Posted on 01/23/2023 2:21:21 PM PST by MtnClimber
Charles McGonigal, a retired counterintelligence investigator from the FBI’s New York Field Office, was just arrested because he allegedly took substantial sums of money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, to get the latter off a U.S. sanctions list. Where this goes beyond the ordinary corruption that periodically crops up among people with too much power, too few morals, and too little accountability is that McGonigal was one of the people investigating Trump over the Russia Hoax, while Deripaska employed Christopher Steele, whose false dossier seeded the Russia Hoax.
Anyone who paid attention during the “hot” years of the Russia Hoax recognizes Deripaska’s name. He was a close ally of Vladimir Putin and, in 2018, the U.S. government sanctioned him for his involvement in Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Specifically with regard to the Russia Hoax, in 2021, Jerry Dunleavy summarized how closely allied Steele and Deripaska were:
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska is known for his ties to President Vladimir Putin, as well as his prior business relationships with Steele and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. [snip]
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 1,000-page report last year found that “the Russian government coordinates with and directs Deripaska on many of his influence operations.”
Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, worked for Deripaska in 2016, helping recover millions of dollars the Russian oligarch claimed Manafort had stolen from him. Steele sought help in this anti-Trump research effort from Fusion GPS, and the company hired Steele soon after.
The investigation found “multiple links between Steele and Deripaska” and “indications that Deripaska had early knowledge of Steele’s work.” Steele’s continued relationship with Deripaska “provid[ed] a potential direct channel for Russian influence on the dossier.”
Those “multiple links” played directly into the Russia Hoax:...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
99% making the other 1% look bad.
Can’t agree.
Our federal government was created and was delegated certain limited enumerated powers by the Constitution, probably the greatest political document man ever created.
The Constitution REMAINS the Supreme Law of the Land (Art. VI, Cl. 2). When a man breaks a just law, you don’t throw out the law, you bring the lawbreaker or criminal to justice. Same with the feds. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
What we have is an 80%+ illegal and criminal government. WE THE PEOPLE have the high moral and legal ground, not them.
When enough people realize this, maybe by God’s grace and Divine Providence we can recover our Free Constitutional Republic.
If the FBI would like to win back my trust they could start by recording their interviews rather than writing up reports based on memory after.
No, I do not trust them to tell the truth.
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When they started protecting Biden circa 2012 - they essentially became partners.
And that’s why Biden laughs at Investigations.
Every Biden is Protected.
Good men turning bad.
Just like the country.
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