955221853.html |work= [[Al Jazeera]] |date=27 February 2011 |accessdate=}}</ref> He later said that an airstrike purportedly sanctioned by the UNSC 1973 would not be considered a foreign intervention.<ref>{{cite news |title=Libyan Rebels Said To Debate Seeking U.N. Airstrikes|url=http://nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/africa/02libya.html |date=1 March 2011 |accessdate=|work= [[The New York Times]] |first1=Kareem |last1=Fahim |first2=David D. |last2=Kirkpatrick}}</ref> Vladimir Putin later reported Russian abstention from UNSC 1973 in private talks with Hillary Clinton in no way sanctioned NATO use of aggressive force.

*'''28 February.''' Hillary Clinton travels to Geneva, [[Switzerland]] for consultations with European partners on Libya. She gives a major address in which she says: "It is time for Qadhafi to go." Works to secure the suspension of Libya from membership in the Human Rights Council.

*Eric Holder requests that the Justice's Dept.'s Office of the Inspector General begin an investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.<ref name=lat122411>{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Richard |title=Angry former ATF chief blames subordinates for Fast and Furious |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fast-furious-20111225,0,3268890.story |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=|date=December 24, 2011}}</ref>

===March 2011===
*'''Early March.''' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appoints Special Envoy [[Chris Stevens]] to handle US operations in Benghazi.

*'''4 March.''' CBS News’ Attkisson exclusively interviews sitting [[ATF]] special agent John Dodson. He gives a firsthand account contradicting government denials regarding Fast and Furious.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/agent-i-was-ordered-to-let-us-guns-into-mexico-03-03-2011/</ref>

*'''11 March.''' The President of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, in response to reports that the Obama administration was knowingly and willfully allowing the sale and transfer of weapons across the Mexican border announces "This is a serious violation of international law.<ref name=lat4>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Kim |title=Mexico lawmakers demand answers about guns smuggled under ATF's watch |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/10/nation/la-na-mexico-guns-20110311-1 |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=|date=March 10, 2011}}</ref>

*'''13 March.''' Secretary Clinton travels to [[Paris]] for a series of meetings with foreign ministers from the Group of Eight countries. [[Bernard-Henri Levy]] is also in attendence to do introductions to the rebel group leaders.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/did-bernard-henri-lvy-take-nato-to-war</ref> She meets with Libyan Transitional National Council leader Mahmoud Jibril and consults with other foreign counterparts on further UN Security Council action.<ref>https://anarchitext.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/bhl-war-in-libya/</ref> She secretly adds that aggressive action and not just a no-fly zone will be adequate.

*'''14-16 March.''' Sec. Clinton participates in a series of high-level video- and teleconferences. She is a leading voice for strong UNSC action in the name of a NATO "civilian protection" mission. A majority of NATO member states refuse to participate. This was not why the NATO alliance was founded or continues to exist.

*Clinton meets with Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] whose country's [[veto]] of UNSC 1973 could derail any planned intervention. Lavrov was intentially misled to believe that giving NATO a free hand in Libya could be had in exchange for a Russian free hand in Georgia and the [[Crimea]].

*'''15 March.''' Clinton speaks with Obama by phone as a “strong advocate” for U.S. intervention. Obama, who had been weighing arguments from a divided NSC for days, sides with Clinton.

*'''17 March.''' Clinton secures a deal with Russia to abstain from vetoing UNSC Resolution 1973, supposedly granting authorization to a few NATO members “to take all necessary measures to enforce compliance with the ban on flights” and “pure no-fly zone". Only 12 of NATO's 28 members participate, changing NATOs ostensibly defensive nature, founded on the premise that an attack on one is an attack against all, to an offensive mercenary force for hire in the service of private interests and politicians' quests for approval ratings.<ref>National Security [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html Hillary’s war: How conviction replaced skepticism in Libya intervention], By Joby Warrick, ''[[Washington Post]]'', October 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/130-european-affairs/ea-august-2011/1417-lessons-of-libya-for-future-western-military-forays LESSONS OF LIBYA FOR FUTURE WESTERN MILITARY FORAYS], By John Barry, Newsweek National Security Correspondent. europeaninstitute.org</ref>

*The resolution passes 10-0, with Russia, China, [[Germany]], Brazil and India abstaining. It authorizes a “pure no-fly zone."

*'''19 March.''' Sarkozy convenes meeting in the Westin Hotel to solicit agreement for the immediate deployment of military aircraft to stop Gaddafi's efforts to put down the rebellion in Benghazi, and the establishment of a US no-fly zone in the country.

*Before the meeting is over, French fighter planes attack Gaddafi forces outside Benghazi. Italian and Russian participants protest the French government's insistence on convening the meeting '''''before agreeing to air strikes''''', and then launching strikes '''before the meeting was over.'''

*[[Vladimir Putin]] later charges Obama and cohorts "violated the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, when instead of imposing the so-called no-fly zone over it they started bombing it too."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AjAyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=violated+the+UN+Security+Council+resolution+on+Libya,+when+instead+of+imposing+the+so-called+no-fly+zone+over+it+they+started+bombing+it+too.&source=bl&ots=HRqOB2VBJQ&sig=5r066oZAPgWKZIsS9B04IzMGlL8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH_5Pv69HTAhUjj1QKHZJ0CkIQ6AEIKzAF#v=onepage&q=violated%20the%20UN%20Security%20Council%20resolution%20on%20Libya%2C%20when%20instead%20of%20imposing%20the%20so-called%20no-fly%20zone%20over%20it%20they%20started%20bombing%20it%20too.&f=false]</ref>

*The early attack so upset Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who recently signed a Friendship Pact with Libya, he warned of cutting access to Italian air bases vital to French, British, and American warplanes.
[[File:Hillary email.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Hillary Clinton [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#Sexual blackmail of political opponents|used sexual blackmail]] to advance her entire career.]]
*The ''Washington Post'' says, “It nearly broke up the coalition,” according to an eyewitness. "Yet the rift was quickly patched, thanks to a frenzied lobbying effort that kept the coalition from unraveling in its opening hours. 'That,' the source said, 'was Hillary.'... She spent hours on the phone and in person with Berlusconi."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html?utm_term=.eae1c96f2b72</ref><ref>https://www.buzzfeed.com/tamerragriffin/clinton-apparently-did-a-berlusconi-impression-while-discuss?utm_term=.yomzmw2VeL#.xdPA0pxW89</ref>
{{Quotebox|**'''29 October 2013.''' At a Goldman Sachs summit Hillary recounts, "Leaders who shall remain nameless, who were characterized as vain, egotistical, power hungry, corrupt. And '''we knew they were'''. This was not fiction. And I had to go and say, you know, our ambassadors, they get carried away, they want to all be literary people. They go off on tangents. What can I say. I had grown men cry. I mean, literally." Then, in a mocking Italian accent, "''I am a friend of America, and you say these things about me.''"}}
*''Washington Post'' later reports Berlusconi "eventually provided air bases as staging grounds for attacks."

*French officials claim that meeting participants were informed of the operation. The strikes clearly had been planned and coordinated with the knowledge of the United States and UK.<ref>https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc99034/</ref>

*That night, the first U.S. air strikes halt the advance of Gaddafi's forces on Benghazi and target Libya's air defenses. Members of Libya's Christian Coptic community are later decapitated ''en masse'' once Secretary Clinton and President Obama's objectives are met.<ref>https://youtu.be/v-5WjfiIIbA</ref>

*'''21 March.''' Obama announces US forces commenced operations in [[Libya]] two days earlier, on March 19, "to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] warned establishment of a no-fly zone meant attacking Libya.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20038391-503544.html</ref> National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor [[Denis McDonough]] opposed attacking Libya; but [[Hillary Clinton]] "won the bureaucratic battle to use Department of Defense resources to achieve what's essentially the State Department's objective... and Obama let it happen".<ref>[http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/18/how_obama_turned_on_a_dime_toward_war How Obama turned on a dime toward war.]</ref>
[[File:Libya Rebels Gaining Momentum.jpg|thumb|President Obama armed al-Qaeda rebels who later migrated to Syria to form the Islamic State.(Photo:Reuters).]]
*[[United Nations]] Charter, Article 2(4), prohibits the “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence” of a member state, and many observers object that Obama's actions violate this prohibition.

*Congressional Research Services advises that a no-fly byzone imposed against a state that has not carried out an attack on its neighbors may consider the imposition an “armed attack.” CRS warns that even if a no-fly zone does not constitute an armed attack, "that state, and other members of the international community, might consider them a violation of the prohibition of the 'threat or use of force,' as well as of the customary duty of non-intervention in the affairs of other sovereign states."

*NATO's Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee days before President Obama publicly admitted to intervention that US intelligence community knew of [[al Qaeda]] and [[Hezbollah]] elements among Libyan rebels.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8414583/Libya-al-Qaeda-among-Libya-rebels-Nato-chief-fears.html</ref>

*'''22 March.''' Obama appears on [[Univision]] to deny that neither he nor Eric Holder authorized Operation Fast and Furious.<ref name=cbs032311>{{cite news|last=Attkisson |first=Sharyl |title=Obama on "gunwalking": Serious mistake may have been made |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20046151-10391695.html |publisher=CBS News |accessdate=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131005043/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-gunwalking-serious-mistake-may-have-been-made/ |archive-date=January 31, 2015 |dead-url=no |df=mdy }}</ref>

*'''23 March.''' Video of Berlusconi 'bunga bunga party' hits American cable news.<ref>https://video.foxnews.com/v/4603745/?#sp=show-clips</ref>

*'''24 March.''' Clinton engages with Sarkozy, Cameron, and others to secure the transition of command and control of the "civilian protection mission" to NATO. She announces the transition in a statement.

*'''26 March.''' A report from Rep. [[Dennis Kucinich]] corroborates the claim of Franco Bechis in [[Italy]] that "plans to spark the Benghazi rebellion were initiated by French intelligence services in November 2010."<ref>''[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RkUoFsgEwm8J:www.voltairenet.org/article169069.html+French+plans+to+topple+Gaddafi+on+track+since+last+November&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November]'', by Franco Bechis, VoltaireNet, March 26, 2011.</ref>

*'''18-30 March.''' Hillary Clinton engages with [[UAE]], [[Qatar]], and [[Jordan]] to seek their participation in coalition operations. Over the course of several days, all three devote aircraft to the mission.

*'''29 March.''' Clinton travels to London for a conference on Libya, where Clinton is a '''driving force behind the creation of a Contact Group comprising 20-plus countries to coordinate efforts to "protect civilians" and plan for a post-Gaddafi Libya.''' She is instrumental in setting up a rotating chair system to ensure regional buy-in.

*Russia and China accuse US of exceeding UNSC 1973 mandate.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/russia-china-accuse-west-exceeding-un-resolution-making-libyan-crisis-worse</ref>

*'''31 March.''' [[Reuters]] reports "President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks"<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-usa-order-idustre72t6h220110331</ref>

*'''Spring.''' Obama intel officials capture and record private communications between Rep. Kucinich, and a Libyan official.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/audio/kucinich-no1/</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/audio/kucinich-no2/</ref>

===April 2011===
*'''14 April.''' According to a Hillary staff email, Sec. of State Clinton travels to Berlin for NATO meetings. Clinton is '''the driving force behind NATO adopting a communiqué that calls for Gaddafi's departure as a political objective, and lays out three clear military objectives:''' (1) end of attacks and threat of attacks on civilians; (2) the removal of Gaddafi forces; (3) [redacted from original]. Germans refuse to go along.<ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29143.htm</ref>
*DOJ scuttles terror financing prosecutions.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/blog/did-obama-and-holder-scuttle-terror-finance-prosecutions/</ref>

*'''15 April.''' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Berlin conference accuses Obama administration of exceeding UNSC 1973 mandate and the agreements at the Paris summit. What started out as a mission to “protect civilians and enforce a no-fly zone,” has transformed into an effort at "[[regime change]]" without having a clear understanding as to the nature of the rebel opposition.

*'''22 April.''' Amber Lyon reports on CNN violent put down of Bahrain uprising.<ref>https://youtu.be/NzyyIb5_jXA</ref>

*'''April.''' A large cache of weapons, 40 traced to Operation Fast and Furious was found in the home of a prominent Sinaloa Cartel member in Juarez, Mexico. Also found were military-grade weapons difficult to obtain legally in the US, such as an anti-aircraft machine gun and [[grenade]] launcher.<ref name=damaa>{{cite news |last=Longbottom |first=Wil |title=U.S. Attorney General issued with subpoena in probe over 'Fast and Furious' gun trafficking |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048584/U-S-Attorney-General-issued-subpoena-probe-Fast-Furious-gun-trafficking.html |work=Daily Mail |accessdate=|location=London |date=October 13, 2011}}</ref><ref name=latc>{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Richard |title=Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20111009,0,6431788.story |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=|date=October 8, 2011}}</ref>

===May 2011===
*'''3 May.''' Eric Holder testifies to the House Judiciary Committee that he did not know who approved Operation Fast and Furious, but that it was being investigated. He also states that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."<ref>[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/193481 Attorney General Eric Holder Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee]; CSPAN; May 3, 2011.</ref> a claim which would later be questioned<ref name="hennessey1">{{cite news |last=Hennessey |first=Kathleen |title=Senate grills Holder on Fast and Furious gun-trafficking sting |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fast-furious-holder-20111109,0,3203255.story |accessdate=|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 9, 2011}}</ref><ref name=cbs050311>{{cite news|last=Attkisson |first=Sharyl |title=Attorney General Eric Holder grilled by Congress on ATF "Gunwalker" controversy |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20059360-10391695.html |publisher=CBS News |accessdate=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204081534/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-eric-holder-grilled-by-congress-on-atf-gunwalker-controversy/ |archive-date=December 4, 2014 |dead-url=no |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>CBS 100311</ref>

*'''5 May.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton travels to [[Rome]] for a Contact Group meeting. The Contact Group establishes a coordination system and a temporary financial mechanism to funnel money to the National Transitional Council.

*'''14 May.''' An email exchange between Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer shows they are negotiating with Tyler Drumheller to contract with Gen. David Grange to send four operatives on a week-long mission to Tunis, Tunisia, and to the border of Libya and back. Blumenthal has joined a business partnership with Clinton operative Cody Shearer, former CIA official Tyler Drumheller, and former Major General Grange in Grange’s company Osprey Global Solutions that is trying to win a contract with the Libyan jihadis to train and assist them in the Libyan war. Shearer writes, “Sid, do you think the general has to send four guys. He told us three guys yesterday, a translator and two other guys. I understand the difficulty of the mission and realize that K [a Libyan] will be repaid but I am going to need an itemized budget for these guys.”.<ref>https://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-spy-network</ref>

*An email from Drumheller to Blumenthal reveals that the trip will cost around $60,000 for four people, including someone named Khalifa al Sherif. This person is a secret source known as “K” in some of Blumenthal’s other Libya-related emails to Clinton. (Gawker, 3/27/2015)<ref>http://www.thompsontimeline.com/tag/cody-shearer/</ref>

*'''20 May.''' ''[[Washington Post]]'' reports Obama ignored the legal deadline set in the 1973 law that required him to obtain Congressional approval for U.S. military operations in Libya. Under the [[Nixon]]-era [[War Powers Resolution]], the president must obtain Congressional authorization of military action within 60 days, or else begin withdrawing forces.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-likely-to-miss-deadline-for-congressional-approval-of-libya-operations/2011/05/19/AFFLKn7G_story.html</ref><ref>http://lugar.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=332967&</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-obama-above-the-law/2011/05/26/AGL5zyCH_story.html</ref>

*'''29 May.''' Four Mexican Federal Police [[helicopter]]s attack a drug cartel compound, where they were met with heavy fire, including from a .50 caliber rifle. This rifle has been linked to Operation Fast and Furious.<ref name="Christian Science Monitor"/>

*'''May.''' White House recruits democratic operative Eric Schultz to promote [[fake news]] reporting on Fast and Furious and to counter House Oversight Committee’s investigative work. Schultz previously worked for Sen. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.<ref>
http://www.studlife.com/scene/2016/04/18/wash-u-alum-deputy-press-secretary-talks-about-white-house-experiences-offers-guidance-for-job-seeking-students/</ref>

===June 2011===
*'''6 June.''' ''New York Times'' article focuses on suspicious relationships between Gulenist schools operating in Texas which have received hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contracts to provide services to Gulen schools.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html?_r=0</ref> Partnerships between the schools and contractors allow taxpayer funds to remain within the Gulen network. Teachers at the schools, many of whom are not fluent in English, are also used to help finance Fethullah Gülen's Hizmet organization. Turkish teachers are required to return a large portion of their salary to the Gulen network. One teacher according to whistleblower allegations was required to return 40 percent of his salary.

*'''8 June.''' Sec. Of State Clinton travels to [[Abu Dhabi]] for another Contact Group meeting and holds a series of intense discussions with jihadi and rebel leaders.

*'''10 June.''' Sec. Robert Gates addresses NATO summit: {{Quotebox|*NATO’s serious capability gaps and other institutional shortcomings laid bare by the Libya operation; *The military – and political – necessity of fixing these shortcomings if the transatlantic security alliance is going to be viable going forward; *And more broadly, the growing difficulty for the U.S. to sustain current support for NATO if the American taxpayer continues to carry most of the burden in the Alliance. ... "In the past, I’ve worried openly about NATO turning into a two-tiered alliance: Between members who specialize in “soft’ humanitarian, development, peacekeeping, and talking tasks, and those conducting the “hard” combat missions. Between those willing and able to pay the price and bear the burdens of alliance commitments, and those who enjoy the benefits of NATO membership – be they security guarantees or headquarters billets – but don’t want to share the risks and the costs. This is no longer a hypothetical worry. We are there today. And it is unacceptable.... The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress – and in the American body politic writ large – to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense. Nations apparently willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets."<ref>http://archive.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=4839</ref>}}

*'''12 June.''' Clinton travels to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for consultations and a speech before the African Union, pressing the case for a "democratic transition" in Libya.
[[File:Eric Holder.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Eric Holder was the point man for many of the Obama administrations early nefarious activities. He resigned under a cloud.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/judicial-watch-president-holder-resigned-over-judges-fast-furious</ref>]]
*'''14 June.''' Preliminary joint staff report released by Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley.<ref>Department of Justice</ref> Among the findings: agents were told to stand down rather than interdict weapons, they complained about the [[strategy]] and were ignored, and Fast and Furious led to increased violence and death in Mexico.<ref name=fox061511>{{cite news |last=Lajeunesse |first=William |title=House Panel Releases Scathing Report on 'Fast and Furious' Gun Operation, Sure to Anger Mexico |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/14/house-panel-releases-scathing-report-on-fast-and-furious-gun-operation-sure-to/ |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=|date=June 15, 2011}}</ref> Agents were panicked, certain that "someone was going to die".<ref name=lat061411>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Kim |title=Report describes gun agents' 'state of panic' |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/14/nation/la-na-0615-gunrunner |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=|date=June 14, 2011}}</ref> Some speculate the deliberate escalation of violence and gun deaths was a White House Obama administration strategy to influence public opinion in favor of gun control. Chairman Issa continues hearings in June and July where ATF officials based in Phoenix and Mexico, and at headquarters in Washington, testify before the committee.<ref name=fox061011>{{cite news |last=La Jeunesse |first=William |title=Justice Officials in 'Panic Mode' as Hearing Nears on Failed Anti-Gun Trafficking Program |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/09/justice-officials-in-panic-mode-as-new-testimony-is-expected-to-reveal-depth/#ixzz1OpMAwABO |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=|date=June 10, 2011}}</ref> ATF agent John Dodson stated that he and other agents were ordered to observe the activities of gun smugglers but not to intervene. He testifies:<ref name=usat061611>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Kevin |title=ATF agent calls gun-tracking program a 'disaster' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-15-ATF-border-guns-hearing_n.htm |work=USA Today |accessdate=|date=June 16, 2011}}</ref><ref name=tuci061511>{{cite web |last=Holub |first=Hugh |title=Statement of John Dodson about ATF gunwalker scandal: 'The very idea of letting guns walk is unthinkable to most law enforcement.' |url=http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from-baja-arizona/2011/06/15/statement-of-john-dodson-about-atf-gunwalker-scandal-the-very-idea-of-letting-guns-walk-is-unthinkable-to-most-law-enforcement/ |publisher=Tucson Citizen |accessdate=}}</ref>
{{quotebox|Over the course of the next 10 months that I was involved in this operation, we monitored as they purchased hand guns, AK-47 variants, and .50 caliber rifles almost daily. Rather than conduct any enforcement actions, we took notes, we recorded observations, we tracked movements of these individuals for a short time after their purchases, but nothing more. Knowing all the while, just days after these purchases, the guns that we saw these individuals buy would begin turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico, we still did nothing. ... I cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hands of known criminals could possibly advance any legitimate law enforcement interest.}}

*''Washington Life'' magazine runs piece on Tony Podesta's home and 'philanthropy'.<ref>https://youtu.be/NHQObjFyJzM</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/334002-Progressive-liberal-values-Tony-Podestas-creepy-taste-in-art-the-creepy-people-he-hangs-out-with-and-Pizzagate</ref><ref>
https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@gizmosia/art-podesta-admires-and-buys-you-may-never-sleep-well-again</ref>

*'''16 June.''' Hillary Clinton instructs Jake Sullivan to strip off classified markings from a document and send it over a non-secure server.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12605</ref>

*'''28 June.''' Obama US Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke secretly leaks sensitive government information to Fox News, to discredit ATF whistleblower John Dodson in the Fast and Furious case. Burke is former chief of staff to former Arizona Governor and then [[Homeland Security]] Sec. [[Janet Napolitano]].

*'''June.''' Terminology on the BOLO list is increased to include additional names (Patriots and 9/12 Project) as well as specific policy positions such as government spending, government debt, or taxes; or involved advocating or lobbying to "make America a better place to live"; or criticized how the country is being run; or advocated education about the [[Constitution]] and the Bill of Rights; or focused on challenging the [[Affordable Care Act]] known as Obamacare.

*'''Late June.''' Clinton meets with House Democrats and Senate Republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the Libya operation.

===July 2011===
To understand the [[Obama administration]]'s abuse of power, it helps to go back to July 2011, when DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] was appointed. Horowitz found his duties throttled by Attorney General Eric Holder, who placed limitations on the inspector general’s right to have unobstructed access to information. Holder used this tactic to delay Horowitz’s investigation of the failed sting operation known as [[Operation Fast and Furious]].<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/23/obama-restricts-investigative-powers-inspectors-ge/</ref> Horowitz testified, {{quotebox|“We got access to information up to 2010 in all of these categories. No law changed in 2010. No policy changed. … It was simply a decision by the General Counsel’s Office in 2010 that they viewed, now, the law differently. And as a result, they weren’t going to give us that information.”<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=394&v=p7Jc1BL-97w</ref>}}
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*'''12 July.''' Obama administrations targets Iraqis with new visa and background checks after terrorists residing in Bowling Green, Kentucky were discovered.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/middleeast/13baghdad.html</ref>

*'''14 July.''' Sidney Blumenthal emails Clinton about a security company he's invested in called Osprey Global Solutions, headed by retired Army Major General David Grange. Blumenthal tells Clinton about Osprey’s attempt to get a contract to give “field medical help, military training, organize supplies and logistics” to Libyan rebels currently fighting Gaddafi. "Grange can train their forces and he has drawn up a plan for taking [the Libyan capitol of] Tripoli… This is a private contract. It does not involve NATO. It puts Americans in a central role without being direct battle combatants. The TNC [the rebel Transitional National Council] wants to demonstrate that they are pro-US. They see this as a significant way to do that. They are enthusiastic about this arrangement.” Furthermore, “Tyler, Cody, and I acted as honest brokers, putting this arrangement together through a series of connections, linking the Libyans to Osprey and keeping it moving.”

*Blumenthal is a private citizen, journalist, and Clinton Foundation employee at the time. “Tyler” is Tyler Drumheller, who worked for the CIA until 2005. “Cody” is Cody Shearer, a longtime [[dirty tricks]]ter for the Clintons. Blumenthal, Drumheller, and Shearer formed a business relationship to help Osprey. Clinton’s State Department would have to give its approval to a deal between this company and the Libyan rebels. (Yahoo, 10/8/2015) (US Department of State, 1/7/2016)

*'''15 July.''' Hillary Clinton travels to [[Istanbul]] and announces that the US recognizes the Transitional National Council as the legitimate government of Libya. She also secures recognition of the TNC from the other members of the Contact Group.

*'''18 July.''' Clinton sends Sec. of State for the Near East Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz, and a senior director at the [[National Security Council]] Derek Chollet, to meet with Gaddafi envoys in Tunis "to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward, is for Gaddafi to step down". Libyan representatives are confused as to thinking the US had been an ally in fighting the radical Islamic jihadis the Obama administration now was supporting to overthrow Gaddafi.

*Former [[Clinton administration]] State Dept. Spokesman Jamie Rubin, husband of CNN’s [[Christiane Amanpour]] emails Hillary:
{{Quotebox|"Again, congratulations are in order...It is a pleasure to see the State Department again leading the administration on this. Syria, too... 

...the White House doesn’t seem like it cares very much. In general, the [[NSC]] seems uncomfortable with creative applications of American power and influence. And we all know the military and the [[Pentagon]] resist limited military operations, especially airpower-only engagements. So, it must be you and your colleagues at State. Well done. . . . 

... even a small success like the one that is coming in Libya will turn around the steady decline in American influence in the region and around the world. I suspect that you know this, but European elites, Gulf elites, East Europeans and many others regard the Administration as weak.}}

*'''26 July.''' A second joint staff report was released by House and Senate investigatory committees.<ref name=staffrep072611/>

*[[Sharyl Attkisson]] of [[CBS News]] reports during a Congressional hearing on [[Operation Fast and Furious]], [[ATF]] Special Agent Bill Newell tells Congress he discussed approval of the case with a White House National Security staffer as early as September 2010.<ref>Sharyl Attkisson. [https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20083772-10391695.html ATF Manager says he shared Fast and Furious Info with White House], ''[[CBS News]]'', July 26, 2011.</ref> Attkisson is later put under surveillance by the Obama administration.

*'''29 July.''' ''Reuters'' reports Goldman Sachs had purchased and stored one-quarter of global [[aluminium]] suppliers in a refurbished warehouse district of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]];<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lme-warehousing/goldmans-new-money-machine-warehouses-idUSTRE76R3YZ20110729</ref> in 2018 President [[Donald Trump]] imposes [[tariff]]s on any further imports of aluminium.

===August 2011===
*'''Early August.''' Hillary Clinton works to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to be approved by the UNSC and sent to the Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC). That package is working through its last hurdles.

*After military chief Abdel Fattah Younes is killed, Hillary's office sends a personal message to TNC head Jalil to press for a responsible investigation and a careful and inclusive approach to creating a new executive council.

*'''Early August.''' Clinton secures written pledges from the TNC to a supposed "pluralistic democratic transition". Clinton continues to consult with European and Arab colleagues on the evolving situation.

*'''10 August.''' CIA’s Threat Management conference cancelled. The conference was cancelled at the demand of Islamic groups who objected to presentations that were to be conducted by former Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence analyst and international law expert Stephen Coughlin and Steve Emerson of The Investigative Project on Terrorism. An email sent to conference registrants explained that the Department of Homeland Security would be formulating new guidelines for vetting speakers and screening presentation content.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/5/inside-the-ring-295822498/#pagebreak</ref>

*'''21 August.''' Jihadis enter [[Tripoli]].

*'''22 August.''' [[Sidney Blumenthal]] emails Hillary:<ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23902</ref>
{{Quotebox|First, brava! This is a historic moment and you will be credited for realizing it. '''When Qaddafi himself is finally removed''', you should of course make a public statement before the cameras wherever you are, even in the driveway of your vacation house. '''You must go on camera. You must establish yourself in the historical record''' at this moment. The most important phrase is: ‘successful strategy.’ 

Just a few points:
*The US has pursued a successful strategy in Libya... This was the right course, based on our interests and principles...

*Do not skimp on the reasons in the US interest...The US has demonstrated its principled belief in the rule of law and acted on...By acting in Libya we have helped advance the cause of democracy and freedom...We have put [[Bashar al-Assad|Assad]] on notice that the sands of time have run out for him as well. Our successful strategy in Libya stands as a warning that our strategy will work again. Etc.

*Be aware that some may attempt to justify the flamingly stupid ‘leading from behind’ phrase, junior types on the NSC imagining their cleverness. To refute this passive construction on US policy and help remove it as an albatross from the administration as it enters the election year, do not be defensive but rather simply explain that the US had a clear strategy from the start, stuck with it and has succeeded.

*Then you can say whatever on future policy — but only after asserting the historic success and explaining the reasons why.

*This is a very big moment historically and for you. '''History will tell your part in it'''. You are vindicated. But don’t wait, help Clio now.” (Blumenthal’s reference to “Clio” is to the Greek muse of history.)}}

*[[Jake Sullivan]] writes "Secretary Clinton's leadership on Libya" memorandum:<ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23898</ref>
{{Quotebox|[Secretary Clinton] has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations, at NATO, and in contact group meetings — as well as the public face of the U.S. effort in Libya. She was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime.}}

*'''August.''' US Attorney Dennis Burke resigns while under investigation for improper [[leak]] to smear ATF [[whistleblower]] John Dodson. The Inspector General later confirms the leak.<ref>https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2013/s1305.pdf</ref>

===September 2011===
*'''3 September.''' Hillary Clinton directs Jake Sullivan and her staff to document the case of Hillary’s “brilliance” in providing leadership for the destabilization of Libya.

*'''6 September.''' David Petraeus become CIA Director, relieving Michael Morell as acting Director. Morell is immediately hired by David Rhodes, brother of Obama NSC staffer [[Ben Rhodes]] as CBS News National Security expert to spin Obama administration talk8ng points.

*'''7 September.''' bloomberg.com/news publishes:<ref>consortiumnews concludes, "This is how [[propaganda]], press manipulation and lying to the public is manufactured in Washington, DC. Hillary and her crew, with the help of Jamie Rubin, pushed the meme that Hillary, not Obama, deserved the credit for the “success” in Libya.

Absolutely. Let her have it. Hang this festering turd of a policy around Hillary’s neck. To do so is only just. She is a power hungry thug who helped cause the deaths of thousands just to advance her own vile political ambitions." https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/07/hillary-clintons-libyan-fingerprints/?print=print</ref>

{{Quotebox|'''Hillary Clinton Deserves Credit for U.S. Role in Libya:''' 

View By the Editors – 

The unsung hero of the Libya drama in the U.S. is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s actions were critical for several reasons. Most important, she overcame Defense Secretary [[Robert Gates]]’s caution about using military force in Libya and his reluctance to support an operation led by France and Britain. ... 

Despite the unusual arrangement in which the U.S. was a supporter rather than a leader of NATO’s military operation, she defended intervention before a skeptical Congress and performed the hard slog of daily diplomacy ... 

...the decision to support NATO military action in Libya is probably the Obama administration’s most important achievement in international affairs. Although ... the country is a long way from having a stable, representative government...

History will surely judge that, by intervening on the side of the rebellion, the West — primarily the governments of France, the U.K. and the U.S. — made a unique and invaluable contribution ... That said, the Obama administration’s decision-making process remains opaque. ... 

...by breaking with Gates, Clinton tipped the balance within the administration in favor of action. Without her strong argument ... Washington probably would not have acted. '''The president’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, was declaring freedom in Libya to be outside the U.S. national interest, and both military and civilian officials in the Pentagon were reluctant to endorse or even opposed U.S. intervention. But Clinton’s push... appears to have been decisive.''' 

...Congress not only opposed sending in ground troops but mostly opposed any U.S. involvement. Obama wisely resisted. 

“For better or worse, the Libya model is not likely to be repeated anytime soon. This is not, as some say, because NATO will never again intervene in a situation like Libya’s. After the Kosovo war, many also said NATO would never again act against a dictator to save lives.

...'''Think about the conditions: ... a rebel army on the ground sought democratic change and espoused Western values;''' the UN at least loosely endorsed NATO air operations; ...'''Given those circumstances, it is still hard to explain why there were determined opponents, primarily in the [[Republican Party]],''' to this mission in the first place. 

'''Throughout most of Obama’s term in office, only a few administration officials have commanded respect and political power on national security matters: Clinton, Gates and General [[David Petraeus]], the most decorated and admired officer of recent times. With Gates now gone and Petraeus in a non-policy role as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Clinton’s power will only increase as the president’s re-election campaign heats up'''. We hope she recognizes her opportunity and uses it well.}}

*'''10 September.''' Blumenthal emails Hillary, "Per our conversation. Jamie [Rubin] writes editorial... Sid", and includes text of Rubin's ''Bloomberg'' editorial.

*'''11 September.''' Mexican government states that an undisclosed number of guns found at about 170 crime scenes were linked to Operation Fast and Furious.<ref name=lat091111>{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Richard A. |title=Gun store owner had misgivings about ATF sting |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110912,0,7686272,full.story |accessdate=|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 11, 2011}}</ref> House Oversight Committee on Government Operstions estimates that more than 200 Mexicans were killed by guns linked to the White House program.<ref>{{cite news |title=200 mexicanos murieron por armas de 'Rápido y Furioso': congresista de EU |url=http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/10/28/200-mexicanos-murieron-por-armas-de-rapido-y-furioso-congresista-de-eu |newspaper=CNN Mexico |date=October 28, 2011}}</ref>

*'''19 September.''' Mexican officials state they still have not been informed by the Obama administration about Operation Fast and Furious, neither has the administration offered apologizies for allowing the illegal transfer of guns across the border.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/19/world/la-fg-mexico-fast-furious-20110920</ref>

*Chihuahua state prosecutor Patricia Gonzalez, who worked closely with the US for years, said, "The basic ineptitude of these officials [who ordered the Fast and Furious operation] caused the death of my brother and surely thousands more victims." Her brother had been kidnapped, tortured and killed by cartel hit men in October 2010. Later, two AK-47 rifles found among the several weapons recovered after a gunfight between police and cartel members were traced to the Fast and Furious program.<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0726/How-Mexican-killers-got-US-guns-from-Fast-and-Furious-operation</ref><ref>LA Times</ref>

*'''23 September.''' Amber Lyon reports on CNN the lethal use of tear gas in [[Bahrain]].<ref>https://youtu.be/y221Y8CymxU</ref>

*'''September.''' White House operative Eric Schultz invites Attkisson and several other national journalists to off the record background briefing about Fast and Furious documents subpoenaed by Congress. Later, on the phone, Shultz screams and cusses at Attkisson as she asks questions raised by the Fast and Furious documents.<ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40095.htm</ref><ref>https://ethicsalarms.com/2014/10/26/american-journalisms-integrity-death-spiral-part-i-illegal-voters-and-stonewalled/</ref><ref>http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/former-cbs-reporter-explains-how-the-liberal-media-protects-obama/</ref>

*'''Late September.''' A series of articles by Spencer Ackerman at WIRED Magazine claim counter-terrorism trainers and materials used by the FBI are promoting “[[Islamophobia]]!.” Ackerman targets books in the library at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Individuals inside U.S. government agencies targeted by Ackerman's articles are prohibited from speaking publicly in defense of themselves and their work.<ref>https://www.wired.com/author/spencer-ackerman/page/66/</ref> “The Purge” continues apace.<ref>http://unconstrainedanalytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CT-Training-Purge-w70217.pdf</ref>

===October 2011===
*'''3 October.''' Obama administration secretly changes longstanding policy. The change creates a “loophole” that Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] of the Intelligence Committee later says '''allows the NSA to conduct “backdoor searches” or “incidental collection” of US citizens’''' domestic communications.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/nsa-loophole-warrantless-searches-email-calls</ref>

*CBS News airs Sharyl Attkisson’s report on newly uncovered memos contradicting Attn. Gen. Eric Holders’ denials about Fast and Furious.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/memos-contradict-holder-on-fast-and-furious/</ref>

*'''4 October.''' In an internal email, Attn. Gen. Eric Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler emails White House operative Eric Schultz calling Attkisson “out of control.” Schultz replies, “Her piece was really bad for the AG.”<ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/control/ p.764 pdf</ref>

*'''6 October.''' Mexican newspaper ''Reforma'' accuses the Obama administration of violating Mexican [[sovereignty]]. "In sum, the gringo government has been sending weapons to Mexico in a premeditated and systematic manner, knowing that their destinations were Mexican criminal organizations."<ref>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/10/mexico-wide-receiver-reaction-guns-weapons-left-right.html</ref>

*'''30 October.''' Hillary tells ''Washington Post'', in a piece entitled ''Hillary’s War,'' “we set into motion a policy that was on the right side of history, on the right side of our values, on the right side of our strategic interests in the region.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html?utm_term=.2a71e7324056</ref>

*'''October.''' Documents showing that Eric Holder's office had been sent briefings on Operation Fast and Furious as early as July 2010, prompted questions about his May 2011 statement that he had known about it for only a few weeks.<ref>{{cite news|last=Attkisson |first=Sharyl |title=ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html |publisher=CBS News |accessdate=|dead-url=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217111017/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atf-fast-and-furious-new-documents-show-attorney-general-eric-holder-was-briefed-in-july-2010/ |archive-date=December 17, 2013 |df=mdy }}</ref>

===November 2011===
*'''8 November.''' Attorney General Eric Holder stated for the first time in Congressional testimony that "gunwalking" was used in Operation Fast and Furious. He stated that his office had inaccurately described the program in previous letters sent to Congress, but that this was unintentional. He said he and other top officials had been unaware that the "gunwalking" was used. "Those things were not brought to my attention, and my staff, I think, made the correct decision in that regard."<ref name="hennessey1"/><ref name=cbs110811>{{cite news |last=Attkisson |first=Sharyl |title=Eric Holder calls "gunwalking" unacceptable, regrets tactic as part of Fast and Furious |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57321065-10391695/eric-holder-calls-gunwalking-unacceptable-regrets-tactic-as-part-of-fast-and-furious/?tag=contentMain;contentAux |publisher=CBS News |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/assets/news/2012/01/DOJdocs.pdf |title=Holder emails |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=}}</ref>

*'''23 November.''' Ayman Joumaa, a Lebanese narcotics trafficker linked to Hezbollah, is indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics and conspiracy to commit money laundering related to drug trafficking by [[Mexican]] and [[Colombia]]n drug cartels. Joumaa is a target of the DEA's Project Cassandra.

*'''November.''' Ex-US Attorney Burke admitted to leaking sensitive documents about ATF agent and whistleblower Dodson. Sen. Grassley expressed concern that the Justice Dept. was using Burke as the fallguy to protect higher officials and vowed to continue his probe.<ref>[http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/11/09/20111109burke-admits-leaking-whistle-blowers-records.html Dennis Wagner, "Ex-U.S. Attorney Burke admits to leaking whistle-blower's records"] The Arizona Republic, November 10, 2011.</ref>

*CIA Director Gen. [[David Petraeus]], who’s married, allegedly begins an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. The FBI would later say it “stumbled” upon evidence of the affair incidentally during an unspecified, much broader investigation.

===December 2011===
*'''2 December.''' Justice Dept. formally withdraws its reply to Sen. Grassley from February 4, 2011, denying gunwalking due to inaccuracies.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/02/143067851/justice-withdraws-inaccurate-fast-and-furious-letter-it-sent-to-congress Carrie Johnson, "Justice Withdraws Inaccurate 'Fast And Furious' Letter It Sent To Congress"] NPR, December 2, 2011.</ref>
*'''15 December.''' Preet Bharara and the DEA Administrator announce civil suit seeking $483,142,568 from the Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) and two Lebanese exchange houses—the Hassan Ayash Exchange Company and Ellissa Holding—and their related subsidiaries and affiliates for facilitating a massive Hezbollah money laundering scheme.

*As part of the scheme, funds were wired from Lebanon to the United States to buy used cars, which were then transported to [[West Africa]]. Cash from the sale of the cars, along with proceeds of narcotics trafficking, were then funneled to Lebanon through Hezbollah-controlled money laundering channels. Substantial portions of the cash were paid to Hezbollah, which the U.S. Department of State designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997.

*The complaint alleges that the assets of LCB, the Hassan Ayash Exchange and Ellissa Holding, along with the assets of approximately 30 U.S. car buyers and a U.S. shipping company and related entities that facilitated the scheme, are forfeitable as the proceeds of violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), together with executive orders and [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]] regulations, and as property involved in and the proceeds of money laundering offenses.

*U.S. Attorney Bharara said: “The intricate scheme laid out in today’s complaint reveals the deviously creative ways that terrorist organizations are funding themselves and moving their money, and it puts into stark relief the nexus between narcotics trafficking and terrorism. Today, we are putting a stranglehold on a major source of that funding by disrupting a vast and far-flung network that spanned three continents. Together with our law enforcement partners in the U.S. and around the globe, our commitment to disrupting and dismantling Hizballah and other terrorist organizations is unwavering.”

*DEA Administrator Leonhart said: “DEA and its partners have exposed the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a major money laundering source for Hizballah. The connection between drug traffickers and terror networks is evident. By attacking the financial networks of those who wish to harm innocent Americans, DEA is strengthening national security and making our citizens safer.”

==2012==
:{{See also|FISA abuse timeline}}
By 2012 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both were running for president, Obama for re-election in 2012, Hillary to succeed him in 2016. Removing dictators in the [[Arab Spring]] was intended to give the impetus to both. But the Benghazi fiasco of September derailed Hillary's chances of remaining on in the State Department in Obama's second term, exposing covert operations, and slowed the progress of overthrowing Assad.

Nevertheless, Hillary established an important donor base in the Middle East who had provided funds for the removal of Assad and Gadaffi,<ref>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/04/2012412022613580.html</ref> then had a stake in seeing Hillary's election in 2016 through contributions to the [[Clinton Foundation]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html</ref>

The failure of the quick removal of Assad, along with Obama's complete disengagement of US troops from Iraq earlier, led to the unanticipated rise of the Islamic State in 2014, which further highlighted the failure of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, and weakened Hillary's 2016 prospects.
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In the Spring of 2017 Chief [[FISA Court]] Judge Rosemary Collyer found that the [[Obama administration]] had been abusing the NSA FISA 702 database since President Obama's re-election in 2012.

The FISA 702 database consists of US Persons - American citizens residing inside or outside the United States, as well as non-citizens visiting or residing in the United States who are afforded [[Fourth Amendment]] protection from unlawful searches. FISA 702 database queries are strictly regulated. US Persons can sometimes be caught up in surveillance activities of foreign agents, terrorists, and criminal gangs while not being the target. Their names are to be masked in reports circulated within the government. The Obama administration targeted thousands of US persons - American citizens mostly - without [[probable cause]] for a period of more than four years. Judge Collyer found that these victims unmasked names and personal information (phone contacts, email, texts, banking and any other electronic information) was funneled to outside contractors - internet firms and opposition researchers, likely [[Crowdstrike]], [[FusionGPS]] and others. The victims of Obama civil rights abuses were targeted as part of a program of opposition political research. [[Robert Mueller]] was the FBI director at the time the massive violation of American citizen's [[Constitutional rights]] began.

Obama implemented the very system of an oppressive [[police state]] that Obama later argued made [[Vladimir Putin]] so evil.

===February 2012===
*'''8 February.''' FBI Dir. [[Robert Mueller]] meets with representatives from ISNA, MPAC, and other Islamic organizations to discuss purging 'Islamophobic' materials from FBI training manuals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120216025316/http:/www.isna.net/articles/News/ISNA--Nat-Orgs-Meet-with-FBI-Dir-to-Discuss-Biased-FBI-Training-Materials.aspx</ref> ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) has been identified by DOJ in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial of 2007-2008 as a front for international terrorist organizations. MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) has been criticized for publications defending terrorist organizations. Dr. [[Sebastian Gorka]] is among those individuals blacklisted by these organizations and the FBI.
[[File:C9Pak4-W0AIldKy (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Jake Sullivan<ref>
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/a-conversation-with-jake-sullivan-video/</ref> to Hillary Clinton: Al Qaeda is on our side.]]
*'''12 February.''' Deputy Assistant to President Barack Obama,<ref>Jake Sullivan b. 1976. Sullivan, who was 35 years old at the time is presumably one of the "35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk." Sec. Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. Gates criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized Susan Rice's approach and subservience to Obama. https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY </ref> emails Sec. Clinton to notify her "[Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria. Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected;"<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/852266094379380738/photo/1 </ref> the only legal basis Obama has for the use force (2001 AUMF) is to destroy Al Qaeda and associated groups.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-perils-of-president-obamas-latest-undeclared-war/413566/ </ref>

*'''13 February.''' Remote hackers secretly download new spy software proprietary to a federal agency onto Sharyl Attkisson’s CBS work computer. The software was secretly attached to a legitimate Hotmail email and downloaded in the background after a pop-up ad appeared.

*'''February.''' Catherine Engelbrecht of Texas receives third request for information from the IRS for True the Vote; King Street Patriots receives its first request. The questionaires had “hundreds of questions — hundreds and hundreds of questions. ”The '''IRS requested every [[Facebook]] post and [[Tweet]] she had ever written'''. She received questions about her family, whether she’d ever run for political office, and which organizations she had spoken to. The same day the Engelbrechts received the questions from the IRS, the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF) showed up to inspect their machine shop for the production of firearms, which they do not manufacture. The inspection took all day.

*IRS abuses hit the media for the first time but attract little attention.

===March 2012===
*'''9 March.''' Politico reports: {{Quotebox|President Obama called Russian President-elect and Prime Minister Putin to congratulate him on his recent victory in the Russian Presidential election. President Obama highlighted achievements in U.S.-Russia relations over the past three years with President Medvedev, including cooperation on Afghanistan, the conclusion and ratification of the START agreement, Russia’s recent invitation to join the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) and cooperation on Iran. President Obama and President-Elect Putin agreed that the successful reset in relations should be built upon during the coming years. The President said that he looked forward to hosting President-Elect Putin at the G-8 Summit in May at Camp David. The two leaders outlined areas for future cooperation, including strengthening trade and investment relations arising out of Russia’s pending accession to the WTO. President Obama and President-Elect Putin agreed to continue discussions on areas where the United States and Russia have differed, including Syria aand missile defense. President Obama and President-Elect Putin agreed to continue their efforts to find common ground and remove obstacles to better relations.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/politico44/whiteboard/2012/3/Readout_of_Obama_s_call_with_Russia_s_Putin.html</ref>}}
*'''22 March.''' IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman testifies before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight that there was "absolutely no targeting" by the IRS of conservative and/or Tea Party organizations.

*'''23 March.''' FBI officials meet with House Judiciary Committee attorneys and staffers to discuss new revised FBI training manuals. The ''FBI’s Guiding Principles'' document spells out policy for selecting Islamic partners to oversee new and updated training materials, including recognition of the "principle that mere association with organizations that demonstrate both legitimate (advocacy) and illicit (violent extremism) objectives should not automatically result in a determination that the associated individual is acting in furtherance of the organization’s illicit objective(s)."<ref>
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/03/26/a-detailed-look-at-the-purge-of-u-s-counter-terrorism-training-by-the-obama-administration</ref>

===April 2012===
*'''2 April.''' After a sixteen-month court battle, Justice Dept. withdraws subpeoana for Mike Levin related to the Minneapolis Somali case. Justice Dept. admits it was an abuse of power to intimidate witnesses to give testimony.<ref name="abcnews.go.com"/> As in the Risen case of the ''New York Times'', it is easier for prosecutors to coerce testimony from a journalist by threats of imprisonment in order to convict a leaker, rather than put government eavesdroppers on the witness stand who gathered the actual evidence first hand with a duly authorized warrant. The government's fear is, too much information about sources and methods could leak out under cross examination of an accuser who is a simply a technician tasked with surveillance, if the accused's [[due process]] rights under the [[Sixth Amendment]]—the right to face one's accusers, were honored.

*'''7 April.''' Justice Dept. publicly announces vast expansion of cyber related efforts to address alleged “national security-related cyber issues.”<ref>https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/new-network-takes-aim-cyber-threats-national-security</ref> FBI announces same program 12 April.<ref>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/cybersecurity-responding-to-the-threat-of-cyber-crime-and-terrorism</ref><ref>http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28897&start=75#p417915</ref>

*'''19 April.''' National Organization for Marriage Human Rights Campaign announced that IRS disclosed copies of their tax returns to Obama political allies. IRS later admitted to theft of government property and paid damages for illegal disclosure to unauthorized persons of a citizen's confidential information.<ref>http://www.nomblog.com/39390/</ref>

*'''20 April.''' Charterschoolwatchdog.org estimates that 149 Gullenist charter schools in the US have received $472,500,000 annually in taxpayer financing (45,000 students enrolled paid an average of $10,500 per student). Additionally, a one-time cost of about $2,362,500 in immigration fees for roughly 945 Turkish/foreign-born H1-B visa holders as teachers at the existing schools.<ref>http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/a-half-a-billion-dollars.html</ref>

*'''23 April.''' [week of 22-29]. 18328 Wikileaks Hillary Clinton email archive. NEW IRAN AND SYRIA 2.DOC. Lays out justification and strategy for the anti-Assad campaign.<ref>The document reads in part: "Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war may seem unconnected, but they are. For Israeli leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader launching an unprovoked Iranian nuclear attack on Israel that would lead to the annihilation of
both countries. What Israeli military leaders really worry about -- but cannot talk about -- is losing their nuclear monopoly. An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and [[Egypt]], to go nuclear as well. The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today."https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328 </ref>
[[File:Blumenthal-hillary-kupchan.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Blumenthal to Hillary: “My friend Charles Kupchan quickly provided some contact information (in Ukraine). Charlie is now a professor at Georgetown University. If you need more contacts I can get them from friends in Paris”.<ref>https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/eric-ciaramellas-schiffs-whistleblower-has-ties-to-susan-rice-joe-biden-124122/</ref>]]
*'''26 April.''' Blumenthal email to Hillary:
{{quotebox|“My friend Charles Kupchan quickly provided some contact information (in Ukraine). Charlie is now a professor at Georgetown University. If you need more contacts I can get them from friends in Paris”.<ref>https://twitter.com/JPMediaBoss/status/1186402201209409536</ref>}}

*'''27 April.''' Lackland Airforce Base, San Antonio TX, used to house undocumented immigrants caught at the southern border.<ref>http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/A-look-inside-the-temporary-shelter-at-Lackland-3513770.php</ref> Many illegals say, "Obama said it was ok to come."<ref>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxrz-5t5pmA</ref>

*'''April.''' Michael E. Horowitz appointed head of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) after the Obama administration hobbled the OIG's investigative powers in 2011 during the Fast and Furious scandal. The changes forced the various Inspectors General for all government agencies to request information while conducting investigations, as opposed to the authority to demand it. This allows Holder and other agency heads to bog down OIG requests in bureaucratic red tape, and in some cases, deny them outright.

===May 2012===
*'''3 May.''' Chairman Issa releases a memorandum to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform including a draft resolution to hold Eric Holder in contempt.<ref>{{cite web |title=Update on Operation Fast and Furious |url=http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Update-on-Fast-and-Furious-with-attachment-FINAL.pdf |last=Issa |first=Darrell |author-link=Darrell Issa |date=May 3, 2012 |accessdate=|format=PDF}}</ref> Issa describes the connection between Operation Fast and Furious and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) program since at least January 2009 when President Obama took office, which would involve multiple executive agencies including the ATF, DOJ, DEA, FBI, ICE, and [[DHS]]. The memo questions how, why, or if oversight by high level Justice Department officials did not occur in such an important case. He further describes the tragic death of Brian Terry, the whistleblowers and their mistreatment, and the damage the operation had to US-Mexico relations.

*'''11 May.''' ''The Wall Street Journal'' publishes an article entitled, '' The President's Hit List.'' "[[Idaho]] businessman Frank VanderSloot has become the target of a smear campaign since it was disclosed earlier this year that he had donated $1 million to a super PAC supporting Mr. Romney. President Obama's campaign website teed him up in April as one of eight "less than reputable" Romney donors and a "bitter foe of the [[gay rights]] movement." One sin: His wife donated to an anti-[[gay marriage|gay-marriage]] campaign, of the kind that have passed in 30 or so states. Now we learn that little more than a week after that Presidential posting, a former Democratic Senate staffer called the courthouse in Mr. VanderSloot's home town of Idaho Falls seeking his [[divorce]] records. Ms. Strassel traced the operative, Michael Wolf, to a Washington, D.C. outfit called Fusion GPS that says it is "a commercial research firm."<ref>http://www.fusiongps.com</ref>

*Fusion GPS is run by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, [[Glenn Simpson]], who wouldn't say who is paying him for this high-minded slumming but said in an email that Mr. VanderSloot was a "legitimate" target because of "his record on [[homosexual agenda|gay issues]]."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304203604577397031654422966</ref> FusionGPS is the same oufit that later produces the ''Steele dossier''.

*'''12 May.''' The [[Associated Press]] publishes a story based on leaks of FISA information about a CIA operation which foiled a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on a commercial airline.<ref name="RC-Ingram">{{cite web|last=Ingram|first=David|title=Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records|publisher=Reuters Canada|date=May 13, 2013|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/7642013923154527618802.pdf</ref> Justice Dept. secretly seizes personal and phone records Associated Press journalists from Verizon for the monthes of April and May 2012 in a leak investigation.

*[[Michelle Obama]] refers to [[Kenya]] as Barack Obama's homeland in public speech.<ref name="youtu.be">https://youtu.be/6M7Rp_Ghv6k</ref>

*'''13 May.''' [[60 Minutes]] report of Gulinist movement schools in America.<ref>https://youtu.be/ktl--IDnM7I</ref>
[[File:Clinton Roh.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bill Clinton meets with Stephan Roh. Roh is a part owner of Link University where Prof. [[Joseph Mifsud]] is employed.]]
*'''18 May.''' Bill Clinton meets with [[Stephan Roh]] at the CDGC Annual Meeting in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/977020213559484416</ref>

===June 2012===
*'''4 June.''' Inspector General informs Treasury Department general counsel he will be investigating the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/us/politics/irs-scandal-congressional-hearings.html?hp&_r=1&</ref>

*'''19 June.''' Hillary Clinton opposes Russian sanctions and supports collusion with Putin.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303836404577475061208876588</ref>

*'''20 June.''' President Obama invokes [[executive privilege]] over Operation Fast and Furious documents.

*House Oversight and Government Reform Committee votes to recommend to the full Congress that Attorney General Eric Holder be held in contempt. At issue were 1,300 pages of documents that had been subpoenaed eight months earlier.<ref name=usat062012>{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=David |title=Obama claims executive privilege; Holder held in contempt |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/06/obama-team-fast-and-furious-documents-are-privileged/1#.T-I8kpGnfqs |accessdate=|newspaper=USA Today |date=June 20, 2012}}</ref><ref name=abc062012>{{cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Devin |title=Committee Votes Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress After Obama Asserts Executive Privilege |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/committee-votes-attorney-general-eric-holder-contempt-congress/story?id=16610619 |accessdate=|publisher=ABC News |date=June 20, 2012|author2=Parkinson, John R.}}</ref>

*Chairman Issa says that Obama's claim of executive privilege is a cover-up and obstruction of a congressional investigation. Chairman Issa states the Justice Dept. identified "140,000 pages of documents and communications responsive to the committee's subpoena".<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/26/issa-obama-executive-privilege-claim-either-cover-/ Issa: Obama executive privilege claim is cover-up or obstruction]; Washington Times; June 26, 2012</ref>

*'''21 June.''' ''Foreign Policy'' magazine publishes article, ''Abandoning Sergei Magnitsky: Why is Hillary Clinton giving up on human rights in Russia?''<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/21/abandoning-sergei-magnitsky/</ref>

*'''22 June.''' [[Judicial Watch]] files [[FOIA]] request with Justice Dept. for materials denied House Oversight Committee by Obama's claim of executive priviege.

*'''28 June.''' Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] held in contempt by full Congress over his failure to submit documents to Oversight Committee in the Fast and Furious [[scandal]]. This is the first time Congress has ever taken such a dramatic step against a sitting Cabinet official. Ordinarily the Justice Dept. would prosecute cases of contempt of Congress.

*'''June.''' Holder secretly initiates investigations into AP and the ''New York Times'' regarding government leaks.

===July 2012===
*'''July.''' Justice Dept. designates US Attorneys’ offices as “force multipliers” in further stepped-up cyber efforts in the name of national security.

*Hackers remotely “refresh” ongoing surveillance of Attkisson’s CBS News laptop.

*Occupational Safety and Health Administration pays a visit to Engelbrecht Manufacturing and inspects the premises minutely fing minor infractions. OSHA fines totaled $25,000.

*Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) inquiry begins.

*'''1 July.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton emails Pres. Barack Obama from Russia using her private unsecure email account.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/322851482/Hillary-Clinton-FBI-302-V2-6 pg.2</ref>

*'''20 July.''' Uranium One paid The Podesta Group $40,000 to lobby the State Department, the Senate, the National Park Service and the [[National Security Council]] for “international mining projects” according to a filing.<ref name="soprweb.senate.gov">https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=2a6bc321-f7aa-413d-bd53-3b1f96b7f6e7&filingTypeID=62</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2015/04/29/firm-co-founded-by-hillarys-campaign-chair-lobbies-for-russias-uranium-one/</ref>

*'''25 July.''' In Afghanistan, a US Chinook helicopter is shot down with a new generation of US Stinger missile procured by the [[Taliban]] from Qatar. A serial number from the missile casing is recovered, tracing the Stinger's origin to a lot disbursed to the CIA which the CIA delivered to Qatar intended for Libya and Syria during the early days of the Libyan war. Hillary Clinton's State Dept. & Brennan's CIA jointly ran the covert weapons supply program.<ref>http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/</ref> Some of the Stinger's that Qater illegally transferred to the Taliban may have been recovered in a trade for 5 Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo. DIA chief Mike Flynn is outraged at the findings of the DIA investigation, that US weapons supplied by Obama/Hillary/Brennan's covert assistance to jihadis is used to kill Americans.

*'''Summer.''' FBI 'incidentally' stumbles across emails revealing CIA Dir. Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Broadwell. FBI Dir. [[Robert Mueller]] is notified of the affair on a date the government will not disclose. The FBI later says it interviewed Petraeus and Broadwell, and concluded national security hasn’t been breached. The FBI keeps all of this information secret.<ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/obama-era-surveillance-timeline/</ref>

*In late summer, on a date the government won’t reveal, the FBI notifies Attn. Gen. Holder of the Petraeus affair.

===August 2012===
*'''1 August.''' ''Huff Post'' reports Obama issued a secret Presidential Finding earlier in the year authorising transfer of captured weapons from Libya to Syria.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-secret-syria-order_n_1730712.html?tw_p=twt</ref> Amb. [[Christopher Stevens]] put in charge of the covert operation. The aim is to arm jihadist groups which transformed themselves into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to overthrow [[Bashar al Assad]].

*'''20 August.''' [[Paul]] Combatta]] of Platte River Networks (PRN) creates carterheavyindustries@gmail.com, a Chinese company.

*'''29 August.''' Trump tweets, "What a coincidence--Michelle Obama called Kenya @BarackObama's "homeland" in 2008 <nowiki>http://bit.ly/U8uNH0</nowiki>"<ref name="youtu.be"/>

===September 2012===
*'''11 September.''' [[Benghazi massacre]] on the 11th anniversary of the [[9/11 attacks]].
[[File:Benghazi attack.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Amb. Stevens was specifically in Benghazi to oversee and facilitate transfer of captured weapons from the Gadaffi regime to groups in Syria which ultimately became the [[Islamic State]]. Few people had knowledge of this program beyond Stevens, Clinton, and Obama. Once the mission was completed, Stevens was expendable.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/REAL-Benghazi-Story-White-Hillary/dp/1531817130</ref>]]
*Some Obama officials become frustrated with CIA Dir. Petraeus as he opposes efforts to edit out mentions of terrorism from the public Benghazi talking points. Petraeus deputy Mike Morell is given authority over the edits, and aligns with Hillary Clinton’s State Department against Petraeus’s desires.

*'''14 September.''' The Benghazi "talking points" were born out of a request from Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking [[Democrat]] on the [[House Intelligence Committee]]. CIA Dir. David Petraeus had just given a classified briefing to Ruppersberger and other Intelligence Committee members. A source who was present said that following the briefing, "Ruppersberger wanted to know 'what can I say on TV'?"<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officials-on-benghazi-we-made-mistakes-but-without-malice/2/</ref>

:*Deputy National Security Advisor [[Ben Rhodes]] emailed that there would be a Deputies meeting the next morning to work out the issues.

:*The administration's "Dream Team" to write the talking points to fool Congress on Benghazi. The "Dream Team" consisted of: Maj. Gen. Darryl Roberson, Vice Dir. of Operations, Joint Staff; Matt Olson, Dir. of the National Counterterrorism Center; [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#FBI paid off|Andy McCabe]], Asst. Dir. of Counterterrorism for the FBI, later involved in the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal#Terry McAuliffe and the FBI|Hillary Clinton email]] coverup investigation; and Linda Weissgold from CIA Office of Terrorism Analysis (OTA).<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officials-on-benghazi-we-made-mistakes-but-without-malice/</ref>

:*Linda Weissgold testified she changed one such talking point to say that extremists in Benghazi with ties to al Qaeda were involved in “protests,” despite the fact that no such protests had occurred on the day of the attack.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/mcmaster-interviewed-cia-operative-to-replace-trump-nsc-official/article/2007219</ref>

:*The final version called the attacks "demonstrations" that "evolved" after being "spontaneously inspired" by protest at the US Embassy in [[Cairo]]. All mentions of terrorism, al Qaeda and previous warnings given by the CIA had been excised.

*'''16 September.''' Susan Rice appears on 5 Sunday talk shows to put out a [[fake news]] narrative that the Benghazi massacre was a "spontaneous demonstration" rather than a terrorist attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/uFf0dUH3OtU</ref> The [[Presidential Election 2012|presidential election]] is less than two months away, and the White House is fearful of upsetting President Obama's chance of winning by giving the public the truth.

[[File:Obama UN.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Obama crowing just days after the murder of Americans, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."]]
*'''25 September.''' Days afterthe [[Benghazi massacre]], Obama crows from rostrum oft the United Nations, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."<ref>http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obamafuture.asp</ref>
:*'''1MDB scandal.''' Obama says in UN speech, "We see it in Malaysia, where vibrant entrepreneurship is propelling a former colony into the ranks of advanced economies."

*'''September.''' Sen. [[Barbara Boxer]] writes to [[Thomas Perez]], then the assistant attorney general for civil rights, now DNC chair. “As you know, an organization called ‘True the Vote,’ which is an offshoot of the Tea Party, is leading a [[voter suppression]] campaign in many states...this type of intimidation must stop."

===October 2012===
*'''1 October.''' Univision reports that the guns used in the January 2010 Villas de Salvárcar massacre originated from Obama's Operation Fast and Furious.<ref>http://www.univision.com/shows/aqui-y-ahora/operacion-rapido-y-furioso-armando-al-enemigo-parte-1-la-masacre-de-salvarcar-video</ref> The head of the La Linea drug cartel who ordered the executions in a plea agreement with Mexican prosecutors later admitted that he participated in the murder of U.S. consulate employee Arthur Redelfs and his wife and a car bombing that killed four Mexican police officers. The drug boss was linked to "1,500 murders since 2008," according to the plea document.<ref>''[[Associated Press]]'' and ''[[Daily Mail]]'' reporter. "[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211289/Operation-Fast-Furious-Guns-failed-gun-program-used-2010-Mexico-massacre.html Revealed: Operation Fast and Furious guns used in 2010 Mexico massacre of 16 people - including 14 TEENS]". ''[[Daily Mail]]''. October 1, 2012. Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>

*'''2 October.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton announces her selection of appointees to an Accountability Review Board (ARB), which will conduct an internal review and whitewash of the Benghazi massacre. The board begins work the same week. Clinton ultimately will never be interviewed by the Accountability investigators.

