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This page chronicles the Obama Spygate scandal and is updated regularly;
please link back as the story unfolds.

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.

2009-2014 vanguardism

See : Obamagate timeline 2009-2014

• Leftist totalitarian fascism.

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.

IRS scandal

Main article: IRS scandal

In 2010 Eric Holder asked the IRS to send him the records of 501(c) non profit groups and individuals representing conservative voters. Lois Lerner sent the DOJ 1.1 million pages of 501(c)(4) tax filing data. Including a very specific set of “33 Schedule B attachment files”. The Schedule B's were specific to Large Conservative 501(c)(4) groups operating and organized to oppose the agenda of President Obama. The Schedule B's include the donor lists of specific people and sub-groups attached to the 501(c)(4).

The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010.

In 2012 Eric Holder authorized the use of government databases to search records of Americans and assemble “files” on potential targets. “The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior.”

In the period of 2012 through April 2016, According to FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer, there were tens of thousands of illegal (“non-compliant”) search queries of the NSA database targeting Americans. The search results were unlawfully “extracted” to unknown entities. Eighty-five out of every hundred searches were illegal (85% non-compliant rate).

Consider purposeful actions, as a political targeting operation, by weaponizing the systems of government. Steps:

• First, identify the targets (IRS Database).
• Second, research the targets (NSA Database).
• Third assemble files on the targets (DOJ Authorization).
• Fourth use the files to leverage/destroy your opposition.

Uranium One

Main article: Uranium One scandal

The Clinton family took $500,000 in personal bribes to transfer 20% of US uranium reserves to Russia. Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller had to approve the deal. Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, and Andrew Weissmann were involved in the cover-up.

Arab Spring

Main article: Arab Spring

By 2016, Gen. Michael Flynn’s knowledge as DIA director of the factual backstory to the Benghazi massacre, the arming of ISIS,^[3] and how the Obama/Clinton team misled everyone was the risk to the Deep state that Flynn represented.^[4]

Obama war crimes

See also: Obama war crimes

Illegal interventions in Libya, Syria, and the Ukrainian coup.

Obama authorizes covert aid to al Qaeda

• 31 March 2012. 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"^[6] Responsibility to carry out the aid is given to the State Dept. (Clinton) and CIA (Brennan); Pentagon (DIA and Gen. Michael Flynn are out of the loop).

• Another Reuters article notes Obama had CIA personal on the ground before signing the finding, and Adm. Mike Mullen figured there were only about 1,000 rebels in number.^[7]

Flynn memo on Islamic State

• 1 August 2012. Reuters reports Obama issued a secret Presidential Finding earlier in the year authorising transfer of captured weapons from Libya to Syria.^[8]

under provisions of the presidential finding, the United States was collaborating with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.

Last week, Reuters reported that, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey had established a secret base near the Syrian border to help direct vital military and communications support to Assad’s opponents.

This “nerve center” is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey about 60 miles (100 km) from the Syrian border, which is also home to Incirlik, a U.S. air base where U.S. military and intelligence agencies maintain a substantial presence.

Turkey’s moderate Islamist government has been demanding Assad’s departure with growing vehemence. Turkish authorities are said by current and former U.S. government officials to be increasingly involved in providing Syrian rebels with training and possibly equipment.

European government sources said wealthy families in Saudi Arabia and Qatar were providing significant financing to the rebels. Senior officials of the Saudi and Qatari governments have publicly called for Assad’s departure.

• 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.

• 12 August 2012. Defense Intelligence Agency document circulated widely among government agencies, including CENTCOM, the CIA, FBI, DHS, NGA (National Geospacial Agency), State Dept., and many others. The document states the West (NATO powers), members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), and Turkey want an Islamic State ("Salafist principality in Eastern Syria") to oppose the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

AQI [al Qaeda in Iraq] SUPPORTED THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING, BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND THROUGH THE MEDIA…

... AFTER THE RISE OF THE INSURGENCY IN SYRIA, THE RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL POWERS IN THE REGIONS BEGAN TO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SECTARIAN UPRISING. THIS (SYMPATHY) APPEARED IN FRIDAY PRAYER SERMONS, WHICH CALLED FOR VOLUNTEERS TO SUPPORT THE SUNNIS IN SYRIA...

THE FUTURE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE CRISIS:

...DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT EVENTS INTO PROXY WAR: …OPPOSITION FORCES ARE TRYING TO CONTROL THE EASTERN AREAS (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), ADJACENT TO THE WESTERN IRAQI PROVINCES (MOSUL AND ANBAR), IN ADDITION TO NEIGHBORING TURKISH BORDERS. ...

WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE GULF STATES AND TURKEY ARE SUPPORTING THESE EFFORTS. ...SIMILAR TO WHAT TRANSPIRED IN LIBYA WHEN BENGHAZI WAS CHOSEN AS THE COMMAND CENTER OF THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT...

...THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION… THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME…

…ISI COULD ALSO DECLARE AN ISLAMIC STATE THROUGH ITS UNION WITH OTHER TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA...

• Gen. Michael T. Flynn had been Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for about three weeks. Flynn opposed the creation of the Islamic State. After it was declared in June 2014, Flynn was fired.

• 30 April 2014. James Clapper fires Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Mike Flynn for warning of radical Islamic jihadists.^[10][11]

• 9 June 2014. Islamic State captures Mosul;^[12] Obama calls ISIS "the Junior Varsity team."^[13]

2015 progressive police state

See : Obamagate timeline 2015 progressive police state

The origins of intelligence lures, FBI provocateurs 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.

Clinton email scandal

Main article: Hillary Clinton email scandal

• 25 March 2015. According to the FBI, employees at Platte River Networks, which managed Clinton's server after it was removed from her basement, “held a conference call with President Clinton’s staff.” The FBI reports that a PRN staffer “sometime between March 25–31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server” with BleachBit.^[14]
• 16 May 2016. 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;^[15] 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.^[16][17]

FBI scandal (Spygate)

Main article: FBI scandal

December 2015 - April 2016

Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes: The first phase leading into ‘Spygate’ is the period of time where opposition research of the Republican candidate field was taking place. It is in this period where Fusion-GPS hired CIA Open Source researcher Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ-NSD official Bruce Ohr, to do research.
In the background of this time period the FBI and NSA database was being exploited by unknown FBI contractors; it is highly suspected that Nellie Ohr and/or Fusion-GPS was one of those contracted agencies with access to the massive electronic and metadata files.

Nellie Ohr performed illegal FISA 702 searches on Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump,^[18] and Michael Cohen.^[19]

2016 election year

See : Obamagate timeline 2016 election year

April 18 - July 31, 2016

Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes: 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.

• 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.^[20][21]

• 19 April. Mary Jacoby attends White House meeting.^[22]

• 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.^{[23][24][25][26]}

August 1 - October 21 2016

Crossfire Hurricane
With the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation in full swing, the Obama intelligence community, the CIA, was conducting facilitating operations throughout. In August 2016 CIA Director John Brennan brought the covert intelligence congressional oversight team known as the Gang-of-Eight into the picture.
The CIA angle was explained by Director John Brennan under the open auspices of the CIA operation looking at possible Russian interference with the election. However, Brennan's activity was more importantly, and intentionally, a supplement to the FBI activity. Brennan provided FBI Director James Comey with the two-page “EC” or electronic communication document that initiated Crossfire Hurricane in July.
Brennan's role is critical. Brennan kicked-off Crossfire Hurricane; Brennan's intelligence product was included in President Obama's daily briefing (PDB); and specifically by design, very importantly, Brennan was the ONLY intelligence official briefing congress:

Brennan Testimony: “Third, through the so-called Gang-of-Eight process we kept congress apprised of these issues as we identified them.”

“Again, in consultation with the White House, I PERSONALLY briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in the election to congressional leadership; specifically: Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr; and to representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff between 11th August and 6th September [2016], I provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members.”

“Given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counter-intelligence case [that means the FBI], involving an ongoing Russian effort, to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress; each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member.”…

During this time-frame [Aug, Sept, Oct ’16]: •Chris Steele was funneling the results of his collaborative work with Nellie Ohr into the FBI; •the FBI was conducting full surveillance upon the Trump campaign (CH/Spygate); •and Brennan was seeding the legal background, a plausible justification of sorts which might be needed later, with carefully worded briefings to the Gang-of-Eight.
Critical to note – the Go8 was not being briefed on Crossfire Hurricane/Spygate, which was the FBI operation to conduct internal political surveillance of the Trump campaign. The Go8 only knew what Brennan was informing them. Those Brennan briefings were more of a disingenuous overview of generalized Russian interference. James Comey never briefed the Go8 on his FBI operation. [In March 2017 Comey would tell congress his decision not to inform them was due to “the sensitivity of the matter”.]

Toward the end of October things took on a new sense of urgency. All of the aggregate intelligence exploitation, FISA-702 database extraction, and ongoing campaign surveillance being conducted was seriously fraught with legal peril. On October 21st, 2016, the FBI urgently applied for, and received, a FISA Title One surveillance warrant against U.S. person Carter Page.

That FISC approved warrant made all of the prior FBI surveillance on the Trump campaign completely legal. In essence the FISA court approved all prior FBI conduct. Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer approved the warrant. Sally Yates and James Comey were the application signatories.

A Title-One FISA warrant authorizes any and all surveillance methods; and establishes legal authority for retroactive review of all files and records associated with Carter Page; and anyone he comes into contact with; and anyone those contacts come into contact with.

In essence Title-One authority permits all electronic and physical surveillance, wiretaps, phone and electronic records, database extraction etc. The warrant is retroactive. All of the previous actions against the Trump campaign were now authorized and legal. A Title-One FISA Court warrant is the highest level of surveillance authority any court can grant.

FISA abuse

Main article: FISA abuse

October 21, 2016 - January 20, 2017

Carter Page FISA warrant
The FBI received their FISC surveillance authority two weeks before the November 8th presidential election.

If Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election all of this would disappear; none of this would ever surface; and the entire operation would just evaporate into the ether of invisible DC history. But Hillary didn't win. She lost. Now, all downstream official action takes an entirely more urgent and important shift.

Shortly after Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer authorized the FISA warrant, NSA Director Mike Rogers went to the FISC and informed the same judge of the FISA-702(16)(17) abuses that took place in the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Judge Collyer issues an explosive opinion lambasting the FBI for their allowed abuse of the system. The DOJ head of the National Security Division, John Carlin, resigned from his position.

Trump transition

Main article: Trump transition

Adm. Rogers warns Trump

Ten days after the election NSA Director Mike Rogers also travelled to Trump Tower without informing his boss ODNI James Clapper.

There has been a great deal of speculation as to what Rogers told President-elect Trump during that meeting. It's likely Director Rogers informed Trump about some of what he knew surrounding the unauthorized surveillance activity and FISA(702) exploitation. However, intelligence is highly compartmented; it's also virtually guaranteed Rogers had no idea what the FBI did, or was doing, with the material and the larger ‘Spygate’ operation.

After Hillary lost the election, CIA Director John Brennan and ODNI James Clapper quickly put together an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) about Russian interference in the 2016 election. When the report was pushed into the media bloodstream NSA Director Mike Rogers did not hold the same level of confidence in the assessment.

[…] A source close to the House investigation said Brennan himself selected the CIA and FBI analysts who worked on the ICA, and that they included former FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok.

“Strzok was the intermediary between Brennan and [former FBI Director James] Comey, and he was one of the authors of the ICA,” according to the source.^[27]

Again, it is super important to remember congressional oversight has no idea about the FBI operation (CH/Spygate) during the election. Congressional oversight, the ‘Gang-of-Eight’, only knows what John Brennan has briefed them about; there have been no Go8 briefings by FBI Director James Comey.

After the 2016 election the Go8 members also changed. Senator Dianne Feinstein abdicated her SSCI Vice-Chair position to Senator Mark Warner, and with the retirement of Harry Reid, Senator Chuck Schumer now became minority leader.

2017 soft coup

See : Russiagate timeline 2017 soft coup

Rice notes on Oval Office meeting

On January 5, 2017, President Obama held an Oval Office meeting with VP Joe Biden, James Comey (FBI), Michael Rogers (NSA), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Sally Yates (DOJ) and Susan Rice. At the conclusion of the briefing, President Obama asks Sally Yates and James Comey to remain. Together with Susan Rice, this is where the “by the book” comment comes into play. As recounted by Rice:

“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The background context here is important. The outgoing Obama white house team knows what has taken place throughout. Obama's PDB's (Presidential Daily Briefing) have included information about the Trump campaign officials who were under active surveillance. As the Trump transition team enters into office the FBI surveillance is still ongoing. The counterintelligence operation against the incoming administration, and every participating member, remains in full swing.

The day after Obama's oval office meeting, when President-elect Trump is briefed on the Steele Dossier, ODNI James Clapper and FBI Director James Comey cannot brief the target within their investigation on the granular material they used to gain the FISA warrant against the candidate who is now the President-elect.

Their target was Trump.

Trump is now the President-elect.

That's why Comey only briefed Trump on the salacious material... the ‘pee tapes’ and ‘Russian hookers’ nonsense was not part of the FISA application. The material that was part of the FISA application; the material that outlined candidate Trump as a target; was not shared with the President-elect because it would have amounted to Trump discovering the factual origin of an ongoing counterintelligence operation against him.

Simultaneous to this transition taking place, all the Trump officials within his team were still under an active FISA Title-One surveillance warrant. This surveillance also included the capture of all of their transition email accounts, the content was later given -without transition team approval- to Robert Mueller by the GAO. The legal authority for that controversial event was inside the FISA Title-One surveillance warrant.

The FISA warrant was reauthorized on January 12th, 2017, about a week before the inauguration of Trump with DAG Sally Yates and James Comey again approving.

Deep state coup

Main article: Deep state coup

January 20, 2017 - April 18, 2019

Here's where the current background of multiple issues and questions begins to make sense.

Remember, as the Trump administration takes office, congressional oversight (Go8) still has no idea what is taking place within the ongoing counterintelligence operation against President Trump and all those around him. Crossfire Hurricane, aka ‘Spygate’, is mostly invisible in the background.

The need to put factual teeth behind a fraudulently created investigative predicate means the FBI needs to start getting serious about the investigative targets. Thus in January, for the first time since CH/Spygate began, the FBI reaches out to question George Papadopoulos. Additionally, on January 24th, 2017, investigators question another origination target, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Evidence of CH/Spygate surfaces in the actions against appointed National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos; however, despite President Trump and FBI Director James Comey twice being together (January 27th and Feb 14th), only the small group within the FBI and DOJ-NSD are aware of the operation as incoming Trump intelligence officials replace outgoing Obama intelligence officials.

At the same time Comey was personally scrutinizing the president during meetings in the White House and phone conversations from the FBI, he had an agent inside the White House working on the Russia investigation, where he reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides. Comey carved out an extraordinary new position for the agent, Anthony Ferrante,^[33] who specialized in cyber crime, which allowed him to remain on reserve status at the FBI while working in the White House as a cybersecurity adviser. Ferrante left the White House around the same time Comey was fired and joined a security consulting firm, where he contracted with BuzzFeed to lead the news site’s efforts to verify the Steele dossier, in connection with a defamation lawsuit.^[34]

SSIC leaks Carter Page FISA application

See also: James Wolfe indictment

Tthe Wall Street Journal reported that attorneys for the Director of Security of the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Wolfe, sent letters to all 15 senators on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, notifying them that their testimony may be sought as part of Wolfe's defense. Wolfe's apparent defense was that he was acting on the instructions of his superiors when he leaked the Carter Page FISA application to reporter Ali Watkins in March 2017.^[35]

2018 reckoning

See: Russiagate timeline 2018

The Russiagate timeline chronicles Obama administration appointees and holdovers, in collusion with the 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:

"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:

"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

The immediate impetus for the appointment of Robert Mueller after the firing of James Comey was to cover up FBI actions, or rather, lack of actions when Comey and Andrew McCabe were notified (September 28, 2016) of the existence of the Weiner laptop in the closing days of the 2016 election. The FBI leadership was pre-occupied with several other matters - notably hoaxing the FISA court to get retroactive approval for the FBI's illegal domestic surveillance of Carter Page and the Trump campaign. This, along with managing illegal leaks coming from Christopher Steele, Lisa Page, Mike Kortan, and Andrew McCabe. The Weiner laptop was never examined until after the election. FBI personnel in the New York office who seized the laptop, feared being the designated fallguys for a botched investigation, forced James Comey to go public who then made the false statement that the laptop had been examined. All this was predicated on an assumption that Hillary Clinton would win.

When Trump won, and Comey was fired, McCabe then was entrusted to keeping a lid on the wrongdoing and away from Congressional investigators. Rosenstein, a Trump appointee, was mainly concerned about the reputation and integrity of the Department of Justice. Mueller, who colluded with Hillary Clinton in the Uranium One scandal and with Oleg Deripaska in the past, was the perfect choice to lead a new investigation. Mueller, Rosentein, Andrew Weissmann, McCabe and Peter Strzok had all been involved in covering up old Clinton scandals. Others, such as James Baker (DOJ), Sally Yates, John Carlin, John Brennan, DNI boss James Clapper, Mary McCord (DOJ), Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr and more top-level intelligence community personnel all were involved.

The fact of the existence of the Mueller probe kept Congressional Committees from subpoenaing and examining documents into the 2016 election, and stalling at least until the 2018 Midterm elections.

