IN PROGRESS - to update and correct prior entries on this topic tomorrow.
Samantha Power, As UN Ambassador made a request on November 30, 2016 to unmask General Flynn. This event marks the first time she requested an unmasking.
https://pjmedia.com/stacey-lennox/2020/05/18/it-is-very-strange-that-general-flynn-was-unmasked-almost-50-times-n394535
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October 14, 2025? Adm Rogers submitted his report to the FISA court re the Carter Page FISA application, warning that Obama's DOJ was using FISAs to spy on Americans (upstream searches and expansion of authorized access time frame). DNI Director, Josh Carlin, submitted his authorization supporting the Carter Page FISA the same day, along with Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Loretta Lynch, DAG.
Josh Carlin: Resigned the next day, October 15, 2016
CIA Director John Brennan and Defense Secretary Ash Carter submitted a recommendation that Rogers be removed from his position as NSA chief .
On November 17, 2016 Mike Rogers visited Trump Towerwithout authorization, shortly after a SCIF was installed, to warn candidate Trump that Obama was spying on his campaign.
https://qalerts.net/media/f91ee4645d0b62f506d44687c85f8b166dfcbfe07700baff6006dd24609f8999.png
On November 18, 2016 ,Obama's officials, [Brennan][Clapper][Carter] leaked (WAPO) their back-dated, coincidental request that Adm Rogers be removed from his postion.
NSA Director Mike Rogers stepped down from his position on May 4, 2018.
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James Comey: Met with Barack Obama, Susan Rice and Sally Yates (Joe Biden and Curtis Reid attended) to set up General Flynn (remove him) to prevent exposure of Obamagate (Obama spying on President Trump's campaign) and to shield Clinton-DNC Russian collusion. Comey shared his faked concern (i.e., National Security excuse) to suggest classified information should not be shared with Flynn. Obama's order not to share intel with Gen Flynn was was categorized as 'classified' to prevent Candidate Trump from seeing it. Q4310,
Barack Obama: Met with James Comey, Susan Rice and Sally Yates (Joe Biden and Curtis Reid attended) to set up General Flynn (remove him) to avoid exposure of Obamagate (Obama spying on President Trump's campaign) and to shield Clinton-DNC Russian collusion. Obama used Comey's faked National Security concern re sharing intel with Flynn to halt information sharing with Flynn. Obama's order not to share intel with Gen Flynn was categorized as 'classified' to prevent Candidate Trump from seeing it. Q4310,
Sally Yates : Met with Barack Obama, James Comey and Susan Rice (Joe Biden and Curtis Reid attended) to set up General Flynn (remove him) to avoid exposure of Obamagate (Obama spying on President Trump's campaign) and to shield Clinton-DNC Russian collusion. Obama used Comey's faked National Security concern re sharing intel with Flynn to halt information sharing with Flynn. Obama's order not to share intel with Gen Flynn was categorized as 'classified' to prevent Candidate Trump from seeing it. Q4310,
Susan Rice: Met with Barack Obama, James Comey and Sally Yates(Joe Biden and Curtis Reid attended) to set up General Flynn (remove him) to avoid exposure of Obamagate (Obama spying on President Trump's campaign) and to shield Clinton-DNC Russian collusion. Obama used Comey's faked National Security concern re sharing intel with Flynn to halt information sharing with Flynn. Obama's order not to share intel with Gen Flynn was categorized as 'classified' to prevent Candidate Trump from seeing it. Q4310,
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/08/why_fisa-gate_is_scarier_than_watergate_136214.html
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Circumvent the Shadow Intel Comm
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/05/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-private-spies-counter-deep-state-enemies
The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer -- with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the
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Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, requested the unmasking of General Mike Flynn, after the British Embassy sent both Rice and General Flynn a letter advising them that former British Secret Service agent, Christopher Steele, was not trustworthy. Receipt of the letter would have signalled to Flynn, soon to be Trump's NSA Director, that Obama's administration was using Christopher Steele as a source. Once he became NSA Director, Flynn would be able to find out that Christopher Steele's dossier was the basis for Hurricane Crossfire investigations of President Trump and his campaign, associates etc. Flynn would discover that Steele's dossier was part of the justification for the FISA authorizing the FISA warrants, and that he himself was the subject of an approved FISA warrant (Flynn was being surveilled).
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Side note - find a place for this:
Last week, acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell released the list of Obama officials who requested Flynn’s name be unmasked in collected intelligence. Reviewing the list, it seemed notable that Flynn’s calls were unmasked nearly 50 times by 39 officials associated with the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
https://pjmedia.com/stacey-lennox/2020/05/18/it-is-very-strange-that-general-flynn-was-unmasked-almost-50-times-n394535
One question - what is going on in the diplomatic service? Ambassadors were unmasking General Flynn. According to George Papadopoulos, most of his contacts were made through our embassy and those of our allies. The British Embassy wrote to Flynn and Rice warning them about Christopher Steele. How were the British even aware of the activities of a former British spy that was working as a private contractor?