*Amber Lyon reports on her firing from CNN for reporting on Bahrain, and CNN's censorship of Bahrain's suppression of the [[Shia]] uprising there.<ref>https://youtu.be/BO-TyETzNO8</ref>

*'''3 October.''' Sec. Hillary Clinton responds to question at press conference, "I believe that our diplomats, our leaders, and the American people deserve a rigorous, serious, careful process."

*'''15 October.''' Hillary Clinton first acknowledges that the State Dept. considered using outside assets to rescue Amb. Stevens and those under siege in Benghazi, but decided against it: "Well we considered everything and, um, we did as you know send additional assets from Tripoli. But it was a fast moving, very difficult assault to try to figure out. As you know, the assault on the post ended, there was a gap of time, then the assault on the annex, um, so everybody who had any responsibility was scrambling very hard to figure out what more could be done." Clinton said they did not send assets from outside Libya "partly because of the difficulties of trying to do that...but I think all of this will be examined in the Accountability Review Board because after all we have this independent board to sort through everything." The Accountability Review Board never spoke with Clinton.

*'''16 October.''' President Obama issues top secret presidential directive on ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks. According to ''The Guardian'', the directive also “contemplates the possible use of cyber actions inside the US.”

*'''19 October.''' In the weeks before his murder, Amb. Stevens sent the State Dept. several requests for increased security for diplomats in Libya, CBS News' Attkisson reports.

*'''20 October.''' Attkisson reports no outside US military help was sent to Benghazi despite the presence of a major naval air base in Sigonella, [[Italy]], less than one hour's flight away.

*'''23 October.''' Sharyl Attkisson obtains some of the Obama administrations's first internal emergency alerts sent during the Benghazi attack. As the assault began, at 4:05 p.m. ET on September 11, an alert from the State Dept. Operations Center was issued to various government emergency watch lists including the White House Situation Room, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. Entitled "''US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack''," the alert reports "approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM (Chief of Mission/embassy) personnel are in the compound safe haven."

*Another alert an hour later reports: "the firing... has stopped...A response team is on site attempting to locate COM personnel."

*At 6:07 p.m. ET, an alert was sent with the subject heading "''Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibilty for Benghazi Attack''." The US Embassy in Tripoli, says the alert, reports the group "claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli." That alert was sent around midnight in Benghazi, hours before the wave of mortar attacks against the CIA Benghazi annex began.

*'''October.''' CBS begins airing Attkisson’s Benghazi stories which rely on whistleblowers and numerous government-linked confidential sources. These sources report that the [[Executive Branch]] is clamping down on leaks to reporters regarding the Benghazi massacre.

*Justice Dept. continues its stepped-up National Security Division cyber efforts, holding specialized training at DOJ headquarters for the National Security Cyber Specialists (NSCS) network and the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS).

*As CIA Dir. Petraeus’s interagency relationships deteriorate over his refusal to go along with White House and State Dept. Benghazi talking points, unnamed FBI agents reach out to Republicans in Congress to tell about Petraeus’s affair. They eventually land at the office of Republican majority leader Eric Cantor. With the presidential elections about a week away, Cantor stays mum on the Petraeus rumors and instead contacts the FBI about them.

*The FBI interviews Petraeus and Broadwell a second time.

*Rep. Elijah Cummings attacked True the Vote in a letter. He wrote that “some have suggested that your true goal is not voter integrity, but voter suppression against thousands of legitimate voters who traditionally vote for Democratic candidates.” He added that: “If these efforts are intentional, politically motivated, and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights.” He also decried True the Vote on MSNBC and CNN. Catherine Engelbrecht says she believes that because she worked against voter fraud, she was targeted. The Engelbrecht continue receiving harassment by the Obama administration and after three years their non profit status remains unapproved.<ref>
https://www.nationalreview.com/article/348756/true-scandal-jillian-kay-melchior</ref>

===November 2012===
*'''1 November.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports that the Obama administration did not convene an emergency meeting of the Counterterrorism Security Group during the Benghazi attack. Attkisson also reports on a draft letter obtained by ForeignPolicy.com, written the very day of the Benghazi attack, that someone on the US team in Benghazi spotted a member of the local police photographing the inside of the US mission. The letter, intended for the head of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Benghazi, called for an investigation. Another draft letter written two days before complained of an inadequate local police presence around the compound, requested ahead of Amb. Chris Stevens' arrival.

*'''2 November.''' FBI questions Obama’s vice chair of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] James Cartwright in a leak investigation regarding material in a book written by a ''New York Times'' reporter. Cartwright denies being the source, but later admits he was, and is convicted in the case.

*'''6 November.''' Obama elected to second term. His opponent [[Mitt Romney]] does not allege any improper surveillance of Romney's campaign. Republicans retain control of House Oversight Committee investigating IRS abuse.

*Officials claim this day is the first time Dir. of National Intelligence [[James Clapper]] is notified about the Petraeus affair by an unspecified official at the Justice Dept. Clapper calls Petraeus and urges him to resign.

*'''7-9 November.''' Attn. Gen. Eric Holder hosts a national training conference at Justice Dept. headquarters for the expanded efforts of DOJ’s National Security Cyber Specialists (NSCS).

*Obama administration says somebody notifies somebody at the White House about the Petraeus affair on Nov. 7. The President is reportedly looped in for the first time on Nov. 8.

*'''8 November.''' Senate Intelligence Committee schedules closed hearing on the Benghazi attack November 15. Among those called to testify are CIA Dir. Gen. David Petraeus.

*'''9 November.''' CIA Dir. Gen. Petraeus resigns under threat of prosecution by Eric Holder's Justice Dept.

*'''11 November.''' Shulman steps down as IRS Commissioner.

*'''13 November.''' FBI initiates a body of cyber security case investigations that would later relate to Attkisson’s computer intrusions.

*'''16 November.''' Gen. Petraeus gives closed-door briefings to Congress on the Benghazi attack, and when exactly U.S. officials knew there were terrorists involved. After the hearing, members emerge saying CIA talking points on the attack were altered.

[[File:Susan Rice, BHO, Hillary.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Obama, Clinton, and Rice, three of a half dozen or so main plotters.]]
*'''19 November.''' Dana Milbank of the ''Wahington Post'' writes, "President Obama had a rare “bring-it-on” moment...'If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me...For them to go after the U.N. ambassador . . . and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.' ... Obama’s over-the-top defense of Rice was surprising...'''She is ill-equipped to be the nation’s top diplomat.'''...The '''Russian business daily ''Kommersant'' quoted an anonymous Russian foreign ministry official as saying that Rice, who quarreled with [[Russia]] over [[Syria]], is “too ambitious and aggressive,” and her appointment would make it “more difficult for [[Moscow]] to work with [[Washington DC|Washington]].”''' ...in her much-criticized TV performance, '''she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted''' by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBS’s ''[[Face the Nation]]'' just before Rice, said there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was preplanned.” '''Rice rebutted the [[Libya]]n official, arguing — falsely, it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning'''. True, '''Rice was following orders from the White House, which she does well'''. But the nation’s top diplomat '''needs to show more sensitivity and independence''' — traits Clinton has demonstrated in abundance. Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.<ref>The article states, "Rice has managed to make an impressive array of enemies ...when she was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, she appalled colleagues by flipping her middle finger at [[Richard Holbrooke]] during a meeting with senior staff at the State Department, according to witnesses. Colleagues talk of shouting matches and insults. Among those she has insulted is the woman she would replace at State. Rice was one of the first former Clinton administration officials to defect to Obama’s primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Rice condemned Clinton’s [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] positions, asking for an “explanation of how and why she got those critical judgments wrong.” Clinton got a measure of revenge in 2010 after she worked out a deal with the Russian foreign minister on a package of Iran sanctions to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council. The White House wanted Rice to make the announcement (part of a campaign to increase her profile that included high-visibility foreign trips and TV appearances), but a Clinton aide got Kerry to ask Clinton about the matter during an unrelated Senate hearing...It was Rice’s own shoot-first tendency that caused her to be benched as a spokesman for the Obama campaign for a time in 2008. She unnerved European allies when she denounced as “counterproductive” and “self-defeating” the U.N. policy that Iran suspend its nuclear program before talks can begin. She criticized President [[George W. Bush]] and McCain because they “insisted” on it. But, as The Post’s Glenn Kessler pointed out at the time, European diplomats were rattled by such remarks because the precondition was their idea. Rice’s pugilism provoked the Russians to weigh in this week in opposition to her nomination as secretary of state."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1112/milbank111912.php3#.WOvs0_9MHMI</ref>

*A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said, "The talking points about the intelligence assessment that Amb. Rice used were produced by the intelligence community. Officials determined that the unclassified points should use the broader term 'extremists' when referring to those responsible for the attack."

*'''27 November.''' Susan Rice meets with Sens. [[John McCain]] and [[Lindsey Graham]] on Capitol Hill to explain her initial remarks on the Benghazi attack. Graham said afterword he was "more disturbed now than I was before," and McCain said he was "significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get."

*'''29 November.''' ''Washington Post'' reports Susan Rice's net worth at $20 million. Rice is a career civil servant.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/susan-rice-not-your-typical-diplomat/2012/11/29/c83ac58c-3a6e-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html?utm_term=.0ad1efc38c87</ref>

===December 2012===
*'''14 December.''' President Obama signs the Magnitsky Act.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/e18677dc-54d8-11e2-a628-00144feab49a</ref> [[John McCain]] is a chief sponsor.<ref>
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744</ref> Russian parliament retaliates banning Americans from adopting Russian children. [[European Union]] stymied, under pressure from the US to pass similar legislation, but with much closer social and economic ties to Russia, fails to act. The incident is seen by some as a provocation for a new, brewing Cold War.

*'''22 December.''' Egyptian magazine ''Rose El-Youssef'' publishes expose of 6 highly placed [[Muslim Brotherhood]] operatives in Obama White House.<ref>https://www.investigativeproject.org/3868/a-man-and-6-of-the-brotherhood-in-the-white-house</ref>
*'''27 December.''' Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, publicly warn of the “back-door search loophole” or "incidental" collection of innocent Americans. Udall says,
{{Quotebox|As it is written, there is nothing to prohibit the intelligence community from searching through a pile of communications, which may have been incidentally or accidentally been collected without a warrant, to deliberately search for the phone calls or e-mails of specific Americans.}}

*'''December.''' Two intelligence-connected sources separately suggest to Attkisson that she’s likely under government surveillance due to her reporting. One source tells her the government has pushed the envelope like never before and that the public would be shocked to “learn the extent that the government is conducting surveillance of private citizens.”

==2013==
One of the focal points of the Snowden documents is not so much the technical marvels of intelligence collectors, rather the existence of, and extent to which intelligence agencies worldwide share information through cooperative sharing agreements (also known as 'shell game eavesdropping' or 'third party relationships').<ref>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/03/13/third-party-relationships/%20/?Edi</ref> While the programs are billed as efforts to fight terrorism, international drug cartels, money laundering, and safeguard national security, they exist and function only on the basis of circumventing national laws in the respective countries whose agencies cooperate in the efforts.
[[File:Full-spectrum-cyber-effects-final-p4-large.gif|right|300px|thumb|US Government document from 2010 part of the Snowden leaks and sharing agreements with the UK. The [[Five Eyes]] program of the English speaking world (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) use [[social media]] for “propaganda,” “deception,” “mass messaging,” “pushing stories”, and "discrediting” the intelligence agencies' enemies with false information spread online.<ref>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/04/04/full-spectrum-cyber-effects/</ref>]]
Fort Meade, MD, for instance, home of the NSA which has the technical ability to monitor and spy on any American with an Obama phone or flat screen TV in their living room, cannot do so without probable cause or a warrant. So two employees of the UK's GCHQ in residence standby at the ready to man the helm and perform the operation ''legally'' under the guise of international intelligence sharing and national security.<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0614/Another-US-UK-special-relationship-between-intelligence-services</ref>

While the United States possessed greater capacity and resources in surveillance technology, the United Kingdom was less scrupulous in violating privacy rights and civil rights, and more aggressive in cyber attacks and the use of fake news to discredit and harass their political enemies, including domestic opponents. Under Obama, the marriage of passive surveillance and active cyber warfare against political opponents accelerated, with both the UK and US extending cooperative agreements and technology to other third party agencies [[globalism|globally]].
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The ''Washington Post'' reported that by 2013, Obama’s ''Presidential Daily Briefing'' (PDB) was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments. The PBD is an example of a SCIF, or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. An originating intelligence agency holds the proprietary intelligence they create in their SCIF. They may also receive intelligence products created for them by other agencies, which they will also host in their unique SCIF. Thus, intelligence is compartmentalized. The White House has their own SCIF which holds intelligence products they would create (very little), or intelligence products created for them (the vast majority). The PDB as a whole product would only exist in the White House SCIF. Parts of the PDB would be hosted by the originating participant, for example the NSA, FBI, DOJ, DoD, CIA, State Dept. etc., but only the White House is supposed to have the fully assembled product. Only a few people could traditionally access the full PDB. However, under President Obama the President’s Daily Brief went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration. Regarding the Obama PDB:
{{Quotebox|"But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Kissinger]], who was dual-hatted as [[national security adviser]] and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-presidents-daily-brief/2016/12/29/eeb4bbec-c862-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.7590754fb293</ref>}}
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The Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian operative, Evgeny Buryakov. Carter Page was working as an “under-cover employee” (UCE) of the FBI, helping to build a case against Evgeny Buryakov.
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[[FusionGPS]] was retained by a law firm to assist with representation of a Russian defendant in a civil forfeiture case arising out of alleged money laundering activities uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky (whose name was subsequently given to the U.S. human rights law, the [[Magnitsky Act]]). [[Glenn Simpson]] acknowledged that the [[Kremlin]]'s interests in the case were aligned with his client and against the [[U.S. Government]]. Russian lawyer [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] hired the law firm for which Simpson was working, and that firm retained the services of Russian-American lobbyist [[Rinat Akhmetshin]], both of whom attended a meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016.
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===January 2013===
*'''17 January.''' Clinton operative [[Cody Shearer]] sends [[Sidney Blumenthal]] a clearly classified document in an email. The subject heading for the email is: “Sid – This is Classified.” There is no text, but a document is attached called “Washington,_DC_Itinerary_for_D.doc.” Blumenthal has no security clearance to receive classified information.<ref>
https://www.weeklystandard.com/meet-the-men-behind-hillary-clintons-private-spy-network/article/901675</ref>

*'''21 January.''' Obama re-inaugurated for second term.

*'''23 January.''' Obama administration prosecutes CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou<ref>https://shadowproof.com/2017/01/25/around-empire-episode-6-inside-cias-war-trump-feat-john-kiriakou/</ref> for leaks to a reporter. Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA torture program. Kiriakou the first CIA officer convicted of providing classified information to a reporter.

*'''29 January.''' FBI press release on convictions of two Bowling Green terrorists. “Using our growing suite of investigative and intelligence capabilities, FBI agents and analysts assigned to our Bowling Green Office were able to neutralize a potential threat." The FBI is the only federal agency able to match fingerprints on an exploded IED found in Iraq with a person residing in Bowling Green, KY.<ref>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/louisville/press-releases/2013/former-iraqi-terrorists-living-in-kentucky-sentenced-for-terrorist-activities</ref>

===February 2013===
*'''Febtuary.''' [[Maxine Waters]] said, {{Quotebox|"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”<ref>https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=49a_1360284775</ref>}}

===March 2013===
*'''3 March.''' The Smoking Gun website breaks the story of Hillary Clinton's illegal webserver.<ref>Hacker Begins Distributing Confidential Memos Sent To Hillary Clinton On Libya, Benghazi Attack, The Smoking Gun (Mar. 18, 2013), http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker-distributes-memos-784091. Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail draws scrutiny. The Smoking Gun (Mar. 3, 2015), http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/hrc-e-mails.</ref>

*'''5 March.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports some of the first revelations on "who changed the Benghazi talking points." One source who reviewed the documents said removal of the word "al Qaeda" from the talking points was initiated by one of the "press shops." The source said press officers from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the White House and the FBI were "looped in" from the start and that some of them expressed concerns in writing that the media would ask follow up questions if certain words or phrases were used. The source added that the [[Director of National Intelligence]] James Clapper and then-Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell were included in these emails. A DNI spokesman acknowledged that press officers from his agency and other agencies were looped in and took part in the talking points exchanges, but he said "no press officers suggested the edits of the specific words 'al Qaeda.'"

*'''7 March.''' Senate confirms [[John Brennan]] as CIA Director. Brennan is now in charge of writing the CIA's response to torture allegations in the Senate Intelligence Oversight Torture report which implicates Brennan.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324034804578346692855187354</ref>

*'''12 March.''' In public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee [[Democrat]]ic Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] asked Obama Director of National Intelligence ([[DNI]]) James Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Clapper replied, “No sir. Not wittingly."<ref>https://youtu.be/nsmo0hUWJ08</ref>

*'''14 March.''' CBS News reports Libyan and US investigators have been questioning a suspect long affiliated with the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]] (LIFG), and is believed to have connections to other [[Islamist]] [[radical]]s. LIGF is one of the main terror groups the Obama administration funded.

*'''22 March''' “Guccifer” hacks Clinton’s emails via Clinton aide’s account. This showed that Clinton had received sensitive, confidential information on what was later revealed to be the private server she improperly used for government business.

*'''28 March.''' State Department email from Baxter Hunt to a number of officials including then-U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Tefft (who would go on to be U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 2014) and State Department Director for the Office of Eastern Europe Alexander Kasanof, Hunt writes: {{quotebox|See below, I also stressed to them the need for GOU [Government of Ukraine] to take concrete steps to get new SBA with IMF and avoid PFC/loss of GSP. [[Podesta Group]] is noted among host of Ukraine lobbyists in article I’ll forward in article on low side. *Ben Chang and Mark Tavlarides of the Podesta Group, which is representing the [[Party of Regions]], told us they were working with Klyuyev on a visit he plans to make to Washington in early May. They are working to broaden the POR’s contacts on the Hill, including setting up a meeting for Klyuyev with Chris Smith, and have advised Kyiv to stop trying to justify their actions against [[Tymoshenko]] in Washington. They also noted that during his recent meeting with former EC President Prodi, HFAC Chairman Ed Royce said that Congress would not be enacting sanctions legislation against Ukraine.<ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/JW-v-State-Podesta-records-02489-1.pdf</ref>}} The Podesta Group was owned by and employed John and [[Tony Podesta]] in 2013. [[John Podesta]] was Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign manager. The Party of Regions is the Putin-controlled group, according to Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]]'s 2017 indictment of [[Paul Manafort]]. Tymoshenko, who served several years in prison on corruption charges, including murder, was sprung from prison after the Obama-sponsored coup that overthrew the democratically elected regime and brought a [[nationalist]] and neo-[[fascist]] regime to power. The criminal code was revised by the new regime to exonerate Tymoshenko. Obama campaign consultants from 2008 managed Tymoshenko's 2010 election campaign for the presidency of the Ukraine.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2009/11/obama-consultants-land-abroad-029410</ref>

*'''March.''' CIA awards a $600 million contract to Amazon Web Services for a computing cloud system which would allow all 17 agencies of the US intelligence community to coordinate and share information.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/</ref> The General Accounting Office found the deal violated the open bidding process, but a federal court stood by CIA's action.

*A computer technician employed by Hillary Clinton deletes emails from her server atter a congressional subpoena had been issued for them, and lied to the FBI during his interviews, memos show. The witness's name was redacted from documents released by the FBI but he was identified as an employee of a computer firm that helped maintained Clinton’s email server.

===April 2013===
*'''12 April.''' The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approves the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of Verizon customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge orders Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA). This directly contradicts Clapper’s March 12 testimony to Congress.

*'''15 April.''' Boston Marathon bombing. Two immigant Russian Muslim brothers - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan - were responsible for the bombing. The brothers wanted to defend Islam from the U.S., accusing the U.S. of conducting the [[Iraq War]] and [[Afghan War]] against Muslims.<ref name="AutoLC-98" /><ref name="CNN220130423" /><ref name="AutoG4-3" /> A CBS report revealed that Dzhokhar had scrawled a note with a marker on the interior wall of the boat where he was hiding; the note stated that the bombings were "retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq", and called the Boston victims "collateral damage", "in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world."<ref name="cbs20130516" /><ref name="consortium_mcgovern">{{cite web|url=http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/boston-suspects-writing-on-the-wall/|title=Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall|work=consortiumnews.com|accessdate=April 8, 2015}}</ref> Photographs of the note were later used in the trial.<ref name="CBS Local Boston">{{cite news|work=CBS Local Boston|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/03/10/jury-in-boston-bombing-trial-sees-photos-of-writing-in-boat/|accessdate=March 12, 2017|title=Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Jury Sees Photos Of Tsarnaev Boat Note|date=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref name=NYT20130516>{{cite news|title=Note by Boston Bombing Suspect Sheds Light on Motive, Officials Say|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/us/boston-bombing-developments.html|newspaper=The New York Times | first1=Scott|last1=Shane|first2=Ellen|last2=Barry|date=May 16, 2013 |accessdate= April 11, 2015}}</ref>

*Dzhokhar said that he and his brother wanted to defend Islam from the U.S., accusing the U.S. of conducting the [[Iraq War]] and [[Afghan War]] against Muslims.<ref name="AutoLC-98" /><ref name="CNN220130423" /><ref name="AutoG4-3" /> A CBS report revealed that Dzhokhar had scrawled a note with a marker on the interior wall of the boat where he was hiding; the note stated that the bombings were "retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq", and called the Boston victims "collateral damage", "in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world."<ref name="cbs20130516" /><ref name="consortium_mcgovern"/> Photographs of the note were later used in the trial.<ref name="CBS Local Boston"/><ref name="NYT20130516"/>

*Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] condemned the bombing as a "barbaric crime" and "stressed that the Russian Federation will be ready, if necessary, to assist in the U.S. authorities' investigation."<ref name="AutoLC-150" /> He urged closer cooperation of security services with Western partners.<ref name="AutoLC-151" /> Other Russian authorities and mass media blamed the U.S. authorities for negligence as they warned the US of the Tsarnaevs.<ref name="Russia-could">{{cite web|url=http://www.rg.ru/2013/04/26/mnenie-site.html |script-title = ru:Россия могла предотвратить теракт в Бостоне |trans-title=Russia could have prevented a terrorist attack in Boston|author=Shestakov, Yevgeny|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|date=April 26, 2013|accessdate= April 11, 2015|language=Russian}}</ref> Moreover, Russian authorities and mass media since the Spring of 2014 blame USA for politically motivated false information about lack of response from Russian authorities after subsequent U.S. requests. As proof a letter from the Russian [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) was shown to the members of an official U.S. Congressional delegation to Moscow during their visit. This letter with information about Tsarnaev (including his biography details, connections and phone number) had been sent from FSB to FBI and CIA during March 2011.<ref name="Russia-blame-again">{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/boston_terror/20140410/1003329322.html |script-title = ru:Эксперт: обвинения США по делу Царнаева политически мотивированы|trans-title=Expert: U.S. blame around Tsarnaev case are politically motivated|author=Korotchenko, Igor|work=RIA Novosti |date=April 10, 2014|accessdate= April 11, 2015|language=Russian}}</ref>

*Sens. [[Saxby Chambliss]] and [[Richard Burr]] reported that Russian authorities had separately asked both the FBI (at least twice: during March and November 2011) and the CIA (September 2011) to look carefully into Tamerlan Tsarnaev and provide more information about him back to Russia.<ref name="BG-RUS">{{cite web|url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/23/russia-contacted-fbi-multiple-times-concerns-about-alleged-boston-marathon-bomber/ND0bhUdq1Tp1mRuC8xlb8N/story.html |title = Russia contacted US government ‘multiple’ times|author1=Bender, Bryan |author2= Bierman, Noah|work=The Boston Globe|date= April 23, 2013|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name="RT-RUS">{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/usa/fbi-boston-senate-hearing-263/ |title= Senate grills FBI over Boston bombings intel failures|work=RT|date=April 23, 2013|accessdate= April 11, 2015}}</ref> Russian [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) secretly recorded phone conversations between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother (they vaguely and indirectly discussed [[jihad]]) and sent these to the FBI as evidence of possible extremist links within the family.<ref name="Boston-RUSS">{{cite web|url= http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-mother-wiretap-jihad-519/ |title=
Caught on Russian wiretap: Tsarnaev ‘vaguely discussed jihad’ with mother – US official|date=April 28, 2013|work=RT|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}</ref> However, while Russia offered US intelligence services warnings that Tsarnaev planned to link up with extremist groups abroad, an FBI investigation yielded no evidence to support those claims at the time.<ref>{{cite news|last=Radia|first=Kirit|title=Lawmakers Traveling to Russia to Investigate Boston Bombing|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/lawmakers-traveling-to-russia-to-investigate-boston-bombing/|newspaper=ABC News|date=May 21, 2013 |accessdate= April 11, 2015}}</ref>

*'''17 April.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports that the House Oversight Committee sent letters to the three federal agencies—the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department—in response to new whistleblower revelations on the Benghazi attacks. The letters instruct how whistleblowers are to be able to share sensitive or classified information with their own attorneys, and ask for each agency's official description of the legal steps that process must follow. The letters also state that additional witnesses may be "compelled by subpoena to give testimony."

*'''23 April.''' Five House Committees issue interim report on Benghazi attacks naming Sec.of State Hillary Clinton and other Obama administration officials responsible for reducing security levels at the consulate, contradicting testimony Hillary Clinton gave under oath before Congress. The report issued by the Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight and Government Reform Committees reaches three major conclusions:

*First, Clinton approved security reductions at the consulate, pointing to an April 2012 State Dept. cable bearing her signature. The cable was a formal request from then-Amb.Cretz for more security. In her testimony before Congress in January, Clinton said, "With specific security requests they didn't come to me. I had no knowledge of them."

*The report charges that White House and senior State Dept. officials attempted to protect the State Dept. from criticism by altering accurate talking points drafted by Gen. Petraeus and the intelligence community. The report says that, after a Sept. 15, 2012 meeting, administration officials removed references to the likely participation of [[Islamic]] [[extremist]]s.

*The report contradicts Obama administration claims that the talking points were altered to protect classified information. None of the emails reviewed ever mentioned a concern about classified information.

*'''30 April.''' Attorney for a whistleblower on the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi says the Obama administration is impeding her clients and others' efforts to speak.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benghazi-whistleblowers-still-waiting-to-tell-their-story/</ref>

*McCain subcommittee staff director [[Henry Kerner]] urged IRS to engage in “financially ruinous” targeting of [[Tea Party]] groups.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=press%20release</ref>

*'''April.''' A secret memo later exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses how the US, along with Brirish intelligence, is collecting information “directly from the servers of …Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1&utm_term=.c188c8af0ba0</ref>

*Foundation for Open Society [[Macedonia]] (FOSM) is awarded 18 USAID grants by the US State Dept.;<ref>http://soros.org.mk/en/Home/NewsAndActivity?newsID=660&catID=7&pageIndex=1&month=10&year=0&additionalID=73</ref> FOSM is a Soros-run foundation. Recipients of grants in Macedonia are known as 'Soros army'. Soros is later accused of wanting to destroy Macedonia, its name, language, and identity."<ref>http://katehon.com/article/george-soros-wants-destroy-macedonia-its-name-language-and-identity</ref> Obama and Soros have been accused of interfering in Macedonia's [[democracy|democratic]] process.<ref>http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonia-forms-anti-soros-movement-01-18-2017</ref><ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/02/u-s-gives-soros-groups-millions-destabilize-macedonias-conservative-govt/</ref><ref>In Google translation the article reads (''boldening in original, excerpted''):"...Washington has operated continuously through USAID, the US government agency that works to "promote American interests" and whose goal is "to support US foreign policy (...) expand stable free societies, create markets and business partners for the United States".
For about 20 years the USAID action was altogether balanced, ruled by a sense of realism and limited to create spheres of influence in the country in line with the legitimate demands of geopolitical America. '''But after Obama entered the White House, things have changed.''' 

'''SOROS COMING!'''
On February 27, 2012, the Open Society of George Soros has entered into an agreement with the Government of the United States, more than 2.5 million dollars to make in Macedonia the Civil Society Project, the democratization floor of the small Balkan nation through a series of Macedonian NGOs and associations. In 2014, the agreement was expanded to four other civil organizations (all related to the Open Society or funded by it), for a total investment of '''5 million dollars from USAID and $500,000 in the same Soros Foundation.'''

The data, figures, associations and activities, are published in [https://stopsoros.mk/detailed-overview-usaid-support-george-soros-led-groups-macedonia/ a very precise report drawn up by a group of Macedonian journalists gathered under the name "STOP SOROS"] report denouncing the collusion between the US government and the financier and shows the complexity of the connections and of the plots.

The report explains how the '''organizations that have received millions of dollars from the US government, through the Open Society, are all emanations of the Macedonian [[left-wing]] party SDSM''' (Social Democratic Union of Macedonia) derivation of the old [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] [[Communist Party]] era; and it is no accident that from 2015 to 2016 '''these organizations coordinated by the SDSM, were the protagonists of the protests and riots of the "colored revolution"''' that shook Macedonia leading to the resignation of the Conservative government in office and to early elections; clashes led by leaders like [[LGBT]] activist Pavle Bogoevski and even today the parliamentary left, in the photo portrait with a t-shirt ironic that says, 'Soros-army'.

Now Macedonia is crossed by a serious political crisis without a government majority with ethnic tensions that begin to burst with the [[Albania]]n minority. In short, a perfect creative chaos similar to many other artificially created by Geroge Soros in Eastern Europe.

'''In Macedonia the scheme is very similar to the scheme in [[Ukraine]]''' (where among other things we remember, the role of Soros is well documented)

Even the characters are the same as Victoria Nuland, responsible for the Eurasian policies of Obama, who during the color Revolution she traveled to Macedonia "to meet civil activists and encourage them to continue their work" exactly what she did during Maidan.

(For those who wish to learn who is Victoria Nuland, and what role she played in the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, we refer to this video editorial two years ago, made for ''Il Giornale'') 

'''STOP SOROS'''
In a long and complex analysis of ''The [[American Spectator]]':, Victor Gaetan , explained how the attempts at destabilization of Macedonia by Soros has commenced, even in 1995, but are made only when '''the arrival of Obama to the White House given away for free (and American money) to infiltration strategy of the Open Society.'''

Cvetin Chilimanov, journalist MIA (Macedonian Information Agency) and Vice President of STOP SOROS, explained how the goal of the USA/Soros is not help the Macedonian nation but to seize power in the political forces of the left [[radical]]s.

And it is evident also in Macedonia (as in the rest of Europe) '''the left is perfectly functional [[globalist]] ideology that Soros wants to impose in the West: migration, dissolution of [[nation state]]s, disarticulation of the fabric of traditional values of the Royal Society (and not ideological).''' On the other hand, Macedonia remains a culturally and socially conservative country, whose population is strongly linked to the values of [[Orthodox Christianity]], with public opinion in a clear majority opposed to issues such as [[abortion]] and [[gay marriage]] (among the most expensive issues George Soros). 

'''SOMETHING IS CHANGING (?)'''
Financing Operations Use/Soros to the Macedonian NGOs have continued even in recent times, and many are still active.

Not only that, but according to Gaetan an additional funding of $9.5 million was awarded a year ago at the Open Society and entrusted to Macedonian organizations, if it were not blocked by the new Secretary of State [[Tillerson]], appointed by Trump.

'''But this is a sign that maybe something is changing.''' Strengthened by Trump victory, thousands of Macedonians took to the streets to ask the new US administration the end of the financial support of the Open Society and the American ambassador's removal as the very executor of the Soros project...http://blog.ilgiornale.it/rossi/2017/04/04/macedonia-di-soros/?repeat=w3tc</ref>

===May 2013===
*'''1 May.''' Carter Page publishes a paper for the Center for National Policy, entitled ''After Boston: Alternative Diplomacy and the Reconsideration of Unbridled U.S. Power'', critical of Obama administration and deep state foreign policy in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Page wrote, {{Quotebox|a more cooperative U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship would clearly decrease the risks of such a potential event, both earlier this month and in the future. In this sense, the recent tragedy in [[Boston]] could offer a valuable wake-up call for the U.S. government. Instead of putting in place excessive restrictions on Russian officials as seen in last year’s [[Magnitsky Act]] which was reminiscent of the blacklists of the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]], establishing policies that instead build links could help to address a range of critical [[globalism|global]] challenges...A more active government support of the US businesses community’s efforts most especially through the avoidance of efforts that seek to instigate hegemonic change could represent a strong initial move in that general direction. The frequently unjustified maltreatment of Russia and its leaders in the US media further engrains long-standing tendencies toward misunderstanding, thereby offering a super-sized cover for equally large policy mistakes by the U.S. government. Despite the recent accomplishments of Igor Sechin, his article for the Time 100 was written by Vladimir Milov – an exceptionally harsh critic who followed historic precedent in his write-up. In contrast, the April 29 edition of ''[[Time magazine]]'' also included tributes to U.S. President Barack Obama and the First Lady [[Michelle Obama]] by Hillary Clinton and Maya Angelou respectively. Reflecting the highest principles of [[cronyism]] rather than [[democracy]], Clinton’s future political career rests firmly on the continued success and popularity of the Obama Administration over the next three and a half years. Meanwhile, Angelou was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011 – the highest civilian award in the United States and in essence the ultimate pay-off. Reminiscent of McFaul’s earlier discussion of unbridled U.S. power, Angelou ironically mentions in her tribute, “The philosophers tell us that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” While no person on this planet is completely free from sin in contrast to public relations spin, another political philosopher named [[Alexander Hamilton]] once noted, “The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.” Although such failings may have helped enable the terror in Boston, a reevaluation of ambitions could set the stage for a future peace.<ref>Paper for Center for National Policy ''After Boston: Alternative Diplomacy and the Reconsideration of Unbridled U.S. Power'', May 1, 2013.
In March 2003, the Century Foundation and the Stanley Foundation released a report entitled ''U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya''. Written by Michael McFaul who was then a Professor at Stanford University prior to taking positions in the Obama Administration, the report included a review of various factoids on this topic. But the most valuable contribution it offered was a window into the underlying source of age-old problems that have plagued the U.S.-Russia bilateral relationship to this day. Some of these very same obstacles may have helped pave the way for the tragedy that occurred at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The report’s conclusions essentially highlight fundamental philosophies, objectives and dilemmas that have stood in the way of vital cooperation: “US policy regarding [[Chechnya]] exposes the limits of American power even in an age of unbridled US power. Russia’s military interventions in Chechnya were policies that US
[[foreign policy]] leaders would have liked to stop. In the end, however, policies pursued by both the Clinton and [[Bush administration]]s have had little impact on the course of the war in Chechnya.” Reflecting persistent tendencies and aspirations toward unbridled US power, some of the options suggested in the article bordered on the truly draconian: “There were and are policy alternatives. Clinton and Bush could have sanctioned Russia by cutting off direct assistance to the Russian government. They could have suspended Russia from membership in the [[G-8]]. They could have postponed presidential summits. They could have offered more humanitarian assistance to the region. Even more dramatically, they could have offered their services as a mediator. Theoretically, Chechen and Russian officials could have met at Camp David in 1995 or 2001 to hammer out a political settlement. Hypothetically, they even could have recognized the legitimacy of the elected government of Chechnya and provided direct assistance to the government in exile.” Although US foreign tactics and ambitions have varied by region, these approaches of sanctions, suspensions and meddling in internal affairs when not invited remain consistent with intrusive policies which have often afflicted America since the [[Cold War]]. In an epilogue written after a deadly Chechen [[terrorist]] attack and hostage seizure at the sold-out Dubrovka Theater in Moscow on October 23, 2002, McFaul added his bottom-line conclusion regarding certain cooperative approaches: “Most dramatically, Bush unambiguously framed his ‘[[war on terrorism]]’ and Putin’s ‘war in Chechnya’ as part of one common struggle. The real losers of this [[united front]] are the people of Chechnya.” A debate has emerged whether the U.S. missed the chance to prevent the Boston bombing. Although evidence will materialize over time and despite the acknowledgement of U.S. government officials that a “trust deficit” may have negatively impacted the earlier investigations, the possibility of prevention might remain a controversy that can never be definitively solved. However, there is one certainty that cannot be called into question: a more cooperative U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship would clearly decrease the risks of such a potential event, both earlier this month and in the future. In this sense, the recent tragedy in [[Boston Pizza]] could offer a valuable wake-up call for the U.S. government. Instead of putting in place excessive restrictions on Russian officials as seen in last year’s [[Magnitsky Act]] which was reminiscent of the blacklists of the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]], establishing policies that instead build links could help to address a range of critical [[globalism|global]] challenges. Yet while Washington and its representatives sleep on the security front, other actors are taking matters into their own hand in other arenas. '''Uncle Sam, please do no harm: Alternative forms of diplomacy in an era of gridlock''' Last week, a subtle theme permeated the second annual New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference. While on one hand dysfunction in the U.S. federal government has instituted an era of gridlock, innovative initiatives across the [[private sector]] and at the state and municipal level of government have continued to drive forward monumental change in the energy sector. In the wake of this structural evolution of governance, corporations and local communities have taken control of their own destiny through a diverse array of revolutionary technologies and investment programs. In the context of U.S.-Russian relations, a similar example may be seen in the relationship of [[ExxonMobil]] and Rosneft – the largest oil companies in each of these respective countries. Through a diverse portfolio of agreements and related ventures, the two leading companies have continued to move forward on projects in the United States, Russia and beyond. Under the leadership of Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s President and Management Board Chairman, the company has taken steps to build bridges and advance the interests of both companies. At an investment conference organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia last week, a former [[Australia]]n diplomat named Glenn Waller was the star of the show. As the President of ExxonMobil Russia, he offered telling comments regarding his company’s joint accomplishments with Rosneft: "I was happy to hear from Ambassador McFaul that it has been discussed at the highest level between presidents. We have very strong support from various levels of the Russian government." Consistent with the conclusions of the recent New York Times conference, Waller’s quote did not indicate strong support from various levels of the Russian and US governments. A more active government support of the US businesses community’s efforts most especially through the avoidance of efforts that seek to instigate hegemonic change could represent a strong initial move in that general direction. The frequently unjustified maltreatment of Russia and its leaders in the US media further engrains long-standing tendencies toward misunderstanding, thereby offering a super-sized cover for equally large policy mistakes by the U.S. government. Despite the recent accomplishments of Igor Sechin, his article for the Time 100 was written by Vladimir Milov – an exceptionally harsh critic who followed historic precedent in his write-up. In contrast, the April 29 edition of ''[[Time magazine]]'' also included tributes to U.S. President Barack Obama and the First Lady [[Michelle Obama]] by Hillary Clinton and Maya Angelou respectively. Reflecting the highest principles of [[cronyism]] rather than [[democracy]], Clinton’s future political career rests firmly on the continued success and popularity of the Obama Administration over the next three and a half years. Meanwhile, Angelou was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011 – the highest civilian award in the United States and in essence the ultimate pay-off. Reminiscent of McFaul’s earlier discussion of unbridled U.S. power, Angelou ironically mentions in her tribute, “The philosophers tell us that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” While no person on this planet is completely free from sin in contrast to public relations spin, another political philosopher named [[Alexander Hamilton]] once noted, “The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.” Although such failings may have helped enable the terror in Boston, a reevaluation of ambitions could set the stage for a future peace. Instead of worrying about what decisions are made on high, efforts by American business leaders like ExxonMobil to continue establishing bilateral links play an invaluable service to both countries. While the palatial setting of Spaso House which Dr. McFaul now calls home may understandably be a difficult place to acquire new humble perspectives regarding unbridled power, initial strides in the right direction by business can offer further momentum which eventually changes the tone and improves the broader bilateral relationship. '''Building a cleaner future''' Fortunately, the earlier policy alternatives outlined by McFaul were not followed and the American headmaster did not suspend Russia from the G-8 school. To the contrary, Russia currently holds the Chair of the more democratic and inclusive G-20. Under the leadership of President Putin, the Energy Sustainability Working Group of the G-20 has taken important steps in the energy arena including in the area of green growth. The US Government’s support of such cutting-edge initiatives led by Russia offers a viable means for changing direction and following in the wake of the Rosneft-ExxonMobil ship.</ref>}}

*'''5 May.''' Excerpts of an interview investigators conducted with Gregory Hicks, the no. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya who was in Tripoli during the Benghazi attack are leaked to CBS News. The US diplomat contradicted the Obama White House version.
{{Quotebox|I never reported a demonstration; I reported an attack on the consulate. Chris [Stevens] last report, if you want to say his final report - is, 'Greg, we are under attack.'...I've never been as embarrassed in my life, in my career, as on that day" (that Susan Rice appeared on talk shows calling the attack the result of a demonstration,) The net impact of what has transpired is, [Rice,] the spokesperson of the most powerful country in the world, has basically said that the president of Libya is either a liar or doesn't know what he's talking about. ....My jaw hit the floor as I watched this."}}

*'''6 May.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports more details from private testimony in which a team of Special Operation Forces prepared to fly from [[Tripoli]] to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by US Special Operations Command Africa. Investigators heard that if the US had quickly sent military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The US Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour's flight from Libya.

*'''8 May.''' Three US officials stationed in Libya the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack deliver accounts of the events and their aftermath. They renew criticism against the Obama administration for issuing stand-down orders to Special Operations Forces who were ready to assist.
[[File:Obama-brennan-white-house-540.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Obama and CIA Director [[John Brennan]] meet in the White House to discuss the Torturegate coverup.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/11/john-brennan-torture_n_6310704.html</ref> Brennan had been heavily involved in the CIA's torture program,<ref>https://www.ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/american-impunity-shielding-officials-involved-torture-has-decades-long-precedent</ref> and when the Congress investigated,<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/does-it-matter-if-john-brennan-was-complicit-in-illegal-torture/266918/</ref> the CIA spied on and hacked into its Senate overseers computers who were investigating the CIA's use of torture.<ref>
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/05/bob-baer-if-russian-hacking-story-is-political-there-should-be-a-criminal-investigation/?utm_source=akdart</ref> Brennan needed Obama's assurance the Justice Dept. would not prosecute himself or anyone else involved in the torture program.]]
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*'''9 May.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' DuSable incorporated on Delaware.<ref>https://realpolitikasia.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-connection-between-money-from-1mdb.html</ref>
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*'''10 May.''' Brennan meets with Obama in the White House to discuss CIA's response to the Torture Report.<ref>
https://theintercept.com/2014/03/13/president-obama-covering-presidencys-role-torture-4-years/</ref>

*A senior administration official tells CBS News' that reports State Dept. officials helped make final edits to the false information supplied to Congress about the Benghazi attacks -- the same false information Susan Rice lied about in her television appearances on Sept. 16, 2012 were "just false."

*IRS admits to targeting Republican Tea Party groups for harassment, including pretenses for prosecution leading up to the 2012 election.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-admits-targeting-conservatives-for-tax-scrutiny-in-2012-election/2013/05/10/3b6a0ada-b987-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?utm_term=.fd83e5007ce0</ref>

*'''11 May.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports details of approximately 100 interagency government emails, sent on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, 2012 regarding the content of the talking points to be used by Susan Rice on the Sunday shows about the Benghazi attacks. The talking points were revised numerous times.

*'''13 May.''' The AP announced telephone records for 20 of their reporters had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department. News sources reported the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia was conducting a criminal investigation into publication of a foiled May 2012 terrorist plot. While journalists are protected, leakers in the government are subject to prosecution. The Justice Dept. subpoenaed the phone records of AP from [[Verizon]] and other service providers.<ref name=verizonslate>{{cite web|last=Gallagher|first=Ryan|title=Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters' Phone Records to Feds|publisher=www.slate.com|date=May 16, 2013|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html|accessdate=}}</ref> The AP claimed these acts were a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering.<ref name=TTSanchez>{{cite web|last=Sanchez|first=Raf|title=US Justice Department secretly seizes Associated Press phone records|publisher=The Telegraph|date=May 13, 2013|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name=TG130513>{{cite web|author=Washington (AP)|title=US government secretly obtained Associated Press phone records|publisher=The Guardian|date=May 13, 2013|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|accessdate=}}</ref> The "intrusion" is the frightening off of government sources, the bread and butter of the Washington news gathering industry. CEO Gary Pruitt of AP stated: "These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know;"<ref name=CNNJohns>{{cite web|author=Matt Smith and Joe Johns|title=AP blasts feds for phone records search|publisher=CNN|date=May 14, 2013|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/us/justice-ap-phones/?hpt=hp_t2|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name=holder>{{cite web|author=Gary B. Pruitt|title=AP letter to Eric Holder on seizure of phone records|publisher=USA Today|date=May 13, 2013|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/13/doj-seizes-ap-phone-records/2156819/|accessdate=June 1, 2013}}</ref> a "conceivable right to know" would be a hunt for leakers of FISA information within the administration.
* Obama states publicly he first heard of IRS targeting conservatives only days before "from the news."

*'''14 May.''' Inspector General issues initial report of IRS abuse; FBI begins investigation.

*''USA Today'' publishes report FBI Director Robert Mueller travelled to Moscow.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/14/holder-fbi-mueller-russians-boston-bombing-investigation/2159333/</ref>

*''Boston Herald'' publishes frontpage story on Obamagate scandal.<ref>http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2013/05/14/obama-gate <</ref>

*'''15 May.''' White House releases some 100 pages of internal emails showing how CIA talking points originally referenced al Qaeda's links to the Benghazi attack. After revisions the al Qaeda references were removed.

*'''17 May.''' Fox News learns that the Justice Dept. secretly labeled reporter James Rosen a possible “criminal co-conspirator” and “flight-risk” in obtaining warrants to monitor Rosen’s State Department movements, phone records and emails in a leak investigation that started in 2011.

*''New York Times'' reports Obama lied about when he first knew of IRS targeting conservative groups.<ref>http://nypost.com/2016/10/30/obama-told-us-hes-honorable-but-hes-just-another-liar/</ref>

*'''22 May.''' IRS Commissioner pleads the [[5th Amendment]] against self-incrimination during opening statement before Congressional oversight committee.

*'''29 May.''' Ready for Hillary PAC established, Tom Mostyn, co-founder.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/191340/hillary-superpac-headed-radical-environmentalist-daniel-greenfield</ref>

===June 2013===
*'''6 June.''' Asked at a hearing if the Justice Dept. spies on members of Congress, Attn. Gen. Holder refuses to answer.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/asked-if-justice-department-is-spying-on-congress-holder-refuses-to-answer/</ref>

*The UK ''Guardian'' reveals NSA unlimited metadata collection under FISA protection. Data collection on 4 million of Verizon customers are collected daily.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order</ref>

*'''7 June.''' ''Guardian'' reveals NSA tapping through back doors into US internet companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook with a program called [[PRISM]] [GCHQ counterpart = Tempora].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data</ref>

*An 18-page memo shows Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-directive-full-text</ref>

*Obama defends NSA wiretapping.<ref>https://usnews.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/07/18824941-obama-nobody-is-listening-to-your-telephone-calls?lite</ref>

*The ''Guardian'' story, soon to be known as the ''Snowden leaks'', is more evidence Obama Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper misled Congress and public about the true nature and extent of domestic intelligence gathering in his 12 March sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

*Reporter Michael Hastings writes ''Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans'' in BuzzFeed, excerpted: {{quotebox|"most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama...the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Obama and his party stand on civil liberties...Clapper admitted he'd misled Senator Wyden at a hearing earlier this year...The state of affairs, in other words, is so grave that two sitting senators went as close as they could to violating their unconstitutional security oaths in order to warn the country of information that otherwise would not have been declassified until April of 2038, according to the Verizon court order...the White House has dug in, calling their North Korea-esque tools "essential" to stop terrorism, and loathe to give up the political edge they've seized for Democrats on national security issues under Obama's leadership. The AP spying scandal — which the administration attempted to downplay at the time, even appointing Eric Holder to lead his own investigation into himself —was one of the unexpected consequences of one of two leak investigations that Obama ordered during the 2012 campaign....any so-called credible DOJ/FBI leak investigation, by its very nature, would have to involve the Obama administration invasively using the very surveillance and data techniques it is attempting to hide...Transparency supporters, whistleblowers, and investigative reporters, especially those writers who have aggressively pursued the connections between the corporate defense industry and federal and local authorities involved in domestic surveillance, have been viciously attacked by the Obama administration and its allies in the FBI and DOJ.}} Hastings was killed eleven days later.

*'''8 June.''' Documents reveal the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real-time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a "heat map."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining</ref>

*'''9 June.''' [[Edward Snowden]] steps forward as source of NSA leaks published in ''The Guardian''.<ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref> Introducing himself Snowden says,<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>
{{Quotebox|“'''I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone''', from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to '''even the president''' if I had a personal e-mail. 

It’s getting to the point you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you have ever made.”}}
:Training materials provided by Snowden for XKeyscore propgram detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous NSA databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed. The program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata. Under US law, the NSA is required to obtain an individualized [[FISA]] warrant only if the target of their surveillance is a 'US person', though no such warrant is required for intercepting the communications of Americans with foreign targets. But '''XKeyscore provides''' the technological capability, if not '''the legal authority, to target even US persons''' for extensive electronic surveillance '''without a warrant provided''' that some identifying information, such as '''their email or IP address, is known.'''

*'''10 June.''' ''Wall Street Journal'' reports FISA Court has rejected only 11 of 33,900 warrant requests in the 33 years the law has been in existence.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324904004578535670310514616</ref>

*'''11 June.''' ''New York Post'' reports: A chief investigator for the agency’s inspector general wrote a memo outlining eight cases that were derailed by senior officials, including one instance of interference by Clinton’s chief of staff, [[Cheryl Mills]].
:*A DS agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, including minors. “The agent began his investigation and had determined that the ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children,” says the memo. Undersecretary of State for Management [[Patrick Kennedy]] ordered the investigation ceased, and the ambassador remains in place, according to the memo. Gutman was a big Democratic donor before taking the post, having raised $500,000 for President Obama’s 2008 campaign and helping finance his inaugural.<ref>https://archive.fo/LLAIY#selection-1169.0-1209.148</ref>

*'''12 June.''' [[NBC News]] reports: NBC News has obtained documents tied to ongoing investigations at the State Department involving eight cases of alleged misconduct by state department workers, contractors, and a United States ambassador. The incidents reportedly occurred during Hillary Clinton’s tenure, according to the documents.
:*An internal Inspector General memo from last October reported the ambassador under investigation “routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children.” The report also states that a high-ranking official at the State Department directed investigators to “cease the investigation.”<ref>http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52184794/t/new-allegations-state-department-cover-up/</ref>
*IRS suspends use of the BOLO list.

*'''13 June.''' Snowden reveals NSA was hacking computers in Hong Kong and mainland China, few of which were military systems.

*FBI Dir. Robert Mueller tells Congressional committee [[9/11]] hijackers were under NSA surveillance, a fact unknown and unreported by the 9/11 investigating Commission and omitted from the 9/11 Commission Report.<ref>https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/6/14/1216187/-Director-Mueller-9-11-Hijackers-were-in-Fact-Under-NSA-Surveillance</ref>

*'''16 June.''' Snowden reveals intelligence sharing on Britain's GCHQ (its intelligence agency) intercepting phone and internet communications of foreign politicians attending two G-20 meetings in London in 2009.
[[File:960px-Michael Hastings election night 2012.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Michael Hastings and [[Valerie Jarrett]] at Barack Obama's victory party, 2012. Hastings became a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party and surveillance state. His last story, ''Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans'', was published by BuzzFeed eleven days before his untimely death. He was killed while working on a profile of CIA Director [[John O. Brennan]].]]
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*'''17 June.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Pantoll Energy (major recipient of payments from DuSable) incorporated Delaware.
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*'''18 June.''' Michael Hastings, Polk Award winning [[journalist]] for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and reporter for [[BuzzFeed]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Hastings|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings|title=Michael Hastings (mhastings) on|publisher=''Buzzfeed.com''|accessdate=}}</ref> killed.<ref>https://youtu.be/2ojZXVg3C54</ref> Hastings became a vocal critic of the [[Obama administration]], [[Democratic Party]] and [[surveillance state]] during the investigation of reporters by the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism.<ref>Uygur, Cenk. (June 23, 2013). "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBm-DRmRP9g&feature=youtu.be Michael Hastings and The War on Journalism]". ''The Young Turks''.</ref> His last story, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7, 2013.<ref>[https://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans "Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans"], ''buzzfeed.com'', June 7, 2013.</ref><ref>Stebner, Beth. (June 19, 2013). [https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conspiracy-theories-abound-michael-hastings-death-article-1.1377392 "Michael Hastings conspiracy theories: Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash"], ''Daily News''; accessed April 11, 2015.</ref> Hastings was killed in a mysterious automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jenny McCartney|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/hastings-crash-witness-113514329.html|title=Witness: Hastings' speeding car 'shook my car like a freight truck going by'|publisher=Yahoo! News|date=June 21, 2013|accessdate=June 21, 2013}}</ref> A witness to the crash said the car seemed to be traveling at maximum speed and was creating sparks and flames before it fishtailed and crashed into a palm tree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweyFCFKcp0|title=Witness to Michael Hastings Car Crash Shares His Story (TYT Exclusive)|date=June 21, 2013|work=[[YouTube]]|publisher=[[The Young Turks]]|accessdate=June 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="dvorak">{{cite web|last=Dvorak |first=Kimberley |title=Details of reporter Hastings' death elusive |url=http://www.sandiego6.com/story/details-of-reporter-hastings-death-remain-elusive-20130708 |publisher=San Diego 6 |accessdate=July 10, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713071933/http://www.sandiego6.com/story/details-of-reporter-hastings-death-remain-elusive-20130708 |archivedate=July 13, 2013 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> Video from a nearby security camera reportedly shows Hastings' vehicle speeding and bursting into flames.<ref>{{cite news|title=Michael Hastings death: New video of crash emerges|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-michael-hastings-death-new-video-of-crash-emerges-20130727,0,2133280.story|accessdate=July 30, 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 27, 2013}}</ref> Witnesses described the car's engine being ejected 50 to 60 yards (46–55 m) from the scene.<ref name="dvorak"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/journalist-michael-hastings-killed-car-crash-article-1.1376574|title=Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings killed in car crash|date=June 19, 2013|publisher=[[Daily News (New York)|''NY Daily News'']]}}</ref> Hastings' body was burned beyond recognition. The 2015 documentary film ''Imminent Threat'', directed by Janek Ambros, is dedicated to his work. Soon after Hastings' death, questions were raised about the crash that took his life. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism [[Richard A. Clarke]] said that what is known about the crash is "consistent with a [[car cyber attack]]." He was quoted as saying: "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on [Hastings'] car — and I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-car-hacked_n_3492339.html|title=Was Michael Hastings' Car Hacked? Richard Clarke Says It's Possible|last=Hogan|first=Mike|date=June 24, 2013|accessdate=December 15, 2014}}</ref> The day before the crash, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. In an email to colleagues, which was copied to and released by Hastings' friend, Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs,<ref>Fox News, [http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/25/michael-hastings-friend-joe-biggs-he-drove-grandma-crash-doesnt-add Michael Hastings' Friend: 'He Drove Like a Grandma,' Crash Scenario Doesn't Add Up], June 25, 2013.</ref> Hastings said that he was "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar", and that the FBI might interview them.<ref>[http://ktla.com/2013/06/21/exclusive-hastings-sent-colleagues-email-hours-before-crash/#axzz2YFBUMsJ6 Exclusive: Hastings Sent Colleagues Email Hours Before Crash], ''KTLA.com''; accessed April 10, 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/24/journalist-michael-hastings-sends-chilling-e-mail-to-colleagues-before-death|work=Fox News|title=Journalist Michael Hastings sent chilling email to colleagues before death|date=June 24, 2013}}</ref> [[WikiLeaks]] announced that Hastings had also contacted Jennifer Robinson, one of its lawyers, a few hours prior to the crash,<ref>[http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/06/19/wikileaks-hastings-said-he-was-being-investigated-by-fbi WikiLeaks: Hastings Said He Was Being Investigated By FBI], ''losangeles.cbslocal.com''; accessed April 10, 2015.</ref> and the ''[[LA Weekly]]'' reported that he was preparing new reports on the CIA at the time of his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/06/michael_hastings_cia_coverage_crash_fire.php|title=Michael Hastings Probed the CIA Before Fatal Hollywood Crash|date=June 18, 2013|publisher=''LA Weekly''|accessdate=April 10, 2015}}</ref> His widow [[Elise Jordan]] said his final story was a profile of CIA Director [[John O. Brennan]].<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/08/06/exp-pmt-elise-jordan.cnn.html Piers Morgan, "Hastings' widow: 'Taking it day by day'"] ''CNN.com'', August 6, 2013.</ref>

*The FBI released a statement denying that Hastings was being investigated, at least not by their agency.<ref name="latimes"/> This statement was incorrect as FBI had opened a file on Hastings as early as 2012 (see FBI files below). Furthermore, on the day of the crash Hastings visited his neighbor Jordanna Thigpen's apartment after midnight and urgently asked to borrow her Volvo, saying he was afraid to drive his own car. However, Thigpen declined.<ref name="Maddaus-2013">{{Cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/news/michael-hastings-dangerous-mind-journalistic-star-was-loved-feared-and-haunted-2614816|title=Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted|last=Maddaus|first=Gene|date=August 22, 2013|work=L.A. Weekly|access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref> Some media outlets{{Who|date=August 2016}} reported that Hastings claimed to have received death threats. ''[[USA Today]]'' reported that in the days before his death, Hastings believed his car was being "tampered with" and that he was scared and wanted to leave town.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/22/newser-hastings-car/2684631|work=USA Today|first1=John|last1=Johnson|title=Hastings thought his car was being tampered with|date=August 22, 2013}}</ref>

*'''20 June.''' Bonuses paid to two former IRS Commissioners who oversaw the abuse of Tea Partiers, the one who initiated the program and the 'fall guy' who resigned over it, were paid an extra $42,000 and $100,000, respectively.

*Snowden leaks top-secret procedures steps the NSA must take to target and collect data from "non-US persons" and how it must minimize, or mask, data collected on US citizens.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant</ref>

*'''21 June.''' Snowden leaks how Britain's GCHQ taps fiber-optic cables to collect and store global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories, and calls, and then shares the data with the NSA.

*'''27 June.''' CIA responds to Torture Report, attacks Committee; Sen. Mark Udall issues a statement alleging intelligence officials leaked "inaccurate information" critical of the Committee report. Udall states that the CIA and the White House "repeatedly rejected requests to discuss the Committee's report."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140627161317/http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3536</ref>

*'''June.''' FBI secretly opens a case on Sharyl Attkisson’s computer intrusions under the auspices of 'national security.' FBI contacts CBS without Attkisson’s knowledge, but fails to contact or interview Attkisson. FBI later ignores multiple FOIA request and other documents.

*News of the FBI case involving Attkisson’s computer intrusions is circulated internally to the Justice Dept.’s national cyber security group, and grouped with a set of cases opened on 20 November, shortly after the president's re-election in 2012.<ref name="wyden.senate.gov">https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=285dc9e7-195a-4467-b0fe-caa857fc4e0d</ref>
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===July 2013===
[[File:1MDB scandal.jpg|left|360px|thumb|After the 2012 election, Obama's chief fundraiser was involved in the 1MDB scam, channeling money from the 1Malaysian Development Berhad to Democratic candidates through Yarus Private Equities Fund.]]
After the 2012 election, Obama's chief fundraiser continued raising money for Democratic candidates. [[Frank R. White, Jr.]] and [[Pras Michel]] formed a joint venture with 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB), wholly owned by the Malaysian government. The venture supposedly was to invest in green technology and solar panels, but corrupt officials of 1MDB were more interested in buying influence with the [[Obama administration]] and the [[Democratic party]], and White and Pras likewise were not interested in providing a renewable source of electricity or solving the problems of [[poverty]] for Malaysia's 30 million people.

Malaysians have a median household income of $4500, so the theft of $4.5 Billion by [[globalism|globalists]] pushing green technology and Democrats looking for foreign money to finance their campaigns cause they can't sell their ideas at home, had a devastating impact on the Malaysian people, economy, and political culture.

White and Pras got two anonymous investors to lend a half of a Trillion dollars for a a little over a two year period. They formed a joint partnership agreement with 1MDB to build a green technology solar plant. White and Pras owned 49%, 1MDB controlled 51%. White was suppose to provide financial advice. His advice turned out to be for 1MBD to buy out his 49% for $69 million six months after the agreement was signed, without White's entities investing any of the half Trillion he borrowed. Portions of the $69 million were then donated to Democrat Senate, Congressional, and Gubernatorial candidates. The $69 million Democrats stole from the people of Malaysia during the Obama presidency is only a fraction of the corrupt deals 1MDB did all over the planet. Much of the $4.5 Billion embezzled was laundered through U.S. banks, and has become the largest investigation ever under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Act.
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*'''1 July.''' [[Daniel Ellsberg]] calls for Congressional probe of “abuses of American intelligence agencies” and to “restore the protections in the [[Bill of Rights]]."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/01/daniel-ellsberg-issues-call-for-a-new-church-committee-to-probe-nsa.html</ref>

*'''10 July.''' ''Washington Post'' publishes a new slide detailing NSA's "Upstream" program of collecting communications from tech companies through fiber-optic cables to then feed into its Prism database.
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*'''16 July.''' '''1MDB [[dark money]] scam.''' Obama chief election fundraiser [[Frank R. White, Jr.]] launches DuSable Capital Management. According to its initial [[SEC]] filing the firm claims it will focus on global investments with specific interest in [[Malaysia]], [[Russia]], [[Indonesia]], [[Burma]], [[Brazil]], Mexico and [[India]],<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131024135901/http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/Iapd/Content/Common/crd_iapd_Brochure.aspx?BRCHR_VRSN_ID=203650</ref> Shortly after its launch, DuSable raised a $505,000,000 fund called the Yurus Private Equity I, LP.
:*In its 26 month existence it only had one client - 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB) - which lost $3.5 Billion in the interim. 1MDB paid DuSable $69 million to severe a partnership agreement that DuSable made no investment in. Some of the proceeds were donated to Democrat congressional and gubernatorial campaigns.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/11/1mdb-sleaze-spreads-to-us-democrats-on-eve-of-obama-visit-investigation/</ref>
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[[File:Schiff-Ukraine-600x370.png|right|300px|thumb|Invitation to a fundraiser in the home of Ukrainian arms deal Igor Pasternak for Adam Schiff.]]
*'''18 July.''' Platte River Networks hired by Clinton machine to scrub Clinton servers.<ref>https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-b1a4-de92-a17b-bdf42e570000</ref>

*[[Adam Schiff]] fundraiser with Ukrainian arms dealer [[Igor Pasternak]].<ref>http://politicalpartytime.org/party/34974/</ref>

*'''31 July.''' NSA analysts, using the XKeyscore program, can search through enormous databases of emails, online chats, and browsing histories of targets.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation</ref>

*'''July.''' In an undated letter from DNI Clapper posted on Sen. Wyden's website the final week of July, Clapper acknowledged that NSA analysts have exceeded even legal limits as interpreted by the NSA in domestic surveillance. Acknowledging what he called "a number of compliance problems", Clapper attributed them to "human error" or "highly sophisticated technology issues" rather than "bad faith".<ref name="wyden.senate.gov"/> Sen. Wyden responded on the Senate floor: "These violations are more serious than those stated by the intelligence community, and are troubling."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/16/nsa-violated-privacy-rules-audit</ref>

*Manning convicted.

===August 2013===
*'''1 August.''' The US government paid Britain's GCHQ roughly $155 million over three years to gain access and influence over its spying programs.

*'''2 August.''' Seven of the world's leading telecommunications companies provide GCHQ with secret, unlimited access to their network of undersea cables.

