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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Or probably worse, he knows he is about to be the center of a media shit storm circus.

Or worse still, Putin decides he is a liability.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
That is where most Confidential Informants make their money, being in the middle and playing both sides against each other.

Informants have been the death of many good careers. The handlers think they can control them... they can't. CIs are absolutely mercenary in their motives and have no problem with leaving an agent charred and smoking if it keeps the CI out of the hot water or gets them to an agency who'll pay them more for their info.

a report on Carter Page. I still don't feel comfortable we know everything about Carter Page. I admit though that I am hoping the same as this article

“I am hoping for a happy ending.”

https://amgreatness.com/2018/06/02/that-smell/

Carter Page is the Biggest Victim in the Trump-Russia Hoax

On Fox News in April, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) unkindly called him a “clown.” Leaders of his own government spied on him for a year, framing him as a traitorous villain in their stunning scheme to mount the most deceitful political warfare against a presidential candidate in U.S. history. His professional and personal life have suffered greatly.

He met with federal and congressional investigators without any legal representation: “I have nothing to hide,” he repeatedly insists. (In addition to the MBA and Ph.D. he already has, Page is now pursuing a law degree.)

Page said his “huge nightmare” started in September 2016, when Yahoo News posted an article written by Simpson’s friend, Michael Isikoff, who revealed Page was under federal investigation for his ties to Russian government officials. The piece was based on a series of memos compiled by Simpson’s hired gun, ex-British spy Christopher Steele, that would become known as the infamous “dossier,” although Yahoo did not publish the document in full.

A few days after the Yahoo News article, Page sent a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey



But Comey didn’t accept Page’s offer. Instead, Comey sought and received a FISA warrant in October 2016 to spy on him. (In fact, the agency did not bring Page in for questioning until March 2017, when he testified for 10 hours without an attorney present.)

In April 2017, the Washington Post broke the story about the FBI obtaining a FISA order against Page, which was the first time he learned he had been under surveillance. FISA warrants, reserved for individuals believed to be knowingly acting as an agent of a foreign power, were renewed three times.

Page seems sincere, and talks as if being the scapegoat for Trump’s political enemies is a small price to pay to expose the corruption at the Justice Department and FBI. “I am hoping for a happy ending.”

An interview by Levin with Andy McCarthy and David Limbaugh

http://video.foxnews.com/v/579...8001/?#sp=show-clips

good conversation

Here are two reports that may be related.

The first one is hard to decipher. It may be nothing.

But one of the people reporting odd things they find pointed out a special Strzok text message to Lisa Page from Dec 2015. I think at this time Lisa Page was not yet in the position of counsel to Andrew McCabe.






This is a text from Strzok on 28 Dec 2015 where he asks if Lisa Page has got the "oconus lures" approved. The texts from this time period are sparse. A lot of them haven't been openly published. Given the recent awareness of FBI spies, a reference to oconus lures raises some suspicions.

As noted before, I think the times in the texts are GMT so you must subtract 4 hours to get DC time

The second report has more clear significance.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06...adopoulos-collusion/

Papadopoulos' wife said that Mueller threatened Papadopoulos w being declared as an Israeli agent. So Papadopoulos pled guilty to lying about Mifsud.

“I wasn’t saying that the campaign was trying to collude.”

Mangiante also says that another cryptic remark she made in the interview with The Post was a reference to an FBI spy who contacted Papadopoulos during the campaign.

“There’s a lot to come,” she told The Washington Post in a Jan. 22 interview.

Mangiante told TheDCNF that the remark referred to former University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, who has since been identified as an FBI spy.

TheDCNF reported on March 25 that Halper contacted Papadopoulos and two other Trump campaign officials, Carter Page and Sam Clovis. The 73-year-old academic contacted Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016 and offered to fly him to London and to pay him $3,000 for a policy paper on Mediterranean energy issues

“When I said there was a lot to come, I was referring precisely to the situation with Halper,” Mangiante told TheDCNF.

“This operation is more evidence of George being a target to infiltrate the campaign,” she added, referring to the FBI’s efforts to spy on the Trump campaign.

During one meeting in London in mid-September 2016, Halper asked Papadopoulos what he knew about Russians having Democrats’ emails.

Papadopoulos told Halper he did not know what he was talking about. Halper began “acting aggressively” and “showing disappointment” at Papadopoulos’ denials, says Mangiante.

