PROFESSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN HOAX-PART 1
MALFEASANCE, CRIMES OR COVER UP? ASKING THE FORBIDDEN QUESTIONS THAT THE DURHAM INVESTIGATION NEEDS TO ANSWER
ANSWERING THE “5 W’S AND THE HOW” QUESTIONS IN THE BIGGEST FRAUD EVER PERPETRATED ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND THE WORST INTELLIGENCE BETRAYAL IN UNITED STATES HISTORY “PART 1 of 2 PARTS.”
This analysis exposes the “Big Lie” theory the American media promoted to the country over the past five years: to wit that Donald Trump and his team members colluded with the Russians. The “Big Lie” was part of a well-designed Clinton-DNC-Obama-Biden conspiracy disinformation plan. Senior Leadership of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) implemented the conspiracy plan on behalf of the organizers by using multiple manufactured and manipulated hearsay narratives to set up the Russians as the responsible party inferring Russian interference in the 2016 POTUS election to defraud the public. The plan’s purpose was to destroy Trump’s Candidacy and, after Trump won the 2016 POTUS election, to obstruct the Trump Presidency.
The conclusions reached on my 30 years of experience conducting complex conspiracy investigations. In January 2012, the DEA Kabul Country office initiated “Operation Reciprocity,” a review of closed and open investigative case files. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Southwest Director Michael Marsac asked me to conduct the file reviews to determine if there was enough evidence in the files to implicate the Taliban Senior Leadership in a drug trafficking conspiracy with the heads of the Afghan drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) for U.S. prosecution using the U.S. narco-terrorism statute. The case file reviews produced a 240-page draft prosecution memo and 700 pages of supporting evidence documenting that the Senior Taliban Leadership were involved with the principal heads of the Afghan DTOs in a conspiracy to traffic in illegal narcotics to fund their insurgency efforts. The documents were endorsed by top DOJ officials in Kabul and accepted by the Southern District of New York for investigation and prosecution. [Note: The DEA/DOJ investigative and prosecution efforts were stopped by the Obama administration in May 2013 due to political considerations so as not to jeopardize the administration’s efforts to engage the Taliban in peace talks and their prisoner swap negotiations involving army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.] 1
So, after the results of the Mueller report came out in April 2019, which determined there was no Trump-Russia collusion, I began conducting my investigative analysis of the Trump-Russian collusion hoax using the same investigative approach used in “Operation Reciprocity,” to see if I could answer the million-dollar question of how a Democrat National Committee (DNC) disinformation document, the so-called Steele dossier became the centerpiece for the National Security agencies, CIA, FBI and DOJ, investigations of Trump and members of his team? The purpose was to determine if our National Security agencies were duped into conducting investigations into President Trump and members of his campaign or were this betrayal at the highest levels of government using the lie and denial technique of setting up the Russians as the responsible party in a false flag design plan to hide the criminal actions of those involved in a conspiratorial agreement in manufacturing and manipulating multiple hearsay narratives to destroy Trump’s Candidacy and after Trump won the 2016 POTUS election, to obstruct the Trump Presidency.
The review consisted of reviewing the voluminous amount of open-source media reporting by comparing the information with the facts contained in declassified documents and government investigative findings, highlighting the scope and extent of this Conspiracy’s threat to U.S. Democracy by weaponizing and politicizing the National Security agencies. Lastly, the analysis answers the five “W” s of who, what, when, where, why, and how questions the media refuses to ask, which the Durham investigation needs to answer. [NOTE: I referenced over 260 opened sources in the reference sections of parts 1 and 2 and want to acknowledge the great work done by these journalists, reporters, and bloggers who did excellent analysis reporting in connecting the dots of this Conspiracy.]
The goal of the analysis is to provide context to the relevancy of the two recent indictments by Special Counsel Durham of Michael Sussman, a former attorney for Hillary Clinton and the DNC, and Igor Danchenko, Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source, along with Durham’s recent court filing on Sussman lawyers conflict of interest. Durham, in his court filings, lays out the scope and extent of the Conspiracy and provides snippets as a road map in following Durham’s investigative progress in connecting the dots. 2 3
SYNOPSIS
The information presented answers the million-dollar question of how a Clinton-DNC disinformation document, the Steele dossier, became the centerpiece for U.S. law enforcement investigative and intelligence efforts that launched the FBI investigations that later evolved into the Mueller investigation on Trump and members of his campaign which resulted in dividing the country into extreme partisans’ lines among the two major political parties.
The evidence presented in the Durham indictments is a speaking indictment of a criminal conspiratorial enterprise of how the Clinton campaign and the DNC used the original theme developed by Glen Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS, back in the late 2000s to damage their political opponents. Simpson conceived a legal dirty trick concept of “guilt by association,” on how opposition research” could be used against their political opposition by tying them to Russian Oligarchs and Russian government officials, giving the appearance to the public that they were colluding with the Russians. 4
The Clinton campaign and the DNC took Simpson’s theory of using legal opposition research to another level. The Durham indictments lay out the conspiratorial agreement of how Simpson’s opposition research idea was criminalized and weaponized by the Clinton-DNC by manufacturing and manipulating opposition research information for criminal purposes in defrauding the American public by creating the “Big Lie,” that Trump and members of his team were colluding with the Russians.