*'''5 August.''' ''[[Reuters]]'' runs an article on how the NSA shares information, collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with other agencies to frame criminal cases against American citizens using a process called "parallel construction" to manufacture [[probable cause]], violating a person's due process rights.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 <</ref>

*'''6 August.''' Armed [[Coast Guard]] agents under the [[Department of Homeland Security]] raid the home of reporter Audrey Hudson with a warrant for her husband’s [[firearm]]s. As they searched the house, they read Hudson her [[Miranda rights]] and confiscat documents that contained “confidential notes, draft articles, and other newsgathering materials” belonging to Hudson, including the identities of whistleblowers at the Department of Homeland Security. Hudson sues and later receives a settlement from the government.<ref>http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/02/government-agrees-settlement-raiding-reporters-home-seizing-confidential-files/</ref>

*'''7 August.''' CBS News publicly announces confirmation of Attkisson’s computer intrusions. “Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012…This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion."<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-confirms-sharyl-attkissons-computer-hacked/</ref>

*'''9 August.''' Internal NSA document reveals an agency "loophole" that allows a secret backdoor for the agency to search its databases for US citizens' emails and phone calls without a warrant.

*'''12 August.''' ''The Atlantic'' surprisingly published a piece entitled ''The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency''.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/278565/</ref> Despite being openly critical of Obama, no mainstream news sources accuse ''The Atlantic'' of [[racism]]. The piece is of interest to historians of the era, and has this paragraph for example: {{Quotebox|"In fact, the whole concept of a secret court is misguided, and it is astonishing that Obama, or anyone aside from partisan Republicans, would trust a court composed entirely of one man's appointees. What if I told you, Democrats, that henceforth, abortion jurisprudence, voting-rights jurisprudence, labor law, or really any area of U.S. [[Constitutional law]] would be decided in secret and always by judges who John Roberts chose? How much confidence would you have in the outcome of decisions made in that court? Yet that is how the [[FISA court]] works. And we're supposed to trust that the secret court's decisions are getting everything correct!"}} Within two years, justice, fairness, civil liberties and government excesses were among the least of [[Progressive]] [[liberal]]s concerns.

*'''13 August.''' '''Ghouta chemical attack.''' [[Islamic State|Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]] uses chemical weapons on civilians in a Damascus suburb. Obama blames Assad regime.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/06/nyt-retreats-on-2013-syriasarin-claims/</ref>

*'''23 August.''' 2011 NSA minimization procedures submitted to the FISA Court.<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/nsa-documents-part-vi-2011-minimization-procedures</ref>

*'''29 August.''' NSA found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

===September 2013===
*'''4 September.''' Robert Mueller leaves office as FBI Director after 12-year tenure; [[James Comey]] sworn in.

*'''5 September.''' Joint investigation by ProPublica, ''The New York Times'', and ''The Guardian'' finds the NSA is winning its war against internet encryption with supercomputers, technical know-how, and court orders.

*'''7 September.''' NSA has the ability to access user data for most major smartphones on the market, including Apple iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Google Android phones.

*'''9 September.''' ''Daily Caller'' publishes article detailing how the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a supposed independent [[lobby]]ing group asking Congress for money to support anti-[[Bashar Assad|Assad]] forces was receiving funding from the State Department. Elizabeth O'Bagy is SETF political director.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/who-funds-syrian-rebel-advocate-obagy-and-the-syrian-emergency-task-force-you-do/</ref>
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*'''26 September.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' DuSable submitted filings to the Foreign Agents Registration Unit ([[FARA]]) to represent the Malaysian government and 1MDB JV, a state investment fund created by the Malaysian government. Yurus was incorporated days later.
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*'''27 September.''' [[UN]] declares Assad regime has surrendered all it chemical weapons.

*'''30 September.''' Clinton donors get a pass on shady contracting.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2013/09/30/clinton-donors-get-a-pass-on-shady-contracting/</ref><ref>http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/justice-department-charges-clinton-obama-feinstein-donor-for-8-billion-contract-fraud/</ref><ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/the-common-thread-behind-four-investigations_2728104.html</ref>

===October 2013===
*'''2 October.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' '''Yurus fund incorporated in Delaware by [[Pras Michel]] and Frank White.'''
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*'''7 October.''' Reports indicate, "Top US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria." "Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry. The Strategic Situation, leading up to the Use of Chemical Substances in the Eastern Ghouta Suburb of [[Damascus]] on 21 August 2013."<ref>
https://nsnbc.me/2013/10/07/top-us-and-saudi-officials-responsible-for-chemical-weapons-in-syria/</ref> [[Seymour Hersh]] later reports Hillary Clinton approved sending captured Libyan stocks of [[sarin]] gas to Syrian rebels and jihadis.<ref>http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/28/seymour-hersh-hillary-approved-sending-libya-sarin-syrian-rebels.html</ref>

*'''14 October.''' NSA collected more than 250 million email contact lists from services such as [[Yahoo]] and Gmail.
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*'''17 October.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Yarus announces its first commitment of an injection of $505 million from two investors,<ref>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577589/000150794313000078/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml</ref> one of which is said by the ''Wall Street Journal'' to be the Aabar fund of Abu Dhabi.
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*'''23 October.''' NSA tapped the mobile phone of German Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]].

*'''27 October.''' ''Der Spiegel'' reports Obama personally approved wiretapping German Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]]'s cell phone conversations.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/17/flashback-barack-obama-wiretapped-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-in-2010/</ref>
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*'''28 October.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) engaged DuSable Capital Management to assist with project development of utility-scale grid connected solar power generation capability. 1MDB is a Malaysian strategic development company, wholly owned by the Malaysian Minister of Finance. DuSable is headed by [[Frank White]], who was Obama’s chief fundraiser during the 2012 re-election campaign.<ref name="bloomberg.com">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-10/obama-fundraiser-said-to-seek-1-billion-for-private-fund</ref> DuSable received $506,079 from the “Government of Malaysia” for the purpose of a “joint venture partnership reimbursement for [a] solar investment project in Malaysia”.<ref>Statement to the US Department of Justice Foreign Agent Registration Unit in 2014.</ref>
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*'''October.''' State Dept. sends letters to Clinton and her three predecessors as secretary of state seeking work emails related to personal accounts.

*[[Jeff Bezos]], founder of [[Amazon.com]] purchases the ''[[Washington Post]]'' for less than half of his ongoing contract for cloud service with the CIA.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-closes-sale-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/2013/10/01/fca3b16a-2acf-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html?utm_term=.8fea51fb3097</ref> The Institute for Public Accuracy releases a statement condemning the move.<ref>https://medium.com/@SarahRRunge/amazon-the-washington-post-and-the-cia-d68a4ee802e#.406uub5gw</ref> ''Washington Post'' begins promoting [[Hillary Clinton]] as their preferred candidate for President in 2016.<ref>http://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/leaked-dnc-emails-prove-washington-post-both-fundraiser-and-attack-dog-clinton-and-national</ref>

===November 2013===
*'''1 November.''' Snowden leaks reveal Britain's GCHQ and other European spy agencies work together to conduct mass surveillance. The files also make clear that GCHQ played a leading role in advising its European counterparts how to work around national laws intended to restrict the surveillance power of intelligence agencies. ''The Guardian'' article reports,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/gchq-europe-spy-agencies-mass-surveillance-snowden</ref>
{{Quotebox|It is clear from the Snowden documents that GCHQ has become Europe's intelligence hub in the internet age, and not just because of its success in creating a legally permissive environment for its operations. Britain's location as the European gateway for many transatlantic cables, and its privileged relationship with the NSA has made GCHQ an essential partner for European agencies. The documents show British officials frequently lobbying the NSA on sharing of data with the Europeans and haggling over its security classification so it can be more widely disseminated. In the intelligence world, far more than it managed in diplomacy, Britain has made itself an indispensable bridge between America and Europe's spies.}}

*'''20 November.''' UK government struck a secret deal with the NSA to share phone, internet, and email records of UK citizens.

*[[ABC News]] reports on terror suspects arrested in Bowling Green, KY.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131</ref>

*'''22 November.''' NSA strategy document reveals the agency's goal to acquire data from "anyone, anytime, anywhere" and expand its already broad legal powers.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/nsa-report-outlined-goals-for-more-power.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1402013607-O4V0y2ArhGWsYy8IcbXOpQ</ref>

==2014==
Russia annexes [[Crimea]]. Ukraine steps up hiring of U.S. lobbyists to make its case against Russia and obtain U.S. aid. Russia also continues its practice of using U.S. lobbyists.

Ukraine forms National Anti-Corruption Bureau as a condition to receive U.S. aid. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau later signs evidence-sharing agreement with FBI related to Trump-Russia probe.

Ukrainian-American [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a paid consultant for the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC), begins researching lobbyist [[Paul Manafort]]’s Russia ties.

FBI investigates, and then wiretaps, Paul Manafort for allegedly not properly disclosing Russia-related work. FBI fails to make a case, according to CNN, and discontinues [[wiretap]].
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===January 2014===
*'''3 January.''' Obama’s national security staff met with Julian Kulas, Andrew Fedynsky, Ulana Mazurkevich and [[Alexandra Chalupa]], where they discussed relations between the United States and Ukraine. Other attendees at the time included Allison Jarus and [[James Zogby]].<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-u-s-ukraine-relations-more-important-than-ever/</ref><ref>http://festivaldc.com/blog/?p=26789</ref>
*'''6 January.''' Sen. Mark Udall writes to President Obama asking the President to compel the CIA to comply with Congressional Oversight requests, and "a public statement from the White House committing to the fullest possible declassification of the Committee's study."<ref>https://www.scribd.com/doc/196596920</ref> CIA refuses to comply.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/dianne-feinstein-cia-senate-statement-full-text</ref>

*[[Bernie Sanders]] pleads for leniency for Edward Snowden.<ref name="theguardian.com"/>

*'''17 January.''' At some point during the dispute between Brennan and the Oversight Committee, the CIA Inspector General filed a "crimes report" with the [[US Justice Department]] about the CIA spying on the Senate; in retaliation, the CIA's general counsel filed a "crimes report" alleging Senate staffers pilfered copies of the ''Panetta review''.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-senate-cia-idUSBREA2H25W20140318</ref>

*Obama makes a speech at US Justice Dept. about his new directive allowing internet and telephone service providers to disclose to the public FISA court rulings and NSA requests for surveillance in aggregate volume. (Note: in National Security parlance an NSA request = FISA court order).<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/what-obama-didnt-say-his-speech-nsa-spying/</ref>

*'''20 January.''' First Twitter storm pushing for assault on President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and support for the Euro-Maidan protests in [[Kyiv]].

*'''23 January.''' Sen. Bernie Sanders asks the NSA if it spies on members of Congress.<ref>https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/letter-to-nsa?id=EEE1F3B1-9DD4-4CDB-96FC-D2A145709A9C&download=1&inline=file</ref> The NSA replies that Congress is afforded “the same privacy protections as all US persons.”<ref>http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/04/nsa-wont-say-whether-it-spies-on-congress/</ref>

*'''24 January.''' Andrea Chalupa and a friend launched Digital Maidan from New York where the two agitated with Twitter messages which could then be used by any Twitter user to form an army of Maidan activists.<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/31/from-brooklyn-to-kiev-how-digitalmaidan-went-viral/</ref><ref>http://nepmcc.com/node/19089</ref>

*'''27 January.''' Second Twitter storm pushing for assault on President Viktor Yanukovych and support for the Euro-Maidan protests in Kyiv.<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>

*GCHQ program called Squeaky Dolphin monitors [[YouTube]], Facebook, and [[Blogger]] for "broad real-time monitoring of online activity."

*'''28 January.''' Victoria Nuland and US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discuss details of planned overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Nuland makes disparaging remarks about the [[EU]], and thinks the [[UN]] will give better cover to make the new US-installed regime appear legitimate.

*'''30 January.''' Third Twitter storm pushing for assault on President Viktor Yanukovych and support for the Euro-Maidan protests in Kyiv. These efforts were bolstered with assistance from Alexandra Chalupa, Lara Chelak, Constantin Kostenko, Terrell J. Starr and others.<ref>https://personaldemocracy.com/terrell-j-starr</ref> This led to 11.6 million Twitter messages being generated within its first week.
:*Around this time [[Alexandra Chalupa]] started to investigate [[Paul Manafort]]’s connections to President Yanukovych’s Administration.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446</ref>

===February 2014===
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|[[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left) Victorias Nuland (center) Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]
:{{See also|Svoboda party}}
*'''4 February.''' CIA Dir. John Brennan tells House Intelligence Cmte. that operators in the Benghazi attack rescue efforts were required to re-sign non-disclosure agreements.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/04/cia-director-benghazi-rescuers-required-to-sign-non-disclosure-agreements.html?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn</ref>

*'''6 February.''' Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland meets with Oleh Tyahnybok and other ringleaders who assume power after the revolution.<ref>http://in.reuters.com/article/ukraine-call-idINDEEA1704520140208</ref> Tyahnybok leads the [[Svoboda]] party.

:*Tyahnybok in 2004 was kicked out of the ruling parliamentary faction after giving a speech calling for a fight against the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia."

:*Tyahnbok in 2005 signed an open letter to Ukrainian leaders calling for the government to halt the "criminal activities" of "organised Jewry", which was spreading its influence through organisations such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]] which ultimately wanted to commit "[[genocide]]" against the Ukrainian people.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20824693</ref>

:*DCLeaks published Soros emails arranging a meeting between [[George Soros]] and Tyahnbok. Soros, an 84 year old veteran of the Nazi-era ''[https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005265 Judenrät]'' in Budapest who survived [[World War II]] and parlayed his pilfering [[Holocaust]] victims' property into a $25 billion personal fortune, himself is [[Jewish]], a proud [[atheist]], and vehement anti-[[Zionist]].

:*Various Soros' international [[progressive]] and [[liberal]] front organizations (NGOs) organized and funded the Ukrainian revolution.<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article181535.html#nb2</ref>

*'''Obama foreign policy shifts at this point forward from the "Russian Reset" of 2008 and the greater "flexibility" Obama promised President Medvedev in 2012, to rabid [[Russophobia]]''', one factor being Vladimir Putin's lack of support for the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[gay marriage]]. The anti-Russian grip of Soros on American foreign policy reaches a fever pitch in in coming years in efforts to destroy President Donald Trump who sought to mend relations with Russia after the Ukrainian crisis.

*'''7 February.''' UK's GCHQ used "[[dirty tricks]]" such as computer viruses and sexual "honey traps" to target adversaries.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/snowden-docs-british-spies-used-sex-dirty-tricks-n23091</ref>

*'''18-20 February.''' [[Ukrainian crisis|Euromaidan]] begins in which almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref><ref>What the Democrats tried to do today [20 March 2017 Congressional hearing] was criminalize everyone who works for better relations between the US and Russia. To be for peace between the nuclear powers is to be a Russian agent and to be put on a list. The Democrats insisted that Russia was an enemy out to get us, and the Democrats had no difficulty getting Comey and Rogers, both Obama appointees, to agree.

Comey and Rogers said that Russia was the main threat to the US, was working against our interests, and intends to harm us. Harming us includes opposing US hegemony and unilateralism. In other words, if the Russian government acts in the interests of Russia, the Russian government is harming the US. From the testimony it clearly emerged that any kind of opposition to anything Washington does is against American interests.

Both Comey and Rogers declared, falsely, that Russia had invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea by force. If Comey and Rogers are so poorly informed that they believe this, they are unfit for office. Crimea has been a part of Russia for 300 years.{{fact}} The population is almost entirely Russian. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Washington broke it apart, the Ukraine became independent for the first time in history. Crimea, which had been transferred by Khrushchev in 1954 from the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, was included in the transfer on the condition that Russia had a long term lease on the naval base in Crimea.

When Washington’s regime change overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine, the Russian populations in Crimea, and in the new republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, were attacked and threatened by the neo-nazi elements in eastern Ukraine that had fought for Hitler against the Soviet Union.{{fact}} The populations of these areas voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia, from whence they had come. The votes were fair and open. As Crimea is the Russian Navy’s Black Sea base, Crimea was already occupied by Russian forces. For Comey and Rogers to call this an “invasion” displays either ignorance or a lack of integrity. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/20/conspiracy-president-trump/ </ref> As in Syria and other "Arab Spring" uprisings, ''agent provacateurs'' begin shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection.

:*In February 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]]. Because some of the people currently living in Crimea are ethinic Russians, there is a dispute whether Crimea belongs to [[Ukraine]] or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its indepence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. The United States and the [[European Union]] called the referendum "illegal".<ref>https://www.voanews.com/content/eu-crimea-referendum-illegal/1865590.html</ref> Because the referendum gave voters only two choices: join Russia now or later, experts already declared that most Crimeans will vote for the connection to Russia.<ref>http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/international/europe/2014/03/experts_russia_will_take_crimea</ref> As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> Only [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognize Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref> On March 27, the U.N. General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution (100 in favor, 11 against and 58 abstentions) declaring Crimea's referendum invalid.<ref name="CHARBONNEAU AND DONATH">{{cite news|lcoauthors=Charbonneau M and Donath L|title=U.N. General Assembly declares Crimea secession vote invalid|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/us-ukraine-crisis-un-idUSBREA2Q1GA20140327|newspaper=Reuters|date=Mar 27, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Felton and Gumuchian">{{cite news|coauthors=Marie-Louise Felton and Alex Gumuchian|title=U.N. General Assembly resolution calls Crimean referendum invalid|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/|newspaper=CNN|date=March 27, 2014}}</ref><ref name="un.org">{{cite news|title=Backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity, UN Assembly declares Crimea referendum invalid|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47443&Cr=ukraine&Cr1=|newspaper=UN News Center|date=27 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="foxnews.com">{{cite news|title=UN General Assembly approves referendum calling Russia annexation of Crimea illegal|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/27/un-general-assembly-votes-yes-on-ukraine-unity/|newspaper=Associated Press|date=March 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ukraine: UN condemns Crimea vote as IMF and US back loans|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26776416|newspaper=27 March 2014|date=BBC}}</ref> In response, the United States and Europe have imposed sanctions against Russian trade. In February 2017 [[President Trump]] accused Russia of taking Crimea by force and asked whether Obama was too soft on Russia.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-latest-tweet-accuse-crimea-obama-too-soft-distance-campaign-team-white-house-a7581511.html Donald Trump accuses Russia of taking Crimea by force in attempt to distance himself from campaign allegations]</ref>

*NSA and UK's GCHQ reportedly monitored traffic to the WikiLeaks website and considered a move to monitor communications going to or from WikiLeaks and the Pirate Bay.

*'''22 February.''' Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from power in a U.S. backed [[coup]].

*'''24 February.''' UK's GCHQ conducts covert operations to disrupt and shape online discourse.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/</ref>

*'''28 February.''' [[Stefan Halper]] attempts to smear [[Gen. Michael Flynn]] and [[Svetlana Lokhova]] as Russian spies having an affair.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/31/lawsuit-exposes-media-deep-state-hatched-russiagate-hoax/</ref>

*UK's GCHQ, using a program called Optic Nerve, intercepted and stored webcam images from millions of Yahoo users, then passed them on to the NSA's XKeyscore database.

===March 2014===
*'''4 March''' ''McClatchy'' reports on CIA spying on Congressional oversighters.<ref>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article24764752.html</ref> Sen. Mark Udall again writes the President: "As you are aware, the CIA has recently taken unprecedented action against the committee in relation to the internal CIA review and I find these actions to be incredibly troubling for the committee's oversight responsibilities and for our democracy," he writes. "It is essential that the committee be able to do its oversight work – consistent with our constitutional principle of the [[separation of powers]] – without the CIA posing impediments or obstacles as it is today."<ref>https://www.scribd.com/doc/210597656/Udall-Challenges-White-House-to-Support-Fullest-Possible-Declassification-of-Intelligence-Committee-s-Torture-Study</ref>
[[File:Obama and the media.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Ben Rhodes]] is the Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, and Deputy National Security Advisor to [[Susan Rice]]. Rhodes is also the brother of David Rhodes, President of CBS News.]]
*'''10 March.''' Award-winning News Anchor Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS alleging the network was spiking news stories that were unflattering to Barack Obama.<ref name=Macneal-resignation>{{cite news|last=Macneal|first=Caitlin|title=CBS Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Resigns From Network|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sharyl-attkisson-cbs-resigns|accessdate=|newspaper=Talking Points Memo|date=March 10, 2014}}</ref> In her Best Seller, ''Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington'',<ref name="NYT Best Stonewalled">{{cite news|title=Best Sellers: Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-11-23/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html|accessdate=|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=November 23, 2014}}</ref> Attkisson tells how her work and personal computers had been hacked for more than two years after she began filing stories about the Benghazi massacre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/sharyl-attkisson-computers-compromised-cbs_n_3313199.html|title=CBS' Sharyl Attkisson: My Computers Were Compromised, 'Could Be Some Relationship' To DOJ Scandals|last=Mirkinson|first=Jack|date=May 21, 2013|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|accessdate=November 1, 2014}}</ref> CBS News investigated and found evidence of multiple unauthorized accesses by a third party in late 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/sharyl-attkisson_n_3442019.html|title=CBS News Confirms Sharyl Attkisson's Computer Breached|date=June 14, 2013|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|accessdate=}}</ref> The hackers were identified by independent experts as a US Government intelligence agency.<ref>{{Citation|last=Smith|first=Kyle|author-link=|last2=Golding|first2=Bruce|title=Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer|newspaper=[[New York Post]]|date=October 27, 2014|url=http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/ex-cbs-reporter-government-related-entity-bugged-my-computer|accessdate=}}</ref> In March 2015, Attkisson and her family initiated suit against Eric Holder, Patrick R. Donahoe and unnamed agents of the [[US Department of Justice]], the US Postal Service and the United States claiming to have been subjected to illegal surveillance activities.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/05/attkisson-sues-government-over-computer-intrusions Attkisson sues government over computer intrusions], ''Washington Post''; Retrieved March 6, 2015.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/01/05/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/attkisson-lawsuit.pdf Editorial Opinion re Attkisson], ''Washington Post''; Retrieved March 6, 2015.</ref>

*'''11 March.''' Senate [[Democrat]] Intelligence Committee Chair [[Diane Feinstein]] takes to the Senate floor to accuse the Obama CIA of violating "the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the C.I.A. from conducting domestic searches or surveillance," and "breaching a constitutional boundary" of intimidation and spying on the US Senate.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief-history-of-the-cias-unpunished-spying-on-the-senate/384003/</ref>

*'''13 March.''' Document reveals that, while many foreign governments share information with NSA, few senior officials outside of the intelligence or defense sphere have any knowledge of it.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2014/03/13/nsa-elected-officials-foreign-countries-unaware-countries-cooperation-us/</ref>
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*'''17 March.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' ''StarOnline'': Solar plant deal expected to be signed during Obama’s visit next month.<ref>https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2014/03/17/solar-plant-agreement-expected-to-be-signed-during-obamas-visit-next-month/</ref>
*'''18 March.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' 1MDB awarded solar project from Malaysian Government.
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*'''20 March.''' Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] backs investigation into Obama CIA hacking of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee's computers,<ref name="theguardian.com/world">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers</ref> and notifies Brennan and Attn. Gen. [[Eric Holder]] that the Capital Police will investigate charges that the CIA accessed the Intelligence Oversight Committee’s computer network.

*'''26 March''' Ali Fayad (aka Fayyad) indicted in U.S. courts on charges of planning the murders of U.S. government employees, attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to acquire, transfer and use anti-aircraft missiles. Fayad was arrested in [[Prague]] in the spring of 2014. But for the nearly two years Fayad was in custody, top Obama administration officials declined to apply serious pressure on the Czech government to extradite him to the United States, thwarting Project Cassandra. Fayad is a Lebanese arms merchant suspected of being a top Hezbollah operative moving large amounts of weapons to Syria and Iraq. Fayad was ultimately extradited to [[Beirut]] and is now believed by U.S. officials to be back in business, and helping to arm militants in Syria and elsewhere with Russian heavy weapons.

===April 2014===
A confidential DEA assessment more than a year into Obama's second term concluded that Hezbollah’s business affairs entity “has leveraged relationships with corrupt foreign government officials and transnational criminal actors … creating a network that can be utilized to move metric ton quantities of cocaine, launder drug proceeds on a global scale, and procure weapons and precursors for explosives.” Hezbollah “has at its disposal one of the most capable networks of actors coalescing elements of transnational organized crime with terrorism in the world,” the assessment concluded.

Some top U.S. military officials shared those concerns, including the four-star generals heading U.S. Special Operations and Southern commands, who warned Congress that Hezbollah’s criminal operations and growing beachhead in Latin America posed an urgent threat to U.S. security, according to transcripts of the hearings.

In early 2014, Project Cassandra task force agent John “Jack” Kelly who oversaw Hezbollah cases at Special Operations Division, and other task force members briefed Attorney General [[Eric Holder]], who was so alarmed by the findings that he insisted President Obama and his entire [[national security]] team get the same briefing as they formulated the administration’s Iran strategy.

*'''April.''' Ali Fayad arrested in Prague on a U.S. warrant. Fayad had agreed to sell 20 Russian-made shoulder-fired Igla [[surface-to-air missile]]s ([[MANPADS]]), 400 rocket-propelled grenades and various firearms and rocket launchers for $8.3 million to Project Cassandra task force agents posing as [[Colombia]]n [[FARC]] narcoterrorists.

*'''4 April.''' NSA and UK's GCHQ discuss various methods of deception, use of propaganda, mass messaging, and pushing stories on social media sites.
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*'''11 April.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Master joint venture agreement (JVA) formed between Yurus and 1MDB.<ref>1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), (via its wholly owned subsidiary, 1MDB Synergy Sdn. Bhd.), (“1MDB Synergy”) and Yurus Private Equity Fund I, L.P. (“Yurus PE Fund”) entered into a Master Joint Venture Agreement (“Master JVA”), to jointly develop up to 500MW of solar power plants in [[Malaysia]]. DuSable Capital Management was appointed as the investment adviser to the Yurus PE Fund. The Master JVA shareholding was 49% Yurus PE Fund and 51% 1MDB Synergy. https://web.archive.org/web/20161021233802/http://www.1mdb.com.my/sites/default/files/news/pdf/2015%2011%2011%20--%20Joint%20media%20statement%20by%201MDB%20and%20DuSable.pdf</ref> DuSable is headed by [[Frank White]], who was Obama’s chief fundraiser during the 2012 re-election campaign.<ref name="bloomberg.com"/>
:*1MBD and the Government of Malaysia is DuSable's only client.
:*Yurus Fund is managed by Frank White, Jr.

*'''12 April.''' 1MDB, (via its wholly-owned subsidiary) 1MDB Solar Sdn. Bhd (“1MDB Solar”) entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) with Tenaga Nasional Berhad for the construction of a 50MW solar power plant in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. It is important to highlight that Yurus PE Fund and DuSable Capital Management were not and never were, signatories to this PPA, nor did either party, at any time, have ownership of 1MDB Solar.

:*1MDB and DuSable Capital Management subsequently engaged in discussions for a partnership to develop, finance and construct the proposed 50MW solar power plant in Kedah. However, no project level joint venture agreement was reached between the parties for this solar power project or any other individual solar power project.
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*USS Donald Cook equipped with the Aegis Combat System electronically disabled while sailing in the [[Black Sea]] off Russian territorial waters.<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html</ref>

*'''14 April.''' 276 African Christian schoolgirls are kidnapped by [[Boko Haram]]. The girls are to be auction off by Muslim extremists as sex slaves. The administration was asked repeatedly in 2011 to designate the group as a terrorist organization so that counterterrorism agencies would have legal authority to counter it.<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-dropped-ball-boko-haram-020300046--politics.html?ref=gs Hillary Dropped the Ball on Boko Haram], Josh Rogin, [The Daily Beast], May 7, 2014. www.yahoo.com</ref>
:*Rather than Special Operations Forces, the White House response was to send Michelle Obama out to encourage people to tweet about the horrific crime on [[social media]] at #BringBackOurGirls.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/opinions/sesay-bring-back-our-girls-one-year-on/</ref>
:*In May 2012, Justice Dept. official Lisa Monaco wrote to Sec. Clinton asking to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. The following month, Gen. Carter Ham, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, said that Boko Haram provided a ‘safe haven’ for al Qaeda in North Africa, and was likely sharing explosives and funds with the group.<ref>Morrissey, Ed (May 8, 2014). [https://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/08/did-hillary-refuse-to-designate-boko-haram-as-a-terrorist-organization/ Did Hillary refuse to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization?] Hot Air website.</ref> The group had already bombed the [[United Nations]] headquarters in Abuja. Clinton refused, despite requests coming from the U.S. Justice Dept, the FBI, the CIA, and numerous Senators and Congressmen. Obama and Clinton had already armed al Qaeda in North Africa, the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]], and Ansar al Shariah to destabilize the Gadaffi and Assad regimes.

*'''16 April.''' ''[[Forbes]]'' reports CIA Dir. John Brennen's visit to Ukraine.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref>
:*Devon Archer holds late night meeting at the [[White House]].<ref>https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094578904001/#sp=show-clips</ref>
*'''18 April.''' *Hunter Biden was appointed to the Board of Directors for Burisma–one of the largest natural gas companies in Ukraine. Hunter Biden has no experience in the oil and gas business.<ref>https://burisma-group.com/eng/director/hunter-biden/</ref><ref>http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254</ref><ref>https://burisma-group.com/eng/?s=Hunter+Biden</ref>

*'''22 April.''' *Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine, offering his political support and $50 million in aid for [[Yatsenyuk]]'s shaky new government. Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire politician, was elected as president of Ukraine on May 25, 2014.

*'''30 April.''' James Clapper fires [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] Chief Mike Flynn for warning of radical [[Islamic]] [[jihad]]ists.<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say/2014/04/30/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?utm_term=.45a637102303</ref><ref>https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/michael-flynn-isis-memoir/2016/07/10/id/737937/</ref>

*Snowden reveals GCHQ asked NSA for "unsupervised access" to NSA's databases.
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*'''1MDB scandal.''' DuSable registers continuing foreign agent role for Government of Malaysia.
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===May 2014===
Project Cassandra task force leaders were invited to attend a May 2014 summit meeting of Obama [[national security]] officials at Special Operations Command headquarters in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]]. Task force leaders hoped to convince the administration of the threat posed by Hezbollah’s networks, and of the need for other agencies to work with DEA in targeting the growing nexus of drugs, crime and terror.

The summit, and several weeks of interagency prep that preceded it, however, prompted pushback from some top national security officials. Lisa Monaco who replaced [[John Brennan]] as the [[White House]] [[counterterrorism]] and homeland security adviser expressed concern about using RICO laws against top [[Hezbollah]] leaders. Senior Obama administration officials were alarmed by how far [[Project Cassandra]]’s investigations reached into the leadership of Hezbollah and [[Iran]], and wary of the possible political repercussions. Project Cassandra became increasingly viewed as a threat to the Obams administration’s efforts to secure the [[Iran nuclear deal]], and the top-secret prisoner swap that was being negotiated.

The Obama administration made it clear to Project Cassandra leaders that it would not support a RICO case, even though tasdk force investigators spent years gathering evidence for it. Briefings for top White House and [[Justice Department]] officials that had been requested by [[Eric Holder]] never materialized. A top intelligence official blocked the inclusion of Project Cassandra’s memo on the Hezbollah drug threat from being included in Obama’s daily threat briefing. Project Cassandra agents stopped getting invitations to interagency meetings, including those of a top Obama transnational crime working group. Obama officials dropped Hezbollah from the formal list of groups targeted by a special White House initiative into transnational organized crime, which in turn effectively eliminated DEA’s broad legal authority to investigate it overseas. “Tampa was supposed to settle how everyone would have a seat at the table and what the national strategy is going to be, and how clearly law enforcement has role. And the opposite happened. We walked away with nothing," said Jack Riley, DEA’s chief of operations.<ref>https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/</ref>

*'''2 May.''' '''[[Odessa]] Trade Unions House massacre'''. At least 42 Ukrainians are murdered by Ukrainian nationalists, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from Windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/videos-photos-odessan-massacre-done.html</ref> Shortly before, pro-Russian extremists killed two pro-Ukrainian activists.<ref>http://2maygroup.blogspot.de/2016/01/chronology-of-events-may-2-2014-in.html</ref>

*The Benghazi Mission was initially, and mistakenly by media, called “a consulate," or a “consulate outpost.” But there are no State Dept. records of any consulate office in Benghazi.<ref>https://www.juancole.com/2014/05/questions-benghazi-consulate.html</ref> This is why no Pentagon rescue operation was mounted, the Defense Dept. had no knowledge of US assets in Benghazi. The Benghazi weapons smuggling operation to ISIS was a CIA/State Dept. operation authorized by an Obama presidential covert action finding.

*'''13 May.''' During a State Department press conference, Matt Lee of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' grilled spokesperson Jen Psaki about Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Lee asked Psaki,
{{quotebox|Lee: “Does this building diplomatically have any concerns about potential perceptions of conflict or [[cronyism]] – which is what you’ve often accused the Russians of doing?” Paski: “No, he’s a private citizen."<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4819961/hunter-biden-ukraine-joe-biden-conflict-interest-13-2014</ref>}}

*'''21 May.''' Lucy Komisar exposes [[Bill Browder]], the driving force behind the [[Russia sanctions bill]] sponsored by [[John McCain]], as an offshore tax evader.<ref>https://100r.org/2014/05/russian-sanctions-highlight-role-of-western-enablers/</ref>

===June 2014===
*'''2 June.''' White House Counsel [[Kathryn Ruemmler]] leaves White House Counsel office.
*'''3 June.''' ''Foreign Affairs'' published the article ''The Estonian Spymasters''.<ref>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/central-europe/2014-06-03/estonian-spymasters</ref>
*'''9 June.''' [[Islamic State]] captures Mosul;<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states Iraq army capitulates to Isis militants in four cities | World news | The Guardian]</ref> Obama calls ISIS "the Junior Varsity team."<ref>https://youtu.be/-wCqcWDZOjE</ref>
*'''13 June.''' IRS notified House Republican investigators that it had lost emails from January 2009 to April 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=I.R.S. Commissioner to Testify on Ex-Official's Lost Emails|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/us/house-panels-looking-into-irss-claims-of-lost-emails.html|publisher=The New York Times|date=June 16, 2014|accessdate=|first=David S.|last=Joachim}}</ref> The emails were under subpoena.<ref>{{cite news|title=IRS says it's unable to recover subpoenaed Lerner e-mails in computer crash|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/14/irs-loses-subpoenaed-lerner-e-mails-in-computer-crash/|publisher=CNN|date=June 14, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> [[NSA]] megadata collection makes the loss of data impossible.
*'''19 June.''' IRS said that a damaged hard drive containing the missing emails had been disposed of more than two years prior.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Francesca |last1=Chambers |first2=David |last2=Martosko |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2662577/The-IRS-THREW-AWAY-Lois-Lerners-hard-drive-containing-incriminating-emails.html |title=The IRS THREW AWAY and recycled Lois Lerner's hard drive containing incriminating Tea Party targeting emails |newspaper=Daily Mail |date=June 19, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619162131/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2662577/The-IRS-THREW-AWAY-Lois-Lerners-hard-drive-containing-incriminating-emails.html |archivedate=|deadurl=yes |location=London}}</ref> Legal commentators raised questions how the IRS handled these federal records.<ref>{{cite web|title=The IRS's stunning and shameful record-keeping hypocrisy|url=http://theweek.com/article/index/263304/the-irss-stunning-and-shameful-record-keeping-hypocrisy|publisher=The Week|date=June 18, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name=FT>{{cite web|title=Did IRS Violate the Law on Lerner's Email?|url=http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/06/16/Did-IRS-Violate-Law-Lerner-s-Email|publisher=The Fiscal Times|date=June 16, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Issa, Camp seek IRS hard drives|url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/209883-issa-camp-seek-irs-hard-drives|publisher=The Hill|date=June 19, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> A National Archives and Records Administration spokesperson said: "The Office of the Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government has contacted the IRS to explore specifics of the situation.<ref name=FT/>
*'''27 June.''' A group of Turkish American donors give more than $62,000 to Ready for Hillary PAC. Among the donors are Adil Oksuz, Gokhan Ozkok, and Fethullah Gülen. Gokhan Ozkok is also a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141117214753/http://www.turkishculturalcenter.org/clinton-foundation-for-bringing-us-all-together-to-help-hurricane-sandy-victims/</ref> Many of the donations appear highly questionable.<ref>
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/23/turkey-coup-plotter-clinton-donor/88991622/</ref>

* Intelligence Community Directive ICD 732 issued requiring a damage assessment be conducted whenever there is 'an actual or suspected unauthorized disclosure or compromise of classified national intelligence that may cause damage to U.S. national security.'" Despite Dir. Comey's finding Hillary Clinton's server did indeed contain classified information, no such damage assessment was ever made following Wikileaks disclosure of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails.

===July 2014===
*'''Sometime in the later half of 2014.''' [[Christopher Steele]] of Orbis International begins providing informal reports to the State Department on the Ukrainse. “During the [[Ukraine crisis]] in 2014 and ‘15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them,” said [[Victoria Nuland]], assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victoria-nuland-says-obama-state-dept-informed-fbi-of-reporting-from-steele-dossier/</ref>
[[File:Katica-1-1-2 (1).png|right|350px|thumb|Reddit posting asking other tech professionals how to “strip out” and batch convert the emails of a “VERY VIP” client, for the sole purpose of concealing that “VERY VIP” client’s email address. According to the post, “they don’t want the VIP’s email address exposed to anyone.”]]
*'''July''' Clinton aide Cheryl Mills arranged for [name withheld by FBI] to export all .gov emails from the Platte River Networks (PRN) server, which he then exported to Mills’ and Clinton lawyer Heather Samuelson’s laptops via ScreenConnect.

*'''9 July.''' House Republicans released an April 13, 2013 email from the Commissioner in which she cautioned colleagues to "be cautious about what we say in emails," citing congressional inquiries. Congressional investigators said this email suggested that the Commissioner tried to hide evidence.<ref name="politico0714">{{cite news|title=Lois Lerner cautioned against email chatter amid lawmaker probes|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/lois-lerner-irs-lawyer-email-108722.html|last=Bade|first=Rachael|date=July 9, 2014|accessdate=|publisher=[[Politico]]}}</ref>

*'''23 July.''' House Select Committee reaches an agreement with the State Department for production of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

*'''24 July.''' User Stonetear ([[Paul Combetta]]<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/reddit-stone-tear1.png</ref>) of Platte River Networks posts smoking gun of intent to obstruct the production of evidence to Congress, either through deception or deletion, after Congress requested the evidence. Combetta later told the FBI that he knew about Congress’ preservation request when he used the BleachBit program to purge Clinton’s emails.<ref>http://www.thompsontimeline.com/tag/paul-combetta/</ref>
[[File:Accusa-doj.png|left|350px|thumb|[[Project Cassandra]] task force agent Jack Kelly warns of the danger Obama DOJ inaction on Hezbollah narco-terrorism. Obama allowed Hezbollah to flourish as a global narco-terrorist crime syndicate in exchange for the Iran nuclear deal.]]
*'''31 July.''' CIA admits to hacking into Oversighter's computers and spying on the Senate.<ref>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article24771274.html</ref> Brennan lied to Congress.<ref>https://archive.is/H31EB</ref> Democratic Sen. [[Mark Udall]] calls for Director Brennan's resignation.<ref name="theguardian.com/world"/>

===August 2014===
*'''5 August.''' Public release of the Senate Torture Report is put on hold when the Senate objects to CIA trying to redact evidence that the agency misled congressional investigators, a key finding of the report. The report is already nearly one full year overdue.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-cia-clash-over-redactions-in-interrogation-report/2014/08/05/2f904f04-1ce0-11e4-ab7b-696c295ddfd1_story.html?utm_term=.cac6fd6648f9</ref>

*'''17 August.''' Hillary email to Presidentisl Counselor John Podesta acknowledges the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774</ref>

*'''29 August.''' Project on Government Oversight sends letter to President Obama and members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to voice concerns over Executive Order 12333, the primary authority under which the NSA gathers foreign intelligence. Unlike a FISA warrant, the EO provides the government with the latitude to conduct sweeping surveillance on US and non-US persons without judicial review as long as the monitoring is necessary to protect US interests from "foreign security threats," an umbrella term that likely permits the surveillance of any foreign person.<ref>http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2014/pogo-joins-group-letter-EO-12333.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/?referrer=http://circa.com/politics/government/if-proven-true-nunes-surveillance-revelations-raise-concerns-about-civil-liberties</ref>

*'''August.''' Vadim Mikerin, the Russian head of Tenam (Rosatom's American subsidiary) under investigation by the FBI for extortion and money laundering, visa renewed.

===September 2014===
*'''4 September.''' ''The Intercept'' reports [[Ken Dilanian]] cleared his stories with CIA before publishing.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/</ref>
*'''5 September.''' IRS says it lost additional emails of five workers under congressional investigation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ohlemacher |first=Stephen |date=September 5, 2014 |title=IRS Says it has Lost Emails From 5 More Employees |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRS_LOST_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-09-05-15-47-22 |newspaper=Associated Press |location=Washington |accessdate=}}</ref> These five workers include two people based in Cincinnati who worked on Tea Party cases.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bade |first=Rachael |date=September 5, 2014 |title=More IRS employees lost emails |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/irs-emails-lost-110648.html |newspaper=Politico |accessdate=}}</ref>

*Henry Kerner, listed as lead investigator in "IRS and TIGTA Management Failures Related to 501(c)(4) Applicants Engaged In Campaign Activity," a report on the investigation into the IRS weaponization against the Tea Party.<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1010250521947623426</ref> As a McCain staffer, Kerner earlier recommended using the IRS to destroy Tea Party groups.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/22/report-mccain-staffer-urged-irs-to-conduct-financially-ruinous-investigations-of-non-profits/</ref>

*Turkish Premier [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] asks Barack Obama for extradition of Clinton donor Fethullah Gülen.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-usa-gulen/turkeys-erdogan-to-seek-gulen-extradition-in-obama-talks-media-idUSKBN0H00MC20140905</ref><ref>
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/03/erdogan-versus-gulen-extradition-request-obama.html</ref> Gülen fled to the United States in 1999, as Turkish authorities were preparing to arrest him, for “trying to undermine the [[secular]] system.” He now lives in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in the Poconos, and has emerged as the leader of one of the world’s most important Islamic orders, surpassed only by the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] in its reach and influence. According to the ''New Yorker'' the Gulen movement is focused on infiltrating and controlling police forces. Gulen is "reviled and feared by much of Turkey’s population."<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/12/the-deep-state</ref>

*'''6 September.''' Trump tweets, "Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth"

*'''23 September.''' Federal judge rules Justice Dept. must comply with FOIA request by Judicial Watch for documents withheld from Congress on Fast and Furious under Obama's claim of executive privilege. [[Operation Fast and Furious]] was a Justice Department/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-running” operation in which the Obama administration allowed guns to go to Mexican drug cartels in hopes that they would end up at crime scenes, thereby advancing Obama's gun-control agenda.<ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/pre5ss-releases/federal-court-denies-doj-motion-delay-orders-release-fast-furious-documents-list-judicial-watch-october-22/</ref> The number of deaths due to violence associated with Mexican drug trafficking cartels grew exponentially during the years Obama's Fast and Furious program was operational.

:{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Mexican drug related gun murders skyrocket during Obama's Fast and Furious campaign<ref>http://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Timeline-Mexicos-Failed-War-on-Drugs-Deaths-and-Disappearances-20150324-0033.html</ref>
|-
| 2006 || 62
|-
| 2007 || 2,837
|-
| 2008 || 6,844
|-
| 2009 || 11,753
|-
| 2010 || 19,546
|-
| 2011 || 24,068
|-
| 2012 || 18,061 (by October 31, 2012)
|-
| 2013 || 23,640 killed in 2013 (through to March 2014)
|}
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*'''24 September.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' Sarawak Report cites connection between DuSable’s Frank White and Obama.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2014/09/obama-needs-a-longer-spoon-to-dine-with-najib-razak/</ref>
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*'''25 September.''' Eric Holder announces his resignation as Attorney General.

*Rep. [[Adam Kinzinger]] and [[Evan McMullin]] travel to Turkey to meet with Syrian rebels.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/09/28/the-emerging-connections-between-the-muslim-brotherhood-and-never-trump/</ref>

*'''Late September.''' Cheryl Mills and [[Heather Samuelson]] ask [name withheld by FBI] to export all emails to them, not just those with .gov addresses. The FBI noted that [name withheld by FBI] made “inconsistent statements” over three interviews regarding the location from which he extracted the emails on the server.

===October 2014===
*'''2 October.''' '''1MDB scandal.''' '''1MDB buys out DuSable's Yarus fund for $69 million before any financing or construction on the joint project began.'''
:*As part of the initial public offering (IPO) plans of Edra Global Energy Berhad (“Edra”), 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) acquired the entire 49% interest of Yurus PE Fund managed by [[Frank White]] in the master joint venture agreement (Master JVA), for a final amount of $69 million. This acquisition ensured that 1MDB and Edra would own 100% of the rights to develop up to 500MW of solar power plants, prior to the launch of a proposed IPO of Edra.
:*Yurus fund’ capital base went from zero to $505,000,000 assets under management (AUM) – then added a $69 million increase before cashing out.<ref>https://archive.fo/aff2Z</ref> Yarus had none of its $505 million in assets invested in the joint project with 1MDB.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/cache/1/0/2/1/b/1021bc3b397443abb31b9acdbd400f552e01e748.jpg</ref> Yurus reported the entire $69 million it received from 1MDB as a gain.
:*Malaysian investigators consider the 1MDB/DuSable relationship an influencing buying scheme between the [[Obama administration]], the [[Democratic party]], and corrupt 1MDB officials.
:*Some of the proceeds of the $69 million transaction, stolen from the Malaysian government by corrupt 1MDB officials, were donated by DuSable to Democratic candidates. It appears to be a corrupt foreign influence buying ([[dark money]]) scheme arranged by President Obama's chief fundraiser to interfere in American elections.
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*'''10 October.''' ''Forbes'' reports that Judicial Watch obtained documents revealing the FBI was involved with the illegal IRS effort to investigate — and thus silence— around 500 conservative and Tea Party groups during Obama’s 2012 reelection. Perhaps the worst use of the IRS in American history, this was about manipulating the 2012 presidential election and the FBI was complicit in this abuse of governmental power. As JWs Tom Fitton writes, “Both the FBI and Justice Department collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS to try to persecute and jail Barack Obama’s political opponents.”<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/12/10/obama-justice-department-was-involved-in-irs-targeting-lerner-emails-reveal/#5eddbb716931</ref>
*'''15 October.''' ''New York Times'' reports the United States discovered the [[weapons of mass destruction]] in [[Iraq]]. American troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons. American troops reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs. "Troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found," Times reporter C.J. Chivers writes. [[Sarin]] was found. Information on the presence and dangers of chemical agents was not shared inside the armed forces, which left supervising officers and medical personnel unprepared to deal with their discovery. The Times documents a number of incidents in which Americans were made ill by chemical agents, given inadequate treatment, and told not to discuss their experiences. At least one large stash of the weapons now has come into the control of [[ISIS]] forces.<ref>
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Banner&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</ref>>

===November 2014===
*'''4 November.''' Midterm elections. Republicans take control of the Senate, 54-46. Overall, the elections resulted in the largest Republican majority in the entire country in nearly a century, 247 House members, 31 governorships, and 68 state legislative chambers. GOP gains in the House were the largest majority since 1928, as well as the largest number of state legislatures since 1928.<ref name="reuters">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-usa-elections-states-idUSKBN0IP2HB20141105|title=Republicans gain big in state legislative elections | Reuters|first=Karen|last=Pierog|agency=Reuters|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/11/nearly-half-of-americans-now-live-in-states-under-total-gop-control/|title=Nearly half of Americans will now live in states under total GOP control |newspaper=The [[Washington Post]]|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="realclearpolitics">{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/11/the_other_gop_wave_state_legislatures__124626.html|title=The Other GOP Wave: State Legislatures &#124 |website=RealClearPolitics|accessdate=}}</ref>
*'''11 November.''' Longtime Democratic consultant [[Tad Devine]] who worked on [[Al Gore]]’s presidential campaign in 2000, [[John Kerry]]’s in 2004, and Viktor Yanukovych’s 2010 [[Ukrainian]] presidential campaign hired by [[Bernie Sanders]] as chief strategist.<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/</ref><ref>http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-must-disclose-what-he-knows-about-his-campaign-adviser-tad-devine-and-russia/2155/</ref>
*'''18 November.''' House Benghazi Committee makes additional request for Clinton emails from State Dept.
*'''20 November.''' Jonathan Winer makes introduction of Christopher Steele and Ariuna Namrsai, a managing director at Apco Worldwide. <ref>https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=steele&beginDate=20140902&endDate=20141201&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=/</ref>
*'''22 November.''' A spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Republican majority stated that TIGTA investigators told Congress that they had recovered up to 30,000 emails to and from a past Commissioner.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/22/investigators-may-have-recovered-lost-irs-emails/|title=Investigators into [[IRS scandal]] may have recovered lost Lois Lerner emails|publisher=Fox News|date=November 22, 2014|accessdate=}} {{cite news |author=Susan Ferrechio |title=30,000 missing emails from IRS' Lerner recovered |url=http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/30k-missing-irs-emails-recovered/article/2556522 |newspaper=Washington Examiner |date=November 22, 2014 |accessdate=}}</ref>

===December 2014===
*'''December.''' The month Hillary Clinton decided to implement an auto-deletion policy to purge emails older than 60 days, per her FBI interview.

*'''4 December.''' CTH: A Transparent Conflict of Interest – Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Blocks White House/IRS Email Release.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/04/a-transparent-conflict-of-interest-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-blocks-white-houseirs-email-release/</ref>

*'''5 December.''' Hillary Clinton provides 55,000 work related emails to the State Department.

*'''9 December.''' DailyKos reports: ''War Criminal Michael Hayden Got Caught Leaking Trash about President Obama.''<ref>https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2014/12/9/1350441/-Recall-War-Criminal-Michael-Hayden-Got-Caught-Leaking-Trash-about-President-Obama</ref>

*'''10 December.''' “Stonetear” (Paul Camotta) asked Reddit users for help formulating a 60-day deletion policy, which involved automatically deleting emails 60 days old for “certain users” unless specifically saved.

*'''11-12 December.''' With the subject line "‘RE: 2 items for IT support,’ and a December 12, 2014 work ticket referencing email retention changes and archive/email cleanup, [Combetta] references ‘…the Hillary cover-up operation …’.<ref>[http://www.thompsontimeline.com/fbi-clinton-email-investigation-inteviews-released-on-september-23-2016/ FBI Transcripts: Paul Cambott, p. 8 (Paul Combetta) 9/15/15, p. 14 (Paul Combetta) 2/18/16, p. 21 (Paul Combetta) 5/3/16.]</ref>

*'''23 December.''' House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's staff releases a report that found that "[t]he IRS's inability to keep politics out of objective decisions about interpretation of the tax code damaged its primary function: an apolitical tax collector that Americans can trust to treat them fairly."

*'''December.''' Obama donor and "career" employee [[David Laufman]] appointed Dept. of Justice Chief of Counterintelligence.<ref name="trunews.com">http://www.trunews.com/article/doj-clinton-investigation-revealed-as-less-than-apolitical</ref>

*Eric Holder withdraws subpeaona of ''[[60 Minutes]]'' producer Richard Bonin.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/us/eric-holder-preet-bharara-richard-bonin-subpoena-testify-in-terrorism-trial.html?_r=0</ref>

==2015 progressive police state==
[[File:Sally Yates.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Obama Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]], one of the prime movers in the [[Deep State]] conspiracy to thwart American democracy. Yates barred Inspector General oversight of the Department of Justice-National Security Division from the time candidate Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president.]]
:''See : '''[[Obamagate timeline 2015 progressive police state]]'''''
What [[Nixon]] contemplated - misuse of the FBI and CIA against domestic opponents - but failed to accomplish yet was nevertheless forced from office, Obama achieved beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The post-[[Watergate]] reform [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] to supervise [[Executive Branch]] power was systematically and wantonly circumvented to harass political opponents in an attempt to dictate the outcome of the [[2016 presidential election]], and [[blackmail]] the winner with illegally gathered evidence should the Obama coterie of conspirators fail.

Obamagate timeline 2015 - the progressive police state documents how the [[Leftist]] [[authoritarian]] [[utopia]] under [[President Barack Obama]] was firmly in place to cover-up the [[crimes]] of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], compromise whomever the 2016 [[GOP]] nominee would be, and rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton. This assault on American [[democracy]] is indisputable.

The origins of intelligence lures, FBI [[provocateur]]s or Spygate. [[Sally Yates]] terminates independent Inspector General oversight of the [[DOJ-National Security Division]]. [[Nellie Ohr]] hired as an FBI contractor to begin illegal [[FISA]] 702 surveillance on [[Michael Cohen]] and others. [[Papadopoulos]] set up.

Comey gives immunity to Clinton cronies who destroyed evidence under Congressional [[subpoena]].

During a period of November 2015 through April 18, 2016, Justice Department political insiders and outside political contractors, including [[FusionGPS]], accessed the [[NSA]] and FBI database using FISA-702(17) “About Queries”. They gathered information on political opposition of candidate [[Hillary Clinton]], including Donald Trump campaign officials and affiliates. NSA Director Mike Rogers suspected illegal abuse and instructed the NSA compliance officer to conduct a full [[FISA]] audit. The NSA began querying [[DOJ]] and [[FBI]] activity.<ref>https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc</ref>

The unlawfully obtained [[FISA]] intelligence information ended up with Fusion GPS. The key personnel in FusionGPS are husband and wife [[Glenn Simpson]] and [[Mary Jacoby]]. Mary Jacoby’s relationship with the Clintons’ goes back to the Rose Law Firm.<ref>
Hillary Clinton was the intellectual property lawyer for Systematics. According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in Little Rock that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in Arkansas. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"

Part of this "intellectual property" would involve a banking transaction software system based on the stolen PROMIS software. A federal bankruptcy court had ruled in 1987 that the US Justice Dept. 'stole' the PROMIS software from a small company called [[Inslaw Inc]] when the DOJ refused to pay Inslaw for it. US intelligence took the PROMIS software and added a hidden "backdoor" for monitoring banking transactions and money laundering. Systematics was the marketing firm the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) was using to get the PROMIS software with the hidden backdoor into the hands of banks worldwide. The intellectual property that Hillary handled, and that Systematics was marketing, had been stolen from Inslaw.

Systematics was founded in 1968 by University of Arkansas graduate Walter Smiley, who learned of the high software costs and other difficulties faced by small banks in trying to use data processing software from his experiences working with IBM and in the banking industry. Smiley recognized a niche that could be filled for medium-sized banks in this space, and sought funding to start his own company. http://walton.uark.edu/abhf/walter-v-smiley.php Through Jon Jacoby, Smiley was introduced to the Stephens family, who agreed to invest $400,000 in Smiley and Systematics in return for 80% equity stake. http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies Jon Jacoby is the father of Mary Jacoby, wife of [[Glenn Simpson]], http://library.fora.tv/speaker/6818/Glenn_Simpson the founder and owner of FusionGPS.</ref>

==2016 election year==
[[File:The-scheme.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Leading figures in what FBI Counterintelligence Deputy Peter Strzok referred to as the Espionage Machine Party. A small group within the FBI and intelligence community conspired to prevent the election of Donald Trump through the illegal use of FISA wiretaps, and as an "insurance policy" to remove him from office after he won.]]
:''See:'' '''''[[Obamagate timeline|Russiagate timeline 2016 election year]]'''''
The FBI 'small group' was participating in a plan to exonerate Hillary Clinton in her [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|email investigation]]. That same FBI small group was simultaneously conducting opposition research on candidate [[Donald Trump]] and his campaign team. Those FBI officials were allied by entities outside the government. The ‘outside group’ were “contractors”. One of the contractors was FusionGPS or entities in contact with FusionGPS.

The contractors were using FBI intelligence databases to conduct opposition research “searches” on Trump campaign officials, FISA-702(16)(17) “To/From” and “About” queries. This [[FISA abuse]] was allowed by the FBI, but the NSA detected the abuses in early 2016. NSA Dir. Admiral Mike Rogers stepped in on April 18, 2016 and stopped the FBI contractors from having any further access. Without access to the FBI intelligence database, the group needed a workaround.

The [[DOJ]] side of the operation was conducted within the National Security Division headed by [[John P Carlin]]. The DOJ-NSD could use the NSA/FBI database and pass information to, and receive information from, Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Nellie was hired by FusionGPS immediately after [[NSA]] Dir. Admiral Mike Rogers shut down the FBI ‘contractor’ use of the system. Nellie would be the go-between.

The problem was that any information from within the [[FISA]] searches could not be directly used by the FBI because they would have to explain how they gained it, and all search queries without a warrant were [[illegal]]. FusionGPS then hired the retired British [[MI6]] officer [[Christopher Steele]]. The FBI needed to launder the intelligence product.

Chris Steele would be the laundry for the intelligence information pulled from the U.S. system. Unauthorized FISA-702(16)(17) results were passed on to Christopher Steele by Nellie Ohr. Steele would then wash the intelligence product, repackage it into what became known as the ''[[Steele dossier]]'', and pass it back to the FBI ‘small group’ as evidence for use in their [[counterintelligence]] operation beginning in July 2016. Dir. [[James Comey]] intentionally failed to notify the Congressional [[Gang of Eight]], denying congressional oversight of the operation.

Proof of this laundry process is found in a “search query” result that was actually a mistake. The faulty intelligence mistake was the travel history of [[Michael Cohen]], a long-time Trump lawyer. The FISA search returned a Michael Cohen traveling to Prague, but it was the wrong Michael Cohen. However, that mistaken result was passed on to Chris Steele, and it made its way into the ''Steele dossier''. Absent of a FISA search, there’s no other way Christopher Steele could identify a random “Michael Cohen” traveling to Prague. The Cohen mistake created a trail from Chris Steele to the FISA database.

All of the unauthorized FISA-702 search queries, “To From”(16) and/or “About”(17), of the NSA/FBI database were returning results. Those results are “raw intelligence”. That raw intelligence needed “unmasking”, that’s where the [[Department of State]] (DOS) is involved. The U.N. Ambassador is part of the DOS. [[Samantha Power]] testified she wasn’t doing the daily “unmasking” identified by the House Intelligence Committee investigation. Someone, or a group of people, within the State Department, were doing unmasking requests using Ms. Power’s authority. The collaborative process by officials within the State Department, as outlined and supported by Senator [[Chuck Grassley]] and his investigation, explains why those officials were also communicating with Christopher Steele.

The assembled but highly compartmentalized reports from the DOJ-NSD, FBI-Counterintelligence, Department of State, Office of National Intelligence ([[James Clapper]]) and CIA ([[John Brennan]]), was then constructed to become part of President Obama’s Daily Intelligence Briefing (PDB). That’s where National Security Adviser [[Susan Rice]] comes in and her frequent unmasking of the assembled intelligence product.

The Obama PDB was then redistributed internally to more than three dozen administration officials who [[President Obama]] allowed access his PDB. This includes the heads of DOJ, DOJ-NSD, FBI, FBI-counterintel, CIA, DOS, ODNI, NSA and Pentagon.

The distribution of the PDB was how each disparate member of the administration, the larger intelligence apparatus, knew of the ongoing big picture without having to assemble together for direct discussion. That’s Lisa Monaco and “Operation Latitude”.

==2017 soft coup==
[[File:Mueller-and-yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Special Counsel Robert Mueller [[colluding]] with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Yanukovych is considered a Putin stooge by many [[Deep State]]rs.]]
:''See : '''[[Russiagate timeline 2017|Russiagate timeline 2017 soft coup]]'''''
The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the [[FISA]] court into granting a FISA warrant - what [[Peter Strzok]] called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election. When [[James Comey]] reopened the Clinton investigation ten days before the election in October 2016, and Hillary's lead in the polls started to drop, the "insurance policy" became operational: officially sanctioned leaks alleging collusion between Trump and Russia were rampant.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>

When James Comey asked for a private meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017 to present Trump with Hillary Clinton's fictional opposition research as a US intelligence product, Comey briefed Trump only on the sexual allegations and not a word about [[Carter Page]], [[Michael Flynn]], Paul Manafort, and [[Michael Cohen]] being targeted under the [[FISA]] Act. According to Comey, he acted on the instructions of [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]].<ref>"the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about because we knew it and thought it was about to become public." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cg.01.html</ref> Clapper dutifully [[leak]]ed the fact that Trump had been briefed on allegations that he consorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel in 2013 in an unsavory way to Jake Tapper of CNN.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> CNN reported the made-up news from the supposed "intelligence report" and linked to the opposition research report on [[BuzzFeed]], claiming it was some sort of official document in the hands of the US intelligence community that the government was acting on. The [[intelligence community]] had implemented the "insurance policy". Russiagate was no longer just [[Hillary Clinton]]'s political campaign directed against Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at [[liberal deceit|deceiving]] the American people.

In early March 2017, [https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/ Evelyn Farkas], Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia from the Obama Administration, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo</ref> and shared efforts to get information about Trump staff to The Hill in hopes to get information out. To many people this proved President Trump's claim that Obama had "his wires tapped" at Trump Tower.<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106</ref> Later in that same month she tries to backtrack and change the meaning of what she was saying.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-nDGSzQg4</ref>

==2018 reckoning==
[[File:31D66D0A-82A4-40E7-A1C2-EBA55EEB357D.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Prime movers in the [[Deep State coup]]. Comey (first left) funneled raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]] to make it appear the FBI's illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign came from outside the government;<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/11/the-doj-and-fbi-worked-with-fusion-gps-on-operation-trump/</ref> Brennan (second left) collected the bogus ''[[Donald Trump–Russia dossier|Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' from British intelligence sources as part of a supposed routine "intelligence sharing" agreement;<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/09/john-brennans-role-in-the-fbis-trump-russia-investigation/</ref> Clapper (third from left) rubber stamped the operation, lied to Trump about the scheme and facilitated leaks to the press to impugn Trump.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> Adm. Rogers (end right), the lone hero of the group, detected the Obama FBI's abuse of the NSA's [[FISA]] computer system and personally reported the illegal activity to the FISA court.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/10/an-american-hero-the-death-of-a-fisa-narrative/</ref>]]
:''See'': '''''[[Russiagate timeline 2018]]'''''
The '''Russiagate timeline''' chronicles [[Obama administration]] appointees and holdovers, in collusion with the [[2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign|Hillary Clinton campaign]] and [[DNC]], efforts to prevent the election of [[Donald J. Trump]] and, after he was elected, remove him from office. The Obama FBI Counterintelligence Division and [[DOJ]] National Security Division conducted an illegal [[counterintelligence]] operation against domestic political opponents.
Chris Blackburn said: {{quotebox|"For those that still believe we are living in democratic, free and open societies it is sadly starting to look like fantasy. Democracies flourish when the checks and balances in the system are robust. We need them to work now more than ever.”}}
Elizabeth Vos observed: {{quotebox|"In the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives, American and UK intelligence agencies appear to have recklessly and deceptively acted in the interest of a single political candidate, Hillary Clinton. This singularity of purpose speaks to the insecurity and magnitude of the unelected Western power structure, equaled by the scale of lies propping up the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives."}}

==2019 the Empire strikes out==
[[File:Mifsud with Boris Johnson.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|'''FBI/CIA spy [[Joseph Mifsud]] (left) with [[UK]] prime minister [[Boris Johnson]] (center)''' two weeks after Trump advisor '''[[George Papadopoulos]]'''' plea agreement in the '''[[Mueller investigation]]'''.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-pictured-with-london-professor-from-fbi-russia-probe/amp/ </ref> The entire [[Trump-Russia conspiracy hoax]] was hatched by [[Obama administration|Obama]] CIA director [[John Brennan]] on the false allegation that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Mifsud had been working for Brennan and [[Jimmy the Weasel]] Comey all along.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZ8XI_ncas Why the Mifsud Story Matters], DECLASSIFIED with Gina Shakespeare,- ''[[The Epoch Times]]'', Aug 5, 2019.</ref>]]
:''See : '''[[Muellergate timeline 2019]]'''''
The '''[[Muellergate scandal]]''' refers to efforts to cover-up Obama-era [[FBI]]/[[DOJ]] crimes and frame [[Donald Trump]] and campaign associates for crimes they did not do.