Unbeknownst to Papadopoulos and Mangiante was Halper’s relationship with the FBI and CIA. The Washington Post has identified Halper as the FBI informant who made contact with Papadopoulos, Page and Clovis. He provided information that has been used in the Russia investigation, both before and after Mueller’s May 17, 2017 appointement as special counsel.

adding: Conservative Treehouse has a report on Papadopoulos up today:

https://theconservativetreehou...ia-tour/#more-150110

from that report:

after his arrest July 27th, 2017, and before the arrest was unsealed in October 2017, George Papadopoulos was working on behalf of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team to gain information against the targets of the DOJ investigation, Donald Trump officials.

For approximately two-plus months, August/September 2017, George Papadopoulos would have been targeting contact with former and current Trump campaign officials. The purpose of that targeting would have included an effort by the Mueller Special Counsel to build a “conspiracy” charge against anyone associated with President Trump. The agent running Papadopoulos appears to have been FBI Special Agent Jennifer Zelski Edward.

Remember, despite the media use of the term “collusion” is not a crime; “conspiracy” is. It seems obvious Mueller’s targeting of President Trump is centered around building a political impeachment case. [Not a criminal indictment case – which is unlikely] The path to the impeachment would come from creating the appearance of a conspiracy.

It seems almost certain the objective of Mueller’s final investigative report will be to present a political case for impeachment to congress. Democrats are looking for a reason, and many Republicans are looking for an excuse. The aggregate UniParty goal is removal of the existential threat represented by President Trump. Mueller’s anticipated report can predictably be forecast as a means to that end.

Here is a link to the court docket, and many documents in the case of USA v. Papadopoulos.

Link

Sara Carter

https://saraacarter.com/lawmak...-clinton-fbi-report/

The Department of Justice and the FBI are deliberately attempting to slow roll and redact significant portions of DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz’s report on the bureau’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, according to numerous congressional officials and investigators.

The 400-page report, which was completed several weeks ago and addresses Clinton’s use of her private server for government business, is currently being reviewed by the DOJ and FBI. According to sources, individuals mentioned in the reports are also allowed to review the document. It is expected to be “long and thorough” and will criticize the handling of the investigation by former FBI Director James Comey, who has spent the better part of the past several months promoting his book A Higher Loyalty.

“It’s been almost a year and a half and it is time that Congress receives the IG report,” said Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has been on the front lines of the battle against the DOJ and FBI’s stonewalling of lawmakers requesting documentation. “This has gone on long enough and the American people’s patience is wearing thin. We need accountability,” said DeSantis.

Another congressional official, who’s been fighting to obtain documents from the DOJ and FBI, said it is no surprise that they are putting pressure on Horowitz. According to the official, “They continue to slow roll documents, fail to adhere to congressional oversight and concern is growing that they will wait until summer and then turn over documents that are heavily redacted.”

Last November, Horowitz’s office told Congress that they expected the report to be released, “in late winter/early spring,” noting that the latest release date would be in April. However, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the report, the IG originally delayed turning over the report until after Comey finished his book tour promotion. Apparently, the most recent delay has to do with the review process that is taking place, the officials stated.

“What is taking so long with the Inspector General’s Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey,” the President tweeted on Tuesday. “Numerous delays. Hope report is not being changed and made weaker! There are so many horrible things to tell, the public has a right to know. Transparency!”

another suspicious tie in to Stefan Halper

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06...carter-page-spygate/

Carter Page was not the only Trump campaign adviser invited to a July 2016 event at the University of Cambridge, the storied British institution where “Spygate” is believed to have originated.

The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned that an invitation to attend the campaign-themed event was extended to Stephen Miller, another Trump campaign adviser who currently serves in the White House. Miller did not attend the event, which featured former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as a keynote speaker.

J. D. Gordon, the director of the campaign’s national security advisory committee, told TheDCNF he believes the invitation from Cambridge to Miller was sent in May 2016. That’s a month before a graduate assistant of FBI informant Stefan Halper sent an invitation to Page to visit the campus.

“The invitation was to Stephen Miller who could not attend,” Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman, told TheDCNF. “In the midst of our policy office search for a surrogate, Carter Page informed me that he had also been invited and would like to attend.”

Gordon said he told Page the campaign preferred he did not attend the Cambridge conclave.