January 2019

• 15 January. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows write to US Attorney John Dunham regarding criminal leak investigation of Jim Baker (DOJ).^[40]
• 21 January. Disobedient Media: Death Of Russiagate: Mueller Team Tied To Mifsud's Network.^[41]
• 23 January. Mueller office illegally leaks Roger Stone indictment, written by Andrew Weissmann, to CNN. The illegal leak is a bigger crime that carries a heavier penalty than what Stone was charged with. 29 heavily armed agents, including frogmen and armored vehicles, were sent to Stone's home to make the arrest.^[42]

February 2019

• 8 February. Adam Schiff recusal demanded after collusion with Glenn Simpson revealed.^[43][44]
• 12 February. Ken Dilanian: Senate Democrats agree no Russia collusion.^[45]
• 13 February. Roger Stone files motion to force Mueller to prove he didn't leak to CNN^[46]
• 14 February. William Barr sworn in as AG.
• 15 February. DOJ coup attempt confirmed.^[47]
• Yakov Applebaum: Who Done It?^[48]
• 16 February. McCabe admits on 60 Minutes he engaged in a coup-plot against President Trump.^{[49][50][51][52]}
• 19 February. How A Plea Reversal From Michael Flynn Could Uncover More Federal Corruption.^[53]
• 21 February. IRS intelligence analyst John Fry charged with leaking Michael Cohen financial records to Michael Avenatti.^[54]

• 22 February. CIA implicated in attack on North Korean embassy in Madrid.^[55][56]

March 2019

• 1 March. Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows ask William Barr for any information on Andrew Weissmann and Zainab Ahmad's contacts with Bruce Ohr in 2016 prior to the November election.^[57] Ohr testified he relayed the tainted dossier from Christopher Steele to Weissman and Ahmad. Weissmann and Ahmad were appointed to the Muller team in May 2017, a possible violation of DOJ regulations and indication of political bias. Did Weissmann and Ahmad disclose to Mueller that they were in on the Russia collusion hoax and DOJ misconduct prior to accepting appointment to the Mueller team?^[58][59]
• 5 Mueller. Ms. Jessie Liu nominated to be the Associate Attorney General,^[60] the DOJ's No. 3 spot replacing Rachel Brand. Liu was assigned the criminal referral of Andrew McCabe (April 19, 2018) and was in charge of the impaneled grand jury (Approx. July 2018). Liu also was a decision-maker in the arrest of Senate Intelligence Committee Security Dir. James Wolfe: grand jury (May 3rd 2018); James Wolfe indictment (June 7th 2018), non-prosecution, plea deal, and eventual sentence (December 20th 2018).
• FBI Agent Bill Evanina, an Obama administration holdover and head of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, a DNI unit, nomination placed on hold by Sen. Chuck Grassley. DNI and DOJ is still stonewalling Grassley requests for briefings and documents related to 2016 election controversies.^[61]
• 7 March. David Harsanyi: The Democratic Party Has Normalized Anti-Semitism.^[62]
• Nellie Ohr sent reams of open-source intelligence to her husband, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, and on some occasions to at least three DOJ prosecutors: Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich and Joseph Wheatley.

• Nellie Ohr testified to Congress that she did not share her Fusion GPS research with anyone except her husband Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele.

• 8 March. Rep. Doug Collins inserts full unredacted Bruce Ohr testimony in the Congressional Record.^[63]

• David Archey, supervisor of all FBI personnel in the Mueller probe, re-assigned as head of the Richmond, VA, FBI field office.

• 10 March. Mueller eyeing $10 million book deal.^[64]
• 12 March. Doug Collins releases two days of Lisa Page testimony with few redactions.^[65]

• Washington Post reports:

  senior bureau officials were also expressing anti-Clinton animus — but that neither affected how agents working those cases carried out their jobs. “Many of us in law enforcement dislike the subject of our investigations. We are not keen on pedophiles and fraudsters and spies and human traffickers,” Page said.^[66]

• 13 March. Michael Flynn cooperation agreement with Mueller office terminated.^[67]
• Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) open letter to William Barr asking him not to allow Mueller Report to perpetuate false narrative of DNC hacking by Russians.^[68]
• 1MDB scandal. StatusCoup: Does Kamala Harris Fundraiser Co-Host Have Connection to Global Money-Laundering Scandal?^[69]
• 14 March. Andrew Weissmann forced out at Justice Department.^[70]

• Doug Collins enters Peter Strzok unredacted testimony into the Congressional Record.^[71]
• David Kramer deposition unsealed.^[72]

• 15 March. Peter Schweizer: Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden's kids.^[73]
• 17 March. William Craddick tweets, "Russiagate was designed in part to help the UK counter Russian influence by baiting the United States into taking a hard line against them.^[74]
• 18 March. John McCain role in Deep state coup unsealed.^[75][76]

• Devin Nunes files $250 million defamation suit against Twitter.^[77][78]

• 19 March. Papadopoulos: Mueller investigated Israel ties, not Russian ones.^[79]

• Christopher Steele took posts from random users on CNN I-Report page, put them in the dossier, and passed it to the FBI.^[80]

• 20 March. Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows send a letter to Attorney General William Barr wanting to know what is the status of the criminal referral for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.^[81]
• Jewish News Syndicate: Anti-Semitism has a history in the Democratic Party.^[82]
• 22 March. Bill Barr notifies Congress that Mueller probe is complete. No Russia collusion indictments.

• New Strzok/Lisa Page texts released reflecting concerns from the DOJ over “possible bias of the chs [confidential human source]," likely referring to Christopher Steele. Lisa Page noted that “This might take a high-level push.”^[83]
• Brian Whitaker: The Joseph Mifsud archive.^[84]

• 25 March. Michael Avenatti arrested on extortion and fraud charges; Mark Geragos named co-conspirator.^[85]

• Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) says DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz was looking into the origins of collusion, along with probable cause used by the FBI to initiate their investigation, in addition to his investigation into FISA abuse. Ratcliffe also noted that John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, has “been dispatched to look into the criminal aspects” that might be associated with Horowitz’s work.^[86]
• Rudy Giuliani calls for investigation of investigators.^[87]
• President Trump cites "treasonous acts" in the Obama/Clinton/DNC Russia collusion hoax.^[88]

• 27 March. John Brennan insisted the Clinton/Steel dossier be included in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.^[89] Brennan further perjured himself in sworn testimony to Congress saying it wasn't. Brennan briefed Democrat Leader Harry Reid on the Clinton/Steele dossier in August 2016 to urge an FBI investigation of Trump, and lied saying he did not hear about thClinton/Steele dossier until December 2016, after the election.^[90]

• Brennan backpeddles.^[91]

• 28 March. Jessie Liu withdraws from consideration of Associate Attorney General, the DOJ No. 3 slot.

• John Brennan faces criminal referral in Trump-Russia scam and coup plot.^[92]
• Calls for Adam Schiff to resign from HPSCI.^[93]
• Barack Obama's role in Russia collusion hoax questioned.^[94] It is unlikely John Brennan violated the law on his own.
• Bloomberg reported that the Swedish bank Swedbank “may now be facing substantial fines for money laundering that could put pressure on its capital buffers.” The story was notable as it tied into existing investigations in Danske Bank’s Estonia money-laundering case, which originated with the release of the Panama Papers.^[95][96]

• 29 March. Joe Biden's role in interfering in a Ukrainian corruption investigation exposed.^[97]

April 2019

Ukrainian collusion with Democrats to interfere in the 2016 presidential election runs as a common thread throughout the April 2019 release of the Mueller Report.^[98]

• 3 April. Peter Schweizer: Joe Biden 'Steered $1.8 Billion' to Ukraine While His Son Got Sweetheart Deal From Their Government.^[99]
• 4 April. Stefan Halper attempted to smear Gen. Michael Flynn as consorting with a Russian agent in February 2014 when Flynn was Obama's DIA director.

• Svetlana Lokhova, a dual Russian and British citizen, said “What Halper staged is a textbook ‘black-op’ to dirty up the reputation of a political opponent. He needed an innocuous social event to place Flynn in a room with a woman who was ethnically Russian. I was unlucky he picked me."^[100]

• 5 April. Patrick Byrne's first meeting with the FBI in the Maria Butina case.
• 7 April. The Hill published an article, entitled, Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?, which included an interview with Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's International Legal Cooperation Department in Ukraine. The article touched on numerous aspects of Ukrainian-Democrat ties in the 2016 presidential election and also highlighted Joe Biden's role.

• Giuliani says "I want the Ukraine investigated. Because I think, in the Ukraine, we’re going to find a lot of answers for how the Steele dossier was put together, how the Manafort case was revived…how many Ukrainians were involved and was the embassy in the Ukraine involved in helping to develop some of this evidence? That’s all very, very important to pointing out where this started. This was a frame-up. An old-fashioned frame-up.”
• Rep. Mark Meadows says “Overwhelming evidence shows multiple FBI and DOJ executives abused their power to undermine a duly elected President Trump. They will be held accountable.”

• Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI for the Government Computer Intrusions: The Definitive Summary.^[101]
• 8 April. David Archey, FBI lead investigator in the Mueller probe, reveals to Obama Judge James E. Boasberg the existence of more Comey memos. Comey documented meetings and conversations, and also notes of the sources and methods associated with the Trump investigation.^[102]
• 9 April. Barr tells Congress he is looking into the FBI's actions in Spygate.^[103]

• Rep. Ted Lieu played a fake news clip of Candace Owens in a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Owens provided proper context in a strongly worded response that left Lieu visibly shaken. The video would go viral as one of C-SPAN's the most watched clips with 7.4 million views.^[104]

• 10 April. Barr says spying on Trump did occur.

• President Trump blasted former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe as dirty cops, saying, “This was an attempted coup. This was an attempted takedown of a president," and “what they did was treason.”

• 11 April. Julian Assange removed from the Ecuador embassy in London. Assange faces a single charge of allegedly helping Chelsea Manning, who was pardoned by Obama, of hacking.^[105] Under the “Doctrine of Specialty” provisions of the US-UK extradition treaty, no further charges can be added after extradition.^[106] If the charges are dropped, Assange will be free tell where he received DNC and John Podesta emails from.

• Obama White General Counsel Greg Craig indicted. for “making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine.”^[107] The indictment stated that “The purpose of the scheme was for CRAIG to avoid registration as an agent of Ukraine. Registration would require disclosure of the fact that” an unnamed Ukrainian “had paid CRAIG and the Law Firm more than $4 million[.]” The indictment makes repeated mention of an unnamed “American lobbyist,” whom Ukraine had employed to “improve Ukraine’s international public image.” The lobbyist being referenced is likely Paul Manafort. Craig said in a video statement on April 15, that Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, “helped fund” a 2012 report.^[108]
• Nunes makes criminal referrals to the Attorney General.^[109]

• 12 April. Giuliani says "Assange could expose a plot involving Ukraine to falsely accuse Trump of colluding with Russia." Guiliani was referring to "Assange exposing the origins of the federal investigation of possible Trump collusion with Russia and was not raising the possibility of Assange disproving that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta.”^[110]
• Epoch Times: Ties to Ukrainian National a Unifying Theme in Early Attacks on Trump.^[111]
• 15 April. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The FBI needs a grand jury, Only the threat of indictment will get Bill Barr to the truth.^[112]

• Andrew McCarthy: Behind the Obama administration’s shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign.^[113]

• 16 April. Democrat House Judiciary Committee chairman Elijah Cummings and Democrat House Financial Services chairwoman Maxine Waters have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to exchange information in violation of House Rules. Both committees have issued subpoenas to investigate Trump in their respective areas of oversight. Under House Rules, a committee chair cannot enter into a memorandum of understanding with other committee chairs without a vote of the Committee and consultation with the ranking member.^[114]
• Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) calls out the “central-but-unproven allegation” of Russia hacking the DNC, criticizes Mueller for relying on “a discredited, DNC-hired firm named CrowdStrike, whose credibility is on a par with ‘pee-tape dossier’ compiler Christopher Steele”.^[115]
• Poll: 58% say it's likely Obama or his top aids knew the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.^[116]
• 17 April. Devin Nune Mueller team obstructed Congressional investigation; stalled any effort to expose the unlawful aspects of “SpyGate’ and the fraudulent foundation behind the Carter Page FISA application; and undermined any adverse discoveries in the leak investigations (James Wolfe) writ large.^[117]
• Matt Taibbi: James Comey, the Would-Be J. Edgar Hoover.^[118]

• 18 April. Mueller Report released.^[119] Mueller claimed Russian interference in 2016 election spent “approximately $100,000” on Facebook ads, hired someone to walk around New York City “dressed up as Santa Claus with a Trump mask,” and got “dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content.”^[120][121]

• Mueller’s finding that Michael Cohen did not travel to Prague to conspire with Russians.
• No evidence that Carter Page conspired with Russians.
• No mention of Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange in London.
• No mention of secret communications between a Trump Tower computer server and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
• No mention of former NRA lawyer Cleta Mitchell or her supposed knowledge of a scheme to launder Russian money through the NRA for the Trump campaign. Insinuations against Mitchell originated with Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson and were first made public in a document published by Democrats on HPSCI committee.
• Excerpts from a voicemail from Trump attorney John Dowd that the Mueller team selectively edited to make it seem threatening and nefarious.
• No comment on the close relationship between Democrat operatives at Fusion GPS and multiple Russians who participated in the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower. In fact, no comment on Fusion GPS at all.
• No useful information on figures who played key roles in the investigation such as Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, or Christopher Steele.
• The Mueller dossier cites dozens of articles from the reporters and publications that were most responsible for perpetuating the Russia hoax. Mueller produced a perfect feedback loop: intelligence leakers spin a false story to the media, the media publishes the story, Mueller cites the story, and the media and the Democrats then fake outrage at Mueller’s findings.
• Glenn Greenwald writes Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theories. He Obliterated Them.^[122]
• Australia confirms role in Trump-Russia coup plot.^[123]
• BuzzFeed reports that FBI investigators illegally leaked information in the Michael Cohen investigation to Buzzfeed.^[124]
• U.S. intelligence community has become partisan and politicized, dominated by liberals loyal to the Democratic party.^[125]
• New York Times Trump-Russia expert Maggie Haberman thinks Edelweiss is a Nazi anthem.^[126]

• 19 April. Ukrainian prosecutors to US: Why don't you want our evidence on Democrats?^[127]
• Joseph Mifsud found alive and living near U.S. embassy in Rime.^[128] Democrats alleged to the court that Mifsud was dead and unavailable to be interviewed.^[129]

• 20 April. Ukrainian plot to interfere in the 2016 election to help Clinton emerges.^[130]
• 21 April. Obama-backed fascists defeated in Ukrainian elections.^[131][132]
• 22 April. 51 Fake News ‘Bombshells’ the Media Spread About RussiaGate.^[133]
• 23 April. Jeff Carlson: Dana Boente's Many Critical Positions Within the Trump Administration.^[134]
• 24 April. James Clapper Knew There Was No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion In 2016.^[135]

• Mueller Report Shatters Credibility of Steele Dossier.^[136]
• Everything After March 9, 2016 Was A Cover Up Operation.^[137]

• 25 April. President Trump for the first time used the terms “attempted coup” and “overthrow” to discuss the coordinated effort against his administration by the previous administration including James Clapper (ODNI), John Brennan (CIA), James Comey (FBI), and lower level officials within the intelligence apparatus.^[138]

• 10 days after the 2016 election, Strzok and Lisa Page discussed a Trump transition team informant, Joshua Pitcock, Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff. Pitcock's wife, Katie, is an FBI agent who worked with Peter Strzok on the Clinton email investigation. Katie is reported to have recused herself from the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation after Pence was nominated. Trump announced Pence as his pick on July 15, 2016. Trump and Pence officially became nominees on July 21, 2016.^[139][140] 10 days later on July 31, 2016 Strzok began the paperwork officially opening the Trump-Russia counterintelligence investigation.
• Through Pitcock the FBI hoped to recruit other informants in the Trump transition team.
• Questions remain about the lingering relationship between Strzok, Pitcock and his wife Katie after July 2016, during the transition, and into the start of the administration. Pitcock worked for Pence as his Chief of Staff from January, 2017 until he resigned in August, 2017.
• The connection raises questions regarding information that may have moved from the FBI into the vice president’s orbit regarding National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing a Novermber 8, 2016 Election Day deadline. The confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on the Trump campaign. Steele's client, the Clinton campaign, “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8.”

• FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET....Declassify on 12/31/2041,” 25 years after the 2016 election.^[141]

• 5 Times The Mueller Probe Broke Prosecutorial Rules That Ensure Justice.^[142]
• Massachusetts liberal judge indicted for aiding illegal alien escape capture.^[143]
• Corrupt Baltimore Democrat Mayor May Have Fled State After FBI and IRS Raid of Her Home and Office.^[144] In March 2018 Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced that the city would send 60 buses to the march against guns in Washington DC.. The Baltimore city school system did not have enough money to heat the schools in 2018 but found the money to bus kids to an anti-gun rally.

• New York Times publishes anti-Semitic cartoon.^[146]
• 26 April. Lawyers in Russian Bot Case Demand Judge Hold Mueller in Contempt For Making Allegations in Report That Were Left Out of Indictment.^[147] The practical effect on Concord Management was to advise the world, including potential jurors, that the allegations in the indictment against Concord Management are true and that the defendants in this case were operating as part of a Russian-government led interference campaign, denying them a fair trial. Concord Management is still in pre-trial proceedings in US Federal Court and rules forbid under criminal penalty of law any assertion of this kind.^[148]
• 27 April. President Trump said that links between Ukraine and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Obama administration should be investigated.^[149]
• Mueller will not be called before the Senate to testify.