Since President Trump's inauguration, 26 people were fired or otherwise removed from the [[Department of Justice]] and [[FBI]] in the [[Obamagate timeline|Obamagate scandal]].

FBI Deputy Director [[Andrew McCabe]] and FBI chief legal counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] selected most of the special counsel investigators; those two then recommended to Deputy AG [[Rod Rosenstein]] that he hire [[Robert Mueller]] as special counsel lead.

[[James Comey]] was fired. The remaining ‘at-risk’ [[corrupt]] [[FBI]] leadership (McCabe and Baker), positioning to defend their own interests, selected the “small group”; then Mueller was selected and brought on his additional team members. The entire purpose of the special counsel operation was to cover-up the DOJ/FBI activity during the [[2016 presidential election]], [[Trump transition]], and early [[Trump administration]].

While DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] completed his review of the FBI mishandling of the [[Clinton email investigation]], Horowitz was prevented from looking at any of the prime suspects in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal. As was U.S. Attorney John Huber from prosecuting anyone involved. Mueller's ongoing investigation gave cover to corrupt Obama era officials, citing Mueller's "ongoing investigation." They successfully impeded investigations throughout the 2017-2019 Congressional session.

==See also==
*[[Obama war crimes]]
*[[List of names in the Obamagate scandal]]
*[[Barack Hussein Obama's unlawful acts]]
*[[Obama's second term agenda]]
*[[Trump-Russia scandal]]
*[[Awan investigation]]
*[[Project Cassandra]]
*[[Clinton scandal]]
*[[FBI scandal]]
*[[FusionGPS]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://sharylattkisson.com/stonewalled-book/ sharylattkisson.com]
*[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1390759/251766258-attkissons.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiF-vLvsrvTAhVV-GMKHWwlDrQQFghSMBI&usg=AFQjCNHTrEnHFX0mCd0T35Mh2632wysE9A&sig2=8Bc7S9O2dx3DTtfHFTcDAQ ''Attkisson v Holder''] complaint
*[http://www.understandingwar.org/daily-libya-tracker DAILY LIBYA TRACKER] Libya Conflict: Situation Update, By: Spencer Butts. Institute for the Study of War. http://www.understandingwar.org/
*[https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clintons-email-the-definitive-timeline/ Hillary Clinton’s Email: the Definitive Timeline], Sharyl Attkisson
*[https://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9 This is everything Edward Snowden revealed in one year of unprecedented top-secret leaks]
*http://www.obamagolfcounter.com

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Russiagate

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<center>''This page chronicles an ongoing event and is updated regularly; for the current version see '''[[FISA abuse timeline]]'''; please link back as the story unfolds.</center>
The '''Obamagate timeline 2016 election year''' is a record of known facts about [[President Obama]]'s misuse of foreign intelligence gathering for domestic political spying,<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267945/unmasking-powers-abuse-power-matthew-vadum#.WcWGLkg3qWs.facebook</ref> media manipulation, wiretaps, intimidation of journalists and critics, use of government intelligence agencies to influence domestic elections,<ref>https://spectator.org/should-the-fbi-be-abolished/</ref> efforts to thwart the election of President Donald Trump, [[subversion]] of the new administration's personnel and agenda,<ref>https://townhall.com/columnists/bryancrabtree/2017/07/10/obamas-political-weapon-against-trump-n2352631</ref> and to delegitimize and undermine his presidency.<ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/02/03/memo_obamagate_confirmed_433265.html Memo: Obamagate Confirmed], George Neumayr, ''The American Spectator'', February 4, 2018</ref>

During and immediately after the [[2016 Presidential election]] CIA director [[John Brennan]], along with the Department of Justice and the FBI, targeted Donald Trump. This covert [[disinformation]] campaign became widely known in the [[fake news]] [[mainstream media]] as [[Trump-Russia]], alleging [[collusion]] between Trump and associates with Russia. The side that actually colluded with foreign powers was that of Hillary Clinton and the [[Democratic party]].<ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/11/hillary-knew-about-trump-opposition-research-in-2016-according-to-podesta-testimony-n389856</ref>

After [[President Donald Trump]] took office in January 2017, [[sedition|seditious]] activity, and an unwillingness to accept the results of a democratic election by Obama holdovers in the US [[Intelligence Community]], came to light.
[[File:Crossfire-hurricane-3.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Deputy Peter Strzok referred to as the Espionage Machine Party. A small group within the FBI and intelligence community conspired to prevent the election of Donald Trump through the illegal use of FISA wiretaps and to continue this use as an "insurance policy" to remove him from office after he won.]]
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==2009-2014 Vanguardism==
:''See : '''[[Obamagate timeline 2009-2014]]'''''
[[File:Bill-clinton-moscow-speech.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Pay day: Bill Clinton in Moscow to pick up a $500,000 bribe for his wife Hillary Clinton's approval of the Russian purchase of an American uranium mining company. Clinton recieved [[Vladimir Putin]]'s personal thanks.]]
The [[Obamagate|Obamagate scandal]] refers to several scandals during President Barack Obama tenure, notably the misuse of government agencies, [[Uranium One bribery scandal]],<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration</ref> media manipulation, illegal wiretaping, and domestic spying on American citizens to harass political opponents and critics.

Seven large scale scandals have tainted the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] legacy:
*Misuse of the [[IRS scandal|IRS targeting political opponents]];
*[[Operation Fast and Furious]] illegal arms selling;
*[[Uranium One bribery scandal]];
*[[Benghazi massacre]];
*Squashing [[Project Cassandra|Iranian drug trafficking investigations]] to gain the [[Iranian nuke deal]];
*[[Obstruction of justice]] in the [[Clinton email whitewash]];
*[[Russia collusion hoax]].

''Circa'' reported "As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats. ...Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser [[Susan Rice]], his CIA Director [[John Brennan]] and then-Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]]."<ref>http://circa.com/politics/barack-obama-changed-how-nsa-intercepts-of-americans-like-donald-trump-could-be-shared</ref> In 2013 ''[[The Guardian]]'' quoted [[Edward Snowden]] saying,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref>
{{Quotebox|“'''I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone''', from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to '''even the president''' if I had a personal e-mail. 

It’s getting to the point you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you have ever made.”<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>}}

The abuses came to light when [[Mark Levin]] cited mainstream press reporting of [[Obama administration]] leaks about government agencies spying on the presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]] and surrogates, including then U.S. Senator and later Trump Attorney General [[Jeff Sessions]].<ref>[https://spectator.org/investigate-obamagate/ Investigate Obamagate], ''The American Spectator''</ref>

==2015 The Progressive Police State==
[[File:The U.S. Nomanklatura.jpg|right|650px|thumb|Important movers in the new U.S. [[revolutionary vanguard]] [[progressive]] [[police state]]: [[Sally Yates]] (left), [[Andrew Weissmann]] (center), and [[John Carlin]] (left).]]
:''See : '''[[Obamagate timeline 2015 progressive police state]]'''''
What [[Nixon]] contemplated - misuse of the FBI and CIA against domestic opponents - but failed to accomplish yet was nevertheless forced from office, Obama achieved beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The post-[[Watergate]] reform [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] to supervise [[Executive Branch]] power was systematically and wantonly circumvented to harass political opponents in an attempt to dictate the outcome of the [[2016 presidential election]], and [[blackmail]] the winner with illegally gathered evidence should the Obama coterie of conspirators fail.

Obamagate timeline 2015 - the progressive police state documents how the [[Leftist]] [[authoritarian]] [[utopia]] under [[President Barack Obama]] was firmly in place to cover-up the [[crimes]] of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], compromise whomever the 2016 [[GOP]] nominee would be, and rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton. This assault on American [[democracy]] is indisputable.

The origins of intelligence lures, FBI [[provocateur]]s or Spygate. [[Sally Yates]] terminates independent Inspector General oversight of the [[DOJ-National Security Division]]. [[Nellie Ohr]] hired as an FBI contractor to begin illegal [[FISA]] 702 surveillance on [[Michael Cohen]] and others. [[Papadopoulos]] set up.

Comey gives immunity to Clinton cronies who destroyed evidence under Congressional [[subpoena]].

During a period of November 2015 through April 18, 2016, Justice Department political insiders and outside political contractors, including [[FusionGPS]], accessed the [[NSA]] and FBI database using FISA-702(17) “About Queries”. They gathered information on political opposition of candidate [[Hillary Clinton]], including Donald Trump campaign officials and affiliates. NSA Director Mike Rogers suspected illegal abuse and instructed the NSA compliance officer to conduct a full [[FISA]] audit. The NSA began querying [[DOJ]] and [[FBI]] activity.<ref>https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc</ref>

The unlawfully obtained [[FISA]] intelligence information ended up with Fusion GPS. The key personnel in FusionGPS are husband and wife [[Glenn Simpson]] and [[Mary Jacoby]]. Mary Jacoby’s relationship with the Clintons’ goes back to the Rose Law Firm.<ref>
Hillary Clinton was the intellectual property lawyer for Systematics. According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in Little Rock that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in Arkansas. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"

Part of this "intellectual property" would involve a banking transaction software system based on the stolen PROMIS software. A federal bankruptcy court had ruled in 1987 that the US Justice Dept. 'stole' the PROMIS software from a small company called [[Inslaw Inc]] when the DOJ refused to pay Inslaw for it. US intelligence took the PROMIS software and added a hidden "backdoor" for monitoring banking transactions and money laundering. Systematics was the marketing firm the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) was using to get the PROMIS software with the hidden backdoor into the hands of banks worldwide. The intellectual property that Hillary handled, and that Systematics was marketing, had been stolen from Inslaw.

Systematics was founded in 1968 by University of Arkansas graduate Walter Smiley, who learned of the high software costs and other difficulties faced by small banks in trying to use data processing software from his experiences working with IBM and in the banking industry. Smiley recognized a niche that could be filled for medium-sized banks in this space, and sought funding to start his own company. http://walton.uark.edu/abhf/walter-v-smiley.php Through Jon Jacoby, Smiley was introduced to the Stephens family, who agreed to invest $400,000 in Smiley and Systematics in return for 80% equity stake. http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies Jon Jacoby is the father of Mary Jacoby, wife of [[Glenn Simpson]], http://library.fora.tv/speaker/6818/Glenn_Simpson the founder and owner of FusionGPS.</ref>

==2016 Election year==
:{{See also|Ukrainian collusion}}
A month after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the presidency in 2015, Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]] blocked the Office of Inspector General (OIG) from oversight of the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). The OIG, [[Michael Horowitz]], requested oversight and Sally Yates responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation essentially denying the request. All of the DOJ was subject to oversight, except the National Security Division.<ref>https://t.co/b2VmsRhQ42</ref>

Obama’s political operatives within the DOJ-NSD were conducting illegal surveillance to monitor the Trump campaign. The NSD unit was working in coordination with [[Peter Strzok]] and others of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.

Sometime in early 2016 NSA Director Admiral [[Mike Rogers]] became aware of “ongoing” and “intentional” violations of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA) - Section 702 surveillance. Specifically item #17 “About Queries” of US persons. Rogers suspected FISA 702 (#17 – email and phone calls) surveillance activity was being used for reasons he deemed unlawful. Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance. In October 2016 Rogers told the FISA court he became aware of unlawful surveillance and collection of US persons. The FBI counterintelligence division was monitoring Trump through FISA 702(17) upstream surveillance collected by a DOJ National Security Division that had no oversight.

Ten days after the election, on November 17, 2016, Dir. Rogers traveled to Trump Tower without telling DNI [[James Clapper]]. Rogers likely informed President-elect Trump of the illegal activity by the FBI and DOJ, including the probability that all of Trump Tower’s email and phone communication were being collected. Clapper then demanded Rogers be fired. It appears Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is complicit as well.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/05/operation-condor-how-nsa-director-mike-rogers-saved-the-u-s-from-a-massive-constitutional-crisis/</ref>

The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the FISA Court into granting a FISA warrant - what Peter Strzok called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election.

===January 2016===
CIA operative Eric Ciaramella, working in the White House, requested Ukrainian officials to re-open an investigation into Paul Manafort which the FBI had dismissed in 2014. The FBI under James Comey re-opened the investigation at the same time Ciaramella met with Ukrainian officials in the White House. Ciaramella later became the Adam Schiff's alleged "whistleblower" in the [[Trump impeachment]] inquiry after the failure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to produce sufficient evidence to remove President Trump from office in 2019.

*'''4 January.''' John Podesta emails Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, "Look forward to working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States,” Sandberg replies she was “thrilled” by the progress that Clinton was making.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2AGJAI2</ref>

*'''7 January.''' NSA Inspector General, George Ellard, released a report on NSA Controls & FISA compliance:<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/NSA_IG_Report_1_7_16_ST-15-0002.pdf (pp. 6-7)]</ref> {{Quotebox|"We identified another [redacted] queries that were performed outside the targeting authorization periods in [Executive Order] 12333 data, which is prohibited by the E.O. 12333 minimization procedures. We also identified queries performed using [United States Persons] selectors [phone numbers, emails] in [FISA Amendments Act of 2008] §702 upstream data, which is prohibited by the FAA §702 minimization procedures."}} Material [[FISA abuse]]s were routinely taking place. Following IG Ellard’s report, Adm. Mike Rogers implemented a tightening of internal rules at the NSA. By law, [[John Carlin]] of the [[DOJ-NSD]] should have informed the FISA court immediately of the results of the IG’s Report, but the court was not informed until NSA Dir. [[Adm. Mike Rogers]] ''personally'' told the court on October 23, 2016, two days ''after'' the Obama DOJ hoaxed the FISA court into granting FISA Title I authority over [[Carter Page]], which then extended throughout the [[Trump transition]] well into the first year of Trump's presidency.
*'''12 January.''' Christopher Steele emails [[Bruce Ohr]]: {{quotebox|"I heard from [[Adam Waldman|Adam WALDMAN]] [a Deripaska lawyer/lobbyist] yesterday that OD [ [[Oleg Deripaska]] ] is applying for another official US visa ice [sic] APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] business at the end of February."}} Steele said Deripaska was being "encouraged by the Agency guys who told Adam [Waldman] that the USG [United States Government stance on [Deripaska] is softening." Steele concluded: "A positive development it seems." Steele also asked Ohr when he might be coming to London, or somewhere in Europe, "as I would be keen to meet up here and talk business." Ohr replied warmly the same day and said he would likely travel to Europe, but not the U.K., at least twice in February.
[[File:Jill and Andy.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|The fix was in from the gitgo. 5 days after the Hillary email investigation began, former Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe "recruited" McCabe's wife to run for the Virginia senate. He and his PACs gave nearly $700,000. Much of the money was unspent after her loss. [[Mainstream media]] ignored the naked corruption until late October 2016.]]
*'''13 January.''' Strzok informed that he had failed his polygraph exam.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4738037/peter-strzoks-scope-polygraph</ref><ref>https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1531070425</ref>
*'''14 January.''' FBI inspector general notifies Senate that [[Hillary Clinton]]'s servers had been flagged for classified information. Clinton servers are in New York; FBI Director [[James Comey]] runs the case out of Washington office, Deputy Dir. [[Andrew McCabe]] put in charge. McCabe's wife received $675000 from Virginia Gov. [[Terry McAuliffe]]'s political action committee for an unsuccessful state senate bid in 2015.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/prominent-democrat-connected-clintons-donated-675000-campaign-deputy-fbi-directors-w</ref> McAuliffe. a former DNC chairman and [[United States presidential election, 1996|Presidential campaign manager for Bill Clinton]], later [[Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign|Hillary Clinton in 2008]] and Clinton Foundation Board member, came under FBI investigation for illegal campaign donations from a Chinese businessman.<ref>http://time.com/4348675/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-china-investigation/</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-investigation-campaign-contributions/</ref> Despite evidence, McCabe refused to merge the McCauliffe investigation into the ongoing pay-to-play investigations of the [[Clinton Foundation]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/30/fbi-investigation-bribery-clinton-foundation-spans-nation-multiple-field-offices-says-wsj/</ref>
*'''15 January.''' Inspector General for the intelligence community Charles McCullough tells members of Congress that several dozen additional classified emails have been identified in Clinton’s stash, including some with a higher classification than top secret, regarding highly sensitive programs.
*'''16 January.''' Strzok and Lisa Page texted each other about Strzok’s imminent departure from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which was set for two weeks time.
*'''17 January.''' Barack Obama announces final agreement on the [[Iran nuke deal]]. David Asher, Veteran illicit finance investigator at the [[Pentagon]] serving on the [[Project Cassandra]] task force looking into the Hezbollah criminal enterprise said that Obama administration officials expressed concerns to him about alienating [[Tehran]] before, during and after the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. This was part of an effort to “defang, defund and undermine the investigations that were involving Iran and Hezbollah. The closer we got to the [Iran deal], the more these activities went away,” Asher said. “So much of the capability, whether it was special operations, whether it was law enforcement, whether it was [Treasury] designations — even the capacity, the personnel assigned to this mission — it was assiduously drained, almost to the last drop, by the end of the Obama administration.” Within months, task force officials said, Project Cassandra was all but dead. Some of its senior officials, including Jack Kelly the veteran DEA supervisory agent who created and led the task force, were transferred to other assignments. As a result, according to ''Politico'', the US government lost insight into not only drug trafficking and other criminal activity worldwide, but also into Hezbollah’s illicit conspiracies with top officials in the Iranian, Syrian, [[Venezuela]]n and Russian governments — all the way up to presidents [[Nicolas Maduro]], [[Bashar Assad]] and [[Vladimir Putin]], according to former task force members and other current and former U.S. officials. The derailment of Project Cassandra also undermined U.S. efforts to determine how much [[cocaine]] from the various Hezbollah-affiliated networks is coming into the United States, especially from Venezuela, where dozens of top civilian and military officials have been under investigation for more than a decade.<ref>https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/</ref>
*''New York Post'' reports former State Dept. Inspector General Howard J. Krongard regarding Clinton server says: {{quotebox|“It will never get to an indictment." For one, any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI “will have to go through four loyal Democrat women” — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]]; Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]]; and top White House adviser [[Valerie Jarrett]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2016/01/31/this-was-all-planned-former-ig-says-hillary-state-dept-are-lying/</ref><ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/hillary-rakes-nearly-75000-justice-department-employees/</ref>}} The ''NYP'' further reports: {{quotebox|from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries. “That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without email?” He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton’s entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5½-year vacancy was unprecedented. “This is a major gap. In fact, it’s without precedent,” he said. “It’s the longest period any department has gone without an IG.”}}
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[[File:Ciaramella-telizhenko-600x111.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ciaramella/Telizhenko meeting at the White House to discuss killing the Hunter Biden investigation and reviving allegations against Paul Manafort.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>]]
*'''19 January.''' '''[[Eric Ciaramella]] hosts [[Andriy Telizhenko]],<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> a political officer in the Ukrainian DC Embassy at the [[White House]] to discuss killing the [[Hunter Biden]] investigation and reviving allegations against [[Paul Manafort]] which the [[FBI]] dismissed in 2014.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86awAp4uIw</ref>
:{{Quotebox|The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, 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 — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ '''objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President [[Joe Biden]]’s family and one that involved a lobbying [Manafort's] firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>}}
:*'''January.''' '''FBI initiates politically motivated money laundering and tax evasion investigation of Paul Manafort predicated on his activities as a political consultant to members of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian politicians.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf FISA Abuse Report], p. 66 fn 185, pp. 291, 391-392, 398 and fn 521.</ref>
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*'''25 January.''' FBI receives an invoice from Orbis International (Christopher Steele's firm) requesting payment "for consultancy services, including 7 meetings with contact, briefing, and reports" as well as for travel and accommodations. The '''FBI paid Christopher Steele''' personally, not Orbis International, $15,000 in May 2016 '''for services rendered from July 2015 through February 2016.'''<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 88 fn 206.</ref>
*'''26 January.''' Strzok texted Lisa Page, where he expressed zero worries about Andrew McCabe being able to use his office political power to give him a permanent job working for McCabe.
*'''29 January.''' Comey promotes McCabe to FBI Deputy Director even though McCabe's wife has already received $700,000 from Clinton donors and [[Terry McAuliffe]], who is also under an FBI investigation McCabe is overseeing.
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he enjoyed his new job.
*'''January.''' FBI opens Clinton Foundation investigation.

===February 2016===
*'''Early February.''' Papadopoulos leaves Carson campaign.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/11/07/questions-for-george-papadopoulos/</ref> 
*'''2 February.''' [[Christopher Steele]] is already on the FBI payroll, receives "admonishments," or instructions in FBI Guidelines for Confidential Human Sources (CHS).<ref>https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Cleveland8.5.a-768x648.jpg</ref><ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/06/4-things-learned-fbis-mostly-redacted-steele-documents/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=c8f63f08b9-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-c8f63f08b9-84014745</ref>
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:*Ukrainian Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] obtains a court order to seize [[Mykola Zlochevsky]]’s property.<ref>https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/322395.html</ref> Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden in April 2014.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>
:*Vice President Joe Biden then spoke with Ukraine’s [[President Poroshenko]] three times by telephone on February 11, 18, and 19, 2016.<ref>https://perma.cc/FC8V-P2AG</ref>
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*'''4 February.''' Strzok sent an e-mail to [REDACTED] about his and four other agents’ out of scope polygraphs from January 2016 in order to send him their read-in requests.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/JW-v-DOJ-Strzok-Page-emails-00154.pdf</ref>
*'''8 February.''' Steele and Bruce Ohr exchange emails: "our old friend OD [Oleg Deripaska] apparently has been granted another ''official'' [emphasis in original] visa to come to the US later this month." Steele wrote, "As far as I'm concerned, this is good news all round although as before, it would be helpful if you could monitor it and let me know if any complications arise." Ohr replied that he knew about Deripaska's visa, and "to the extent I can I will keep an eye on the situation." Steele again asked to meet anytime Ohr was in the U.K. or Western Europe.
[[File:Image zpsj30a6zuj.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|'''John Poindexter (left) shakes hands with Barack Obama (right).''' Justice Anton Scalia was found dead in Poindexter's home days after the Podesta "wet works" email. Poindexter is a major Democrat donor.]]
*'''9 February.''' John Podesta emails Steve Elmendorf: {{Quotebox|"Didn't think wet works meant pool parties at the Vineyard."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56753</ref>}} "Wet works" is an old Russian idiom for "murder" and "assassination."<ref>https://www.quora.com/What-is-wet-work</ref>
*'''11 February.''' DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells CNN [[Superdelegate]]s exist "really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.”<ref>https://youtu.be/w5llLIKM9Yc</ref> Later news breaks that Wasserman Schultz quietly rescinded a 2008 ban on donations to the DNC from corporate lobbyists and PACs. The decision paves the way for the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee between the DNC and the Clinton campaign.<ref>https://observer.com/2017/04/hearing-set-dnc-class-action-lawsuit-bernie-sanders/</ref>
*'''12-14 February.''' [[Estonia]]n President Toomas Hendrick Ives attended the 52nd Munich Security Conference, alongside others such as James Clapper, Director [[Robert Hannigan]], Dmitry Alperovitch (founder of CrowdStrike), John Kerry, John McCain and Robert Bertholee.
*'''13 February.''' [[Supreme Court]] Justice [[Anton Scalia]] found dead in the home of Democrat donor John Poindexter.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html?utm_term=.d9fe30f3e508</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160217173504/http://dcwhispers.com/justice-scalia-dies-at-ranch-resort-owned-by-democrat-party-donor-obama-award-winner/</ref><ref>https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2018/07/05/accountability/executive/antonin-scalia-murder/</ref>
*'''18 February.''' Strzok informed of the anomaly on Hillary Clinton's email server by Intelligence Community Inspector general (ICIG) investigator Frank Rucker. Rucker later told Congress that Strzok was “aloof and dismissive.".<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/hillary-clintons-emails-were-sent-to-gmail-address-with-a-chinese-companys-name_3043380.html</ref>
*'''21 February.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr, headlined "Re: OVD - Visit To The US." Steele told Ohr he had talked to [Adam] Waldman and to Paul Hauser, who was [[Deripaska]]'s London lawyer. Steele reported that there would be a U.S. government meeting on Deripaska that week — "an inter-agency meeting on him this week which I guess you will be attending." Steele said he was "circulating some recent sensitive Orbis [Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's company] reporting" on Deripaska that suggested Deripaska was not a "tool" of the [[Kremlin]]. Steele said he would send the reporting to a name that is redacted in the email, "as he has asked, for legal reasons I understand, for all such reporting be filtered through him (to you at DoJ and others)." Deripaska's rehabilitation was a good thing, Steele wrote: "We reckon therefore that the forthcoming OVD [Oleg V. Deripaska] contact represents a good opportunity for the USG." Ohr responded by saying, "Thanks Chris! This is extremely interesting. I hope we can follow up in the next few weeks as you suggest."
*'''22 - 28 February.''' An inter-agency meeting was held by the United States Government, where they discussed the incoming visit of Oleg Deripaska.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-2016-links-among-steele-ohr-simpson-with-russian-oligarch-in-background</ref>
*'''26 February''' [[Michael Flynn]] reported to have joined Trump team.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-advisor/trump-being-advised-by-ex-u-s-lieutenant-general-who-favors-closer-russia-ties-idUSMTZSAPEC2Q6G3JRH</ref> Actual start date isn’t clear.
*'''29. February.''' Manafort first contact to Trump campaign. Manafort had not been in contact with Trump for many years.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html</ref> According to CNN 2017/9/18, Manafort is under FISA surveillance at this time.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-government-wiretapped-fisa-russians/index.html</ref>

*'''February or March:''' [[Patrick Byrne]] was told by FBI handlers to focus [[Marina Butina]]’s attention to the campaign of Donald Trump and to diminish any attention toward Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz.

===March 2016===
:{{See also|FISA abuse timeline}}
The FBI's illegal surveillance had been ongoing since at least November 2015 through its contractors (FusionGPS, CrowdStrike, Daniel Richman, ''et al'') who had access to the FISA database. FBI contractors were performing massive amounts of illegal FISA 702 "About queries," i.e., entering the name of a US person in the FISA database to cull their entire history of email, text, and voice electronic communications. 702 is specifically, by law, intended for use only on non-US persons residing ''outside'' the United States, and is considered a "serious Fourth Amendment violation" when applied to American citizens.
[[File:Photo Collage-20180428 235136.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Nellie Ohr (left) was performing illegal FISA searches beginning in late 2015; Christopher Steele (right), an agent of a foreign power, was hired in early 2016 by the FBI and Hillary Clinton to meddle in U.S. elections. The fabrications of the foreign agent is the only basis of the [[Mueller investigation]].]]
NSA Dir. Adm. Mike Rogers first became aware of the Obama FBI's abuse of the FISA database on March 9 (see Lisa Page text) and ordered a review. On March 9, Carter Page was not associated with the Trump campaign yet and still listed as a paid FBI informant. On April 18 Rogers cut off FBI contractor access completely (Strzok April 30 text reveals an immediate stop gap workaround for direct surveillance) which set off a flurry of activity within the White House, the Department of Justice and FusionGPS to circumvent the ban and continue the illegal surveillance. [[Mary Jacoby]] visited the White House, along with Jim Baker ("Mr. FISA") of the FBI, and Trish Anderson of DOJ; Christopher Steele was added to the FusionGPS team with Nellie Ohr who was hired in 2015;<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/bruce-ohr-dossier-fbi/</ref><ref>Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group in a 2010 "expert working group report on international organized crime" along with Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson. Open Source Works, the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. The directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. CIA says the existence of any such records is a classified fact.</ref> [[Nellie Ohr]] applied for a Ham radio license to funnel FISA data from her husband, Asst. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr, to Steele outside normal NSA electronic monitoring processes.

After Carter Page became associated with the Trump campaign, the Obama FBI took details of the original Russian intelligence approach to Carter Page in 2013, in which Carter Page fully assisted the FBI to build a case against Russian spies, and fraudulently represented to the FISA court that the 2013 Russian recruitment effort against Page had been successful, leaving out the facts (or "exculpatory evidence") of the case in which the DOJ publicly thanked and acknowledged Page as UCE-1 on March 11, 2016 without whom prosecution of the Russian spy network was not possible.

As March 2016 began the only anti-Trump measures in place were the illegal FISA 702 search queries on US persons (the Trump campaign) and John Brennan's network of "oconus lures." By mid June, the entire anti-Trump "Espionage Machine" (in Strzok's words) was fully operational to workaround the loss of FBI contractor access to the FISA database. Evidence points to White House consent, direction and complicity.

In March 2017, the bogus Carter Page FISA application, with the Steele allegations (Steele was a paid opposition researcher, a fact not widely known in March 2017) was [[leak]]ed to the media by the Senate Intelligence Committee giving [[mainstream media]] impetus to the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/former-trump-adviser-page-previously-targeted-by-russian-spies-913292867813 BuzzFeed reporter Ali Watkins received the full classified Carter Page FISA application from the Senate Intelligence Committee director of security, James Wolfe, in March 2017. [[James Wolfe indictment|Wolfe was arrested and indicted]] in mid 2018 and Watkins, who parlayed the illegal leak into a job with the ''New York Times'', was reassigned away from reporting on national security matters. https://amgreatness.com/2018/06/13/moms-to-daughters-dont-be-ali-watkins/</ref>

*'''Early March.''' Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie—the law firm used by the Clinton campaign and the DNC—expressing interest in an “engagement.” Perkins Coie “engaged Fusion in April of 2016, to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle.” The law firm noted that “the engagement concluded prior to the November 2016 Presidential election.”<ref>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4116755/PerkinsCoie-Fusion-PrivelegeLetter-102417.pdf</ref>

*'''Early March.''' Sources agree [[George Papadopoulos]] is head of the London Center of International Law Practice (LCILP) by this time.<ref>"Centre for International Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security," in some sources.</ref><ref>Brian White reports "Papadopoulos had previous connections in the UK. He had studied at University College London and had spent four months with Energy Stream, a British consultancy firm. Immediately prior to joining LCILP he had spent six weeks working for [[Ben Carson]], a Republican contender for the US presidency. Carson’s campaign was flagging and Papadopoulos left at the end of January. He wasn’t without work for long, however, and swiftly stepped into two new roles: one as a foreign policy adviser to Trump, the other with LCILP." https://medium.com/@Brian_Whit/the-trump-russia-affair-and-an-odd-company-in-london-9437e0343db2</ref> Papadopoulos has been associated with the group for about two weeks; some sources say he may have been associated with the group since November 2015. LCILP appears to be a store front for Halkuyt,<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/994010717866090497</ref> a UK firm of retired UK intelligence officers associated with Kissinger McClarty<ref>https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hakluyt_%26_Company_Limited&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#SourceWatch_resources</ref> (Kissinger McClarty was formed in 1999 and dissolved in 2008 after Hillary lost to Obama).<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/996018929649770496?s=20</ref>

*'''March.''' FBI attempts entrapment sting against [[Roger Stone]] and [[Michael Caputo]] using convicted [[felon]], Russian national, and FBI informant [[Henry Greenberg]].<ref>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article213359854.html</ref>

*'''March.''' An FBI agent started to work with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine, which was funded by the US Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.<ref>https://www.unian.info/society/1338755-us-embassy-in-ukraine-fbi-donates-500000-worth-of-equipment.html</ref>

*'''March.''' [[Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] threatens Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General '''[[Viktor Shokin]]''' who was investigating his son, [[Hunter Biden]], on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings.
:*“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>

*'''2 March.''' Carter Page meets with an FBI and SDNY Assistant United States Attorneys in the New York field office in preparation for the trial of Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence officer, in which Page was a paid informant.<ref>https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/1038941607054266369</ref> Page informs the FBI he intends to volunteer to work for the Trump campaign. After the meeting the FBI agent contacted FBI Headquarters to ask what type of investigation to open on Page.
:*Papadopoulos emails Trump campaign again, looking for role.
*'''3 March.''' Sam Clovis sets up interview with Papadopoulos.
*'''4 March.''' Strzok-Lisa Page text exchange during GOP presidential debate:
[[File:Peter-strzok-and-lisa-page.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Peter Strzok (left) and Lisa Page (right), prime low level suspects in the Obama administration's efforts to influence the outcome of a US election, and later remove President Trump. [[Lisa Page]], a DOJ lawyer specializing in money laundering, makes more money than a Member of Congress, Senator, Cabinet Secretary or Supreme Court Justice, and only $1000 less than the Vice President.<ref>http://heavy.com/news/2017/12/peter-strzok-lisa-page-fbi-trump-texts-affair/</ref> Many Obama Progressives view themselves as an enlightened self-anointed clique of anti-democratic elites in the mold of a Leninist [[revolutionary vanguard]] movement. Their self-importance confirmed by payscales above the nation's top leaders. They view their job as controlling the destiny of a nation through a corrupt and privileged bureaucracy, and to save the ignorant masses from the masses' own misguided impulses.]] {{Quotebox|Page - God Trump is loathsome human.

Strzok – Yet he may win.

Strzok – Good for Hillary.

Page – It is.

Strzok – Would he be a worse president than [[Ted Cruz|Cruz]]?

Page –Trump?, yes I think so

Strzok – I’m not sure.

Strzok – Omg he’s an idiot.

Page – He’s awful

Strzok – America will get what the voting public deserves.

Page – That’s what I’m afraid of.}} Later, {{Quotebox|Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.

Page – I know

Page – Also did you hear him make a comment about the size of his d**k earlier? This man cannot be president.

Strzok – Yes I did. In relation to this size of his hand. All the [[Marco Rubio|“Lil Marco”]] blah blah blah... Ok I may vote for Trump.

Page – What? Poor [[John Kasich|Kasich]]. He’s the only sensible man up there.

Strzok – He was pretty much calling for death for [[Snowden]]. I’m a single-issue voter. ;) [[Deep State|Espionage Machine Party]]}}

*'''6 March.''' Sam Clovis interviews Papadopoulos.

*'''7 March.''' BakerHostetler, the law firm representing the Russian-controlled firm Prevezon Holdings and its owner Denis Katsyv, makes a payment to FusionGPS. [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] hired BakerHostetler, who the hired FusionGPS by BakerHostetler to dig up dirt on [[Bill Browder]]. Browder is the driving force behind passage of the [[Magnitsky Act]], or Russia sanctions bill. Glenn Simpson, founding partner of Fusion GPS, compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. Simpson found dirt on Clinton donors, which he gave to Veselnitskaya, who presented it to Donald Trump, Jr. at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
:*Through October 31, 2016 BakerHostetler paid FusionGPS $523,651.
:*Dr. [[Christine Blasey Ford]]'s brother is an attorney at BakerHostetler.
*'''7-13 March.''' James Comey visited [[Australia]] and met with Attorney General George Brandis and Justice Minister Michael Keenan.
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[[File:Fisa-abuse-improper-decisionmaking.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Chief FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer outlined Obama FISA abuse: "''this seems to be the result of deliberate decision making''".]]
*'''9 March.''' '''Obama FISA abuse detected.''' '''Everything after March 9, 2016 are operations from both the CIA and FBI to hide the political surveillance that was going on before March 9, 2016.''' The surveillance was happening through exploitation of the NSA database through unauthorized FISA search queries; and involved both the CIA and FBI.
:*DOJ auditors conducting a minimization review (minimization is the process of masking identities of US persons incidentally collected while executing a foreign surveillance warrant) of FBI [[FISA abuse]] discover that the FBI disclosed raw FISA information (the identities of US persons) to private contractors (FusionGPS and CrowdStrike).<ref>FISC Judge Collyer, Memorandum Opinion &
Order, Apr. 26, 2017, pp. 83 - 89.</ref><ref>[https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/15/the-uncovering-section-702-about-queries-independent-contractors-a-new-narrative/ The Uncovering – Section 702 “About” Queries, Independent Contractors & a New Narrative], January 15, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA.</ref><ref>[https://exposefacts.org/institutional-lack-of-candor-fisa-violations/ Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations] A primer on recent unauthorized activity by the Intelligence Community, January 24, 2018. Demand Progress.</ref>

:*Lisa Page sends text referencing “HUGE f-up," evidently about the FBI caught by auditors misusing the FISA database (performing illegal 702 queries and the unmasking of real life identities of US persons to outside contractors), i.e. "serious [[Fourth Amendment]] violations" in the words of the FISA court.
::*Judge Collyer wrote, "[CIA] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding enter into [redacted],” presumably in 2012 as a result of another section of the report and the emphasis that Collyer is placing on the time-frame throughout her full report. Collyer also wrote: “Despite the existence of an interagency memorandum of understanding no notice of this practice was given to the [[FISC]] until 2016.”<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/02/big-puzzle-pieces-connecting-the-cia-fbi-and-2016-political-surveillance-is-merging/</ref>

*Coincidentally the same day ''Reuters'' reports on an "undercover FBI employee" who helped the FBI catch Russian spies. The "undercover FBI employee" is later identified as [[Carter Page]]. Page had been thoroughly vetted by the FBI for his loyalty to United States before the FBI recruited and paid him to wear a wire to help set up Russian spies: {{Quotebox|FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said. The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a [[Cold War]]-style spy ring. ...According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference. Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information. In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM</ref>}}
[[File:8E9Ep9Nb.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Evegeny Buryakov sentenced as a spy for Russia. DOJ national security head [[John Carlin]] vetted [[Carter Page]] for his loyalty to the U.S. and publicly thanked him for helping convict Buryakov. 10 days later Carter Page joined the Trump team. 7 months later Carlin was part of a scheme to commit a fraud against the [[FISA court]] claiming Carter Page was a Russian spy, all the while Carlin oversaw and approved [[Nellie Ohr]]'s abuse of the [[FISA]] database and violations of the Trump campaign's civil and constitutional rights. Nellie Ohr was paid by [[Hillary Clinton]] and the [[DNC]], while her husband Asst. Attn. Gen. [[Bruce Ohr]] passed the ficticious lies written by Nellie and [[Chris Steele]] in the ''[[Steele dossier]]'' to [[Peter Strzok]], who used it to commit fraud on the FISA court and secure a blanket electronic surveillance warrant on Trump and associates with the Carter Page FISA warrant.]]
*'''11 March.''' Two days after the ''Reuters'' article appears, [[John Carlin]] and [[Preet Bharara]] congratulate themselves in a DOJ press release. Honorable mention is given to an unnamed person that assisted them, UCE-1, later identified as Carter Page: {{quotebox|"Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General...The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev '''attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”) [Carter Page]''' who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, [Carter Page] provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by [Carter Page] and supporting documentation relating to [Carter Page's] reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>}} Carlin, Strzok, and others took the "attempt to recruit Carter Page," left out the exculpatory evidence Carter Page worked for the FBI, and perpetrated a fraud on the FISA court claiming the recruitment was successful. The Carter Page FISA warrant granted authority for electronic surveillance of Carter Page's entire network of contacts, i.e. voice, email, and text messages of the Trump campaign, Trump transition, and Trump administration. Despite the investigation of Carter Page being instrumental to starting the FBI and Mueller investigations, Carter Page has never been interviewed by Robert Mueller more than two years after the investigations began.
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*'''12 March.''' Strzok-Page txt msg exchange: {{Quotebox|Lisa Page – What the f is wrong with people? A Texas Candidate pushes the boundary to the far right. (NYT)<ref>http://nyti.ms/1TqBqj</ref> Strzok – That Texas article is depressing as hell. But answers how we could end up with President trump Lisa Page – Wasn’t it? Seriously, how are people so incredible ignorant? Strzok – I have no idea, but it depresses me. Same people who drive more when they get extra daylight from daylight savings, I’m guessing.}}

*'''14 March.''' John Brennan travels to Moscow. Meets with Russia’s federal intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service.<ref>https://themoscowtimes.com/news/cia-director-brennan-made-secret-trip-to-moscow-52284</ref>
[[File:Mifsud with Boris Johnson.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|'''FBI/CIA spy [[Joseph Mifsud]] (left) with [[UK]] prime minister [[Boris Johnson]] (center)''' two weeks after [[George Papadopoulos]]' plea agreement in the [[Mueller investigation]].<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-pictured-with-london-professor-from-fbi-russia-probe/amp/ </ref> The enite Trump-Russia conspiracy hoax was hatched by [[Obama administration|Obama]] CIA director [[John Brennan]] on the false allegation that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Mifsud had been working for Brennan and [[Jimmy the Weasel]] Comey all along.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZ8XI_ncas Why the Mifsud Story Matters], DECLASSIFIED with Gina Shakespeare,- ''The Epoch Times'', Aug 5, 2019.</ref>]]
*Papadopoulos travels to Rome as part of LCILP role. Papadopoulos claims he was introduced by Vincenzo Scotti, former Italian Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, to [[Joseph Mifsud]]. Mifsud was introduced as professor for London Academy for Diplomacy, London England.

*Trump tweeted “N.A.T.O. is obsolete and must be changed to additionally focus on terrorism as well as some of the things it is currently focused on!”<ref>https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/712969068396093440</ref>

*'''15 March.''' FusionGPS contract with the ''Washington Free Beacon'' ends after [[Marco Rubio]] drops out of the primary race. ''Free Beacon'' hired FusionGPS on 15 Oct 2015 to perform opposition research on Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. None of the research done for ''Free Beacon'' is related to Russia or the ''Steele dossier''. Christopher Steele has not even been hired by FusionGPS yet.

*'''16 March.''' Strzok text: “Our guy is talking,” a possible reference to the Mifsud/Papadopoulos contact two days earlier.
*Lisa Page texts Strzok, "I can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president."

*James Clapper arrived in Australia from [[New Zealand]] via a C-17 Globemaster.

*'''17 March.''' Steele wrote a brief email asking if Bruce Ohr had any update on plans to visit [[Europe]] "in the near term where we could meet up." Ohr said he did not and asked if Steele would like to set up a call. There are no emails for more than three months after March 17.
*Papadopoulos returns to London.
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*'''21 March.''' [[Carter Page]] and George Papadopoulos join the Trump Campaign as [[foreign policy]] advisors, according to the ''Daily Caller''.
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*'''22 March.''' ''Washington Post'' reports "Papadopoulos, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, directs an international energy center at the London Center of International Law Practice;" ''WaPo'' neglects to state he held the position for a few weeks at most.

*'''24 March.''' Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Olga Polonskaya (introduced as "Putin's neice") and unknown fourth party (designated the “Russian Ambassador to London – who also acts as the Deputy Foreign Minister”) meet in a London cafe.
*John Kerry, [[Victoria Nuland]] and [[Jonathan Finer]] visited Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
*'''25 March.''' Photo posted on Twitter of Papadopoulos with a group of people and the [[Togo]] ambassador in London to "discuss water management."<ref>https://twitter.com/rebeccampeters/status/702847531621949440?s=20</ref>'''
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[[File:Alexandra-chalupa-and-ukraine-embassy-in-the-us.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman [[Marcy Kaptur]]’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy staff.<ref>https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/how-to-finance-your-congressional-campaign-with-arms-sales/</ref>]]
*Ukrainian-American '''employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) [[Alexandra Chalupa]]''' meets with top Ukrainian officials at Ukrainian Embassy in Washington D.C. to “expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia,” according to ''Politico''. Chalupa previously worked for the [[Clinton administration]]. Ukrainian embassy proceeds to work “directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions,” according to an embassy official (though other officials later deny meddling in election-related activities.)

*'''28 March.''' [[Paul Manafort]] joins Trump Campaign as campaign convention manager.
*[[Michael Kortan]] briefed James Comey to prepare for a counterterrorism session hosted by the Department of Homeland Security with President Obama.

*'''29 March.''' *Ukraine fires top prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings under pressure from Joe Biden and the Obama administration.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/political-stability-in-the-balance-as-ukraine-ousts-top-prosecutor.html</ref> In September 2016 a Ukrainian court cancelled the arrest warrant for Mykola Zlochevsky.

*'''30 March.''' ''Bloomberg'' interview with Carter Page;<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/trump-russia-adviser-carter-page-interview</ref> Page describes himself as having advised the state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom and helped it attract Western investors. Julia Ioffe reported for ''Politico'' that Carter Page was a mid-level executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role in any of the big deals he boasted about. Almost no one in Moscow remembered Carter Page. Until Trump read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a March interview with the ''Washington Post'', almost no one in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Carter Page either.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160924010026/http:/www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283 The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow], Reports of deep Russian ties swirl around Trump advisor Carter Page. Oddly, nobody in Russia seems to have heard of him. By JULIA IOFFE, ''Politico'', September 23, 2016.</ref>

*'''31 March.''' Papadopoulos attends D.C. “national security” meeting with Trump and other foreign policy advisors. [[Jeff Sessions]] in attendance. Papadopoulos states he “had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin.” This is Papadopoulos’ only known direct visit with the Trump Campaign.

*Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa briefs DNC staff on alleged Russia ties to Paul Manafort and Trump. With “DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asks Ukrainian embassy to arrange meeting with Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] to discuss Manafort’s lobbying for Ukraine’s former president [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. The embassy declines to arrange meeting but becomes “helpful” in trading info and leads. Ukrainian embassy officials and Democratic operative Chalupa “coordinat[e] an investigation with the Hillary team” into Paul Manafort, according to a source in Politico. This effort reportedly includes working with U.S. media.
*'''Spring.''' Lynch and Comey discuss defensive briefing for Trump of Carter Page's activities in the Buryakov case but decide against it.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/17/halper-trump-page-papadopoulos/</ref>

===April 2016===
*'''Spring.''' ''[[McClatchy]]'' reports, {{quotebox|'''The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump'''.<ref>http://archive.is/Uscjk</ref>}}
[[File:Brennan's Inter-agency working group.png|left|500px|thumb|John Brennan's Inter-agency working group. The Working Group operated out of the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters, where it worked in secrecy away from the other members of the various intelligence agencies. Agents that participated in the Working Group had to sign non-disclosure agreements to access the shared intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-e4ab7d8188ac</ref>]]
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Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes: '''April 18th through July 31st 2016''': At the same time as NSA Director Mike Rogers discovered a significant and unauthorized uptick in FISA-702(16)(17) database queries, and subsequently blocked access (April 18th, 2016), candidate Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee for the presidential race. It was within this period where Fusion-GPS was commissioned by Hillary Clinton to focus exclusively on candidate Trump. Fusion held the prior search findings, and Fusion contracted Christopher Steele who later contacted the FBI through official channels. On July 31st, 2016, FBI counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane became official. An official investigation targeting the campaign of Donald Trump now held a legal, albeit sketchy and politically motivated, justification. Under the auspices of investigating Russian involvement with George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort and General Michael Flynn, the FBI was now conducting full-blown surveillance on the political campaign of Donald Trump. Crossfire Hurricane was the legal cover; ‘Spygate’ begins.
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The Clinton Campaign and DNC hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research, 'cash for trash' with a Russian emphasis. FEC records show [[Obama for America]] also paid $972,000 to [[Perkins Coie]], the surrogate law firm for FusionGPS, beginning in April 2016.
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Christopher Steele was already on the FBI payroll. [[Michael Isikoff]] published a story on Yahoo News about Paul Manafort’s business dealings with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Chalupa met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, Manafort, and Russia.

*'''[[Burisma]]'''-funded '''[[Atlantic Council]]''' event [[Devon Archer]] and Olga Bielkova both attend. “Huge” State Dept. Presence. Blue Star Strategies—the lobby firm '''[[Hunter Biden]]''' was also involved with is there.<ref>https://www.ii.co.uk/discussion/t/9pm-tonight/1035589</ref>
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*'''Early April.''' Papadopoulos works with Mifsud and Polonskaya to attempt to arrange a meeting between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government.
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*'''1 April.''' FusionGPS is hired by DNC & HRC Campaign (via Perkins Coie lawfirm to mask the identity of clients by attorney/client privilege) and tasked with further "opposition research." Perkins Coie's lead attorney representing DNC & HRC Campaign is [[Marc E. Elias]] (who is also HRC's personal attorney). In addition, Perkins Coie also employs former Obama White House Chief Legal Counselor, Robert Bauer.<ref>Confessore, Scott Shane, Nicholas; Rosenberg, Matthew (11 January 2017). "How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump". The New York Times.</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.10bece00087f</ref>
:*FBI New York field office receives an email from the Counterespionage Section advising to open a investigation on Carter Page/ Between April 6 and the Crossfire Hurricane team's opening of its investigation of Page on August 10, 2016, there was limited investigative activity in the NYFO (FBI New York Field Office) on the Carter Page.
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*'''2 April.''' FBI lawyer Lisa Page texts Hillary email investigator Peter Strzok: "So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now."

:*Email exchanges from 2009 to 2011 exist in which both Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin directly discussed or were involved in discussing Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Both denied knowledge of it to FBI investigator Peter Strzok. Neither were prosecuted for lying to the FBI despite the FBI being in possession of emails with damning evidence they lied.
[[File:Screen-Shot-2017-12-04-at-3.58.58-PM-620x152.png|right|450px|thumb|Huma Abedin lied to FBI investigator Peter Strzok.]]
*'''5 April.''' Huma Abedin lies to FBI investigator Peter Strzok. "Abedin did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago when it became public knowledge.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/04/clinton-aides-went-unpunished-after-making-false-statements-to-anti-trump-fbi-supervisor/</ref> Abedin and Cheryl Mills were involved in an Aug. 30, 2011 exchange in which State Department official Stephen Mull mentioned that Clinton’s “email server is down.” In a Jan. 9, 2011 email exchange, Cooper told Abedin that Clinton’s server had been malfunctioning because “someone was trying to hack us.” “Had to shut down the server,” wrote Cooper, who told the FBI in his interviews that he discussed Clinton’s server with Abedin in 2009, when it was being set up.
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*James Baker (DOJ) and Michael Sussmann attend Global Privacy Summit.
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*'''5 April.''' '''[[John Podesta]] linked to [[Russia]]n bank in the [[Panama Papers]].'''<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-campaign-chief-linked-to-russian-bank-listed-in-panama-papers?_amp=true</ref><ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/panama-papers-implicate-podesta-client/amp/</ref><ref>https://amp.dailycaller.com/2016/04/05/hillary-clinton-ties-emerge-in-panama-papers</ref>
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*'''6 April.''' FBI New York filed office prepares summaries of the Carter Page counterintelligence investigation for FBI Headquarters to be used for a "Director's note" and a separate "Director's Brief" to be held on April 27, 2016.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 75-76, fn 193.</ref>
*'''6-10 April.''' Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa and office of Rep. Mary Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair of Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, discuss possible congressional investigation or hearing on Paul Manafort-Russia “by September.” Chalupa begins working with investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, according to WikiLeaks and her later account.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>
*'''7 April.''' '''''[[Daily Kos]]'' and John Schindler both report John Podesta [[collusion]] with Russia.'''<ref>https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/7/1512166/-Podesta-Group-Connected-to-Bank-Named-in-Panama-Papers</ref><ref>https://observer.com/2016/04/panama-papers-reveal-clintons-kremlin-connection/amp/</ref>
*'''8 April.''' '''[[Salon.com]] reports Clinton campaign collusion with Russia.'''<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/with_saudi_and_russian_ties_clinton_machines_tentacles_are_far_reaching_according_to_panama_papers/ With Saudi and Russian ties, Clinton machine's tentacles are far reaching, according to Panama Papers: The [[Podesta Group]], a lobbying firm headed by Clinton operatives, has made a pretty penny working for Saudi & Russia], Ben Norton, ''Salon'', April 8, 2016 10:21PM (UTC)</ref><ref>https://www.truthdig.com/articles/panama-papers-name-client-of-podesta-group-a-lobbying-firm-with-ties-to-the-clintons/</ref>
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[[File:Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-5.45.33-AM-620x143.png|right|450px|thumb|Cheryl Mills lied to FBI investigator Peter Strzok.]]
*'''9 April.''' Cheryl Mills lies to Strzok. “Mills did not learn Clinton was using a private server until after Clinton’s [Department of State] tenure...Mills stated she was not even sure she knew what a server was at the time." Mills asked about it in a Feb. 27, 2010 email to Abedin and an aide to Bill Clinton who helped set up the Clinton Chappaqua server. “Ur funny. We are on the same server,” Cooper replied.

*'''10 April.''' '''Obama proposes "careless" language alternative to criminal negligence in public statement.''' Obama intervened in an ongoing criminal investigation when he publicly states that Hillary Clinton has shown “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security which is not an element of the criminal statutes relevant to her e-mail scandal. Obama acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Sec. Clinton’s server, but he suggested its importance was overstated.

:Strzok texts Lisa Page that he was {{quotebox|“increasingly profoundly bothered by JBs [ [[James A. Baker (Department of Justice attorney)|FBI General Counsel James Baker]] ] call and the lack of ANY heads up. Deeply. It was wrong given what I had already been asked to do...I’m not sure if I want to be part of this.”}} Lisa Page responds, {{quotebox|“You are part of this and that’s not going to change. But I think you have every right to be angry and frustrated about being left out of the loop on your investigation, especially when you’re going to be left holding the bag. . . . Big big case, big big problems.”}}
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*'''11 April.''' Polonskaya responds to Papadopoulos' email the day prior that she “would be very pleased to support your initiatives between our two countries.” Papadopoulos then asked Polonskaya, in an email cc’ing Professor Mifsud, about setting up “a potential foreign policy trip to Russia.” Later discovered Mifsud actually writing Polonskya emails. Papadopoulos returns to London, U.K.
*Mifsud emails Papadopoulos about his upcoming travel to Russia. Suggests meeting for following day, April 12.
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*'''12 April.''' Deputy AG [[Sally Yates]] and Comey meet to discuss public announcement of Hillary whitewash.
*Papadopoulos and Mifsud meet at Andaz Hotel in London, U.K. This meeting is in advance of Mifsud traveling to Russia.
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*Ukrainian parliament member Olga Bielkova and a colleague meet with McCain associate [[David Kramer]] with the McCain Institute. Bielkova also meets with Liz Zentos of Obama’s National Security Council, and State Department official Michael Kimmage.
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*'''13 April.''' Comey appoints Dianne Upchurch to head FBI Little Rock field office.<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/diane-upchurch-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-little-rock-division</ref> Upchurch is a lieutenant of Andrew McCabe. She served as a section chief (SES) in the Counterterrorism Division for nearly three years. McCabe, who was promoted to assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division by then-Director Robert S. Mueller in 2012, was Upchurch’s supervisor. Little Rock is the home of the Clinton Foundation. FBI field offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Little Rock have been collecting information on the charity since late 2015. The New York office did the most work on the case, with help from Little Rock. The L.A. office picked up information about the foundation in an unrelated public-corruption case.
*Evelyn Farkas and John Carlin attend Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Washington Forum.
[[File:Mifsud Roh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Mifsud (right). Stephan Roh (far left). Roh hired Mifsud as a “business-development consultant” in 2015, and is Mifsud’s “partner and best friend” and “the money behind him." Roh is a co-owner of Link Campus University, which trains intelligence officials for [[NATO]] and the [[FBI]], where Mifsud taught. In 2017, [[CNN]] was going to do a broadcast with Mifsud hosting from Link University, but cancelled it when Mifsud dropped out of sight.]]
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*'''14 April - 10 May.''' Papadopoulos leaves LCILP. Details are vague.<ref>https://medium.com/@Brian_Whit/the-trump-russia-affair-and-an-odd-company-in-london-9437e0343db2</ref>

*'''16 April.''' Mifsud and [[Stephan Roh]] speak at the Valdai Club.<ref>http://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/photos/global-energy-development/</ref>
*'''''McClatchy'' reports on Clinton collusion with Russia.'''<ref>http://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html</ref>
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*'''18 April.''' '''FBI contractor (FusionGPS) access cutoff from FISA database.''' As a result of [[NSA Dir. Mike Rogers]] compliance review of [[FISA abuse]] queries by contractors authorized by Obama DOJ & FBI conspirators, contractor access to ongoing FISA intelligence was cut off.<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf pp. 83-84]</ref><ref>https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fisa-legislation-0#</ref>
[[File:Nellie-ohr-3.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson, longstanding collaborators with contractor access to the Obama intelligence community.]]
:*After being shut out by the FISA Compliance Audit, and contracted by the Clinton campaign, [[FusionGPS]] needed a back-door for continued access to FISA information. [[Nellie Ohr]], wife of DOJ Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]], worked with Christopher Steele as a Russian expert. Nellie, a part of the CIA network, could use Bruce’s high level DOJ-NSD access to continue gathering FISA-702 data; Nellie, Bruce and Simpson collaborated on other projects in the past.<ref>[https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>
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[[File:Clinton Roh.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton [[collusion|colluding]] with Stephan Roh in 2012. Roh is co-owner of Link Campus University where Prof. Mifsud taught.]]
*Mifsud introduces Papadopoulos by email to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs Council. Timofeev tells Papadopoulos he has connections to the Russian Ministry of Affairs (MFA). Timofeev is referred to as the “Russian MFA Connection” in the October 5, 2017 unsealed Statement of Offense and Foreign Contact 2 in the July 27, 2017 Affidavit.
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*DNC alleges they were hacked.

*Wikileaks lawyer John Jones thrown in front of train in London. The death is ruled a suicide. Coroner's inquest later overturns ruling.<ref>http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/10/banker-deaths-and-wikileaks-deaths-have-a-common-thread/</ref>
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*'''19 April.''' '''[[Mary Jacoby]] attends White House meeting.'''<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mary-jacoby-1.jpg</ref>

*'''25 April.''' '''FISA lawyers meet at White House.''' Two White House meetings between [[FBI Counsel James Baker]], [[Trisha B Anderson]] (FBI), [[Tashina Gauhar]] ( DOJ), John T Lynch (DOJ), John (Brad) Wiegmann (DOJ), Alan Rozenshtein (DOJ), Norman (Christopher) Hardee (DOJ), and Iris Lan (DOJ). DOJ attorneys Guahar, Hardee, Wiegmann are FISA attorneys.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/10/a-political-battle-over-dossiers-fisa-warrants-and-surveillance-clouds-a-much-bigger-story/comment-page-4/#comment-4835429</ref><ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db6pdVnUwAEeTaj.jpg</ref><ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db6pfSIVwAAXZ39.jpg</ref><ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/Jali_Cat/status/948270513075474432</ref>
*Mifsud returns to London from Russia after stopover in Rome.
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*'''26 April.''' [[Michael Isikoff]] publishes story on Yahoo News about Paul Manafort’s business dealings with Oleg Deripaska. [[Victoria Nuland]] and [[Alexandra Chalupa]] are sources.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/trumps-campaign-chief-ducks-questions-about- 214020365.html</ref><ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/09/victoria-nuland-alexandra-chalupa-ukrainian-ties-the-steele-dossier/</ref>
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[[File:Mifsud and Theresa May.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Joseph Mifsud]] with [[UK]] [[Prime Minister]] [[Theresa May]]. Mifsud worked for UK Intelligence vetting agents and for [[NATO]] training intelligence agents and diplomats. According to American [[mainstream media]], the Obama [[deep state]], and [[Robert Mueller]], Mifsud is a Russian agent. Mifsud was not arrested in February 2017 when he visited Washington as an honored speaker at a State Department conference and was interviewed by the FBI. On the day Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 DAYS for betraying his country and destroying [[democracy]],<ref>http://www.abajournal.com/voice/article/is_it_treason_with_trump</ref> the [[Democratic National Committee]] claimed Mifsud was dead.]]
*Mifsud tells Papadopoulos he’s met with high-level Russian government officials who have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”. There are only two possibilities: Mifsud was lying to Papadopoulos, in which case he was trying to set up Papadopoulos for the FBI, or the Russians actually told Mifsud this, in which case Mifsud was working for the Russians.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/05/15/maltese-professor-may-hold-key-fbi-really-began-surveiling-trump/</ref> In February 2017 while in Washington as a featured speaker for the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program - the same program Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]]'s translator, Anatoli Samochornov is a program officer for - Mifsud told the press that he spoke to the FBI. The FBI seemed unconcerned about Mifsud. Mifsud was not arrested as a Russian spy who infiltrated the State Department, although Mueller's indictment of Papadopoulos alludes to the court that he is. Mifsud told ''La Repubblica'' magazine, {{quotebox|"You know which is the only foundation I am member of? The [[Clinton Foundation]]."<ref>[http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/11/01/news/russiagate_mystery_professor_joseph_mifsud_speaks_out_dirt_on_hillary_clinton_nonsense_-179948962/amp/ Russiagate, mystery professor Joseph Mifsud speaks out: "Dirt on Hillary Clinton? Nonsense"], di PAOLO G. BRERA, Repubblica.it, 01 Novembre, 2017.</ref>}}
*Papadopoulos will falsely tell the FBI he heard of Mifsud's information prior to joining the Trump Campaign.
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*'''27 April.''' Comey briefed on Carter Page counterintelligence investigation.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 75-76 fn 193.</ref>
Trump delivers major foreign policy speech: “We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and [[China]]. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes, but we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based on shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of [[Islamic]] [[terrorism]]. I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength only, is possible, absolutely possible. Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a deal under my administration, a deal that’s great — not good, great — for America, but also good for Russia, then we will quickly walk from the table. It’s as simple as that. We’re going to find out.”
:*'''Spring.''' Comey and McCabe provide information about Carter Page to Loretta Lynch, which Lynch believed they learned from another member of the Intelligence Community. Corney and McCabe provided Lynch with information indicating that Russian intelligence reportedly planned to use Carter Page for information and to develop other contacts in the United States.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 75.</ref>

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*'''28 April.''' Ukrainian-American DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa is invited to discuss her research about Paul Manafort with 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine at Library of Congress for Open World Leadership Center, a U.S. congressional agency. Chalupa invites investigative reporter Michael Isikoff to “connect(s) him to the Ukrainians.” After the event, reporter Isikoff accompanies Chalupa to Ukrainian embassy reception.
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*DNC CEO Amy Dacy spoke with '''[[Michael Sussmann]]''', a DNC lawyer and partner with Perkins Coie. Sussmann contacted '''[[Shawn Henry]]''', CSO and President of Crowdstrike Services. Dacy “resigned” as CEO of DNC on August 2, 2016.

*'''29 April.''' DNC learns it's computer system has been breached. They claim to have been "tipped-off" that the hacking was by Russians.
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[[File:DeiTcmdVAAA7FvD.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|After Adm. Rogers cut off contractor access to the FISA database (referred to here as "the Patriot Act"), Agent Strzok had to turn to other methods of spying, among other things, the NSA's codename TEMPEST, or surveillance of leaking electro-magnetic emmissions (referred to as "wire carrying current").]]
*'''30 April.''' After Adm. Rogers cuts off contractor access, Strzok texts, "And now we’ve switched from the Patriot Act to a wire carrying current.” (See Tempest (codename))

*DNC hires [[CrowdStrike]], a private firm, to install software that is meant to identify who gained access, when, and how. The next day, on May 1, CrowdStrike claims the "intrusion had originated in Russia."
:In June 2019 the DOJ admitted that the FBI never saw the Crowdstrike report on DNC Russian hacking claims.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/15/doj-admits-fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-report-on-dnc-russian-hacking-claim/</ref> Lawyers for [[Roger Stone]] requested the full Crowdstrike report on the DNC hack. Not only did the FBI not review the DNC server, the FBI/DOJ never even saw the Crowdstrike report. The FBI and DOJ were only allowed to see a “draft” report prepared by Crowdstrike, and that report was redacted. That redacted draft is the “last version of the report produced”; meaning, there are no unredacted & final versions. The FBI and DOJ, and all claims by the intelligence community, including the 2017 ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' to President Obama, the final Mueller Report, [[Mueller show trials|Mueller team indictments]], and illegal [[IC]] [[fake news]] [[leak]]s to [[mainstream media]] were based on taking the word of a hired contractor for the [[Democrat party]]. As of 2019, there still exists no official evidence of the claim that 'Russia hacked the DNC'.