“Though since he wasn’t planning to make public remarks, conduct media interviews or otherwise represent the campaign, he was not required to fill in one of our request forms.”

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background on the Cambridge event

The event was titled “2016’s Race to Change the World,” and headlined the dueling perspectives of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former GOP Congressman Vin Weber. According to the program, Mr. Halper kicked off the opening session on July 11

The event was hosted by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), a Cambridge research institute

the event was supported by Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies—Mr. Halper’s department. CRASSH and Mr. Halper’s department share a building where the symposium took place.

Another noteworthy participant was Sir Richard Dearlove. Sir Richard, a Cambridge alumnus, spent a near-40-year career at the British intelligence service, MI6

Sir Richard is also friendly with Mr. Halper. The two men were part of a small group that ran the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, an academic forum for researchers and one-time practitioners of spycraft

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sounds like they tried to set up Stephen Miller, and when that failed, they switched to Carter Page

from post above,

"You get all our oconus lures approved?"

has reached the attention of President Trump

https://youtu.be/ceLPq_EbHeY

https://theconservativetreehou...eration/#more-150152

upload pics

He turned to the dirtiest of senators to smear Trump before election day.

American Spectator
George Neumayr

CIA interference in elections used to be a major no-no in the liberal catechism. At Jesuit Fordham University in the radical 1970s, a young John Brennan had devoured anti-American literature portraying the CIA as a wicked meddler in the political affairs of other countries. This radicalism had bred in Brennan, according to his own admission, a very dim view of America — an “unhappiness with the system,” he recalled once, that led him in 1980 to support Gus Hall, the presidential candidate for the Soviet-controlled American Communist Party.

At one of the most crucial moments in the Cold War, America’s future CIA director was rooting for the Reds. It sounds like an Onion parody, but it isn’t. It is the story of America’s decline, marked by a generation of radicals who rose to the top of agencies and institutions they once tried to destroy. The irony is no doubt lost on Brennan, who went from condemning CIA election interference abroad to spearheading it at home.

Contrary to the spinning in recent days by apologists for the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign, Brennan, among others, did make partisan use of this surveillance before election day. The testimony of Harry Reid, the former Nevada senator notorious for his low blows, is decisive here. Reid has bluntly told reporters that Brennan sought him out as the conduit for a crippling leak against Trump during the campaign: “Why do you think he called me?”

Brennan needed Reid to dirty up Trump, a task Reid was happy to perform, but not without first noticing Brennan’s weirdness about it. Reid was struck by Brennan’s “ulterior motive,” as he explained to David Corn and Michael Isikoff in Russian Roulette. Reid, they write, “had concluded the CIA chief believed the public needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the possible links to the Trump campaign.”

Brennan has, of course, denied that he used Reid to publicize his spying on the Trump campaign, but even that denial through a spokesman is revealing. Nick Shapiro, one of Brennan’s retinue of radicals at the CIA, told the Washington Times that Brennan’s call to Reid revolved primarily around what Reid knew about alleged Trump-Russia ties: “In fact, most of the conversation was spent with Senator Reid telling Brennan what he had heard about Russians and the Trump campaign.”But anything that Reid claimed to know came from the Hillary-financed Christopher Steele dossier. It appears that Shapiro didn’t even bother to coordinate his denial with Brennan’s previous testimony before Congress in which Brennan claimed ignorance of the Steele dossier. If Reid was talking Brennan’s ear off about the Steele dossier, then that is more proof of Brennan’s perjury before Congress.

