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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
From sdy’s post: “New York Times Matthew Rosenberg said Christopher Steele, author of the Steele dossier, is increasingly concerned that he will be thrown under the bus after he speaks to investigators about the role he played in the Trump-Russia probe.”

What? He’s worried just because he authored a made-up story smearing President Trump?

Yeah, he should be a bit worried. A little more than a made-up story. That story was used for a FISA warrant. I would also bet he knew what it was going to be used for.

… thrown under the Big Yellow Bus …

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Originally posted by Bytes:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
From sdy’s post: “New York Times Matthew Rosenberg said Christopher Steele, author of the Steele dossier, is increasingly concerned that he will be thrown under the bus after he speaks to investigators about the role he played in the Trump-Russia probe.”

What? He’s worried just because he authored a made-up story smearing President Trump?

Yeah, he should be a bit worried. A little more than a made-up story. That story was used for a FISA warrant. I would also bet he knew what it was going to be used for.

If a prosecutor lies on an application for a warrant, does that invalidate the warrant?

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Originally posted by Broadside


If a prosecutor lies on an application for a warrant, does that invalidate the warrant?

Yup, usually pisses off the judges too...

When I was a cop, if I lied, especially on a warrant I would have been fired, but all of my prior arrests and convictions would be open for examination and possibly over turn.

new report from John Solomon:

https://thehill.com/opinion/wh...s-a-state-department

In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.

Mueller report , page 6 of Vol I:




But hundreds of pages of government documents — which Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik as a “sensitive” intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters.

Why special counsel Robert Mueller’s team omitted that part of the Kilimnik narrative from their report and related court filings is not known. But the revelation of it comes as the accuracy of Mueller’s Russia conclusions face increased scrutiny.

The incomplete portrayal of Kilimnik is so important to Mueller’s overall narrative that it is raised in the opening of his report. “The FBI assesses” Kilimnik “to have ties to Russian intelligence,” Mueller’s team wrote on page 6, putting a sinister light on every contact Kilimnik had with Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman.

The FBI knew all of this, well before the Mueller investigation concluded.

Alan Purcell, the chief political officer at the Kiev embassy from 2014 to 2017, told FBI agents that State officials, including senior embassy officials Alexander Kasanof and Eric Schultz, deemed Kilimnik to be such a valuable asset that they kept his name out of cables for fear he would be compromised by leaks to WikiLeaks.

“Purcell described what he considered an unusual level of discretion that was taken with handling Kilimnik,” states one FBI interview report that I reviewed. “Normally the head of the political section would not handle sources, but Kasanof informed Purcell that KILIMNIK was a sensitive source.”

more at link

Glad to see some activity.

“The Connecticut U.S. attorney assigned by Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the Russia probe is “very dialed in” and “asking all the right questions,” according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Separately, sources within the Justice Department confirmed to Fox News that Barr has met “on multiple occasions in recent weeks” with Durham, who was in Washington, D.C., this month.

Fox News has learned that Durham has been getting briefed on the “four corners” of the investigations into the FBI's use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, among other issues. Barr appointed Durham, 68, last month…”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...sia-barr-sources.amp

This glacier needs to pick up the pace.

Exactly. 20 January 2021 at noon. The investigation needs to be in the prosecutorial phase by then. Indictments and arraignments need to be completed and juries seated.

Barr needs to treat this investigation like that is his last day at work, and if he is sincere in wanting to get to the truth he will not let this drag out.

The left was successful (Rosenstein, the DOJ/FBI) in running out the clock until they took the house back. Barr CANNOT let that happen again.

Funny how half the country is waiting for the dems to stop talking and start the impeachment process already while the other half is waiting for declassification and indictments.

Gee, I wonder how long this will go on? Neither side has the intestinal fortitude to take that big step.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Funny how half the country is waiting for the dems to stop talking and start the impeachment process already while the other half is waiting for declassification and indictments.

Gee, I wonder how long this will go on? Neither side has the intestinal fortitude to take that big step.

It’s amazing how far apart both sides are on this issue.

1 side is gonna be extremely disappointed.

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It’s amazing how far apart both sides are on this issue.
1 side is gonna be extremely disappointed.

Or maybe both sides are gonna be extremely disappointed.

The frog marches should commence forthwith.

There also need to be armed SWAT teams arresting the seditious on TV just like was done to Roger Stone

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There also need to be armed SWAT teams arresting the seditious on TV just like was done to Roger Stone

Or that kid that Janet Reno needed to send back to Cuba.

article about Jonathan Winer and the Kerry State Dept

https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...department-business/

a few small quotes from a long article

Winer was Steele’s main point of contact to the State Department, and the official who disseminated the dossier to others at Foggy Bottom. Winer, whose official title was special envoy to Libya, also set up a meeting on Oct. 11, 2016 for Steele with Kathleen Kavalec, the deputy secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.