*Papadopoulos thanks Mifsud for his “critical help” and remarked: ”It’ s history making if it happens.”
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*'''April. FBI and the US Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs donated a $500,000.00 package of scanning equipment, hardware and software to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.unian.info/society/1338755-us-embassy-in-ukraine-fbi-donates-500000-worth-of-equipment.html</ref>
*''' Ukrainian member of parliament '''[[Olga Bielkova]]''' reportedly seeks meetings with five dozen members of U.S. Congress and reporters including former New York Time reporter Judy Miller, David Sanger of New York Times, David Ignatius of Washington Post, and Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.
*According to BBC's Paul Wood, CIA's John Brennan got a tape from the Baltic States about money from the Kremlin going into the US Presidential campaign in April. Note that the article DOES NOT specify the Trump campaign.
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'''Spring 2016.''' John Brennan developed a false narrative:{{quotebox|"CIA Dir. John Brennan received information from British GCHQ intelligence as part of an allegedly "routine" intelligence sharing agreement about Trump associates' business dealings in Russia.<ref>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/interview-richard-dearlove-europe-intelligence-mi6</ref> The information is said to have originated with Estonian intelligence. [[Estonia]] is requesting a missile defence system at this time,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/b9453544-228c-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d</ref><ref>http://linkis.com/atlanticcouncil.org/fAWKh</ref> while Trump adviser [[Newt Gingrich]] refers to the country of 1.3 million inhabitants as a 'suburb of St. Petersberg', which has 5.3 million inhabitants. Gingrich, rumoured to be on the short list for Secretary of State, says he doubts American leaders would risk [[nuclear war]] over [[Putin]]'s actions in the region. Allegedly, the information that triggered Brennan to act was a tape recorded conversation that mentioned money from the Kremlin to the Trump Campaign."}} [[File:Full-spectrum-cyber-effects-final-p4-large.gif|right|300px|thumb|US Government document from 2010 part of the Snowden leaks and sharing agreements with the [[UK]]. The [[Five Eyes]] program of the English speaking world (United States, United Kingdom, [[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]]) use [[social media]] for “[[propaganda]],” “[[deception]],” “mass messaging,” “pushing stories”, and "discrediting” the intelligence agencies' enemies with false information spread online.<ref>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/04/04/full-spectrum-cyber-effects/</ref>]] In actuality, John Brennan received nothing from UK intelligence.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref> Nonetheless Brennan shared his invented narrative with Clapper and Comey to form a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force (FBI, DOJ and Treasury) and the Foreign task force (CIA, ODNI and NSA). The FBI is investigating Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about US domestic spying under the Patriot Act to cover information that was gleaned from the Torture Program which Brennan oversaw.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>
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===May 2016===
The Inspector General found that Comey began considering the possibility of an FBI-only public statement in late April and early May 2016, well in advance of the late June tarmac meeting in which Lynch compromised herself.

Comey put out a draft statement on May 2 for FBI leadership to review and edit. Senate Homeland Security chairman Ron Johnson said, "The edits to Director Comey’s public statement,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-14-at-3.59.10-PM-620x363.png</ref> made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI’s public evaluation of the implications of her actions." Johnson further declared the edits to Comey’s statements “raise profound questions about the FBI’s role and possible interference in the 2016 presidential election and the role of the same agents in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump.”<ref>https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/comey-concluded-hillary-hacked.htm</ref> The Homeland Security Committee found in February 2018 that
*The FBI did not use a grand jury to compel testimony and obtain the vast majority of evidence, choosing instead to offer immunity deals and allow fact witnesses to join key interviews.
*There were substantial edits to Dir. Comey’s public statement that served to downplay the severity of Sec. Clinton’s actions, and that the first draft of the memo was distributed for editing two months before key witnesses were interviewed.
*Dir. Comey stated that he had not consulted with the Justice Department or White House, when text messages suggest otherwise. We have text messages in which two key investigators discuss an “insurance policy” against the “risk” of a Trump presidency, and “OUR task.”
*Messages discuss “unfinished business,” “an investigation leading to impeachment,” and “my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.”
*Senior FBI officials—likely including Dep. Dir. McCabe— knew about newly discovered emails on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner for almost a month before Director Comey notified Congress.
*Over the period of at least four months, the FBI did not recover five months’ worth of text messages requested by DOJ OIG and two Senate committees; however, when pressed, DOJ OIG was able to recover missing texts in less than one week.
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When the FBI got the tip from Alexander Downer that the Russians had Hillary’s 33k emails, the appropriate action would have been to re-open Mid Year Exam. Rather than re-examine the “Mid-Year Exam”, the FBI instead opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.
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*'''1 May.''' CrowdStrike determines that DNC system had an "intrusion that originated in Russia," although they would later retract.

*'''2 May.''' '''Comey initial draft citing criminal negligence.''' Comey writes internal memorandum saying Hillary Clinton and others guilty of gross negligence punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment;<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/report-comey-accused-clinton-of-gross-negligence-in-email-case/</ref> Comey sends draft copies of his memo to Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe, general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)|James Baker]] and chief of staff [[James Rybicki]].<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/14/comey-draft-said-it-was-reasonably-likely-that-hillarys-server-was-hacked/ Comey Draft Said It Was ‘Reasonably Likely’ That Hillary’s Server Was Hacked], CHUCK ROSS, ''Daily Caller, December 14, 2017.</ref>

*The FBI admits it recovered thousands of State Dept. emails that originated or passed through Clinton’s private server — some which had been deleted — that were never turned over to the State Department as government records by Clinton’s team. Comey told Sen. Grassley that the FBI did investigate whether violations of Federal Records Act occurred.

*Perkins Coie signs service agreement with CrowdStrike on behalf of Marc Elias clients; DNC and [[DCCC]].<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427619989/DEMOCRATIC-NATIONAL-COMMITTEE-AND-DCCC-S-NOTICE-REGARDING-FILING-OF-SUPPLEMENTAL-EXHIBITS</ref>

*'''3 May.''' '''Evidence of DNC collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump campaign:
{{quotebox|From: Chalupa, Ali 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM 
To: Miranda, Luis 
Subject: Re: You saw this, right? 

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the program to speak specifically about Paul Manafort and I invited Michael Isikoff whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm working on you should be aware of. 

Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often: 

[image1.JPG] 

Sent from my iPhone 

On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: 

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/ 

<http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director 
Democratic National Committee 
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC><ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>}}
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*'''4 May.''' Papadopoulos gives an interview to the ''London Times'' stating then-UK Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] should apologize to Trump for negative comments.<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/say-sorry-to-trump-or-risk-special-relationship-cameron-told-h6ng0r7xj</ref> It is not well-received in London or the Trump campaign.

*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok react to Trump sealing GOP nomination:
{{Quotebox|Page – And holy sh*t Cruz just dropped out of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable.

Strzok – What?!?!??

Page – You heard that right my friend

Strzok – I saw Trump won, figured it would be a bit

Strzok - Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE [ [[Mid Year Exam]] - codename for the Clinton investigation]<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/fbi-agents-felt-pressure-wrap-up-clinton-email-probe-trump/</ref> ….

Page - It sure does. We need to talk about follow up call tomorrow. We still never have.}}
*Mifsud tells ''Novosti'' news in [[Moscow]], "the [[EU]] today needs Russia as a strong partner."<ref>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://ria.ru/person_Dzhozef_Mifsud/&prev=search</ref>

*'''5 May.''' '''[[Lisa Page]] attends White House meeting''';<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/944747473360375808</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-1.jpg</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-2.jpg</ref> on the same day the ''[[Washington Post]]'' carries a ‘sources say’ story about the meeting. The subject was the Hillary Clinton email investigation.<ref>https://archive.is/QdFda</ref>
*Papadopoulos has a phone call with the Campaign Supervisor, and then forwards the May 4 MFA Email to him, adding to the top of the email: “Russia updates.”

*'''6 May.''' '''Papadopolous meets with Erika Thompson.''' Mueller/Weissmann report says Russia collusion information came from [[Erika Thompson]], political aide to Alexander Downer. Papadopolous met with Erika Thompson and repeated the false information fed to him by UK intelligence asset [[Joseph Mifsud]], who had posed as a Russian intelligence operative. Thompson passed the false information to her boss Alexander Downer, who later met with Papadopolous then passed the false allegation of Russia collusion with the Trump campaign on to the U.S. embassy in London. None of the false allegations Thompson passed to Downer were vetted by Australian intelligence. The U.S. State Department, via its Embassy in London, was used as a conduit for the false information from the Brennan/Mifsud deception operation that was passed to Comey's FBI, to justify opening an official counterintelligence against the Trump campaign. These actions contravened the official [[Five Eyes]] intelligence sharing process.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/downer-7.jpg</ref>
:*Sundance comments, "Mueller cites the content of May 6, 2016, meeting as communicating “clinton emails” from Papadopoulos; however, Mueller conflates and falsely attributes the content material of this Erika Thompson meeting. Mueller attributes content to Ambassador Downer meeting with Papadopoulos on May 10, 2016. Conflation appears intentional."
:*'''[[Bill Priestap]] is in London'''.
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[[File:Downer-and-halper.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Halper and Downer, along with Mifsud, were recruited by John Brennan to frame Papadopoulos and Carter Page. Richard Dearlove, the head of UK's [[MI6]] also worked closely with Brennan. They didn't like Trump's talk of making [[NATO]] allies pay more for their own defense. The future of the [[military industrial complex]] was at stake ]]
*'''10 May.''' CrowdStrike installs its Falcon software on DNC servers, two weeks before the last dated email in WikiLeaks' DNC collection. Adam Carter noted Falcon should have prevented an outside hack, according to its product claims: "either CrowdStrike's flagship product failed miserably to deliver on its claimed capabilities or it could mean CrowdStrike withheld evidence."<ref>http://g-2.space/cs2/</ref>

*Papadopoulos meets with Australian High Commissioner [[Alexander Downer]] in a London pub. Papadopoulos was introduced to Downer through Erika Thompson, a counselor to Downer in Australia’s London embassy. Thompson reached out to Papadopoulos two days after Papadopoulos gave an interview to the ''London Times''. Thompson said Downer wanted to meet with Papadopoulos. Thompson is the "foreign intelligence source" that the Mueller Report (pg. 89) cryptically claims the false information of Russia collusion came from. Neither the July 28, 2017 Affidavit signed by FBI Agent Robert M. Gibbs (Gibbs Version) nor the October 5, 2017 Statement of the Offense signed by Robert Mueller (Mueller Version) make mention of the May 10, 2016 Downer meeting. Downer said, {{quotebox|"nothing [Papadopoulos] said in that conversation indicated Trump himself had been conspiring with the Russians to collect information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton — but whether Trump knew or not? He didn’t say Trump knew or that Trump was in any way involved in this. He said it was about Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn’t about Trump. He didn’t say dirt; he said material that could be damaging to her. No, he said it would be damaging. He didn’t say what it was.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/27/downer-papadopoulos-trump/</ref>}}
:*Papadopoulos notes that Ambassador Downer is recording their conversation.
:*The dirt that the Russians had on Clinton related to surveillance activity Russians gathered on Clinton during her time as Secretary of State while she was in Moscow, and not to Clinton emails (Clinton had communicated with Obama via her unsecured server while she was in Russia, and the communications were intercepted by Russian intelligence. James Comey covered up Obama's knowledge of Clinton's illegal server by '''referring to President Obama as "another senior government official'''" at Comey's July 5, 2019 press conference). Neither Papadopolous nor Downer ever claimed that Clinton emails were discussed. Although Papadopoulos is not mentioned in the ''Steele dossier'', the substance of the what Papadopoulos said to Downer appears nearly identical to information later contained in the first memo from Christopher Steele that the FBI obtained in early July 2016.

*'''FBI Head of Counterintelligence [[Bill Priestap]] is in London at the same time Downer met with Papadopolous.<ref>https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/999971153811857408</ref> Tapes are known to have been made during Papadopolous' encounters with FBI informants.<ref>https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1057715472110641152</ref> Brennan later alleges he heard tapes of Trump workers with Russian officials he obtained from UK sources.'''

*'''11 May.''' Downer files notes to Australian government about the content of the conversation and the outlook of the Trump campaign foreign policy.
*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he had a friend in the CIA.

*Wikileaks lawyer Michael Ratner dead in New York.
:*In the fall of 2016, Ellen Ratner, a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted Ed Butowsky, a Texas businessman, about a meeting she had with [[Julian Assange]]. Ratner’s brother, the late Michael Ratner, was an attorney who had represented Assange. According to Ellen Ratner, she made a stop in [[London]] during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Julian Assange for approximately six hours in the [[Ecuador]]ean embassy. Ratner said Assange told her that [[Seth Rich]] and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the [[DNC]] emails to [[Wikileaks]].<ref>http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019.07.15-Amended-complaint-stamped.pdf</ref>

*'''12 May.''' Prevezon Holdings settles with the U.S. government for $6 million in a Russia money-laundering suit. Natalie Veselnitskaya remains in US to lobby for repeal of Russian sanctions. She has overstayed her immigration parole status which was specially authorized by Loretta Lynch's office because the clients she represents (the Katsyv family) are on the Russian sanctions list. Veselnitskaya hires Glenn Simpson and FusionGPS to illegally lobby for repeal of sanctions (the [[Magnitsky Act]]). Neither Veselnitskaya nor FusionGPS register as Russian agents under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]] (FARA).

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*'''May 13–15.''' Lennart Meri Conference was hosted, where it was attended by President Toomas Hendrik Ives, Ian Brzezinski, [[David Kramer]], Kurt Volker and Michael Weiss.<ref>https://lmc.icds.ee/lennart-meri-conference/choose-year/2016-2/agenda/</ref>
*'''13 May.''' Mifsud emails Papadopoulos an update of “recent conversations”. Last contact between Mifsud and Papadopoulos until October 1, 2016.

*'''14 May.''' Papadopoulos emails the High-Ranking Campaign Official and states that the ” Russian government[] ha[s] also relayed to me that they are interested in hosting Mr. Trump.”
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*'''16 May.''' '''Comey spends morning at White House; "extreme carelessness" replaces "gross negligence" by afternoon.''' FBI Dir. James Comey meets with [[President Obama]] in the White House;<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/katica-2.jpg</ref> by afternoon Comey's revised draft memo is circulating among FBI leadership, Comey, Andrew McCabe, [[Bill Priestap]], Peter Strzok, [[James Rybicki]], [[Johnathan Moffa]], James Baker, [[Trisha Anderson]], David Bowdich and several other redacted names.<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/drafts-of-director-comeys-july-5-2016-statement-regarding-email-server-investigation/Drafts%20of%20Director%20Comeys%20July%205%2C%202016%20Statement%20Regarding%20Email%20Server%20Investigation%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view Drafts of Director Comeys July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server Investigation Part 01 of 01], FBI Records: The Vault.</ref><ref>http://thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/386625/</ref>

*[[Strzok]] changes the language of draft memo from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless." The pre-edited statement of Comey’s May 2 memo stated that “we assess it is reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s private email account.” However, Comey’s July 5 public statement read, “Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.”

*Sen. Grassley noted that 17 witnesses including Clinton were interviewed after the decision not to prosecuted was made. “Making a conclusion before you interview key fact witnesses and the subject herself violates the very premise of good investigation. You don't lock into a theory until you have the facts." The evidence shows the FBI locked into a theory that Clinton was innocent and then edited out the facts that contradicted it.

*Podesta Group files disclosure notice with Senate on behalf of the Gulenist organization, the Alliance for Shared Values.<ref>https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=0a81a759-8815-40cf-96ec-b778bd2b49b2&filingTypeID=1</ref> The group’s executive director Alp Aslandogan is also a Clinton donor.

*'''[[Joe Scarborough]] and Mark Halperin defend [[Jeffrey Epstein]] on [[MSNBC]]'''.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-clintons-jeffrey-epstein-connection-could-blow-up-campaign/ MSNBC: Clinton's Jeffrey Epstein Connection Could ‘Blow Up’ Campaign].</ref> Halperin also faced charges of sexual misconduct from at least 5 women dating to the impeachment and Democrats' exoneration of Bill Clinton.<ref>https://nypost.com/2017/10/27/the-mark-halperin-scandal-becomes-more-sordid/</ref>

*'''17 May.''' Early attempt by ''WaPo'' to establish loose Russian ties to the Trump Campaign. Sater’s role as an FBI Informant is unexpectedly reminiscent of Carter Page who provided evidence and served as an informant in the Evgeny Buryakov spy case.<ref>https://t.co/lhefPshInP</ref>

*'''19 May.''' Paul Manafort promoted to campaign chairman and chief strategist for Trump Campaign.

*'''20 May.''' Paul Manafort, on the day after becoming Trump's Campaign Chairman & Chief Strategist, rebuffs [[George Papadopoulos]] attempts to arrange contact between Russian contacts and Trump campaign. {{Quotebox|Papadopoulos persisted, forwarding the same invitation to Manafort several weeks later. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos wrote. Manafort appears to have shrugged at the idea. He forwarded the message to his business partner, Rick Gates, saying that “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.” Manafort’s response to Papadopoulos’ request is “concrete evidence that the Russia collusion narrative is [[fake news]],” Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni told The Post. “Mr. Manafort’s swift action reflects the attitude of the campaign — any invitation by Russia, directly or indirectly, would be rejected outright.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/trump-campaign-officials-rebuffed-volunteers-attempts-to-broker-meeting-with-russian-government/</ref>}}
*'''21 May.''' Gavin MacFadyen receives email transfer from Seth Rich.
*Papadopoulos emails another high-ranking Campaign official, with the subject line “Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump.”

*'''22 May.''' DNC alerted to in-house breach "industry hack"

*'''23 May.''' Nellie Ohr applies for HAM radio license, a communication tool that would allow Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele the ability to communicate outside the normal risk of communication intercepts.<ref>http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?archive=Y&licKey=12382876</ref> Extra caution was needed as soon as Nellie recognized that Admiral Mike Rogers (NSA) was investigating anyone with access to the database. Former Naval intelligence officer J.E. Dyer notes it significant that the cyber intrusion on the DNC email system was detected on April 29, 2016. Dyer writes, “one can obviously think of more than one reason why the use of amateur radio for communications with certain parties might have seemed like a good idea at that point, to at least some of the people involved.” Dyer says “only a fool would fail to look into it.”<ref>https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/11/demoted-doj-officials-wife-obtain-unusual-license-went-work-fusion-gps-2016/</ref>
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*FBI probe into Virginia governor and Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe becomes public. (McCabe ultimately does not not charge McAuliffe with a crime.)

*Justice Department Inspector General confirms it’s looking into Andrew McCabe for alleged conflicts of interest in handling of Clinton and Gov. McAuliffe probes in light of McAuliffe directing campaign donations to McCabe’s wife.

*'''24 May.''' Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $91,500 to FusionGPS.
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*'''25 May.''' Report from the Inspector General for the State Department finds Clinton personally violated federal records law, that there were attempts to hack into her system, that some Clinton aides also used personal email accounts exclusively for government business and did not fully cooperate with the IG investigation and that Clinton failed to turn over all of the emails she was required to turn over to investigators.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/state-department-report-on-clintons-email-practices/2039/?tid=a_inl</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/KT7201pDtYo Clinton Server Scandal_Segment 5]</ref>
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*Evegeny Buryakov sentenced to 30 months in prison. The conviction of the Russian spy was not possible without the help of paid FBI informant Carter Page, who wore a wire for the FBI. Buryakov is released early and deported to Russia days before the leaked Carter Page FISA warrant is widely reported in April 2017 so that reporters could not interview Buryakov.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-spy-evgeny-buryakov-deported-united-states/story?id=46601947</ref> [[John Carlin]] and [[Preet Bharara]] are deeply involved in the case.
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*Photo posted by Nagi Idris on Twitter of Papadopoulos among a LCILP delegation visiting Link Campus University in Italy where Mifsud is an official in charge of a three-year degree course in [[political science]] and [[international relations]].<ref>https://twitter.com/nkidris/status/735421959757008896?s=20</ref> Papadopoulos has officially left the LCILP already.
*Date of the last email in the DNC Email Archive released by Wikileaks.
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*'''26 May.''' Trump secures the number of delegates needed to gain the Republican Party nomination.
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*'''31 May.''' Shahriar Zolfaghari, husband of [[Georgia]] 's Assistant Attorney General for child sex trafficing, shot down.<ref>https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/husband-of-georgia-assistant-attorney-general-found-dead/316412664</ref>
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*'''May.''' U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph "Rudy" Contreras, a personal friend of lead FBI counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok appointed to [[FISA court]] (FISC).
*Christopher Steele provided information to American intelligence agencies on Mikhail Kalugin, the Head of the Russian Embassy’s Economics Section.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786</ref>

===June 2016===
Julian Assange announced in a televised interview on June 12 that he was in possession of DNC emails; on June 13, 2018 (two years later) special counsel [[Robert Mueller]] alleged in [[The indictment of 12 Russian nationals, 13 July 2018|an indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers]] that alleged Russian "hackers" did not contact Assange with DNC emails until June 14.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which includes among members two former Technical Directors of the National Security Agency, has repeatedly called attention to its conclusion that the DNC emails were leaked — not “hacked” by Russia or anyone else.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/</ref> In analyizing the time sequence:

:*June 12, 2016: Assange announces WikiLeaks is about to publish “emails related to Hillary Clinton;”

:*June 14, 2016: DNC contractor Crowdstrike, (with a dubious professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announces that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians;

:*June 15, 2016: “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints;"

VIPS noted {{Quotebox|"We do not think that the June 12, 14, & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171112090338/https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref>}}
"Cozy Bear" and "[[Fancy Bear]]", whom CrowdStrike alleged to belong to Russian intelligence, are hacker groups that have been identified as associated with Ukrainian intelligence. James Comey never pursued the matter.
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Russian hacking claims relied entirely on a report by a private company the DNC hired called [[CrowdStrike]] of Irvine, CA. Crowdstrike was founded by Dimitry Alperovitch, a Ukrainian oligarch.<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref>

Neither the FBI nor the [[Dept. of Homeland Security]] ever examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.

The [[mainstream media]] ran with the CrowdStrike version of a hack in an attempt to delegitimize Trump. Starting in June 2016 and continuing forward the DNC, ''Washington Post'', ''New York Times'', and other MSM outlets have been using CrowdStrike's allegations in an attempt to delegitimize Donald Trump while providing an excuse for Hillary Clinton's loss. From there followed claims that "Russia hacked the U.S. elections."
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[[FusionGPS]] hired by [[Veselnitskaya]] through [[BakerHostetler]] to do dirt digging for a Russian defendant (Prevezon) in a civil forfeiture case arising out of alleged money laundering activities uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky (whose name was given to the Russia sanctions bill, the [[Magnitsky Act]]). [[Glenn Simpson]] acknowledged that the [[Kremlin]]'s interests in the work Simpson did for Veselnitskaya and the Katsyv's aligned with his client against the [[U.S. Government]]. Russian lawyer [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] hired BakerHostetler, the law firm for which Simpson was working, and that firm retained the services of Russian-American lobbyist [[Rinat Akhmetshin]], both of whom attended a meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. During the Prevezon litigation, Veselnitskaya received, via the law firm, memoranda summarizing [redacted, likely Magnitsky Act] research. Certain topics - including the Ziff Brothers (a venture capital firm specializing in capital investment) - were the-subject of both (1) memoranda Veselnitskaya received from Simpson and (2) the presentation Veselnitskaya made to Trump campaign officials. Simpson acknowledged being with Veselnitskaya at a court hearing in New York on the morning of June 9, 2016, prior to her meeting at Trump Tower. He further recalled having drinks and dinner with her and others, including Akhmetshin, in Washington, D.C. a day or two later.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, p. 88.</ref> The Ziff Brothers were Clinton Foundation donors who Simpson dug up dirt on in his effort to discredit the Magnitsky Act for the Katsyvs.

Contrary to media, Comey FBI, and [[Mueller office]] leaks and false reporting, Veselnitskaya's "dirt" had nothing to do with Clinton emails. It was "dirt" about Clinton Foundation donors. And the "dirt" was dug up by the same outfit Hillary Clinton paid to dig up "dirt" on Donald Trump.
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Bruce Ohr made his first contact with the FBI about Trump-Russia collusion evidence in late July and early August 2016. Bruce, Nellie and Christopher Steele met for breakfast at a Washington hotel. Trump had made statements about making [[NATO]] allies pay their fair share. Steele of British intelligence was desperate for Trump not to win. Bruce called McCabe at the FBI after they ate. Strzok of the FBI counterintelligence division opened an investigation on Trump the next day.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405484-bruce-ohrs-efforts-to-secretly-reshape-the-trump-probe-started-earlier-in</ref>
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[[File:John-mccain-sergei-millian-600x395.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Alleged Russian agent Sergei Millian colluding with Sen. John McCain.]]
*'''1 June.''' Mueller Version of Papadopoulos Statement of Offense becomes vague about Papadopoulos' alleged foreign contacts between now and August, with no reference to Sergei Millian. Millian is known throughout the Trump-Russia affair as Steels Source D (Report 80) and Source E (Reports 94, 95 and 102), "a person known to the FBI", and Person 1 in the FISA Abuse Report''. Millian is cited as the source of the statements of "a well developed conspiracy" and the golden shower allegations.
:*Steele's allegations, attributed to Millian, was the foundational probable cause for the Carter Page FISA application. When the Crossfire Hurricane team interviewed Millian in January 2017 at the time of the first FISA warrant renewal, Millian stated that Steele lied and embellished statements Millian made to Steele, which Steele had attributed to Millian in the ''Steele dossier''. No corrections were ever made in any of the Carter Page FISA applications, and the FBI deliberately hoaxed the FISA court for one year, well into the first nine months of the Trump presidency. Under the two-hop rule, the FBI and Mueller team was able to pursue the most invasive surveillance possible of all past and present electronic communications, on all Trump appointees for the first nine months of the Trump administration.
:*DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] established that Millian is being both Source D and E in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>FISA Abusae Report, pp. 163-165.</ref>
::*The ''Wall Street Journal'' reported: {{Quotebox|Sergei Millian, a 38-year-old American citizen who has claimed he helped market Trump properties to Russian buyers, wasn’t a direct source for the 35-page dossier, this person said. Rather, his statements about the Trump-Russia relationship were relayed by at least one third party to the British ex-spy who prepared the dossier, the person said. Among the unverified allegations of Mr. Millian’s that an intermediary passed along, the person said: The claim that the Russians had compromising video of Mr. Trump that could be used to blackmail him, and a claim that there was a “conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump camp and Russian leadership that involved hacking the computers of Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponents. In the dossier, the source believed to be Mr. Millian is referred to at various times as both Source D and Source E and is cited as somebody “speaking in confidence to a compatriot” or “speaking in confidence to a trusted associate.”<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/key-claims-in-trump-dossier-came-from-head-of-russian-american-business-group-source-1485253804</ref>}} The Daily Caller New Foundation reported: {{Quotebox|Papadopoulos’ wife, is now drawing attention to two other encounters that Papadopoulos has had over the past two years that she considers “highly suspicious.” One of those contacts [Millian] offered to pay Papadopoulos $30,000 a month while he worked inside the [[Trump administration]], she told The Daily Caller News Foundation. ...Sergei Millian, a [[Belarus]]-born businessman who is alleged to be a major source for the infamous ''Steele dossier''..... Mangiante, an Italian national, confirmed to TheDCNF that Millian is the individual Papadopoulos described in a July 22, 2016 Facebook message that is cited in documents the special counsel’s office released in October. Papadopoulos and Millian met days after the July 22, 2016 Facebook message.... Mangiante also said that Papadopoulos and Millian met multiple times in [[Chicago]] and [[New York City]] before the election. In one encounter in Chicago, Millian offered Papadopoulos a substantial sum of money as part of an energy-related business deal. The catch was that Millian said Papadopoulos would have to remain in the Trump administration while carrying out the work.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/george-papadopoulos-millian-suspicious/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push</ref>}} By contrast, Mueller's Statement of Offense is strangely silent on Millian: {{Quotebox|From mid-June through mid-August 2016, PAPADOPOULOS pursued an “off the record” meeting between one or more Campaign representatives and “members of president putin’s office and the mfa [Ministry of Foreign Affairs].”}}
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*'''7 June.''' Carter Page attended a private meeting with foreign policy experts at Blair House attended by Ashton Carter and Loretta Lynch.
[[File:PhotoEditor-20181005152829.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''[[Glenn Simpson]] was working for both [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] ''and'' [[Hillary Clinton]] at the time of the Trump Tower meeting.''' Simpson gave the alleged "dirt" to Veselnitskaya, which she carried into the meeting; all it amounted to was "dirt" on [[Clinton Foundation]] donors.]]
*'''9 June.''' '''Trump Tower meeting'''.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/30/facts-behind-trump-tower-meeting-incriminating-not-trump/</ref> Natalia Veselnitskaya,<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-seeks-more-information-pro-russia-lobbyist-present-trump-jr-meeting</ref> Rinat Akhmetshin, an American citizen and lobbyist employed by BakerHostetler,<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rinat-akhmetshin-who-russian-lobbyist-who-met-trump-team-n783161</ref> Ike Kaveladze<ref>https://ru.linkedin.com/in/ikekaveladze</ref> and Anatoli Samochornov meet with [[Donald Trump Jr.]], Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref> Samochornov was Veselnitskaya’s translator. Samochornov also worked as a translator for Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and [[John Kerry]]. Samochornov also translated for Barack Obama and [[Joe Biden]]'s United Nations speeches and summits.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/02/inspect-fisa-applications-closely-mysteries-arise-joseph-mifsud/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d44356c9be-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d44356c9be-84014745</ref> Anti-Russian [[bigot]]s use the Russian sounding names to sow hate and mistrust.<ref>https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-british-collusion-and-criminality</ref>

:*Samochornov is the Program Officer for the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program,<ref>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2010/nyfo021710-1.htm</ref> a program which later invites Prof. [[Joseph Mifsud]] as a featured speaker in Washington.

:*Veselnitskaya was hired by Denis Katsyv of the Russian Katsyv family to represent Prevezon; when in the United States, Veselnitskaya hired BakerHostetler to discredit [[Bill Browder]], who pushed through Russian sanctions, the Magnitsky Act. Katsyv and Veselnitskaya wanted to limit sanctions and discredit Browder. Browder claimed corrupt Russian businessmen and the government stole $350 million of his money and killed his employee, Sergei Magnitsky. Veselnitskaya hired BakerHostetler to hire FusionGPS and Simpson to compile an anti-Browder dossier.

:*Browder renounced his American citizenship in 1998 to avoid U.S. taxes and returned in 2010 to lobby Sens. [[John McCain]] and [[Ben Cardin]] for passage of the Magnitsky Act, named for his employee who died in jail while serving a sentence on evasion of Russian taxes. How a person who renounced their American citizenship and didn't pay U.S. taxes has the power to move Congress to help reclaim his wealth through sanctions is anybody's guess.

:*Simpson gave four pages of the anti-Browder research to Veselnitskaya, who carried it into the meeting with Trump associates. It contained information about “financial misconduct by major contributors [the Ziff brothers, allied with Bill Browder] to the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the [[Clinton Foundation]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/fusion-gps-dossier-targeted-clinton-foundation-donors/</ref>

:*Browder filed a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) complaint against Simpson and FusionGPS with the FBI for unregistered lobbying to repeal sanctions, which [[Andrew McCabe]] never acted on.

:*Simpson obviously had a [[conflict of interest]], working to remove sanctions for Prevezon while at the same time working to impugn Trump as a violator of sanctions with false information on behalf of his DNC and Hillary Clinton clients.

:*[[Robert Mueller]] was never contacted Veselnitskaya for an interview about the meeting.
*Susan Rice informed attendees at a ''Washington Post'' event that peace between Russia and Ukraine could be accomplished before the end of 2017.
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*'''10 June.''' FBI enters immunity deal with Cheryl Mills and [[Heather Samuelson]] that resulted in laptops with evidence being turned over to agents late in the probe. The decision to grant immunity to the Clinton advisers as well as the computer technician involved in the email deletions was made “with the idea it would be better to know all the circumstances” before the case was closed out.
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*'''12 June.''' FusionGPS hires [[Christopher Steele]] (former British Intelligence Officer) of Orbis Business Intelligence (Steele's London-based firm) to begin compiling the ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' alleging ties between Trump and Russia. Steele discloses this and his period of employment with FusionGPS (12 Jun 2016 through 30 Oct 2016) in court filings stemming from a lawsuit against him and the dossier.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele</ref>
:*Steele provided Fusion GPS with something that Simpson’s firm was lacking: access to individuals within the FBI and the State Department. These contacts could be traced back to at least 2010, when Steele had provided assistance in the FBI’s investigation into FIFA over concerns that Russia might have been engaging in bribery to host the 2018 World Cup.
:*Steele provided informal reports to the State Department in the latter half of 2014. “During the [[Ukraine crisis]] in 2014 and ‘15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them,” said '''Victoria Nuland''', assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
:*Steele was identified as a British spy in 1999, and head of the Russia desk when Russian assassins killed [[FSB]] defector Alexander Litvinenko in a sushi restaurant in London.
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*[[Julian Assange]] tells UK TV of more Clinton leaks to come.<ref>https://archive.is/mil9q</ref>

*'''13 June.''' Newseum hosts screening of anti-Magnitsky Act movie attended by members of Congress and journalists; Simpson lobby's journalists to push the pro-Putin propaganda.<ref>https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/30/extraordinary-timeline-dnc-fusion-hillary-trump-dossier-crowdstrike-hirings-payments-2016-primaries/</ref><ref>http://russialist.org/russian-gun-for-hire-rinatakhmetshin-lurks-in-shadows-of-washingtons-lobbying-world-russia-lobbyists-assassinations-magnitsky/</ref>

*'''14 June.''' '''DNC cover-up of whistleblower leak'''. DNC claims ''Trump Opposition Research'' stolen in alleged hack;<ref>https://archive.is/mIlwc</ref><ref>''Washington Post'' puts out sensational [[fake news]] story of Russian hacking the DNC. CrowdStrike is reported as discovering the hack, but the hack has never been independently verified by the FBI or any other independent firm or government agency. CrowdStrike, [colloquially referred to as "industry" by the IC] under contract to the DNC, is assisting the DNC to brace for embarrassing Wikileaks revelations of the document dumps procured by DNC [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich by blaming Russian hackers. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9c00be4c3957] https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/muzzled-breitbart-wh-correspondent-ordered-not-ask-televised-question-discrediting-d *'''15 June.''' Someone purporting to be Guccifer2.0 claims responsibility for DNC hack and claims to be a source for Wikileaks. The first 5 documents he posts are purposefully tainted with 'Russian Fingerprints' and the first of those documents just so happens to be the ''Trump Opposition Research'' the DNC announce on the previous day.</ref>
[[File:Obama-plouffe-2.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama and one of his reliable henchmen, David Plouffe. Plouffe was urging action against Donald Trump even before Trump was nominated.]]
*'''15 June.''' First Guccifer 2.0 document created by [[Warren Flood]] at 13:38 EDT, modified by [[Феликс Эдмундович]] (Felix Edmunovich, the Russian patronymic of Felix Edmunovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB - a blatantly amatuerish attempt to create Russian fingerprints) thirty minutes later at 14:08 EDT. Warren Flood was Joe Biden's former IT director at the White House. A document that Flood authored in 2008, and that was attached to one of John Podesta's emails, was used by Guccifer 2.0 as a template into which he then copied the contents of the Trump Opposition Research, copied from this file: https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/26562/7365 (which is also attached to [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26562 this leaked email]). It is Flood's document that the "CONFIDENTIAL" text in the background derives from.

*'''16 June.''' Obama operative David Plouffe declares war on Trump and the Trump movement. He tweets: "It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again."

*'''17 June.''' Victoria Nuland meets with Eric Ciaramella in the the White House.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>

*'''19 June.''' Despite repeated rebuffs, Papadopoulos emails the High-Ranking Campaign Official, with the subject line “New message from Russia” – I am willing to make the trip off the record if it’s in the interest of Mr. Trump and the campaign to meet specific people.”
*Lisa Monaco visited the ODNI, where she met with Clapper and Tonya Ugoretz.
*John Kerry met with newly appointed UK Prime Minister [[Theresa May]].
*John Brennnan participated in the Leadership Dinner at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, where he discussed the modernisation of the CIA and the Open Source Enterprise.
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*'''20 June.''' '''Christopher Steele files' first memo''' entitled ''Company Intelligence Report'': “A dossier of compromising information on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services.” Steele sends it to Fusion GPS via enciphered mail.
:*The memo's opening summary, first page, fourth bullet point contains the following: {{quotebox|"A dossier of compromising information on Hillary Clinton has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services over many years and mainly compromises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.}} The memo makes no mention of emails - more similiar to the discription of information Papadopoulos mentioned to Alexander Downer.
:*The memo also alludes to Donald Trump sexual antics in the Moscow Ritz Hilton in 2013.
*Last payment was made to Alexandra Chalupa for $25,000, records filed with the Federal Election Commission show.
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*'''22 June.''' '''Wikileaks documents that the DNC rigged the nomination for Hillary Clinton and obstructed Bernie Sanders campaign.'''<ref>https://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/</ref> Sanders supporters vow lawsuits.

*FBI held a close-up meeting of their future 10 day training course at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine.<ref>https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/fbi-conducted-training-nabu-special-forces</ref>
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*FBI conspirators Lisa Page & Peter Strzok exchange texts: "Page – Just leaving my meeting now. How we make law in this country is offensive and irresponsible." "Strzok – I know it is. Its why I LOATHE congress. Can’t wait to hear the story."
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*'''24 June.''' Glenn Simpson contacts Christopher Steele to arrange to receive a copy of the ''Steele dossier'', which was sent via courier from the UK.
[[File:Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meet in P 0 41315067 ver1.0 640 480.jpg|right|350px|thumb|'''Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac collusion, June 27, 2016. Phoenix airport.''' Lynch's long awaited announcement on the disposition of the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton email investigation]] never occurred when she compromised herself in a secret meeting with the husband of the accused. The Clintons had effectively compromised Obama, when Obama responded to emails Hillary sent from Russian territory which likely were hacked.
FBI Dir. Comey surprisingly announced days later he decided against recommending prosecution, usurping the authority of the Attorney General. The Justice Dept. immediately tried to cover up the meeting and denied it had any paper trail of its existence.]]
*'''27 June.''' '''Tarmac collusion.''' [[Bill Clinton]] meets Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch in a face-to-face meeting on board her plane at an airport hanger in Phoenix, apparently to make final arrangements for Hillary Clinton's July 3 interview.

*The head of Clinton's [[Secret Service]] detail contacted the head of Lynch's FBI security detail before her arrival hours in advance to arrange the meeting. Clinton's private plane waited for Lynch's arrival, yet Clinton lied to Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] that he did not know Lynch was coming to Phoenix until her arrival, and it was a last minute, spontaneous decision to board her plane and speak with her.<ref>Clinton email IG Report, pp. 203-204.</ref>

*The Inspector General criticised Lynch's participation and failure to recuse an error in judgement, her explanations did not adequately address the situation, and created confusion among the public whether the justice system works.

*Clapper signed the “''Coordination of Clandestine Human Source and Human-Enabled Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Activities in the United States''”.<ref>[https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD%20311%20-%20Coord%20of%20Clandestine%20Human%20and%20Human-Enabled%20FI%20and%20CI%20inside%20the%20US%20%2827%20June%202016%29.pdf Intelligence Community Directive 311: ''Coordination of Clandestine Human Source and Human-Enabled Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Activities in the United States''], Office of the Director of National Intelligence. </ref>

*Brennan and [[MI6]] Chief Alex Younger spoke with each other.<ref>https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2016-speeches-testimony/director-brennan-speaks-at-the-council-on-foreign-relations.html</ref>

*'''28 June.''' VOA: Russia Calls Former U.S. Ambassador 'Incompetent,' Complains Of FBI, CIA Harassment.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-calls-mcfaul-incompetent/27826757.html</ref>

*'''29 June.''' Justice Dept. and FBI begin efforts to kill the story about the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting and Lynch's conflict of interest with regard to making a decision to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information.<ref>http://media.aclj.org/pdf/Clinton-Lynch-Flag.pdf</ref><ref>https://aclj.org/government-corruption/doj-document-dump-to-aclj-on-clinton-lynch-meeting-comey-fbi-lied-media-collusion-spin-and-illegality</ref><ref>http://bb4sp.com/lynch-grandmothers-name-alias-doj/#</ref>

*FBI and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) of Ukraine signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on international money laundering asset recovery and Ukrainian high-level officials’ bribery and corruption, which was attended by Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and Acting Deputy Assistant Director Mathew S. Moon.<ref>https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/nabu-has-signed-memorandum-understanding-fbi</ref> Leaked tapes of Sytnyk confirm that that Ukrainian officials colluded with the DNC to hurt Donald Trump and help the Clinton campaign.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>
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*'''30 June.''' '''Obama complicity whitewashed.''' The FBI investigation concluded that Sec. of State Clinton communicated with President Obama via email. The fact that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were emailing each other, indicates President Obama did in fact know of Clinton’s illegal email account. FBI Draft statement on Hillary's exoneration reads, {{Quotebox|We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including '''from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. ''That use included an email exchange with the President'' while Secretary Clinton was on the territory of such an adversary'''. [Emphasis added.] Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/455696/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-emails-key-decision-not-indict-hillary</ref>}}
From the txt msg. between Strzok and Lisa Page, we see that Asst. FBI Dir. W.H. “Bill” Priestap helped create the carefully worded announcement Dir. Comey delivered in July 2016 to extricate Clinton from her illegal problems.
{{Quotebox|Strzok – K. Rybicki just sent another version.

Page – Bill [Priestap] just popped his head in, hopefully to talk to him.

Strzok – Hope so. Just left Bill [Priestap]. Talked about the speed, the [redacted; likely Obama. Hillary and Obama communicated with each other from Hillary's unsecured server while Hillary was in Russia which likely was monitored by Russian intelligence] was relating to the case, and what I told you about earlier.

Strzok – He '''[Priestap] changed "President" to "another senior government official'''".}}

*Bill Priestap was Strzok’s direct boss. As head of FBI counterintelligence, Priestap would have to sign off on the use of FusionGPS (aka: Bean LLC, aka, Glenn Simpson), Crowdstrike, and/or any FBI contractor who was allowed access to, or received information from, the FBI database.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/22/fbi-shadow-figure-surfaces-to-protect-president-obama-amid-released-fbi-text-messages/</ref> Priestap would have needed to authorize Strzok to engage with Christopher Steele over the ''Steele dosssier''. Priestap would have to approve the underlying documents that were used for both FISA applications (June/July and Sept/Oct). Priestap would be the person to approve of paying, or reimbursing, Christopher Steele for the ''Steele dossier'' used in the FBI counterintelligence operation and subsequent FISA application.

*'''June.''' Steele meets in Rome with FBI Agent [[Mike Gaeta]] from the Eurasian Joint Organized Crime Squad with whom Steele had worked on the European FIFA soccer scandal. Reports vary: ''The Guardian'' reported that “in June, Steele flew to Rome to brief the FBI contact with whom he had cooperated over FIFA.” ABC News reported that “Steele sent the FBI agent in Rome the opposition research on Trump he generated working for Fusion GPS.” Following Gaeta’s initial meeting with Steele, the FBI sought permission from the office of [[Victoria Nuland]], who gave the go-ahead for the more formal meeting.
:*Steele was first introduced to Gaeta in 2010 by Bruce Ohr, and Gaeta signed up Steele as a paid confidential human source for the FBI in 2013.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 85.</ref>
*'''June.''' Sergei Skripal visited Estonia and met with intelligence officials at the time.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/14/sergei-skripal-briefed-european-intelligence-services-reports-say</ref>

*'''Late June.''' Justice Dept. seeks [[FISA]] warrant to eavesdrop on Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos (earlier reports listed Donald Trump, Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Boris Epshteyn). FISA court denies request.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap-may-have-been-sought</ref> Ordinary procedures call for the [[Justice Department]] to ask a FISA Court for a warrant. It is improbable that [[Attorney General]] [[Loretta Lynch]] acted on her own against a presidential nominee of another party without consulting President Obama.<ref>https://youtu.be/5CSZKmssG2o</ref>

*FBI agent Peter Strzok has direct contact with Christopher Steele and receives preliminary draft of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> According to Robby Mook, the partial dossier information was also given to the DNC and Clinton campaign.

*Late June 2016: DCLeaks website begins publishing Democratic National Committee emails.

*The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine signs evidence-sharing agreement with FBI and will later publicly release the Black Ledger File implicating Paul Manafort in allegedly improper payments.

*'''June & July.''' FBI agents requested Patrick Byrne to focus on developing a closer romantic relationship with Maria Butina and to use his influence to target her to closer proximity with the Trump family and Trump campaign. Byrne said the specific instructions were coming to the agents from Peter Strzok as he relayed the requests of those above him Byrne named James Comey, Andrew McCabe, [[Bill Priestap]], [[John Carlin]] (DOJ-NSD).
*'''Summer.''' Robert Hannigan, head of [[GCHQ]], flew from London to meet personally with CIA Director John Brennan.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2</ref>

===July 2016===
FBI counterintelligence investigations generally proceed sequentially from what is called a preliminary investigation or inquiry (PI) to a full investigation (FI). To move from a PI to an FI requires substantial information — predication — indicating investigative targets acted as agents of a foreign power. There are strict guidelines governing when the FBI can task a confidential source or a government undercover operative to collect against a U.S. citizen. Normally this is restricted to a full investigation, and normally restricted to the United States, not overseas. The FBI tasked sources to spy on the Trump campaign before an investigation was even officially opened.

The question that has yet to be answered is, who did FBI agent Mike Gaeta give the ''Steeele dossier'' to, and when. Was it transmitted to FBI leadership? If so, why did the counterintelligence team have to travel to Rome in September to get their first copy from Steele? And the biggest question: Did CIA director John Brennan receive a copy of the dossier via Gaeta—or whomever he transmitted a copy to—in the summer of 2016 following Gaeta’s return?
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Oversight protocol requires the FBI Director to tell the congressional intelligence [[Gang of Eight]] (Go8) of any counterintelligence operations. The Go8 has oversight into these operations at the highest level of classification. In July 2016, at the time the Obama FBI Counterintelligence Division operation began, oversight was the responsibility of Speaker [[Paul Ryan]], Minority leader [[Nancy Pelosi]], Senate Majority leader [[Mitch McConnell]], Senate Minority leader [[Harry Reid]], [[House Intel Committee]] chair [[Devin Nunes]], ranking member [[Adam Schiff]], Senate Intel chair [[Richard Burr]], and ranking member [[Diane Feinstein]]. Comey and the Obama FBI kept hidden from the Go8 its counterintelligence operation against a presidential candidate, Donald Trump. FBI Agent Peter Strzok referred to the Obama administration's illegal counterintelligence operation as an “insurance policy”.
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Throughout July, August and Sept 2016 Fusion GPS paid journalists from the ''New York Times'', ABC, Ken Dilanian of NBC and others to listen to Christopher Steele and simultaneously shopping the fake ''Steele dossier'' to them. Court papers confirm payments.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-gps-paid-journalists-court-papers-confirm/article/2641454</ref> The list of journalists and media outlets made aware of Steele’s tripe is extensive. Those journalists include ''New Yorker'' editor David Remnick, ''Atlantic'' editor Jeffrey Goldberg, former ''New Republic'' editor Franklin Foer, and ''Washington Post'' columnist Anne Applebaum. ''Reuters'' reported that it, too, was briefed on the dossier,<ref>http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/veracity-of-trump-dossier-holding-up-despite-republican-attacks-1070959683973?playlist=associated</ref> and while it refrained from reporting on it before the election, its national security reporter Mark Hosenball became an advocate of the dossier’s findings after Trump's victory in November 2016.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/trump-dossier-on-russia-links-now-part-of-special-counsels-probe-sources-idUSKBN1C92WN</ref> [[BBC]]'s Paul Wood wrote in January 2017 that he was briefed on the dossier a week before the election. ''Newsweek’s'' Kurt Eichenwald likely saw Steele’s work around the same time, because he published an article days before the election based on a “Western intelligence” source (i.e., Steele) who cited names and data points that could only come from Steele's opposition research.
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The Clintons effectively compromised Obama and Lynch to whitewash the email investigation. Hillary Clinton emailed President Obama from Russia using her Blackberry tied to the Chappaqua server. Obama took the bait and responded. Russian intelligence likely monitored the exchange from its point of origin in Russia. Whether Hillary deliberately set up Obama with compromising evidence to protect her email scam, or it was just stupidity on her part, is a matter of speculation.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/09/obama-email-alias-clinton-why-fbi-didnt-prosecute-hillary/</ref>

But the entire incident certainly was used by the Clinton's in an "If I go down, you go down, too" negotiation by late June 2016. Loretta Lynch had to compromise herself when she met Bill Clinton to finalize the whitewash.

James Comey, knicknamed [[Jimmy the Weasel]] for his overblown sense of self-importance couched in a Boy Scout veneer, was the perfect stooge and useful idiot who volunteered himself as the fall guy to hide Clinton and Obama corruption and carry the message to the American media and public.
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*'''July.''' Ukraine minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov attacks Trump and Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort on Twitter and Facebook, calling Trump “an even bigger danger to the US than terrorism.” Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk writes on Facebook that Trump has “challenged the very values of the free world.”
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*'''1 July.''' Lynch announces that she would accept whatever recommendation Comey and career prosecutors made about charging Clinton. Strzok and Lisa Page exchange txt msg saying that Lynch knew in advance of FBI's decision to whitewash the investigation:

{{Quotebox|Strzok – Holy cow....[[New York Times|nyt]] breaking [Matt] Apuzzo,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html</ref> Lync[h] will accept whatever rec[ommendation] and career prosecutors make. No political appointee input.

Strzok – Lynch. Timing not great, but whatever. Wonder if that's why the coordination language added.

Page – No way. '''This is a purposeful leak following the zairplane snafu'''.

Strzok – Timing looks like hell. Will appear to be choreographed. All major news networks literally leading with "AG to accept FBI D[irector]'s recommendation."

Lisa Page – Yeah, that is awful timing. Nothing we can do about it.

Strzok – What I meant was, did [[DOJ]] tell us yesterday they were doing this, so D[irector] added that language.

Strzok – Yep. I told Bill [Priestap] the same thing. Delaying just makes it worse.

Lisa Page – And yes. I think we had some warning of it. I know they sent some statement to [Comey Chief of Staff James] rybicki, bc he called andy [McCabe].

Lisa Page – And yeah, it's a real profile in couragw [sic], since '''she [Lynch] knows no charges will be brought'''.}}

*Lynch, having failed to recuse herself, retained authority over both the final prosecution decision and the Department’s management of the Clinton email investigation.

*Christopher Steele emails Bruce Ohr: {{quotebox|"I am seeing [redacted; likely Gaeta] in London next week to discuss ongoing business, but there is something separate I wanted to discuss with you informally and separately. It concerns our favourite business tycoon!"}} Steele said he had planned to come to the U.S. soon, but now it looked like it would not be until August. He needed to talk in the next few days and suggested getting together by Skype before he left on holiday. Ohr suggested talking on July 7. Steele agreed.

*Shawn Lucas serves papers on DNC for lawsuit on behalf of [[Bernie Sanders]] supporters alleging election fraud.<ref>https://youtu.be/D3FMgZruOXE</ref> DNC claims they were improperly served, delaying a hearing til after the election. The subject of the rebuttal, 38 year old Shawn Lucas the process server, will be dead in a month.

*'''2 July.''' '''Hillary Clinton interview.''' Obama donor and "career" employee Dept. of Justice Chief of Counterintelligence [[David Laufman]] and [[Peter Strzok]] conduct long delayed personal interview with [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Hillary Clinton in email investigation]]. Two unnamed DOJ representatives as well as the two confidential FBI agents also conduct the interview. David Kendall, Katherine Turner, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson are with Clinton.<ref>https://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbi-used-agents-as-pawns-to-insulate-hillary-aides-clinton-foundation-from-prosecutions/</ref> Mills and Samuelson are fact witnesses in the investigation who were granted immunity, and now are acting as lawyers representing Clinton. No video, transcript or oath is made. White House and Justice Department claim that the investigators are independent and nonpartisan.<ref>http://www.trunews.com/article/doj-clinton-investigation-revealed-as-less-than-apolitical</ref> The FBI interviewers later are referred for disciplinary action.

*John Ashe, former President of the [[UN General Assembly]], crushes his own throat days before slated to testify against Hillary Clinton in a corruption trial.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-02/un-official-accidentally-crushes-own-throat-right-testifying-against-hillary-clinton</ref>

*'''3 July.''' Comey and Rybicki started to rehearse the Clinton exoneration statement at FBI Headquarters.<ref>Senator Ron Johnson Appendix C - Documents and Text Messages.</ref>

*'''4 July.''' Franklin Foer writes in ''[[Slate]]'', an article enitled ''Putin’s Puppet,'' which appears to come from [[Christopher Steele]] and the ''Steele dossier''. Foer’s piece argues the Trump campaign was overly Russia-friendly. Foer discusses Trump’s team, including campaign convention manager Paul Manafort, who worked with former Ukrainian president [[Victor Yanukovich]], and [[Carter Page]].<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html Putin’s Puppet], By Franklin Foer, ''Slate'', July 4, 2016.</ref>

*Strzok texted Lisa Page that he was waiting for clarification on the Clinton e-mails from the Department of Justice, and whether or not they were classified, while he fact-checked Director Comey’s statement.
*Obama offered Hillary a ride in [[Air Force One]] for her July 5th trip to Charlotte, NC.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/obama-clinton-air-force-one-trump/index.html</ref>
[[File:112 2016 b4-napo-comey-hoove8201 c0-389-1420-1216 s885x516 (1).jpg|right|300px|thumb|James Comey oversaw the FBI's role in a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton of criminal allegations, and frame Donald Trump for crimes he did not commit.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0062872745</ref>]]
*'''5 July.''' '''Hillary whitewash announced. Comey gives Hillary ''get-out-of-jail-free'' card.''' in violation of existing DOJ regulations, Dir. James Comey usurped the power of the Attorney General, and DOJ prosecutors, to publicly announce his intention not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for felonious acts which the investigation determined she and her staff committed. Comey stated "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges, intimidating reasonable DOJ prosecutors ''before'' they ever read the report or examined evidence. Nowhere in America do the [[police]] determine ''who'' to [[prosecute]], other than in Obama, Lynch and Comey's [[progressive]] America.
:*Comey states that Sec. Clinton and staff were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," and "there is evidence of potential violations of the [[statute]]s regarding the handling of classified information…There is [[evidence]] to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation." Comey referred the matter to the Justice Dept. for a prosecutorial decision. In the absence of prosecution, security or administrative sanctions are the norm.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system Statement by Director James Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System] (July 15, 2015).</ref> Comey's decision to by-pass DoJ rules and take matters into his own hands may have been part of a counterintelligence operation.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-comey-is-maxwell-smart-1501022653?mod=e2fb</ref>
:*Comey violated longstanding departmental policy of the FBI not commenting on investigations in public.
:*Comey lied about colluding with Lynch: “I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/fbi-agents-felt-pressure-wrap-up-clinton-email-probe-trump/</ref>
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:*Christopher Steele provides FBI agent Mike Gaeta at the offices of Orbis in London. a report captioned "Company Intelligence Report 2016/080-U.S. Presidential Election: Republican Candidate Donald Trump's Activities in Russia and Compromising Relationship with the Kremlin," and is dated June 20, 2016 (Report 80). It contains numerous allegations about Trump, including that: (1) the "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting, and assisting [Trump] for at least 5 years;" (2) "[Trump] and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals;" (3) Trump's activities in Moscow, including "perverted sexual acts," make him vulnerable to blackmail; (4) Russian Intelligence Services have collected "compromising material" on Hillary Clinton; and (5) the Kremlin has been "feeding" information to Trump's campaign for an extended period of time. <ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/30/a-complete-timeline-of-the-events-behind-the-memo-that-threatens-to-rip-d-c-in-two/?utm_term=.5cfaeec5c162</ref> The Schiff memo denies these facts.
:*Steele's contemporaneous notes reflect that Steele told Gaeta that "Democratic Party associates" were paying for Fusion GPS's research, the "ultimate client" was the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign, and "the candidate," Hillary Clinton. was aware of Steele's reporting.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 96.</ref>
:*Permission was given by [[Victoria Nuland]] to meet with Steele. Nuland receives a copy by mid July and passes it to FBI.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/03/14/new-details-of-victoria-nulands-role-in-the-steele-dossier/</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/370633759/Christopher-Steele-Affidavit-Work-With-GPS-Dossier-Lawsuit</ref>
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*Reports say FBI Little Rock office smothering the Clinton Foundation investigation.<ref>https://truepundit.com/fbi-clinton-foundation-probe-is-a-sham-mccabe-loyalist-running-little-rock-fbi-not-investigating-bogus-charity/</ref>
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*In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/</ref>

*Obama speaks with Putin by phone; no mention whatsoever of alleged "Russian hacks."<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/06/readout-presidents-call-president-vladimir-putin-russia</ref>

*'''6 July.''' Loretta Lynch announces that no charges would be brought against Hillary Clinton in the email investigation. Apparently "no reasonable prosecutors" in the DOJ are willing to challenge Comey.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-17/inspector-general-finds-fbi-doj-broke-law-clinton-email-probe-refers-criminal</ref>
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*'''~6-7 July.''' First installment of the ''Steele dossier'' is shared with the State Department’s Victoria Nuland and passed on to the FBI. Both Manafort and Carter Page are referenced in an early undated ''Steele dossier'' memo (page 7). Paul Manafort, Carter Page, [[Michael Cohen]], Michael Flynn and Corey Lewandowski are not referenced and only listed in later memos in the ''Steele dossier''. George Papadopoulos is never mentioned in any Steele memo.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html</ref> Nuland later says "when [Steele] was doing this other work and became concerned … he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That’s something for the FBI."

*'''7 July.''' Bruce Ohr's phone log notes, "Call with Chris Steele" from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. eastern time."
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*Lisa Page texts Strzok ''NYT'' article: "Lisa Page – Thought this was spot on. Hillary Clinton: Survivor https://NYTi.ms/29z0oku <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/opinion/hillary-clinton-maam-survivor.html</ref>

*James Comey in testimony before the House Oversight Cmte. refuses to answer questions about whether the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation.
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*[[Carter Page]] delivers graduation commencement speech at Moscow's New Economic School. Carter Page has no role in the campaign nor has ever met or briefed Trump. Nonetheless, Obama agents eventually obtain a FISA warrant to monitor Carter Page, convincing a judge there’s probable cause to believe Carter Page is a Russian agent based on the speech which is critical of Obama's policy toward Russia. President Obama addressed graduates of the same institution in 2009.<ref>https://youtu.be/bu8vI4js_OE</ref> Surveillance of Page allows government officials to “incidentally” collect communications of the Trump campaign if they communicate with Page.<ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/when-incidental-intel-collection-isnt-incidental/</ref>
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[[File:Sethrich-e1494948876256.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Seth Rich (1989-2016), an American hero. Rich represents the first rumblings among the [[Millennial generation]] of the [[WalkAway movement]].]]
*'''8 July.''' House Select Committee on Beghazi votes on final version of report. Report finds "Susan Rice’s comments on the Sunday talk shows were met with shock and disbelief by State Department employees in Washington. The Senior Libya Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, wrote: “I think Rice was off the reservation on this one.” The Deputy Director, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, responded: “Off the reservation on five networks!” The Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications, Bureau of Near East Affairs, State Department, wrote: “WH [White House] very worried about the politics. This was all their doing.” [pg. 132]<ref>http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo</ref>
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:*'''4:19 EDT.''' '''[[Murder of Seth Rich]]'''. Rich was an IT staffer working in DNC headquarters disillusioned by Democrat party corruption.<ref>https://medium.com/@panegron/the-accidental-journalist-part-vi-stuffformike-f8e6027f0234</ref> Evidence suggests Rich leaked the Podesta emails to Gavin MacFadyen of Wikileaks.<ref>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/controversy-over-wikileaks-podesta-emails-opens-debate-future-journalism</ref>


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*Strzok and Lisa Page discuss problem of getting [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters onboard the Democrat train: "Strzok – And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protestors, right now, chanting “no justice no peace” around DoJ and the White House… Lisa Page – That’s awful."
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*'''11 July.''' [[Stefan Halper]] invited Carter Page to attend a symposium held at Cambridge University in England regarding the upcoming election. The speaker list included: [[Madeleine Albright]] (former U.S. Secretary of State); [[Vin Weber]] (Republican Party strategist and former Congressman now with Mercury LLC);<ref>Vin Weber was a member of the Conservative Opportunity Society caucus of the House along with [[Newt Gingrich]] and [[Jack Kemp]] that orchestrated the Republican Revolution of 1994.</ref> Ambassador Peter Ammon (German Ambassador to the UK); Sir Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6); Bridget Kendall (BBC diplomatic correspondent and the next Master of Peterhouse College); Sir Malcolm Rifkind (former Defence and Foreign Secretary). Carter Page attended the symposium four days after his Moscow trip. Carter Page met with Halper during the London visit.
:*Halper claims (a) Carter Page invited Halper to join the Trump campaign, and (b) Carter Page informed Halper that Page had never met Paul Manafort, nor had Manafort ever respodened to any of Page's emails. The excuplatory information Halper reported, that Carter Page had never had contact with Manafort, was never relayed by the FBI to the NSD Office of Intelligence which prepares FISA applications.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 79-80.</ref> Rather, the ''Steele dossier'', alleging that Carter Page was Manafort's main contact to Moscow, was used.
:*Halper remained in contact with Carter Page for the next fourteen months. Halper stopped contact exactly as the Final FISA Warrant on Carter Page expired.
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*'''12 July.''' ''Washington Times'': Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust [[Netanyahu]].<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/</ref>
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*'''13 July.''' Gaeta instructs New York Field Office FBI (NYFO) Assistant Special Agent in Charge to identify Glenn Simpson as a client of a law firm, and include the following: "law firm works for the Republican party or Hillary and will use the information described in ''Steele dossier'' Report 80 at some point."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 97-98.</ref>
:*[[Florida]] Sanders supporters file suit alleging DNC’s favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders amounted to [[fraud]], misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2016_0722_dnc_wilding2.pdf</ref>

:*Ties emerge between Hillary Clinton and Fethullah Gulen.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2016/07/13/new-ties-emerge-between-clinton-and-mysterious-islamic-cleric/</ref>

*'''14 July.''' Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discuss [[blowback]] from Clinton whitewash:
{{Quotebox|Lisa Page – Have you read this? It’s really frightening. For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance http://NYTI/ms/29WCu5!

Strzok – I have not. But I think it’s clear he’s capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$

Lisa Page – Yeah, it’s not good.

Strzok – Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/29RV5gf

Lisa Page – It is}}
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*Papadopoulos emails FBI informant Timofeev and proposed a “meeting for August or September in the UK (London) with me and my national chairman, and maybe one other foreign policy advisor and you, members of president putin’s office and the mfa.”

*'''15 July.''' Papadopoulos sends a private Facebook message to a Facebook account identified with FBI informant Timofeev.
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*[[Bill Browder]]'s Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation and others file formal complaint with the [[US Justice Department]] against FusionGPS alleging that Fusion GPS was working as a [[lobbyist]] for Russian interests and failed to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.<ref>https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2016/12/fara-complaint-alleges-pro-russian-lobbying-217776</ref> The Obama administration ignores complaint.

*[[Perkins Coie]], the surrogate for Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $107,399.74 to FusionGPS.