Brennan had also obviously heard about the Steele dossier through Steele’s old colleagues in British intelligence, through whom Steele was laundering his smears while waiting to see if his Hillary-supporting friend Jonathan Winer could disseminate them to others in John Kerry’s State Department. A sucker for left-wing conspiracy theories, Winer, who once did a film treatment for Oliver Stone, was happy to serve as a link in the chain of espionage across the Obama administration. Every name that pops up in this partisan farce is that of a determined Hillary supporter. The latest figure is one of Hillary’s old colleagues from the State Department, Elizabeth Dibble, to whom the Australian diplomat Alexander Downer handed off his Papadopoulos pub yarn, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel. After Trump won, Dibble left the State Department for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Every single link in the chain of espionage has partisan fingerprints on it, sometimes multiple smudges. Take the case of Winer, who served as an Obama administration middleman between two of Hillary’s opposition researchers, Christopher Steele and Cody Shearer. Winer was simultaneously passing Steele’s slop to others at the State Department (with an eye to passing it through them to the FBI) and passing Shearer’s slop to Steele, who then gave it back to the FBI as supposed corroboration of his own paid opposition research. The impropriety of it all is staggering. How much can you get for $150,000 or so in opposition research? It turns out a bogus dossier, FISA warrants on members of your opponent’s campaign, and a counterintelligence probe of it. That is, provided you have friends in high places, and Hillary did, with a vengeance — from Brennan’s CIA to John Kerry’s State Department to Jim Comey’s FBI, who made sure to keep this preposterously partisan probe close to headquarters, using the same team that exonerated Hillary to spy on Trump.

Even Peter Strzok, the Trump-hating FBI liaison to Brennan, knew before the election that the probe was a crock. But the FBI kept going under the prodding of Brennan and the White House. Brennan was desperately hoping for an October surprise and had selected Reid as one of his shock troops to deliver it. The problem was that he had nothing solid to give Reid. It looks like Comey and Brennan (who had two separate but overlapping groups going) were getting pretty desperate in September 2016. Election day was bearing down upon them and they hadn’t come up with squat. Out of this desperation came the last-ditch entrapment efforts of Stefan Halper, the spy Comey and Brennan sent to infiltrate the Trump campaign’s ranks. The reporting by the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross captures the astonishing lowness of the espionage, with Halper evidently wiring up, getting mad at Papadopoulos for not telling him what he wanted to hear, and then even using his flirty female assistant to try and seduce info out of Papadopoulos:

As TheDCNF reported back in March, Halper contacted Papadopoulos through email on Sept. 2, 2016, offering to fly him to London to discuss writing a policy paper about energy issues in Turkey, Israel and Cyprus. Halper offered to pay $3,000 for the paper.

Papadopoulos made the trip and had dinner multiple times with Halper and a Turkish woman described as his assistant. Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s version of their meetings said Halper randomly asked Papadopoulos whether he knew about Democratic National Committee emails that had been hacked and leaked by Russians.

Papadopoulos strongly denied the allegation, sources familiar with his version of the exchange have told TheDCNF. Halper grew agitated and pressed Papadopoulos on the topic. Papadopoulos believes that Halper was recording him during some of their interactions, sources said.

Halper’s assistant, who is named Azra Turk, brought up Russians and emails over drinks with Papadopoulos. Turk also flirted heavily with Papadopoulos and attempted to meet him in Chicago, where he lives, a source told TheDCNF.

Brennan would later testify before Congress that he had no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But he didn’t care and needed to find someone equally reckless to make it appear to the public and the press that he did. In Reid, who once said to a Washington Post reporter that he knew of no “line” in campaign politics he wouldn’t cross, Brennan found his man.

Link

this one seems a real mystery.



I've written many times that this is a terrible committee. Largely driven by DEM Mark Warner rather than the chair REP Richard Burr.

from Conservative Treehouse:

The Senate Intelligence Committee is one of the most politically corrupt committees in congress. There is nothing available as to what information was disclosed

The darkest part of the corrupt intelligence community hangs over the Senate Intelligence Committee like an ever-present cloud destined to block sunlight. Bad, corrupt and sketchy stuff goes on inside this committee

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it is not clear if someone on the Senate Intel Comm is in trouble, or someone such as Devin Nunes

Let's hope DoJ nails the Sen Intel Comm.

Remember Mark Warner secretly negotiated to go to London to meet w Christopher Steele, but it fell through. He didn't tell anyone on the committee, including the chair.

As of right now, Senator Grassley's committee is still scheduled to examine the DoJ IG report on 11 June 2018. (this can change if there is another delay)

It is called the "Inspector General's First Report on Justice Department and FBI Actions in Advance of the 2016 Presidential Election"

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Paul Sperry is tweeting some interesting things:

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_?lang=en





Sperry also has an article: (worth a read)

https://www.realclearinvestiga...fbi_honor_scout.html

“The FBI interviewed Page multiple times about his Russian intelligence contacts, including in March 2016,” Rep. Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee argued

In an interview with RealClearInvestigations, Page insists that the interview in question – held at then-U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's office in New York -- had "absolutely nothing" to do with the Trump campaign or Russian collusion. Instead of being grilled about shadowy ties, he says he answered questions “related to events in 2013, in a case where I had served as a witness in support of the FBI.”

