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The [[DOJ]] side of the operation was conducted within the National Security Division headed by [[John P Carlin]]. The DOJ-NSD could use the NSA/FBI database and pass information to, and receive information from, Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ official [[Bruce Ohr]]. Nellie was hired by FusionGPS immediately after [[NSA]] Dir. Admiral Mike Rogers shut down the FBI ‘contractor’ use of the system. Nellie would be the go-between. On May 23, 2016, she received a technician-level amateur radio license.<ref>http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?licKey=12382876&archive=Y</ref> There was speculation about timing given her cybersecurity knowledge, was Nellie Ohr hoping to use non-cyber short wave communications to hide her participation in that nefarious effort from the NSA? <ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/03/02/fusion-gpss-anti-trump-researcher-avoid-surveillance-ham-radio-license/</ref>

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455036/new-york-times-trump-russia-collusion-narrative-reset-george-papadopoulos-carter-page</ref><ref>httphttps://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/joseph-mifsud-trump-russia-investigation/index.html</ref>

httphttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367141-congressional-investigators-find-irregularities-in-fbis-handling-of</ref>

*President Trump calls for prosecution of [[Huma Abedin]].<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/01/02/jail-trump-wants-huma-locked-up-for-emails-and-investigation-into-comey/?utm_source=site-share</ref>

httphttps://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/367541-fbi-launches-new-clinton-foundation-investigation</ref>

*Comey’s original draft a references the FBI working on a joint assessment with the [[intelligence community]] about possible [[national security]] damage from the classified information that passed through Clinton’s nonsecure email servers. “We have done extensive work with the assistance of our colleagues elsewhere in the Intelligence Community to understand what indications there might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the private email operation,” Comey originally wrote. The reference to the rest of the intelligence community was edited out in the May 16, 2016 the revised memo.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/policy/national-security/367528-comeys-original-clinton-memo-released-cites-possible-violations</ref>

*'''7 January.''' Washington DC Press Corps knew for a full year Hillary Clinton was behind the ''Steele dossier'' and hid it from the public. Paul Sperry reported "DC press corps suppressed for full year the fact that Clinton campaign paid for the anti-Trump Russia dossier. Journalists knew Clinton behind dossier as early as September 2016 & kept mum, reporting dossier’s allegations as if they were legitimate intelligence!” Shortly after the [[Washington Post]] published their bombshell in mid-October revealing Hillary Clinton’s camp paid for the dossier, prominent New York Times reporters came forward claiming they were lied to by Hillary’s people. When NY Time reporter Kenneth Vogel questioned Clinton’s campaign lawyer, [[Marc Elias]], he pushed back “vigorously” saying Vogel's sources were wrong.<ref>httphttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/dc-press-corp-knew-full-year-hillary-clinton-behind-russia-dossier-yet-still-reported-document-legit-intel/</ref>

*'''8 January.''' Reports say House Intel Cmte. has now received all DOJ & FBI documents on the ''Steel dossier''.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/01/08/exclusive-house-intel-information-has-received-all-docs-on-trump-dossier-from-doj-and-fb-i/?utm_source=site-share</ref> Only Rep. Trey Gowdy, John Ratcliffe, Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte reviewed the original FISA documents.

*Ken Dilanian, an NBC reporter identified as one source who frequently helps FusionGPS disseminate stories for its clients.<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/01/10/10-takeaways-from-glenn-simpsons-fusion-gps-senate-testimony/</ref> FusionGPS also paid reporters from the New York Times, ABC, NBC, Washington Post, Yahoo News, The New Yorker, and Mother Jones (David Corn) to disseminate Hillary Clinton's [[disinformation]].

*[[Obamagate]] worse than [[Watergate]].<ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/18/worse-than-watergate-shocking-house-intel-memo-allegedly-reveals-fisa-abuse-by-senior-doj-and-fbi-officials/</ref><ref>https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/classified-russian-memo-obamagate.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=on_site_share&utm_medium=onsite</ref>

*Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to Fusion GPS.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/releasethememo-stop-robert-muellers-mission-creep/?utm_source=site-share</ref>

*Loretta Lynch knew well in advance of FBI Dir. James Comey's 2016 press conference that he would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton, according to a new information turned over to the Senate Homeland Security Committee.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/370019-was-lynch-coordinating-with-comey-in-the-clinton-investigation</ref>

*Unsealed FISA court ruling shows 85% of Obama’s FBI and DOJ 704-5 FISA searches were illegal and illegally provided to government outsiders. A Report was released in April 2017 that received no publicity until recently. The report was a ruling on the results of an investigation or audit into FISA searches made by Obama’s FBI and DOJ during Obama’s time in office. The report shows Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated in widespread criminal searches and criminal sharing of data with non authorized entities outside of government.<ref>httphttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/unsealed-fisa-court-ruling-shows-85-obamas-fbi-doj-704-5-fisa-searches-illegal-illegally-provided-government-outsiders/</ref>