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Loretta Lynch along with DAG/FBI/National Security Division Head used Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitkskaya's planted social contact with Paul Manafort, along with Steele dossier content, as an excuse to obtain a FISA warrant for Manafort and investigated him. Then Mueller prosecuted Manafort (convicted of financial crimes).
The DOJ staff obtained a FISA warrant for Papadopoulus, and investigated/prosecuted him (convicted of lying about his Russian contacts).
They obtained a FISA warrant on Carter Page and investigated him (no conviction).
The DOJ obtained a FISA warrant on General Michael Flynn and investigated/prosecuted him (no conviction).
This 'leap-frog' tactic was designed to encircle the DOJ's real target(s) (e.g., Trump campaign, Trump, supporters etc.) and collect communications which are private (supposed to be screened out of FISA surveillance). Support for this effort included UK intel; access to FISA data - upstream data collection and tangential contacts (umbrella survey); foreign target designators (e.g., foreign 'outside contractors' given 702 access indefinitely by the FBI).
UK assistance was used to navigate around barriers normally in place regarding FISA survellance. Such 'assistance' included a spy insert, an additional non-FISA warrant and a (classified) spec ops warrant (requested by CIA Director John Brennan).
Saving some links:
https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/16513-2/
Q proof https://i.imgur.com/eaMwBEb.png
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/08/why_fisa-gate_is_scarier_than_watergate_136214.html
Next post later today will be Devin Nunes and (I think) Papadopoulis.
Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo 12-15-19 _ Breaking Fox News December 15th
Partial transcript of video begins around 10:30 min/sec. (Bartiromo's interview with John Ratcliff).
Maria Bartiromo interviews Representative John Ratcliffe (TX) and Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General) about the testimony and report provided by IG Horowitz about how the FBI conducted its investigation into the 2016 election. My summary of Ratcliffe's video comments are provided below.
John Ratcliffe video segment:
IG Horowitz Report is an indictment of what Adam Schiff was saying, an indictment of Jim Comey's leadership
Impeachment II
Adam Schiff met with the person who walked out of his office and became the whistleblower
Impeachment I
Adam Schiff lied about the FBI's actions (misbehavior), attacked the president for a few years re "definite collusion"
What was learned from report by IG Horowitz?
* Schiff put out a report saying there was no FISA abuse by the FbI [FALSE]
* Schiff said the FBI didn't fail to turn over exculpatory evidence [False]
* Schiff said that the dossier was not a central part of the FISA applications against Carter Page [False]
Key take away, even if you concede (and Ratcliffe says he does not) that there was a predicate to start the investigation (Trump Russia collusion), there was no predicate to continue a counterintelligence investigation of the President of the United States. They had to do it by making those false representations to the FISA court.
Devin Nunes provided a report (the 'Devin Nunes Memo') in 2017 documenting all the wrongdoing that had been going on. Schiff responded with his own 'Correcting the Record' memo which has since been proven wrong.
According to IG Horowitz's report, an FBI lawyer altered a document.
Horowitz found 'errors and omissions': false statements, misrepresentations, destruction or alteration of documentary evidence.
FBI lawyers literally changed evidence to make false representations to the court to continue the counterintelligence investigation against the President.
Ratcliffe notes everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence, although Democrats never want to give one to Donald Trump. However, what the Inspector General's report outlines is criminal activity.
* FBI lawyers were depriving people (e.g., Carter Page) of their civil rights under color of law.
* Tampering with evidence: Taking documents and making them say the opposite of what they really represent, and certifying that to the court.
The IG report is an indictment of Jim Comey's leadership of the FBI, along with the things Democrats said to continue the counterterrorism investigation against the sitting President of the United States, when there was no probable cause.
They started the investigation by making 7 'errors and omissions' that were misrepresentations, alterations of evidence. Then they committed 10 more 'errors and omissions' to continue that investigation along the way
Ratcliffe says he doesn't think the American public can appreciate how much damage was done to the FBI as a result of Jim Comey's leadership.
Ratcliff confirms for Bartiromo that crimes were committed against Carter Page and a sitting President.
* According to the IG report, Carter Page's civil rights
* Individual people at the FBI undertook actions to continue a counterintelligence investigation against a presidential candidate's campaign, against a sitting President, against his Presidency.
Ratcliffe says that, based on the findings of the Horowitz IG report, he expects John Durham to look at them from a criminal standpoint. He said he's not making allegations that anyone should be convicted. Everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence.