*Gulenist coup attempt in [[Turkey]];<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/middleeast/fethullah-gulen-profile/index.html</ref> Fethullah Gulen and many of his followers are Clinton Foundation donors.<ref>https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/88991622</ref> Obama administration tied directly to meddling in Turkish affairs.<ref>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22738/turkish-lawyers-demand-raid-on-incirlik-air-base-and-arrest-of-u-s-military-personnel</ref>
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*'''18 July.''' RNC Convention platform completed. It reads, {{Quotebox|Repressive at home and reckless abroad, their policies imperil the nations which regained their self-determination upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]. We will not accept any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine or elsewhere, and will use all appropriate measures to bring to justice the practitioners of aggression and assassination. We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored. We also support providing appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.}}

:*Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News interviews Flynn live: {{quotebox|'''Isikoff:''' You flew over to Moscow to participate in the 10th anniversary—a celebration of RT—Russian television, a propaganda arm of the Russian government. And you sat next to Vladimir Putin at a celebratory dinner. Why did you attend that event? '''Flynn:''' Because I wanted to tell Russia to get [[Iran]] the hell out of the four proxy wars that they’re involved in in the [[Middle East]] in order for us to settle the situation down … my intent for speaking at that event—and they allowed me to do it—was to talk about Russia’s influence over Iran and to essentially tell Russia that they have got to get Iran out of the situations they are involved in in the region … Iran has got to back out of many of the things they’re doing.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-defends-payment-russian-175611942.html</ref>}} Isikoff ignored Flynn’s entire response and continued his line of questioning: {{quotebox|'''Isikoff:''' Were you paid for that event?}} Following the Isikoff interview, the matter was pursued further by ''Washington Post'' reporter Dana Priest, who published a combined an-person and telephone interview with Flynn in an August 15, 2016.

*'''19 July.''' Steele sent an email to Gaeta that included Report 94, which was captioned "Company Intelligence Report 2016/94-Russia: Secret Kremlin Meetings Attended by Trump Advisor Carter Page in Moscow (July 2016)." Report 94 was one of 4 reports the FBI relied upon to support the [[probable cause]] in the Carter Page FISA applications, alleged that during a visit to Moscow in July 2016, Page met with: (1) Igor Sechin, Chairman of Russian energy conglomerate Rosneft, and discussed the "lifting of western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine;" and (2) Igor Divyekin, a staff member in the Russian Presidential Administration, who informed Page of compromising information the Kremlin possessed on Hillary Clinton and its possible release to the Republican campaign. Report 94 further alleged that Divyekin advised Page that the Russians had derogatory information on Trump, which the candidate should bear in mind in future dealings with Russian leadership. Report 94 described conversations involving a limited number of persons (e.g., Sechin confided the details of a secret meeting with Page; Sergei Ivanov confided in a compatriot that Divyekin had met secretly with Page).
:*Brennan attended a Leadership Dinner at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, where he discussed the modernisation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Open Source Enterprise.<ref>https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/07/spy-chief-excited-about-agencys-revamp-effort/130194/</ref>

:*Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page during the Republican National Convention FBI investigator: "TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE DOUCHEBAGS ARE ABOUT TO COME OUT.” Lisa Page replied: "And wow, Donald Trump is an enormous d*uche."

:*Hours later Strzok texts Lisa Page, “Hi. How was Trump, other than a douche? Melania?" Lisa Page responds, "Trump barely spoke, but the first thing out of his mouth was 'we’re going to win sooo big.' The whole thing is like living in a bad dream.”

:*Strzok & Lisa Page go on to say they hope Trump’s “disorganization comes back to bite him hard in November,” with Strzok saying he feels “Panicked” about the election.

:*Strzok and Lisa Page also trade comments on other Republican leaders, calling [[Ben Carson]] “crazy-ass grain storage pyramid Ben Carson,” Senate Majority Leader [[Mitch McConnell]] “a turtle,” and Paul Ryan “a jerky.”


*'''20 July.''' Trump receives Republican nomination.
:*Susan Rice begins to show increased interest in National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence material including “unmasked” Americans’ identities around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination (July 20, 2016) and accelerated after Trump’s election in November launched a transition that continued through January 2017.<ref>http://archive.is/uIMdo</ref>

*'''Late July.''' Undated ''Steele dossier'' Report 95 entitled "Russia/US Presidential Election: Further Indications of Extensive Conspiracy Between Trump's Campaign Team and the Kremlin" and cited repeatedly to information provided by "Source E." Report 95 alleged the existence of "a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" between the Trump campaign and Russian leadership, and claimed that the campaign's manager, Manafort, used Carter Page and others as "intermediaries" to further the conspiracy. According to Source E, the "Russian regime" was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks with the "full knowledge and support" of Trump and his campaign team, and the Wikileaks platform was used by Russia to afford it "plausible deniability" of its involvement in the leak.
:*Report 95 included an allegation that Carter Page and possibly others agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue in exchange for Russia's disclosure of hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks. The FBI used this information in all of the Carter Page FISA applications to support its assessment that Page helped influence the Republican Party to change its platform to be more sympathetic to Russia's interests by eliminating language from the Republican platform about providing weapons to Ukraine.
*'''21 July.''' Anne Applebaum of the ''Washington Post'' writes a “Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.” The issue, she explained, was Trump’s positive attitude toward Putin. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum. She named Carter Page and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the kenard that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for Ukraine” from the Republican National Committee’s platform. Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort’s ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]]. The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''Steele dossier''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref> The talking points come directly from Hillary Clinton opposition research, FusionGPS and the ''Steele dossier''.

:*Jeffrey Goldberg of the ''Atlantic'' publishes an article entitled, ''It’s Official: Hillary Clinton is Running Against Vladimir Putin'' using the same opposition research material from the ''Steele dossier'' paid for by Hillary Clinton: “The Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has chosen this week to unmask himself as a ''de facto'' agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump’s admiration for Putin and other “equivocating, mercenary statements are unprecedented in the history of Republican foreign policymaking.” However, insofar as Trump’s fundamental aim was to find some common ground with Putin, it’s a goal that has been a 25-year U.S. policy constant across party lines. Starting with George W.H. Bush, every American commander-in-chief since the end of the Cold War sought to “reset” relations with Russia. But Trump, according to Goldberg, was different. “Trump’s understanding of America’s role in the world aligns with Russia’s geostrategic interests.” Goldberg alleged “watered down” the RNC’s platform on Ukraine and “questioned whether the U.S., under his leadership, would keep its [NATO] commitments,” including Article 5. Thus, Goldberg concluded: “Donald Trump, should he be elected president, would bring an end to the postwar international order.”<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-putin-nato/492332/</ref>



:*According to ''WaPo'', White House officials convened a high-level security meeting, which featured people from the [[National Security Council]], Department of Defense, FBI and Homeland Security. During the meeting, the officials discussed the reports that Russia allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161113132652/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-campaign--and-some-cyber-experts--say-russia-is-behind-email-release/2016/07/24/5b5428e6-51a8-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html</ref>

:*Papadopoulos sends another private Facebook message to FBI informant Timofeev.
::*Papadopoulos reported as the "director of the Center for International Energy & Natural Resources Law at the London Centre of International Law Practice" by the ''Cleveland Jewish News'' despite having left the organization some two months earlier.<ref>https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/politics/rnc/ajc-panel-dissects-america-s-role-in-global-affairs/article_7d91f20a-4f3f-11e6-97b6-ab6586eff87a.html</ref>
[[File:Shawn Lucas at the DNC.png|right|300px|thumb|Shawn Lucas at the DNC, from the viral video of Lucas serving papers in the election fraud lawsuit. DNC attorney's argued the papers were not properly served. Ten days later Lucas was found dead effectively delaying a hearing until after the November election.]]
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*'''22 July.''' Second WikiLeaks dump: documents and 20,000 emails (sent/received) between Jan. 2015 and May 2016 showing the [[collusion]] between the DNC and Clinton campaign to rig the nomination for Hillary Clinton and defeat the Sanders movement.<ref>https://youtu.be/Kp7FkLBRpKg</ref> The DNC has never disputed the authenticity of the documents.

:*[[Brexit]] vote organizer and financier George Cottrell was arrested by the FBI when he attempted to return to London with [[Nigel Farage]] after attending the Republican National Convention.<ref>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/18/the-russia-conspiracy-is-unraveling-across-the-pond/</ref>
:*DNC seeks to delay election fraud lawsuit brought by Sanders supporters arguing, improper service of papers. Shawn Lucas, the process server, videotaped himself serving the papers along with an associate.
*'''23 July.''' Alexander Downer informed Elizabeth Dibble at the US Embassy in London about his conversation with George Papadopoulos from May 10, 2016.<ref>https://archive.is/20180601201327/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075</ref>
:*Dibble then transmitted this information to FBI headquarters.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/390228-london-bridges-falling-down-curious-origins-of-fbis-trump-russia-probe</ref>
:*Strzok receives Papadopolous information from London embassy. This is outside normal process for intelligence sharing. According to the FBI as reported in ''[[NYT]]'', this becomes the official Obama FBI [[fake news]] narrative used to open the counterintelligence investigation on Team Trump.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075</ref>
:*Papadopoulos messaged FBI informant Ivan Timofeev [Foreign Contact 2 in FBI Agent Robert M. Gibbs Version, July 28, 2017 Affidavit] on Facebook to ask whether Timofeev knew a particular individual with extensive ties to Russian-based businesses and persons. Papadopoulos asked Timofeev “[i]f you know any background of him that is noteworthy before I see him, kindly send my way.” The referenced individual is Sergei Millian.<ref>The FBI were aware of Sergei Millian through a 2011 investigation into Yury Zaytsev, the head of Washington’s Rossotrudnichestvo. https://archive.fo/T2uvf</ref> No reference to these and coming days events relating to Millian are made in Robert Mueller's Version, October 5, 2017 Statement of Offense.
*'''~23-25 July.''' Papadopoulos meets with [[Sergei Millian]]. This meeting appears nowhere in FBI investigator Gibbs Affidavit or the Mueller Statement of Offense.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/06/07/missing-timeline-from-papadopoulos-statement-of-offense-hides-millian/</ref>
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*'''24 July.''' [[Robby Mook]] of the Clinton campaign was interviewed on [[ABC]]’s ''[[This Week]]'' with [[George Stephanopoulos]], where he claimed that the DNC’s e-mails had been leaked by Russians who wanted to help Donald Trump become the next President, and cited [[CrowdStrike]] Services as his source.
:*ABC News, NPR, [[Rachel Maddow]] and other mainstream outlets report [[fake news]] that the Trump campaign "weakened the Republican platform on aid to Ukraine."<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/clinton-campaign-chief-russians-trump-pro-russian-platform/story?id=40824946</ref><ref>
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine</ref><ref>http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-details-put-the-spotlight-back-trumps-russia-scandal</ref> The fake news comes directly from Hillary Clinton's opposition research, the ''Steele dossier''.

*'''25 July.''' Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages about Strzok's personal friendship with FISA court Judge Rudy Contreras. In December 2017 Contreras accepted a guilty plea from Gen. Michael Flynn for allegedly lying to Strzok. Strzok originally reported Flynn did not lie,<ref>Comey testified Flynn did not lie.</ref> however FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe altered the interview report to say Flynn did lie. {{Quotebox|Lisa Page: Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]! Did you know that? Strzok: Just appointed two months ago Strzok: I did. We talked about it before and after. I need to get together with him Strzok: He mentioned thinking about it even though he was junior, they needed people and they especially needed minorities, and then he said he’d gotten on a month or two ago at a graduation party we were both at. Strzok: [Redacted] brought up a good point about being circumspect in talking to [Contreras] in terms of not placing him into a situation where he’d have to recuse himself. Lisa Page: I can’t imagine either one of you could talk about anything in detail meaningful enough to warranted recusal Strzok: Really? Rudy, I’m in charge of espionage for the FBI. Any espionage FISA comes before him, what should he do? Given his friend oversees them? Lisa Page: Standards for recusal are quite high. I just don’t think this poses an actual conflict. And he doesn’t know what you do? Strzok: Not the level or scope or area. But he’s super thoughtful and rigorous about ethics and conflicts. [redacted] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting.}}

:*''Daily Beast'' published fake news headline, “FBI Suspects Russia Hacked DNC; U.S. Officials Say It Was to Elect Donald Trump."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-suspects-russia-hacked-dnc-us-officials-say-it-was-to-elect-donald-trump</ref> The FBI never investigated if or who "hacked" DNC emails.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-fbi-had-private-company-examine-dncs-hacked-servers</ref><ref>https://www.wired.com/2017/01/fbi-says-democratic-party-wouldnt-let-agents-see-hacked-email-servers/</ref>
:*[[Fox News]] reporter James Rosen emails Clinton Foundation investigator Charles Ortel, "Am told Wikileaks will be doing a massive dump of HRC emails relating to the CF [Clinton Foundation] in September." Ortel forwards the email to Roger Stone.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-10-22-at-2.09.59-PM-1-768x302.jpg</ref>
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[[File:Hillary on the campaign trail.jpg|right|350px|thumb|After a rigged primary process, Hillary was nominated on July 26, 2018. Notably absent from her crowds were the faces of minorities and people of color.]]
:*Wasserman Schultz resigns [[DNC]] chair amidst WikiLeaks revelations of improprieties and election rigging to defeat Bernie Sanders. [[Donna Brazile]] appointed interim successor. Brazile later admits the Clinton machine was in control of the DNC's budget throughout the primary election process contested by Bernie Sanders.

*'''26 July.''' Obama signed a presidential directive to place the FBI in charge of responding to all cyber threats, and to allow the federal government an active role in investigating, preventing and mitigating attempts to hack into state election board computer networks.
:*Lisa Monaco attended the International Conference On Cyber Security.
:*''Steele dossier'' memo alleges extensive Russian government hacking operation.
:*'''Mueller report claims (pg 89, fn465) that Australia informed the U.S. government of Papadopoulos statements about Clinton emails. Both Papadopoulos and Downer deny Clinton emails were ever discussed (the reference was to "dirt," i.e. Clinton's use of a Blackberry tied to her unsecured server to communicate with President Obama from the territory of Russia which Comey claimed was likely hacked at his July 5, 2016 press conference. Comey also kept Obama's identity secret and referred to him as "another senior government official").'''

*'''27 July.''' Brennan, Clapper, Comey, [[John P. Carlin]] and Rep. [[Adam Schiff]] attend Aspen Security Forum.<ref>https://aspensecurityforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ASF-2016-Agenda-PUBLIC-7.21.16-1.pdf</ref> Schiff flies with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to the meeting after the DNC Convention;<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/flashback-adam-schiff-flew-with-russian-ambassador-kislyak-to-aspen-forum/</ref> unlike [[Jeff Session]], Schiff never recused himself from the HPSCI investigation into Russian collusion after meeting with Kislyak, nor ever faced [[treason]] charges from U.S. mainstream media.
:*Strzok calls Bernie Sanders supporters “stupid*ass” and “idiots,” to which Lisa Page replies she “really really” likes former Vice President [[Joe Biden]], apparently referring to Biden's convention speech attacking Trump. Strzok responds "Opened on Trump? If Hillary did, you know five field offices would…" Five field offices refer to five FBI field offices. If Hillary attacks Trump, five FBI field offices would support her.

*'''28 July.''' Gaeta sends ''Steele dossier'' Reports 80 and 94 to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the FBI New York Field Office (NYFO), who forwarded them to NYFO Special Agent in Charge (SAC).
:*Strzok and Lisa page exchange messages about [[Lawfare group]] postings:<ref>https://www.archive.org/stream/StrzokPageTexts/FBI-texts_djvu.txt</ref>
::*00:36:58, Thu OUTBOX Lisa Page: Ha. First line made me smile. \n\nWhat Does the US Government Know About Russia and the DNC Hack? -Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/what-does-us-government-know-about-russia-and-dnc-hack
::*00:42:34, Thu INBOX Strzok: Interesting. Good comments about Comey, too\n\nTrump and the Powers of the American Presidency, Part III -Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/trump-and-powers-american-presidency-part-iii
::*Carter Page contacted by a ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter inquiring whether Page had met with Sechin and Divyekin.
:*Kim Dotcom pledges to raise $1 million for Wikileaks after harassment, threats and reprisals against whistleblowers for Wilkileaks.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/28/kim-dotcom-promises-raise-1-million-wikileaks-foll/</ref>

*'''29 July.''' Strzok and Lisa Page texted each other about a new case and whether Page had discussed it with McCabe.
:*Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $99,166.83 to FusionGPS.
:*Steele emails Bruce Ohr advising that he would "be in DC at short notice on business" later that day and Saturday. He asked if Ohr and wife Nellie were free for breakfast on Saturday morning. Steele finished installments of the dossier on July 19 and 26.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-2016-links-among-steele-ohr-simpson-with-russian-oligarch-in-background?platform=hootsuite</ref>
:*The Obama Justice Department never acted on the formal complaint that FusionGPS itself was an unregistered Russian agent lobbying for repeal of the [[Magnitsky Act]].
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*Gianni Pittella, leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S & D) in the EU Parliament, campaigns for Hillary Clinton: {{Quotebox|"I have taken the unprecedented step of endorsing and campaigning for Hillary Clinton because the risk of Donald Trump is too high. '''I believe it is in the interest of the [[European Union]] and [[Italy]] to have Hillary Clinton in office.''' A Trump victory could be a disaster for the relationship between the U.S.A. and Italy.” “This campaign is not between Democrat or Republican. It’s between democracy and no democracy in the U.S. It’s between having a relationship between the U.S. and the E.U. and the U.S. and other countries, or not. And '''Italian citizens, together with the world, have the duty not only to intervene, but to act, to support Hillary’s campaign.'''”<ref>https://archive.is/4jyO1</ref>}} Gianni Pittella is a very close friend and associate of Joseph Mifsud.<ref>https://jonworth.eu/gianni-pittella-caro-amico-joseph-mifsud/</ref>
*'''30 July.''' '''Bruce Ohr, [[Nellie Ohr]], Christopher Steele anda younger Steele associate Washington Mayflower Hotel breakfast'''.
:*Steele relayed information from his dossier and claimed that “a former head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the [[SVR]], had stated to someone … that they had Donald Trump over a barrel.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
:*Steele also referenced Deripaska’s business dealings with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s meetings in Moscow.
::*"Paul Hauser, Oleg Deripaska's London attorney, had information that Paul Manafort had entered into some kind of business deal with Oleg Deripaska, had stolen a large amount of money from Oleg Deripaska, and that Paul Hauser was trying to gather information that would show that, you know, or give more detail about what Paul Manafort had done with respect to Deripaska.” The money relates to a failed Ukrainian cable TV project Deripaska invested money with Manafort in.
::*Ohr also noted that Steele told him he had been in contact with the FBI but now had additional reports. “ Chris Steele had provided some reports to the FBI, I think two, but that Glenn Simpson had more,” he said.
::*Bruce Ohr said it was "clear" that Steele and Simpson were hired by a party "related to the Clinton campaign."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 272.</ref> Bruce Ohr memorialized each of his meetings with Steele and Simpson with detailed notes about what they told him.<ref>Ibid, fn 411.</ref>
::*Steele emails Bruce Ohr later: "Great to see you and Nellie this morning Bruce. Let’s keep in touch on the substantive issues/s (sic). Glenn [Simpson] is happy to speak to you on this if it would help.”
:*'''Bruce Ohr calls Andrew McCabe. They meet in McCabe’s office with Lisa Page in early August. Ohr wanted the FBI to have the information and be aware of his meeting with Steele.
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page and wondered if he would be able to bring her to London with him.

*'''31 July.''' '''Priestap and Strzok formally open Crossfire Hurricane investigation'''. Strzok may have used:
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|Strzok: And '''damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one [Clinton email investigation] did, too, but that was to ensure that we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS'''.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/strzok-page-texts-trump-russia-investigation-origins/</ref>}}
:*'''Peter Schweitzer publishes ''From Russia With Money'' about Clinton collusion with Russia over the Uranium One sale and cronyism redounding to the Podesta's benefit.'''<ref>https://nypost.com/2016/07/31/report-raises-questions-about-clinton-cash-from-russians-during-reset/amp/</ref><ref>https://www.g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Report-Skolkvovo-08012016.pdf</ref>
[[File:Chalupa-ciaramella.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa (left) Deep State informant [[Eric Ciaramella]] (right).<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/huge-cia-whistleblower-eric-cairamella-worked-with-dnc-operative-alexandra-chalupa-in-creation-of-trump-russia-collusion-hoax/</ref>]]
*'''July.''' CIA Counterintelligence Mission Center started to serve as a conduit to the FBI by using contacts developed by the CIA between Russian individuals and members of the Trump campaign.<ref>https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-e4ab7d8188ac</ref>
*'''Late July.''' Democratic operative and Ukrainian-American Chalupa leaves the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to work full-time on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia; and provides off-the-record guidance to “a lot of journalists.”
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*'''July to September.''' German newspaper ''Die Welt''<ref>https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article159791364/Bundesregierung-zahlte-Millionen-an-Clinton-Stiftung.html?campaign_id=A100</ref> reported: {{quotebox|[German] Ministry for Environment transferred millions to the [Clinton] Foundation. In the third quarter of 2016, at the height of [Clinton’s] campaign, German taxpayers gave up to five million dollars to the family foundation. Some observers believe that German government has some explaining to do for the donation that appears under the heading “Donors and Grantors”. “Why does a Ministry supports the election campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate?” asked Vera Lengsfeld — former civil rights activist and German parliamentarian — in her blog. “It seems German taxpayers unwittingly financed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.”}}
*'''Late July/Early August.''' '''Brennan briefs Obama''' and three senior Obama advisors (Rice, Biden, Ben Rhodes?). Brennan suggests Russia is helping Trump.

===August 2016===
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stu Evans was the person within the DOJ who was in charge of the entire FISA process, but the FBI chose not to tell Evans that they had opened a counterintelligence investigation. According to Lisa Page's testimony, the only DOJ official they told was George Toscas, the deputy assistant attorney general in the National Security Division. Without forewarning to the FBI, Toscas informed Stu Evans in August 2016—possibly earlier—of the FBI’s newly opened investigation.
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The ongoing attempts by [[George Papadopoulos]] are similar to those made by [[Joseph Mifsud]] and [[Stefan Halper]]. Use intentionally manufactured meetings and contacts to create perceived associations with Russia.
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*'''First week of August.''' Brennan contacted Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines via telephone, as he had received intelligence in relation to President Vladimir Putin. An envelope which contained “eyes only” instructions was sent by courier from the Central Intelligence Agency to the White House. The contents of the envelope were shown to four people: President Barack Obama, and three of his senior aides, most likely [[Chief of Staff]] [[Denis McDonough]], [[National Security Advisor]] Susan Rice and deputy Avril Haines. Within the envelope was information from a valuable source, Oleg Smolenkov,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/14/the-spy-who-failed/</ref> that Director Brennan had used to ascertain certain information, a source which he intentionally kept away from the Presidential Daily Brief. This was because, by 2013, the Presidential Daily Brief was being received by over 30 recipients. According to ''The Washington Post'', "The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objects — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.” Brennan created a secret task force at the Central Intelligence Agency’s Headquarters, which was composed of several dozen analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Working Group reported to two different groups:
::(1) President Barack Obama and less than 14 senior United States Government officials.
::(2) A team of operations specialists at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.e0ebd1a1dbf5</ref>
::*The Crossfire Hurricane investigation team, in conjunction with a number of agents at the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) under US Attorney [[Dana Boente]], reported to the Working Group,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html</ref> including the CIA. During this time, they investigated the four main targets of Crossfire Hurricane, Papadopoulos , Carter Page, Michael Flynn Paul Manafort and they also investigated Roger Stone as part of their expanded WikiLeaks investigation.
::*As part of the secrecy surrounding the Working Group and Crossfire Hurricane, the Crossfire Hurricane team was provided their own source of funding, and they worked in a secure area, titled the “war room”, within FBI Headquarters, which required special clearance to enter.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbis-russia-investigation/story?id=47346117</ref>
:*Obama ordered his aides to determine ways to retaliate or deter against the Russian Government through three steps: (1) Gain a high-confidence assessment from the United States intelligence agencies on Russia’s role and intent; (2) Check vulnerabilities in state-run election systems; (3) Seek bipartisan support from Congressional leaders for a statement condemning Moscow and urging states to accept federal assistance.
:*The same week, Susan Rice, Avril Haines and Lisa Monaco convened meetings in the White House Situation Room, which would later be referred to as “Deputies Meetings”. These meetings were initially attended by Brennan, Clapper, Comey and Lynch. As time passed Vice President [[Joe Biden]] joined the Deputies Meetings.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.21f20bdb10a8</ref> At a later time, agendas were directly sent to Cabinet secretaries, including Secretary [[John Kerry]] and Secretary [[Ashton Carter]]. When an agenda was received, their subordinates were ordered never to open the envelopes. Further to this, some agendas were withheld until the participants had arrived in the Situation Room and sat down.
::*Ordinarily, a video feed from the White House Situation Room is fed into various [[National Security Council]] offices to allow senior aides to view the events with zero sound. However, during the Deputies Meetings, the video feeds were switched off.
:::One of these Deputies Meetings was hosted by Avril Haines, where the attendees of the meetings argued that any deliberative attempt to strike back against Russia would become a tool of propaganda for President Vladimir Putin, while another was concerned about the potential effect any action may have on Election Day 2016. Haines would later note she was “very concerned” during this time about the potential of Russians gaining influence within the Trump campaign, although she apparently remained unaware of the existence of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
:::*As an aspect, or an offshoot, of one of these meetings, Susan Rice informed both Michael Daniel and Celeste Wallander (who would later gain access to the ''Steele dossier'') to cease their planning of retaliation against Russia for their cyber attacks on companies and political campaigns and to stand down.
::*Comey also met with Obama in the Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting, where Comey suggested that he write an opinion piece for ''The New York Times'' about the potential for Russian interference in the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. Comey planned to avoid mentioning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in the opinion piece; "they never took me up on it. The Obama administration deliberated until the beginning of October."<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723</ref>
:*Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warned officials and Congress that both American citizens’ and residents’ banking and financial data had been illegally searched and stored. Those breaches extended to other intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

::This was accomplished as the Office of Intelligence and Analysis opened a back door to give access to the intelligence agencies. Another aspect was that the Treasury Dept. attempted to transfer the work of FinCEN to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, which was fought back by employees at the FinCEN.

::At the time, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis was ran by the Asst. Sec. for Intelligence and Analysis, S. Leslie Ireland, whom also simultaneously worked as the National Intelligence Manager For Threat Finance at ODNI. She started both positions in July 2010, and left both positions in November 2016.

::In the summer of 2016 FinCEN inquired about reviewing the Office of Intelligence and Analysis’ guidelines<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/us-intelligence-unit-accused-of-illegally-spying-on#.lo7LWGkZJ</ref> under [[Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act#cite_note-15|Executive Order 12333]],<ref>https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/eo12333.html</ref> but they were ultimately removed from the [[e-mail]] chain surrounding the issue.
[[File:3 hop.PNG|left|500px|thumb|Illustration of how the 3 hop rule works after a FISA warrant is obtained. A typical subject has 50 contacts in their phone or email. The same legal surveillance authority is applied to those 50 contacts, and then to your contacts' contacts.]]
::*In 2016 the NSA collected the records of 151 million American phone calls through the use of [[FISA Court]] orders to collect information from 42 individuals.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nsa-surveillance-phone-records-millions-despite-reforms-court-orders-a7716561.html</ref> This involved the distribution of 3,914 reports which contained information about Americans gathered in warrantless surveillance programs.
*'''Early August — presumably the first week .''' Federal Bureau of Investigation agents met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, where they questioned her about a letter they had received in early March 2016 from a foreign source, supposedly written by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Leonard Benardo of the Open Society Foundations regarding the [[Midyear Exam investigation]]. The agents offered to give Lynch a “defensive briefing”. Shortly after this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the Benardo letter was an unreliable document.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html</ref>
*'''1 August - 15 August.''' Papadopoulos continues to communicate with Trump Campaign officials regarding a potential “off the record” meeting with Russian officials.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/george-papadopoulos-trump-collusion/</ref> There are probably foreign contacts made during this time but no details are disclosed in either the Mueller indictments or FBI releases.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download</ref> Papadopoulos was unsuccessful in establishing any meetings between the Trump Campaign and Russian Officials.

*'''August.''' Paul Wood of [[BBC]] News spoke with a retired spy, whom said that they had heard about the existence of potential “kompromat” on Donald Trump from the head of an East European intelligence agency.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427</ref>
:*Estonia started to conduct intelligence gathering operations on executives from the Trump Organization whom visited Europe. {{quotebox|“The Western European intelligence operations began in August, after the British government obtained information that people acting on behalf of Russia were in contact with members of the Trump campaign. Those details from the British were widely shared among the NATO allies in Europe. The Baltic nation has been gathering intelligence for at least that long, and has conducted surveillance of executives from the Trump Organization who were traveling in Europe.”<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/allies-intercept-russia-trump-adviser-communications-557283] Kurt Eichenwald, [[Newsweek]]</ref>}}

*'''1 - 3 August.''' '''Strzok travels to London to interview a "key witness,"''' [[Stefan Halper]] a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, [[MI6]].
:*Halper's job was to locate then dirty-up anyone he could convince: 1) to meet with him; 2) engage in his requests; and 3) engage contacts he set up. Halper provided the underlying optics needed for the Electronic Communication (EC) referral which Brennan used to trigger Comey to originate the FBI Counterintelligence Operation. The fraudulent origin, in combination with the October FISA warrant needed for surveillance gathering, would drive the insurance policy that Peter Strzok described to Lisa Page.

*'''2 August.''' Priestap notifies David Laufman, George Toscas, and Adam Hickey of the DOJ-NSD of official opening of Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
:*Strzok and another agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with Downer in London.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html</ref>
:*Strzok received reading materials, which he texted about to Lisa Page.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371002694/Senator-Ron-Johnson-Appendix-C-Documents-and-Text-Messages</ref>

:*Corsi email to Stone from Rome.<ref>https://cdn01-dailycaller-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-28-at-11.51.14-AM.jpg</ref> Makes no reference to Podesta emails. In fact, Stone is curious if Corsi can discover what Assange has other than information on Podesta. Corsi tries but fails to get information from Assange through London sources.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/28/email-between-roger-stone-jerome-corsi/</ref> No evidence exists of a link between Assange and Russia - the Wikileaks/Russia collusion narrative is developed later to cover up the murder of Seth Rich.

:*Shawn Lucas, 38 year-old process server for lawsuit against DNC on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters alleging election fraud, found dead.<ref>http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/08/sanders-supporters-stunned-by-sudden-death-of-38-year-shawn-lucas-who-served-the-lawsuit-on-the-dnc-and-wasserman-shultz/</ref> The lawsuit is now effectively delayed until after the November 8 election.

*'''3 August.''' '''Brucr Ohr meets with Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page to discuss information relayed by Christopher Steele'''.
:*Bruce Ohr had known Lisa Page for some time as she previously had worked under his supervision at the DOJ for a period of “5-6 years.”
:*Ohr later testifies that he told McCabe that his wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion, noting, “I wanted the FBI to be aware of any possible bias.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
::*The Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch required Bruce Ohr to recuse himself from participating in activity related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation because of Nellie Ohr's prior work for Fusion GPS as an independent contractor. Specifically, 5 C.F.R. § 2635.502(a) provides that an employee should not participate in a matter, unless agency ethics counsel authorizes participation, "[w]here an employee knows that a particular matter involving specific parties is likely to have a direct and predictable effect on the financial interest of a member of his household ... and where the employee determines that the circumstances would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts to question his impartiality in the matter .... " Section 402(b)(1) defines "direct and predictable effect" as "a close causal link between any decision or action to be taken in the matter and any expected effect of the matter on the financial interest."
::*Nellie Ohr was paid $44,000 for her work with FusionGPS.
::*Bruce Ohr never consulted the DOJ ethics counsel for authorization.
::*As of January 2020, one month after the FISA Abuse Report was released, Bruce Ohr was still employed by the U.S. Justice Department.
:*Strzok and Lisa Page debate what would be shared with DOJ prosecutors when Strzok returns to Washington (investigators typically do not share information with prosecutors until an investigation is completed for fear of leaks which can compromise confidential informants. Additionally, unlike a criminal investigation, the Trump investigation is a [[counterintelligence]] investigation, which can be quite lengthy over years or decades, and rarely result in criminal indictments against the main targets. The object is to neutralize rather than convict. Hence [[due process]] requirements can be much lower than [[probable cause]] necessary in criminal inquiries): {{quotebox|Strzok - I think we need to consider the lines of what we disclose to DOJ. For example, the last stipulation notes we will not disclose.}}

*David Remnick writes an article in the ''New Yorker'' entitled, ''Trump and Putin: A Love Story.'' Citing the “original reporting” of Franklin Foer’s July 4, 2016 ''Slate'' article, Remnick contends “that one reason for Trump’s attitude has to do with his business ambitions.” As Remnick elaborated, “one of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers," Carter Page, "has longstanding ties to Gazprom, a pillar of Russia’s energy industry.” Remnick also worried about Trump’s lack of support for Ukraine and the fact that Trump “has declared NATO ‘obsolete’ and has suggested that he might do away with Article 5.”<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-putin-a-love-story</ref>

*'''4 August.''' John Brennan has regularly scheduled intelligence sharing phone call with Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s [[FSB]].
:*Bruce Ohr meets CRM Deputy Assistant Attorney General [[Bruce Swartz]] to provide specific details of the Ohr's/Steele Mayflower Hotel breakfast mereting. Both Ohr and Swartz continue to keep their immediate supervisors and political appointees in the dark about the DNC/Pekins Coie conspiracy.
*'''5 August.''' Strzok and Lisa Page engage in a tense conversation which involves an imminent meeting with “agency people” — an apparent reference to the CIA. Strzok suggested that, for the new case, they should conduct Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning meetings “with [REDACTED]” just “like we did with mye” — Mid Year Exam, the Clinton probe. After some back-and-forth over who should be invited to a major meeting about the new case, a meeting was held. In the aftermath Strzok and Lisa Page have an exchange implying Obama ordered the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign: {{Quotebox|Strzok: And hi. Went well, best we could have expected. Other than [REDACTED] quote: “'''the White House is running this'''.”<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/strzok-page-texts-trump-russia-investigation-origins/</ref> My answer, “well, maybe for you they are.” And of course, I was planning on telling this guy, thanks for coming, we’ve got an hour, but with Bill [Priestap] there, I’ve got no control…. Lisa Page: Yeah, whatever (re the WH comment). We’ve got the emails that say otherwise.}}
:*Steele memo alleges growing backlash in Kremlin to DNC email hack and Trump support operation. Identifies Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as a key figure in the DNC hack.
:*Donna Brazile attends Obama birthday party at the White House. At the party she was pulled to the side by both Susan Rice (a member of the Deputies Meetings) and [[Eric Holder]], separately. Bbth encouraged Brazile to place "Russian hacking" at the top of her priority list.

*'''6 August.''' Hillary Clinton tweets: “Seriously, what is going on with Trump and Russia?” with a 1 minute, 45 second video attached.<ref>https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/762059962101198848</ref>
:*Lisa Page sends Peter Strzok an article about Khizr Khan who spoke against Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
{{Quotebox|Page – Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHulE0

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

Page – And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end comma, read this:

Page – Trump Enablers Will Finally Have to Take A Stand http://nyti.ms/2aFakry

Strzok – Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps }}

*'''8 August.''' Strzok texted Lisa Page about a joint intelligence piece for Comey to prepare for him to brief Denis McDonough on August 10, 2016. {{Quotebox|Strzok - Internal joint cyber cd intel piece for D [Director Comey], scenesetter for McDonough brief, Trainor [head of FBI cyber division] directed all cyber info be pulled. I’d let Bill [Priestap] and Jim [Baker (DOJ)] hammer it out first, though it would be best for D [Comey] to have it before the Wed WH [White House] session.”<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/documents-suggest-possible-coordination-between-cia-fbi-obama-wh-and-dem-officials-early-in-trump-russia-probe-investigators</ref>}}

*'''9 August.''' {{Quotebox|'''Lisa Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?! Strzok - No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.''' }}
:The Inspector General found Strzok's statement '''"antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice."'''
:*Wikileaks offers a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
:*Brennan prepares for White House and [[Gang of Eight]] (Go8) briefings on ''Steele dossier''.
:Robert Parry of ''Consortium'' news writes:
{{quotebox|While lacking any verifiable proof, Clinton’s campaign and its allied [[mainstream media]] have blamed Russian intelligence for hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s emails and then publicizing them through Wikileaks. This [[conspiracy theory]] holds that Putin is trying to influence the U.S. election to put his secret agent, Donald Trump, into the White House.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/09/hillary-clintons-turn-to-mccarthyism/</ref>}}
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*'''10 August.''' Brennan briefs White House on Christopher Steele reporting.
:*Andrew McCabe briefs Sally Yates on the Downer-Papadopoulos meeting.
:*As paraphrased by a congressional investigator in July 2018, a message between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok read: {{quotebox|“I remember what it was, Toscas already told Stu Evans everything. Sally [Yates] called to set up a meeting.”}} The congressional investigator asked Lisa Page, “What you’re saying is when the director [Brennan, in this case] briefed the White House 2 days prior to that, on August the 8th, or prepared for it, actually briefed him on the 10th, that it had nothing to do with any campaign. Even though George Toscas and Stu Evans knew about it.” Lisa Page responded, “Sir, I would be shocked. I would truly be stunned to discover that the director [again, Brennan] had briefed the president on the substance of our investigation or even the existence of our investigation. I would be—I can’t say it didn’t happen, I wasn’t there, but I would be stunned to discover that.” From Brennan’s congressional testimony, it is known that he had briefed the White House at some point in early August 2016, prior to Aug. 11. Brennan testified in 2017, “In consultation with the White House, I personally briefed [the Gang of Eight] between 11 August and 6 September."<ref>http://angrystaffer.blogspot.com/2017/05/brennan-testimony-transcript.html</ref>
:*Go8 members were Sens. Richard Burr, Dianne Feinstein, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Speaker Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff.
::*Pelosi makes public statement saying that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee was a modern version of the [[Watergate]] scandal, conducted by the Russians.
:*Comey briefed McDonough.
:*Steele memo claims Putin is generally satisfied with anti-Clinton efforts to date, notes [[Kremlin]] support for General Flynn and [[Green Party]] Candidate Jill Stein: {{quotebox|''"Kremlin engaging with several high profile US players, including STEIN, PAGE and (former DIA Director Michael Flynn) and funding their recent visits to Moscow. Speaking separately, also in early August 2016, a Kremlin official involved in US relations commented on aspects of the Russian operation to date … This had involved the Kremlin supporting various US political figures, including funding indirectly their recent visits to Moscow. S/he named a delegation from [[Lyndon Larouche|Lyndon LAROUCHE]]; presidential candidate JILL STEIN of the Green Party; TRUMP foreign policy advisor Carter PAGE; and former DIA Director Michael Flynn.”''}}
::All other names are capitalized, in the manner of intelligence briefings. Flynn’s name isn’t capitalized and in one case, appears within parentheses. It’s almost as if his name was suddenly added at the last minute—and by someone other than Steele.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/04/were-events-surrounding-flynns-moscow-visit-intentionally-misframed/</ref>
:*Separate Steele memo says DNC email leaks aimed at switching Sanders voters to Trump.
:*Carter Page investigation transferred from New York field office to Crossfire Hurricane team.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 313 fn 465.</ref>
:*Shane Harris published the article ''Is It Okay for Spies to Elect a President'' in ''The Daily Beast''.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-it-ok-for-spies-to-elect-a-president</ref>
:*Strzok forwards Seth Rich email chain.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/has-fbi-been-lying-about-seth-rich</ref>
[[File:Strzok-page-code-name.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The ''New York Times'' has persistently printed [[fake news]] CYA leaks by FBI insiders to mislead Congress and the public about the origins of the Trump investigation contradicted by the evidence. There was no legal basis to begin the Trump investigation, which was taken over by Robert Mueller.]]
*'''11 August.''' FBI meets with Stefan Halper. Halper agrees to work with the Crossfire Hurricane team by reach out to George Papadopoulos allowing the Crossfire Hurricane team to collect assessment information on Papadopoulos and conduct an operation. Halper informs FBI of his July contact with Carter Page and previous contact with Flynn related to the Lokhova incident. Halper also informs the FBI he knew Manafort. Halper claims Carter Page offered him a position with the Trump campaign in their July 2016 meeting. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 314-315.</ref>
:*George Toscas contacts Deputy AAG Stuart Evans who oversaw NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI), which prepares and files FISA applications. Evans meets with Toscas, Adam Hickey, and FBI representatives. The FBI invited NSD to attend weekly meetings with the Crossfire Hurricane team. According to Evans, he and Toscas attended some of the meetings, as did representatives from CES, including Laufman, and OI. Hickey attended some of the meetings as well.
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|"OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THESE ALLEGATIONS AND THE PERVASIVE CONNECTIONS."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-fbi-agents-account-insurance-policy-text-referred-to-russia-probe-1513624580</ref>}}
:*James Clapper visited Estonia.<ref>https://twitter.com/USEmbTallinn/status/763691547061784577</ref>

*'''12 August.''' McCabe receives stand down order from DOJ’s Principal Assistant Attorney General (PADAG) on the [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/did-mccabe-issue-stand-down-order-on-fbi-clinton-email-investigation/</ref>

*'''14 August.''' Sally Yates receives the first Carter Page FISA application.
Deripaska's revenge: ''New York Times'' publishes ''Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief''” two weeks after Bruce Ohr’s meeting with Steele. The article states: “Mr. Deripaska would later say he invested $18.9 million in Pericles [Manafort's company] in 2008 to complete the acquisition of Black Sea Cable. But the planned purchase—including the question of who ended up with the Black Sea assets—has since become the subject of a dispute between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html</ref>

*'''15 August.''' John Brennan briefs [[Harry Reid]] on Christopher Steele and Spygate material. Reid asked Brennan if he could include the information they discussed on Russia in a letter to Comey to ask for investigation of Trump.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/john-brennans-leak-to-harry-reid-is-now-under-scrutiny/</ref>
:*Bruce Ohr talks directly with Strzok. Within a month of Bruce Ohr passing along Steele’s dirt, the FBI scheduled a follow-up meeting with Steele. The path was laid for the ''Steele dossier'' to support a FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
::*Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy [McCabe]'s office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40..."<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/24643/one-insane-text-message-may-have-just-fatally-ben-shapiro</ref>}}
:*Dana Priest of ''WaPo'' publishes follow up on Isikoff's July 18 interview with Flynn: {{quotebox|'''Priest:''' Tell me about the RT [state-run Russian Television] relationship? '''Flynn:''' I was asked by my speaker’s bureau, LAI [Leading Authorities, Inc.]. I do public speaking. It was in Russia. It was a paid speaking opportunity. I get paid so much, the speaker’s bureau got paid so much, based on our contract. The gig was to do an interview with [RT correspondent] Sophie Shevardnadze. It was an interview in front of the forum, probably 200 people in the audience. My purpose there was I was asked to talk about [[radical]] [[Islam]] in the Middle East. They asked me to talk about what was going on in the situation unfolding in the Middle East. '''Priest:''' Have you appeared on RT regularly? '''Flynn:''' I appear on [[Al Jazeera]], Sky News Arabia, RT. I don’t get paid a dime. I have no media contracts. … [I am interviewed] on CNN, Fox … '''Priest:''' Why would you go on RT, they’re state-run? '''Flynn:''' Well, what’s CNN?}}
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*'''1MDB scandal.''' [[Frank White]], Obama chief fundraiser in 2012, under investigation for embezzling $3 Billion from the Government of Malaysia. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating officials at the Malaysian state-owned 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB) and their associates for misappropriating $3.5 billion between 2009 and 2015. The U.S. government is seeking to recover $1 billion that was laundered through the United States and connected to the scandal.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-bundler-partnered-malaysian-fund-investigation-embezzling-3-billion/</ref> White's firm partnered with 1MDB and profited $69 million on an investment that the firm had no money in, according to Malaysian investigators. 1MDB was White's only client, and some of the funds ended up in the campaigns of several Democratic party candidates.<ref>http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/11/1mdb-sleaze-spreads-to-us-democrats-on-eve-of-obama-visit-investigation/</ref> White currently is fundraising for Hillary Clinton.
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*'''17 August.''' Trump, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Gov. [[Chris Christie]] attended their first classified briefing held by intelligence officials — the officials were from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and it was held at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York Field Office.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/u-s-official-donald-trump-s-body-language-claim-doesn-n644856</ref><ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-receive-classified-briefing-tomorrow/story?id=41419607</ref><ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-briefing/index.html</ref>
:*The Crossfire Hurricane team received a memorandum from the CIA detailing its prior relationship with Carter Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the agency from 2008 to 2013 and information that Page had provided to the CIA concerning Page's prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers. This information was not provided to NSD attorneys and was not included in any of the FISA applications. After receiving the August 17 Memorandum, the Crossfire Hurricane team requested no additional information from the CIA perior to submission of the first FISA application in order to deconflict on issues relevant to the October 21, 2016 FISA application.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 79.</ref>

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*'''19 August.''' Ukrainian parliament member '''[[Sergii Leshchenko]]''' holds news conference to draw attention to Paul Manafort and Trump’s “pro-Russia” ties.
:*Manafort resigns.
:*Randy Credico texts Roger Stone: “I’m going to have Julian Assange on my show next Thursday. Kunstler wife is his lawyer or at least one of them.” “I’m best friends with [Assange’s] lawyer and leave it at that and leave it alone.”

*'''21 August.''' Roger Stone tweets, "it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel."

*'''22 August.''' Bruce Ohr received an email from Glenn Simpson with the subject line "Can u ring." 
:*Bruce Ohr meets with Glenn Simpson. Simpson claims either [[Sergei Millian]], [[Michael Cohen]] or Carter Page are intermediaries between Russia and the Trump campaign. Millian is a subsource for Christopher Steele referred to as Source E in Report 95,<ref>In Report 80, this sub-source was referred to as "Source D" and in Report 102 as an "associate" of candidate Donald Trump. ''FISA Abuse Report'', p. 163 fn 300.</ref> which attributed to the "Russian regime" the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks with the "full knowledge and support" of Trump and his campaign team. Millian is also the source of the golden shower allegations.
::"Steele described Millian as a "boaster" and "egotist" and "may engage in some embellishment." The FBI did not provide this description of Millian to NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI) for inclusion in the Carter Page FISA applications despite relying on Millian's information to establish [[probable cause]] in the applications.
::*Simpson lied to Congress on Novemeber 14, 2017 claiming that he did not meet with Bruce Ohr prior to the November 2016 presidential election. He stated further that he met with Bruce Ohr one time after Thanksgiving 2016.<ref>Interview of Glenn Simpson Before the Executive Session of the H. Perm. Select Comm. On Intelligence, 115th Cong. 78 (November 14, 2017).</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/10/more-suspicions-confirmed-glenn-simpson-lied-during-congressional-testimony/#more-145397</ref>
::*Bruce Ohr admitted he knew Simpson and his wife were working for Hillary Clinton and the DNC at this point.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html</ref>
*Christopher Steele finishes another installment of the dossier. The memo details payments to Manafort from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
:*Steele had produced eight reports from June 20, 2016, through the end of August 2016 (there is also one undated report included in the dossier). No further reports were generated by Steele until Sept. 14, 2016.
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*'''23 August.''' Turkish authorities issue arrest warrant and begin massive manhunt for Clinton donor Adil Oksuz, whom they accuse of coordinating the July 2016 coup attempt against the government.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/23/turkey-coup-plotter-clinton-donor/88991622/</ref>

*'''24 August.''' The Office of Net Assessment, which paid Stefan Halper $250,000 as part of Brennan's network of informant's, comes under attack for wasting money on "research projects."<ref>https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/24/pentagons-offic-of-threat-assement-under-fire-from/</ref>
:*Bruce Ohr and Mike Gaeta discuss the substance of Ohr's August 22, 2016 meeting with Glenn Simpson.
*'''25 August.''' '''Brennan briefs Reid; Reid asks Comey to investigate Trump.''' John Brennan gives an unusual private briefing to Democrat Minority Leader [[Harry Reid]] in which he told Reid the FBI should take the lead in an investigation of the Trump campaign because the FBI is the federal agency in charge of domestic intelligence and, unlike the CIA, can spy on U.S. citizens. [[File:JohnBrennan.jpg|right|180px|thumb|'''Brennan''' managed Obama's 'kill list' and created a false narrative of 'warrantless wiretaps' to mask information from the Torture program which he oversaw. When investigated, he hacked into the investigators' computers. ''The Guardian'' says over 1100 were killed targeting 41 individuals on the kill list.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147</ref> He also oversaw the Obama administration's censorship program targeting journalists.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref> Brennan authored the ''ICA'' memo which was widely circulated with unmasked names in the closing days of the Obama administration alleging President-elect Trump was a [[KGB]] agent and Putin-stooge. Brennan later admitted to Rachel Maddow he never had any evidence of Russian collusion with Trump.]]
:*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok have message exchange: '''“What are you doing after the CH [Crossfire Hurricane] brief?”'''
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:*Assange interview with Megyn Kelly.
:*Assange interview with Randy Credico on WBAI radio.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/03/credico-roger-stone-wikileaks/</ref>

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*'''26 August.''' Strzok texts Lisa Page about a trip to a Walmart in southern Virginia and he could “SMELL the Trump support.…” Page responds she is out to lunch with [redacted] and said they both “hate everyone and everything.” Strzok responds “I want to be there and hate with you, or charm you back to happy.” Page says, “Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country.”
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*'''27 August.''' Two days after Brennan’s special briefing, Reid sent a letter to Comey stating, “evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s campaign continues to mount.”
:*Reid’s letter was leaked within days to the New York Times.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/29/us/politics/document-Reid-Letter-to-Comey.html</ref> Documents obtained by Congress revealed senior bureau officials were already expecting Reid’s letter even before the senator wrote it.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/brennan-denies-dossier-allegations-but-congress-wants-answers/</ref> This evidence of Brennan, Comey, and FBI's direct meddling in the election remained stonewalled and hidden for the next two years, until August of 2018.
::*The letter demands an investigation targeting “individuals tied to Trump” to determine if they coordinated with the Russian government “to influence our election.” “The Trump campaign has employed a number of individuals with significant and disturbing ties to Russia and the Kremlin."<ref>https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*w1SItcPqBgDBecaIKAkwgw.png</ref>
::*Reid alludes to Carter Page and repeats an unproven charge from Hillary Clinton's dossier that Page met with two Kremlin officials in Moscow in July 2016 to discuss removing U.S. sanctions on Russia. “Any such meetings should be investigated,” Reid asserted. Brennan is known to have given more than one briefing.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/11/former_cia_director_john_brennan_investigated_for_perjury.html</ref>
::*Brennan briefs Majority Leader McConnell three days after Reid was briefed and sent letter to Comey.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/trump-russia-cia-john-brennan.html</ref>
::*Hillary Clinton then received her first classified briefing — alone, for 2 hours — from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at a Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in White Plains, NY.
:*Randy Credico tells Roger Stone, "Julian Assange has kryptonite on Hillary."
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*'''28 August.''' Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, tells the the ''Financial Times'' of London that “a Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy.” Leshchenko gave the Black Ledger file of the Ukrainian Party of Regions to Alexandra Chalupa and Glenn Simpson; Chalupa gave it to Mike Isiskoff and Simpson gave it to Nellie Ohr. When Isikoff published allegations about Paul Manafort from the files, Manafort resigned the next day. Nellis Ohr and Christopher Steele used some of the Black Ledger file in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>
*'''29 August.''' Obama FBI [[Agent provocateur]] Stefan Halper emails Sam Clovis: {{quotebox|"I am a professor at Cambridge University lecturing on US politics and foreign policy. I am what is called a ‘scholar practitioner,’ having served in the White House and four presidential campaigns — two as policy director. Over the past month I have been in conversation with Carter Page who attended our conference in Cambridge on US elections. Carter mentioned in Cambridge, and when visiting here in Virginia, that you and I should meet. I have enjoyed your comments and appearances in the media; you hit the sweet spot focusing Trump’s appeal to working America. May I suggest that we set a time to meet when you are next in Washington. Meanwhile, all the best, Stefan Halper.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-campaign-vet-informant-used-me-to-get-to-papadopoulos?platform=hootsuite</ref>}}
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*'''30 August.''' Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages: {{quotebox|09:45:20 Strzok - No, you heard the prebrief for to Andy, then the one to the D. Then you heard the prebrief on Fri to Andy, then this one. You've heard it at least FOUR times. Here we go: Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/harry-reid-russia-tampering-election-fbi.html But Mr. Reid argued that the connections between some of Donald J. Trump\u2019s former and current advisers and the Russian leadership should, by itself, prompt an investigation. He referred indirectly in his letter to a speech given in Russia by one Trump adviser, Carter Page, a consultant and investor in the energy giant Gazprom, who criticized American sanctions policy toward Russia.\n\n\u201cTrump and his people keep saying the election is rigged,\u201d Mr. Reid said. \u201cWhy is he saying that? Because people are telling him the election can be messed with.\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers say they are concerned that unnamed elites could rig the election for his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Lisa Page - D [Dir. Comey] said at am brief that Reid called him and told him he would be sending a letter.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/StrzokPageTexts/FBI-texts_djvu.txt</ref>}} In Lisa Pages July 13 and 16, 2018 interview with the joint House committee Page noted that she remembered the letter sent by Reid, but seemed confused as to Brennan’s involvement and possible knowledge of the ''Steele dossier''. While some within the FBI had parts of the dossier in July, the counterintelligence investigative team didn’t receive it until mid-September during a trip to Rome, where they met personally with Steele. The questioner focused on precisely how Brennan might have been aware of the dossier in August:
:{{quotebox|'''Q''': “So what you’re saying is, is that you had no knowledge of these potential unverified memos prior to the middle part of September in your investigation?” '''Page''': “That is correct, sir.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref>}}
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Strzok and Lisa Page discuss how to circumvent FBI investigation document preservation laws: {{Quotebox|Page - Have a meeting with turgal about getting iphone in a day or so Strzok - Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues? Page - No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . . I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an Clinton email that says everyone is failing. But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/371853-new-fbi-messages-reveal-agents-searching-for-way-to-evade-record</ref>}}
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*'''31 August.''' Perkins Coie makes a payment of $157,753.61 to FusionGPS.

*'''August.''' Strzok and [[Jonathan Moffa]], the section chief over counterintelligence analysis, discuss the use of Confidential Human Sources (CHS) or spies, and the use of liaison with foreign intelligence agencies.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/fbi-official-testimony-surveillance-trump-campaign/</ref>

*'''Late August.''' White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice orders U.S. cyber-security team warning of Russian election meddling to stand down and "knock it off."<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/stand-obama-team-blew-response-russian-meddling-100024634.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw</ref><ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/why-the-hell-are-we-standing-down/</ref>
:*NSA Dir. Admiral Mike Rogers pushed for a counter-cyber-strike against Russia for their actions, proposing a number of potential scenarios, although none of them were presented to President Obama.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html</ref>
:*Christopher Steele goes to Sir Andrew Wood to ask him to act as a go-between to reach Sen. John McCain, trying to give his fake dossier credibility.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/inside-trump-dossier-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html</ref>
>!--:*Steele informed of human source in the Trump campaign by the FBI.-->

===September 2016===
Using a series of intermediaries, the DNC and [[Hillary for America]] (Clinton campaign) paid a private firm to conduct opposition research on candidate Trump and his ties with Russia. FusionGPS (fusion) is the trade name of a Washington, D.C.-based company that conducts research primarily on behalf of corporate clients. [[Marc Elias]], chair of Perkins Coie's election law practice who represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign, hired Fusion in Spring 2016 and paid Fusion $1 million to conduct opposition research on candidate Trump. Fusion subsequently hired former British Secret Intelligence Service officer Christopher Steeie for $160,000 to obtain information on candidate Trump via a Russia-based primary subsource and numerous sub-sub-sources network who were purported to be current and former Russian government officials. The information Steele collected was reported back through a series of memos to Fusion and Perkins Coie. Steele produced sixteen memos, which comprise what has become known as the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2028, pp. 111-112.</ref>

By the end of September 2016 - in addition to Fusion and Perkins Coie - Steele provided the information in the ''Steele dossier'' to the [[DOJ]], [[Department of State]],<ref>"Former State Department official [redacted] has stated publicly that, over a period of approximately two years, he provided over "100 of Steele's reports with the Russia experts at the State Department," including Assistant Secretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]]. In Septemberer 2016, Jonathan Winer was personally briefed by Steele on the dossier, and shared a two-page summary with Nuland, who ensured that Secretary of State [[John Kerry]] was made aware of Steele's information. Additionally, [redacted] received from Clinton associate [redacted] information collected by an individual named [redacted] [[Cody Shearer|Shearer]] which, "alleged the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a sexual and financial nature." Winer shared [redacted]r information with Steele, who provided it to the FBI. [redacted], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/devin-nunes-is-investigating-me-heres-the-truth/2018/02/08/cc621170-0cf4-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4382a310654c "Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here's the truth.,"] ''Washington Post'', Feb. 8, 2018; Susan B. Glaser, "Victoria Nuland: The Full Transcript." ''POLITICO'', Feb. 5, 2018; Appendix G. The Committee believes that additional State Department officials were aware of Steele's efforts in 2016." Footnote 4, p. 113, HPSCI ''Russian Active Measures in the 2016 Election'', March 22, 2018.</ref> numerous press outlets,<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/373131-former-obama-official-confirms-steele-dossier-was-given-to-state</ref> and the FBI.

Marc Elias of Perkins Coie recalled personally being briefed by Christopher Steele on his findings during a late September or early October meeting and formed the impression that "the Fusion folks thought it was important that Mr. Steele hear from me directly that I was aware of his work and was appreciative."<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, p. 90.</ref>
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The Obama DOJ's illegal FISA warrant on Carter Page was built on an echo chamber of Hillary Clinton's opposition research among journalists, law enforcement and the intelligence community - all reinforcing each other with the manufactured allegations of the ''Steele dossier''. Michael Isikoff’s September 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article, provided by Christopher Steele, was used to corroborate the Obama DOJ's evidence to the FISA court, which likewise was provided by Christopher Steele.
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The FBI used an informant in an attempt to ensnare Papadopoulos and establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia’s alleged hacking of the DNC emails. Then in January 2017, after Papadopoulos confirmed Mifsud was the source of his claim that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary, and had agreed to cooperate and contact Mifsud, and after the FBI “located” Mifsud in D.C., the FBI didn’t use Papadopoulos to ensnare the supposed Russian-agent whose purported foreknowledge of the hack justified the launch of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
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*'''1 September.''' Agent Provocateur Stefan Halper meets with Sam Clovis. The plan for this operation was for Halper to ask about Papadopoulos and Carter Page "because they were ... unknowns" and the Crossfire Hurricane team was trying to find out how "these two individuals who are not known in political circles ... [got] introduced to the campaign."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 80.</ref>
*'''2 September.''' Lisa Page wrote about preparing talking points for Dir. James Comey: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “'''[[POTUS|potus]] wants to know everything we’re doing.'''”<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2018/02/fbi-text-message-potus-wants-know-everything/</ref>}} The text raises questions about Obama’s involvement in an ongoing FBI investigation.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-texts-obama-wants-know-everything-we-re-doing-n845531</ref>

:*Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts about writing an op-ed, likely the same opinion piece Director Comey discussed with President Obama in August 2016: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “Got it. But we are still writing the op-ed, yes?” Strzok - “Yes, ish. He said too much data would be good to identify the key pieces of data and frame it in an argument, but not to spend ‘too much time on the opening or closing.’ I told him we were too much of perfectionists to not do all of it.”}}

:*Stefan Halper initiates unsolicited contact with George Papadopoulos by email. Halper offers Papadopoulos $3,000 to write a policy paper on issues related to Turkey, [[Cyprus]], [[Israel]] and the Leviathan natural gas field. Halper offers to pay for Papadopoulos’s flight and a three-night stay in London. In London Halper introduces Papadopolous to CIA/FBI asset [[Azra Turk]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html</ref>
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*FBI releases some documents from the now terminated Hillary Clinton email investigation under the [[Freedom of Information Act]].<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-documents-in-hillary-clinton-e-mail-investigation</ref><ref>http://wordpress.redirectingat.com/?id=725X1342&site=theconservativetreehouse.wordpress.com&xs=1&isjs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F322860635&xguid=&xuuid=588a6ed7067ae07312dcf83a11d9c228&xsessid=&xcreo=0&xed=0&sref=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2F2018%2F02%2F08%2Fmike-is-out-michael-p-kortan-quits-fbi%2F&pref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F&xtz=420</ref> The release includes interviews (FBI form 302). Some details from the July 2, 2016 (302) interview with Hillary Clinton is intentionally withheld.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/322860731/Clinton-FBI-Emails-File-2?ad_group=725X700959X044dae4a90d5eb36212ea25ed72daf15&campaign=Skimbit%2C+Ltd.&content=10079&irgwc=1&keyword=ft750noi&medium=affiliate&source=impactradius</ref>

*'''5 September.''' Lisa Page sends Strzok a link to the ''Washington Post'' article titled, ''U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections'':<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-community-investigating-covert-russian-influence-operations-in-the-united-states/2016/09/04/aec27fa0-7156-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5d63642955aa</ref> {{quotebox|Strzok - “This is the one [redacted] was talking about I think.” Lisa Page - “Yup. It is very well sourced. 100% authorized.” Strzok - “Just read the article. We say a lot of the same things. I guess that’s O.K.” Lisa Page - “Yeah, but that’s why ours is going to need to be more folksy. So it’s not like a news article.”<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-page-and-strzok-texts-reveal-they-discussed-writing-a-folksy-op-ed-on-russia/</ref>}} The ''WaPo'' story refers to the Harry Reid briefing, stating, “After Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) ended a secure 30-minute phone briefing given by a top intelligence official recently, he was “deeply shaken,” according to an aide who was with Reid when he left the secure room at the FBI’s Las Vegas office.”
:*Strzok texted Lisa Page: {{quotebox|Strzok - “I have really no faith the administration will deal with it effectively.”}}
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{quotebox|Strzok - “And ooh, you’re at ODNI on Wed. LX? Me too!” “Gotta figure that out tomorrow. Insider threat perhaps. Maybe Electoral shenanigans. I’m between Clapper and Evanina and another person or two.”}}
:*Brennan completes Gang of Eight briefings.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/371002694/Senator-Ron-Johnson-Appendix-C-Documents-and-Text-Messages</ref>
:*Hillary Clinton accuses Russia of interfering with U.S. election.

*'''7 - 8 September.''' Intelligence and National Security Summit was held, which was attended by Clapper, Shawn Henry, Adam Schiff, Andrew McCabe, John Carlin, Stuart Evans, Adm. Mike Rogers, William Evanina, Comey and Brennan. Strzok may have also attended.<ref>http://events.jspargo.com/inss16/public/sessions.aspx?View=Sessions&ID=61671&sortMenu=102001</ref>

*'''8 September.''' Ken Dilanian, Robert Windrem and William Arkin published the article ''What Really Happened at Donald Trump’s Intelligence Briefing'' in NBC News.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/u-s-official-donald-trump-s-body-language-claim-doesn-n644856</ref>
:*Congress discovers that [[Paul Combetta]] of Platte River Networks (PRN), who wiped Hillary Clinton's email server with BleachBit, was granted immunity by the DOJ.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/22/how-reddit-ruined-the-hillary-clinton-campaign/</ref>

*'''10 September.''' Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|Strzok - “there are VERY inflammatory things in the 302s we didn’t turn over to [Congress]…that are going to come out in FOIA and absolutely inflames Congress. I’m sure Jim [Baker] and Trisha [Trisha Beth Anderson] and Dave [Laufmen] and Mike [Kortan] are all considering how things like that play out as they talk amongst themselves.”}}
:*"302s" is a reference to Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 FBI interview withheld from Congress; Strzok is admitting that a group at the highest levels of the FBI including himself, James Baker, Trisha Anderson, Lisa Page, and others conspired to withhold information from the September 2, 2016 release of Hillary Clinton's FBI interview from Congress and the American people.