*Friend of James Comey who leaked sensitive FBI memos to the ''New York Times'' in the wake of Comey’s firing in May 2017 now claims to be Comey’s personal attorney. Daniel Richman, a law professor at [[Columbia University]], refused to disclose when exactly he became Comey's attorney. Comey was interviewed by Mueller's office in 2017. According to the ''New York Times'', the line of questioning focused on memos that Comey wrote and later leaked after he was fired from his job by President Trump. Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote in a letter to the DOJ on January 3 that at least one of the memos Comey provided to his friend was classified. “My staff has since reviewed these memoranda in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the FBI, and I reviewed them in a SCIF at the Office of Senate Security, The FBI insisted that these reviews take place in a SCIF because the majority of the memos are classified. Of the seven memos, four are marked classified at the ‘SECRET’ or ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ levels. If it’s true that Professor Richman had four of the seven memos, then in light of the fact that four of the seven memos the Committee reviewed are classified, it would appear that at least one memo the former FBI director gave Professor Richman contained classified information.”<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/01/23/comey-friend-leaked-fbi-memos-now-claims-attorney/</ref>

*'''24 January.''' Victims of the Obama criminal gang in the DOJ and FBI consider suing for financial damages and lost job opportunities. Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign aide, said “It appears as if the FBI and Department of Justice were weaponized against the president and his associates, including me. I was informed I was unmasked and surveilled....This investigation has destroyed many lives and drained many bank accounts. If the FBI or the DOJ indeed broke the law, a group of us plan to sue to recover the damage to our families and businesses.” Caputo was forced to liquidate his children’s college fund to pay for legal representation. "It’s just not fair, just because Hillary Clinton failed in her quest to become president of the United States.” J.D. Gordon, a former Trump campaign national security adviser, said “The Trump-Russia scandal is not just the hoax of the century… it’s also the crime of the century. Over the past year, we’ve witnessed a high-tech coup in action against President Trump accompanied by a widespread defamation campaign against dozens of Trump Associates."<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/01/24/michael-caputo-doj-suing/?utm_source=site-share</ref>

*'''25 January.''' Sen. Grassley asks [[DNC]], [[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]], [[Donna Brazile]], [[Hillary for America]] (HFA), [[John Podesta]] and HFA Chief Strategist Joel Benenson to provide for the period from March 2016 through January 2017 all communications to, from, copying, or to: [[Fusion GPS]]; Bean LLC; [[Glenn Simpson]]; [[Mary Jacoby]]; [[Peter Fritsch]]; [[Tom Catan]]; Jason Felch; [[Neil King]]; David Michaels; Taylor Sears; Patrick Corcoran; Laura Sego; Jay Bagwell; Erica Castro; [[Nellie Ohr]]; [[Rinat Akhmetshin]]; Ed Lieberman; [[Edward Baumgartner]]; Orbis Business Intelligence Limited; Orbis Business International Limited; Walsingham Training Limited; Walsingham Partners Limited; [[Christopher Steele]]; Christopher Burrows; Sir Andrew Wood, Paul Hauser; [[Oleg Deripaska]]; [[Cody Shearer]]; [[Sidney Blumenthal]]; [[Jon Winer]]; [[Kathleen Kavalec]]; [[Victoria Nuland]]; [[Daniel Jones]];<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/is-a-former-feinstein-staffer-running-fusion-gpss-post-election-russia-dossier-operation/</ref> [[Bruce Ohr]]; [[Peter Strzok]]; [[Andrew McCabe]]; [[James Baker (DOJ)|James Baker]]; [[Sally Yates]]; [[Loretta Lynch]]; [[John Brennan]].<ref>https://saraacarter.com/referral-suggests-clinton-friends-feeding-british-spy-information/</ref>