However, Ratcliff things the IG's report details activities which should be investigated and prosecuted.
Bartiromo asks, "Could people go to jail over this?"
Ratcliffe replies, "Abolutely." He what an agressive prosecutor would do if the defendant were George Papadopoulis or Michael Flynn.
The findings of fact in IG Horowitz's report detail criminal activity which would send people away for a long time.
Bartiromo says her next interview is with George Papadopoulis about conversations he had, which we now know are exculpatory evidence which was not given to the FISA court.
She is also looking at when the investigation actually started because the FBI claims the counterintelligence investigation of Trump began in July of 2016, but there were informants, running into campaign people as early as March 2016. So her interview will include Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General).
Judge Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General) video segment:
Bartiromo notes that IG Horowitz laid out evidence of legitimate concern regarding the but he also said he found no evidence that political bias sparked the probe.
She says AG Barr and John Durham contradicted the IG's report. They say the IG's report makes it clear that political bias was behind the decision to launched an intrusive counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump's US Presidential campaign on the 'thinnest of suspicions' that were insufficient to justify the steps taken.
She asks MuKasey where political bias was in the investigation. Was that among the reasons they investigated Donald Trump?
MuKasey points to evidence that was not discussed in the IG's report, or the IG's prior report on the various investigations on the various investigations that the FBI did.
When Ted Cruz withdrew from the race (primaries), Donald Trump became the only candidate and presumptive candidate. Lisa Page texted Strzok saying, "I can't believe he's going to be the nominee. Strzok reacted with hostility to the idea of Trump becoming President and says, "Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE..."
[ransomnote: Information introduced by mistake or just out of sequence in video graphics re the Clinton email investigation, Lisa Page texted Peter Strzok saying it was going to be a Clinton v Trump campaign and that they shouldn't go in 'loaded for bear' because she might be the next president.]
MuKasey says MYE stood for (Hillary's) Mid Year Exam; it was the code word for the Hillary Clinton Email investigation.
Mukasey asks (rhetorical question) how it is that the elevation of Trump to the Republican nominee for the 2016 race would create pressure to finish the Hillary Clinton email investigation unless you want to curtail the damage to Hillary Clinton and assure that Donald Trump doesn't win. For what reason would the Trump nomination effect the course of the Hillary Clinton email investigation? The fact that Strzok said that is evidence that Trump's nominee status would have that effect.
This exchange between Strzok and Page was never mentioned in the IG's report, or Horowitz's earlier report. He basically took everybody's word for it (i.e., there was no bias) because he doesn't have subpoena power. John Durham has subpoena power, and he is going to be conducting a criminal investigation which we've yet to hear about.
Bartiromo notes John Durham's investigation will be looking at what happened before July of 2016. The FBI continues to assert that they started the counterintelligence investigation in July of 2016 because of a tip they heard in a conversation in a bar between George Papadopoulis and an informant. However we now know informants ran into George Papadopoulis and Carter page as early as March 2016.
Mukasey adds that Jim Comey was talking about Carter Page, briefing on Carter Page, in June of 2016, well before any report of the conversation reached the FBI. We don't know why.
Bartiromo asks about last week. Adam Schiff had the phone records of Rudy Guiliani, President Trump's personal lawyer; of John Solomon, a journalist; of Devin Nunes. Not only did Schiff get those phone records, but then he let the public know he had those phone records and this triggered speculation among the public (ransomnote: public began to question why Guiliani would call this person, why John Solomon would call that other person). She notes you're allowed to make a phone call.
Mukasey: It's a stunner - it's not just that he had them; it's where he got them. Schiff got the phone records from the phone company that was providing the service. There are criminal code statutes that restrict the ability of anybody to get phone records. THe Statutes list who can obtain phone records, and under what circumstances they can be obtained; that doesn't include Congress.
The statutes give law enforcement access for law enforcment purposes, or if the company wants to provide them to save someone's life, or prevent serious injury. Those are the only circumstances in which phone records can be obtained.
Congress has no authority to subpoena that information. That's a statute in the Criminal Code (Title 18).
Bartiromo notes Devin Nunes expects to have a legal strategy in January (2020). She asks if Nunes has strong standing.
Mukasey confirms Nunes has strong standing. He believes questions/answers are needed to explain why Schiff issued subpoena's to the provider, not to the person who sent/received calls. He asks (paraphrising) if that means when a person becomes a candidate, the Senate can go look at his phone records? We need to stop that.
Bartiromo notes AT&T rolled over and supplied the phone records.
Mukasey notes, that Congress regulates the phone service providers.
ENDING my notes on the video at 23:31 minutes/seconds into the video.