The conspirators accomplished this by disseminating the information in the Fusion GPS Neille Ohr proto-dossiers, Shearer memo, and the Steele dossier in a coordinated multi-level Clinton-DNC-Obama-Biden disinformation campaign with a complicit media to deceive the American public in the 2016 POTUS election. [NOTE: The media complicity is documented in two articles, “The Federalist.” The first article in March 2019, by Margot Cleveland, titled “61 Hacks Who Peddled Russian Collusion and Should Never Be Trusted Again.” 5 The second article in August 2020, by Mollie Hemingway, titled “Media Silent as Christopher Steele ‘Hero’ ‘Spymaster’ Narrative Crumbles.”] 6
The release of the declassification of July 2016 notes of CIA Director Brennan and the September 2016 CIA referral memo to the FBI by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) confirms in July 2016, a conversation of a Clinton campaign official was intercepted by the Russians discussing their false flag plan to taint Trump with colluding with the Russians to cover up Hillary Clinton email scandal. The Head of British Intelligence advised CIA Director Brennan of the Russian intercept conversation, and Brennan briefed President Obama on the information. Instead of investigating Hillary Clinton and those involved, Director Brennan, on July 25, 2016, instructed FBI Director Comey to open up four counterintelligence investigations into Trump and Trump’s campaign team. In early September 2016, the CIA sent a referral memo to the FBI to look into the allegations of the Clinton DNC disinformation plan, but the FBI ignored it. 7
The significance of Brennan’s notes and the CIA referral memo to the FBI is that the documents prove the existence of a plan to defraud the American public in the 2016 POTUS election by the Clinton campaign & the DNC. Brennan’s notes and the CI referral memo are documentary evidence in proving the conspiratorial criminal conspiracy element “conspiratorial agreement,” of 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to defraud the United States. 8
The importance of the guilty plea of former FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, 9 the two separate indictments by Durham of Michael Sussman 27-pages, 10 Igor Danchenko 39-pages, 11 and the filing of conflict of interest 12 establishes the critical element needed called the “sincere agreement,” in proving the illegal conspiratorial agreement of violating the law to defraud the United States and after Trump’s election, obstruction of the Executive Branch.
The Conspiratorial agreement is the essence of the crime of Conspiracy, a partnership for criminal purposes, and is an agreement by two or more people to commit an unlawful or a lawful act by illegal means. The fact that there was a Clinton-DNC disinformation plan is evidence of the “conspiratorial agreement,” by two or more people, Clinton campaign officials and members of the DNC to commit an unlawful act. The Durham indictments verify the conspiratorial agreement by deceiving the public that Trump and members of his team colluded with the Russians by manufacturing and manipulating evidence to defraud the American people using the Steele dossier to interfere in the 2016 election and after Trump election as POTUS, a continuation of the project by the Obama administration in obstruction of the Office of the Executive Branch.
Durham in both indictments and his recent court filing describes the modus operandi or the means of the false flag conspiracy plan of how the Clinton campaign & DNC lawyers Michael Sussman and Marc Elias implemented the criminal conspiracy scheme by manufacturing and manipulating opposition research information, where they reportedly paid a technology company to penetrate servers in Trump Tower, Trump NY apartment and the White House by creating falsified documents, white papers and data files, purporting a secret communications channel between the Trump organization and Russian-connected Alfa Bank. 13 14 [NOTE: One of the goals of the plan was to generate an “inference” or “narrative” that Trump was colluding with Russia and then feed the phony information to the FBI to trigger an investigation of Trump giving the appearance the FBI investigation was legally predicated and provide cover to those within the FBI participating in the conspiracy in supporting their false narrative as to the origin of Crossfire Hurricane when the facts of Durham investigation will show that none of the FBI investigations into Trump and team Trump were ever legally predicated.] 15
In Durham’s latest filing, the details in Sussman’s indictment show documentary evidence (payment records) that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia.”
The Durham court filings purported that Sussman and Marc Elias were involved in the coordination aspects of manufacturing evidence in the Alfa Bank ruse. By Sussman knowingly and willfully reporting the disinformation to the FBI, CIA, and DOJ/IG, Sussman committed an overt criminal act of lying to the FBI, CIA, and DOJ/IG in furtherance of the Conspiracy.
Durham Indictment alleged that Sussman provided manipulated data that there was the existence of a secret communication channel between the Trump organization and the Russian Alfa Bank of suspicious DNS lookups by Trump Tower, Trump’s residential apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President at the White House and a healthcare provider, of internet protocol or IP addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provided. After meeting with the FBI, Sussman met with the CIA and told the CIA that these lookups demonstrated that Trump and his associates were using Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations, inferring Trump and Trump’s team were comprising National Security.
Sussman obtained this data from a Tech Executive Rodney Joffe, whose internet company had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) as part of a sensitive arrangement wherein Joffe internet company provided DNS resolution services to the EOP wherein Joffe and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the nefarious purpose (spying) of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump. The report lays out the dots connecting Sussman to the Clinton Campaign, Sussman to Joffe using multiple internet companies, and two federally funded university researchers with a complicit media in deceiving and defrauding the American public to interfere in the 2016 POTUS election and to obstruct the Trump Presidency. 16
Sussman didn’t stop with the FBI and CIA, Durham court filings purported that Sussman met with the DOJ/OIG and told the IG that one of his clients (identified as Joffe) had observed that a specific OIG employee’s computer was seen publicly in the Internet traffic and was connecting to a Virtual Private Network in a foreign country.
The Durham indictment of Igor Danchenko alleges Danchenko lied to the FBI on four occasions regarding Sergei Millian, stating in the charge that Danchenko never received such a phone call or such information from any person he believed to be [Millian]. Furthermore, Danchenko never made any arrangements to meet [Millian],” the indictment states. “Danchenko fabricated these facts.”