• Joe Biden, Obama Officials Stood to Gain From Ukraine Influence.^[150]

• Trump hater shoots up California synagogue, kills one injuring several.^[151]
• 28 April. Lindsey Graham takes up Deep State narrative: “the Russians hacked into John Podesta’s e-mails, the campaign manager for the Democratic candidate for President. The Russians hacked into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, the candidate for the Democratic Party.”^[152]
• After Trump discusses "overthrow" and "coup," Sally Yates surfaces to give CYA interview.^[153]
• Sundance publishes List of Documents for Declassification and Public Release:

♦ President Trump can prove the July 31st, 2016, Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation originated from a scheme within the intelligence apparatus by exposing the preceding CIA operation that created the originating “Electronic Communication” memo. Declassify that two-page “EC” document that Brennan gave to Comey. [The trail is found within the Weissmann report and the use of Alexander Downer]

♦ Release and declassify all of the Comey memos that document the investigative steps taken by the FBI as an outcome of the operation coordinated by CIA Director John Brennan in early 2016. [The trail was memorialized by James Comey]

♦ Reveal the November 2015 through April 2016 FISA-702 search query abuse by declassifying the April 2017 court opinion written by FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer. Show the FBI contractors behind the 85% fraudulent search queries. [Crowdstrike? Fusion-GPS? Nellie Ohr? Daniel Richman?] This was a weaponized surveillance and domestic political spying operation. [The trail was laid down in specific detail by Judge Collyer]

♦ Subpoena former DOJ-NSD (National Security Division) head John Carlin, or haul him in front of a grand jury, and get his testimony about why he hid the abuse from the FISA court in October 2016; why the DOJ-NSD rushed the Carter Page application to beat NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers to the FISA court; and why Carlin quit immediately thereafter.

♦ Prove the Carter Page FISA application (October 2016) was fraudulent and based on deceptions to the FISA Court. Declassify the entire document, and release the transcripts of those who signed the application(s); and/or depose those who have not yet testified. The creation of the Steele Dossier was the cover-up operation.

♦ Release all of the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages without redactions. Let sunlight pour in on the actual conversation(s) that were taking place when Crossfire Hurricane (July ’16) and the FISA Application (Oct ’16) were taking place. The current redactions were made by the people who weaponized the intelligence system for political surveillance and spy operation. This is why Page and Strzok texts are redacted!

♦ Release all of Bruce Ohr 302’s, FBI notes from interviews and debriefing sessions, and other relevant documents associated with the interviews of Bruce Ohr and his internal communications. Including exculpatory evidence that Bruce Ohr may have shared with FBI Agent Joseph Pientka. [And get a deposition from this Pientka fella] Bruce Ohr is the courier, carrying information from those outside to those on the inside.

♦ Release the August 2nd, 2017, two-page scope memo provided by DAG Rod Rosenstein to special counsel Robert Mueller to advance the fraudulent Trump investigation, and initiate the more purposeful obstruction of justice investigation. Also Release the October 20th, 2017, second scope memo recently discovered. The Scope Memos are keys to unlocking the underlying spy/surveillance cover-up.

• 29 April. Rod Rosenstein resigns, effective May 11, 2019.^[154]

• 30 April. Patrick Byrne's second meeting with the FBI in the Maria Butina case.

May 2019

• 1 May. Nellie Ohr referred to DOJ for criminal prosecution.^[155][156] Nellie Ohr had access to the 702 FISA database. Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson were the principle authors of the Steele dossier; Christopher Steel was used to make it appear the information (Fourth Amendment violations) gathered by illegal FISA surveillance came from outside the US government and from a NATO allied source.
• DOJ Reviewing Whether Steele Dossier Was Russian Disinformation.^[157]
• Human Events: Checkmate. How President Trump's legal team outfoxed Mueller.^[158]

• Assange extradition hearing begins in UK.^[159]
• 2 May. FBI admits to spying on Trump campaign.^[160][161]

• Trump: James Comey Probably Led the Spying Efforts – Will Find Out. Transcript of Trump interview with Catherine Herridge.^[162]
• Papadopoulos responds to FBI sting ran against him.^[163]

• RealClearInvestigations: When Loretta Met Bill on the Tarmac.^[164]
• CNN Poll: 69% of Americans want the origins of the Obama administration's Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigated.^[165]
• 3 May. Devin Nunes asks Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel, National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone and FBI Director Chris Wray to hand over all information on Joseph Mifsud by May 10.^[166] If Mifsud is not a Russian intelligence asset, the FBI and CIA have a problem within their narrative. If Mifsud is a Western asset, that proves George Papadopoulos was set up.
• Jonathan Moffa transcript says the FBI use of spies and other counterintelligence assets in the Trump campaign was far more extensive than has previously been acknowledged.^[167]
• Comey tells KNX radio Los Angeles,

  "at the end of July [2016] we learn that a Trump campaign adviser [Papadopoulos] — two months earlier, before any of this was public — had talked to a Russian representative [Mifsud] about the fact that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton"^[168]

• Mifsud is in fact a UK intelligence operative.^[169][170]
• If what Comey said were to be true, the fact that a KGB agent penetrated to the highest levels of UK, US, Italian and NATO intelligence for several decades, vetted recruits for UK intelligence, and taught at a NATO school for intelligence agents, is by far a larger scandal than Russia collusion.
• Mifsud spoke at a State Department meeting three weeks after President Trump was inaugurated, and was questioned by the FBI while in Washington, D.C., shortly after George Papadopoulos' first FBI interview. Mifsud was not detained, and allowed to leave the country.
• The "dirt" on Clinton was her communication with President Obama from the territory of Russia on her Blackberry connected to her unsecured server - covered-up by Comey in his July 5, 2016 press conference when he said Clinton had communicated with "another government official."

• Ray McGovern: Orwellian Cloud Hovers Over Russia-gate.^[171]
• 4 May.' FBI ‘lost Notes’ From August 2015 Meeting with IC Inspector General Regarding Hillary Clinton's Private Server.^[172]
• 5 May. Susan Bordo: The Talented Mr. Comey.^[173]
• 6 May. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson ask AG Bill Barr if the FBI has investigated CIA leaking during the Russia probe.^[174]
• Mueller did not investigate whether Russia fed Christopher Steele false information to interfere in American elections.^[175]
• Sharyl Attkisson: How Attorney General Barr could change the federal culture of corruption in 60 days.^[176]
• Sharyl Attkisson: U.S. spy agency hikes number of search queries of American calls, texts and emails.^[177]
• Sharyl Attkisson: Justice Department “Kafkaesque” in Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI for government computer intrusions.^[178]
• 7 May. Solomon: FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA.^[179]

• Steele informed Kathleen Kavalec of the State Dept. that the Steele dossier was bogus.
• Kavalec forwarded Steele's information to the FBI;
• FBI went ahead with the Carter Page FISA warrant application using Steele's bogus information ten days later anyways.

• Consortiumnews: How US and Foreign Intel Agencies Interfered in a US Election.^[180]

• Nadler informed that the previous report content was provided without assertion of executive privilege; however, if Nadler follows-through with impeachment plan, executive privilege is now enforced and the totality of the Mueller Report is withdrawn from Congress. The only thing AG Barr was statutorily required to provide was the four-page notification letter he already presented. The assertion of executive privilege effectively removes any lack of production action (i.e. the impeachment threat) by Chairman Jerry Nadler.^[181]
• Kevin Brock: James Comey is in trouble and he knows it.^[182]
• FBI releases 277 pages of the Clinton email investigation.^[183]
• 8 May. Mueller paid $732,000 to outside contractors. Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) and Chris Steele may have been paid by Mueller.^[184]
• Sen. Grassley: “Media…sold a bunch of snake oil” on Trump-Russia probe.^[185]
• 9 May. Solomon: FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA.^[186]

• 10 May. 1MDB scandal. Obama friend Pras Michel and 1MDB consultant Jho Low indicted on conspiracy to defraud the United States government and for making foreign and conduit campaign contributions.^[187] According to the indictment,between June 2012 and November 2012, Low directed the transfer of approximately $21,600,000 from foreign entities and accounts to Michel for the purpose of funneling significant sums of money into the United States presidential election as purportedly legitimate contributions, all while concealing the true source of the money.
  To facilitate the excessive contributions and conceal their true source, Michel paid approximately $865,000 of the money received from Low to about 20 straw donors, or conduits, so that the straw donors could make donations in their names to a presidential joint fundraising committee.
  In addition, Michel personally directed more than $1 million of the money received from Low to an independent expenditure committee also involved in the presidential election in 2012.
  The indictment also alleges that by funneling campaign contributions through straw donors, Michel caused a presidential joint fundraising committee to submit false reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), including a false amended report in June 2013. The committee's reports were false because they identified the straw donors, rather than Low or Michel, as the true source of the contributions.
  In addition, the indictment alleges that by contributing more than $1 million of the money he received from Low to an independent expenditure committee,
  Michel also caused that committee to submit false reports to the FEC, insofar as those reports identified Michel as the source of the contributions when, in fact, it was Low.
  The indictment further alleges that in June 2015, Michel submitted a false declaration to the FEC in which he claimed that he had no reason to conceal the true source of his contributions to the independent expenditure committee in 2012, even though Michel knew that the true source of that money was Low and that Michel had funneled the foreign money into the election.
• Sen. Graham sends a letter to both OIG Michael Horowitz and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seeking additional information about State Department contact with Christopher Steele.^[188]
• Roger Stone wants evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC.^[189]
• 11 May. IG Horowitz Has 'Concluded that the Final Three FISA Extensions Were Illegally Obtained,' diGenova Says.^[190][191] The Kavalec revelations have prompted further investigation into the first FISA warrant. The FBI hid the Kavelec memo from Inspector General Horowitz for two years.
• Chuck Ross: Analysis: The Steele Dossier And The ‘Raw Intelligence’ Canard.^[192]
• Epoch Times: Obama White House Knew About Clinton Emails Years Earlier Than Previously Admitted.^[193]
• 12 May. Ratcliffe: James Comey “under investigation for violations of the espionage act”^[194]
• Trump Calls Out FBI Director Christopher Wray: “the director is protecting the coup gang”.^[195]
• Obama White House kept tabs on a FOIA request for information on Hillary Clinton's emails that was improperly rejected by the State Department.

• The State Department claimed in May 2013 in response to the FOIA request that no responsive records existed. The agency’s internal watchdog later determined that denial to be ‘inaccurate and incomplete’ since Clinton used a personal email account to conduct State Department business.
• These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012.^[196]

• 13 May.: Associated Press: Top Federal Prosecutor in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Probe.^[197] Relates to the James A. Baker (DOJ) case.
• Sara Carter: Minefield? If Barr Has Any Intention Of Prosecuting FISA Abuses, He Should Stay Clear Of IG Report.^[198]
• Consortiumnews: Sweden Reopens 9-Year Old Rape Investigation Against Julian Assange; Seeks His Arrest and Extradition.^[199]
• Jeff Carlson: As Rosenstein Leaves DOJ, How Will History Judge Him?.^[200]
• Gatewaypundit: Obama State Department's Jonathan Winer – Long Time Kerry Associate – Involved in Sinister Actions Pushing Fake Russia Dossier.^[201]
• 14 May. Graham Seeks Communications Between State Dept. Official and Dossier Author.^[202]

• Steele’s Meeting With US Official Casts Doubts on FBI’s Official Story.^[203]
• Rosenstein Defends Mueller Appointment, Rips Into Comey.^[204]
• Daily Signal: 6 Things to Know About the Prosecutor Investigating Spying on Trump Campaign.^[205]
• Epoch Times: US Attorney Probing Spying on Trump Campaign Draws on Vast Experience.^[206]
• Investment Watchblog: Special Prosecutor John Durham, Assigned by AG Barr, Already Working on the Case from Before October 3rd, 2018?^[207]

• 16 May. Chuck Ross: Steele Identified Russian Dossier Sources, Notes Reveal.^[208]

• 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 contain several 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.

• 20 May. Doug Collins releases transcripts of Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, James Rybicki, Trisha Beth Anderson, George Toscas, Jonathan Moffa, John Giaclone (McCabe's predecessor at the start of Mid Year Exam), Sally Moyer and William F. Sweeney Jr. (Sweeney is the whistleblower in the FBI New York field office who contacted Toscas to move FBI Headquarters off the ball regarding the Weiner laptop in late October 2016, prompting Comey to re-open the Clinton email investigation).^[209]

• 22 May. Devin Nunes publicly asks President Trump to question UK Prime Minister Theresa May on UK intelligence involvement in Spygate.^[210]

• Hours later, UK Prime Minister Theresa May resigns, effective the day after President Trump's UK state visit.

• Paul Sperry: According to Main DOJ sources, Durham's portfolio for looking into the provenance of CH [Crossfire Hurricane] includes examining docs generated by an interagency "fusion cell" Brennan set up in mid-2016 on Russian election interference + pre-election briefings Steele gave to UK intelligence.^[211]
• John Solomon files motion to publicize FISA records. Solomon has reason to suspect that the court knows of serious misconduct by multiple government attorneys appearing before the FISA court. If the government can lie without consequence to a court charged with supervising the FBI’s surveillance of Americans, that operates as a de facto repeal of the constitutional amendment prohibiting warrantless search and seizure.^[212]

• The Motion is seeking rulings, orders and opinions issued by the Court finding any of the attorneys associated with the Carter Page FISA applications violated rules of the Court or rules governing professional conduct by attorneys.^[213]

• 23 May. Declassification order. President Trump granted Attorney General Bill Barr extensive new authorities to investigate law enforcement and intelligence activities related to the 2016 presidential election.

• The directive compels cooperation from the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, Secretary of Energy, Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the CIA.
• The Secretary of Energy's involvement is likely related to the Uranium One scandal, Clinton Foundation, and Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issues;
• The Secretary of the Treasury's involvement is likely related to the Clinton Foundation and matters related to George Papadopoulos;
• members of the intelligence community are to turn over documents to DNI Dan Coats, who in turn will give the information to Attorney General Barr. For this purpose the directive effectively places the Attorney General, a member of the IC who reports to ODNI, over the DNI who now will report all the information to the AG.^[214]
• Ultimately the final report will be addressed to the American people, not to Congress or the President.

• Svetlana Lokhova files lawsuit against Stefan Halper, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC Universal Media (MSNBC) seeking $25 million in damages.^[215][216]

• A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) returned a superseding indictment charging WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17-counts of violating the Espionage Act and one count of conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.^[217]

• 24 May. Jerusalem Post: Report: Declassified Docs Will Show That Samantha Power's 2016 Unmasking Efforts Were Related to Israel.^[218]

• After Trump's declassification directive, Jerry Nadler collapses at a press conference.

• 26 May. POLL: 98 Percent Say Brennan Is Obstructing Justice By Fighting Declassification.^[219]

• 27 May. SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner Tells Intelligence Community to Defy Barr and Democrats Will Protect Them.

• Sara Carter: Christopher Steele will not cooperate with DOG review of Russia investigation,^[220] refuses to be questioned by John Durham.
• CTH: The “Secret Research Project” – an IRS List, an NSA Database, and Resulting “Files” on Americans.^[221]

• 28 May. Margot Cleveland: Lawsuit Suggests Spying On Trump Campaign Started In Early 2016.^[222]
• CTH: The “Secret Research Project” – an IRS List, an NSA Database, and Resulting “Files” on Americans.^[223]

• FISA Court exposes Obama’s abuse of NSA to spy on Americans.^[224]
• Sara Carter: AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years.^[225]
• Chuck Ross: Dossier Architects Claimed They Wanted To Protect Identity Of Sources. One Was Unmasked Anyway.^[226]
• Epoch Times: Obama Administration’s Snooping on Journalists’ Phone Records Broader Than Previously Known.^[227]
• Daily Caller: High-Ranking FBI Official Leaked Sealed Information To Journalists, Accepted Gifts From Reporter, Watchdog Found^[228]

• 29 May. FBI: Anti-Government, Identity Based, and Fringe Political Conspiracy Theories Very Likely Motivate Some Domestic Extremists to Commit Criminal, Sometimes Violent Activity.^[229][230]

'Trump is mentioned by name briefly in the latest FBI document, which notes that the origins of QAnon is the conspiratorial belief that “Q,” allegedly a government official, “posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving ‘deep state’ actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring.”... the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.'^[231]

• 30 May. AG Barr tells CBS This Morning Mueller could’ve reached a decision on Democrat obstruction of justice allegations in the final report but declined to do so.
• Washington Examiner: Mark Meadows sends referral to DOJ about mysterious UK communique about Christopher Steele.^[232]
• 31 May. CTH: Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report.^[233]

• CTH: Doug Collins Identifies Peter Strzok as Likely FBI Official Who Leaked Grand Jury Information and Prosecution Declined.^[234]

• American Thought Leaders: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Mueller Upends Rule of Law, In Final Appearance—Sidney Powell.^[235]

June 2019

• 1 June. Hoft: Deep State Prosecutors Defy Judge's Order: Refuse to Release Transcript of Flynn-Kislyak Call that Will Confirm Obama Spying on Trump Team.^[236]

• 2 June. Epoch Times: Transcript in Mueller Report Was Selectively Edited to Cast Suspicion on Trump.^[237]
• $50,000.00 Reward in Attkisson v. DOJ nd FBI for Government Computer Intrusions.^[238]

• 3 June. IG Horowitz investigators begin interviewing Chris Steele for 16 hours over two days.^[239]

• related to follow-up interviews with Kathleen Kavalec, etc.

