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:*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/</ref>  

:*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/</ref>  

:::*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.

:::*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.<ref><small>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."<br>https://abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723<br>

::*Comey also met with [[Obama]] in the Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting.<ref><small>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."<br>https://abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723<br>

:*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).

:*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).

::*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 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>

:::*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: [[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Yahoo News was used by the Obama DOJ to hoax the FISA court with supposedly independent corroboration; the same paid FBI source was the ''Yahoo News'' source. Additionally, the source was paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The information was false and invented. The FISA warrant granted authority to spy on the entire Trump campaign in 50 states, the [[Trump Transition]], and the first 10 months of the [[Trump Administration]], intruding into the lives all Trump appointees.]]

::*''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: [[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Yahoo News'' was used by the Obama DOJ to hoax the FISA court with supposedly independent corroboration; the same paid FBI source was the ''Yahoo News'' source. Additionally, the source was paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The information was false and invented. The FISA warrant granted authority to spy on the entire Trump campaign in 50 states, the [[Trump Transition]], and the first 10 months of the [[Trump Administration]], intruding into the lives all Trump appointees.]]

{{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.”}}

{{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.”}}