*Daniel John Sobieski of the ''[[American Thinker]]'' writes, {{Quotebox|who would have the most to gain? As we await release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo regarding the collusion between the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DOJ, and FBI to interfere with the [[2016 presidential election|2016 election]], ensure the election of Hillary, and the defeat or [[impeach]]ment of Donald Trump, the answer to that question is clear -- one [[Barack Hussein Obama]].<br><br>Can it be believed that as key players in the Obama administration like Strzok and Page, as well as FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, number 4 at Justice Bruce Ohr, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and many others were linked in a vast criminal conspiracy to keep Hillary Clinton out of prison and Donald Trump out of the White House, that Barack Obama was blissfully unaware of all this? ...<br><br>This scandal did not occur in a vacuum any more than did the weaponizing of the [[IRS]] to target the [[Tea Party]] and other [[conservative]] groups before Obama’s [[2012 presidential election|2012 reelection campaign]] occured in a vacuum. The agencies under Obama’s control have been politicized before and used to intimidate and destroy his political opponents...<br><br>in April, 2016, President Obama gave an interview in which he seemed to have foreknowledge that Hillary Clinton would be exonerated for her “carelessness” and did not “intentionally” mishandle classified emails, words that Comey would use just a few months later...In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Mr. Obama seemed to prejudge the outcome of the ongoing inquiry into Mrs. Clinton’s email scandal, and he disputed the notion that any of the emails contained classified information of true importance. "She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy,” he said. “What I also know is that there’s classified and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret, and then there’s stuff that is being presented to the president, the secretary of state, you may not want going out over the wire.”…<br><br>...we now see how Obama’s pledge that politics would not taint the investigation was a bald-faced lie. This confidence in her exoneration was shared by Mrs. Clinton, who also seemed to have foreknowledge that the fix was in: The FBI is investigating the matter, and while Mrs. Clinton has virtually promised she will not be indicted, the scandal still hangs over her presidential ambitions...“That is not going to happen,” she told NBC News when asked if she would be indicted. “There is not even the remotest chance that it’s going to happen.”<br><br>''[[National Review]]'' Contributing Editor Andrew McCarthy has long argued that Obama was the ringleader in obstructing justice in the Hillary email investigation: "From the first, these columns have argued that the whitewash of the Hillary Clinton-emails caper was President Barack Obama’s call -- not the FBI’s, and not the Justice Department’s… The decision was inevitable. Obama, using a pseudonymous email account, had repeatedly communicated with Secretary Clinton over her private, non-secure email account....If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the Clinton -- Obama emails would have been in the spotlight. For the prosecution, they would be more proof of willful (or, if you prefer, grossly negligent) mishandling of intelligence. More significantly, for Clinton’s defense, they would show that Obama was complicit in Clinton’s conduct yet faced no criminal charges."<br><br>...a draft dated June 30, 2016 (i.e., five days before Comey delivered the final version), contained a passage expressly referring to a troublesome email exchange between Clinton and Obama. (I note that the FBI’s report of its eventual interview of Clinton contains a cryptic reference to a July 1, 2012, email that Clinton sent from Russia to Obama’s email address. See report, page 2.) The passage in the June 30 draft stated: ''We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. That use included an email exchange with the President while Secretary Clinton was on the territory of such an adversary. [Emphasis added.] Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.''<br><br> On the same day, according to a Strzok–Page text, a revised draft of Comey’s remarks was circulated by his chief of staff, [[Jim Rybicki]]. It replaced “the President” with “another senior government official.” So not only were edits made to Comey’s draft memo to hide Hillary’s guilt but also Obama’s involvement.<br><br>From the Strzok-Page text messages we know that Loretta Lynch knew Hillary would not be prosecuted. That meeting on the tarmac was to tell Bill Clinton the fix was in, a fix whose impetus came from the [[White House]] and an occupant concerned with both his legacy being erased by a President Trump but also by his involvement in covering up Hillary’s crimes....<br><br>This is [[Watergate]] on steroids. Not only do we have one party colluding with government agencies to keep its candidate from being prosecuted for her [[crime]]s and preventing the election of the other party’s candidate, but we also have a sitting and corrupt President using the powers of his office to subvert an election and hand-pick his successor.<ref>httphttps://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/obama__leader_of_the_deep_state_coup.html#.WnCBy6djFw9.facebook</ref>}}

*FBI evaluating the ''Shearer dossier'' written by Clinton operative [[Cody Shearer]] with allegations about the sexual and financial activity of Donald Trump. Shearer gave his memo to Clinton confidant [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who transmitted it to [[State Department]] official Jonathan Winer,<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/nunes-dossier-deux/552389/</ref> who then gave it to [[Christopher Steele]], who passed it on to the FBI.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/christopher-steele-gave-fbi-a-2nd-dossier-from-notorious-clinton-hatchet-man/</ref><ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/bombshell-2nd-russia-dossier-exists-authors-id-changes-everything/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-weekly-WJ&utm_campaign=weeklyam&utm_content=western-journal </ref> The ''Shearer dossier'' was not included in BuzzFeed's January 10, 2017 release. After the fraud of the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed Stormy Daniels claimed she was paid to keep silent about an affair with Trump, and a stranger threatened her and her child. Kathleen Willey was a volunteer at the White House in 1993 when President Bill Clinton grabbed her, fondled her, and pressed her hand against himself in the Oval Office. Willey told her story in a [[60 Minutes]] interview and became a target of a smear campaign directed by the Clintons.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007 ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref> In 1998, just before Willey was to testify in the [[Paula Jones]] trial, Willey was approached by a stranger who asked her menacing questions about her children, naming them by name. On ''Hardball'' in 1999, [[MSNBC]] host [[Chris Matthews]] identified the mysterious stranger as Cody Shearer.<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477</ref>

*Mueller asks for delay in [[Michael Flynn]] sentencing hearing.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/371722-mueller-flynn-legal-teams-not-ready-to-schedule-a-sentencing#</ref> The original judge recused himself in early December 2016, and revelations since of Obama administration FISA court abuses have cast a shadow over the whole [[Mueller investigation]] as a [[fruit of the poisonous tree]] exercise.

*FBI messages reveal agents sought way to evade federal record requirements.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/371853-new-fbi-messages-reveal-agents-searching-for-way-to-evade-record</ref>

*FBI Dir. Chris Wray asks for all names to be redacted from the FISA memo. The request is denied.<ref>httphttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/report-fbi-director-wray-demanding-names-redacted-fisa-memo/</ref>

*Michael Isikoff reacts to FBI using his article to secure the Carter Page FISA warrant. "It's self-referential." The FBI was already in possession of the same information from the same source.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/02/02/isikoff-stunned-carter-page/</ref>

*[[Sharyl Attkisson]], former [[CBS News]] anchor writes, {{Quotebox|There are strict rules requiring that each and every fact presented in an FBI request to electronically spy on a U.S. citizen be extreme-vetted for accuracy — and presented to the court only if verified.<br>There’s no dispute that at least some, if not a great deal, of information in the anti-Trump ''[[Steele dossier]]'' was unverified or false. Former FBI director [[James Comey]] testified as much himself before a Senate committee in June 2017. Comey repeatedly referred to “salacious” and “unverified” material in the dossier, which turned out to be paid political opposition research against Donald Trump funded first by Republicans, then by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.<br>Presentation of any such unverified material to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to justify a wiretap would appear to violate crucial procedural rules, called “Woods Procedures,” designed to protect U.S. citizens.<br>Yet Comey allegedly signed three of the FISA applications on behalf of the FBI. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly signed one and former Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy Attorney General [[Dana Boente]] and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein each reportedly signed one or more.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/372233-nunes-memo-raises-question-did-fbi-violate-woods-procedures</ref>}}

