Posted on 05/07/2019 11:23:56 AM PDT by Starman417
Josef Mifsud is the key to everything. A year ago I first brought this up and it is more critical now than it was then because we have Mueller adding to the haze around Mifsud.
Who is Josef Mifsud?
Josef Mifsud is a mysterious figure and who he is depends on who you ask. Wikipedia describes him this way:
Joseph Mifsud (born 1960)[1] is a Maltese academic, with reportedly high level connections to the Russian government.[2] In 2016, he became involved with George Papadopoulos, an advisor to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, and was later accused of being a link between that campaign and Russia. In 2018, he was described as missing, and an Italian court listed his location as "residence unknown".[3] According to media reports he is in Rome as of April 2019.[4] In an April 2019 interview Rudy Giuliani revealed that Mifsud was a "...Maltese counterintelligence guy"[5]The Guardian
Mifsud is not named in court documents released on Monday, which describe how the campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, lied to investigatorsabout his contacts with “foreign agents”. But his biography and movements between Rome, London and Moscow, match those of the unnamed “professor” described in the court documents. On Tuesday, he acknowledged to the Daily Telegraph that he was the man described in the papers, but denied any wrongdoing, or knowledge of the Clinton emails.Newsweek:The court documents paint him as a stealthy operator with links deep inside the Kremlin. While initially uninterested in Papadopoulos, Mifsud’s attitude changed once he learned that Papadopoulos was working for the Trump campaign, the documents say.
As of March 2016, Mifsud was the honorary director of the London Academy of Diplomacy, located at the University of Stirling, according to the most recent cached version of an online biography. (The webpage was down on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.) He is the former president of the Slovenia-based Euro-Mediterranean University, also known as EMUNI University, and he was a professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland and the University of East Anglia in England, according to the biography. He apparently specialized in “international relations, public administration and management, public-private partnerships, diplomacy and Euro-Mediterranean studies.”The Mueller Report paints Mifsud as a Russian asset.A spokesperson for the University of Stirling has told multiple press outlets that Mifsud is currently a full-time teaching fellow in the politics department there.
He previously served in Malta’s ministry of foreign affairs and, in the 1990s, as chief adviser to that country’s ministry of education. He helped Malta enter the European Union, the biography said. Despite the apparent secrecy around his connection to Papadopoulos, he has given many interviews, a number of which appear on YouTube.
But there's more. Much more.
Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, seeks to get to the bottom of Mifsud’s allegiances. In a letter sent Friday, the Republican asked the heads of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and State Department for documents related to the professor, who has been in hiding since October 2017, when he was named in Papadopoulos’s court documents.Mueller also claims that Mifsud lied to the FBI about his contacts with Papadopoulos, but Mifsud was not charged.Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to making false statements to the FBI about the timing of his interactions with Mifsud. He told FBI agents in January 2017 that he met Mifsud before joining the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos did tell the FBI during that interview about a bombshell Mifsud dropped on him during a meeting in London on April 26, 2016. Papadopoulos said Mifsud claimed to have learned that Russia had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails.
If Mifsud was affiliated with Russians, as the special counsel’s report suggested, “then an incredibly wide range of Western institutions and individuals may have been compromised by him, including our own State Department,” Nunes wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation and first reported by Fox News.
Mifsud, who once served as a Maltese diplomat, taught at Link Campus, a Rome-based university that has close ties to Western intelligence agencies, including the FBI and CIA. Mifsud was interviewed by the FBI about his Papadopoulos contacts during a visit to the U.S. in February 2017.
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I’d be very surprised if he’s alive.
Alas , poor Joe. He sleeps with the fishes, or soon will.
And besides, he disappeared 2 years ago and only recently “resurfaced. He was supposed to stay incognito!
We need a snatch team in Italy.
Wrong!!! It’s Nelly Ohr she was the string puller for Brennan she ran counterintelligence ops for Russia desk...
‘Cept my truck.
He’s alive. If he were dead then no one would have an incentive to cover that up. Everyone would want you to know he was dead so you’d give up looking for him. Also I’ve read he has a history of disappearing at convenient times. I note that his disappearance did occur at a convenient time. I doubt his death would have been so convenient.
The most obvious to see that Donald J. Trump does not become president?
Hillaryous Rotten Criminal is “the key to everything”.
I was born in 1960.
I notice that the citation they use as authority for the proposition that he is connected to the Russians is dated in 2017. Apparently they can’t find one that supports that proposition and is dated before the controversy. It makes it look like he suddenly became a Russian asset after Mueller needed him to be a Russian asset.
So, MisFUD is part of the Climate Change hoax too?
I still find it weird that the first FISCA warrant was on Page, yet he escaped Mueller’s clutches.No morning raids for him.
Because Mifsud was a US asset that planted the story with Popadopolous who then repeated it to Downer (all according to plan) who told the FBI and thus provided the "necessary" pretext for Crossfire Hurricane.
No kidding, we need a snatch team. Someone needs to get this guy stateside and put him under oath before he gets Arkancided or becomes deep sea kibble.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3747559/posts
Carter had a long history with the FIB.
I think he was just used as an excuse.
If the FIB were to really go after him, he could easily effectively turn on them, scumbags that they are.
If I were to abduct Mr Misfud I would concoct a plan to say he was dead.
Then present him at trial.
There were many people who were used as an excuse. But they ended up serving time for process crimes. All but Page.
Agreed. Ohr is the hub.
“The Mueller Report paints Mifsud as a Russian asset.”
Examine Mueller/Weissman’s language: “Papadopoulos UNDERSTOOD Mifsud to have substantial connections to Russian officials.”
If Mueller/Weissman knew Mifsud to be a Russian asset they would have said so; they don’t. They sneakily imply it, and don’t comment on whether P. understood correctly. They do not say that Mifsud had actual connections to “Russian officials”.
And “Russian officials” itself is a word game. That implies “government” or “military intel” officials to a casual reader. But it really could mean one of the Russian academics, seminar presenters, and think tank cronies Mifsud made it his business to network with. Some MIGHT be Russian government connected; many are just hustling up a career by knowing each other. Mueller’s Report is deliberately deceptive; none of it can be relied upon.
My hope is that the Dems will force Mueller to testify at a hearing where someone like Jordan can ask him: Was Mifsud a “Russian intelligence asset”? Was Mifsud working for the US government or any agency thereof, directly or indirectly, at the time he was “interested” in Papadopoulos? If Mifsud was a Russian asset, why wasn’t he interviewed? Charged? Mueller will dodge answering, but that will be the answer. Next, ask about Halper; Arya Turk; Christian Cohen; Downer; Erika Thompson; the Israeli guy who gave P. $10,000; Carter Page; et al. Did the US arrange for giving P the $10k, directly or indirectly? Mr. Mueller, after your two year investigation, can you name anyone who approached George Papadopoulos about anything “Russian” who was NOT part of a US IC operation?
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