That information was used in an Oct. McCabe would later initially deny providing such authorization to the Office of Inspector General. It was these texts that led to the inspector general uncovering the texts between Strzok and Page. The two exchanged thousands of texts, some of them indicating surveillance activities, over a two-year period.
Texts sent between Aug. The Department of Justice, which comprises 60 agencies , was transformed during the Obama years. The department is forbidden by federal law from hiring employees based on political affiliation.
Not one single moderate or conservative lawyer made the cut. This is significant as the DOJ enjoys significant latitude in determining who will be subject to prosecution. The department became a repository of information and provided a protective wall between the investigative efforts of the FBI and the legislative branch. Importantly, it also served as the firewall within the executive branch, serving as the insulating barrier between the FBI and Obama officials.
The department had become legendary for its stonewalling tactics with Congress. Michael Flynn from his position as national security adviser to President Trump. Flynn ultimately pleaded guilty to a process crime: lying to the FBI.
Laufman is currently the attorney for Monica McLean, the long-time friend of Christine Blasey Ford, who recently accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while in high school. McLean was also employed by the FBI for 24 years. As associate deputy attorney general, Ohr was just four offices away from then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and he reported directly to her.
Ohr, one of the highest-ranking officials in the DOJ, was communicating on an ongoing basis with Steele, whom he had known since at least , well into mid Nellie Ohr likely played a significant role in the construction of the dossier.
Additionally, Ohr met with the FBI at least 12 times between late November and May for a series of interviews. These meetings could have been used to transmit information from Steele to the FBI. John Carlin is another notable figure with the DOJ.
His role will be discussed below in the section on FISA abuse. On April 26, , Rosenstein found himself appointed as the new deputy attorney general. He was placed into a somewhat chaotic situation, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the ongoing Russia investigation a little less than two months earlier, on March 2, This effectively meant that no one in the Trump administration had any oversight of the ongoing investigation being conducted by the FBI and the DOJ.
On May 9, , Rosenstein wrote a memorandum recommending that Comey be fired. McCabe was now the acting director of the FBI and was immediately under consideration for the permanent position. Sessions was unaware of the investigation. This remark was reported in a New York Times article that was sourced from memos from the now-fired McCabe, along with testimony taken from former FBI general counsel James Baker, who relayed a conversation he had with McCabe about the occurrence.
Rosenstein issued a statement denying the accusations. McCabe was probably not going to become the permanent FBI director, but he was reportedly under consideration. On Aug. The full purpose of this memo remains unknown. Two days later, on Aug. Rosenstein and Wray were tasked with overseeing all leak investigations. That Aug. The appointment of Wray as FBI director helped cement this.
McCabe was finally completely neutralized. On March 16, , McCabe was fired for lying under oath at least three different times and is currently the subject of a grand jury investigation. The State Department, with its many contacts within foreign governments, became a conduit for the flow of information. The memo may have passed directly from her to FBI leadership.
Secretary of State John Kerry was also given a copy. Steele was already well-known within the State Department. In July , when the FBI wanted to send Gaeta to visit Steele in London, the bureau sought permission from the office of Nuland, who provided this version of events during a Feb.
This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. Steele also met with Jonathan Winer, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya.
Steele and Winer had known each other since at least In an opinion article in The Washington Post, Winer wrote the following:. Other foreign officials also used conduits into the State Department.
Embassy in London. If true, this would mean that neither Australian intelligence nor the Australian government alerted the FBI to the Papadopoulos information.
What happened with the Downer details, and to whom they were ultimately relayed, remains unknown. Curiously, details surprisingly similar to the Papadopoulos—Downer conversation show up in the first memo written by Steele on June 20, The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee both occupied a unique position.
They had the most to gain but they also had the most to lose. And they stood willing and ready to do whatever was necessary to win. The entire Clinton campaign willfully promoted the narrative of Russia—Trump collusion despite the uncomfortable fact that they were the ones who had engaged the services of Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele through their law firm Perkins Coie. Information flowed from the campaign—sometimes through Perkins Coie, other times through affiliates—ultimately making its way into the media and sometimes to the FBI.
Information from the Clinton campaign may also have ended up in the Steele dossier. Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for the Clinton campaign, in tandem with Jake Sullivan, the senior policy adviser to the campaign, took the lead in briefing the press on the Trump—Russia collusion story. The article concerns allegations regarding a server in the Trump Tower. The Slate article managed to attract the immediate attention of Clinton, who posted a tweet on the same day the article was published:.
Attached to her tweet was a statement from Sullivan:. Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.
And given the prepared statement by Sullivan, the Clinton campaign knew this. This type of behavior would be engaged in repeatedly—damning leaks leading to media stories, followed by ready attacks from the Clinton campaign. Chalupa met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia.
Chalupa began investigating Manafort in It was later learned from a DNC email leaked by Wikileaks that Chalupa had been working with Isikoff—the same journalist Christopher Steele leaked to in September Manafort would later be indicted for Foreign Agents Registration Act violations that occurred during the Obama administration.
Bob Bauer, a partner at the law firm and founder of its political law practice, served as White House counsel to President Barack Obama throughout and Sussmann personally handled the alleged hack of the DNC server. According to a letter dated Oct. Steele would complete his first memo on June 20, , and send it to Fusion via enciphered mail. The Obama administration provided a simultaneous layer of protection and facilitation for the entire effort. One example is provided by Section 2.