• Mueller 'star witness' George Nader indicted on child pornography charges.
• Trump attorney John Dowd calls Robert Mueller "a fraud" for editing his comments in Mueller report.^[240][241]
• Clinton Campaign Has Not Responded in 18 Months to Senate Judiciary Committee's Request For Documents and Answers About Dossier.^[242]
• Sara Carter: FBI Failed to Document Four Clinton Witness Interviews. Barr Should Reopen Clinton Probe.^[243]
• New York Post: Julian Assange won't face further charges in US: report.^[244]
• Trump 3-day state visit to London begins.
• 4 June. Chuck Ross: Christopher Steele Reportedly Planning To Meet With US Authorities.^[245]
• Hoft: Esteemed NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney Says He Has Evidence DNC was NOT Hacked – “The Mueller Report and the Rosenstein Indictment Is All Based on Lies!”^[246]
• Hoft: Esteemed NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney Says He Has Evidence DNC was NOT Hacked – “The Mueller Report and the Rosenstein Indictment Is All Based on Lies!”^[247]

• 5 June. Jeff Carlson: 5 Discrepancies Call the Accuracy of Mueller's Report Into Question.^[248]

• 6 June. Micheal Flynn fires lawyers.^[249] Eric Holder is employed in the same law firm of Covington and Burling.

• DOJ Releases Flynn FBI Interview Report (FD-302) by Joe Pientka and Peter Strzok.

• True the Vote Wins Battle Against IRS as Judge Orders Tax Agency to Pay Legal Fees in Decade-Long Fight.^[250][251]

• Catherine Engelbrecht and her organization True the Vote's case is connected to the political surveillance operation used against presidential candidate Donald Trump.
• The 2010 program to weaponize the IRS (Obama IRS scandal) is the precursor to the 2012 program to weaponize and abuse the NSA's FISA database.
• The Secret Research Project originated as a term in the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under Eric Holder and the FBI under Robert Mueller. Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD-ROM: The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010. The evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.^[252]
• The enforcement mechanism used for targeting includes the DOJ and various other government agencies (ATF, OSHA, EEOC, EPA Banking/Finance).
• Cause of Action (CoA) made a FOIA request to the IRS for documents shared between the IRS and the White House. The request was to gain documents illegally shared between the White House and the IRS.
• Treasury Secretary Jack Lew blocked the FOIA request from being released, an apparent conflict of interest. Lew was Wjite House Chief of Staff in 2012 when the Secret Research Project was conceived.
• FISA chief judge Rosemary Collyer determined illegal FISA abuse of the NSA database by the FBI, and Fourth Amendment violations began in 2012, and were the result of "deliberate decision making."

• John Solomon: Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source.^[253]
• Paul Sperry: 'Scorched Earth': Mueller's Targets Speak Out.^[254]

• 7 June. CNN: Judge orders FBI to reveal more parts of Comey memos.^[255]
• Bill Gertz: FBI Counterintelligence Is Focus of Trump Campaign Spying Probe.^[256]
• FBI Docs Reveal ‘Property’ Related to Hillary Clinton's Use of Private Server ‘Missing’.^[257]
• Republicans Demand Cummings Hold Cohen Accountable for ‘Perjury-Laden Testimony’.^[258]

• Elijah Cummings’s Wife Hit With New Allegations Of Self-Dealing And Perjury In Updated IRS Complaint.^[259]

• 8 June. CTH: Judge Rules FBI Must Release Declarations from Lead Mueller FBI Agent.^[260]
• Mark Meadows: FBI Knew ‘Within 60 Days’ That Russia Probe Was ‘Built On A Foundation Of Sand’.^[261]

• 10 June. Barr informs Jerrold: “It is now well established that, in 2016, the U.S. government and others undertook certain intelligence-gathering and investigative steps directed at persons associated with the Trump Campaign...there remain open questions relating to the origins of this counter-intelligence investigation and the U.S. and foreign intelligence activities that took place prior to and during that investigation...The Review is broad in scope and multifaceted, and is intended to illuminate open questions regarding the activities of U.S. and foreign intelligence services as well as non-governmental organizations and individuals."

• Jonathan Winer facilitated meetings between dossier author Christopher Steele and multiple private consulting firms. Winer served as Steele’s main point of contact to the State Department, and was the official responsible for disseminating the anti-Trump dossier through the State Department.

• Carter Page: John Dean Hearing Showed Democrats In Full Cover-Up Mode.^[262]
• Epoch Times Hezbollah's London Bomb-Making Plot, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and Bruce Ohr.^[263]

• Daily Telegraph: Iran-linked terrorists caught stockpiling explosives in north-west London.^[264]

• 11 June. FBI must begin producing documents regarding Daniel Richman, the Columbia Law School professor James Comey admitted to using as a go-between to illegally leak classified information to the New York Times.^[265]

• 12 June. NYT reports John Durham questioning CIA officials about Brennan's fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment of early January 2017.^[266]
• In House Intel hearing Devin Nunes Warns FBI Witnesses: ‘The Counterintelligence Department Over at the FBI is in Big Trouble’.
• Papadopoulos: Anyone who opposed Obama admin was targeted.^[267]
• Michael Flynn hires Sydney Powell.^{[268][269][270]}
• Donald Trump, Jr. closed door Senate Intelligence Committee testimony illegally leaked to CNN, another felony violation by Trump witch hunters.
• Jeff Carlson: Meadows: ‘There’s a Cover-up Within Certain Realms at the FBI’.^[271]
• Jeff Carlson: Nunes Details Flaws in Mueller Report, Compares It to Steele Dossier.^[272]

• 13 June. Ray McGovern: DOJ Bloodhounds on the Scent of John Brennan.^[273]

• 14 June. 23 House members suspect DOJ cover-up is in progress, request prompt declassification of FISA evidence by President Trump.^[274]
• Epoch Times: The Hezbollah Cover-Up, and Bruce Ohr Connection.^[275]

• 15 June. CTH: DOJ Admits FBI Never Saw Crowdstrike Report on DNC Russian Hacking Claim.^[276]

• 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.
• 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 team indictments, and illegal IC fake news leaks to mainstream media were based on taking the word of a hired contractor for the Democrat party.
• No evidence of 'Russia hacked the DNC'.

• Paul Sperry: House GOP leadership has soured on Comey replacement Wray. They r now convinced Wray's not part of the FBI cleanup & not cooperating w AG Barr & is in fact part of the cover-up of #SpyGate scandal after burying documents & refusing to make people available for interview.^[277]

• 17 June. Hoft: ROGER STONE Files Two Court Documents – BLASTS FBI and Mueller's False Allegations that Russians Gave DNC Emails to WikiLeaks.^[278]

• Ray McGovern: FBI Never Saw CrowdStrike Unredacted or Final Report on Alleged Russian Hacking Because None was Produced.^[279]
• DOJ Appears to Block Manafort Transfer to Rikers Island.^[280]

• 19 June. At least 15 people violated State Department rules in Hillary Clinton email scandal.^[281]
• Sara Carter: Death Threats Against Page And The Dangerous Disinformation Operation Against Trump.^[282]

• 20 June. CTH: Justice Dept. Allows Congress to View Rosenstein Scope Memos.^[283]
• Mueller Gang Used Same AP Reporters to Set Up Manafort who were Also Connected to Fusion GPS.^[284]

• TRUMP to Hannity: DOJ Working to Determine if Obama Intel Agencies Were Secretly Monitoring His Phone in 2016.^[285]

• Special Counsel Case Against Russian Company Takes A Page Out Of The Soviet Handbook.^[286]

• 21 June. FBI Raids Clinton Campaign Co-Chair's Home.^[287]
• Weissmann signs $25 million book deals.^[288]

• 22 June. Hoft: General Flynn Uncovered Massive Clinton Scandal Linked to Terrorist Funding – Was Immediately Targeted by Obama Deep State.^[289]

• 23 June. Devin Nunes Notes: “Two Parallel Tracks” Used To Target Donald Trump.^[290]
• Trey Gowdy: Mystery FBI Transcript ‘Actually Changed My Perspective’ Of Russia Probe.^[291]

• “I was supportive of [Robert] Mueller. I was supportive of the idea to initiate, to investigate what Russia did, but when I saw this transcript, it actually changed my perspective."
• FBI Was Giving Different Intelligence Briefings to Candidate Trump than to Candidate Clinton.^[292]

• New York Times fed false anti-Trump information to the FBI.^[293]

• 24. CTH: DOJ Confirms Flynn Defense Team Never Received Transcript of Flynn/Kislyak Phone Call.^[294]

• CTH: Michael Flynn Was Not “Unmasked” – Evidence Flynn Was Under Active, FISC Authorized, Surveillance.^[295]

• 25 June. Jay Sekulow: Obama administration's anti-Trump actions revealed/^[296]

• the Obama administration stepped up efforts – just days before President Trump took office – to undermine Trump and his administration.
• the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, under James Clapper, eagerly pushed to get new procedures as part of an anti-Trump effort. The procedures increased access to raw signals intelligence before the conclusion of the Obama administration, just days before President Trump was inaugurated.
• By greatly expanding access to classified information by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, the Obama administration paved the way for a shadow government to leak classified information – endangering our national security and severely jeopardizing the integrity and reputation of our critical national security apparatus – in an attempt to undermine President Trump.
• the Office of the Director of National Intelligence rushed to get the new “procedures signed by the Attorney General before the conclusion of this administration,” referring to the Obama administration.
• The documents also reveal that Robert Litt, who worked in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told the Office of the :*Undersecretary of Defense’s Director of Intelligence Strategy, Policy, & Integration: “Really want to get this done … and so does the Boss.”
• NSA officials discussed that they “could have a signature from the AG as early as this week, certainly prior to the 20th of Jan.” In other words, certainly before President Trump’s inauguration.

• CTH: Robert Mueller Will Testify July 17th – Nadler and Schiff Pretend Phony Subpoena.^[297]

• to frame the narrative for the appearance Nadler and Schiff sign a letter that “threatened” a subpoena. This subpoena letter is a prop for a pre-planned theatrical event. Only Schiff and Nadler signed the letter, no coordination with ranking members. It’s an optic to set the cornerstone for a narrative that Schiff and Nadler want Mueller’s appearance.
• the joint committee approach is also part of the strategy. With 40 members from both committees there will intentionally only be ONE ROUND of questions. The size of the committee is part of the design to protect Robert Mueller.
• Mueller was in deep discussions with Schiff and Nadler to coordinate the appearance, the letter and the size of the committee are the first two immediate flares that indicate a staged performance is being set-up.
• Politico Playbook PM: What the Mueller hearing means for Democrats.^[298]

• 26 June. ACLJ: Samantha Power Slammed Trump In Private Email Exchanges With Media During 2016 Election.^[299]
• Margot Cleveland: Michael Flynn Attorney Suggests Special Counsel Withheld Key Information From His Defense.^[300]
• Judicial Watch Caught Mueller FBI/Obama DOJ Working w/ Lois Lerner's IRS Prosecuting Conservatives.^[301]
• IWB: President Trump rips @Twitter, @Google and @Facebook for trying to rig the 2020 election against conservatives. #BigTech #censor.^[302]

• 27 June. Citizens Grand Jury indicts Robert Mueller on 9 counts.^[303][304]

• 29 June. Sundance questions for Mueller:^[305]

• On May 16, 2017, were you applying to become FBI Director?
• Why did you go to the White House?
• When did Rod Rosenstein contact you about going to the White House?
• When did Rod Rosenstein first contact you about becoming special counsel?
• Did you speak to any members of the DOJ or FBI prior to going to the White House?
• Were there conversations about a possible ‘special counsel position’ prior to May 16th, 2017?
• Were you aware President Trump was under investigation prior to your conversation of May 16th, with President Trump?
• Were you aware of the nature of the investigation, prior to May 16, 2017?
• Were you aware of the possibility of being appointed ‘special counsel’?
• Did you take any recording devices into the Oval Office meeting?
• Did you own the cell phone you left in the Oval Office on May 16, 2017?
• Between the afternoon Oval Office meeting and the next day announcement to the Gang-of-Eight by Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe, when exactly did you agree to become special counsel?
• How did Rod Rosenstein contact you between May 16, 2017 and early morning May 17, 2017, about becoming special counsel?
• Did you immediately agree to become special counsel when asked?
• How much time transpired between Rosenstein asking you to become special counsel and your acceptance of the position?

• Sharyl Attkisson: Smearing WikiLeaks.^[306]
• China hacked Hillary Clinton's Chappaqua email server; FBI never investigated.^[307]

• 30 June. Hoft: Russians Used in Steele Dossier Identified – Both are Western Intel Assets Who Do Not Live in Russia.^[308]

July 2019

• 1 July. Ratcliffe: “Horowitz Investigative Work is Complete”.
• CIA Seems Highly Concerned – Washington Post Reports on Sketchy Joseph Mifsud.^[309]

• The conversation between Mifsud and Papadopoulos, eventually relayed by Australian diplomat Alexander Downer to U.S. government officials, was cited by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III as the event that set in motion the FBI probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
• Mifsud worked with and trained FBI officials.
• Mifsud is a Western intelligence asset.^[310]

• Margot Cleveland: Here's What Republicans Should Ask Robert Mueller When He Testifies/^[311]

• there was no underlying crime to obstruct;
• Trump knew there was no underlying crime, yet the press, with the aid of leakers, pushed the collusion story, affecting Trump’s governance;
• the theories of obstruction are easily refuted;
• Mueller failed to follow the special counsel regulations that required him to make a charging or declination decision; :*the special counsel’s theory of criminal liability is debatable;
• Mueller inverted the standard governing prosecutorial decisions from a presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilty.

• Are you familiar with the regulations governing the special counsel? And 28 C.F.R. CFR § 600.8(c), expressly provides “at the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel,” doesn’t it? And when the word “shall” is used in a statute or regulation, it is a command, isn’t it? It means “must?”
• Yet, in Part 2 of the special counsel report, you did not make a “prosecution” decision, did you? And you did not make a “declination decision” did you? Would you agree, that the very prosecutorial function, and the power to convene grand juries, serves only one purpose, to determine, yes or no, whether the alleged conduct was criminal or non-criminal? Would you agree that a prosecutor’s function is not to collect information and throw it out to the public?
• when did you first realize it was unlikely that you would find evidence of collusion? When did you concluded there was no evidence of collusion? How long did you continue to investigation possible obstruction after you concluded there was insufficient evidence of collusion to recommend charges? When did you decide you would not make a prosecution or declination decision on obstruction?

• Yet, after you decide not to render a decision on obstruction, you continued to the special counsel investigation, correct?

• Would you agree that a prosecutor’s function is not to collect information and throw it out to the public?

• Mueller Failed to Investigate Whether Russia Fed Steele Info to Affect the Election
• you discussed Russia’s efforts to interfere in the election via social media in the report but you did not mention even once the possibility that Russia interfered in our election by peddling false intel to Steele, did you?
• Mueller Omitted or Misrepresented Information in the Special Counsel Report

• “Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence. But hundreds of pages of government documents—which special counsel Robert Mueller possessed since 2018—describe Kilimnik as a ‘sensitive’ intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters.”
• “In discussing Page’s background,” Weingarten wrote, “the Mueller report notes his contacts with Russian agents, who supposedly tried to recruit him as an asset, beginning in 2013. The report notes that those agents were charged by U.S. authorities in 2015. What the Mueller report omits is that Page effectively served as an FBI asset in helping the bureau make the case against at least one of the agents.”
• you highlight various individuals’ connections to Russia. Did your report also indicate whether any of those individuals had previously served as intelligence sources or informants for America or her allies? To your knowledge, did any of the individuals identified in your report as being connected to Russia also serve as intelligence sources, asset or informants for the United States?
• If an individual connected to Russia had also served as an intelligence source, assets, or informant for our country, wouldn’t that negate the sinister implication their connections to Russia might otherwise suggest? Yet those facts were not included in your report, were they?
• Mueller failed to “mention that Veselnitskaya (i) worked with Fusion GPS on behalf of Russian clients, and (ii) met with Simpson the morning of the Trump Tower meeting, as well as the night before and after it . . . Also unclear, and undisclosed, is why the Justice Department granted Veselnitskaya special entry to the United States multiple times in 2015 and 2016.”
• the special counsel references to contacts between Roger Stone and Trump campaign advisor Michael Caputo “with a Russian citizen named Henry Oknyansky. Oknyansky and an associate supposedly came to Stone by way of Caputo seeking to sell ‘derogatory information’ on Hillary Clinton. Stone rebuffed them. Left unstated: Oknyansky, according to federal court filings and 14 visa waivers, has been an FBI informant for nearly two decades.”
• There is no mention of dossier-author Steele, or Stefan Halper, the spy who made contact with both Page and campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos.
• according to Mueller, Mifsud “falsely claimed he did not meet with Papadopoulos after his initial introductory meeting” with a woman posing as Putin’s niece. Although the Mueller report noted that “emails, text messages and other documentation showed Mifsud and Papadopoulos did meet at least two other times, as Papadopoulos claimed,” the special counsel did not charge Mifsud for lying to agents
• “the Mueller report notes that ‘on May 6, 2016, 10 days after that meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulos suggested to a representative of a foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.’” But “publicly available information has always shown that Papadopoulos met with Downer on May 10th—and both Downer and the Australian government appear to stand by this date.”
• Mueller’s reliance on “the testimony of George Nader, who is mentioned more than 100 times in the Mueller report.” Nader’s role involved arranging “a meeting between Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian national who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, during the transition period following the 2016 presidential election.” While the FBI succeeded in arresting Nader when he returned to the states, the failure to charge him earlier could have instead allowed a child predator to go free.
• Then came Nader’s June 3, 2019 arrest on child pornography charges. As details emerged, it appeared that the FBI knew Nader had child pornography on his cell phones at the time he was cooperating with the special counsel team. Yet he was not indicted until after he had already left the country. While the FBI succeeded in arresting Nader when he returned to the states, the failure to charge him earlier could have instead allowed a child predator to go free.
• Which members of your team were involved in making the determination of whether to include the information in the report? And what standard did they use?

