Posted on 07/17/2017 11:08:22 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Today, Fusion GPS employee Rinat Akhmetshin today confirmed his attendance at a meeting with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Accusations have arisen that the meeting was part of a wider setup to achieve a FISA warrant to wiretap phones of the Trump campaign during 2016. President Trump himself has accused the FBI under Loretta Lynch of wiretapping his campaign.
Now, a former Trump campaign official reports that Paul Manafort’s phone was subject to FISA wiretap during the infamous meeting.
Scoop: Manaforts phone was illegally bugged during meeting with Russian Lawyer, confirmed by multiple sources. Lynch ordered it.
7:28 AM - 14 Jul 2017
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If true, this FISA warrant would have been carried out under Loretta Lynch, Attorney General to Barack Obama. Former FBI Director James Comey has testified under oath to instances of collusion between AG Lynch and the Clinton campaign during 2016, as well as obstruction of justice in the Clinton investigation.
Yesterday, multiple news agencies and President Trump all stated that Veselnitskaya was granted special permission to enter the US by Attorney General Lynch after her visa had been initially blocked.
FISA transcripts of the meeting in June 2016 may have also served the basis of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, now headed by Bob Mueller.
Other senior members of the Trump campaign may have participated in the meeting via conference call.
Update: This would have been illegal, as FISA court denied Obama’s June 2016 request.
In May, Reuters reported the FBI was investigating 18 undisclosed meetings between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and individuals who may be associated with Russia.
Also in May, Jack Posobiec broke the news that one of these meetings took place with a member of the Trump family who was not Jared Kushner. This turned out to be Donald Trump Jr.
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This sure looks like an Obama set-up. Lynch approves a Visa for the Russian lawyer, who was on a “deny entry list”. Then she wiretapped the meeting between the lawyer and D jr.
It seems the only criminal activity here was done by Lynch.
What you should know about Rinat Akhmetshin, the mysterious fifth person at Trump Jr.’s meeting
His presence was not initially disclosed.
Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints).
Originally, Veselnitskaya told The New York Times that the person who joined her in the meeting “was an interpreter whom she declined to name.”
Although the emails say that the purpose of the meeting is to have Veselnitskaya provide Trump Jr. with damaging information on former Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton, Trump Jr. says that none materialized.
Trump Jr. claims that Veselnitskaya’s information about Hillary was vague and lacked proof. Instead, she shifted the conversations to the Magnitsky Act, a sanctions bill that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2012 intended to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky died in a Russian prison after he uncovered a tax fraud scheme involving a number of high-level Russian officials.
The law allows the U.S. president to deny visas to and freeze the assets of individuals believed to be complicit in Magnitsky’s death.
Akhmetshin confirmed his presence at the meeting Friday and told the AP Friday that the meeting was “not substantive” and that he “actually expected a more serious discussion.”
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Now, a former Trump campaign official reports that Paul Manafort’s phone was subject to FISA wiretap during the infamous meeting.
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How do we know that?
Well, Trump is the President.
I would say he can have a look at anything the Deep State has done.
Understand the rage of the left and it becomes quite evident.
The FBI came and talked to me years ago about some BS in Arizona. I didn’t have a cell phone that I paid for.
That was the first thing they wanted was that number.
I gave it to them. This was Obama’s FBI. The Deep State is real and Obama weaponized it against conservatives.
Rush would claim Obama would be haranguing Trump daily. I find that remarkably absent. Obama knows he better toe the line.
I didn’t have a cell phone that I paid for.
That was the first thing they wanted was that number.
I gave it to them......Huh? You didn’t have a cell phone but they wanted the number, which you gave them?
So Fusion GPS collaborated to produce a 35-page FAKE dossier of research about President Trump’s financial and political ties to Russia. Then Obama/Clinton’s AG uses the FAKE dossier to get a FISA warranty to spy on Trump and then have Fusion GPS create a FAKE reason to meet with Trump, Jr and also send in a Fusion GPS employee?
Can you spell conspiracy?
The FISA establishes a much more stringent standard in circumstances involving the electronic surveillance of “United States persons.” In such circumstances, the Executive may conduct electronic surveillance only pursuant to the FISA’s procedures for judicial review and approval. Each application for a surveillance order must include, inter alia:
1) the identity of the federal officer making the application;
2) the authority conferred on the Attorney General by the President of the United States and the approval of the Attorney General to make the application;
3) the identity, if known, or a description of the target of the electronic surveillance;
4) a statement of the facts and circumstances relied upon by the applicant to justify his belief that . . . the target of the electronic surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power [and] each of the facilities or places [to be subjected to the surveillance] . . . is being used, or is about to be used, by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power;
5) a statement of the proposed minimization procedures;
6) a detailed description of the nature of the information sought and the type of communications or activities to be subjected to the surveillance; [and]
7) a certification [from an appropriate executive branch official] . . . that the certifying official deems the information sought to be foreign intelligence information . . . that the purpose of the surveillance is to obtain foreign intelligence information . . . that such information cannot reasonably be obtained by normal investigative techniques
https://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/sojudge.pdf
SO PRESIDENT TRUMP, TIME TO DEMAND RELEASE OF THE FISA APPLICATION AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION!