Winer also had contact with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC.

“These documents show that Fusion GPS and Clinton spy Christopher Steele had a close relationship with the Obama State Department,” says Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.”The State Department under John Kerry is emerging as another center of the Spygate conspiracy against President Trump.”

Winer is also linked to a second dossier on Trump, this one authored by Cody Shearer, a controversial political operative who is closely allied to the Clintons.

Winer obtained the so-called Shearer dossier from Sidney Blumenthal, another longtime Clinton associate. Winer has said he gave the report to Steele, who then provided it to the FBI.

A little bit of action…

“The Justice Department intends to interview two CIA officers for its review of the origins of the Russia investigation.

U.S. Attorney John Durham's team wants to talk to at least one senior counterintelligence official and a senior analyst who examined Russia's role in meddling in the 2016 election, according to the New York Times.

Although formal requests have not yet been submitted, CIA Director Gina Haspel informed senior officials that her agency will cooperate, but will work to ensure that sources, methods, and intelligence provided by allies would be protected…”

www.washingtonexaminer.com/new...nvestigation-origins

House panel subpoenas Flynn, Gates
BY MORGAN CHALFANT - 06/13/19 08:54 AM EDT

THE HILL > https://thehill.com/policy/nat...-gates?userid=392361

" . . . "As part of our oversight work, the House Intelligence Committee is continuing to examine the deep counterintelligence concerns raised in Special Counsel Mueller's report, and that requires speaking directly with the fact witnesses," the committee's chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), said in a statement on Thursday.

Schiff noted that both Flynn and Gates cooperated extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian interference, but said that they have so far “refused to cooperate fully with Congress.”

In a Wednesday letter, Schiff demanded that Flynn, who worked on President Trump's campaign and briefly in the administration, provide “documents and other materials” by June 26 and appear before the committee for sworn testimony on July 10.

The committee is also ordering Gates to turn over documents and other materials by June 26, and to provide sworn testimony on July 10, according to a separate letter issued to him.

Schiff wrote in the letter to Gates, Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, that the panel has “no choice but to compel the production of the specified documents and your testimony” pursuant to a subpoena because he has thus far declined to cooperate voluntarily with the committees requests. . . ."

https://www.washingtonexaminer...s-mueller-scope-memo

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said he has seen the scope memo for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.

The California congressman said he could not talk about what is in the memo, but noted that Mueller's report was "probably, largely based on" British ex-spy Christopher Steele's unverified dossier on President Trump's ties to Russia.

The classified scope memorandum was issued by former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in August 2017, months after he appointed Mueller to lead the Russia investigation without citing a crime. A heavily redacted version of the August memo has already been released to the public.

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so if that is true, why would the memo still be not released to the public ?

The External Roots of Spygate

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Over the past three years, the MSM has done a thorough job brainwashing its captive audience into believing that Putin preferred, supported, or even colluded with Trump in the 2016 elections. Not only was this untrue, but even the idea of such a preference, much less collusion, was ridiculous in the U.S. in the spring of 2016. Russia was our ally in the fight against terror, and CIA Director John Brennan visited FSB head Gennadiy Bortnikov in Moscow in March 2016.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...idge-spy-conference/

Stefan Halper, the former professor who is reported to be a longtime FBI informant, will appear alongside former British and American spies at an intelligence seminar at the University of Cambridge in July.

The event, which is hosted by the Cambridge Security Initiative, will feature a host of former Western intelligence community officials, including the former head of MI6 and a former deputy director of the National Security Agency.

Halper has laid low since he was identified in press reports in May 2018 as a longtime FBI informant who had contact with several Trump campaign advisers.

Halper will lead a discussion at the Cambridge event on July 20 along with Nigel Inkster, who retired in 2006 as director of operations and intelligence for MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA. Halper and Inkster will speak about intelligence challenges posed by China.

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They should a session on spying on American presidential candidates

June 16, 2019
Robert Mueller: A Scary and Mendacious Man
By John Dale Dunn

American Thinker > https://www.americanthinker.co..._mendacious_man.html

"Robert Mueller's troublesome, unethical, and corrupt FBI career prior to his appointment as the special counsel on the Trump-Russia Collusion investigation deserves a serious vetting. I provide here two points of reference: a monograph by sitting congressman and former Texas State Court judge Louie Gohmert titled "Robert Mueller: Unmasked" and a book by Louisiana attorney and sitting Louisiana state senator John Milkovich titled Robert Mueller: Errand Boy for the New World Order."

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