• Bias Colored Mueller’s Report and Raises Concerns About Conduct

• Were you aware when you selected Weissmann to lead your team that he had sent an email to former acting attorney general Sally Yates praising her insubordination to the president?
• And did Weissmann select the other team members? Did he have a role in selecting Peter Strzok and Lisa Page?
• Mueller sent the attorney general a “snitty” letter—likely written by a staffer—asking Barr to release the executive summary from the special counsel report. Barr refused. Soon after, the press began reporting on claims that members of the special counsel team disagreed with Barr’s synopsis of the report and claimed it was misleading. Barr later released Mueller’s letter, which acknowledged that Barr had accurately summarized the report, but that the press’ reporting was misleading.
• isn’t it true that Barr asked the special counsel’s office multiple times to identify grand jury material in the final report? Isn’t it true Barr made that request at least a month before you submitted the final report? Whom did you charge to identify grand jury materials? Did that individual inform you that he or she would not identify the grand jury materials, as Barr had directed?
• you wrote a letter to Barr complaining that Barr’s summary was being misrepresented, correct? Yet you agree, don’t you, that Barr’s letter was accurate? Was that letter your idea? Why didn’t you just call Barr? Did you leak to the press information about your disagreement with Barr? Do you know who leaked that information to the press? How many members of your team knew about the letter to Barr and your request to release the executive summaries? Who were those individuals?
• Would it be illegal for you to provide that grand jury information to Congress? So the president and attorney general cannot release an unredacted copy of your report to Congress without breaking the law, correct?

• Heather Samuelson gave the FBI and a court ordered deposition different stories of when she learned Hillary Clinton used a private email system.^[312]

• Samuelson destroyed evidence, deleted 33,000 emails, obstructed justice, and received immunity from the DOJ.^[313]

• 2 July. Oleg Deripaska Confirms He Was Employing Chris Steele in 2016, While Dossier Was Being Assembled.^[314]

• Deripaska hired Steele at the same time Steele was working with Nellie Ohr and Fusion GPS to write the Steele dossier.
• Russian oligarch's story could spell trouble for Team Mueller.^[315]
• Mueller was tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and ignored collusion between the Clinton campaign, DNC, Obama DOJ, and Oleg Deripaska.
• Deripaska is likely Christopher Steele's source for the pee-pee memo.

• In 2009 FBI director Robert Mueller requested Deripaska's assistance to retrieve former FBI officer and CIA resource Robert Levinson who was captured in Iran. The agent assigned to engage Deripaska was Andrew McCabe; the FBI was attempting to violate the Iran Sanctions Act which forbade U.S. agencies from spending money Iran. Deripaska spent $25 million of his own money.
• In September 2016 Andrew McCabe, now FBI Deputy Director, approached Deripaska again to assist framing Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort as a tool of the Kremlin as part of the FBI's "insurance policy" against Trump's election. Deripaska once invested $100 million with Manafort in a Ukrainian cable TV venture that failed. Deripaska sued Manafort, alleging he stole money (Deripaska likely paid Steele to write the pee-pee memo as revenge on Manafort). According to Deripaska, he laughed at the FBI's "insurance policy" scheme telling them: “You are trying to create something out of nothing.”
• Deripaska wanted to tell his story to the Senate Intel Committee in 2017, without immunity, but was blocked.
• In 2017 Deripaska was represented by Adam Waldman. Waldman also represented Christopher Steele. Sen. Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intel Committee, used Waldman to try and set up a secret off the record meeting with Christopher Steele, a key witness in the Senate Intel Committee's Russian interference probe. Steele refused unless a formal request came in bi-partisan form with a Republican's signature as well.
• Mueller omitted any reference to Deripaska in the Manafort indictment.
• Mueller did not disclose to Manafort's defense team his professional relationship and conflict of interest with Deripaska.

• 3 July. Sara Carter: Who is Joseph Mifsud and What's His Relation to Russia Investigation?^[316]

• 5 July. Sundance: Damn, is Bill Bar Corrupt Also? – DOJ Files New ‘Last Minute’ Motion to Keep Comey FBI Memo Content Hidden From Public….
• Catherine Herridge: Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general.^[317]

• Likely Kathleen Kavalec.

• RealClearInvestigations: CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller's Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims.^[318]

• The report claims that the interference operation occurred “principally” on two fronts: Russian military intelligence officers hacked and leaked embarrassing Democratic Party documents, and a government-linked troll farm orchestrated a sophisticated and far-reaching social media campaign that denigrated Hillary Clinton and promoted Trump.
• But a close examination of the report shows that none of those headline assertions are supported by the report’s evidence or other publicly available sources. They are further undercut by investigative shortcomings and the conflicts of interest of key players involved.^[319]

• The report's timeline of events appears to defy logic. According to its narrative, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the publication of Democratic Party emails not only before he received the documents but before he even communicated with the source that provided them. There is strong reason to doubt Mueller’s suggestion that an alleged Russian cutout called Guccifer 2.0 supplied the stolen emails to Assange.
• Mueller’s decision not to interview Assange – a central figure who claims Russia was not behind the hack – suggests an unwillingness to explore avenues of evidence on fundamental questions.
• U.S. intelligence officials cannot make definitive conclusions about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee computer servers because they did not analyze those servers themselves. Instead, they relied on the forensics of CrowdStrike, a private contractor for the DNC that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiler Christopher Steele, also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignores.
• Further, the government allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel to submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.
• Mueller’s report conspicuously does not allege that the Russian government carried out the social media campaign. Instead it blames, as Mueller said in his closing remarks, "a private Russian entity" known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
• Mueller also falls far short of proving that the Russian social campaign was sophisticated, or even more than minimally related to the 2016 election. As with the collusion and Russian hacking allegations, Democratic officials had a central and overlooked hand in generating the alarm about Russian social media activity.
• John Brennan, then director of the CIA, played a seminal and overlooked role in all facets of what became Mueller’s investigation: the suspicions that triggered the initial collusion probe; the allegations of Russian interference; and the intelligence assessment that purported to validate the interference allegations that Brennan himself helped generate. Yet Brennan has since revealed himself to be, like CrowdStrike and Steele, hardly a neutral party -- in fact a partisan with a deep animus toward Trump.^[320]

• 6 July. Two time convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein arrested on charges of sex trafficking with three dozen minors between 2002 and 2005; Epstein was an informant for Mueller's FBI.^[321] Epstein is a billionaire megadonor to Democrats.

• Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, is one of the prosecutors.

• 8 July. Margot Cleveland: How Having Mueller's No. 2 Testify To Congress Will Hurt Democrats More Than Trump.^[322]

• Clinton donor and illegal leaker Andrew Weissmann to testify in private July 18, 2019.

• Epoch Times: Will CIA Come Clean on Spygate?^[323]
• RAY McGOVERN: Ex-FBI, CIA Officials Draw Withering Fire on Russiagate.^[324]
• Hoft: Judicial Watch Uncovers Clinton Attorney Samuelson Interview with FBI – Indicates Hillary's Emails Were Altered and Other Crimes.^[325]
• OANN: Clinton Library Refuses to Hand Over Information on Bill Clinton's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein.</^[326]

• 9 July. CTH: DOJ Reverses Course in FARA Case – Calls Flynn “co-conspirator”, Doesn't Want Flynn Testimony – Judge Sullivan Intervenes.^[327]

• Sara Carter: Michael Flynn’s New Brief Shines Sunlight On Prosecutor’s Tactics.^[328]
• Chuck Ross: Prosecutors Reveal ‘Surprising Last-Minute Development’ In Case Against Michael Flynn’s Ex-Lobbying Partner.^[329]

• Daily Caller: Intelligence Entrepreneur Joel Zamel Speaks Out For First Time Since Mueller Investigation/^[330]
• The Federalist: New Report: Mueller Lacks Substantiating Evidence Of Russian Election Interference.^[331]
• IWB: The Justice Department's Inspector General Doesn't Need to Delay Issuing the Report on FBI Abuse of the FISA Court.^[332]
• Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich rebuked Robert Mueller and the DOJ for falsely suggesting the IRA (Internet Research Agency) and Concord Management and Company, the so-called Russian troll farms, were linked to the Russian government.^[333]
• Politico reports: Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling.^[334]
• Paul Craig Roberts: Does Trump Have the Balls to Hold the Deep State Accountable?^[335]

• 10 July. Larry C. Johnson: Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling.^[336]
• Emoluments Clause Case Against Trump Dismissed.^[337]

• 11 July. DOJ Attorney Says Russian Government Had Nothing To Do With Troll Farms.^[338]

• A newly released transcript reveals details of a humiliating hearing that took place the day before Robert Mueller’s puzzling press conference.

• 12 July. Realclearinvestigations: Isikoff Spins His Own Russian Conspiracy Theories—Again.^[339]

• 13 July. CTH: Flynn Case Highlights Multiple 2016 “Insurance Policy” Motives by DOJ and FBI Operatives.^[340]

• 14 July. Nunes warns Barr: Without prosecutions none “will trust the FBI or DOJ for generations”.^[341]

• “These are all a bunch of dirty cops”
• Weissman was briefed on the Steele dossier in the summer of 2016
• Weissmann’s early involvement with the chain of custody, according to legal advice Nunes received, effectively disqualified him from serving on Mueller’s team.

• 15 July. Hoft: Developing: Obama and His Italian Friend Renzi Suspected of Spying on Trump and Using Italian State Secrecy Decree to Cover It Up.^[342]
• Lawsuit Claims Julian Assange Confirmed DNC Emails Received From Seth Rich – Not a Russian Hack.^[343]

• Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in transferring emails to Wikileaks, according to an amended lawsuit filed this morning on behalf of Mr. Butowsky. Although Ms. Ratner appears on Fox News, she is by no means a Republican or a conservative, and her role in the Seth Rich saga (like that of journalist Sy Hersh) obliterates the Democratic narrative.^[344]

• Billionaire Thiel: Google ‘seemingly committing treason’ with Chinese military; calls for federal investigation into spies and more.^[345]

• 16 July. Tracy Beanz: New information from Ed Butowski.^[346][347]
• Daily Caller: House Republicans Request Documents From Investigation Into Embattled Washington D.C. Democrat Jack Evans.^[348]

• 17 July. Peru Ex-President Arrested in U.S. Bizarre Clinton Foundation Connection.^[349]

• True Pundit: FBI Rocked By Public Suicide of TOP FBI Agent Who Investigated Clinton Foundation;^[350] New York Post: FBI agent brother to cop accused of murder-for-hire plot, dead by suicide: sources.^[351]

• 18 July. Margot Cleveland: Here’s Your Guide To The Latest Wild Developments With Michael Flynn.^[352]

• “You are asking my client to lie,” Michael Flynn’s new defense attorney Sidney Powell charged in a contentious June meeting with federal prosecutors. Flynn would continue to cooperate with prosecutors, Powell stressed, but he could not provide the testimony the government sought at the July trial of Flynn Intel Group (FIG) co-founder Bijan Rafiekian, “because it is not true.”
• Soon after, the government filed a motion in Rafiekian’s case, branding Flynn a co-conspirator and informing the court that Flynn would no longer testify against his former business partner.
• Margot Cleveland: Judge Orders Ethics Training For Michael Flynn’s Former Lawyers.^[353]

• 19 July. Margot Cleveland: Latest Development In Flynn Case Proves Special Counsel Was A Cover For Taking Down Trump.^[354]

• George Nader, key Mueller witness and informant in the Russia probe, indicted on child pornography charges.^[355]

• 21 July. CTH: IMPORTANT – Video Confirms Butowsky Lawsuit Claim: Julian Assange Told Ellen Ratner DNC Emails Received From Seth Rich – Not a Russian Hack.^[356]
• CTH: Bizarre Status of Flynn Partner Trial – FARA Prosecution in Tenuous Disposition.^[357]
• Hoft: Update: Obama Deep State Spy Stephan Halper Was Paid Over $1.05 Million — His Work Spying on Trump Officials Went Well Into 2017/^[358]

• 22 July. Paul Sperry: Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Evidence Comey Probed Trump, on the Sly.^[359]
• Politico: Trump met with Nunes to talk intel chief replacements.^[360]
• Sundance: IG Report Delay, Declassification and Investigative Timeline.^[361]
• John Solomon Outlines More Documented DOJ Corruption by Special Counsel Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.^[362]

• 23 July. John Solomon: How Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann's offer to an oligarch could boomerang on DOJ.^[363]

• Andrew Weissmann offered to drop fabricated charges in their entirety if Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash would lie under oath saying Trump was being financed by Russia.

• Pelosi issues 6 page Mueller Blitz DNC/media talking points.^[364]

• Statement by Sidney Powell, attorney for Michael Flynn, on the Bijan Rafiekian case.^[365]

• RAY McGOVERN: A Non-Hack That Raised Hillary’s Hackles.^[366]

• IWB: Mueller, Meddling and the Routing of the Russia-Gate Narrative.^[367]

• Mueller’s conclusion was held up by two tent poles:

• 1) A Russian oligarch purchased facebook ads, and,
• 2) Russia hacked the DNC servers.

• 1) In early 2018, Mueller sold a DC grand jury on producing indictments against a Russian outfit called the Internet Research Agency and its parent company Concord Management, owned by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin for the so-called election meddling. The indictment was celebrated as a huge coup at the time by the likes of CNN and The New York Times, styled as a silver bullet in the heart of the Trump presidency. But the indicted parties were all in Russia, and could not be extradited, and there was zero expectation that any actual trial would ever take place — leaving Mueller & Co. off-the-hook for proving their allegations.
• To the great surprise of Mr. Mueller and his “team,” Mr. Prigozhin hired some American lawyers to defend his company in court. Smooth move. It automatically triggered the discovery process, by which the accused is entitled to see the evidence that prosecutors hold. It turned out that Mr. Mueller’s team had no evidence that the Russian government was involved with the Facebook pranks. This annoyed Judge Friedrich, who ordered Mr. Mueller and his lawyers to desist making public statements about Concord and IRA’s alleged “sweeping and systemic” collusion with Russia, and threatened legal sanctions if they did.
• 2) But the other tentpole of the two-year-plus inquisition has also collapsed: the allegation that Russian intel hacked the DNC servers. It’s now a matter of public record that the DNC servers were never examined by federal officials. They were purportedly scrutinized by a DNC contractor called CrowdStrike, co-founded by Russian Dimitri Alperovitch, an adversary of Vladimir Putin, active in US-based anti-Putin lobbying and PR. CrowdStrike’s “draft” report on their review of the server was laughably incomplete, and the Mueller team’s lawyers took no steps to validate it.
• It would be interesting to hear Robert Mueller’s explanation for how come US computer forensic experts were never dispatched to take possession of the DNC servers.

• 24 July. Mueller bombs in House testimony.

• Former FBI deputy assistant director Terry Turchie says the hearing confirmed a hostile intelligence operation was mounted against Trump.^[368]

• Jeffrey Epstein put on suicide watch.

• 25 July. Barr reinstates death penalty;^[369] peripheral figures in the Deep State coup plot begin coming forward to Horowitz and Durham.
• Joe di Genova: "John Brennan was the tip of the spear. This was his conspiracy from day one. John Brennan, don’t forget that name. He’s at the end of this entire, he’s at the beginning of the entire conspiracy."^[370]

• Attorney for Maria Butina writes Durham and Horowitz regarding Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com.^[371]

• Byrne had an intimate relationship with the Russian gun right’s activist and libertarian, Maria Butina. Byrne has a low level security clearance related to work at Worldstock.com^[372] and the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Byrne first met Butina at Freedom Fest 2015. Byrne reported the encounter with the FBI in July 2015 after his first meeting with Butina. FBI encouraged Byrne to maintain contact with Butina and an explicit “green light” to meet with her.
• Byrne informed the FBI that Maria’s behavior and interaction with him was inconsistent with her being a foreign agent and more likely an idealist and age-appropriate peace activist.
• At some point prior to the 2016 election, when Byrne’s contact with Maria diminished or ceased, the government asked and encouraged him to renew contact with her and he did so, continuing to inform the government of her activities. Byrne states he was informed by government agents that his pursuit and involvement with Maria (and concomitant surveillance of her) was requested and directed from the highest levels of the FBI and intelligence community.”
• As Byrne became more and more convinced that Maria was what she said she was—an inquisitive student in favor of better U.S.-Russian relations—and not an agent of the Russian government or someone involved in espionage or illegal activities. He states he conveyed these thoughts and the corroborating facts and observations about Maria to the government.”
• Byrne met twice with DOJ attorneys in April, 2019 giving a total of seven hours of interviews on the separate occasions.
• FBI denied it had any Brady material -exculpatory information – that the bureau may have collected from Byrne on Butina during the trial. FBI denied it had any information regarding Byrne and Butina’s relationship.
• Byrne’s decision to come forward happened after watching what transpired between the FBI, the intelligence community and the probe into President Trump’s campaign over the past several years. “It was something I knew I had to do,” he told this reporter. “Those running the operation were not honest and in the end I realized I was being used in some sort of soft coup.”
• in 2005. Byrne launched a massive campaign against hedge fund market manipulation and the possibility they were going to crash Wall Street (see Naked Short Selling). Some financial giants, along with members of the media (see Wikipedia#Wordbomb Saga), were chomping at the bit to destroy him, he recalled. It wasn’t until the market crashed in 2008 and he won his battle in court that those enemies backed off.