In November 2021, a Real Clear Investigations article by Paul Sperry titled “Danchenko Indictment: How Dossier Non-Source Sergei Millan Was Framed,” verified the information in Durham Indictment of Danchenko lying to the FBI in the fabricating of Millan’s role in the Clinton-DNC Russian hoax.” 17
Sperry reported in the fall of 2016, Danchenko’s alleged fabrications about Millian were also fed to the FBI by then-top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, Nellie, worked for Simpson as a researcher on Trump’s alleged Russian connections. “Millian had popped up in Nellie Ohr’s early reporting for his ties to Trump,” Sperry stated in December 2016; Bruce Ohr conveyed to the lead FBI agent investigating Trump and his advisers that Millian was the anonymous “Source E” in the dossier “who was central in connecting Trump to Russia,” and relayed Simpson’s concerns that Millian was a Russian spy — specifically a “RIS [Russian Intelligence Services] officer” — as well as a claim that he was secretly in contact with the Trump team through a computer server controlled by Russia-based Alfa Bank. Moreover, Ohr told the FBI he heard the same thing about Millian using the Alfa Bank server from his friend Steele the previous month.
Sperry described in 2019 that Simpson co-wrote the book “Crime in Progress: The Secret History of the Trump-Russia Investigation.” He added that Millian’s “record suggested a background entirely consistent with that of some sort of [Russian] state intelligence asset.” “His role in the events of 2016 remains underappreciated, even today,” Simpson wrote. (He also maintained that Danchenko was considered “among the finest” of Russian analysts and “deserves a medal for service to the West”). Within weeks of Fusion’s research, Danchenko and Steele began using Millian as a stand-in source for false rumors that Moscow compromised Trump. Their scheme gained steam after Trump was elected. Their allegations not only formed the basis for continued surveillance of Page but inspired a raft of congressional inquiries and other investigations that kept Trump’s presidency under suspicion for his entire term in office. 18
Durham court filings and media reports conveyed the roles of two Democratic party-political operatives called “fixers” who had long ties to the Clintons, Cody Shearer, and Charles Dolan, and the part of the Brooking Institute, a Democratic party think tank. Durham filings told how Shearer and Dolan manufactured disinformation of Trump-Russian collusion and how they conspired with the Brooking Institute to disseminate the false narrative to the State Department, media, and other Federal agencies to defraud and deceive the American public. 19
More importantly, the two indictments and Durham’s recent filing opened the door for Durham to expand the scope of his investigation to President Obama and his ilk roles of their roles in the continuation of the Clinton & DNC conspiratorial agreement.
After the election of President Trump, President Obama and his ilk continued the conspiratorial agreement of the Clinton & DNC disinformation plan by promoting the Clinton-DNC disinformation document, the Steele dossier. They manipulated information in the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report that the Russians wanted Trump to win in misleading the American people. 20 21 22 23 24
President Obama knew of Hillary Clinton & DNC’s disinformation scheme and that the Steele dossier contained Clinton-DNC disinformation. Yet, he did nothing to stop the FBI investigations that CIA Director Brennan requested; instead, President Obama and members of his administration advocated the false narrative that President Trump was an illegitimate President and had colluded with the Russians. 25 26 27
Most former Obama officials testified behind closed doors in Congressional hearings, where every official stated under oath that they had no knowledge or evidence of Trump-Russian collusion. Yet for the last four years, these former Obama administration officials, specifically former CIA Director Brennan and Former FBI Director Comey, participated in media interviews after media interviews promoting the DNC Russian collusion hoax expressing their disdain and political animus towards President Trump. Comey and Strzok told the public they’re serving a higher moral purpose in protecting the Obama legacy. The actions of these former Obama officials after Trump was elected President, by knowingly & willfully promoting the false narrative to the media, are all overt acts in furtherance of the Conspiracy to deceive and defraud the U.S. and meet the criminal elements of 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to obstruct the Executive Branch of government. Their participation in promoting the Hillary Clinton & DNC conspiracy scheme shows the plan executed at the highest levels of the U.S. government and is the “definition of governmental corruption.” 28
The mere fact that Mueller assembled a partisan team of Democrat Lawyers that spent 45 million dollars in a two-year investigation of Trump and members of his campaign, only to conclude that they did not find any evidence that Trump nor members of his campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in the 2016 POTUS election is pretty significant. As the findings exposed, this was a betrayal by our National Security agencies in pedaling hearsay Russian disinformation with ties to the Russian Intelligence Service as a smoke screen in misleading the public that the Steele dossier was a Russian disinformation document. Anonymous intelligence sources and retired Intelligence officers who showed animus toward Trump attributed a complicit media in authenticating the hearsay Russian disinformation of the Clinton-DNC false flag scheme,” the Steele dossier as evidence of Trump Russian collusion.” [Note: Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) entered the discredited DNC Steele dossier as evidence of Trump-Russian collusion into the Congressional record.]
The Mueller findings highlighted the issue of promoting intelligence as evidence by inferring that such evidence is there, but its classification is not evidence. If there were any classified intelligence evidence, such as intercepted conversations of evidentiary value showing Trump and his team members colluded with the Russians, you can bet that Mueller would have declassified those intercepts and used them as evidence in a court of law.