PING!!!
Article and comments, esp #15, #25, #27, #29, #43
From 25 - Excerpt
First, Loretta Lynch brings in Natalia Veselnitskaya on what is called a “visa parole”,
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This might work for catching a KNOWN criminal, but to set up such an elaborate scheme speaks of considerable pre-planning and intent to deceive the “mark”, in this instance persons in a high position within the Trump campaign.
As dirty tricks go, this was almost too elaborate for SOMETHING not to go wrong. And it went awry almost upon the arrival of the Trump team members at the meeting, when the object of the meeting shifted from “getting something to use as opposition research against Hillary Clinton” to a discussion of changing the restrictions on Russian child adoptions by US citizens.
The Trump team, sensibly, walked out when it was not going as advertised, and promptly forgot all about the incident. But the Lynch DOJ did NOT forget, and used this crumb to later throw it in the way of the Trump administration. Therefore, Donald Trump, Jr. LIED, and was no longer a fit member of the Presidential team, and thereby tarnishing the entire Trump Administration.
I wish I could put a “< /sarcasm >” tag on this, but maybe the truth is just too harsh.
Thannks, Ernest_at_the_Beach & H/T bitt
Was thinking Russian lawyer was given the extension on visa in exchange for the set up with Jr. But how to prove?
Just heard this on Dobb’s FoxBiz show....
Susan Rice no longer planning to testify Tuesday before House panel
Not only Brennan.... "Susan The Sifter" had a dog in this hunt......Hillary tapped her for Secy of State. One could conclude Comey also had his reasons .....to stay on as FBI director....and Lynch was angling for a USSC seat.
Mighty powerful incentives for anti-Trump shenanigans.
.......apparently there are records proving that Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens. An audiotape just released by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow is part of a civil case........
Thankfully, Susan's so stupid, her public explanations of her intel activities set her up for a precipitous fall.
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Taxpayers demand Rice answer questions....and they want answers now. Questions for Rice:
1. When did you request the unmasking, and from which agency?
2. Who in that agency actually did the unmasking? Please provide the written requests you submitted.
3. Once the names were unmasked, did you still believe there was a threat to national security from the named US persons?
4. If so, with whom did you share the information, and what actions were taken to protect America and American citizens?
5. If you did not, then you should not have shared the names with anyone else, so how did the names become known?
6. Why was any of the info detailed here deliberately withheld on the FISA application? (it's a felony to willfully withhold information when applying for a FISA).
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<><> If the information found in the ‘incidental’ involvement of any US Person was threatening US Security, and America citizens' safety, why did US security agencies wait for Rice’s request to unmask?
<><> Did Obama issue a secret stand down order?
<><> Why did Rice on PBS initially deny responsibility for the unmasking?
<><> Why was this threat not unveiled at the time or since? Why now?
Alarmingly, the supposed ‘threat’ identified by Rice was about to be inaugurated as President of the US. Shouldn’t Congress have been notified? Why did Rice keep it a secret? Maybe she planned to collude w/ the Clintons to sell the intel to a foreign country?
The NSA didn’t unmask the information initially, plus later investigations found NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Seems to be proof-positive that whatever suspicions Obama/Rice/Brennan may have had to justify the unmasking were absolutely wrong, or more likely non-existent.
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Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Contact your Representative and Senators---demand these questions blanket the media---and demand Susan Rice answer them.
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BACKSTORY--As of March 2017, Susan Rice (Obama's Ntl Security Advisor) has begun a job as a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow in the “American University’s School of International Service (SIS).”....
The school elaborates: "During her residency at A/U, Rice will work primarily on her next book and mentor SIS students on careers in national security."
A/U/SIS defines Susan Rice's position with Obama thusly: ”She provided the President with daily national security briefings and was ‘responsible for’ coordinating the formulation and implementation of ‘all aspects’ of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.
American University’s School of International Service
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Phone: 202-885-1000
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CONTACT CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Talking Points: sever all federal funds to this institution while Susan Rice is employed there.
Thanks for the ping; post. Thread BUMP!
The FISA paperwork might so they were trying to do a wiretapping , but the timing would indicate that it was not allowed,...so maybe they did it anyway,....now that makes things real interesting for Lynch and the FBI ,...I would think.
Lynch’s meeting with Bill Clinton was on June 28th... so basically immediately afterwards.
Hmmm... timelines make things interesting.
And now we finally have a pretty decent explanation as to WHY they met the way they did. And why the pilot is already dead.
manafort quit not long after. maybe he was in on it.
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