• Joe di Genova: The Durham investigation has caused "people to flock back to Horowitz to correct their testimony," extending Inspector General Horowitz's FISA abuse investigation.^[373]
• di Genova and Toensing: Mifsud has been interviewed by Horowitz and Durham.

• Chuck Ross: Prosecutors Reveal New Child Sex Allegations Against Key Mueller Witness.^[374]
• CTH: Comey Memo Update: DOJ Requests More Time to Respond – More Effort to Block Release.^[375]

• 26 July. New York Times Samuel Moyn, Yale law professor Op-ed: The Mueller Fantasy Comes Crashing Down.^[376]

• “In the hours and days after Mr. Mueller gave his opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee it became clear how tenaciously many liberals and progressives are clinging to fantasy.”

• Margot Cleveland: Mueller’s Ignorance Of Fusion GPS Proves His Investigation Was A Sham.^[377][378]
• Hemingway And Harsanyi: Does Robert Mueller Know What’s In His Own Report?^[379]
• Senate Intel Panel Releases First Chapter of Report Into Russian Interference – Says No Votes Were Changed.^[380]
• DOJ’s Russia probe review focusing on 'smoking gun' tapes of meeting with Trump aide: sources.^[381]

• Sara Carter: Russia Probe Twist: A Billion Dollar CEO, A Convicted Russian Agent And The FBI.^[382]

• Now they tell us: Story says Mueller was hands off, short on stamina.^[383]
• Mike Adams: The Robert Mueller IMPLOSION: It’s time for Barr and Trump to prosecute the deep state traitors, or the American people will never regain any faith in the justice system.^[384]

• 27 July. Trump Reveals He Gave Attorney General Bill Barr Authority to Release Declassified Spygate Documents to Devin Nunes.^[385]
• THE UPDATED LIST: 130 Times the FBI, DOJ and/or Mueller Gang “Deviated from Standard Practice” or Committed Crimes in Efforts to Exonerate Hillary and Indict President Trump.^[386]
• Papadopoulos tweets: "Senior democrats are in Italy today after Obama, Putin visited and Salvini was in DC. Lots of activity for little Italy. You know why Italy has all of a sudden become so popular among the great powers? Mifsud was working on behalf of Italian spy agencies and then farmed out."^[387]

• 28 July. Ratcliffe nominated to replace of Coats as DNI.^[388]
• John Ratcliffe: Sad But True… Mueller Report was Written by Hillary Clinton’s De Facto Legal Team.^[389]
• Bartiromo to Devin Nunes: “Who is the mastermind behind all of this?”^[390]
• Brennan Visited Europe in November 2016 After US Presidential Election.^[391]
• Papadopoulos Reveals Suspicious Businessman Who Gave Him $10,000 Is Deep State CIA Asset.^[392]
• Barr's Russiagate Origin Probe Pivots To 'Smoking Gun' Tapes With Exculpatory Evidence.^[393]
• Update: Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI for government computer intrusions.^[394]

• 29 July. Comey is Under Investigation – John Huber Investigating Comey Memos – Memos Possibly to be Released This Week.^[395]
• Joe diGenova: “Declassified documents will be released this week … by Wednesday” (July 31st).^[396][397]
• Thomas Paine: FBI Braces for Durham’s First Intel Drop; ‘No One Is Safe’.^[398]
• 7 Times Robert Mueller Played Dumb Before Congress For Partisan Advantage.^[399]
• Soft Coup and Impeachment Crew React to Removal of Dan Coats.^[400]
• Brennan Spooked After Deep State DNI Chief Dan Coats Resigns – Attacks Ratcliffe as “Servile Trump Loyalist”.^[401]
• WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: The Weissmann Witch Hunt.^[402]
• Russia collusion hoax COLLAPSES following Robert Mueller’s disastrous “testimony”.^[403]

• 30 July. Clinton appointed judge rules Russia was not in collusion with Wikileaks.^[404]

• DNC emails published by Wikileaks were legally published.^[405]

• Why the Mystery of Russiagate Hinges on the Mystery of Joseph Mifsud.^[406]
• John Solomon: Chris Wray's FBI continues to cover for Team Comey's Russia shenanigans.^[407]
• Ousting of DNI Dan Coats is Start of Major Trump Shake-Up to Rock Intelligence Community.^[408]
• The Economist: Jeffrey Epstein Will be Killed in Jail.^[409]

• 31 July. Two FBI Agents Picked Up Comey Memos From His House Day Before Senate Testimony.^[410]

• Likely Strzok and Pientka.

• CTH: Reconciling John Solomon’s Reporting on Comey.^[411]
• Interview with Ed Butowsky.^[412]
• Guardian: Secret McCabe Texts With MI-5 Counterpart Emerge, Spotlighting UK's Early Role In 'Russiagate'.^[413][414]
• CTH: The Crossover – China Views Lack of ‘Spygate’ Accountability as Evidence of Trump’s Weakness.^[415]

August 2019

• 1 August. Report: DOJ IG Referred James Comey For Criminal Prosecution For Leaking Classified Information.^[416]
• RAY McGOVERN: DNI Nominee Intent on Getting to Bottom of Russiagate.^[417]

• 2 August. Uniparty-dominated SSCI kills Ratcliffe DNI nomination. Deep State wants an insider, not an outside reformer, as intelligence community head.

• SSCI was complicit in the coup attempt.
• Coats resignation and Ratcliffe's nomination was due to the IC's non-compliance with President Trump's declassification order of May 23, 2019 to Attorney General William Barr. The declassification order put the DNI beneath the Attorney General. Coats has not complied with the order to produce documents from John Brennan's CIA exposing CIA's role in 2016 election interference and the subsequent coup plot.
• Rosenstein wants Coat's flunky, DNI deputy Sue Gordon to hold the line in stonewalling the Presidential declassification Executive Order, preventing transparency and reform.^[418]

• DOJ Files Motion to Block Court Order Forcing Release of “Archey Declarations” (Comey Memos).^[419]
• Nunes: I believe James Comey will be held accountable.^[420]
• “My Testimony in Front of Senate Should be Interesting” – Papadopoulos Fires Warning Shot at Jim Comey and Conspiracy Peddlers at Washington Post.^[421]
• Consortiumnews: WATCH: CN Live! Kim Dotcom, Bill Binney, Mike Gravel.^[422]

• 3 August. Rod Rosenstein Contacted Mueller About Special Counsel 14 Hours After Comey Fired.^[423]

• 4 August. Maria Bartiromo interview with Trey Gowdy.^[424]
• FITTON:GIANT Week: FBI Will Produce Bruce Ohr 302 reports on his contacts with Clinton-DNC-FBI spy Christopher Steele to Judicial Watch by Thursday.^[425]

• 5 August. DECLASSIFIED: Why the Mifsud Story Matters.^[426]
• Barr Has Far Bigger Things To Prosecute James Comey For Than Leaking Memos.^[427]
• Russiagate Comes to Italy.^[428]

• 6 August. Judge Paves Road to Trial for Ex-Obama Counsel.^[429]

• federal judge refused Tuesday to block the trial of Greg Craig, former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, on charges that he misled the government about his work on a secret Ukrainian government campaign linked to Paul Manafort.
• the ruling sustains the allegation that Craig willfully lied to the Justice Department to avoid registering as a foreign agent.
• The government’s allegations, arising from the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, involve Craig’s private-sector work in 2012 with the law firm Skadden Arps.
• Federal prosecutors accuse Craig of lying about his role in developing a report in collaboration with Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, to calm public backlash against the Ukrainian government over the arrest of Orange Revolution leader Yulia Tymoshenko in 2012. “In or about early 2012, in the face of the international criticism regarding Tymoshenko’s trial, Ukraine engaged the law firm and Craig, as lead partner, to conduct an independent inquiry into whether, under Western standards of justice, Tymoshenko had received a fair trial, and to prepare a report based on that inquiry.”
• Judge Amy Berm,an Jackson also oversaw the prosecution of Manafort, lightly veiled in the indictment as the lobbyist Craig worked with on the Tymoshenko report. “Ukraine planned to deploy the report as part of a strategy headed by an American lobbyist whom Ukraine had employed to, among other things, improve Ukraine’s international public image,” the indictment continues.:*Prior to joining the Trump campaign, Manafort acted as a lobbyist for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
• Former Manafort associate Rick Gates is set to testify against Craig next week, with federal prosecutors indicating that he will be swiftly sentenced following his cooperation.
• “Defendant cannot support a contention that he was ‘singled out for prosecution from among others similarly situated;’ at least three others have been charged with making false statements to the Department of Justice or the Special Counsel’s Office with respect to work done in connection with the Ukraine,” the judge’s order states.
• Judge Jackson's Ruling

• Sara Carter: Peter Strzok Sues FBI For Reinstatement Claiming ‘Unrelenting Pressure’ From Trump.^[430]
• Judicial Watch obtains records of 14 referrals of FBI employees for leaking classified information.^[431]
• PATRICK LAWRENCE: Finally Time for DNC Email Evidence.^[432]

• 7 August. Paul Sperry: Mueller Tied to Double Deception: First in Court, Then Before Congress.^[433] In the case of U.S. vs. Concord Management,

Mueller may have perjured himself before Congress in his sworn testimony with an untruthful answer about why he held an earlier press briefing.

• court documents suggest Mueller may have made his May 29 press conference as damage control after a federal judge threatened to hold the Mueller team in criminal contempt of court over what she called misleading language in the Mueller Report about Russian government interference in the 2016 election. Under oath before Congress, Mueller denied the judge’s action had anything to do with the May 29 press conference.
• In the the May 29 press conference, Mueller stressed that the Russians he indicted were “private” entities and "presumed innocent." Mueller didn’t tell the country that the day before, Judge Dabney Friedrich: ordered Mueller to stop overstating evidence of Kremlin-directed interference.
• On May 28, Judge Friedrich called attorneys prosecuting the case into her courtroom for a closed hearing. Friedrich agreed with one defendant’s claims that Mueller had overstated the evidence when he implied in the Mueller Report to Congress that the trolls were controlled by the Russian government and that the social media operations they conducted during the 2016 presidential campaign were directed by Moscow. News organizations had seized on the highly suggestive wording in his report to report they were part of a Kremlin-run operation. Concerned that the Mueller Report could prejudice a jury and jeopardize the defendants' right to a fair trial, Friedrich ordered the special prosecutor to stop making such claims and “to minimize the prejudice moving forward” — or face sanction.
• “The government shall refrain from making or authorizing any public statement that links the alleged conspiracy in the indictment to the Russian government. Willful failure to do so in the future will result in the initiation of contempt proceedings.”
• The judge explained that Mueller’s report improperly referred to the defendants’ “social media operations” as one of “two principal interference operations in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections” carried out by the Russian government. She also pointed out that he also referred to their Internet trolling as “active measures” — a term of art that typically includes operations conducted by Russian intelligence to influence international affairs. She said this was a departure from the government’s original February 2018 indictment, which “does not link the defendants to the Russian government" and “alleges only private conduct by private actors."
• Friedrich further directed the prosecution to make clear that its allegations are simply that and “remain unproven.” She also admonished Mueller’s team from expressing "an opinion on the defendant’s guilt or innocence."
• The next day, May 29, Mueller's statement at the Department of Justice press podium apparently mollified the judge. In a recently unsealed July 1 opinion, Friedrich wrote that Mueller had “demonstrated” the government had complied with her order with his statements to the media. “In delivering his remarks the special counsel carefully distinguished between the efforts by 'Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military' and the efforts detailed ‘in a separate indictment’ by ‘a private [italics in original] Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens [italics in original] posed as Americans in order to interfere in the election.’”
• Mueller's hastily assembled press briefing room headed off a public rebuke by the judge hearing one of the signature indictments of Mueller’s 22-month investigation.
• When Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee on July 24 Rep. Tom McClintock asked him about the may 29 press conference, pressing him on whether the real reason he called it was to “retroactively” soften allegations he made in his report to comply with Judge Friedrich's demands a day earlier. In spite of documentary evidence suggesting otherwise, Mueller flatly stated that the court order had nothing to do with his calling the news conference, implying that the timing was just a coincidence.
• U.S. vs. Concord Management, TRANSCRIPT OF MOTIONS HEARING BEFORE THE HONORABLE DABNEY L. FRIEDRICH UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE, May 28, 2019.
• U.S. vs. Concord Management, Memorandum, Opinion and Order, July 1, 2019.

• Sara Carter: Top FBI Deputy Assistant Director Who Leaked To Media Revealed: DOJ Declined Prosecution.^[434]

• 9 August. Judicial Watch obtains 12 Bruce Ohr 302 interviews.^[435]
• Andrew McCabe Files Federal Civil Lawsuit Against DOJ and FBI – Claims Trump Carried Out “Unconstitutional Plan” Against Him.^[436]
• Trump Announces Departure of Deputy DNI Sue Gordon – Former Admiral Joseph Maguire Will Serve as Acting DNI.^[437]

• Maguire comes from his current position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The NCTC was first organized by John Brennan, and is suspected that this part of the intelligence apparatus ties directly into the 2015/2016 FISA abuse. This is laid out in the 99-page opinion from FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer who also noted that none of this FISA abuse was accidental in a footnote on page 87: “deliberate decisionmaking“: This specific footnote, if declassified, would be key. Note the phrase: “([redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding entered into [redacted])”, this sentence has the potential to expose an internal decision; withheld from congress and the FISA court by the Obama administration; that outlines a process for access and distribution of surveillance data. Note: “no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016“, that is important.^[438]
• This was a weaponized surveillance and domestic political spying operation. The trail was laid down in specific detail by Judge Collyer.^[439]

• Trump tells reporters "we’re dealing with the [ SSCI ] committee and Senator Burr."^[440]
• In the March 2017 text message you can see SSCI vice chair Sen. Mark Warner attempting to set up covert “no paper trail” communication with dossier author Christopher Steele. Adam Waldman represented Chris Steele and Steele’s employer, Oleg Deripaska. Less than a month later Steele is in direct contact with Dan Jones. “[Chris] said Dan Jones is coming to see you” etc.
• Dan Jones raised $50 million from those who were behind the 2016 stop Trump effort, and the purpose was now the 2017 removal effort. Jones having left Sen Dianne Feinstein's staff on the SSCI (now outside govt.) then paid Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS to keep up their efforts. Jones was now talking in person (“coming to see you”) to SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner in April 2017.
• The role of Fusion-GPS in 2017 shifted, and was now weighted toward feeding a specific media narrative that would aid impeachment through the FBI, Andrew Weissmann and Mueller obstruction theory.
• The SSCI was heavily involved in the impeachment effort after the election. Secondary documentation of the connection between the DOJ, FBI, Fusion, and Dan Jones shows up in the FBI investigative 302 notes of Bruce Ohr, May 8th, 2017, interview – pg 18, 19 of pdf. Bruce Ohr is talking about Dan Jones efforts as they were currently aligned with Fusion GPS: “and had been on the staff of the [Senate Intelligence Committee]”…. “At the time of the interview [Jones] was working with the [Vice Chairman of the Committee Mark Warner]”.^[441]

• Twitchy:‘It’s like they’re trying to get out in FRONT of something’: Timing around McCabe and Strzok’s lawsuits against govt. very telling.^[442] Posturing to claim Durham indictments are political payback.
• Margot Cleveland: Here’s Your Guide To Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s Lawsuit Demanding His Job Back.^[443]

• DECLASSIFIED: Did Brennan Perjure Himself in Denying Use of Steele Dossier?^[444][445]

• Brennan’s Role In Russia Collusion Hoax Becomes Clearer.^[446]

• 10 August. Jeffrey Epstein dead in his jail cell a day after unsealed pedophiliac allegations against Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, and other global elite socialists and Democrats made public.^[447]
• Spygate Indictments Coming, Says Former Intelligence Operative Tony Shaffer.^[448]

• 11 August. Sara Carter: Two Tiered System Of Justice: Top FBI Officials Escape Prosecution, While Others Pay Heavy Price.^[449]

• 12 August. Court orders unredacted Comey Diaries to be made public.^[450]

• The Comey Diaries are a roadmap of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump, including names of sources.