Ironically you have both Hillary Clinton and President Obama, after Trump’s election, accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians when it was Obama and Hillary Clinton who colluded with the Russians back in 2009 in compromising U.S. national security during the failed Russian reset in setting up the Russian version of the Silicon Valley through a Russian technology company called Skolkovo. Clinton “played a substantial role in assisting Russian government entities in accessing U.S. capital and in seeking investments in US high technology companies,” that substantially enhanced Russian Military technological capabilities. 29
Yet the Obama administration ignored the warning of both the U.S. Army and FBI as to the threat of major technology transfers component of the Russian reset overseen by Hillary Clinton substantially enhanced the Russian military’s technological capabilities. 30
[NOTE: Why would President Obama ignore FBI and DOD warnings of Russian spying threat and put National Security at risk by giving the Russians access to our technology companies?
A report by the Government Accountability Institute purported John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign Manager was connected to a Putin-‐-connected Russian government fund transferred $35 million to a small company that Podesta was on its executive board, which included senior Russian officials. The report stated that Podesta failed to reveal, as required by law on his federal financial disclosures, his membership on the board of this offshore company and that Podesta headed up a think tank that wrote favorably about the Russian reset while receiving millions from Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs via an offshore LLC. Yet both Clinton and Podesta’s ties to Russian oligarchs and Russian government officials were never investigated by the Mueller team and the FBI; instead, both Mueller and the FBI ignored their ties to Russian officials in colluding with the Russians and alleged criminal acts of receiving pay for play funds from Russians.] 31
In March 2016, President Obama shut down the CIA unit strategic Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC) that had been operational since 1984 in countering the Russian disinformation threat. 32
In March 2016, President Obama shut down the CIA unit strategic Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC) that had been operational since 1984 in countering the Russian disinformation threat. 33
In August 2016, President Obama, after being warned of increased Russian cyber-attacks against the United States, President Obama issued an order for U.S. Intelligence agencies to stand down in countering the Russian cyber-attack efforts when they were at their peak. 34
[Note: Raises the National Security question of why President Obama would shut down the FDDC and issue a standdown order after being warned of increased Russian cyber-attacks again the U.S. in countering Russian cyber threat?]
The Durham investigation is the most significant criminal investigation in U.S. history, which, if followed to its conclusions, will hopefully result in restoring the public trust in the Rule of Law by holding those conspirators accountable and that no one is above the law; that why the Durhan Investigation matters and why you should care.
What do the Durham indictments and filings mean? And where is Durham going?
[NOTE: All my prior reporting on this subject matter over the last two years was done in an abundance of caution, giving deference to the DOJ/Inspector General findings of the declassified notes, the results of the U.S. Senate Intelligence and the Mueller report that referenced both CIA & FBI assessments that suspected Trump and his associates had ties to Russians. I mistakenly concluded in my initial analysis that the Steele dossier was Russian disinformation as part of a Russian false flag operation against the United States. In a final review of the Durham court filings and the findings in the Mueller report of exculpatory information finding no evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians, I concur that there is no evidence that the Steele dossier is a “Russian disinformation” document. Durham court filings show that the Clinton campaign and the DNC fabricated the false narrative tying Trump and his team to the Russians by the manufactured Steele dossier by promoting unverified intelligence assessments by FBI, CIA, and Friendly foreign Intelligence agencies as evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians.
The facts show there was never any Russian false flag disinformation campaign by the RIS. The National Security agencies inferred that evidence of Trump-Russian collusion is there, but it’s classified, is not evidence, its hearsay, and like all hearsay, it fails because it cannot be adequately examined or verified. Its classic tradecraft used by Intelligence agencies to give the illusion that there are “Ties to Russian Intelligence” using the lies and deception technique for malefactors like Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and the Mueller team to infer there is fire when there is only smoke.
The declassified notes in the IG report illustrate how they use phrasing such as “they suspected that Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) had penetrated the Steele source network and provided Russian disinformation for the Steele dossier.” And in both the Senate Intelligence and Mueller findings, they reported a lot of hearsay about Russian disinformation using phrasing such as “may have ties to the Russian Intelligence service” and even stated that Konstantin Kilimnik was a “Russian Intelligence officer.”
Kilimnik, like Paul Manafort, was a reliable intelligence source for the State Department U.S. Embassy in Ukraine since the mid-2000s. Mueller should have mentioned in his report their contribution to the State Department.
Several media outlets used anonymous sources in the intelligence community to report that the Steele dossier was verified. If there were intercept evidence that Trump or his team members colluded with the Russians, Mueller would have declassified the information for evidentiary purposes. Instead, Mueller findings were exculpatory, finding no evidence of Trump-Russian collusion. Exemplifies why Intelligence information is not evidence.]
What do the Durham indictments and filings mean? And where is Durham going?
What Durham has filed before the court is what why we call a speaking indictment, it says a lot more about the scope and extent of the Conspiracy and the prosecution theory of the case, providing a preview of the evidence involved in defrauding the public and obstructing the Executive Branch without charging those unnamed person and business entities listed in the Sussman and Danchenko indictments with any crimes. Allows Durham to finish his investigation under the statute of limitations. The information presented tells those unnamed persons listed in the documents of their roles in the Conspiracy to think about cooperating before Durham finishes his investigation and files a superseding conspiracy indictment. It also tells those who were the decision makers a snippet of Durham’s evidence in holding them accountable for their actions after he has gathered enough evidence to meet the sufficiency and witness’s requirement for court purposes.
Origins of the Hillary Clinton DNC Collusion Plan
To understand the Trump-Russian collusion hoax, you start with how the idea of guilt by association began as the foundational theme in forming the DNC Russian collusion narrative.