*'''11 September.''' Brennan on CBS’s ''Face the Nation'' claims the FBI is investigating the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails. The FBI never investigated the alleged DNC hack.

*'''13 September.''' Papadopoulos meets with Halper in London. Halper is Source 2 in OIG Michael Horowitz's ''FISA Abuse Report'' and has connections to CIA & UK Intelligence.
:*Halper asked Papadopoulos whether help "from a third party like Wikileaks for example or some other third party like the Russians, could be incredibly helpful" in securing a campaign victory, Papadopoulos responded that the "campaign, of course, does not advocate for this type of activity because at the end of the day it's illegal." Papadopoulos also stated that the campaign is not "reaching out to Wikileaks or to whoever it is to tell them please work with us, collaborate because we don't, no one does that. " The Crossfire Hurricane team did not provide information about this meeting to the NSD Office of Intelligence attorneys handling the Carter Page FISA applications.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 80.</ref>
:*The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office also reached out to Papadopoulos sometime in September. Papadopoulos later tweeted, {{quotebox|"Stefan Halper lured me to London so that the British [[MI6]] could spy on the campaign, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited me to their offices to talk about Trump and what a threat him supporting Brexit was.”}}

:*Paul Combetta of Platte River Networks appears before a Congressional oversight committee and invokes the [[Fifth Amendment]] privilege against self-incrimination, refusing to testify.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-23/hillary-emailgate-how-one-twitter-user-proved-intent-fbi-missed-after-months-investi</ref>
:*The nonprofit First Draft, funded by [[Google]], whose parent company is run by major Hillary Clinton supporter and donor Eric Schmidt, announces initiative to tackle “fake news.” It appears to be the first use of the phrase in its modern context.

*'''14 September.''' Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announces that no Intelligence Community-wide damage assessment into Secretary Clinton’s email practices would be conducted, in violation of Intelligence Community Directive ICD 732. ODNI ignores all subsequent [[FOIA]] requests.
:*Strzok attended an NSA briefing.
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*Steele dated three installment memos of the dossier on this date. One of the memos referenced a Russian bank named Alfa Bank, misspelled as “Alpha” in his memo.

*'''Mid-to-late September.''' Michael J. Gaeta,<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/the_war_economy/status/990900084190666754?lang=en</ref> Steele’s FBI contact, tells Steele the agency wants to see his opposition research “right away” and offers to pay him $50,000 for solid corroboration of his salacious, unverified claims. Steele flew to Rome, Italy to meet with FBI and provide a “full briefing.” FBI paid Steele's airfare.
:*Lisa Page testified that the team working on Crossfire Hurricane received documents and a briefing from Steele in mid-September, reportedly at a meeting in Rome, where Gaeta was also present. The team received the “reports that are known as the dossier from an FBI agent who is Christopher Steele’s handler in September of 2016.” She would later clarify the timing, noting, “We received the reporting from Steele in mid-September.”
:*Fusion boss Glenn Simpson later testified what Steele told him about the meeting: {{Quotebox|"Essentially, what [Christopher Steele] told me was [the FBI] had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source, and that — that they — my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump campaign."}}

*'''16 September.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr to say that he would be back in Washington soon "on business of mutual interest." Ohr said he would be out of town Sept. 19-21.
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*CNN reports [[John Brennan]] voted for the presidential candidate of the [[Communist party]] during the [[Cambodian genocide]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/</ref> Both the CPUSA and [[Khmer Rouge]] who carried out the communist genocide of 3,000,000 innocent people, where [[Moscow]] funded and directed agents of Soviet foreign policy.<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/841</ref>

*'''19 September.''' FBI general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] met with Perkins Coie partner [[Michael Sussmann]], who had sought out the meeting. Baker told Congressional lawmakers that Sussmann presented him with “a stack of material I don’t know maybe a quarter inch half inch thick something like that clipped together, and then I believe there was some type of electronic media, as well, a disk or something.” The information that Sussmann gave to Baker was related to what Baker described as “a surreptitious channel of communications” between the Trump Organization and “a Russian organization associated with the Russian Government.”<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/21/baker-testimony-reveals-perkins-coie-lawyer-provided-fbi-with-information-on-alfa-bank-allegations/</ref>
:*Baker was describing alleged communications between Alfa Bank and a server in the Trump Tower. These allegations, which were investigated by the FBI and proven to be false, were widely covered in the media.
:*Baker’s testimony also shows that Sussmann was speaking with the media at the same time he had approached Baker, who noted that '''Sussmann had also provided the info to the media''' and had told him that “the ''New York Times'' was aware of this.”
:*Comey, McCabe, Stzok and Priestap were all involved.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/01/21/baker-testimony-reveals-perkins-coie-lawyer-provided-fbi-with-information-on-alfa-bank-allegations/</ref>
:*Baker testified that the FBI approached ''The New York Times'' and convinced the newspaper to hold off on its reporting while the FBI investigated Sussmann’s information.

*Hillary Clinton meets with Ukrainian President Poroshenko meets at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
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*'''21 September.''' Steele emails Bruce Ohr to say he was in Washington and was "keen to meet up with you." The two agreed to have breakfast on Sept. 23. Meeting on that date would be "more useful," Steele said, "after my scheduled meetings" the day before.

*''Daily Mail'' publishes interview with 15 year old and her father alleging she had an online sexual relationship with [[Anthony Weiner]] beginning 23 January 2016. FBI New York Field office, led by Preet Bharara, issues Weiner [[subpoena]] for his electronic devices shortly after. First indication of the [[Weiner laptop]] controversy.
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*'''22 September.''' In motion to dismiss class action lawsuit brought by Sanders supporters, DNC lawyers argue plaintiffs knew that the DNC was biased toward Clinton over Sanders when they donated, so therefore how could they have been duped if they already knew.<ref>http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dnc-files-scathing-rebuttal-wants-fraud-lawsuit-filed-by-bernie-backers-thrown-out/</ref>

*'''23 September.''' Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele meet for breakfast. Ohr testified that “Steele was in Washington, D.C., again, and he reached out to me, and, again, we met for breakfast, and he provided some additional information.” Ohr said this meeting concerned similar topics that were discussed at the July 30, 2016, meeting, but did not provide further details.

:*'''''Yahoo News'' and Michael Isikoff'''.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref> Michael Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' publishes an article based on the information Steele personally leaked to Isikoff and several other media outlets at the direction of FusionGPS. The information focuses on Carter Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. [[Perkins Coie]] hosted the journalists' meeting with Steele where the matter was discussed.
::*Isikoff’s article would later be used by the FBI in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant application to spy on Carter Page, as if it were corroborating information despite the FBI knowing Steele was the source.
:::*Steele is later fired from the FBI as an unreliable for leaking to media and violating agency rules.
:::*According to the Isikoff article, Congress was briefed on the contents of the ''Steele dossier'' by the FBI.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref>
:::*Following the publication of Isikoff’s article, [[Hillary for America]] released a statement on the same day touting Isikoff’s “bombshell report” with the full article attached.
:::*Steele testified that he “briefed” ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Yahoo News'', ''The New Yorker'', and CNN at the end of September 2016.
:::*Steele would engage in a second round of media contact in mid-October 2016, meeting again with ''The New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', and ''Yahoo News''. Steele testified that all these meetings were “conducted verbally in person.”<ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzgzy2KXyxqtVUxEb2pwRmphOXM/view</ref>
::*''Politico'' publishes a lengthy article, “Who Is Carter Page? The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow,” by Julia Ioffe. This article appears to highlight FusionGPS's media campaign: {{quotebox|“As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate ‘corporate investigators’ digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians. One is working on behalf of various unnamed Democratic donors; the other won’t say who turned him on to Page’s scent. Both claimed to me that the FBI was investigating Page for allegedly meeting with Igor Sechin and Sergei Ivanov, who was until recently Putin’s chief of staff—both of whom are on the sanctions list—when Page was in Moscow in July for that speech.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283</ref>}} Ioffe noted that “seemingly everyone I talked to had also talked to the ''Washington Post'', and then there were these corporate investigators who drew a dark and complex web of Page’s connections.” Her article also mentioned rumors regarding Alfa Bank: {{quotebox|“In the interest of due diligence, I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings because Sechin and Ivanov were both sanctioned for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”}}
*'''24 September.''' Nellie Ohr leaves FusionGPS for full-time employment elsewhere.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 271, 396.</ref> Nellie Ohr and the Ohr family household benefited and had been paid $44,000 for the false reporting on the Trump campaign. Bruce Ohr never reported the financial [[conflict of interest]] to his superiors.
*'''26 September.''' Carter Page resigns from Trump campaign.
:*John Carlin files DOJ-NSD proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications. Carlin failed to disclose the January 7, 2016 Inspector General Report and associated FISA Abuse to the FISA Court in his 2016 Certification. Carlin also failed to disclose Adm. Rogers’ ongoing Compliance Review.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>

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*A federal search warrant was obtained for Anthony Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.
:*Comey finds out about Weiner laptop.<ref>[https://t.co/fcXkUbth6C Comey transcript, December 8, 2018. Question and response from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, p. 172-173].</ref>

*'''26-27 September.''' Clinton email IG Report states: {{quotebox|'''The case agent assigned to the Weiner investigation was certified as a Digital Extraction Technician''' and, as such, had the training and skills to extract digital evidence from electronic devices. The case agent told the OIG that he began processing Weiner’s devices upon receipt on September 26. The case agent stated that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop.” The case agent told us that on either the evening of September 26 or the morning of September 27, he noticed the software program on his workstation '''was having trouble processing the data''' on the laptop.}}
:*The case aagent saw at least one BlackBerry PIN message between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, as well as emails between them. He saw emails associated with “about seven domains,” such as yahoo.com, state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hillaryclinton.com. The case agent immediately notified his FBI New York Office (NYO) chain of command, and the information was ultimately briefed to NYO Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC)
::Sundance summarizes: {{quotebox|The New York Case Agent then describes how inconsistent metadata within the computer files for the emails and Blackberry communications, made it impossible for successful extraction. The FBI NY case agent and the Quantico FBI forensics agent agree on the metadata issue and the inability to use their software programs for extraction and layered comparison for the purposes of de-duplication. Both NY and Quantico contradict the statement to the IG by FBI Agent Peter Strzok. However, that contradiction, while presented in a factual assertion by the IG, is entirely overlooked and never reconciled within the inspector general report.}}
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*'''27 September.''' [[John Carlin]] tenders resignation effective October 15, 2016 in the wake of the NSA compliance officer's investigation of FISA Section 702 abuses, i.e. illegal domestic spying and data collection on US persons by the Obama administration,<ref>https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-justice-departments-national-security-division-to-step-down/2016/09/27/59cb95c4-84e6-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.639ad0793c2d</ref> From here until October 21, 2016 it becomes a race between the DOJ-NSD and Adm. Mike Rogers to the FISA Court - Carlin's NSD to get a 90 day FISA Title I approval for the conspirators "insurance policy" against the [[Trump transition]], and Rogers to report Obama administration abuses to the Court uncovered in the Compliance review.
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*Agent Provocateur Stefan Halper paid $244,960 by US Government.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/23673597</ref>
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*'''28 September.''' On Capital Hill for a day of testimony, FBI Dir. James Comey [[perjury|perjurors]] himself before the House Governmental Affairs Oversight Committee. In response to a question from Rep. [[John Ratcliffe]], Comey testified his decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton came after her 2 July interview with the FBI. Subsequent internal FBI documents reveal Comey decided against recommending prosecution more than six weeks earlier, while the investigation was still in progress.<ref>https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/01/james-comey-may-have-committed-perjury-chaffetz-says</ref>
{{Quotebox|Mr. RATCLIFFE. ...If there was ever any possibility that something Hillary Clinton might have said on July 2 could have possibly resulted in criminal charges that might possibly have resulted in a trial against her relating to this classified information, well, then, to use your words, Director, I don’t think that there is any reasonable prosecutor out there who would have allowed two immunized witnesses central to the prosecution proving the case against her to sit in the room with the interview, the FBI interview, of the subject of that investigation. And if I heard you earlier today, in your long career, I heard you say that you have never had that circumstance. Is that—did I hear you correctly? Mr. COMEY. That is correct, but—— Mr. RATCLIFFE. Okay. And I never have either, and I have never met a prosecutor that has ever had that. So, to me, the only way that an interview takes place with the two central witnesses and the subject of the investigation is if the decision has already been made that all three people in that room are not going to be charged. Mr. COMEY. Can I respond? Mr. RATCLIFFE. Yes. Please. Mr. COMEY. I know in our political lives sometimes people casually accuse each other of being dishonest, but if colleagues of ours believe I am lying about when I made this decision, please urge them to contact me privately so we can have a conversation about this. All I can do is to tell you again, the decision was made after that, because I didn’t know what was going to happen in that interview...<ref>
[https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjudiciary.house.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2F114-91_22125.pdf%3Ffref%3Dgc%26dti%3D158028727907294&h=ATPoKhbdjYgraEMzI5tXw7b9qJ5bNXpaJDgnxKgy4gSp4G5hewfV31hRR6DB-dyJ3_3-C6gk-G63C486UxMct8CG6_6O6z11jpVIhVL7onBqxxDXLMtXf8rxrEGqeBh0Tjvh5QHOCgw OVERSIGHT OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 page 88 PDF]</ref>}}That same day in response to questions from the House Judiciary Committee about an ongoing [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation, Comey said "our standard is we do not confirm or deny the existence of investigations." Comey says of the Clinton email investigation: {{quotebox|This case was investigated by a group of professionals, so if I blew it, they blew it too. Career FBI agents, the very best we have were put on this case.}} Three of these career professionals, McCabe, Strzok, and Lisa Page, have since been fired or resigned. All face criminal prosecution. Comey complains, "Don't call us weasels."<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/james-comey-not-weasels-clinton-email-228835</ref>
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*'''McCabe notified of Weiner laptop.''' McCabe and 39 senior FBI executives notified by NY Assistant Director In Charge (ADIC) via secure video teleconference (SVTC) of 347,000 emails relevant to the Clinton email investigation on Weiner's laptop. Comey was not present for the SVTC.<ref>https://youtu.be/sBNkLF6_vHQ</ref>
:*McCabe told the OIG that he recalled talking to Comey about the issue “right around the time [McCabe] found out about it.”
:*The emails in question appear to be insurance Weiner held to pull strings with Hillary Clinton as leverage should he get into trouble.
:*McCabe informs Priestap and Strzok.
:*Strzok to Lisa Page text message: {{quotebox|“Got called up to Andy [McCabe]’s earlier ...hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by [[Anthony Weiner|Weiner]]’s atty to sdny [ [[Preet Bharara]] ], includes a ton of material from spouse [ [[Huma Abedin]] ]. Sending team up [to New York] tomorrow to review... this will neverend...”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senior-fbi-agents-knew-of-new-clinton-emails-from-anthony-wieners-laptop-weeks-before-congress-was-informed-report/article/2647765</ref>}} Strzok later said a conference call with NYO was scheduled instead.

*'''28-29 September.''' Priestap and NY ADIC discuss the limited scope of the Weiner search warrant (i.e., the need to obtain additional legal process to review any Clinton-related email on the Weiner laptop).

*'''29 September.''' '''FBI in possession of Weiner laptop'''. Conference call between NYO and five members (Strzok and [[Tashina Gauhar]] included) of the Clinton email team participated. Notes from the conference call indicate the participants discussed the presence of a large volume of emails (350,000) on the Weiner laptop and specific domain names, including clintonemail.com and state.gov. The Clinton email investigation Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) said that NYO also mentioned seeing BlackBerry domain emails on the Weiner laptop.
*OIG found that by this date FBI executives and the FBI Midyear [Clinton email investigation] team had learned every fact necessary that was cited by the FBI in late October as justification for obtaining the search warrant for the Weiner laptop, including that the laptop contained:
:* Over 340,000 emails, some of which were from domains associated with Clinton, including state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail.com, and hiyllaryclinton.com;
:* Numerous emails between Clinton and Abedin;
:* An unknown number of Blackberry communications on the laptop, including one or more messages between Clinton and Abedin, indicating the possibility that the laptop contained communications from the first three months of Clinton’s tenure; and
:* Emails dated beginning in 2007 and covering the '''entire period of Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State''' [i.e., including the supposed "lost" emails].
:*Strzok, Gauhar, and [[Sally Moyer]] appointed to review Weiner laptop.
::*The Washington FBI Clinton email team claimed in interviews with the OIG that they did not learn these facts until the October 26, 2016 conference call with the New York field office and SDNY. They thought the case had been whitewashed and closed, and Hillary would win anyway. Now the New York office and prosecutors were in possession of relevant facts.
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*Randy Credico, WikiLeaks source for Roger Stone, exchanges texts with Stone prior to Podesta email leak:
:Credico - “You are not going to drag my name into this are you"
:Stone - "No"
:Credico - “Leave my name out Im going to be all screwed up today."
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*CEPA Forum was hosted at the Meridian International Center in Washington, DC, where it was attended by Director General Mikk Marran, Michael Weiss and Lawfare’s [[Benjamin Wittes]], a friend of James Comey and James Baker (DOJ).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170713171014/https://www.cepaforum.org/2016/Program</ref>
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*'''30 September.''' Inspector General report on [[Awan investigation|Imran Awan]] and his family members; they were logging into the servers of members who had previously fired him, funneling data off the network, and that evidence “suggests steps are being taken to conceal their activity.” Shortly after the Clinton email IG Report came out in September 2016, the Caucus server — identified as prime evidence in the cybersecurity case — physically disappeared. No official body has ever publicly provided any information about the case.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/20/ig-pakistani-mystery-man-imran-awan/</ref>
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*Perkins Coie makes a payment of $144,643.46 to FusionGPS.
*'''September.''' Steele admitted to [[Bruce Ohr]] that he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," according to Ohr and FBI documents. In the same period Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by FusionGPS to assist in writing the ''Steele dossier''. Bruce Ohr's relationship with Steele and FusionGPS was concealed by the DOJ and FBI from the FISA court.
*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.]]
*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|“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|"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>

*'''Late September.''' Jonathan Winer is shown copy of [[Cody Shearer]] Memo by Sidney Blumenthal. Winer shares a copy of Shearer’s Memo with Steele. Steele will later share Shearer’s Memo with the FBI.

*Steele and Simpson meet with the ''Washington Post'' for two hours.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-or-hired-gun-how-a-british-former-spy-became-a-flash-point-in-the-russia-investigation/2018/02/06/94ea5158-0795-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.adf409679cbf</ref>

*'''End of September.''' Simpson and Steele meet with reporters, including ''New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', Yahoo News, the ''New Yorker'' and CNN or ABC. One meeting is at office of Democratic National Committee general counsel [[Marc Elias]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/the-crusade-of-a-democratic-super-lawyer-with-multimillion-dollar-backing/2016/08/07/2c1b408c-5a54-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ca1b2370c49f</ref> Elias is secretly the front man paying FusionGPS on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

*Agents at both the FBI and CIA, people on Capitol Hill, and other people at other intelligence agencies were leaking information on the investigation of Trump and Russia to ''The New York Times''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/public-editor/trump-russia-fbi-liz-spayd-public-editor.html</ref>

*'''Fall.''' Christopher Steele and Orbis International business partner [[Christopher Burrows]] meet with Sir [[Richard Dearlove]]. Dearlove advised Steele and Burrows to work discreetly with a top British government official to pass along information to the FBI.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-or-hired-gun-how-a-british-former-spy-became-a-flash-point-in-the-russia-investigation/2018/02/06/94ea5158-0795-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.79f2e9f6fa14</ref>
:*"'''As Obama’s director for Ukraine on the NSC, [Eric] Ciaramella was the main force pushing Trump-Russia conspiracy theories."'''<ref>https://archive.is/JLK0t#selection-213.16-213.131</ref>
:*FBI general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] met with attorney from [[Perkins Coie]], lawyer for the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before</ref>

*'''Late September or early October.''' Bruce Ohr had a meeting with Strzok, Lisa Page, and two or three DOJ career officials from the criminal division: Bruce Swartz, [[Zainab Ahmad]], and [[Andrew Weissmann]]; Ohr testified that he was unsure whether Weismann was at this or a later meeting.

===October 2016===
In October 2016 there are at least five major issues consuming the Obama Department of Justice and FBI simultaneously:
:*The rebuke of the [[FISA court]] for 702 contractor abuse;
:*Hoaxing the FISA court to obtain a FISA Title I surveillance warrant;
:*The [[Weiner laptop]];
:*Andrew McCabe's conflict of interest and recusal;
:*Andrew McCabe directing leaks to the ''Wall Street Journal'' to refute allegations of a conflict of interest.
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From 2013 until ten days before he joined the Trump camapiagn, [[Carter Page]] was a paid informant for the U.S. government to help convict a Russian intelligence agent. Carter Page was listed as an Under-Cover Employee [UCE-1 in court documents].

DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel wanted a "legal" way to spy on the Trump campaign. The highest levels of the Obama DOJ and FBI asked for and received [[FISA]] Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page in October 2016. The Obama DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew Carter Page was not a Russian spy, misreprsented facts and perpetrated a fraud upon the FISA court. The authority became the "legal" cover for their own criminal intent and actions.

The “Title I” designation as a foreign agent applied '''retroactively''' to any action taken by Mr. Page, and auto-generates an exponential list of other people he came in contact with. Each of those people, groups or organizations could now have their communication reviewed, unmasked and analyzed by the DOJ/FBI with the same surveillance authority granted upon the target, Mr. Page. The [[Stormy Daniels]] payment scheme, for example, was discovered by the Obama DOJ illegal FISA Title I abuse. All electronic communications by the Trump campaign are in the hands of [[Robert Mueller]]. James Comey never informed Congress of the surveillance, as required by law, because Comey knew it was illegal.

FISA Title I surveillance of U.S. citizens is the most intrusive, exhaustive and far reaching type of search, seizure and surveillance authority, permitting the FBI to look at every aspect of Mr. Page’s life. All communication, travel and contact can be opened and reviewed. All aspects of any of Mr. Page’s engagements are subject to being secretly monitored. This is an entirely different level of surveillance authority, the highest possible, and outside FISA-702 search queries (Title VII) of US persons.

Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a US citizen is so serious, only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants. One of the four people authorized to make such a filing is the Asst. Attn. Gen. [[John P. Carlin]] who was head of the DOJ National Security Division. Carlin who, together with the FBI counterintelligence unit, vetted Carter Page as an FBI Under-Cover Employee to gain a guilty plea from a Russian operative in early 2016, then turned around six months later in October 2016 when things weren't going so well for [[Hillary Clinton]] and accused Carter Page of being a Russian Spy.

There was a secret agreement between the CIA and the FBI that was kept hidden from the FISA court until October 2016 when NSA Director Mike Rogers exposed and reported it. The agreement centered around “access to FBI systems“; the overarching issue was “deliberate decision making” that led to “contractor access to the NSA database”, and the fact those contractors were searching “U.S. persons”.

CIA contractors were using FBI portal access ''per'' the secret agreement to exploit the NSA database and extract search results. The CIA is not supposed to be conducting surveillance, aka “spying”, inside the U.S. on American citizens.

In the secret agreement, unknown to the FISA court, the CIA was hiding their extraction of U.S. person information by using FBI database access through the DOJ-NSD ([[Department of Justice-National Security Division]]).

In 2015 the Office of Inspector General requested oversight and it was Deputy AG [[Sally Yates]] who denied access. All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the NSD. The secret MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the CIA and FBI was the reason why the DOJ-NSD would not allow inspector general oversight.
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The information in the FISA application relied upon to establish probable cause to believe that Carter Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential election activities was based upon Christopher Steele's reporting. This reporting included the alleged secret meetings between Page and Russian officials in July 2016 described in Steele's Report 94. The most descriptive information in the FISA application of alleged coordination between Carter Page and Russia came from Steele's Report 95, which attributed the information to "Source E," Serge Millian.
The FISA application stated that, according to Millian, Carter Page was an intermediary between Russian leadership and an individual associated with the Trump campaign (Manafort) in a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" that led to the disclosure of hacked DNC emails by Wikileaks in exchange for the Trump campaign team's agreement, which the FBI assessed included at least Carter Page, to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue. The application also stated that this same sub-source provided information contained in Steele's Report 80 that the Kremlin had been feeding information to Trump's campaign for an extended period of time and that the information had reportedly been "very helpful," as well as information contained in Report 102 that the DNC email leak had been done, at least in part, to swing supporters from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. The FBI had no independent corroboration for this information.
Although Christopher Steele was fired by the FBI for speaking to the media and violating FBI regulations days after his unverified information was used to hoax the FISA court, not only was the court never informed the initial FISA application was based on information that FBI regulations deemed unreliable, the DOJ/FBI used the Steele information three more times over the next year to secure three more 90 day warrant extensions. While they were busy hoaxing the FISA court with bogus information, Comey, Clapper and Brennan all testified to Congress the information was unverified.
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[[File:Screenshot-www.salon .com-2019.07.22-15 07 59.png|right|350px|thumb|Patrick Lawrence of ''Salon'' was on to the hoax from the start.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/22/ray-mcgovern-a-non-hack-that-raised-hillarys-hackles/</ref>]]
To kill speculation about reopening Hillary Clinton's email investigation, the New York FBI and DOJ Eastern District of New York (EDNY) prosecutors were threatened by Washington DC Main Justice and FBI headquarters, via [[Loretta Lynch]] and [[Andrew McCabe]], to drop the Clinton/Abedin/Weiner email investigation, concede the Clinton email investigation to DC, or else the DOJ Civil Rights Division would be used as leverage against the New York Police Department (NYPD, whom NY FBI and SDNY work closely with) to re-open the Eric Garner case (Garner was a black man killed in police custody while in a choke hold in 2014). Loretta Lynch had the Southern District of New York (SDNY) US Attorney [[Preet Bharara]] on stand by as the enforcer.
The Clinton emails on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop were never looked at. The FBI and DOJ fully expected Hillary Clinton to win.
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FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe instructed FBI lawyer [[Lisa Page]] and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to work with ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Devlin Barrett on reports about sizeable campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia state senate. McCabe subsequently denied he authorized the leaks, and in March 2018 was fired for lying to investigators when Lisa Page's text messages proved otherwise.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/05/new-details-about-basis-for-andrew-mccabes-firing-from-fbi-revealed.html</ref> In the interim, McCabe served as Acting FBI Director while Deputy Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Robert Mueller to head up the Russia collusion hoax investigation.
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The IG found {{quotebox|In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related [Clinton] investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we
were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations. Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation, and the implication in some of these text messages, particularly Strzok’s August 8 text message (“we’ll stop” candidate Trump from being elected), was that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects. Under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.}}
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*'''Early October.''' Crossfire Hurricane team meets with Christopher Steele in Europe. Gaeta, Moffa other members of the Crossfire Hurricane team in attendance.
:*Steele identifies Oleg Deripaska as his primary subsource, and Serge Millian as Deripaska's subource 1. Paul Manafort was involved in litigation with Deripaska, and Steele had a relationship with Adam Waldman and pssibly Paul Hauser, attorneys representing Deripaska.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 108-114.</ref>
:*Steele describes Millian as a "boaster" and "egotist" and "may engage in some embellishment." FBI did not provide this description of Millian to NSD's Office of Intelligence (OI) for inclusion in the Carter Page FISA applications despite relying on Millian's information to establish probable cause in the applications.
:*Steele claims the Russian intelligence officer whom Carter Page assisted the Department of Justice to gather evidence against was Page's Russian handler; the DOJ investigated Steele's allegation and no evidence was found to substantiate Steele's allegation.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 111.</ref>
:*Steele informs Crossfire Hurricane team that he has given reports to Jonathan Winer of the State Derpartment.
:*Crossfire Hurricane team discloses classified information on the Papadopoulos, Flynn, Manafort, and Carter Page investigations to Christopher Steele. Steele advised that he was unaware of Papadopoulos.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 114, fn 250.</ref>
:*FBI offers to pay [[Christopher Steele]] for physical evidence of specific individuals involved in facilitating the supposed Trump campaign-Russian relationship, such as emails, photos, ledgers, memorandums etc.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 109-110, 113.</ref>
*'''Early October.''' Steele meets in New York with David Corn, Washington-bureau chief of ''Mother Jones''.
:*Adam Lovinger wrote a second email to [[James H. Baker (DOD)]] identifying another individual as a source of contractual concern. Lovinger wrote of {{quotebox|“the moral hazard associated with the Washington Headquarters Services contracting with [[Stefan Halper]].”<ref>https://www.vetr.com/posts/5000196251-Pentagon-Whistleblower-Demoted-After-Exposing-Millions-Paid-To-FBI-Spy-Halper-Clinton</ref><ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/search/?q=stefan+halper&sort=date_desc</ref>}} Halper {{quotebox|“was being used by [[Net Assessment]] to go out essentially and engage with foreign government officials. As a contractor that’s totally illegal.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/16/stefan-halper-pentagon-outrageous/</ref>}} Halper had been awarded $1.06 million in contracts through five payments beginning in 2012.<ref>https://www.usaspending.gov/#/keyword_search/halper%252C%2520stefan</ref>
:*Melissa Hodgman-Strzok, wife of Peter Strzok, promoted to [[SEC]] Associate Director as Strzok delays examining the Weiner laptop; the SEC is involved in Clinton Foundation investigations.

*'''1 October.''' Papadopoulos sends Mifsud a private Facebook message with a link to an article from Interfax.com, a Russian news website. Last contact between Papadopoulos and Mifsud. This contact is only disclosed in the FBI’s July 28, 2017 Affidavit, signed by FBI Agent Robert Gibbs. Notably, it is not disclosed in the October 5, 2017 Statement of the Offense signed by Robert Mueller.
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*Randy Credico tips off Roger Stone that WikiLeaks will release Podesta emails in coming days:
:Credico - “big news Wednesday"
:Credico - “now pretend u don’t know me”
:Stone - “U died 5 years ago"
:Credico - ")great"
:Credico - “Hillary’s campaign will die this week”
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*'''3 October.''' Steele meets in Rome with FBI Eurasian Joint Organized Crime Squad Team. Steele is asked to “explain how he had compiled his reports, and to give background on his sources."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke</ref>
:*Story breaks of Hillary Clinton's suggestion to murder Julian Assange.<ref>Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" -- report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ https://t.co/qy2EQBa48y</ref>

*'''3-4 October.''' Additional discussions between NYO and Washington HQ about Weiner laptop, however the Inspector General found {{quotebox|"no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear [Clinton email] investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24, and then did so only after the Weiner case agent expressed concerns to SDNY, prompting SDNY to contact the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) on October 21 to raise concerns about the lack of action."}} They were anticipating a Hillary win.

*'''4 October 8:15 am – 9:00 am.''' '''Comey briefed on Weiner and Clinton Foundation child sex crimes.''' Comey briefing with Executive Assistant Director Randy Coleman. Coleman notes state topic: {{quotebox|(1) Anthony Wiener [sic] (2) [Unrelated] (3) Wiener [sic] – texting 15 yo – Sexually Explicit 9/26 – Federal SW [search warrant] IPhone/IPAD/Laptop Initial analysis of laptop – thousands emails Hillary Clinton & Foundation Crime Against Children<ref>Clinton email IG Report, p. 293.</ref>}}

:*Standard follow-up hearing on the DOJ-NSD 2016 Section 702 Certification was held before the FISA court.<ref>United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillence Court, Memorandum Opinion and Order, April 26, 2017, p. 19.</ref> John Carlin was present at the hearing. Again, Carlin made no disclosure of FISA abuse. This would be noted by the Court later.
:*FBI Director Comey replaces head of Counterintelligence Division, New York Field Office with Charles McGonigal.
*'''5 October.''' Obama Justice Dept. abruptly drops charges against arms dealer which would have led to open disclosure of Hillary Clinton's role in arming the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/05/doj-abruptly-drops-case-against-gun-runner-who-threatened-to-reveal-clintons-libya-dealings.html</ref>
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*'''7 October.''' WikiLeaks dumps a trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman [[John Podesta]]’s personal email account. The emails inspire the [[PizzaGate|Pizzagate]] conspiracy theory.<ref>http://victuruslibertas.com/2016/11/do-john-and-tony-podesta-have-a-connection-with-missing-child-madeleine-mccann/</ref>
:*Patrick Lawrence of ''[[Salon]]'' was on to the hoax from the start and publishes '' “How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal … a disturbing resemblance to Cold War red-baiting.”''
:*DNI James Clapper accuses the Russian government of hacking the DNC “to interfere with the US election process.”
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*'''Early to mid October.''' Comey, FBI investigators and DOJ-NSD lawyers are aware of [[intelligence community]] concerns about the reliability of the ''Steele dossier''. The FBI is also aware of Steele's media contacts.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/419901-fbi-email-chain-may-provide-most-damning-evidence-of-fisa-abuses-yet</ref>
[[File:State-department-email-chris-steele.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Smoking gun: State Department email proves political motivation of the ''[[Steele dossier]]'' ten days before the FBI used it to hoax the FISA court.]]
*'''11 October.''' '''A smoking gun for FISA fraud - Kavalec notes of the Steele, Winer, and Kavalec meeting.'''
:*Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [[Kathleen Kavalec]]’s written account of her meeting with Christopher Steele shows that Steele admitted his research was political and facing a November 8, 2016 Election Day deadline. The admission occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s false information as evidence to procure a 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.”<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt#.XNIAVvr8PT0.twitter</ref> The Kavalec memo was shared with the FBI who were preparing the FISA warrant.
:*[[Jonathan Winer]], who arranged the meeting, was also present.
:*Kacalec was suspicious of the information.
:*The Kavalec notes indicate Steele claimed the Russians, Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov, were “sources” for the ''Steele dossier''. Trubnikov and Surkov were not identified by name in the ''Steele’s dossier''. Trubnikov, the former head of the SVR, has links to Stefan Halper.
::*Stefan Halper arranged for Trubnikov to visit intelligence seminars at the University of Cambridge on May 4, 2012, and May 11, 2015. He also tapped Trubnikov to contribute to a study he did in 2015 for the Pentagon’s [[Office of Net Assessment]] (ONA) published in 2015.
::*[[Bruce Ohr]] told Congress in 2018 that Steele told him during a July 30, 2016 meeting that a former head of the SVR had told someone that the Russian government “had Donald Trump over a barrel.”
:*The notes highlight several of Steele's inaccuracies, including that Russia was running operations out of its consulate in Miami. As Kavalec pointed out, Russia does not have a consulate in Miami.
:*There is no evidence the compromising material mentioned in the dossier actually exists, raising questions about whether Steele was given disinformation.
:*The State Department inspector general who later investigated Winer and the meeting, never interviewed Winer or Kavalec and never released a report.<ref>https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-09-12%20RHJ,%20CEG%20to%20State%20OIG%20re%20Christopher%20Steele%20Meeting.pdf</ref>
:*FBI informs Stu Evans of the NSD Office of Intelligence that Christopher Steele is working for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 135-139, 259.</ref>
:*Strzok texts Lisa Page:
{{Quotebox|6:21 p.m. Strzok: "Currently fighting with Stu [Evans] for this fisa." 6:50 p.m., Strzok: "Hey-The FISA will probably not go forward without a call from [McCabe].}}
:*Hillary email to campaign manager John Podesta leaked that acknowledges [[Saudi Arabia]] and Qatar are “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/11/podesta-leaks-show-clinton-email-linking-saudi-arabia-qatar-to-isis.html</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/12/senators-state-department-watchdog-christopher-steele/</ref>

*'''12 October.''' Comey attended the Special Agent-In-Charge Conference, where he gave a speech about combating supposed misinformation surrounding his July 5 announcement.

*'''13 October.''' Kathleen Kavelec forwards typed summary of her meeting with Christopher Steele to the FBI.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged</ref>
*Donald Trump says in West Palm Beach, [[Florida]] campaign rally:{{quotebox|...They control the Department of Justice, and they even clandestinely meet with the Attorney General of the United States – in the back of her airplane, while on the runway – for 39 minutes – to most likely discuss her reappointment in a Clinton Administration just prior to the Attorney General making a decision over whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Likewise, they have corrupted the Director of the FBI to the point at which stories are already saying the great men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed to what he’s done to one of our great institutions. Hillary Clinton is guilty of all of the things that Director Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more – and yet he let her off the hook, while others lives are being destroyed for far less.<ref>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=119180</ref>}}
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*'''1MDB scandal.''' ''WSJ'': Malaysian Fund 1MDB Linked to White House Visit.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/suspect-malaysian-fund-tied-to-lobbying-of-white-house-1476403764</ref>
:*Investigators look into whether money embezzled from the fund paid for lobbying seeking closer U.S.-Malaysian relations.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/video/1mdb-scandal-investigation-reaches-the-white-house/ED62A831-8E61-4C9E-B29E-5B9B57FF0E59.html</ref>
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*Obama proposes media [[censorship]].

*'''Early-Mid-October.''' New FISA Warrant on Manafort, ''per'' CNN 2017/9/18 article, likely issued. Possibly a [[National Security Letter]] (NSL).
*'''Mid October.''' FBI and NSD OI are aware Steele is acting in bad faith after their early October 2016 meeting with Steele in Europe.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 113, 114.</ref>
*'''14 October.''' Strzok and Lisa Page exchange emails with the subject line '''“Crossfire FISA”: "At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him."''' Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get Andrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant.<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/395776-memos-detail-fbis-hurry-the-f-up-pressure-to-probe-trump-campaign</ref>

*Lisa Page texted Andrew McCabe: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “Just called. Apparently the DAG [Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates] now wants to be there, and WH wants DOJ to host. So we are setting that up now. We will very much need to get Cohen’s view before we meet with her. Better, have him weigh in with her before the meeting. We need to speak with one voice if that is in fact the case.”}}

*'''Mid October.''' Steele again briefs reporters about Trump political opposition research. The reporters are from the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', and ''Yahoo News''.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/steele-dossier-state-department/</ref>
[[File:800px-Benjamin Wittes, 2013.jpg|175px|right|thumb|'''Benjamin Wittes''' of [[Lawfare]], associated with the Brookings Institution, has been in the forefront of the political weaponization of Law providing the sketchy legal framework under which both the 2017 [[Deep State coup]] and the 2019 [[impeachment inquiry]] were carried out.]]
*Detailed talking points were issued to Special Agents-In-Charge at the FBI to assist them in answering questions surrounding Comey’s July 5, 2016 statement about exonerating Hillary for the [[Midyear Exam investigation]].<ref>https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download</ref>

*'''15 October.''' Obama administration rewrites Carter Page FISA application.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/04/summary-of-media-articles-discussing-obamas-fisa-warrants-to-monitor-candidatepresident-trump/</ref>

*'''Carlin's last day.''' DOJ-NSD Principle Deputy Asst. Attorney General [[Mary McCord (DOJ)|Mary McCord]] replaces John Carlin. It was specifically John Carlin’s responsibility to ensure a valid legal basis for the FISA application submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Carlin does a [[kamikaze]] dive shortly before the application is submitted.

*'''17 October.''' [[Benjamin Wittes]], in the first part of a series of [[seditious]] ramblings, blames Donald Trump for a violent [[leftist]] attack on a [[North Carolina]] GOP office.<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-i-political-focus-whats-truly-important</ref>

*'''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.
:*Deripaska apparantly 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>
::*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.
::*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?"
::*McCabe told the Inspector General that he and Bruce Ohr first met in 2003, when McCabe was assigned to NYFO's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force and Ohr was Chief of OCRS. McCabe said the two spoke periodically between 2003 and 2016 regarding Deripaska.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 277 fn 420.</ref>
::*Bruce Ohr told McCabe and Lisa Page that Nellie Ohr had also worked for Fusion GPS
:*Bruce Ohr also stated that he wanted to ensure McCabe knew about Simpson's information.
::*Strzok's notes dated October 18 detail information concerning Bruce Ohr. Strzok told the OIG that he believed either Lisa Page or McCabe provided the information to him. Strzok's notes also stated: "Bruce's wife fluent Russian speaker," "Simpson hired Ohr's wife to find connections," and "She saw no connections [at] first."
::*Additionally, Priestap's notes, which reflect an entry dated October 19 that states: "DOJ Bruce [Ohr]-Steele is providing reporting to a variety of people."
:::*Bruce Ohr reports back to Christopher Steele and at Ohr's request. Call log shows Skype meetings on Oct. 18 and 19.
:*'''Strzok and Lisa Page exchange emails with the subject line “Re: Dragon FISA.” "Still an expedite?” one of the emails asked, as the FBI tried to meet the requirements of a process known as a Woods review before a FISA warrant can be approved by the courts. “Any idea what time he can have it woods-ed by?” Strzok asked Page. “I know it’s not going to matter because DOJ is going to take the time DOJ wants to take. I just don’t want this waiting on us at all.”'''
::*Lisa Page testified in 2018, "I’m not talking about the Woods file. I’m talking about a separate effort that was undertaken in order to try to verify for investigative purposes, not for purposes of the FISA, but a separate effort undertaken to try to validate the allegations contained within the Steele reporting.” Crossfire Hurricane was one of the code names for four separate investigation. The '''subject of the Dragon FISA remains unknown.'''

:*Joe Biden invites Deep State informant [[Eric Ciaramella]] to attend luncheon for Italian Prime Minister [[Matteo Renzi]]. Brennan, Clapper, and Comey also in attendance.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html]</ref>
::*The invitation is unusual for a low level GS-13 [[civil service system]] employee.

:*Assange internet access cutoff by Ecuador Embassey.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-18/wikileaks-says-julian-assange-internet-access-cut-by-ecuador/7941532]</ref>

*'''19-20 October.''' Steele finishes two more installments of the dossier concerning Manafort's alleged role in alleged [[collusion]].

*'''19 October.''' Lisa Page texted Andrew McCabe: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “Hey can you give me a call when you get out? Meeting with WH counsel is finally set up and I want to talk about timing. Thanks.”}}
*The ''Shearer dossier'' written by Clinton operative [[Cody Shearer]] with allegations about the sexual and financial activity of Donald Trump. Shearer gave his memo to Clinton confidant [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who '''transmitted it to State Department official [[Jonathan Winer]], who then gave it to Christopher Steele''', who passed it on to the FBI. The ''Shearer dossier'' was not included in [[BuzzFeed]]'s January 10, 2017 release. After the fraud of the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed in early 2017 Stormy Daniels claimed she was paid to keep silent about an affair with Trump, and a stranger threatened her and her child. Kathleen Willey was a volunteer at the White House in 1993 when President Bill Clinton grabbed her, fondled her, and pressed her hand against himself in the Oval Office. Willey told her story in a [[60 Minutes]] interview and became a target of a smear campaign directed by the Clintons.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007 ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref> In 1998, just before Willey was to testify in the [[Paula Jones]] trial, Willey was approached by a stranger who asked her menacing questions about her children, naming them by name. On ''Hardball'' in 1999, [[MSNBC]] host [[Chris Matthews]] identified the mysterious stranger as Cody Shearer.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477</ref>
*False date put on Carter Page FISA application March 17, 2017 leak hunt.
*'''October.''' IG Midyear report says: {{quotebox|The case agent told us that he scheduled a meeting on October 19 with the two SDNY AUSAs assigned to the Weiner investigation because he felt like he had nowhere else to turn. … The AUSAs both told us that the case agent appeared to be very stressed and worried that somehow he would be blamed in the end if no action was taken.}}
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*'''20 October.''' NSA Dir. Mike Rogers is briefed by the NSA compliance officer on several strange 702 “About Queries” that were being conducted. These were violations of the [[Fourth Amendment]] (search and seizure), ie. unlawful surveillance and gathering. As a result of Rogers suspecting surveillance activity being used for reasons he deemed unlawful, in mid 2016 Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance. Section 702 of the FISA Act is basically spying on Americans; the actual “spying” part is 702. Item 17 is “About Queries“, which allows queries or searches of content of email and phone conversations based on any subject matter put into the search field. Rogers ordered the “About Query” activity to stop, reported the activity to the DOJ, and then to the FISA court. Rogers also stopped “About Query” permanently.<ref>https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/statements/2017-04-28-702-statement.shtml</ref>

*The Origins of the Prague Narrative: ''Steele’s dossier'' memo reads: {{quotebox|''“Kremlin insider reports Trump lawyer COHEN’s secret meeting/s with Kremlin officials in August 2016 was/were held in Prague."''<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/12/29/why-did-foreign-intel-agencies-leak-info-on-alleged-cohen-prague-visit-now/</ref>}} No more Steele memos until Dec. 13.
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*Clinton email IG Report states: {{Quotebox|AUSAs met with their supervisors at SDNY and informed them of their conversation with the Weiner case agent. The AUSAs stated that they told their supervisors the substantive information reported by the case agent, the case agent’s concerns that no one at the FBI had expressed interest in this information, and their concern that the case agent was stressed out and might act out in some way. (pg 304)}}
:Midyeaar Clinton email IG Report Page 274, footnote #165: {{Quotebox|No electronic record exists of the case agent’s initial review of the Weiner laptop. The case agent told us that at some point in mid-October 2016 the NYO ASAC '''instructed the case agent to wipe his work station'''. The case agent explained that the ASAC was concerned about the presence of potentially classified information on the case agent’s work station, which was not authorized to process classified information. The case agent told us that he followed the ASAC’s instructions, but that this request concerned him because the audit trail of his initial processing of the laptop would no longer be available. The case agent clarified that none of the evidence on the Weiner laptop was impacted by this, explaining that the FBI retained the Weiner laptop and only the image that had been copied onto his work station was deleted. The ASAC recalled that the case agent “worked through the security department to address the concern” of classified information on an unclassified system. He told us that he did not recall how the issue was resolved.}}
:*Devin Nunes says FBI whistleblowers in NYO informed him the FBI was sitting on Weiner laptop.<ref>pic.twitter.com/BU6ysY7Xwn</ref>
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*'''21 October.''' '''Carter Page FISA warrant'''. DOJ and FBI sought and receive a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance of Carter Page from the FISA court. The warrant application was signed by Sally Yates and James Comey. The FISA order was ultimately used by Brennan’s Working Group, as the information gathered gave them multiple investigative leads into the Trump campaign.<ref>''per Lisa Page testimony, day 2.</ref>

:*Carter Page is a US citizen who served as a paid FBI informant up to March 2016 at which time he became a volunteer advisor to the Trump campaign. The [[FISA Court]] at this time is still unaware of the Section 702 violations.

:*The application first has to be certified by the FBI Director or Deputy Director. It then has to be certified by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). With [[John Carlin]]'s resignation days earlier, the application was signed by [[Sally Yates]] who terminated DOJ-NSD cooperation with the independent Inspector General in mid 2015, giving license to the massive number of 702 abuses which started shortly after.<ref>In 2013, there were 9,600 FISA 702 search queries involving 195 Americans. But in 2016 after Yates terminated IG oversight there are 30,355 searches of 5,288 Americans, https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/05/20/collusion-against-trump-timeline/ http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/05/intelligence-reports-raise-questions-about-obama-administration-surveillance.php essentially, the entire Trump campaign in 50 states.</ref>

:*The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant and three FISA renewals from the FISA court over the next year, well into the Trump presidency.

:*The “insurance policy” is short-hand to describe an effort to conduct surveillance on candidate Trump, which could later ensure a strategic plan to disrupt and possibly eliminate Trump if elected, via the Russia collusion narrative. That plan needs retroactive legal authority for the FBI to conduct surveillance – which can be used to weaponize intelligence. The plan culminates in the Carter Page Title-1 FISA warrant as the deployment mechanism.

:*As required by statute, a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed every 90 days by the FISA court and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause to avoid a 'fishing expedition'. Director [[James Comey]] signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Deputy Attorneys General Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein each signed one renewal on behalf of the DOJ. In the case of Carter Page, relevant information and potentially exculpatory material was not provided to the FISA court on these four separate occasions over one year.

:*The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Carter Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Christopher Steele and outlined in the ''Steele dossier''. The application contains no additional corroboration other than a Sept 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article the Obama DOJ/FBI represents to the court as supposed "independent corroboration" which was peddled to ''Yahoo News'' by Christopher Steele's himself.

:*The ''Steele dossier'' was compiled on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC and formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was paid $168,000 by the Clinton campaign and DNC. Some of the money Steele paid to Russians for "dirt" on Hillary's opponent. Neither the initial application nor any renewals disclose or reference the Clinton campaign or DNC in funding the dossier, '''although the origins of the dossier was known to the DOJ and FBI at the time. The FISA application does not mention that the FBI authorized payment to Steele for the same information''' [''emphasis in original''].<ref>https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_memo_key_points.pdf</ref>
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*Comey briefs retired FBI agents to describe decisions made during the Clinton email investigation to enlist their help so that they, too, might counter “falsehoods and exaggerations” while the Weiner laptop - with 600,000 emails including the missing emails - is being ignored.

*Someone from SDNY calls “Main Justice” (the DOJ National Security Division in DC) and notifies DOJ-NSD Deputy Asst. Attorney General [[George Toscas]] of the Huma Abedin/Hillary Clinton emails via the “[[weiner investigation]]". McCabe never informed DOJ of the new evidence. Toscas calls Strzok cause he “wanted to ensure information got to Andy [McCabe]". Strzok told George Toscas “we know”. Strzok then tells Bill Priestap.

*McCabe knew about the emails since September 28, more than three weeks earlier.

*Comey and Lynch now are informed of the Clinton emails that McCabe has been sitting on for 23 days. Comey later claimed the call from New York was about a search warrant, but the FBI had all the information necessary for a new warrant three weeks earlier. They were stalling for a Hillary victory in November. Internal discussion focuses now on McCabe recusing himself. The recusal debate is just another bureaucratic delaying tactic til after the election when hopefully Hillary Clinton will win - the hunt for someone to take over the investigation and the time necessary for a fresh face to become familiar with the case.

*McCabe fights back, publicly by authorizing Lisa Page to make illegal leaks about ongoing investigations to the ''Wall Street Journal'', and privately inside the DOJ by trying to blame illegal leaks on the New York field office.

*Meanwhile, the Clinton emails are not, and have not, been looked at. All discussion is about the public perception of coverup, which is actually the correct perception of what is happening in the DOJ-FBI.
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*'''22 October.''' Wikileaks cofounder and Seth Rich contact Gavin MacFadyen dead "after a short illness."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gavin_MacFadyen&oldid=745664281#Personal_Life]</ref>
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*'''23 October.''' Devlin Barrett of the ''WSJ'' exposè, ''Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe''.<ref>https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/790350274061803520</ref> The article questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing Clinton investigations and claimed that McCabe ordered the termination of the Clinton Foundation investigation due to DOJ pressure. Lisa Page was the legal counsel to McCabe at this time. McCabe instructed Lisa Page and FBI public affairs chief [[Michael Kortan]] to refute the assertion of a conflict of interest in a series of leaks in coming days.

*'''24 October.''' Devlin Barrett emails the FBI press officer Mike Kortan about a follow up story. Barrett asks {{quotebox|in the summer [2016], McCabe himself gave some instruction as to how to proceed with the Clinton Foundation probe, given that it was the height of election season and the FBI did not want to make a lot of overt moves that could be seen as going after [Clinton] or drawing attention to the probe.}}

*Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts: Lisa Page - "Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it." Strzok - “Wsj? Boy that was fast. Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”

*George Toscas told the IG that he asked McCabe about the Weiner laptop after a routine meeting between FBI and Department leadership. McCabe told the IG that this interaction with Toscas caused him to follow up with the FBI Midyear [Clinton emai] team about the Weiner laptop and to call [[Mary McCord (DOJ)|Mary McCord]].

*[[Benjamin Wittes]] of lawfareblog.com publishes article on an "insurance policy" should Trump win.<ref>Excerpted:"The point is that there is no reason at this stage to imagine that the legislature will be a viable venue for push-back, which is a shame considering the powerful set of tools at its disposal.

The Coalition of All Democratic Forces should certainly see what kind of use it might make of the legislature, but realistically, we should probably expect that the coalition’s job in Congress will be to prevent Trump from passing anti-democratic legislation. That is, the task in Congress will be a negative one of denying Trump the use of the Article I powers, not the positive one of the coalition’s using them itself.

That leaves the tool that will certainly be available: the courts. The courts have a few obvious advantages, starting with hundreds of independent judges of both parties whom Trump cannot remove from office and who don’t have to face his supporters in forthcoming elections." https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-iii-what-if-trump-wins</ref>

*'''25 October.''' '''Loretta Lynch blackmails New York law enforcement to back off [[Weiner laptop]].''' ''NYT'' reports "Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref> Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody.
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*'''26 October.''' '''Illegal FISA 702 abuse'''. The FISA court issues a decision revealing that the upper echelon of the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]]. Assoc. Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]] was the lynchpin between Attn. Gen. Lynch, the FBI and FusionGPS. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for FusionGPS on the ''Steele Dossier'', portions of which were presented to the FISA court to win approval for the FBI’s previous and continuing unlawful surveillance of Trump associates. '''The Court noted “an institutional ‘lack of candor’ and emphasized ‘this is a very serious [[Fourth Amendment]] issue.’”''' On March 9, 2016 when [[Adm. Rogers]] ordered a compliance audit, the {{quotebox|“DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review of the FBI’s *** [redacted] learned that the FBI had disclosed raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information....certain *** [redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems. ***[redacted] the ***[redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests.”}} When Adm. Rogers cut off FBI contractor access, the {{quotebox|“FBI discontinued the above-described access to raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.”}} The court noted {{quotebox|“Restrictions were not in place with regard to the *** [redacted] contractors; their access was not limited to raw information for which the FBI sought assistance and access continued even after they had completed their work in response to an FBI request."}} Pg. 83: {{quotebox|"FBI gave raw Section 702–acquired information to a private entity [FusionGPS] that was not a federal agency and whose personnel [Simpson, Steele, [[Nellie Ohr]] ] were not sufficiently supervised by a federal agency for compliance minimization procedures [protecting the Fourth Amendment rights of US persons]."}} Footnote 68 of the Court’s decision includes the statement that {{quotebox|“the government acknowledges that those disclosures were improper for other reasons.”}} In Footnote 69 the decision reads that {{quotebox|“'''improper access granted to the * * *[redacted] contractors . . . * * *[redacted] . . . seems to have been the result of deliberate decision-making'''. * * *[redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding (presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers), no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016.”<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>}}

*'''Adm. Rogers personally notifies court of Obama administration [[FISA abuse]].''' NSA Dir. Adm. Rogers personally informed the FISA court of the Obama administration's 702(17) violations. The abuses covered the period from November 2015 to May 2016 and centered around the FBI Counterintelligence Division and DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD)<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/</ref> ''after'' Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates denied Inspector General oversight. The FISA Court was unaware of the FISA/Query violations until they were presented to the Court by NSA Dir. Adm. Rogers, and ''after'' Comey and Yates presented fraudulent evidence for the FISA Title I Carter Page warrant. The court was not made aware of the fraudulent basis of the Carter Page warrant until ''after'' the removal of Dir. Comey, Acting Dir. McCabe, and the appointment of Dir. Wray. The Obama administration hoaxed the FISA court for both Title I authority ''and '' to perform illegal Section 702 search queries on several occasions for over a year, to spy on domestic political opponents on a scale [[Richard Nixon]] only dreamed of, assuming Nixon had insight into the technological development of the past 50 years.

:*[[Joe diGenova]] claims FusionGPS and [[CrowdStrike]] are possibly two of the redacted contractors; Daniel Richman,<ref>https://youtu.be/4G48P1cTK-E</ref> and Orbis International are also possibilities.

:*After Rogers ratted out the conspirators to the Court, Clapper tried to get rid of Rogers.

*'''Obama lawyers admit to FISA Court to routinely violating Americans' Fourth Amendment rights'''. The criminal behavior of the [[progressive]] administration had been ongoing for five years. More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the Section 702 database violated safeguards Obama and his intelligence commissars vowed to follow in 2011.<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years</ref>
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With McCabe' sitting on the Clinton emails from Weiner's computer for three weeks, along with pressure from the SDNY, Loretta Lynch and media leaks, the internal debate at the DOJ and FBI about McCabe recusing himself from the Clinton investigations continues.

:*Clinton email IG Report states, {{quotebox|"McCabe and the New York Assistant Director in Charge (NY-ADIC) participated in what McCabe described as “a hastily convened conference call with the Attorney General [Loretta Lynch] who delivered the same message to us” about leaks, with specific focus being on leaks regarding the high-profile investigation by FBI’s New York Field Office into the death of Eric Garner. McCabe told us that he “never heard her use more forceful language.” NY-ADIC confirmed that the participants got “ripped by the AG on leaks.”}}

:*McCabe told OIG that he proposed that the Clinton email team meet with Comey the following day after the conference call between the the NYO and SDNY.

:*The OIG found explanations for sitting on the Weiner laptop unpersuasive for not acting sooner, given the FBI leadership’s conclusion about the importance of the information and that the Clinton investigation team had sufficient information to take action after the October 4 conference call, and knew at that time that it would need a new search warrrant to review any Clinton-Abedin emails. Moreover, given the FBI’s extensive resources, the fact that Strzok and several other FBI members of the Clinton investigation team had been assigned to the Russia investigation, which was extremely active during this September and October time period, was not an excuse for failing to take any action during this time period on the Weiner laptop.
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*Strzok and Lisa Page exchange messages while watching debates, {{Quotebox|Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer. Strzok - I CAN'T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?! Page-- I don't know. But we'll get it back. We're America. We rock. Strzok-- Donald just said "bad hombres" Strzok-- Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.}} Strzok quoting Trump "what the FBI did is disgraceful" relates to Comey's July announcement exonerating Clinton and the FBI small group's [[obstruction of justice]] in the case.

*[[Evelyn Farkas]] tells Warsaw Security Forum "if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking."<ref>https://youtu.be/pl_RATH89UM</ref> Farkas, who left government in Sept. 2015, later admitted to being the recipient of intelligence information on Donald Trump in the summer of 2016: "last summer I was getting winks and hints from inside that there was something really wrong here." At the forum Farkas discussed the rise of Trump from a purely domestic, partisan, political perspective and urged something must be done to counter the forces of [[nationalism]] and [[populism]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/08/ex-state-staffer-who-advocated-spying-on-trump-boasted-getting-winks-from-inside-obama-admin/</ref>
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*'''27 October.''' Comey Chief of Staff [[Jim Rybicki]] wants McCabe recused from Clinton investigations.

*The small group (or "tight group" as Comey calls it) has had the Weiner laptop emails for 29 days and has reviewed none. They are debating if [[probable cause]] exists to re-open the investigation. Main Justice, across the street from FBI HQ, now knows of the existence of emails, and is fearful New York police and prosecutors are ready to go public with their existence.

*'''Comey goes public.'''<ref>https://youtu.be/sBNkLF6_vHQ</ref> Fearful of leaks if he didn't act, Comey notifies Congress of the re-opening the Clinton email investigation.<ref>Coney sent out 16 letters to the chairmen and ranking members of 8 congressional committees. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/30/hillary-clinton/clinton-wrongly-says-fbi-director-sent-letter-abou/</ref>

*'''28 October.''' Conference call between Main Justice and FBI investigators about Hillary email cover-up. SDNY and New York FBI field office asking why has Washington (McCabe) sat on the Clinton emails for three weeks with no action? All focus within the DOJ and FBI is on news reporting and narrative spin, and no one looking at Clinton emails.

:*Internal discussions claim no probable cause against Hillary in July, none now, and debate on recusal of Andrew McCabe in the Clinton non-investigation.

:*Comey goes public to create the appearance of re-opening the Clinton email investigation after New York Police Department (NYPD) plans to hold press conference about the evidence seized on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s laptop. 650,000 classified State Department emails and other damning evidence found.<ref>https://youtu.be/MVvKw_Ez6es</ref>
::*Clinton lawyer [[David Kendall]] in direct email contact with Comey general counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]].<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/399428924/Kendall-to-Baker-Email-October-28-2016</ref>
:*Comey's action made Steele mad, Steele felt it may cost Hillary the election.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/eric-felten/the-fbis-long-break-up-with-christopher-steele</ref>
*'''Steele [[leak]]s to David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' magazine an outline of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax narrative'''.<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1017080498009591809</ref>
[[File:Allen garnerchokeweb 850 593.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Loretta Lynch threatened to re-open the 2014 Eric Garner case with federal civil rights charges against police if New York officials didn't back off the Weiner laptop.]]
*Daughter of Eric Garner criticizes Clinton campaign over Podesta emails about her father's death (Podesta wrote, "we know we have an Eric Garner problem," i.e. motivating Blacks to the polls to vote in light of Hillary's Superpredator comment).<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/erica-garner-rips-clinton-camp-emails-father-death-article-1.2847478</ref><ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/28/daughter-eric-garner-slams-clinton-campaign-over-emails-about-fathers-death.html</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uCrA7ePno</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/IsSDqbot-EI</ref>


:*Comey's public statement about re-opening Hillary's email case throws the Clinton campaign and poll numbers into a tailspin.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-she-would-have-won-the-election-if-it-were-held-oct-27/</ref> The "insurance policy" becomes operational: allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.


:*Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigator [[Kevin Clinesmith]] texts' that reopening the Clinton email case “broke the momentum” of Clinton’s campaign and warned that it could initiate “the destruction of the republic.”
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*Andrew McCabe instructs [[Lisa Page]] to leak a rebuttal to Devlin Barrett of the ''Wall Street Journal'' about McCabe's [[conflict of interest]] with Clinton donors and the Clinton investigations. The illegal leak confirms the existence of the [[Clinton Foundation]] investigation. While on the phone with Barrett, Lisa Page and Strzok exchange texts about breaking news of the Clinton email investigation being reopened. Two minutes later, Barrett tweets the new found emails on Weiner's laptop may have already been examined, "per sources". {{Quotebox|Page: 5:19pm “Still on the phone with Devlin [Barrett of ''WSJ'']. [FBI Public Affairs officer] Mike [Kortan]’s phone is ON FIRE.” Strzok: 5:29pm “You might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there’s news on.” Page: 5:30pm “He knows. He just got handed a note.” Strzok: 5:33pm “Ha. He asking about it now?” Page: 5:34pm “Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now.”}}
:*At 5:36pm Devlin Barrett tweets:
[[File:Devlin-1.jpg|left|500px]]

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*Lynch pleads [[Fifth Amendment]] against incrimination to Congress in probe of Obama administration illegal secret payment to Iran in ransom deal.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/attorney-general-lynch-pleads-fifth-secret-iran-ransom-payments/</ref><ref>"Charles Krauthammer reacted to a new Wall Street Journal report that the Justice Department objected to the Obama Administration sending $400 million in non-U.S. currency just hours before Iran released four imprisoned Americans. The DOJ was overruled by the State Department, according to the report. Krauthammer said "of course the Justice Department objected; it was illegal." He said that not only was the payment bad optics and a quid pro quo for the release of the Americans, but it skirted statute against dealing with Iran in U.S. dollars. "They had to print the money here, ship it over to Switzerland, turn it into Swiss francs and Euros and ship it over to Iran." https://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/03/krauthammer-not-only-did-obama-admin-pay-ransom-it-also-laundered-money</ref>

*Clinton email investigator [[Sally Moyer]] texts' that she was “sick” of Trump and called his supporters “retarded.”
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*Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, makes a payment of $365,275.33 to FusionGPS.

*'''30 October.''' '''Christopher Steele suspended, and then terminated by the FBI''' for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations - unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in a ''Mother Jones'' article by David Corn.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/</ref> The FBI was well aware of Steele's previous contacts with media - the FBI used Steele's leaks to Isikoff's ''Yahoo News'' article to hoax the FISA court nine days earlier.