*Daily Caller speculates FusionGPS may have been trying to bribe Bruce Ohr and gain access to the DOJ by hiring Bruce's wife, Nellie, in the Democrats' and Obama administration's Trump-Russia scam.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusion-gps-ohr</ref>

*[[John McCain|McCain]] complicit in Russia collusion hoax.<ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/02/08/report-john-mccain-associate-received-trump-hoax-dossier-directly-fusion-gps/</ref>

*[[Leftist]] ideology, not merit, key to promotions within the FBI.<ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/02/08/former-fbi-agent-gilliam-bureaus-top-brass-climbs-ladder-ideology-not-merit/</ref>

*''American Thinker'' reports Steele and [[FusionGPS]] founder [[Glenn Simpson]] persuaded a number of major foreign policy and [[national security]] writers in Washington and New York that Trump and his team were in league with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those journalists include ''[[New Yorker]]'' editor David Remnick, ''[[Atlantic]]'' editor Jeffrey Goldberg, former ''[[New Republic]]'' editor Franklin Foer, and ''[[Washington Post]]'' columnist Anne Applebaum. A Foer story published in ''[[Slate]]'' on July 4, 2016 entitled ''Putin’s Puppet,'' Foer’s piece argues the Trump campaign was overly Russia-friendly. Foer discusses Trump’s team, including campaign convention manager [[Paul Manafort]], who worked with former Ukrainian president [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]], a Putin ally; and Carter Page, who, Foer wrote, “advised the state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom and helped it attract Western investors.”<!--That’s how Page described himself in a March 2016 Bloomberg interview. But as Julia Ioffe reported in a September 23, 2016 Politico article, Page was a mid-level executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role in any of the big deals he boasted about. As Ioffe shows, almost no one in Moscow remembered Page. Until Trump read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a March interview with the Washington Post, almost no one in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Page either.--> Another Foer story for ''Slate'', an October 31, 2016 article about the Trump organization’s computer servers “pinging” a Russian bank, was reportedly “pushed” to him by Fusion GPS. Page and Manafort are the protagonists of the ''Steele dossier'', the former one of the latter’s intermediaries with Russian officials and associates of Putin. The ''Slate'' article carries allegations against Page made in the dossier after his July Russia trip. For instance, according to Steele’s investigations, Page was offered a 19 percent stake in Rosneft, one of the world’s energy giants, in exchange for help [[Magnitsky Act|repealing sanctions related to Russia’s 2014 incursion into Ukraine]].<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/02/15/media-stopped-reporting-russia-collusion-story-helped-create/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=38385f06d3-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-38385f06d3-83981757</ref>

*CIA defends selective disclosure.<ref>https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2018/02/cia-selective-disclosure/</ref><ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/cia-argues-the-public-cant-see-classified-information-it-has-already-given-to-favored-reporters/?utm_source=site-share</ref>

*[[John Kerry]] approved visas for Russian operatives to enter US in 2014 and ‘interfere’ with the 2016 election.<ref>httphttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/john-kerry-approved-visas-russian-operatives-enter-us-2014-interfere-election/</ref>

*Judge Jeanine Pirro calls for "complete overhaul, complete cleansing" of the FBI.<ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/17/judge-jeanine-fbi-needs-complete-overhaul-complete-cleansing/</ref>

*Former CIA Dir. James Woolsey admits to US meddling in foreign elections.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374372-ex-cia-director-us-meddles-in-foreign-elections-for-a-good#scso=uid_79GKWpXEI8jtzgKuwJHgDw_1:0</ref>

*'''24 February.''' Schiff rebuttal released,<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref> corroborates the fact that the Obama administration perpetrated a [[fraud]] upon the FISA court.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/schiff-memo-russia-investigation-harms-democrats-more-than-helps-them/</ref><ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/24/nunes-democrat-memo-drop-proves-collusion-dems-hillary-russian-not-trump-campaign/</ref>

*'''3 March.''' Oleg Deripaska pens op-ed: ''The ever changing Russia narrative in American politics is cynical false public manipulation.''<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation/</ref>

*'''15 March.''' ''McClatchy'' publishes fake news story about Russian funding of NRA.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/bruce-ohr-glenn-simpson-nra/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push</ref> The story originated with Glenn Simpson and Bruce Ohr in December 2016 and Adam Schiff inserted the claim into the March 13, 2018 House minority report.