• Greg Craig trial begins.^[451]
• Bruce Ohr relayed at least four dubious claims to the FBI that he received from Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson.^[452]
• Sara Carter: Overstock CEO Turned Over Docs To DOJ ‘on FBI’s Russian and Hillary Clinton Probes’.^[453]

• Patrick Byrne: 2016 FBI Activity Was “Political Espionage”.^[454]

• Consortiumnews: Russiagate is Dead, but for the Political Establishment, it is Still the New 42.^[455]
• Jeffrey Epstein Attorney: He Was Concerned For His Life.^[456]

• 13 August. RAY McGOVERN: Seth Rich’s Ghost Haunts the Courts.^[457]
• RealClearInvestigations: Victoria Nuland Tells All on Steele Dossier ... Not.^[458]
• Sara Carter: Exclusive: Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ.^[459]

• 14 August. Adam Lovinger cleared.^[460]
• CTH: Comey Memo FOIA Update: CNN Files Motion Demanding Immediate Production – DOJ Says 60 Days.^[461]
• Katie Pavlich: Judicial Watch Finds Documents Showing Fusion GPS Working Directly With Obama's DOJ to Frame Trump.^[462]

• Grassley, Johnson Release Investigative Findings on Alleged Hack of Clinton’s Server by China.^[463]

• Finance Committee and Homeland Security Majority Staff letter to Sens. Grassley and Johnson.^[464]
• Staff from the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s office (ICIG) witnessed efforts by senior Obama State Department officials to downplay the volume of classified emails that transited former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized server. The revelations corroborate concerns raised early in the email classification review that State Department officials sought to use lower-level FOIA exemptions to prevent the release of emails that other experts deemed to be classified.
• The classified interview was conducted jointly by staff for then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in December 2018. Staff for the committees’ ranking Democrats, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), also participated in the interview, which stemmed from news reports in August 2018 that China may have been able to hack the server. To investigate the allegations, committee staff interviewed Frank Rucker and Jeanette McMillian of the ICIG. Rucker was tasked in 2015 with protecting classified intelligence community equities during the State Department’s FOIA review of the server’s contents. He alerted the FBI to suspicious activity on the server that may have been evidence of an intrusion.
• Paul Combetta, who administered the server and used software designed to prevent forensic recovery while deleting Clinton’s emails, refused to cooperate with the Justice Department Inspector General (DOJ IG) and Congress.^[465]
• Documents Show Hillary’s Server Was Compromised, Emails Forwarded To Chinese Email Account.^[466]
• Senate Judiciary Committee released documents that contain information that verifies Clinton had all her emails copied and forwarded to a Chinese companies' email account in real time.
• Paul Combetta created "carterheavyindustries@gmail.com" on August 20, 2012. He used it to transfer all of Clinton's emails to the PRN server in early 2014.^[467]
• every email sent and received on Clinton’s home brew server was copied to an email address registered to the Chinese company named Carter Heavy Industries.
• Clinton deliberately put emails on an unsecured server were all being sent to CarterHeavyIndustries [CHI] email account, and then forwarded from there to a [Platte River Networks] PRN server.
• Jeannette McMillian, an attorney for the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), told Congress that this email with the name of a Chinese company appeared to serve as a "live dropbox" for all of Clinton's emails. McMillian told Congress that the Carter Heavy Industries email address in the Clinton-email metadata was set up to receive a copy of every email sent and received as they were sent, even if the intended addressee was different.
• Strzok ignored Chinese anomaly on Clinton server. Frank Rucker, the ICIG investigator, and Jeanette McMillian, an ICIG attorney, told the FBI about the anomaly on Hillary Clinton's email server on February 18, 2016, at a meeting which included Peter Strzok, who had just taken over as the section chief heading the investigation. Rucker told Congress that Strzok was “aloof and dismissive” and didn’t ask many questions.^[468]
• Son of the Clintons’ pastor, Paul Wogaman, worked for the ICIG at the time and is suspected of leaking. Wogeman is now employed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.^[469]
• Intelligence Community Inspector General investigators harassed and threatened. Strange Jeep Followed ICIG Investigators Probing Hillary Email Scandal – Investigator’s House Broken Into, Computers Stolen, Trash Rummaged Through. ^[470]
• Obama’s White House ran the Weiner laptop investigation.^[471]

• JUDICIAL WATCH: NEW DOJ DOCS SHOW NELLIE OHR SENT DOJ/FBI ANTI-TRUMP RUSSIA DOSSIER MATERIALS THROUGH HER HUSBAND BRUCE OHR.^[472]

• Project Veritas releases video on Google whistleblower Zach Vorheis and Google's harassment and intimidation of Vorheis.^[473]

• 15 August. Jeff Carlson: FBI Documents Detailing Bruce Ohr Conversations Shed New Light on Spygate Scandal.^[474]
• Hoft: SMOKING GUN!….. SHOCKING FOIA DOCUMENT Shows FBI Agreed to Cover Up and Ignore All Hillary Crimes in Its 2016 Investigation.^[475]

• on June 20, 2016 the FBI signed off on a deal with Hillary Clinton’s attorney’s that gave Hillary’s team the right to destroy computers and emails. It also gave immunity to all of the people on Hillary’s team that participated in obstruction of justice.
• On that same day, Jim Comey signed off on a separate memo that decided not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. The fix was in more than a month before Jim Comey appeared on camera to try to explain why he was not recommending prosecution of Hillary for putting Top Secret information on her unclassified server.

• 16 August. DECLASSIFIED: Who Read Clinton's Emails?^[476]

• OAN: FBI ignored warnings about Clinton server.:^[477]

• Larry C. Johnson: The Unraveling of the Failed Coup to Take Out Trump.^[478]
• Judicial Watch: Nellie Ohr Claimed She Wasn’t Involved w/ Trump Targeting—New #SpyGate Docs Show SHE DID.^[479]
• 17 August. Chuck Ross: FEC Chief Supported Russia-NRA Campaign Finance Probe Based Solely On ‘Vague’ News Article.^[480]

• FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, acknowledged she supported investigating possible Russian funding for the National Rifle Association based solely on an anonymously-sourced McClatchy news article published in January 18, 2018 (see Maria Butina FARA case).
• The Mueller Report found not Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
• FusionGPS funneled false information to McClatchy and the FBI.
• After Trump’s election victory, Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele began working with a non-profit group called The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP).
• Daniel Jones, the TDIP founder, told the FBI during a March 2017 interview that he had received $50 million in funding from a small group of New York and California billionaires to continue an investigation into Russian meddling and Trump.
• Jones said that one task for his group was to provide information to lawmakers, law enforcement agencies, and the media.
• TDIP paid Fusion GPS more than $3.3 million in 2017. The group paid Steele another $250,000.

• New York Times board member apologizes for Jeffrey Epstein ties.^[481]
• 18 August. Lindsey Graham says Horowitz FISA report will be 'ugly and damning' for DOJ.^[482]
• 19 August. CTH: Assisted Suicide Avoidance – John Brennan Intel Asset Joseph Mifsud “Gave Audio Tape Deposition Before Going Into Hiding”.^[483]
• 20 August. JUDICIAL WATCH: FEDERAL COURT ORDERS HEARING ON DOCUMENTS TYING BRUCE OHR TO FUSION GPS.^[484]
• Public interest in the Mueller report is already fading as the media shifts narratives to help defeat President Trump.^[485]

• 21 August. Epoch Times: Focus in Spygate Scandal Shifts to CIA, Former Director Brennan.^[486][487]
• Epoch Times: Mifsud’s Lawyer: Former Italian Minister Nudged Mifsud to Introduce Trump’s Aide to Russians.^[488]
• America First with Sebastian Gorka: Obamagate: The biggest scandal in our history. 3 hours on the plot to subvert Donald Trump.^[489]
• Christopher Wray Fights to Delay Release of Strzok-Page Text Messages Until AFTER 2020 Election.^[490]
• A federal court ordered a hearing for Thursday, August 22, 2019, on the Clinton email issue. On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”

• The court ordered discovery into three specific areas: whether Secretary Clinton’s email use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA; whether the State Department’s intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s request. Judicial Watch deposed nearly a dozen witnesses and will seek addition witnesses and documents from the court, including the deposition of Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff at State and personal lawyer who directed the destruction of 33,000 State Department Clinton emails. Lawyers for Clinton and Mills are expected at the hearing Thursday.^[491]
• Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison at the State Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, admitted under oath that she was granted immunity by the Department of Justice in June 2016.
• In the interrogatory responses of E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, he stated that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President.
• Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, testified that both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to conduct official State Department business.

• Laura Loomer Wins Appeal, Will Face Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple In DC Circuit Court Of Appeals Over Censorship.^[492]

• 22 August. Comey FBI Willfully Ignored “Highly Classified” Hillary Clinton Emails.^[493]
• Overstock CEO Resigns Amid Fallout Over ‘Deep State’ Comments.^[494]
• Sidney Powell letter to Adam Schiff in response to June9, 2019 HPSCI subpoena.^[495]

• 23 August. Details Behind Patrick Byrne Allegations of FBI “Political Espionage”.^[496]

• Patrick Byrne: Brace for Re-entry.^[497]

• 26 August. CNN hires Deep State coup plotterAndrew McCabe as a fake news analyst; McCabe was fired in 2018 for lying three times under oath to investigators and referred for criminal prosecution.

• CTH: Bill Barr’s Test – U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu Punts McCabe Indictment Decision Back to Main Justice.^[498][499]

• DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has punted the decision on whether to indict former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe back to Main Justice, via Deputy AG Jeffrey Rosen.
• Liu’s DC office was responsible for not prosecuting the Awan Brothers;
• Liu’s office was responsible for covering up the leaking of the classified FISA application by SSCI Director of Security James Wolfe.

• CTH: Request for Stay – DOJ Stalls For More Time Before Forced Production of Comey Memos.^[500]

• 27 August. Joe DiGenova: "IG Horowitz has Concluded ALL FOUR FISA Warrants to Spy on Trump Campaign and Administration Were Illegal".^[501]
• Benjamin Wittes: ”You should thus expect charges against McCabe to be forthcoming any day. And if such charges don’t happen, that doesn’t mean they weren’t planned but, rather, that some extrinsic event has intervened”^[502]
• CTH: DOJ Stall Succeeds – Comey Memo/Archey Declaration Update – Expect Nothing Until After October 11th.^[503]

• 28 August. Byron York: Justice Department inspector general has done separate report on James Comey.^[504]
• Joe diGenova Discusses Upcoming IG Report on James Comey.^[505]

• 29 August. Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey's Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda.^[506]

• "we conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement. (page 3)"
• Comey failed to return Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 after being removed as FBI Director.
• Comey improperly disclosed FBI documents and information.
• Comey failed to immediately alert the FBI to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
• None of the members of Comey's senior leadership team agreed with or defended Comey's view that these Memos were personal in nature. Instead, McCabe, Baker, Priestap, and Rybicki each told the OIG that they considered the Memos to be records of official FBI business between the President and the FBI Director. McCabe described the Memos as a “record of [Comey's] official engagement with the President”; Baker told the OIG that Comey's Memos “were discussed in the office in connection with [Comey's] official responsibilities”; and Priestap characterized the Memos as FBI work product “produced by the Director in his capacity as Director.” After Comey was removed, the Memos were uploaded to the FBI's case management system in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation and Rybicki took steps to ensure that the original Memos were inventoried and preserved with the rest of the Director's official records.
• "We found it particularly concerning that Comey did not tell anyone from the FBI that he had retained copies of the Memos in his personal safe at home, even when his Chief of Staff, the FBI's Associate Deputy Director, and three SSAs came to Comey’s house on May 12, 2017, to inventory and remove all FBI property." (page 55)

• First Review of IG Report on James Comey – The Substance Within the Report Shows a Two-Tiered Justice System.^[508]
• Byron York and Rep Doug Collins Discuss IG Report on James Comey Conduct.^[509]
• Rosenstein Slams Comey For His Corruption, Abuse of Power.^[510]
• Grassley: Comey’s ‘Self-Serving Abuses Of Power’ Did ‘Great Harm’ To FBI.^[511]
• Epoch Times: Comey Leaked Classified Information, Violated FBI Policies, DOJ Watchdog Concludes.^[512]
• Sen. Graham's declassification request list to AG Barr.^[513]

• 30 August. Flynn finally erupted Friday at prosecutors, his legal team accusing top Mueller officials of "malevolent" conduct and withholding evidence relate to Strzok/Page/Ohr/Steele, etc.^[514]

• "[Andrew] Weissmann and Ms. [Zainab] Ahmad while at DOJ in 2016-17 were working with Bruce Ohr (then the fourth highest ranking member of DOJ) to feed information from his wife Nellie at FusionGPS and British citizen Christopher Steele to the FBI through his secret back-channel. This was happening after the FBI terminated Mr. Steele as a paid informant because he was keeping the press informed of his “findings.” FusionGPS, Steele, and Ms. Ohr were all working for the Clinton campaign. In addition, Ms. Ohr worked for the CIA. The entire operation is further compromised by the fact that the second agent who interviewed Mr. Flynn along with former agent Strzok, was Bruce Ohr’s contact with the FBI and conducted numerous debriefings of Mr. Ohr—passing along to the FBI the corrupted and false information from the Ohrs, Steele, and FusionGPS. That agent may also have joined Special Counsel’s team. Weissmann and Ahmad were not in the DOJ chain of command to be informed by Mr. Ohr at all. They had no legitimate reason to be privy to his operation with FusionGPS and Christopher Steele. Remarkably, despite this involvement, Mr. Weissmann and Ms. Ahmad then went directly to the Special Counsel team, along with Strzok and possibly the second agent, thereby calling into question the entire investigation with their illicit involvement with Ohr and Steele. Closing the circle, Ahmad was co-counsel with Van Grack in the prosecution of Mr. Flynn. It is imperative the defense obtain the Bruce Ohr 302s and notes—unredacted—and all evidence of this circuitous and illicit operation."

• Devin Nunes: “We Have Briefed DOJ on Eight Criminal Referrals – Two for Criminal Conspiracy”.^[515]
• KEVIN BROCK: The worst is still to come for Jim Comey.^[516]
• Jeff Carlson: Highlights From the IG’s Report on Former FBI Director James Comey.^[517]
• Jeff Carlson: Focus in Spygate Scandal Shifts to CIA, Former Director Brennan.^[518]
• Court Gives JW New Clinton Email Discovery, Anti-Trump Coup Exposed in Comey/IG Report And More.^[519]

September 2019

• September 1. Jeff Carlson: Comey’s Trump Tower Meeting Was Used For FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation.^[520][521]

• Comey’s testimony to Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector Michael Horowitz directly counters what he had testified to Congress about his January 6, 2017 briefing of President-elect Trump.
• Comey had testified to Congress that he “was briefing [Trump] on it because, because we had been told by the media it was about to launch. We didn’t want to be keeping that from him. He needed to know this was being said. I was very keen not to leave him with an impression that the bureau was trying to do something to him.”
• Comey told the inspector general that the information he obtained from his conversation with Trump “ought to be treated…[like] FISA derived information or information in a [counterintelligence] investigation.”
• Comey only informed Trump of the “salacious” details contained within the dossier because “that was the part that the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about.”^[522]

• When questioned by the House Intelligence Committee, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at first denied leaking the information to Jake Tapper of CNN about Trump being briefed on the "salacious" material by Comey, but ultimately acknowledged having done so.
• The HPSCI report on Russian Active Measure in the 2016 Election says “Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’ a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’ the highly-classified version of the ICA [Intelligence Community Assessment]." The ICA contained two pages of the false "salacious" material from the Steele dossier.”^[523]
• On Jan. 10, 2017, CNN published the article “Intel Chiefs Presented Trump With Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him.” The allegations within the dossier were made public, and with reporting of the briefings by intelligence community leaders, instant credibility was given to the dossier’s assertions. Immediately following the CNN story, BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier, and the Trump–Russia conspiracy was pushed into the mainstream.^[524]
• On the following day, Jan. 11, 2017, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, Clapper issued a formal statement where he noted his “profound dismay at the leaks” and denied that the leaks came from within the Intelligence Community.
• Comey, Clapper, and others conspired with President Obama in the Oval Office on Jan. 5, 2017 to publicly embarrass President-elect Trump with with false information from the Steele dossier. The very fact that the briefing itself took place provided the "news hook" CNN was looking for to publicize the unverified information.