*Corn's article, that cited an FBI informant and stressed the FBI was in possession of the unverified information, was the cause of Steele's firing.

*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.”}}
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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>

*'''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... 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?... 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... 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... ''Mother Jones'' has reviewed that report and other memos [Steele] wrote.... [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".... 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. During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] of 2018 the same technique was employed.<ref>https://youtu.be/SMJdDwQlcc8</ref> 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. 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. 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... '''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:
{{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)}}
*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>

*BakerHostetler, the law firm Veselnitskaya hired to hire Glenn Simpson, makes final payment to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was hired by BakerHostetler to discredit [[Bill Browder]] who helped push through Russian sanctions. Glenn Simpson compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. Katsyv, a Russian businessman, hired Veselnitskaya to limit the impact of the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions. Payments from BakerHostetler to FusionGPS since March 2016 total $523,651.

*Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter file complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>

===November 2016===
:{{See also|Trump transition}}
Even though Christopher Steele was terminated as a paid FBI confidential source on November 1 for violation of agency rules, the FBI continued to receive information from Steele in violation of its own rules for another year through [[Bruce Ohr]],<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/400810-opinion-how-a-senior-justice-official-helped-dems-on-trump-russia-case</ref> as the FISA warrant was renewed three times. Neither was the FISA court ever informed Steele had been terminated and his work deemed "not suitable for use," the DOJ and FBI continued to hoax the FISA court with dirt on Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid Russia for with campaign funds.
*'''1 November.''' '''Steele fired.''' Mike Gaeta, Christopher Steele's Handling Agent, determined that Steele should be closed as an FBI informant following the October 31 publication of the ''Mother Jones'' article. Gaeta spoke with Bruce Ohr that same day and recommended to Ohr that he read the article and told Ohr that he was not engaging with Steele anymore, warned Ohr to be careful when dealing with Steele, and said that Steele could not be trusted.'''
:*Beginning late November, Bruce Ohr and Steele communicate regularly for another full year, until November 2017. Bruce Ohr relayed all communications with Steele to the FBI through Joe Pientka and possibly two other handlers.
*Former [[Clinton Administration]]-era FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom says in radio interview the Clinton's are a crime family, the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool of corruption, Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch impeded the email investigation by not empaneling a [[grand jury]], and that Dir. James Comey and the top leadership held back the investigation.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/303458-former-fbi-official-clintons-are-a-crime-family</ref>
*WikiLeaks releases the May 5, 2015 email chain that begins with Deputy Assistant Attorney General [[Peter Kadzik]]’s son asking John Podesta for a job with the Clinton campaign.
*Kim Dotcom says more Clinton emails to be released and Hillary Clinton is in "serious trouble."<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/01/kim_dotcom_more_emails_are_coming_hillary_clinton_is_in_serious_trouble.html</ref>

*'''2 November.''' ''True Pundit'' reports {{quotebox|New York Police Department detectives and prosecutors working an alleged underage sexting case against former Congressman [[Anthony Weiner]] have turned over a newly-found laptop he shared with wife Huma Abedin to the FBI with enough evidence “to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away for life,” NYPD sources told True Pundit. NYPD sources said Clinton’s “crew” also included several unnamed yet implicated members of Congress in addition to her aides and insiders. The NYPD seized the computer from Weiner during a search warrant and detectives discovered a trove of over 500,000 emails to and from Hillary Clinton, Abedin and other insiders during her tenure as secretary of state. The content of those emails sparked the FBI to reopen its defunct email investigation into Clinton on Friday. But new revelations on the contents of that laptop, according to law enforcement sources, implicate the Democratic presidential candidate, her subordinates, and even select elected officials in far more alleged serious crimes than mishandling classified and top secret emails, sources said. NYPD sources said these new emails include evidence linking Clinton herself and associates to: [[Money laundering]], Child exploitation, [[pedophilia|Sex crimes with minors (children)]]; [[Perjury]]; [[Pay to play]] through [[Clinton Foundation]]; [[Obstruction of justice]]; Other [[felony]] crimes. NYPD detectives and a NYPD Chief, the department’s highest rank under Commissioner, said openly that if the FBI and Justice Department fail to garner timely indictments against Clinton and co- conspirators, '''NYPD will go public with the damaging emails now in the hands of FBI Director James Comey and many FBI field offices.''' “What’s in the emails is staggering and as a father, it turned my stomach,” the NYPD Chief said. “There is not going to be any Houdini-like escape from what we found. We have copies of everything. We will ship them to [[Wikileaks]] or I will personally hold my own press conference if it comes to that.” The NYPD Chief said once Comey saw the alarming contents of the emails he was forced to reopen a criminal probe against Clinton. “People are going to prison,” he said. Meanwhile, FBI sources said Abedin and Weiner were cooperating with federal agents, who have taken over the non-sexting portions the case from NYPD. The husband-and-wife Clinton insiders are both shopping for separate immunity deals, sources said. “If they don’t cooperate they are going to see long sentences,” a federal law enforcement source said. NYPD sources said Weiner or Abedin stored all the emails in a massive [[Microsoft]] Outlook program on the laptop. The emails implicate other current and former members of Congress and one high-ranking Democratic Senator as having possibly engaged in criminal activity too, sources said. Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney [[Preet Bharara]] have issued a subpoena for Weiner’s cell phones and travel records, law enforcement sources confirmed. NYPD said it planned to order the same phone and travel records on Clinton and Abedin, however, the FBI said it was in the process of requesting the identical records. Law enforcement sources are particularly interested in cell phone activity and travel to the [[Bahamas]], U.S. Virgin Islands and other locations that sources would not divulge. The new emails contain travel documents and itineraries indicating Hillary Clinton, President [[Bill Clinton]], Weiner and multiple members of Congress and other government officials accompanied convicted pedophile billionaire [[Jeffrey Epstein]] on his Boeing 727 on multiple occasions to his private island in the U.S [[Virgin Islands]], sources said. Epstein’s island has also been dubbed Orgy Island or Sex Slave Island where Epstein allegedly pimps out underage girls and boys to international dignitaries. Both NYPD and FBI sources confirm based on the new emails they now believe Hillary Clinton traveled as Epstein’s guest on at least six occasions, probably more when all the evidence is combed, sources said. Bill Clinton, it has been confirmed in media reports spanning recent years, that he too traveled with Epstein over 20 times to the island. '''Laptop Also Unveiled More Classified, Top Secret Breaches.''' According to other uncovered emails, Abedin and Clinton both sent and received thousands of classified and top secret documents to personal email accounts including Weiner’s unsecured campaign web site which is managed by Democratic political consultants in Washington D.C. Weiner maintained little known email accounts that the couple shared on the website anthonyweiner.com. Weiner, a former seven-term Democratic Congressman from New York, primarily used that domain to campaign for Congress and for his failed mayoral bid of [[New York City]]. At one point, FBI sources said, Abedin and Clinton’s classified and top secret State Department documents and emails were stored in Weiner’s email on a server shared with a dog grooming service and a western Canadian bicycle shop. However, Weiner and Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton’s closest personal aide, weren’t the only people with access to the Weiner’s email account. Potentially dozens of unknown individuals had access to Abedin’s sensitive State Department emails that were stored in Weiner’s email account, FBI sources confirmed. FEC records show Weiner paid more than $92,000 of congressional campaign funds to Anne Lewis Strategies LLC to manage his email and web site. According to FBI sources, the D.C.-based political consulting firm has served as the official administrator of the anthonyweiner.com domain since 2010, the same time Abedin was working at the State Department. This means technically Weiner and Abedin’s emails, including top secret State Department emails, could have been accessed, printed, discussed, leaked, or distributed by untold numbers of personnel at the Anne Lewis consulting firm because they can control where the website and it emails are pointed, FBI sources said. According to FBI sources, the bureau’s newly-minted probe into Clinton’s use and handling of emails while she served as secretary of state, has also been broadened to include investigating new email-related revelations, including: *Abedin forwarded classified and top secret State Department emails to Weiner’s email *Abedin stored emails, containing government secrets, in a special folder shared with Weiner warehousing over 500,000 archived State Department emails. *Weiner had access to these classified and top secret documents without proper security clearance to view the records *Abedin also used a personal yahoo address and her Clintonemail.com address to send/receive/store classified and top secret documents *A private consultant managed Weiner’s site for the last six years, including three years when Clinton was secretary of state, and therefore, had full access to all emails as the domain’s listed registrant and administrator via Whois email contacts. *Because Weiner’s campaign website is managed by the third-party consultant and political email guru, FBI agents are burdened with the task of trying to decipher just how many people had access to Weiner’s server and emails and who were these people. Or if the server was ever compromised by hackers, or other actors. Abedin told FBI agents in an April interview that she didn’t know how to consistently print documents or emails from her secure Dept. of State system. Instead, she would forward the sensitive emails to her yahoo, Clintonemail.com and her email linked to Weiner. Abedin said, according to FBI documents, she would then access those email accounts via webmail from an unclassified computer system at the State Dept. and print the documents, many of which were classified and top secret, from the largely unprotected webmail portals. Clinton did not have a computer in her office on Mahogany Row at the State Dept. so she was not able to read timely intelligence unless it was printed out for her, Abedin said. Abedin also said Clinton could not operate the secure State Dept. fax machine installed in her Chappaqua, NY home without assistance. Perhaps more alarming, according to the FBI’s 302 Report detailing its interview with Abedin, none of the multiple FBI agents and Justice Department officials who conducted the interview pressed Abedin to further detail the email address linked to Weiner. There was never a follow up, according to the 302 report.<ref>https://truepundit.com/breaking-bombshell-nypd-blows-whistle-on-new-hillary-emails-money-laundering-sex-crimes-with-children-child-exploitation-pay-to-play-perjury/</ref>}}

*DOJ Assistant Attorney [[Peter Kadzik]] outed as a mole for Hillary Clinton campaign.<ref>https://t.co/MNHzJ310Nl pic.twitter.com/uTQF6baWBC</ref> PADAG [[Matthew Axelrod]] recuses DAAG Peter Kadzik from signing letters to Congress in Clinton-related matters but Kadzik remains a Clinton operative in the DOJ involved in Clinton matters and Clinton investigations.

*[[Chuck Schumer]]: "I do not have confidence in [Comey] any longer."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/schumer-says-he-lost-confidence-in-fbi-s-comey-over-e-mail-probe</ref>

*'''3 November.''' Lisa Page wrote to Strzok, “The nyt [''New York Times''] probability numbers are dropping every day. '''I’m scared for our organization'''.” Probability numbers refers to the ''New York Times'' presidential election forecast, which gave Hillary Clinton as high as a 93% chance of winning on October 25, before dropping to an 85% chances as of November 3. The "our organization" comment, and how a democratic election makes government employees operating government owned telecommunications equipment "scared for ''our'' organization" remains unexplained.

*'''4 November.''' Erik Prince appears on radio and outlines discoveries within the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop that was being blocked by AG Loretta Lynch.<ref>https://youtu.be/KQF6ozkHPt8</ref> Prince claimed insider knowledge of the investigation to explain why Dir. James Comey had to announce he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s email server: {{quotebox|“Because of [[Weinergate]] and the sexting scandal, the NYPD started investigating it. Through a subpoena, through a warrant, they searched his laptop, and sure enough, found those 650,000 emails. They found way more stuff than just more information pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the guy was doing,” Prince claimed. “They found State Department emails. They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times,” he said. “The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments,’” Prince explained. “I believe – I know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine at 1PP, One Police Plaza in New York – the '''NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making in this investigation, and they’ve gotten huge pushback, to the point of coercion''', from the Justice Department, with the Justice Department '''threatening to charge someone that had been unrelated in the accidental heart attack death of Eric Garner''' almost two years ago. That’s the level of pushback the Obama Justice Department is doing against actually seeking justice in the email and other related criminal matters,” Prince said.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/</ref>}}

*'''Between 1–6 November.''' Paul Wood of the [[BBC]] met with Glenn Simpson at BBC’s Washington studio where Simpson provided Wood with a redacted copy of the ''Steele dossier''. Wood then contacted the CIA to attempt to corroborate the information, where he received an unofficial intermediary whom said the ''Steele dossier'' was credible and they had numerous outside sources to it. “Mr Wood said he had asked the CIA about the allegations made in the dossier, which is said to have circulated for months among major media outlets, who were not able to corroborate its contents, before it was published by ''BuzzFeed''. ‘I sent a message to the CIA at the beginning of November to ask them about these allegations...It was illegal for any official to talk to me about them, but I got a message back through an intermediary that said the allegations were regarded as credible. And more than that, there was more than a single source for them, not just this MI6 man.’” <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-claims-more-than-one-sex-tape-blackmail-cia-agents-bbc-paul-wood-a7523321.html</ref>

*'''6 November.''' [[Zerohedge]]: Clinton Foundation Admits It Broke The Law In Leaked "Smoking Gun" Memo.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-05/leaked-clinton-foundation-smoking-gun-memo-reveals-it-was-not-compliance-law</ref>

*'''7 November.''' Louise Mensch of ''HeatStreet'' reports two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community confirmed that the FBI was granted a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign.<ref>https://archive.is/0miO5</ref> While the BBC report suggests that the surveillance was meant to ferret out “transfers of money,” the Mensch article asserts that a “warrant was granted to look at the full content of [[email]]s and other related documents that may concern US persons" (FISA Title I authority).

*David Corn sends a copy of the ''Steele dossier'' to [[James Baker (DOJ)]].<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/a-new-right-wing-smear-campaign-targets-a-former-fbi-official-to-distract-from-russia-scandal/</ref> Baker testified, {{quotebox|“My recollection is that he had part of the dossier, that we had other parts already, and that we got still other parts from other people, and that — and nevertheless some of the parts that David Corn gave us were parts that we did not have from another source.”}} Baker testified that he received elements of the dossier from Corn that were not in the FBI’s possession at the time. He said that he immediately turned this information over to leadership within the FBI, noting, “I think it was [[Bill Priestap]],” the head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. Baker also testified regarding what he believed was the underlying source of the memos he received from Corn. {{quotebox|“I think I assumed at the time or knew, he may have told me, that he got it from Simpson or somebody acting on Simpson’s behalf.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-campaign-relied-on-former-spys-web-of-connections-to-frame-trump_2777189.html?ref=brief_News</ref>}} Steele wrote four memos after the FBI team received his information in mid-September. All of the memos were written in October—on the 12th, 18th, 19th, and the 20th. Baker said of Corn: “Even though he was my friend, I was also an FBI official. He knew that. And so he wanted to somehow get that into the hands of the FBI.”

*'''8 November.''' Election day. Counterintelligence and cyber teams at FBI Headquarters monitored a disinformation campaign spread across Twitter and Facebook, following a series of hoaxes aimed at Hillary Clinton. The effort carried out by the FBI was done in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where the three teams would then contact a specific team [Lisa Monaco, Susan Rice, Avril Haines] at the White House Situation Room every three hours.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/election-day-cyber-threat-fbi-monitoring/index.html</ref>

*FBI investigator Strzok and Lisa Page follow election returns: Strzok - "f*****g terrifying." Lisa Page - “OMG THIS IS F****** TERRIFYING.”

*Clinton email investigator Sally Moyer texts' that Clinton had “better win … otherwise i’m gonna be walking around with both my guns … and like quitting on the spot,” adding, “screw you trump.” In another message Moyer said, “f–k trump,” and told a colleague she would consider any presidential award for public service from Trump an “insult.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2018/06/19/house-goper-unmasks-identities-of-anti-trump-fbi-agents/</ref>

*Susan Rice’s interest in unmasking NSA materials accelerates.

*'''9 November.''' As election returns flow in during the wee hours, {{quotebox|Lisa Page - CNN projecting FL for Trump. Strzok - Damn Lisa Page - And there it is. Lisa Page - Analogous to the public editor article Bill [Priestap] handed out. n\nNews Media Yet Again Misreads America\u2019 Complex Pulse http://nyti.ms/2eCqXVM Strzok - Too hard to explain here. Election related. Which is also godawful bad. n\nSure Lisa Page - Are you even going to give out your calenders? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. Lisa Page - And Christ, we should just hit those thumb drives now. Their opinion is totally irrelevant. Strzok - No. And yes. Lisa Page - I'll mention to Andy [McCabe]. Strzok - Omg I am so depressed Lisa Page - Yes, maybe. I need to see what [redact] wants to do first.}}

*Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigator Kevin Clinesmith messaged several FBI employees, “I am numb.” He added, “I am so stressed about what I could have done differently.” Clinesmith messaged another FBI employee that he was “just devastated” over Trump’s victory and launched into a rant: “I just can’t imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we made over the last 8 years. ACA is gone. Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls, and crap is true. I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues, too, the crazies won finally. This is the [[tea party]] on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also [[Pence]] is stupid." The active Russiagate investigator added weeks later, “Viva le resistance."

*'''Weiner laptop now being investigated - day after election.''' Peter Strzok, for the first time,<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/huma-fbi-1.jpg</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/huma-fbi-3.jpg</ref> submits Weiner laptop to FBI lab for processing, contradicting both Comey's November 4 statement that the laptop had been reviewed and no evidence found, and Strzok's statements to Inspector General Horowitz (p. 388). Also, further evidence the FBI anticipated a Hillary win, obstructed justice, and delayed investigating the Weiner laptop.

*Alexandra Chalupa posted a message to Facebook about work done in conjunction between the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and an Anonymous-based organisation known as “The Protectors” based in Washington, DC. {{quotebox|“Homeland Security/DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington, D.C. called ‘The Protectors’. This group saw a lot of activity during Election Day from the Russians and believe that the voting results projected don’t match the internal and public polls because the voting results were manufactured in favor of Trump in heavily Republican counties in key states, and voting results may have been described for Clinton in key Democratic countries via malware that was placed by the Russians when they hacked the election systems of more than half our states.” <ref>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388</ref>}}

*[[Google]] considers burying ''[[Daily Caller]]'' and ''[[Breitbart]]'' search results in response to Trump victory.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/google-censorship-conservative-media/</ref>

*'''After Trump's win.''' Steele provides a full review of his dossier for a senior British official. Steele had told the FBI in Rome he would take this step in the event of a Trump victory.<ref>https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1075535589154394117</ref>
[[File:Moore duped.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Michael Moore, a voracious producer and consumer of Leftist junk media, was duped by Putin's cybertrolls into leading an anti-Trump rally at Trump Tower.]]
*'''10 November.''' President-elect Trump met with President Obama in the Oval Office. Obama warned Trump to avoid hiring Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn for his future Administration.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316</ref>

*Lisa Page texts Strzok a [[Lawfare Group]] link:
:*10:45:55, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: The Burden on Donald Trump - Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/burden-donald-trump
:*11:11:57, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: You clear verizon?
:*11:15:42, Thu OUTBOX: Lisa Page: Okay, I've gotta go. Read that lawfare article. It's really sobering.

*Andrea Chalupa, sister of Alexandra Chalupa, then tweeted: “All election day Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ updated my sister: they were at war w/RU hackers in our systems”.<ref>https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796932400878063617</ref>
*Facebook CEO & founder Mark Zuckerberg calls Clinton campaign & Deep State theory that Russian fake news influenced the U.S. presidential election "a pretty crazy idea."<ref>https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/10/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-fake-news/index.html</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/11/501743684/zuckerberg-denies-fake-news-on-facebook-had-impact-on-the-election</ref>

*'''12 November.''' Russian stooge [[Michael Moore]] attends Russian organized BlackMattersUS march in front of Trump Tower.<ref>http://www.dailywire.com/news/23037/thousands-including-michael-moore-duped-attending-emily-zanotti</ref>

*'''14 November.''' [[Jerry Nadler]]: Obama should immediately fire FBI Director James Comey for influencing the election.<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jerry-nadler-obama-fire-james-comey/2016/11/14/id/758729/</ref>

Read Newsmax: Dem Rep. Jerry Nadler: Obama Should Fire Comey for Influencing Election | Newsmax.com

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*'''15 November.''' ''WaPo'' op-ed reports that former Republican Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. [[Michael J. Rogers]] fired from Trump Transition. The former congressman was seen as {{quotebox|"a widely respected former FBI agent...a figure of stability and continuity in intelligence matters. He was mentioned as a possible next director of the CIA or director of national intelligence."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/15/why-mike-rogerss-departure-from-the-trump-team-is-alarming/?utm_term=.c0404c1ea829</ref>}} Rogers was responsible for the 2014 Rogers/Ruppersberger Report, a [[bipartisan]] whitewash and cover-up of the [[Benghazi massacre]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/11/22/the-motives-behind-the-november-rogersruppersberger-house-intelligence-panel-report-on-benghazi/</ref> Some suspect Michael J. Rogers as the FBI informant planted within the Trump campaign.<ref>https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1056668314204655616</ref> Rogers goes on to work for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) which partners with Facebook to [[censor]] American's [[free speech]] on the [[internet]].<ref>https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/about-us/advisory-council/</ref><ref>https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org</ref> (Rep. Michael J. Rogers should not be confused with Adm. Mike S. Rogers, the hero of the Obamagate scandal).
*An [[IP address]] associated with the Department of Homeland Security attempted unsuccessfully to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3234551-Georgia-Secretary-of-State-Letter-to-DHS-Secretary.html</ref> The Georgia Secretary of State oversees Georgia elections. At the same time, President-elect Trump started to receive top secret briefings.
*'''16 November.''' Bruce Ohr's advised CRM officials Bruce Swartz and Zainab Ahmad of information "about [Paul] Manafort and Trump and possible Russian influence that [Ohr] was getting from Steele and Glenn Simpson." This discussion led to subsequent meetings with them and Andrew Weissmann about the pre-existing MLARS investigation of Manafort and whether the Fraud Section could move the investigation forward. At the time of these meetings, Swartz was a CRM Deputy AAG and Weissmann was the Chief of the Fraud Section. During this period, Ahmad was initially Counsel to the Criminal Division AAG and then became an Acting CRM Deputy AAG.
:*None of these CRM officials had supervisory responsibility over the MLARS investigation. :*Ahmad and Weissmann did not have prior direct involvement in the investigation. Swartz had assisted MLARS with gathering evidence from abroad, and therefore, had extensive prior knowledge and involvement with the investigation, but was not responsible for investigative decisions.
:*The MLARS Manafort investigation was outside Ohr's areas of responsibility.
:*MLARS officials were not invited to these meetings or informed of them. The then Chief of MLARS, Kendall Day and the acting Chief who replaced him in January 2017, both told the OIG that they were unaware at the time that these CRM officials and Ohr were discussing the MLARS investigation and engaging with the FBI. The '''MLARS chief told the OIG that when he learned in March or April 2017 that Swartz, Ohr, Ahmad, and Weissmann were "collectively interested" in the Manafort investigation, he met with Swartz and Ahmad and told them that their "unusual level of interest" could create a perception that the Department was investigating Manafort for inappropriate reasons.'''<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 398.</ref>

:*At Ohr's suggestion, Ohr, Swartz, and Ahmad also met with FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in December 2016 to discuss the MLARS investigation because Ohr knew by that time that the FBI's Counterintelligence Division was working on a separate matter involving Manafort.
::*On January 31, 2017, one day after [[Sally Yates]] was removed as Deputy Attorney General, Ahmad, after consulting with Swartz and Weissmann, called a second meeting, citing to "a few Criminal Division related developments." '''None of the attendees of the meeting could explain to the DOJ Office of Inspector General what the "Criminal Division related developments" were.'''
:*Clapper tenders resignation as DNI.
*'''Mid November - December.''' Strzok and Priestap travel to London to finally begin vetting Christopher as a confidential human source. Priestap and Strzok notes stated: "[d]emonstrates lack of self-awareness, poor judgment;" "[k]een to help" but "underpinned by poor judgment;" "Judgment: pursuing people with political risk but no intel value;" "[d]idn't always exercise great judgment sometimes [he] believes he knows best;" and "[r]eporting in good faith, but not clear what he would have done to validate."<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 182-183, 256-258.</ref> None of the findings were memorialized in Steele's Delta file and not considered in a validation review conducted by the FBI's Validation Management Unit (VMU) in early 2017. Additionally, relevant details about Steele's work-related performance in a prior position were not shared with the NSD OI and were not included in any of the Carter Page FISA renewal applications, even though the applications relied upon Steele's reporting. <ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 183.</ref>
:*Strzok makes another trip to London in December with Lisa Page, Pientka, Moffa, and Trish Anderson's flunky, this time without Priestap.
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*'''17 November.''' '''Adm. Rogers informs Trump of Obama administration surveillance.''' NSA Director Mike Rogers makes unannounced trip to Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Trump without notifying the White House.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/502980006/reports-suggest-nsa-director-mike-rogers-is-on-his-way-out</ref> Rogers warned Trump of Obama administration illegal spying on Trump and the transition team. Trump immediately moves transition headquarters from Trump Tower to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey to interview and discuss the most sensitive positions to fill, Defense, State, CIA, ODNI.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/17/donald-trump-moves-transition-meetings-private-gol/</ref>

*Strzok and Lisa Page discuss briefing the Trump transition team and recruiting informants: {{quotebox|Strzok: Talking with Bill [Priestap]. Do we want Joe [Pientka] to go with [William] Evanina<ref>William Evanina, National Counterintelligence and Security Center. https://www.congress.gov/115/chrg/CHRG-115shrg30120/CHRG-115shrg30120.htm</ref> instead of Charli [unknown] for a variety of reasons? Lisa Page: Hmm. Not sure. Would it be unusual to have show up again? Maybe another agent from the team? Strzok: Or, he’s “the CI [counter interintelligence] guy.” Same.might make sense. He can assess if there are any news Qs, or different demeanor. If Katie’s husband [Joshua Pitcock, Vice President-elect [[Mike Pence]]’s Chief of Staff], whose wife [Katherine whose name differs from Pitcock] is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships Lisa Page: Should I ask Andy [McCabe] about it? Or Bill [Priestap] want to reach out for Andy [McCabe]? Strzok: I told him I’m sure we could ask you to make the swap if we thought it was smart. It s not until Mon so Bill [Priestap] can always discuss with him tomorrow<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-25/fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-spy-bureau</ref>}}
:*Katie, wife of Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, 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. The two 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>

:*Strzok texts Lisa Page "Sessions for AG," along with a profanity. Page replies, "Good god."

*Congress renews calls for [[perjury]] charges against ODNI boss James Clapper.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/lawmakers-resume-calls-for-james-clapper-perjury-charges</ref>

*Obama administration votes against Russian sponsored UN Resolution entitled "''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance''," condemning the neo-fascist regime Obama and progressives brought to power in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

*'''Mid November.''' Steel and Wood meet for a second time. Sir Andrew Wood approaches Steele after the election “to discuss whether they needed to take further steps to ensure the U.S. government was aware of his information.”

*'''18-20 November.''' McCain and his longtime adviser, David Kramer–an ex-U.S. State Dept. official–attend a security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia where former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood tells them about the Fusion GPS anti-Trump dossier. (Kramer is affiliated with the “Ukraine Today” media organization). They discuss confirming the info has reached top levels of FBI for action.

*'''19 November.''' ''Washington Post'' reports Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and DNI James Clapper recommend to the White House that NSA Dir. Rogers be fired. Rogers traveled to New York to meet with President-elect Trump days earlier at Trump Tower, warning Trump about the Obama administration illegal surveillance of the Trump team. "That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to officials."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?utm_term=.d9d3bcfd83f3</ref>

*'''21 November.''' Bruce Ohr receives email from [[Kathleen Kavalec]], a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European Affairs in the State Department. (Kavalec is now President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to [[Albania]].) Kavalec sent Ohr information on Simon Kukes, a Russian-born executive who contributed more than $250,000 to Trump-supporting organizations after Trump won the Republican nomination. Kavalec said she met Kukes around 2014, when "Tom Firestone brought him in," a reference to former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone, now a partner at the Washington law firm [[BakerHostetler]]. Kavalec also linked to a ''Mother Jones'' article about Kukes. Ohr responded by saying, "I may have heard about him from Tom Firestone as well, but I can't recall for certain." Then Kavalec answered by saying she was "just re-looking at my notes from my convo with [[Chris Steele]]" and that "I see that Chris said Kukes has some connection to Serge Millian, an emigre who is identified by FT as head of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce." [In the book ''Russian Roulette'', authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn wrote that Millian claimed to have some sort of business relationship with the Trump organization — which the Trumps denied. Millian is reported to be Source D and E in the Dossier. More importantly, Millian went on to become Steele's source for the infamous "golden showers" allegation that Donald Trump had engaged in a kinky sex scene in a Moscow hotel room in 2013.]

:*'''Bruce Ohr recruited as conduit from Steele to Strzok - in violation of FBI rules.''' Bruce Ohr notes state that Ohr met with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The notes read, “no prosecution yet, pushing ahead on M case,” in reference to Paul Manafort." Ohr's notes indicate that the FBI "may go back to Chris [Steele]" just 20 days after firing Steele for violating bureau rules.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/breaking-bruce-ohr-docs-raise-serious-questions/</ref> Ohr is introduced to [[Joe Pientka]], who became Ohr’s FBI handler. Pientka was also present with Strzok during the Jan. 24, 2017, interview of then [[national security adviser]] [[Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn]].
:*Bruce Ohr conveys to FBI that Steele was "desperate" for Trump not to win.<ref>FBI FISA Abuse Report, p. 259.</ref>
:*Notes taken by other meeting participants indicate that Ohr shared Steele's reporting of Kremlin activities "may be exaggerated or [[conspiracy theory]] talk," so Steele cannot know whether all the reporting is true.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, pp. 279-280.</ref>
:*Ohr "knew" that Simpson was "hired by a lawyer who does opposition research" [Marc Elias] and that Steele's reporting was being distributed to "the Clinton Campaign, [[Jon Winer]] at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.
:*The FD-302 of this meeting with Bruce Ohr also documented that Ohr provided the FBI with copies of his notes of the July 30 Mayflower Hotel breakfast meetings and late September 2016 meetings with Steele. The FBI covered up this information and did not insert this FD-302 into Steele's closed CHS file.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 281</ref>
:*Pientka is said to written the FD-302. In total, 13 FD-302 interview reports were written with information conveyed to the FBI from Steele through Bruce Ohr into the middle of 2017; none of the FD-302s were added to Steele's Confidential Human Source file.
[[File:Stein and Putin.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Commie stooge [[Jill Stein]]<ref>https://thinkprogress.org/jill-stein-campaign-russia-ecf424ac3b7e/</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166</ref> accepted $2 million from Clinton donors<ref>https://newrepublic.com/article/140254/inside-story-trump-clinton-stein-presidential-election-recount</ref> - more than she spent on her entire 2016 Presidential campaign - to overturn the election of Trump. After funding her recount, Hillary Clinton later charged Jill Stein as a "Russian asset," rekindling allegations of from the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jill-stein-hillary-clintons-russian-asset-charge-is-a-completely-unhinged-conspiracy-theory</ref>]]
*'''22 November.''' Date of first of twelve Pientka interviews with Bruce Ohr; Form 302 for this interview dated December 19, 2016.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/421245115/Bruce-Ohr-302-Reports-Judicial-Watch-v-DOJ#download</ref><ref>"Numerous FD-302s demonstrating that Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Mr. Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Mr. Steele for unauthorized contact with the media, and demonstrating that Mr. Ohr otherwise funneled allegations from Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele to the FBI." https ://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/2018-02-28%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20OIG%20%28referral%29.pdf</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/07/suspicions-confirmed-congress-gets-bruce-ohr-documents-showing-back-door-communication-network/</ref><ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/08/18/the-bruce-ohr-302s/</ref> The Ohr 302s serve as CYA memos - the paper trail for probable cause information. Because of Christopher Steele's suspension his reporting is deemed unreliable; Bruce Ohr, who is not assigned to the case, is serving as a backdoor for information coming to the FBI from Steele. Pientka was transmitting all the information directly to Strzok.
:*In addition, shortly after the U.S. elections in November 2016, Bruce Ohr participated in several meetings with Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Deputy AAG) Bruce Swartz, Chief of the Fraud Section [[Andrew Weissmann]], and Counsel to the Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General [[Zainab Ahmad]] regarding the Department's money laundering investigation of Manafort. Two of these meetings included FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 391.</ref> The FBI opened the Manafort money laundering investigation in January 2016 at the time of [[Andriy Telizhenko]] of the Ukrainian Embassey's meeting with Eric Ciaramella meeting in the Obama White House. Bruce Ohr and the three officials he met with d!d not have supervisory authority over the Manafort criminal investigation, and they did not advise their supervisors in ODAG and CRM (Criminal and Money Laundering division) MLARS prosecutors of the meetings.<ref>FISA Abuse Rerport, p. 392.</ref>
:*Hillary's "computer scientists" urge election recount.<ref>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clinton-to-challenge-election-results.html</ref>

*'''24 November.''' ''Washington Post''’s Craig Timberg publishes a dubiously sourced report headlined, ''Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news.’'' The article hyped up a [[McCarthyite]] effort by a shadowy, anonymously run organization called PropOrNot to blacklist some 200 American media outlets as Russian “online propaganda.”<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref> PropOrNot was promoted widely by top Clinton staffers and celebrated by -Obama White House aide Dan Pfeiffer as “the biggest story in the world.”

*'''"Sometime around Thanksgiving."''' [[Glenn Simpson]] and [[Bruce Ohr]] meet and discuss the ''Steele dossier'', the Russia meddling investigation, and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.

*'''25 November.''' A senior Obama Administration official sent a statement to ''The New York Times'', where they stated that the results of the 2016 United States presidential election accurately matched the will of the American people.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html</ref>

*'''28 November.''' McCain associate David Kramer flies to London to meet Christopher Steele for a briefing on the anti-Trump research. Afterward, Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson gives Sen. McCain a copy of the “dossier.” Steele also passes anti-Trump info to top UK government official in charge of national security. Sen. McCain soon arranges a meeting with FBI Director Comey.

*'''30 November.''' David Kramer, Sen. McCain, and McCain’s chief of staff, Christopher Brose, meet to review the ''Steele dossier''. Kramer “advised McCain to share the reports with the FBI and CIA.” McCain later passed a copy of the dossier to Comey on Dec. 9, 2016.<ref>https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5637781/Order-on-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment.pdf</ref>

*PropOrNot publishes "fake news" blacklist.<ref>http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html?m=1</ref> Among the criteria PropOrNot identified as signs of Russian propaganda were: “Support for policies like [[Brexit]], and the breakup of the [[EU]] and Eurozone” and “Opposition to Ukrainian resistance to Russia and [[Syria]]n resistance to [[Bashar Assad|Assad]].” PropOrNot called for “formal investigations by the U.S. government” into the outlets it had blacklisted. By the [[2018 Midterm elections]], [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]] had banned many on this list.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref>
*'''November.''' First time the Crossfire Hurricane team accessed Steele's FBI Delta file.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 103 fn 229.</ref> The Delta file for each Confidential Human Source (CHS, aka "spy" or "informant") contains all of the personal and administrative information about the CHS, as well as sub-files for unclassified reporting, classified reporting, validation documentation, and payment records. Ther file should have been reviewed when the FBI recieved the ''Steel dossier'' and before submission of the Carter Page FISA application.
*'''Late November.''' Comey and Obama sat with each other — alone — in the Oval Office.

===December 2016===
In reviewing leaks of classified information before and after November 8, 2016, a trend becomes evident: prior to the election, leaks focused on Russia's attempts to sow discord; leaks after the election focused on an alleged attempt to affect the outcome, rather than just undermining confidence in the electoral system.<ref>''Russian Active Measures'', March 22, 2018, pp. 101-110.</ref>

As of December 5, 2016, the [[Obama administration]] had not acknowledged any attempt by Moscow to influence the election in favor of Trump. However, four days later on December 9, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller of ''[[Bezos Blog]]'' reported that John Brennan concluded a new assessment that Russia intervened in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]] to help candidate Trump.
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By "walking back" negative statements Trump made about the IC, in particular the CIA, and "going along" with congressional investigations into Russian collusion which ultimately would end in a whitewash, Trump could gain cooperation in deal making for career [[Civil Service Commission|civil service employees]] and appointments. If not, hearing Trump's promise to [[drain the swamp]], the Intelligence Community is "going to war."

With the creation of [[ISIS]], the Obama White House and Intelligence Community had much to hide. The [[Benghazi massacre]] derailed their plans; rather than a quick overthrow of [[Bashar al-Assad|Assad]] it led to Russian troop deployments in [[Syria]] and a continuing war of attrition. Things hadn't worked out the way they planned. Anyone involved in fomenting the atrocity which is the [[Syrian war]] - Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Obama, McCain, ''et al.'' - the crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, felt vulnerable.
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[[Theresa May]] and [[Boris Johnson]] were briefed on the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://t.co/wP98IiUrUb?amp=1</ref>
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*'''December.''' Lisa Page, Strzok, Moffa, Pientka, and the OGC Unit Chief (Trisha Anderson's subordinate) traveled to London on McCabe's instructions<ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html</ref> to access and attempt to validate Christopher Steel's reliability as an FBI informant.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 182 fn 326.</ref> In January 2017, the FBI's Validation Management Unit (VMU) established that Steele's reporting since he had been employed as an FBI informant beginning in 2013 had been "minimally corroborated" and had never been used in any criminal prosecution, despite representations made to the FISA Court in October 2016, and January, April and June of 2017.<ref>FISA Abuse Report, p. 261.</ref>
*'''December.''' Stu Evans advised that Christopher Steele had "questionable judgment".
*'''2 December.''' Institute for Advanced Studies in [[Princeton University|Princeton]] bans Lucy Komisar from [[Bill Browder]] speech.<ref>https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2016/12/institute-for-advanced-studies-in-princeton-bans-lucy-komisar-from-wm-browder-speech/</ref>

*Alexandera Chalupa met with convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin and Israeli Yoni Ariel in Washington in December 2016. Kimberlin earned the nickname “Speedway Bomber” by setting a string of bombs in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. Kimberlin served 17 years in prison for the bombing spree. He gained more notoriety in prison after he concocted a story about having once sold marijuana to then-Vice President Dan Quayle. The story was propagated by [[Cody Shearer]], a Clinton operative. Kimberlin now works on various voters’ rights initiatives, including in Ukraine.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/21/former-dnc-official-partnered-with-convicted-bomb-maker-to-investigate-trump/ Chuck Ross: Former DNC Official Partnered With Convicted Bomb Maker To Investigate Trump.</ref>

*'''4 December.''' [[FSB]] officer Sergei Mikhailov arrested by the Russian government and charged with accepting millions from CIA Director John Brennan in the phony Trump-Russia scam.<ref>https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/russia-fsb-colonel-sergey-mikhailov-the-spy-without-a-past/</ref>

*[[New Zealand]] Prime Minister resigns after getting caught giving $13.7 million in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>http://galacticconnection.com/charles-ortel-on-clinton-foundation-charity-fraud-video-new-zealand-prime-minister-resigns-after-getting-caught-giving-13-7-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-the-clinton-foundation/</ref>

*'''5 December.''' Bruce Ohr's second interview with the FBI; FD-302 dated 12/19/16. '''Ohr passed along a memory stick from his wife Nellie.'''<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JW-v-DOJ-Ohr-comms-production-6-01854-pgs-300-312.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-doj-ohr-comms-production-6-01854-pgs-300-312/</ref>
:*The FBI, through Ohr, now had all the research Nellie had done during her time working for Fusion GPS.
:*Bruce Ohr emailed himself an Excel spreadsheet, seemingly from his wife Nellie Ohr, titled “WhosWho19Sept2016.” The spreadsheet purports to show relationship descriptions and “linkages” between Donald Trump, his family and criminal figures, many of whom were Russians. This list of individuals allegedly “linked to Trump” include: a Russian involved in a “gangland killing;” an Uzbek mafia don; a former KGB officer suspected in the murder of Paul Tatum; a Russian who reportedly “buys up banks and pumps them dry”; a Russian money launderer for Sergei Magnitsky; a Turk accused of shipping oil for ISIS; a couple who lent their name to the Trump Institute, promoting its “get-rich-quick schemes”; a man who poured him a drink; and others.
:*Nellie Ohr did not have a clue that Felix Sater was an active FBI informant.
:*Nellie Ohr is searching desperately to link Trump and Sater to dirty Russian money. What she does not suspect is that Sater was being used, via his company Bayrock, to try to gain access to Russians who were potential targets of the FBI.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/larry-c-johnson-the-unraveling-of-the-failed-coup-to-take-out-trump/</ref>
:*She uncovered no evidence implicating Trump working with the Russians, either thru Felix Sater or one of the other “suspects” she exhaustively listed.
:*Bruce Ohr never informed his DOJ superiors about his interactions with Steele, nor about his involvement with the FBI, or the income his wife received doing opposition research for Hillary Clinton. Although the FBI is technically a division of the DOJ, the FBI also did not alert senior DOJ leadership of their ongoing relationship with Bruce Ohr.

*FBI Dep. Dir. of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok gives false and misleading briefing to House Intelligence Committee investigators into Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''. House Intelligence Committee investigators later were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was obstructing the House probe into the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/12/texts-between-ex-mueller-team-members-emerge-calling-trump-loathsome-human-idiot.html</ref>

*'''8 December.''' *Bruce Ohr's arragnged meeting with Glenn Simpson for December 10.
:*McCain gives Comey his copy of Steele Dossier.<ref>https://t.co/ujPqB4bOLK?amp=1</ref>
*'''9 December.''' '''Russia collusion hoax narrative begins.''' Brennan provides assessment to Obama, claims Russia intervened in 2016 election to help Trump and impair Hillary Clinton’s chances.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.d12bb3f09dd9</ref> Obama orders a full review of Russian activities. Brennan hand-picked agents from both the CIA and the FBI to write the assessment, including Peter Strzok, whom served as the liaison between Comey and Brennan.

*'''10 December.'''
:*In response to a reporter's inquiry whether the FBI agreed with Brennan's preliminary assessment report to Obama that Russia tried to help Trump and hurt Hillary, Strzok responded to the FBI press office stating, {{quotebox|“We did not have information to differentiate what their [the Russians] ultimate goal was.”<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/407677-fbi-memos-detail-partisan-axes-secret-conflicts-behind-the-russia-election</ref>}}
:*IC goon John Schindler issues series of threats and ultimatums in open source medium (SOCMINT or Social Media Intelligence, part of a 5th "domain of war"). Schindler maintains the official talking points of "for years" "the Kremlin is behind Wikileaks," the quick way to deny the veracity of anything, including future leaks.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161215235756/https://storify.com/DemFromCT/john-schindler-with-a-look-at-donald-trump-s-war-w</ref>
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|*ATTN @realDonaldTrump: going to war with the IC is a truly colossally stupid thing to do, per this tweetstorm [ link to [[CNN]] article<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/10/politics/donald-trump-response-russian-hacking/ …</ref> ] /1 5:47 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*I've been telling you for years—esp last few months—that the Kremlin is behind Wikileaks. Now the IC is saying so openly. Big deal. /2 5:48 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*IC has hard proof at TS+ level that Moscow used Wikileaks to hurt Hillary and help Trump in 2016. These are facts that will not go away. [Ed. note: IC = Intelligence Community. TS+ = Top-Secret Plus.] /3 5:49 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*The investigation demanded by Congress will reveal what we already know—that Putin wanted US political chaos & if possible a Trump win /4 5:50 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Team Trump now has to decide to go along with the investigation of Russian interference or fight it'''; seems they have chosen the latter. /5 5:50 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Publicly attacking the IC as Trump has just done will end very badly for Don. Remember what happened when Hillary attacked the spooks?''' /5 5:51 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*'''Have you really forgotten about #EmailGate already, @realDonaldTrump?''' Mocking the IC in public will result in big things you won't like. /6 5:52 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*The IC dislikes you intensely and they hate Flynn. The spooks have much more on you than they had on Hillary. This is a #YUGE mistake. /7 5:53 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*Only way Trump can make the issue of Russian interference worse is by impugning American intelligence. Which Don just did. Get popcorn /8 5:54 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*IC knows the full picture of what happened this year. They're not happy with you, @realDonaldTrump. '''You have the weekend to walk it back.''' /9 5:55 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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|*If Don won't walk back his foolish attack on the IC, watch for leaked terms like KGB, FSB, SVR, kompromat, Mogilevich, Organizatsiya... /10 6:00 AM - 10 Dec 2016
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*Bruce Ohr met with Simpson, who provided him with “additional information regarding the contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign.” Simpson also gave Ohr a memory stick that Ohr said he believed contained the ''Steele dossier''. Ohr passed the memory stick to Pientka.
:*John Solomon in ''The Hill'' wrote: {{quotebox|"Simpson told then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr during the Dec. 10, 2016, meeting in a Washington coffee shop that he believed Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, was the “go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign.” Yet, Simpson allegedly acknowledged that most of the information Fusion GPS and British intelligence operative Christopher Steele developed '''did not come from sources inside Moscow. “Much of the collection about the Trump campaign ties to Russia comes from a former Russian intelligence officer (? not entirely clear) who lives in the U.S.,” Ohr scribbled in his notes'''. Ohr made clear he took possession of some evidence from Simpson, writing: “Glen gave me a memory stick.”}} 
*Simpson begins fake news narrative about Russian funding of [[NRA]]. Simpson told Bruce Ohr, "An NRA lawyer named Cleta Mitchell found out about the money pipeline and was very upset, but the election was over,” according to Ohr’s handwritten notes. “Some of Glen’s [sic] people believe that the NRA received abnormally large amount of money to spread in the election, possibly indicating Russian involvement, but others disagree,” Ohr wrote in his notes.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/bruce-ohr-glenn-simpson-nra/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push</ref>
*'''11 December.''' Glenn Simpson emailed [[Nellie Ohr]] a link to an article in the left-wing ''ThinkProgress'' headlined, ''"Why has the NRA been cozying up to Russia?"'' The article focused on now-indicted [[Maria Butina]] and Russian Alexander Torshin. Nellie Ohr responded, "Thank you!" to which Simpson, the next day, answered, "Please ring if you can." Nellie Ohr forwarded the Simpson message to Bruce Ohr, saying, "I assume Glenn means you not me."

*'''12 December.''' Bruce Ohr's third interview with the FBI; FD-302 dated 12/19/16. Strzok recieves update.
:*''Per'' Bruce Ohr’s phone log - Ohr: Glenn Simpson. Some more news. Spoke with him.
*'''13 December.''' Steele writes his final dossier installment (no memos have been written since Oct. 20). Asserts a Michael Cohen August meeting occurred in Prague. Cohen has never been to Prague. Steele declared in court documents this memo was produced on request of David Kramer, a associate of Sen. John McCain. Steele gave a copy of this memo to a “senior UK government national security official” and to Fusion “with an instruction that Fusion was to provide a hard copy to Sen. McCain via Mr. Kramer.” Steele's Dec. 13 memo, also known as Report 166, to Kramer, an unidentified British security official [Robert Hannigan or Alex Younger?], Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council Celeste Wallander (spelled incorrectly as Wallender in the court document),<ref>https://www.wm.edu/offices/revescenter/news/2016/reves-hosts-dr.-celeste-wallander.php</ref> Rep. [[Adam Kinzinger]] (R-Ill.), and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s chief of staff, Jonathan Burks.
:*Bruce Ohr's phone log said, "Glenn Simpson. Some more news. Yesterday 9:27 a.m. Spoke with him."
[[File:Harvey-weinstein-Hillary-clinton-dinner-with-after-election-loss (2).jpg|right|200px|thumb|'''Hillary Clinton dines with Democrat mega donor Harvey Weinstein after the 2016 election, December 13, 2016.''' Weinstein, a charter founder of the Clinton Legal Defense Fund organized to defend President Clinton from sexual harassment and assault charges, has been accused of [[rape]] by 97 women.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-women-who-have-accused-harvey-weinstein-of-sexual-harassment-or-assault-2017-10</ref>]]
:*Bruce Ohr’s log also lists “[[Rod Rosenstein]] 5:48 pm.”
*Hillary Clinton dines with [[Harvey Weinstein]] in New York.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5976133/PICTURED-Hillary-Clinton-having-dinner-Harvey-Weinstein-election-loss.html</ref>

*'''14 December.''' ''New York Times'' published a [[fake news]] article titled ''Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says,'' citing “senior administration officials.” The "insurance policy" is operational.

:*Brennan and Clapper refuse to brief congress. HPSCI Chair Devin Nunes issued the following statement after Intelligence Community agencies declined a request to brief the House Intelligence Committee tomorrow on cyber-attacks during the presidential campaign: {{quotebox|It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign. The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests. The Committee is vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign, and in particular we want to clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us. The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes. The Committee will continue its efforts and will insist that we receive all the necessary cooperation from the relevant leaders of the Intelligence Community.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170819223403/https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=738</ref>}}

*'''Mid December.''' Final Deputies Meeting held attended by Clapper, Brennan, John Kerry and McCabe. Susan Rice ran through a list of proposals described as ‘heavy, medium and light’ options to retaliate against Russia.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.21f20bdb10a8</ref>

*'''15 December.''' [[DNI]] Clapper signs off on directive to implement Obama's revision of E.O. 12333 providing new rules for expanded circulation of raw intelligence data; needs Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch's signature to take effect.

*Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discuss Obama [[IC]] criminal conspiracy at length: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - "Oh, remind me to tell you tomorrow about the [''NYT''] times doing a story about the rnc [Republican National Committee] hacks." Strzok - “And more than they already did? I told you [Richard] Quinn [FBI chief of Media and Investigative Publicity Section in the Office of Public Affairs] told me they pulling out all the stops on some story…” Strzok - "Think our sister [agencies] have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried, and political, they’re kicking into overdrive.” Strzok - “And we need to talk more about putting C [Classified] reporting in our submission. They’re going to declassify all of it…” Lisa Page - “I know. But they’re going to declassify their stuff, how do we withhold…” Strzok - “We will get extraordinary questions. What we did what we’re doing. Just want to ensure everyone is good with it and has thought thru all implications. CD [Cyber Division] should bring it up with the DD [Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe].”<ref>http://theconservativecartel.com/trump-blasts-strzok-page-leaking-like-mad-text-as-a-disaster-embarrassment-for-fbi-doj/</ref>}}

*'''16 December.''' Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016 signed into law giving the OIG access to all information that a target agency possesses, reversing Obama administration's stonewalling IG investigations. This access not only includes the agency's internal documentation and data, but also that which the agency externally collected and documented. DOJ-NSD wrongdoing can now be reviewed.

*'''18 December.''' Strzok and Lisa Page exchange texts: {{quotebox|Strzok - “Man, our intel submission is going to be a BOMB." Lisa Page - "Oh god, why do you say that?” Lisa Page - “Was planning to try to go in early to reach it before our mtg with [[Jim Rybicki|Jim [Rybicki] ]].“ Strzok - “Oh it’s fine. You’ve heard it all. I’m just saying the C (classified) portion is absolutely different from the bulk of the stuff in the community. And the community and especially the WH [White House] will jump all over it since it’s what they WANT to say and they can attribute it to us, not themselves." Strzok - “All the benefit, none of the political risk. We get all of that.”}}

*'''19 December.''' First three Bruce Ohr FD-302 interview reports memorialized, signed December 15.

:*'''20:17pm.''' Lisa Page and Strzok boast about the number of news stories they had a hand in shaping: {{Quotebox|Lisa Page - “And this. It will make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. Sheesh, this has been quite a year… NYTimes: The most-read stories of 2016 (with a link).” Strzok - “Jesus, I want to take people out for a drink. I want to take YOU out for a drink. I hope this upcoming presidency doesn’t fill my years with regret wondering what we might have done differently.” Lisa Page - ☹️}}

:*George Eliason: Russia Hacking the Election the Inside Story.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Russian-Hacking-the-Electi-by-George-Eliason-Coup_Euromaidan_Russian-Influence_Ukraine-161219-878.html#comment635302</ref>

*[[Electoral College]] meets in 50 state capitals to elect new president.

*'''20 December.''' Bruce Ohr's fourth FBI interview; FD-302 dated 12/27/16. Strzok recieves update.
*'''22 December.''' Dmitri Alperovitch interview with Judy Woodruff of [[PBS]] ''NewsHour''.
:*Woodruff asked if Crowdstrike was still working for the DNC.
:*Woodruff asked Alperovitch about his [[conflict of interest]].
:*Crowdstrike CEO Dmitri Alperovitch story about Russian hacks that cost Hillary Clinton the election was broadsided by the SBU (Ukrainian Intelligence and Security) in Ukraine.<ref>https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/01/crowdstrikes-russian-hacking-story-fell-apart-say-hello-fancy-bear-2.html</ref>
:*Strzok recieves another update on Ohr's information from Steele.
*Jared Kushner directs Michael Flynn to contact officials of the various foreign governments on the [[UN Security Council]] to inform them Trump opposed Obama's anti-[[Israel]]i resolution.

*'''23 December.''' Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak informs Flynn that Russia would not vote against the Obama administration's resolution condemning [[Israel]] despite Trump's opposition to it.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/454293/robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-michael-flynn-obama-administration-foreign-policy-israel</ref>

*'''28 December.''' Perkins Coie final payment for the year to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was paid in excess of $1 million.<ref>Perkins Coie, the surrogate law firm acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC to write the ''Steele dossier'', makes a payment of $58,669 to FusionGPS. Payments total $1,024,408 since May. Donna Brazile later reveals the Clinton campaign was in control of the DNC budget since mid 2015.</ref> Some of the money made its way into Russian hands via Christopher Steele for "dirt" on Trump. Perkins Coie was a front for the Clinton campaign and DNC.

*After the election Steele and Fusion GPS were hired by former Feinstein staffer [[Daniel Jones]] and Penn Quarter Group to “continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” It appears that most of Ohr’s FBI interviews relate to this period of Steele & Fusion’s involvement with the Penn Quarter Group.

*Obama signs executive order with new round of sanctions against Russia. Flynn seeks guidance from K.T. McFarland about what to tell Kislyak. Flynn and McFarland discuss how the sanctions might affect Trump foreign-policy goals. McFarland tells Flynn that the transition team did not want Russia to escalate the situation — meaning, not to respond aggressively to Obama’s move.

*Flynn calls Kislyak, asking that Russia not escalate — that it restrict itself to a measured, reciprocal response.
[[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Mainstream news sources repeated fake news put out by the Obama administration stirring up anti-Russian hysteria to justify the illegal surveillance of Gen. Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador.]]
*'''29 December.''' David Kramer gives a copy of the ''Steele dossier'' to [[BuzzFeed News]] reporter [[Ken Bensinger]] during a meeting at the McCain Institute. Kramer told Bensinger, “some of the information was unverified.” Bensinger left the meeting at the McCain Institute with copies of “all seventeen memos.”

*Obama announced sanctions against Russia as retribution for alleged hacking activities. From this date until Trump’s inauguration January 20, the White House aggressively pumps into the media two streams of information: one about Russian hacking; the other about Trump’s Russia connection. The two streams are merged into one in the hands of sympathetic reporters.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/326331-how-obamas-white-house-weaponized-the-media-against#.WN2IVaoTssw.twitter</ref>

*Second CrowdStrike report – GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – is released.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/335307016/FBI-Russian-Hacking-Report</ref>

*'''30 December.''' CrowdStrike claim of Russian hacking, reiterated by the Obama White House, debunked.<ref>https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/fbi-dhs-joint-analysis-report-a-fatally-flawed-effort-b6a98fafe2fa</ref>

*''Washington Post'' falsely reports on a Russian effort to penetrate the electrical grid by hacking into a Vermont utility. The story offers a senior administration official speculating on Russian motives. The infrastructure hack is reported to be part of a broader hacking campaign that includes [[election]] hacking. The story then moves to Trump: “He…has spoken highly of Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]], despite President Obama’s suggestion that the approval for hacking came from the highest levels of the [[Kremlin]].”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.619af97ae363</ref> The story is repeated by news organizations throughout America. Only later the ''Washington Post'' retracts it regarding how far the Russian compromised computers.

*Mainstream fake news hysteria over "Russian vote hacking" put out by the Obama administration.<ref>https://nation.com.pk/30-Dec-2016/us-expels-35-russian-intel-agents-over-vote-hacking</ref>

*Putin announces that Russia will not take retaliatory measures against Obama sanctions at that time.

*'''31 December.''' '''''Moon of Alabama:'' New Russian Hacks? No, Old Ukrainian Malware Found.'''<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/12/fbi-dhs-wapo-falsely-claim-russian-hacks-for-use-of-old-ukrainian-malware-used.html</ref>

*Kislyak explains to Flynn no retaliatory measures to Obama sanctions was done in deference to Flynn’s request. Flynn made no promises to Russia about the sanctions.

==2017 Soft coup==
[[File:Mueller-and-yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Special Counsel Robert Mueller [[colluding]] with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Yanukovych is considered a Putin stooge by many [[Deep State]]rs.]]
:''See : '''[[Russiagate timeline 2017|Russiagate timeline 2017 soft coup]]''''' and '''''[[Ukrainian collusion]]'''''
The information the FBI collected, and the material Christopher Steele and [[FusionGPS]] manufactured, were used to create the [[fake news]] [[Trump-Russia conspiracy theory]], and to manipulate the [[FISA]] court into granting a FISA warrant - what [[Peter Strzok]] called “the insurance policy” against Trump's election. When [[James Comey]] reopened the Clinton investigation ten days before the election in October 2016, and Hillary's lead in the polls started to drop, the "insurance policy" became operational: officially sanctioned leaks alleging collusion between Trump and Russia were rampant.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/</ref>

When James Comey asked for a private meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017 to present Trump with Hillary Clinton's fictional opposition research as a US intelligence product, Comey briefed Trump only on the sexual allegations and not a word about [[Carter Page]], [[Michael Flynn]], Paul Manafort, and [[Michael Cohen]] being targeted under the [[FISA]] Act. According to Comey, he acted on the instructions of [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]].<ref>"the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about because we knew it and thought it was about to become public." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cg.01.html</ref> Clapper dutifully [[leak]]ed the fact that Trump had been briefed on allegations that he consorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel in 2013 in an unsavory way to Jake Tapper of CNN.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> CNN reported the made-up news from the supposed "intelligence report" and linked to the opposition research report on [[BuzzFeed]], claiming it was some sort of official document in the hands of the US intelligence community that the government was acting on. The [[intelligence community]] had implemented the "insurance policy". Russiagate was no longer just [[Hillary Clinton]]'s political campaign directed against Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at [[liberal deceit|deceiving]] the American people.

In early March 2017, [https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/ Evelyn Farkas], Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia from the Obama Administration, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo</ref> and shared efforts to get information about Trump staff to The Hill in hopes to get information out. To many people this proved President Trump's claim that Obama had "his wires tapped" at Trump Tower.<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106</ref> Later in that same month she tries to backtrack and change the meaning of what she was saying.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-nDGSzQg4</ref>

==2018 Reckoning==
[[File:31D66D0A-82A4-40E7-A1C2-EBA55EEB357D.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Prime movers in the [[Deep State coup]]. Comey (first left) funneled raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]] to make it appear the FBI's illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign came from outside the government;<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/11/the-doj-and-fbi-worked-with-fusion-gps-on-operation-trump/</ref> Brennan (second left) collected the bogus ''[[Donald Trump–Russia dossier|Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' from British intelligence sources as part of a supposed routine "intelligence sharing" agreement;<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/09/john-brennans-role-in-the-fbis-trump-russia-investigation/</ref> Clapper (third from left) rubber stamped the operation, lied to Trump about the scheme and facilitated leaks to the press to impugn Trump.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> Adm. Rogers (end right), the lone hero of the group, detected the Obama FBI's abuse of the NSA's [[FISA]] computer system and personally reported the illegal activity to the FISA court.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/10/an-american-hero-the-death-of-a-fisa-narrative/</ref>]]
:''See:'' '''''[[Russiagate timeline 2018]]'''''
The '''Russiagate timeline''' chronicles [[Obama administration]] appointees and holdovers, in collusion with the [[2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign|Hillary Clinton campaign]] and [[DNC]], efforts to prevent the election of [[Donald J. Trump]] and, after he was elected, remove him from office. The Obama FBI Counterintelligence Division and [[DOJ]] National Security Division conducted an illegal [[counterintelligence]] operation against domestic political opponents.
Chris Blackburn said: {{quotebox|"For those that still believe we are living in democratic, free and open societies it is sadly starting to look like fantasy. Democracies flourish when the checks and balances in the system are robust. We need them to work now more than ever.”}}
Elizabeth Vos observed: {{quotebox|"In the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives, American and UK intelligence agencies appear to have recklessly and deceptively acted in the interest of a single political candidate, Hillary Clinton. This singularity of purpose speaks to the insecurity and magnitude of the unelected Western power structure, equaled by the scale of lies propping up the Trump-Russia and Russian hacking narratives."}}

==2019 [[The Empire Strikes Back]]==
:''See : '''[[Muellergate timeline 2019]]'''''
The '''[[Muellergate scandal]]''' refers to efforts to cover-up Obama-era [[FBI]]/[[DOJ]] crimes and frame [[Donald Trump]] and campaign associates for crimes they did not do.

Since President Trump's inauguration, 26 people were fired or otherwise removed from the [[Department of Justice]] and [[FBI]] in the Obamagate scandal.

FBI Deputy Director [[Andrew McCabe]] and FBI chief legal counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]] selected most of the special counsel investigators; those two then recommended to Deputy AG [[Rod Rosenstein]] that he hire [[Robert Mueller]] as special counsel lead.

[[James Comey]] was fired. The remaining ‘at-risk’ [[corrupt]] [[FBI]] leadership (McCabe and Baker), positioning to defend their own interests, selected the “small group”; then Mueller was selected and brought on his additional team members. The entire purpose of the special counsel operation was to cover-up the DOJ/FBI activity during the [[2016 presidential election]], [[Trump transition]], and early [[Trump administration]].

While DOJ Inspector General [[Michael Horowitz]] completed his review of the FBI mishandling of the [[Clinton email investigation]], Horowitz was prevented from looking at any of the prime suspects in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal. As was U.S. Attorney John Huber from prosecuting anyone involved. Mueller's ongoing investigation gave cover to corrupt Obama era officials, citing Mueller's "ongoing investigation." They successfully impeded investigations throughout the 2017-2019 Congressional session.

==See also==
*[[List of names in Obamagate]]
*[[Barack Obama Controversies]]
*[[Barack Hussein Obama's unlawful acts]]
*[[Mainstream media and Donald Trump]]
*[[Obama's second term agenda]]
*[[Media intelligence complex]]
*[[Obama war crimes]]
*[[Trump-Russia scandal]]
*[[Clinton body count]]
*[[Clinton scandal]]
*[[Crisis in Ukraine]]
*[[Project Cassandra]]
*[[Trump transition]]
*[[Deep state coup]]
*[[Deep State coup 2.0]]
*[[FBI scandal]]
*[[Arab Spring]]
*[[Jim Sciutto]]

==References==
{{reflist|4}}

==External links==
*[https://www.mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-hacks-and-treason/247674/ George Eliason: Beyond the DNC - Leaks, Hacks, and Treason], August 14, 2018.
*[https://sharylattkisson.com/obama-era-surveillance-timeline/ Obama era surveillence timeline], sharylattkisson.co
*[https://www.robbinyoung.info/test-2 Twitter DM's Between @Guccifer_2 & @Robbin_Young]
*[http://thecompleteobamatimeline.com/the-timeline.html The Complete Obama Timeline]
*[http://nlpc.org/2017/11/08/new-book-details-hillarys-attempt-undo-election/ The Plot to Stop Trump: The Story of a Failed Effort to Overturn an Election, Fred Lucas] - Book review.
*[https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/all-the-presidents-enemies/ All the president's enemies], by ''The Washington Times''
*[http://www.magapill.com/o/obamagate-timeline-of-corruption.html ObamaGate Timeline of Corruption]
*[https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1003016971896619009 The War Economy]
*[https://youtu.be/6opPCj9gcII Lee Stranahan interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya] (uncut)
*[http://thespygateproject.org/ The Spygate Project]

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