The beginnings for the formulation of the Hillary Clinton & DNC false flag disinformation plan of tying Trump and his associates with colluding with the Russians started back in April 2007, when Glen Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-authored an article setting the seeds for the plan of how innocent associations with Kremlin-affiliated oligarchs and other friends of Vladimir Putin could be weaponized into opposition research where the information could be manipulated or manufactured by using multiple layers of hearsay upon hearsay to taint one's political opponent with colluding with the Russians and then distributing the false narrative with the assistance of a complicit media to destroy one's, political opponent.
April 17, 2007, Glenn R. Simpson and Mary Jacoby, wife of Simpson, co-wrote a Wall Street Journal article in April 2007, "How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington." The report identified Paul Manafort as a key player in introducing Russians to Beltway circles and detailed how prominent Republicans, including the 1996 Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole, opened doors in the American capital for Kremlin-affiliated oligarchs and other friends of Vladimir Putin. Among those friends of Putin was Viktor Yanukovich, who would become President of Ukraine in 2010. According to the article, one of Yanukovich's wealthy patrons paid a political fixer named Paul Manafort to introduce Yanukovich to powerful Washington, DC, figures, including former Vice President Dick Cheney. Manafort figures prominently throughout the piece. 35 36 37
[NOTE: This April 2007 article by Simpson and his wife set the beginning seeds for how to use opposition research for the formation of the Hillary Clinton & DNC plan in setting up the theme of guilt by association of tying Trump and members of his team and later members in his administration of colluding with the Russians oligarchs with ties to Putin. When the CIA and FBI learned that the Russians were aware of Hillary & DNC's plan to taint Trump with Russian collusion using the Steele dossier, all intelligence and investigative efforts against Trump and members of his team by the Obama administration should have ceased. Instead, the FBI and CIA focused on Trump and his team and ignored Hillary & DNC's plan to interfere with the 2016 election. On July 25, 2016, CIA Director Brennan directed FBI Director Comey to open up four investigations into team trump members. A few days after, Director Brennan briefed President Obama and the Obama National Security team that the Russians had intercepted Hillary Clinton and DNC's plan to taint Trump with Russian collusion to cover up her email scandal.]
2008, Simpson and Jacoby discovered that a consultant to John McCain’s 2008 presidential run was working with Yanukovich. As they reported in another Wall Street Journal article, dated May 14, 2008, Davis Manafort, Manafort’s lobbying firm, was escorting Yanukovich around Washinton. 38
[NOTE: This media report arguably is Simpson first attempt of establishing the pattern of using guilt by association theme of tying members of McCain’s campaign team association with Oligarchs that was used by the Conspirators as part of their modus operandi in their designed plan.]
2008, Simpson and Jacoby discovered that a consultant to John McCain's 2008 presidential run was working with Yanukovich. Moreover, as they reported in another Wall Street Journal article, dated May 14, 2008, Davis Manafort, Manafort's lobbying firm, was escorting Yanukovich around Washinton. 39
[NOTE: Jacoby in 1996 worked as a file clerk for Hillary Clinton Rose Law firm that was the subject of the White-Water investigation.]
Mueller Investigation Ignores Podesta brothers and Steele ties to Russians.
What is interesting about the Mueller investigation is that John Podesta and his brother Tony Podesta worked directly with Manafort as lobbyists for Yanukovich. Yet, Mueller indicted Manafort for laundering millions from Yanukovich and charged Manafort with failure to register as a foreign agent. Yet the Mueller team ignored the Podesta brother's relationship with Yanukovich and the fact that they had both failed to register as foreign agents.
In his indictment and final report, the Mueller team also omitted that Manafort was a credible source for the U.S. State Department Embassy in Ukraine since the late 2000s, providing information on Russian and Ukraine officials.
Danchenko, who Durham indicted for lying to the FBI, told the FBI that in March 2016, Steele asked him to look into Paul Manafort, a Republican political operative who joined the Trump campaign a month later. Steele worked for a law firm representing Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who had a business dispute with Manafort.
Mueller investigation ignored Steele's ties to Deripaska and other Russian Oligarchs with links to the Russian government. Lastly, the Mueller team forgot exculpatory information when they learned early on in their investigation that the Trump campaign never showed any interest in Papadopoulos's alleged offer from Mifsud of retrieving Hillary Clinton's missing emails from the Russians, nor did they find any evidence that the Trump campaign made any effort in following up with Papadopoulos in pursuing Hillary missing emails. Yet the Mueller investigation of Trump and his campaign continued at taxpayer expense at the cost of over 45 million dollars only to find no evidence that Trump and his campaign had colluded with the Russians.
FBI's failure to brief Trump and his campaign on Russian efforts to infiltrate Trump's campaign.
A September 2019 letter from Chairman Chuck Grassley, United States Judiciary Committee, to FBI Director Wray asking Director Wray if the FBI gave Candidate Trump a defensive briefing or other warnings of Russian attempts to infiltrate the Trump Campaign. Senator Grassley cited media reports that the FBI had concerns about Rick Davis, John McCain's Campaign Manager, and Paul Manafort, who were part of the late Senator Candidate for POTUS campaign in 2008, regarding Davis and Manafort's foreign lobbyist work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and who had ties to Russian President Putin. According to former McCain advisor John Weaver US Intelligence, the letter raised counterintelligence concerns to McCain Campaign staff about the Russian lobbyist efforts by Davis and Manafort. Weaver stated that U.S. Intelligence cautioned McCain to distance himself from Deripaska, who had ties to Putin and Russian intelligence. The letter noted that McCain let the advisor go. In the book Witch Hunt, author Greg Jarrett noted Attorney General Barr's testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies. According to Jarrett, AG Barr found it bewildering that the FBI had never bothered to notify Trump or his top aides that the Russians might be trying to infiltrate his campaign. Barr said, "That the one of the questions I have, that I feel normally the campaign would have been advised of this."