• Hoft: Corrupt US Attorney Jessie Liu Was Involved in Mueller Cases Where Evidence Withheld from Defendants -Now She’s Involved in Decision on Whether to Indict Crooked Andrew McCabe.^[525]

• 2 September. The Comey-Brennan Conspiracy To Violate Trump’s Civil Rights.^[526]
• Sara Carter: Lindsey Graham: FISA Warrant Applications Should be Released to Public.^[527]

• 3 September. Margot Cleveland: Michael Flynn’s Attorney Accuses Feds Of Hiding Exculpatory Information About His Case.^[528]
• Sharyl Attkisson: 10 things James Comey did wrong, according to the Inspector General.^[529]
• Tom Fitton: Comey IG Report Shows That President Trump is a Coup Crime Victim!.^[530]

• 4 September.Andrew McCabe is the keynote speaker for a Pennsylvania Democratic Party keynote fundraiser.^[531]

Sharyl Attkisson: What happened to all of the secrets President Trump ordered to be declassified?^[532]

• Devin Nunes sues FusionGPS and Campaign for Accountability.^[533]
• Townhall: Nunes Files Racketeering Lawsuit Against Fusion GPS And Campaign For Government Accountability.^[534]
• The Nation: What We Still Do Not Know About Russiagate.^[535]

• why did Western intelligence agencies, prompted, it seems clear, by US ones, seek to undermine Trump’s presidential campaign?
• All of the major pro-détente episodes in the twentieth century had been initiated by Republican presidents: Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan.
• the repeatedly hapless Comey seems incapable of having initiated such an audacious operation against a presidential candidate, still less a president-elect....John Brennan and James Clapper, head of the CIA and Office of National Intelligence under Obama respectively, are the more likely culprits.
• Are Barr and Durham, whose own careers include associations with US intelligence agencies, determined to uncover the truth about the origins of Russiagate? And can they really do so fully, given the resistance already apparent? Even if so, will Barr make public their findings, however damning of the intelligence agencies they may be, or will he classify them? And if the latter, will President Trump use his authority to declassify the findings as the 2020 presidential election approaches in order to discredit the role of Obama’s presidency and its would-be heirs?
• how will mainstream media treat the Barr-Durham investigation and its findings? Having driven the Russiagate narrative for so long and so misleadingly—and with liberals perhaps finding themselves in the incongruous position of defending rogue intelligence agencies—will they credit or seek to discredit the findings?
• a truly bipartisan, independent investigation based in the senate, as was the Church Committee of the mid-1970s, which exposed and reformed (it thought at the time) serious abuses by US intelligence agencies. That would require, however, a sizable core of non-partisan, honorable, and courageous senators of both parties, who thus far seem to be lacking.
• Russiagate is about the present and future of the American political system, not about Russia. (Indeed, as I have repeatedly argued, there is very little, if any, Russia in Russiagate.)

• 5 September. Jerry Dunleavy: ANALYSIS: Mueller and Horowitz reveal Fusion GPS role in both Trump Tower meetings.^[536]

• FusionGPS information made its way into both the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting cited by Mueller and the January 2017 Trump Tower meeting cited in Horowitz's Comey report.

• 7 September. 14 Strange Facts in the Flynn Case.^[537]

1. Flynn’s trip to Russia in 2015, where it was claimed Flynn went without the knowledge or approval of the DIA or anyone in Washington, was proven not to be true.
2. Flynn was suspected of being compromised by a supposed Russian agent, Cambridge academic Svetlana Lokhova, based on allegations from Western intelligence asset Stefan Halper. This was also proven to be not true.
3. Flynn’s phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were framed as being incredibly shady and a potential violation of the Logan Act. This allegation was always preposterous.
4. Unnamed intelligence officials leaked the details of the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls to The Washington Post.
5. FBI agents Peter Strzok and Joseph Pientka were dispatched by Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to interview Flynn at the White House, even though the FBI had already reviewed the transcripts of the calls and cleared Flynn of any crimes.
6. Both FBI Director James Comey and McCabe testified to Congress that Flynn didn’t lie.
7. Despite what McCabe and Comey both testified to under oath before Congress, the Mueller special counsel’s office decided to prosecute Flynn for perjury in November of 2017.
8. The very strange post-dated FD-302 form on the FBI’s January 2017 interview of Flynn that wasn’t filled out until August 2017, almost seven months afterward, is revealed in a court filing by Flynn’s defense team.
9. FBI agent Pientka became the “DOJ’s Invisible Man,” despite the fact that Congress has repeatedly called for him to testify. Pientka has remained out of sight and out of mind more than a year and a half since his name first surfaced in connection with the Flynn case.
10. Judge Rudolph Contreras was removed from the Flynn case immediately after accepting Flynn’s guilty plea and was replaced by Judge Emmit Sullivan.
11. Sullivan issued what’s known as a Brady order to prosecutors–which ordered them to immediately turn over any exculpatory evidence to Flynn’s defense team. Flynn’s team then made a filing alleging the withholding of exculpatory evidence.
12. Flynn was given a chance to withdraw his guilty plea by Judge Sullivan but refused, and insisted to go forward with sentencing.
13. Flynn suddenly fired his lawyers for the past two years and hired Sidney Powell to lead his new legal team following special counsel Robert Mueller’s disastrous testimony to Congress. And now, the latest startling development:
14. Flynn filed to have the Mueller prosecution team replaced for having withheld exculpatory evidence, despite Sullivan having directly ordered them to hand any such evidence over months ago.^[538]

• 8 September. Jeff Carlson: DOJ Emails Reveal Internal Response to ‘Wiretap’ Allegations Against Rosenstein.^[539]

• 9 September. Sara Carter: Justice Department Seeks McCabe’s Text Messages On FBI Probe. What Could It Reveal?^[540]
• Schiff letter to Michael Flynn.^[541]
• Red State: CNN Russian Spy Exfiltration Story Trips All The Bull**** Alarms On Two Continents.^[542]

• 10 September. Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell Return to Court – Powell Confirms Rosenstein Authorized Targeting of Flynn Jr. for Leverage.^[543]

• Chuck Ross: Flynn Lawyer Argues Case Should Be Dismissed Over ‘Egregious Government Misconduct’.^[544]
• Flynn's interview with the FBi in which he is accused of lying was arranged by then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and conducted by Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence official who was fired for political bias. Flynn’s lawyers have argued that the government failed to provide Strzok’s text messages as exculpatory evidence under the Brady rule.
• Brian Cates: Latest Filing in Flynn Case Exposes Strzok and His Complete Lack of Credibility.^[545]
• Sara Carter: Flynn’s Counsel Says Schiff’s Demands Are ‘transparently pure harassment’.^[546]

• Jeff Carlson: Media Reveal Existence of Russian Source for Trump–Russia Allegations Amid Ongoing John Durham Investigation.^[547]

• ED MORRISSEY: WaPo, NYT: Contra CNN, Trump Was Not The Reason CIA Exfiltrated Asset From Russia.^[548]
• Twitchy: ‘Fusion GPS Hustle’: Timeline of who met who and WHEN in buildup of CNN’s latest Trump/Russia ‘exclusive’ is ALL so damning.^[549]
• Jeff Carlson twitter thread on Jim Sciutto and CNN's fake news Russiagate redux scam.^[550]
• CIA's Kremlin agent was a 'lackey' who drank too much and complained about his pay, claim furious Russians as he is revealed to have swapped two-room Moscow apartment for $925,000 Virginia home.^[551]
• CNN’s Jim Sciutto is still pimping his debunked ‘CIA Russian spy scoop’ (with some help from Brian Stelter, of course).^[552]
• Townhall: GOP Rep Wants Investigation Into Shoddy CNN Spy Story.^[553]

• 11 September. Judge Sullivan grants Flynn motion to compel the Mueller team's production of evidence and motion to show cause why it should not be held in contempt. US v Flynn; Case no 17-232-EGS; unsealed Motion to Compel the Production of Brady Material and for an Order to Show Cause.^[554] Among the 40 bullet points, the motion requests:

• The unredacted Page-Strzok text messages as well as text messages, emails and other electronic communications to, from, or between Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, John Carlin, Aaron Rouse, Carl Ghattas, Andrew Weissmann, Tashina Gauhar, Michael Steinbach, [redacted], and Zainab Ahmad, regarding Mr. Flynn or the FISA applications or any surveillance (legal or illegal) that would have reached Mr. Flynn’s communications.
• Any Sally Yates 302s or other notes that concern Mr. Flynn, including treatment of her meetings with FBI Agents on January 24 and 25, 2017, her meetings with anyone in the White House, and the draft 302 of the Flynn interview on January 24 she reviewed or was read into.
• Information identifying reporters paid by Fusion GPS and/or the Penn Quarter group to push “Russia Collusion,” communications regarding any stories about Mr. Flynn, and any testimony or statements about how the reporters were used by the government regarding Mr. Flynn.
• Any information regarding the SCO’s [Special Counsel Office] and DOJ’s destruction of the cell phones of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (after being advised of the thousands of text messages that evidenced their bias) that has been classified or otherwise not available to the public from the published Inspector General Report.
• Any information regarding eradication of cell phone data, texts, emails, or other information belonging to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that created the “gap” identified by the IG.
• Information about any parts of any polygraph examinations failed by Peter Strzok after Mr. Flynn was first the subject of any FBI investigation—authorized or unauthorized.
• All FBI 302s, notes, memoranda of James Clapper regarding Mr. Flynn, and the cell phone and home phone records of Mr. Clapper and David Ignatius between December 5, 2016, and February 24, 2017.
• The government should be ordered to produce the documents listed in this motion and to preserve all documents including phones, texts, and emails of all Special Counsel team members; that the government be ordered to show cause why the prosecutors in this matter should not be held in contempt for their failures to produce all information pursuant to this Court’s Standing Order of February 16, 2018; and that after hearing and full consideration of the facts and law, this Court find the prosecutors in contempt for their failure to respect and abide by this Court’s order...
• ORDER: "it is hereby ORDERED that said motion is GRANTED. The government is hereby ORDERED to show cause why it should not be held in contempt for its violations of this Court’s Standing Brady Order...The government is also ordered to take all steps necessary to preserve all forms of electronic communications, cell phones, and computers of all members of Special Counsel team and the Department of Justice or FBI who communicated with Lisa Page and/or Peter Strzok, whose devices were destroyed. The government is also ordered to preserve all documents that mention Mr. Flynn.

• Chuck Ross: Rod Rosenstein Authorized Mueller To Investigate Flynn’s Son, Sidney Powell Says.^[555]
• Margot Cleveland: Michael Flynn’s Lawyer Explains Why She Needs To View Documents The Government Hasn’t Turned Over.^[556]

• Jeff Carlson: Russian Spy Revelation Raises Questions on CIA Information, Potential Links to Steele Dossier.^[557]

• The Federalist: What Is Really Behind The Deluge Of Leaks About The Extradited Spy?^[558]
• Obama, Not Trump, Outed Russian Spy.^[559]

• 12 September: Sara Carter: U.S. Attorney moving forward with charges against McCabe Based On IG Report Findings.^[560]

• U.S. Attorney for DC, Jessie Liu, will likely indict former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for lying to FBI investigators. The reporting is based on leaked email communications from the lawyers representing Andrew McCabe, where McCabe’s legal appeals to Main Justice and current DOJ Deputy Attorney General James Rosen were rejected.
• Gregg Jarrett: Malevolent McCabe’s appointment with justice is imminent.^[561]

• Chuck Ross: Senators: State Department Watchdog Investigated Christopher Steele Meeting, But Failed To Interview Key Participants.^[562]

• State Department inspector general investigated the October 11, 2016 meeting between Christopher Steele, Jonathan Winer, and Kathleen Kavalec.
• The meeting was arranged by Jonathan Winer. The DOS inspector general reviewed whether Winer “complied with Department policy and regulation on intelligence gathering” and whether he “violated classification protocol.”^[563] A State Department employee was also referred to the standing Office of Special Counsel for “anti-Trump political conduct” that may have violated the Hatch Act, the law that prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on the job.
• The DOS inspector general never interviewed Kavalec or Winer.
• The DOS inspector general failed to release a report of its investigation.

• Steele told a State Department official a former Russian spy chief and a top Kremlin adviser were involved in an operation to collect compromising information on Donald Trump. The State Department official’s notes also indicate Steele claimed the Russians, Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov, were “sources” for the dossier. There is no evidence the compromising material mentioned in the dossier actually exists, raising questions about whether Steele was given disinformation.
• Trubnikov, the former head of the SVR, also has links to Stefan Halper, an FBI informant who had contact with the Trump campaign.

• Margot Cleveland: Sidney Powell’s Latest Motion In Michael Flynn’s Case Is A Russiagate Bombshell.^[564]

• Powell’s bigger plan is to expose the breadth and depth of SpyGate and how flaying Michael Flynn lay at the heart of the soft coup attempt.
• Powell requested “any information, including recordings or 302s, about Joseph Mifsud’s presence and involvement in engaging or reporting on Mr. Flynn and Mifsud’s presence at the Russia Today dinner in Moscow on December 17, 2015.”
• Powell requested “All payments, notes, memos, correspondence, and instructions by and between the FBI, CIA, or DOD with Stefan Halper—going back as far as 2014—regarding Michael Flynn, Svetlana Lokhova, Mr. Richard Dearlove (of MI6), and Professor Christopher Andrew (connected with MI5) and Halper’s compensation through the DOD Office of Net Assessment as evidenced by the whistleblower complaint of Adam Lovinger, addressed in our brief.”
• DECLASSIFIED: Flynn’s Legal Offensive Pushes for Spygate Disclosure.^[565]
• Fitton: Rosenstein Coup Plan Involved Wearing a Wire, Invoking 25th Amendment.^[566]

• 13 September. Chuck Ross: DOJ Inspector General Has Completed FISA Abuse Probe.^[567]
• Chuck Ross: Andrew McCabe’s Lawyer Wants To Find Out What The Grand Jury Is Up To.^[568]

• Andrew McCabe’s defense attorney, Michael Bromwich (also the attorney for ‘beach friend’ Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh smear), leaks his communication with U.S. Attorney for DC, Jessie Liu, to the New York Times.

• the Lawfare alliance includes: former FBI legal counsel James Baker (DOJ), former DOJ-NSD lawyer David Laufman (who also represented Monica McLean, Blasey-Ford’s FBI bestie and narrative engineer friend), former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman; Lawfare head Benjamin Wittes; James Comey’s leaking buddie Daniel Richman; Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen; criminal defense attorney Barry Berke; and a host of current and former FBI and DOJ foot-soldiers.
• Fusion GPS is part of the Lawfare network as a distribution hub for research information needed by the journalists who are writing on behalf of the Lawfare need. Ezra Klein’s “Journo-List”; the email group of 400+ reporters for multiple media outlets who collectively collaborated on stories.
• James Comey, FBI Legal Counsel James Baker, Comey memo recepient Daniel Richman, Deputy AG Sally Yates, Comey friend Benjamin Wittes, FBI lead agent Peter Strzok, FBI counsel Lisa Page, Mueller lead Andrew Weissmann and the Mueller team of lawyers, all of them -and more- are connected to the Lawfare group; and this network provides the sounding board for all of the weaponized approaches, including the various new legal theories we saw outlined within the Weissmann-Mueller Report.
• The Lawfare continuum is very simple. The corrupt 2015 Clinton email scandal exoneration; which became the corrupt 2016 DOJ/FBI Trump-Russia investigation; which became the corrupt 2017 DOJ/FBI Mueller probe; is currently the 2019 “impeachment” plan. Weissmann and Mueller delivered their report to evolve the plan from corrupt legal theory into corrupt political targeting.

• The purpose of Bromwich's letter Jessie Liu is to push information gained within the Lawfare network into the media narrative. It is transparently obvious that Lawfare allied lawyers who left the U.S. Attorneys Office in DC are leaking what they know to the Lawfare allied members on McCabe’s defense.
• Bromwich cannot directly say he is aware of Grand Jury evidence, because such information would be illegal to acquire. However, current and former DOJ officials can leak to the New York Times and Washington Post, and Bromwich can then cite the reporting on those leaks. Everyone knows the game, the bastardization of justice is all done with an internal wink and a nod.
• Pushing this information into the public sphere supports the objective of the defense; however, the Lawfare alliance cannot admit how they gained that information -leaks from allies inside the DOJ- because that would be illegal.
• Leaks to the NYT and WaPo are how the Lawfare alliance push their narrative. These are the same DOJ/FBI officials who leaked to the same media when constructing the Russian Conspiracy narrative around the 2016 Trump campaign. The same exact people.^[569]

• 14. September. Scott Ritter: The Spy Who Failed.^[570]

• There was a Russian spy whose information was used to push a narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; this much appears to be true.
• Everything else that has been reported is either a mischaracterization of fact or an outright fabrication designed to hide one of the greatest intelligence failures in U.S. history — the use by a CIA director of intelligence data specifically manipulated to interfere in the election of an American president.
• The consequences of this interference has deleteriously impacted U.S. democratic institutions in ways the American people remain ignorant of — in large part because of the complicity of the U.S. media when it comes to reporting this story.

• 15 September. Judicial Watch: Docs Reveal State Dept Rushed To Get Classified Info To Anti-Trump Senators Before Inauguration Day.^[571]
• CTH: Lawfare Group Begins Delegitimizing Supreme Court.^[572]

• 585 Days Since Susan Rice Email Was Exposed – Content Still Redacted, Why?^[573]

• 16 September. Chuck Ross: Ex-Comey Aide Describes How FBI Chief Prepared For Infamous Trump Tower Meeting.^[574]

• 17 September. Nunes: Horowitz Will Likely Find All Four FISA Warrants Against Page Were Illegally Obtained.^[575]

• 18 September. Comey referred for criminal prosecution.^[576]

• Rep. Meadows: Comey’s Congressional Testimony At Odds With What He Told IG Horowitz, New Referral Needed.^[577]

• 19 September. Rod Rosenstein offered to be anonymous source for leaks.^[578]
• Sharyl Atkisson: Indicting a Sandwich (Podcast).^[579]

• 20 September. Margot Cleveland: The Russian Spy Who Wasn’t? Defamation Case Accuses U.S., U.K. Intelligence Of Using Michael Flynn For Spygate Hoax.^[580]

• 22 September. Devin Nunes: Biden’s campaign likely coming to an end, thanks to Clinton-linked Ukraine bombshell.^[581]

See also

• List of names in the Obamagate scandal
• James Wolfe indictment
• Spygate
• Mueller show trials

References

External links

• The Spygate Project

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