With the passage of the order, agencies and individuals were able to ask the NSA for access to specific surveillance simply by claiming the intercepts contained relevant information that was useful to a particular mission. Section 2. The reason for the delay could relate to the fact that while the executive order made it easier to share intelligence between agencies, it also limited certain types of information from going to the White House. An example of this was provided by Evelyn Farkas during a March 2, , MSNBC interview , where she detailed how the Obama administration gathered and disseminated intelligence on the Trump team:.
Get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration. According to congressional testimony by Horowitz:. No law changed in No policy changed. The memo specifically denied the inspector general access to any information collected under Title III—including intercepted communications and national security letters.
The New York Times recently disclosed that national security letters were used in the surveillance of the Trump campaign. The Intelligence Community assessment was released internally on Jan.
Rice would later send herself an email documenting the meeting. The following day, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey attached a written summary of the Steele dossier to the classified briefing they gave Obama. Comey then met with President-elect Trump to inform him of the dossier. This meeting took place just hours after Comey, Brennan, and Clapper formally briefed Obama on both the Intelligence Community assessment and the Steele dossier. He later explained on CNN in an April interview why:.
The significance of the meeting was material, as Comey noted in a Jan. I said it was important that we not give them the excuse to write that the FBI has the material. The media had widely dismissed the dossier as unsubstantiated and, therefore, unreportable.
The Obama administration also directly participated in a series of intelligence unmaskings , the process whereby a U. Ambassador to the U. Samantha Power reportedly engaged in hundreds of unmasking requests. Rice has admitted to doing the same.
President Barack Obama issued a last-minute executive order on Jan. The action was not done in consultation with the incoming Trump administration. Yates was initially supposed to serve in her position until Jeff Sessions was confirmed as attorney general. The attorney at the time was Channing Phillips. Phillips, after serving as a senior adviser to Holder, stayed on after he was replaced by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. It appears the Obama administration was hoping the Russia investigation would default to Channing in the event Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the investigation.
Sessions, whose confirmation hearings began three days before the order, was already coming under intense scrutiny. Michael Flynn over his call with the Russian ambassador. Trump ignored the succession order, as he is legally allowed to do, and instead appointed Dana Boente, the U. Trump issued a new executive order on Feb. On March 10, , Trump fired 46 Obama-era U. These firings appear to have been unexpected. In some respects, the media has played the most disingenuous of roles. Areas of investigation that historically would have proven irresistible to reporters of the past have been steadfastly ignored.
False narratives have been all-too-willingly promoted and facts ignored. Fusion GPS personally made a series of payments to several as-of-yet- unnamed reporters. The majority of the mainstream media has represented positions of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Steele met with members of certain media with relative frequency. In September , he met with a number of U. In mid-October , Steele returned to New York and met with reporters again. Leaking, including felony leaking of classified information, has been widespread.
This was a historical pattern that stood until this election. The leaking became so widespread, even this tradition was broken. The information contained within both articles likely came via felony leaks from James Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who was arrested on June 7, , and charged with one count of lying to the FBI.
According to the indictment , Wolfe exchanged 82 text messages with Watkins on March 17, That same evening they engaged in a minute phone call. In the public version of the application, there are 37 fully redacted pages. In addition to that, several other pages have redactions for all but the header. There are only two pages in the entire document that contain no redactions. Why would Wolfe bother to send 37 pages of complete redactions? It seems more than plausible that Wolfe took pictures of the original unredacted FISA application and sent them by text to Watkins.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has repeatedly stated that evidence within the FISA application shows the counterintelligence agencies were abused by the Obama administration. Most of the mainstream media has known this. Despite this, most major news organizations for over two years have promoted the Russia-collusion narrative.
Despite ample evidence having come out to the contrary, they have not admitted they were wrong, likely because doing so would mean they would have to admit their complicity. UK and Australian intelligence agencies also played meaningful roles during the presidential election. In the following year, Hannigan abruptly announced his retirement on Jan. As GCHQ was gathering intelligence, low-level Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos appears to have been targeted after a series of highly coincidental meetings.
Steele retains close ties with Dearlove. Dearlove has ties to most of the parties mentioned. It was he who advised Steele and his business partner, Chris Burrows, to work with a top British government official to pass along information to the FBI in the fall of He also was a speaker at the July Cambridge symposium that Halper invited Carter Page to attend.
Dearlove knows Halper through their mutual association at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar. Dearlove also knows Sir Iain Lobban, a former head of GCHQ, who is an advisory board member at British strategic intelligence and advisory firm Hakluyt , which was founded by former MI6 members and retains close ties to UK intelligence services.
Halper has historical connections to Hakluyt through Jonathan Clarke, with whom he has co-authored two books. Downer, who met Papadopoulos in a May meeting established through a chain of two intermediaries, served on the advisory board of Hakluyt from to He reportedly still maintains contact with Hakluyt officials. Downer has changed his version of events multiple times. The Steele dossier was fed into U. One such source was Sir Andrew Wood, the former British ambassador to Russia, who had been briefed about the dossier by Steele.
Wood later relayed information regarding the dossier to Sen. McCain would later admit in a Jan. Trump, after issuing an order for the declassification of documents and text messages related to the Russia-collusion investigations—including parts of the Carter Page FISA warrant application—received phone calls from two U. Questions to be asked are why is it that two of our allies would find themselves so opposed to the release of these classified documents that a coordinated plea would be made directly to the president?
And why would these same allies have even the slightest idea of what was contained in these classified U. Christopher Steele, who retains close ties to UK intelligence, worked for MI6 from until his retirement in , when he and his partner, Chris Burrows, founded Orbis Intelligence.
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