In their briefing to McCain, the FBI never expressed concerns about Manafort's ties to Yanukovich.
Yet the FBI never briefed Trump about their counterintelligence concerns of Manafort's ties to Yanukovich, and even more damning than this is the fact that the Steele dossier, which dedicates a great deal of space to investigating onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, never once mentions Manafort's ties to Deripaska.
July 23, 2020, an article published by the Washington Examiner by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter, titled "Declassified FBI documents show briefing to Trump and Flynn used as a pretext to investigate campaign." Declassified FBI documents show the counterintelligence briefing the bureau gave to Donald Trump and his national security team during the 2016 campaign was used as a pretext to gather investigative evidence on the Trump campaign and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. The records, a seven-page electronic communication on August 30, 2016, detailing the briefing FBI agent Pientka gave to Trump, Flynn, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the FBI's New York Field Office a week earlier were declassified by the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and obtained by the Washington Examiner. 40
The records show that agent Joseph Pientka, who led the portion of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation focused on Flynn, never warned candidate Trump that the FBI believed the Russian government was attempting to influence his campaign and used the briefing to further the bureau's inquiry. Moreover, the electronic communication approving of the Briefing by Strzok and Kevin Clinesmith, the now-former FBI lawyer whom the DOJ inspector general found had falsified a document related to the wiretapping of onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page. 41
A Democratic consultant and Ukrainian-American activist, Alexandra Chalupa, told the Clinton campaign about Manafort's work for Yanukovich. "I flagged for the DNC the significance of his hire," Chalupa told CNN in July 2017. year. 42
Mid-2015: An FBI report describes Christopher Steele’s contact with 5 Russian oligarchs between January and May 2015 as “unusual” and “recommend[s] that a validation review be completed on Steele because of this activity.” The validation review was not conducted until early 2017. 43
[Note: The FBI possessed information dating to 2015 in Steele's intelligence (Delta) file warning that he might be the victim of DNC disinformation through his contacts with Vladimir Putin-connected oligarchs. By 2017, the FBI claimed specific information in Steele's Dossier was planted by Russian intelligence, according to the declassified notes that became public from Michael Horowitz's report. However, we now know that the Dossier was not information planted by the Russians but information for the Dossier provided by Clinton fixer Charles Dolan.
Danchenko, who Durham indicted for lying to the FBI, told the FBI that in March 2016, Steele asked him to look into Paul Manafort, a Republican political operative who joined the Trump campaign a month later. Steele worked for a law firm representing Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who had a business dispute with Manafort. Yet the Mueller investigation ignored Steele's ties to Russian oligarchs connected to Putin and Danchenko's role in providing Steele with DNC disinformation. The FBI 2009 investigated Danchenko as a suspected asset for the Russian Intelligence Service. Danchenko was introduced to Steele by Fiona Hill when they both worked at the Brookings Institute, a DNC thinks tank. Danchenko, in Durham's indictment, was identified as playing a central role in promoting the Trump-Russian collusion narrative of the Cody Shearer memo and Steele dossier to the media and the public.
The fact Danchenko worked for Brooking Institute, a DNC thought tank, and Fiona Hill (main witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial and friend of Steele) introduced Danchenko to Steele. Additionally, Hill's former boss at the Brooking Institute, Director Talbott, was one of the recipients of the second Trump dossier who later promoted the Steele dossier. The associations are evidence confirming a conspiracy of co-conspirator operatives using the Dossier to defraud the U.S. and destroy Trump at all costs, as laid out in the indictment of Danchenko.
July 27, 2016, Fiona Hill published an article in Vox titled "3 reasons Russia's Vladimir Putin might want to interfere in the U.S. Presidential Elections, where she concluded Putin wanted a weak Presidency by supporting Candidate Trump. The timing in the article is stunning as Hillary Clinton and her campaign, along with the media, accused Putin of encouraging Russian intelligence to hack the DNC and turn over the emails to WikiLeaks as a broader scheme to elect Trump as President. Moreover, it is the same period the CIA/FBI learned that the Steele dossier was DNC disinformation and that the Russians had learned of Hillary Clinton and the DNC's plan to taint Trump with colluding with the Russians to cover up Hillary's email scandal.]
Bruce and Nellie Ohr's roles in the DNC disinformation plan
In October 2015, Simpson hired Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ Attorney Bruce Ohr. Bruce Ohr had known Steele since 2007 when he worked in the U.S. Office in New York. Simpson and Bruce Ohr met in 2010. Nellie Ohr told congressional investigators that part of her work for Fusion GPS was to research the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, including campaign associate Carter Page, early campaign supporter Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, campaign manager Paul Manafort, as well as Trump's family members, including some of his children. 44
Congressional investigators have learned that Ohr first contacted the FBI about Trump-Russia collusion evidence in late July and early August 2016. And his approach was prompted by the information he got from his friend, the former British intelligence agent Steele.
Ohr's account to Congress and his contemporaneous notes show he had multiple contacts with Steele in July 2016. One occurred just before Steele visited the FBI in Rome, another right after Steele made contact.
A third contact occurred on July 30, 2016, exactly one day before the FBI and its counterintelligence official, Peter Strzok, opened the Trump probe officially. 45
A source within the Intelligence Community provided the following information:
April 1, 2016: FBI HQ advises NYFO to investigate Carter Page (opened April 6, 2016). 46 [NOTE: Page has been CIA asset and assisted the FBI investigation resulting in the conviction of a Russian spy in mid-2010.]