*Congressional investigators question DOJ handling of Strzok/Page text messages after reading Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report. DOJ redacted the fact FBI counterintelligence investigator Peter Strzok was a personal friend of FISA court judge Rudy Contreras. Contreras accepted a guilty plea from Gen. Michael Flynn for allegedly lying to Strzok in an FBI interview. Contreras also heard applications for FISA warrants.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/03/16/judge-friends-with-peter-strzok/</ref>

*FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe lied four times, including to James Comey, about his authorization of leaks to the media. “He didn’t lie just once; he lied four times,” Rep. Jim Jordan told Fox News. “He lied to James Comey. He lied to the [FBI’s] Office of Professional Responsibility, and he lied twice under oath to the inspector general.”<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/03/29/fbi-andrew-mccabe-media-leaks/</ref>

*'''30 March.''' FBI Office of Professional Responsibility report shows conflicting sworn statements between James Comey and Andrew McCabe's accounts as to who authorized October 2016 election eve leaks to the ''Wall Street Journal'' regarding McCabe's role in the Hillary Clinton investigations.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/mccabe-comey-fbi-report/index.html?sr=twCNN033018mccabe-comey-fbi-report0841PMVODtop</ref> McCabe's wife had taken $700,000 from Clinton donors 5 days after Hillary's email investigation began, and McCabe who oversaw the investigation, never recused himself.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-examines-potential-conflicts-top-fbi-official%E2%80%99s-role-russia-collusion</ref> The donations were arranged by former Clinton campaign manager [[Terry McAuliffe]] who himself was under FBI investigation for receiving illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Chinese donor at the same time the [[Clinton Foundation]] was being investigated for receiving donations from the same donor.<ref>httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoEDCs4-RE</ref> McCabe, who was overseeing both investigations, never recused himself or combined the two investigations.

*'''1 April.''' All 44 House Democrats that used the services of the [[Awan investigation|Awan family]] who allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data, exempted the Awans from background checks according to an inspector general’s report. The Awans worked with some of the most sensitive [[national security]] secrets.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/04/01/democrats-pakistani-background-checks/</ref>

*Daniel Jones, a former intelligence committee staffer for Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]], raised $50 million, hired FusionGPS and Christopher Steele to push the Russian collusion narrative against Donald Trump after 2016 election. Jones runs an outfit called the Penn Quarter Group (PQG).<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/04/27/confirmed-former-feinstein-staffer-hired-fusion-gps-christopher-steele/</ref>

*Giuliani calls on Sessions to investigate the illegal surveillance and actions taken against Michael Cohen.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/386110-exclusive-giuliani-calls-for-sessions-to-step-in-on-cohen</ref>

*Manafort lawyers request full hearing on Mueller leaks: {{quotebox| “the Special Counsel has not produced any materials to the defense — no tapes, notes, transcripts or any other material evidencing surveillance or intercepts of communications between Mr. Manafort and Russian intelligence officials, Russian government officials (or any other foreign officials),” the filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Virginia says. “The Office of Special Counsel has advised that there are no materials responsive to Mr. Manafort’s requests.”<br><br>“Accordingly, if the representations of the Special Counsel are accurate, and there is not, in fact, any evidence of communications between Mr. Manafort and foreign officials, then the perpetrators of this elaborate [[hoax]] must be identified and punished and the substantial unfair prejudice to Mr. Manafort must be remedied,” the filing continued.<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/05/03/manafort-lawyers-claim-leaky-mueller-probe-has-provided-no-evidence-of-contacts-with-russian-officials/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=abcad3cd11-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-abcad3cd11-84014745</ref>}}

*'''9 May.''' Unknown [[Civil Service Commission|civil servants]] in the [[Treasury Department]] leak information about banking transactions belonging to the wrong "Michael Cohens", again.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/05/09/avenatti-michael-cohen-israel/ </ref> Treasury Inspector General begins leak investigation.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/treasury-inspector-general-launches-probe-into-possible-leak-of-michael-cohens-banking-records/2018/05/09/d33c2010-5391-11e8-b00a-17f9fda3859b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6c29e1042e6d </ref>

*John Solomon publishes article about Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska's attorney, Adam Waldman wished to get Deripaska's story on the record.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>