The FBI informed Page in 2013 that the Russians might be trying to recruit him.

A U.S. Naval Academy alumnus, Page cooperated as a witness in that case, which was coordinated with the bureau’s Counterespionage Section Chief Peter Strzok in Washington, and he helped the government convict the Russian spy. Evgeny Buryakov pleaded guilty to espionage-related charges on March 11, 2016. FBI agents, as well as federal prosecutors, huddled with Page around that time to tie up loose ends, he said. “It had absolutely nothing to do with the election interference story, which surfaced months later,” Page said.

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“On April 3, 2017,” Page said, “reporters at ABC News and BuzzFeed requested to meet in order to inform me that U.S. government operatives had unlawfully disclosed my identity as Male-1 in this 2015 case.”

The media leak came just weeks after Bharara, an Obama appointee, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Bharara, who formerly served as Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s aide, could not be reached for comment.


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a note: Page was also interviewed by FBI in Mar 2017. I have posted that perhaps Schiff got the year wrong. Sounds like Page actually did meet both in Mar 2016 and Mar 2017.

Well damn

The Senate Judiciary Comm mtg to examine the DoJ IG report has been delayed until 18 June 2018

it's being altered and redacted to death, why bother...

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Originally posted by downtownv:
it's being altered and redacted to death, why bother...

Yup. The American people will be lucky to make out the page numbers after the Stasi (I mean DOJ/FBI) get through with it.

https://www.washingtontimes.co...be-released-june-14/

The inspector general reviewing the Obama administration’s handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election plans to release his report June 14.

Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, also said he will appear on Capitol Hill June 18 to answer questions about his findings, which reportedly ding both former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for their handling.

Mr. Horowitz laid out the timeline in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The report will cover the FBI and Justice Department’s decisions during the 2016 election, including moves to clear Mrs. Clinton — then publicly talk about the investigation — in the middle of the campaign.

“We will release the report as soon as we complete the OIG’s ordinary processes for the review and classification of such reports, which we have been following,” he said in the letter. “Most of this process is now complete, and we anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018.”

quote:

Originally posted by mbinky:

quote:

Originally posted by downtownv:
it's being altered and redacted to death, why bother...

Yup. The American people will be lucky to make out the page numbers after the Stasi (I mean DOJ/FBI) get through with it.

I'm trying to remain positive (and patient), though it ain't easy.
Is the truth too much to hope for?

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Is the truth too much to hope for?

Two things make me hopeful.

1. The Horowitz report on McCabe was well written and didn't pull punches

2. From the earlier letter that Horowitz sent (see below). If they follow that process, we may be okay.

apologies for posting so much, but there is a lot breaking right now.

This may be good news.

A few posts above there was the Senate Resolution to have the Senate Intel Comm provide documents to DoJ about unauthorized disclosure.

Here is more on that:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07...e-staffer/index.html

Justice Department investigating ex-Senate Intel staffer over allegations classified information was disclosed

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who allegedly disclosed classified information, prompting the Senate panel to share information related to the federal probe.

The identity of the former committee aide under investigation has not been disclosed, but sources say prosecutors appear to be preparing charges soon against the individual.

In an unusual move, the Senate quietly passed a resolution Wednesday evening authorizing the Senate panel to provide the Justice Department with documents in connection with the investigation.

The records are related to a Justice Department investigation into "allegations of the unauthorized disclosure of information by a former employee of the Committee," according to a description of the resolution printed in the congressional record.

not sure, but this might be Dan Jones. He was former staff to Feinstein. He is the one who got $50 million to continue looking for dirt on President Trump after the election

The senators leading the panel have been tight-lipped about the investigation, referring comment to the Justice Department. Senators on the committee were briefed on the matter earlier this week.

"We can't get into personnel issues," Burr said Thursday when asked about the allegations. "Any action you'd have to talk to the Department of Justice about."

Warner, the top Democrat on the panel, would not discuss whether charges would be brought imminently. But he emphasized he could not discuss the matter "today."

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The inspector general reviewing the Obama administration’s handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election plans to release his report June 14.

It is a good omen this is going to be released on the Presidents birthday.