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To: bitt
Regarding Q #s 3031/32;

1=2 seems to mean that the Papadopoulis testimony was linked to the Gaeta testimony.

And I didn't know we had FBI agents assigned to Rome. Since when are they other than domestic? But it looks like, according to Q, this Gaeta chap was assigned to Rome?

Pope/Child Pedo related?

Also, the Gaeta dump related to Q #3028.

What other dumps are scheduled to occur?
Think timing.

153 posted on 03/11/2019 5:42:28 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Who is Michael Gaeta?

Fewer than 200 posts on the thread and already I’m lost.


155 posted on 03/11/2019 5:45:32 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: bagster

Epoch Times article Q linked, sounds as though bunches of transcripts are in the chute. Lots more a link.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/interview-with-fbis-gaeta-core-to-russiagate-among-53-transcripts-slated-for-release_2674522.html

Interview With FBI’s Gaeta, Central to Russiagate, Among 53 Transcripts Slated for Release

BY PETR SVAB
September 30, 2018 Updated: October 5, 2018

The House Intelligence Committee voted on Sept. 28 to release the transcripts of 53 interviews conducted during the committee’s investigation of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election.

The interviews include high-level officials of the Obama administration, such as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

The list (pdf) also includes people from President Donald Trump’s circle, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner, and former campaign chair Corey Lewandowski.

While the public has heard the story of many of the interviewees before, one of the transcripts may be the most complete account yet from a key figure in what has come to be known as “Russiagate.” Specifically, his role in allowing the now infamous Steele dossier to become the cornerstone in the FBI obtaining a FISA spy warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and by extension—under the NSA’s so-called two-hop rule—other members of the Trump campaign. That figure is FBI agent Michael Gaeta.

Gaeta was, and possibly still is, the assistant legal attaché at the United States Embassy in Rome. Until 2014, he headed the FBI Eurasian Organized Crime unit.

It was Gaeta who, reportedly on July 5, 2016, traveled to London to meet with former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier. The trip was reportedly authorized by Victoria Nuland, then-assistant state secretary for Eurasian affairs.

Steele used unsubstantiated claims from second- and thirdhand sources close to Kremlin to compile the dossier on Russians allegedly conspiring with the Trump campaign to sway the elections.

Steele was paid by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was paid by law firm Perkins Coie, which was contracted for the job by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Steele was only authorized by Fusion GPS co-founder Glen Simpson to call Gaeta a few days before the July 5 trip, according to Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones’ David Corn.

But that doesn’t square with a report by The Guardian’s Luke Harding, who wrote that Steele flew to Rome in June to brief on the dossier his “FBI contact with whom he had co-operated over Fifa.”

Harding wrote that Steele had previously provided the FBI with information on Russians corrupting the Fifa soccer association in a bid to host the 2018 soccer World Cup.

Steele’s “American contact in Rome” was “the head of the FBI’s Eurasian serious crime division,” Harding wrote. That was, at the time, Gaeta.

Nuland later testified to Congress that she saw “excerpts” from the unfinished dossier in mid-July 2016. She decided the matter should have been handled by the FBI, she said during her appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

But it wasn’t the dossier that, officially on July 31, 2016, prompted the FBI to launch a counterintelligence investigation of a Russian conspiracy, even though the conspiracy was primarily alleged by the dossier.

[More at link]


159 posted on 03/11/2019 5:48:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)
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To: bagster

Interview With FBI’s Gaeta, Central to Russiagate, Among 53 Transcripts Slated for Release

“Gaeta was, and possibly still is, the assistant legal attaché at the United States Embassy in Rome. Until 2014, he headed the FBI Eurasian Organized Crime unit.

It was Gaeta who, reportedly on July 5, 2016, traveled to London to meet with former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier. The trip was reportedly authorized by Victoria Nuland, then-assistant state secretary for Eurasian affairs.”

Head whirling yet??


183 posted on 03/11/2019 6:16:35 PM PDT by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: bagster
And I didn't know we had FBI agents assigned to Rome. Since when are they other than domestic?


217 posted on 03/11/2019 6:47:23 PM PDT by eldoradude
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To: bagster

And I didn’t know we had FBI agents assigned to Rome. Since when are they other than domestic? But it looks like, according to Q, this Gaeta chap was assigned to Rome?
******************************************************************************************************

For more than seven decades, the FBI has stationed special agents and other personnel overseas to help protect Americans back home by building relationships with principal law enforcement, intelligence, and security services around the globe that help ensure a prompt and continuous exchange of information.

Today, we have 63 legal attaché offices—commonly known as legats—and more than two dozen smaller sub-offices in key cities around the globe, providing coverage for more than 180 countries, territories, and islands.

Each office is established through mutual agreement with the host country and is situated in the U.S. embassy or consulate in that nation.

Our legal attaché program is managed by the International Operations Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

This office keeps in close contact with other federal agencies, Interpol, foreign police and security officers in Washington, and national and international law enforcement associations.

International liaison and information sharing are conducted in accordance with executive orders, laws, treaties, Attorney General Guidelines, FBI policies, and interagency agreements. ...snip.

https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/international-operations


235 posted on 03/11/2019 7:09:42 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: bagster
Interesting that Gaetaa was the lead agent in charge of a 2011-2013 investigation of a Russian gambling ring located in Trump Tower which included a court-sanctioned warrant to monitor (wiretap) the Russian crime organization working out of a unit three floors below President Trump's penthouse, according to an ABC News report.

FBI wiretapped Russian gambling ring headquartered at Trump Tower for two years

290 posted on 03/11/2019 8:43:20 PM PDT by I want to know
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