*'''16 May.''' 10 Key Takeaways From The New York Times’ Error-Ridden Defense Of FBI Spying On Trump Campaign, by Mollie Hemingway:<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/05/17/10-key-takeaways-from-new-york-times-error-ridden-defense-of-fbi-spying-on-trump-campaign/ </ref> The problems begin in the second sentence. The New York Times reports that “[t]heir assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling.” Of course, it was previously reported that Strzok had a meeting with the Australian ambassador in the Strzok/Lisa Page texts and elsewhere.<br>The story claims, “News organizations did not publish Mr. Steele’s reports or reveal the F.B.I.’s interest in them until after Election Day.” That’s demonstrably untrue. There’s an October 31, 2016, story headlined “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.” It is sourced entirely to Steele. In September, Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff took a meeting with Steele then published “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin” on September 23, 2016. That story was even used in the Foreign Intelligence Service Act application against Carter Page.<br><br>In paragraph 69, The New York Times takes itself to task for burying the lede in its October 31, 2016, story about the FBI not finding any proof of involvement with Russian election meddling. It is somewhat funny, then, to read what The New York Times buries in paragraph 70: No evidence of collusion after two years of investigation with unlimited resources.<br><br>The New York Times writes, “Crossfire Hurricane began exactly 100 days before the presidential election, but if agents were eager to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign, as the president has suggested, the messages do not reveal it. ‘I cannot believe we are seriously looking at these allegations and the pervasive connections,’ Mr. Strzok wrote soon after returning from London.” Strzok wrote that text in all caps. As the Wall Street Journal noted months ago, “Mr. Strzok emphasized the seriousness with which he viewed the allegations in a message to Ms. Page on Aug. 11, just a few days before the ‘insurance’ text. ‘OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THESE ALLEGATIONS AND THE PERVASIVE CONNECTIONS,’ he texted.”<br>Strzok repeatedly talked about how important and time-sensitive he felt the investigation was. As Andrew McCarthy highlighted, Strzok compared the investigations of Clinton and Trump, “And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to ensure that we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS.”<br>Another New York Times error was the claim, repeated twice, that Carter Page “had previously been recruited by Russian spies.” In fact, Carter Page was a paid informant who wore a wire to help the FBI put away the Russians who tried to recruit him.<br>The New York Times falsely reported that “Mr. Comey met with Mr. Trump privately, revealing the Steele reports and warning that journalists had obtained them.” Comey has told multiple journalists that he specifically did not brief Trump on the Steele reports. He didn’t tell Trump there were reports, or who funded them. He didn’t tell him about the claims in the reports that the campaign was compromised. He only told him that there was a rumor Trump had paid prostitutes to urinate on a Moscow hotel bed that the Obamas had once slept in.<br>The story also repeats long-debunked claims about the Republican platform and Ukraine.<br><br>The story reminds readers that Strzok once texted Lisa Page “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected, but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” The article says Trump thought this “insurance policy” referred to a plan to respond to the unlikely event of a Trump victory. It goes on: But officials have told the inspector general something quite different. They said Ms. Lisa Page and others advocated a slower, circumspect pace, especially because polls predicted Mr. Trump’s defeat. They said that anything the F.B.I. did publicly would only give fodder to Mr. Trump’s claims on the campaign trail that the election was rigged.<br><br>Eavesdropping, Not Spying, And Other Friendly Claims. The story could not be friendlier to the FBI sources who are admitting what they did against the Trump campaign. A few examples:<br>"[P]rosecutors obtained court approval to eavesdrop on Mr. Page,” The New York Times writes, making the wiretapped spying on an American citizen sound almost downright pleasant. When Comey briefs Trump only on the rumor about the prostitutes and urination, we’re told “he feared making this conversation a ‘J. Edgar Hoover-type situation,’ with the F.B.I. presenting embarrassing information to lord over a president-elect.” ...<br>The story also claimed, “they kept details from political appointees across the street at the Justice Department,” before using Sally Yates to claim that there was nothing worrisome. In fact, the subtext of the entire story is that the FBI showed good judgment in its handling of the spying in 2016. Unfortunately, the on-the-record source used to substantiate this claim is Yates: “Folks are very, very careful and serious about that [FISA] process. I don’t know of anything that gives me any concerns.” If Yates tells you things are on the up and up, apparently you can take it to the bank.<br><br>This New York Times story is designed to inoculate the FBI against revelations coming out of the inspector general report, but the net result is to affirm the fears of Americans that the U.S. government’s [[law enforcement]] and intelligence agencies abused their powers to surveil and target Americans simply for their political views and affiliations.

*'''17 May.''' Sen. Grassley sent a list of questions to Rod Rosenstein about the appointment, instructions and power of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The primary question is: under what authority, and within what [[statute]], is the Assistant Attorney General authorized to assign a [[counterintelligence]] investigation to a special counsel: {{Quotebox|More specifically, section 600.1 states the [[Attorney General]] “will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that [[criminal]] investigation of a person or matter is warranted.” The omitted regulations do not authorize counterintelligence investigations.}} Rosenstein was additionally asked if he had delegated [[FISA]] authority to Mueller, a question Rosenstein refused to answer in a private meeting with all 100 [[Senator]]s shortly after Mueller's appointment.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/379653813/Grassley-Letter-to-Rosenstein-May-17-2018-Special-Counsel-Investigation-Questions?ad_group=725X700959X9ad1f763d6b9cc215ccc3e58d905f784&campaign=SkimbitLtd&keyword=660149026&medium=affiliate&source=hp_affiliate </ref><ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/05/21/3-big-takeaways-grassleys-oversight-demands-rod-rosenstein/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=dedb92f182-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-dedb92f182-84014745 </ref>

*'''18 May.''' DOJ Frets About Source Outing While Deliberately Outing Source, by Mollie Hemingway.<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2018/05/18/doj-frets-about-source-outing-while-deliberately-outing-source/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=8b0cb5405a-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-8b0cb5405a-84014745 </ref>

*Mueller requests 150 blank subpoenas in Manafort case.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/392063-mueller-requests-150-blank-subpoenas-in-manafort-case-in </ref>

*Portions of previous releases were intentionally withheld. A damning response from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page was not made available to IG [[Michael Horowitz]] until only four days ago: {{Quotebox|'''9 August 2016. Lisa Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!<br>Strzok - No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.'''<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/06/14/fbi-officials-anti-trump-text-missing-earlier-doc/</ref><!--Strzok – OMG did you hear what Trump just said?-->}} Strzok's text was hidden from congressional investigators.<ref>https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1007308398151467010</ref>

*''Why are the prolific federal “redactors” — never punished?'', by [[Sharyl Attkisson]].<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/392342-senate-probes-fbis-heavy-handed-use-of-redactions-to-obstruct-congressional</ref>

*FBI still protecting identities of anti-Trump operatives FBI Attorney 2, Agent 1 and Agent 5 in their employ.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/06/19/fbi-blocks-id-anti-trump-texts/</ref>