On April 4, 2016, Comey/Clapper/Lynch/Rice met to discuss Trump's Foreign Policy team. Page and Papadopoulos in place and known.
April 6, 2016, Page investigation opens priority (Papadopoulos – Brennan or Moffa task Halper/Flynn – CI Agency/Manafort –Title 3 – FBI is already looking at him.
In April 2016, CIA Director Brennan creates two task forces-domestic (FBI/DOJ/Treasury) and foreign (CIA/NSA)- Taskforce runs well into November after the election. Includes a “fusion cell 47
September 2016, Nellie Ohr complies a spreadsheet whosWho19Sept2016 from November 2015-September 2016 of GPS research Trump-Russian linkage citing three protodossiers produced by Ohr in May 2016. Nellie Ohr gave a copy of the research to her husband Bruce Ohr who gave the information to the FBI. 48
In October 2016, Steele provided a copy of the Cody Shearer memo to the FBI that he had received from Jonathan Winer, then a State Department official about Trump and Russia. The memo was written by Cody Shearer, a political operative for the DNC known as a fixer who was friends with Hillary and Bill Clinton. Shearer gave the memo to Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, who transmitted it to Jonathan Winer. The memo claimed that a source inside the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) spy agency alleged that Trump had financial ties to influential Russians and that the FSB had evidence of him engaging in compromising personal behavior (Steele Pee tape dossier.) 49
Hiring of Perkins Coie by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee
April 2016, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) commissioned the Steele dossier, which funded through Clinton law firm Perkins Coie and a lawyer representing the DNC named Marc C. Elias. The firm received between 9.2-12,4 million dollars in legal and consulting fees, of which 1.02 million paid to Fusion GPS and its founder Glen Simpson for opposition research on Donald Trump, his family, businesses, and associations. Simpson hired ex-British M16 spy Christopher Steele to gather opposition research on Candidate Trump and Hillary Campaign paid for Neille Orhs four protodossiers. GPS became the tip of the spear in promoting the Ohr protodossiers and the Steele dossier to the public as part of the Hillary-DNC media disinformation campaign plan against Donald Trump. 50 51
April-May-June 2016, every major news organization was circulating stories about GOP Presidential candidate Trump to the public about Trump and his associate's ties to Russia and other eastern bloc countries from information contained in the four protodossiers produced by GPS Neille Ohr. One of the protodossiers was of Trump's relationships with Russian organized crime, reporting that Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump had traveled to Moscow with convicted felon Felix Sater of the Bay rock group to explore business deals and the Trump saga with Soho. Another protodossier dealt with trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's business dealing in Ukraine. A third protodossier reported on Trump's connection to eastern bloc counties titled Trump in Azerbaijan, Trump in Russia, Trump in Georgia, Trump in Serbia, and the last protodossier Donald Trump and Russia. GPS had been briefing the press for several months before Steele gave his Dossier to the FBI, focusing on Trump and his associates to Russian government officials. Figures close to kremlin leadership wherein Ohr protodossiers were Trump alleged connections to Russian and eastern bloc countries with ties to organized crime and Russian state interests is and by itself evidence of a coordinated disinformation campaign by the Obama administration and selected media outlets against President Trump and his drive to sabotage the 2016 Presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton. 52
May 20, 2016, e-mail correspondence within Fusion GPS regarding the “Trump Russian Master document and Trump Russia memo.” [Note: Durham investigators found the emails Fusion GPS tried to hide.] 53
July 27, 2016, email correspondence within Fusion GPS regarding the “Carter Page August 27, 2016, document.” [Note: Durham investigators found the emails Fusion GPS tried to hide.] 54
July 2016, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified handwritten notes on October 6, 2020. Ratcliffe noted the Obama administration received intelligence that the Russians had intercepted a plan by Hillary Clinton to implicit Candidate Trump to collude with the Russians.
The declassified note says, "alleges Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services." John Ratcliffe declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported "plan" to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as "a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server" ahead of the 2016 presidential election. 55
August 26, 2016, e-mail correspondence between Fusion GPS and Michael Sussman regarding the “August 27 Weekly Briefing document.” [Note: Durham investigators found the emails Fusion GPS tried to hide.] 56
August 30, 2016, e-mail correspondence within Fusion GPS regarding the “Alfa Overview document.” [Note: Durham investigators found the emails Fusion GPS tried to hide.] 57
Steele testified on March 17-18, 2020, during a civil defamation lawsuit deposition in a British Court brought by the owners of Alfa-Bank, that he had met the lawyers for Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC, Perkins Coie partners, Michael Sussman and Marc Elias. Steele said that Sussman gave him the now de-bunked tip that a Russian bank had a secret communication channel with the Trump organization. The information resulted in Steele publishing a memo on September 14, 2016, accusing the founders of Alfa-Bank of having illicit ties to Vladimir Putin. Steele also testified that Glen Simpson, founder of GPS, indicated that Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, President Obama's NSA, knew about the Dossier. Also, that Steele wife worked for the British Intelligence. 58
QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ASKED AND ANSWERED BY THE DURHAM INVESTIGATION:
The roles of British Intelligence 59 60 ,five eyes intelligence network61 Joseph Mifsud, 6263 64 Stephan Halper, 65 and Alexander Downer 66 played in entrapment operations against team Trump members.
What was the legal predication origins for the FBI investigations? 67 and the justification for the two scope memos by Acting AG Rosenstein for the Mueller investigations? 68
[NOTE: It is obvious that one of the goals of the Clinton campaign and DNC was to get the FBI to open up investigations on Trump and his team members, giving the appearance to the public that the FBI investigations were legally predicated; they were not. The problem for the FBI is that they previously conducted a whitewash investigation of her email scandal and intentionally hid Hillary Clinton's criminality of compromising National Security and her pay-for-play scheme so she could run for office. Meanwhile, the FBI & CIA targeted members of the Trump campaign by conducting entrapment operations in March-April-June 2016, with British Intelligence way before the FBI opened up their crossfire investigations in August 2016. Proving that the origins of the FBI investigations didn't start with the meeting between Downer and Papadopoulos. It is apparent that the FBI misled the public as to the roots of when their investigations began and calls into question the legal predication origins of the Mueller investigation.]
Durham investigation needs to determine Clinton-DNC dossier’s origins, authors, and benefactors. After the election of Trump, Daniel J. Jones founder of an investigative outfit called the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in March of 2017 that he had retained the services of Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to "continue exposing Russian interference" in the 2016 election. Steele is the former British spy who authored the infamous unverified dossier of allegations against President Donald Trump.
Mr. Sean Jones told agents that his firm had acquired $50 million from seven to 10 "wealthy donors" to hire Mr. Steele and Fusion GPS to keep investigating Mr. Trump and his ties to Russia. Allegedly the effort is funded by George Soros. Soros was one of President Obama's funders for Organizing for Action (OAF) who helped organize the resistance movement against Trump after Trump was elected President. In all conspiracy investigations, the adage is" follow the money," hopefully, Durham will investigate the benefactors who funded this disinformation campaign to obstruct the Trump Presidency.
Durham needs to unclassified and releases to the public the information contained in the two documents that are still classified; January 2017, Sir Mark Lyall Grant head of British Intelligence private communique to the incoming administration in addressing his country's participation in the counterintelligence probe into the now-debunked Trump-Russia election collusion and the information from the head of British Intelligence to Director Brennan in late July 2016 that prompted Brennan to brief President Obama. [Note: Release of these two documents will answer the three questions: Did the DOJ & FBI knowingly and willfully hide Hillary Clinton's criminality so she could continue her candidacy? Was there election interference by the British government in the 2016 POTUS election? What was the role of British Intelligence in the entrapment operations on members of team Trump? In addition, all three documents would shed light if there a significant problem inside DOJ, specifically FBI/NC/CI division. Currently, no Congressional or Inspector General oversight is required to prevent the weaponization and politicization of the DOJ National Security (FBI/NC/CI) division by the political party in power.]
Why did CIA Director Brennan, in late July 2016, instruct FBI Comey to open up four investigations on team Trump members when they knew that the Steele dossier was DNC disinformation provided to Steele from Danchenko as part of a DNC false flag operation to influence the 2016 POTUS as part of a plan by Hillary Clinton & the DNC to taint Trump with Russian collusion? 69 70
Why in March 2016, did President Obama put U.S. National Security at risk by shutting down the CIA unit strategic Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC) responsible for countering the Russian disinformation threat that had been operating for over 30 years? 71
Why in August 2016, did President Obama ignore warnings by IC of increased Russian cyber threats by issuing a stand down order for U.S. Intelligence agencies to stand down in countering Russians cyber-attacks? 72
The elephant in room are these National Security questions of what did President Obama know and when did he know it regarding the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation and Hillary/DNC plan to influence the 2016 election using a DNC disinformation document and why did he allow these investigations to go forward if Obama knew this was a plan by the Clinton campaign & DNC to taint Trump with Russian collusion? 73 74 75 76 77
In 2009-2010, the Obama administration, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton in an attempt to reboot US Russian relations worked with Russian leaders, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-President Dmitri Medvedev, to create U.S. technology partnerships with Moscow’s version of Silicon Valley, a sprawling high-tech campus known as Skolkovo. 78 79
Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank, paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for that speech, according to his wife's financial disclosures from 2010. The State Department had given its approval for the trip just two days after Bill Clinton's office filed its request. 80 81
The former president's travel to Russia for the speech and potential meetings with Vekselberg and others came as Hillary Clinton's State Department labored to drum up interest in a technology-sharing project, led by Vekselberg, called Skolkovo. 82 83
Four days after Hillary Clinton met with then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in March 2010, Medvedev announced that Vekselberg would head up the Skolkovo project.
The U.S. military’s leading intelligence think tank in Europe EUCOM sounded alarm that the Skolkovo project might be a front for economic and military espionage. FBI sent letters warning several U.S. technologies companies that had become entangled with Skolkovo that they risked possible espionage and “may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application. 84 85
Why did Obama and members of his administration put our country National Security at risk by ignoring the National Security threats of Russian strategic disinformation & espionage efforts by creating a Moscow version of Silicon Valley empowering and enhancing Russian espionage and cyber espionage capabilities against our country? 86 This part 1 of 2
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Declassified FBI documents show briefing to Trump and Flynn used as pretext to investigate campaign | Washington Examiner
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[Note: This article was created by a former Retired DEA Supervisory Special Agent John Seaman with over 30 years’ experience conducting complex conspiracy investigations. Seaman is the co-author of an article Taliban Include Heroin Kingpins in Leadership - by Gretchen Peters and John Seaman - SpyTalk and author of Ideology and Political Correctness Trump Reality and reference in article The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban - POLITICOPOLITICO]
Karen right now the statute of limitations are not in question as with all the criminal overt acts committed the conspiracy has another three years to go.
Sorry meant professional not professor