*Allison Hrabar, a card-carrying [[communist]] and [[Civil Service Commission|civil servant]] employed in the Justice Department, threatens and harasses [[Homeland Security]] Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/socialist-activist-kirstjen-nielsen-doj/</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-protesters-dinner</ref> Hraber has engaged in political activity while on the job at DOJ.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/trending/doj-employee-among-commie-mob-that-hounded-dhs-secretary-out-of-mexican-restaurant/</ref>

*'''21 June.''' Strzok striped of security clearance.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/06/21/strzok-loses-security-clearance/</ref>

*Comey and Mark Warner scuttled immunity deal between Julian Assange and the DOJ in March 2017.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/27/did-sen-warner-and-comey-collude-on-russia-gate/</ref> "The rare opportunity to engage Assange in a dialogue over redactions, a more responsible way to release information, and how the infamous DNC hacks occurred was lost."<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-intervened-to-kill-Wikileaks-immunity-deal?amp</ref>

*Imran Awan solicited bribe.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/06/28/awan-graham-bribe/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push/</ref>

*Oleg Deripaska is a former business partner who invested millions with Manafort in the Ukraine and later sued him; in 2009 Mueller's FBI may have violated federal statutes in accepting financial assistance from Deripaska. Harvard professor [[Alan Dershowitz]] observed Robert Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because his FBI accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the Manafort case: {{quotebox|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law."<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}

*Putin says in joint press conference with Donald Trump: {{Quotebox|"Business associates of Mr. [Bill] Browder have earned over one and a half billion dollars in Russia. They never paid any taxes, neither in Russian or in the United States, and yet the money escaped the country, they were transferred to the United States.<br>They sent huge amount of money - 400 million - as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton.<br>Well, that's their personal case. It might have been legal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was earned was illegal.<br>So we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions."<ref>https://youtu.be/R8nameHMpZI</ref>}} [[Bill Browder]] is the man behind the [[Magnitsky Act]], sponsored by [[John McCain]]. Browder testified in the Summer of 2017 that [[FusionGPS]] was hired by Russia to engage in a smear campaign against him, and for illegal lobbying to repeal the Russia sanctions bill.<ref>"to remove the name “Magnitsky” from the Global Magnitsky Act, delay the bills passage, and cast doubt on the Justice Dept.’s version of events prior to the passage of the Magnitsky Act. The defrauded complaintant referred to Simpson, who was hired by the Clinton campaign and DNC as "a professional smear campaigner.” “Glenn Simpson knowingly spread false information on behalf of people connected to the Russian government to try to protect Russian torturers and murderers from consequences.” httphttps://dailycaller.com/2017/01/13/exclusive-oppo-researcher-behind-trump-dossier-is-linked-to-pro-kremlin-lobbying-effort/</ref>

*''[[Deja vu]]'': more prosecutorial favoritism. Just as the people who destroyed evidence and smashed Hillary's hard drives with hammers were granted immunity, so to Mueller offers [[Tony Podesta]] immunity for the same crime [[Paul Manafort]] is accused of.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/07/17/mueller-immunity-manafort-witness/</ref>

*CNN publishes fake news story claiming Michael Cohen attended the Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya; CNN has never walked back the story even after [[Lanny Davis]] admitted he fabricated the leak.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/08/22/lanny-davis-dispute-trump-tower-cohen/</ref>

*'''8 August.''' Bruce Ohr discussed getting Christopher Steele re-engaged in the [[Mueller probe]].<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/401007-opinion-top-doj-official-discussed-getting-steele-back-into-fbi-mueller-probe?amp</ref>

*'''9 August.''' House Judiciary Committee preparing subpoenas for members of the Clinton-Steele dossier [[conspiracy]] group - Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Jim Baker (DOJ), Sally Moyer, [[Jonathan Moffa]] and George Toscas.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/homenews/house/401193-gop-chairman-set-to-issue-steele-dossier-subpoenas</ref>

:*When Deripaska entered the United States, [[Andrew McCabe]] approached him to help make the case that Trump’s former campaign manager [[Paul Manafort]] was a tool of the [[Kremlin]]. Deripaska claims he laughed and said, "You are trying to create something out of nothing.”<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>

*Chairman Richard Burr of the Senate Intelligence Committee issues statement: {{quotebox|“Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign [[collude]]d with a foreign power. If Director Brennan’s statement is based on intelligence he received while still leading the CIA, why didn’t he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment released in 2017? If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach. If he has some other personal knowledge of or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to the Special Counsel, not The New York Times.<br>If, however, Director Brennan’s statement is purely political and based on conjecture, the president has full authority to revoke his security clearance as head of the Executive Branch.”<ref>https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/statement-from-senate-intel-chairman-richard-burr-on-comments-by-former-cia-director-john-brennan-</ref>}} Burr had previously supported Brennan's ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' in a preliminary Senate report, contradicting the House Intelligence Committee's final report on Russian collusion.<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/senate-intel-contradicts-house-republicans-on-russia</ref> Brennan previously attacked the House report as 'partisan'.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/385185-ex-cia-chief-highly-partisan-house-intel-report-means-nothing</ref>

*Chairman [[Richard Burr]] tells AP there is “no factual evidence today that we’ve received” of Trump's collusion with Russia.<ref>https://apnews.com/a968f26df3a64667afe108107daebc4d</ref> Burr, who disputed the House Intel Committee's findings on John Brennan's January 6, 2017 ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA}, supported Brennan's narrative that Putin tried to aide Trump. The House found faulty tradecraft and analytic work in the ICA. Two days ago, Burr flipped his support of Brennan and lauded Trump's revocation of Brennan's security clearance. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have been notified by the attorney for former staff Director of Security [[James Wolfe]] they may be [[subpoena]]ed in Wolfe's upcoming trial. Wolfe is accused of leaking the Carter Page FISA application ''in full'' to the media on March 17, 2017. Wolfe's defense appears to be that he leaked classified information on instructions from committee members. The Carter Page FISA application is exculpatory - given what is known now - that the FBI knowingly used paid opposition research, that the material is unverified, that the FBI committed a crime against the court when it deliberately deceived the judges. All this information has been in the hands of the Senate Intelligence Committee, AND the ''New York Times'' and other media outlets for 16 months. Yet the media pushed a false narrative of Trump collusion with Russia based in part on illegal leaks from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Likewise the committee and media have been silent on corruption in the DOJ and FBI. Over the past two days, Burr appears to be trying to walk back some of the false information the Senate Intelligence Committee has put into the mainstream media. Additionally, Burr is now willing to hear Julian Assange's version of the source of DNC emails - something Assange wanted to do a year and half ago but was denied by [[James Comey]].<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-intervened-to-kill-Wikileaks-immunity-deal</ref> Meantime, the Senate Intelligence Committee stood by Brennan, Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein - and the DNC's - Russian hacking narrative.<ref>Brennan and Comey colluded on the ICA; Mueller and Rosenstein used the unverified Russian hacking claims and indicted 12 Russian nationals who will never stand trial.</ref> Burr is considered a [[Uniparty]] kingpin.

*The judge in [[Paul Manafort]]'s trial is under U.S. Marshall protection after receiving death threats.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/08/17/manafort-judge-threatened/</ref> CNN, ''Wapo'' and Buzzfeed asked for the names and addresses of [[juror]]s, Judge T.E. Ellis declined.

*'''19 August.''' Clapper begins distancing himself from Brennan.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/08/19/clapper-brennan-trump-hyperbole</ref>

*'''Bruce Ohr testimony'''. Btuce Ohr testifies in private; the FBI was absolutely in possession of material facts that were withheld from the FISA courts. Ohr had multiple “handlers” that he passed on the dossier to at the FBI. Some discrepancies with Lisa Page testimony, major discrepancies with Glenn Simpson.<ref>httphttps://thehill.com/homenews/house/404084-house-republicans-say-ohr-interview-escalates-surveillance-concerns</ref><ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/ohr-testimony-suggests-a-key-witness-lied-to-congress-lawmakers-say_2635394.html</ref><ref>www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/28/gregg-jarrett-scheme-from-bruce-ohr-and-comeys-confederates-to-clear-clinton-damage-trump.amp.html</ref> Ohr informed Congress six senior FBI and DOJ officials that his wife Nellie received $44,000 from Fusion GPS while she worked with Chris Steele on the ''Steele dossier''. Ohr told the same six DOJ and FBI officials of his regular contacts with Steele and Glenn Simpson, and confirmed that he informed his six handlers of Steele’s intense bias against Trump. Despite learning of the conflicts of interest and bias from Ohr, a group of select senior FBI and DOJ officials omitted those facts from 400 pages of claims they presented to the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] in October 2016 for a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer [[Carter Page]]. Under the "two hop" rule, the FISA warrant granted Strzok and the FBI surveillance access to the entire Trump campaign, transition, and administration.

*'''14 September.''' Manafort pleads guilty in money laundering and tax evasion schemes while employed by Sen. [[John McCain]].<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/06/21/heres-the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about</ref><ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4883168-Manafort-DC-Superseding-Criminal-Information.html#document/p1</ref> More [[fake news]] reporting: rather than cooperate with Mueller, Manafort agrees to assist the US Attorney's office of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), like [[Michael Cohen]]. to put away Democrat lawyer Greg Craig for illegal collusion and lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian oligarchs. [[Tony Podesta]] has also been implicated.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2018/09/14/manafort-ukraine-podesta/</ref> Craig previously coppef an insanity plea for [[Ronald Reagan]]'s would-be assassin, helped Bill Clinton (along with Clinton colluders [[Cheryl Mills]] and Charges Ruff - who met an untimely death<ref>www.investmentwatchblog.com/another-clinton-associate-found-dead-bill-and-hillarys-body-count-increases/</ref>) and later was ousted as Obama's top lawyer when Obama decided to keep detention of prisoners at [[Gitmo]] open, and make [[John Brennan]]'s torture program Obama's own.<ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1940673,00.html</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/greg-craig-foreign-agent-registration-investigation/index.html</ref>

*Ken Delanian of NBC News, whom [[FusionGPS]] paid to report [[Trump-Russia]] [[fake news]],<ref>httphttps://thefederalist.com/2017/12/04/fusion-gps-scandal-implicates-media-possible-pay-publish-scheme/</ref> reports FBI and DOJ stalling to comply with the president's order to release unredacted documents.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/are-intel-officials-trying-slow-trump-order-declassify-russia-probe-n910796?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma</ref>