Geithner with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the opening session of the first U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on July 27, 2009
Posted on 03/06/2017 5:34:45 PM PST by Ray76
The Democratic National Committee "rebuffed" a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election, a senior law enforcement official told CNN Thursday.
As first reported by George Eliason, CrowdStrike's Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Dimitri Alperovitch - who wrote the CrowdStrike reports allegedly linking Russia to the Democratic party emails published by Wikileaks - is a fellow at the Atlantic Council ... an organization associated with Ukraine, and whose main policy goal seems to stir up a confrontation with Russia.
The connection between Alperovitch and the Atlantic Council has gone largely unremarked upon, but it is relevant given that the Atlantic Council—which is funded in part by the US State Department, NATO, the governments of Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukrainian World Congress, and the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk—has been among the loudest voices calling for a new Cold War with Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Why does Alperovtich refer to APT 28 and APT 29 as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear”? Why use these colorful names rather than the accepted technical names? (APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat).
Is he selling an idea, supporting a narrative?
Cyber Firm Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report (CrowdStrike)
CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3539028/posts?page=1
Irena Chalupa was a director of the Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS) - http://ukrweekly.com/archive/2013/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2013-03.pdf page 8, bottom left
UNIS acts as a liaison office of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) - http://www.ucca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=31&lang=en
Alexandra Chalupa said the embassy (the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington) also worked directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions. - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
Get that? The Ukrainian embassy directed US reporters
Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy said, “They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa ... the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa. - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/evelyn-farkas#fullbio
About the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
The Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center fosters dialogue among regional leaders, as well with counterparts from key neighbors and global leaders. Combining in-depth understanding of Eurasia’s history with expertise on politics, economics and energy, the Center provides distinctive research and advice to governments and businesses worldwide. It seeks to promote an agenda of regional cooperation and integration based on shared values and common interest in a free, prosperous, and peaceful future. The Center’s collaborative approach aims to catalyze local, regional, and global strategies to address economic growth, deal more effectively with political issues, and bring about energy development and trade in ways that reinforce economic and political well-being. (emphasis added)
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/dinu-patriciu-eurasia-center/about-the-center
The Atlantic Council of the United States and Burisma Group, an independent gas producer in Ukraine, have announced a cooperative agreement. Atlantic Council will develop programs with Burisma’s support to strengthen transatlantic relations, including a focus on energy security and related issues.
The cooperative agreement will be led by the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, whose mission is to enhance transatlantic cooperation in promoting stability, democratic values, and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and Turkey in the West to the Caucasus, Russia, and Central Asia in the East. The Center’s Ukraine in Europe Initiative is designed to galvanize international support for an independent Ukraine within secure borders whose people will determine their own future.
The Atlantic Council’s work to date in Ukraine aims to strengthen the country’s security, preserve its territorial integrity, and advance transformational democratic, economic, and governance reforms.
Hunter Biden
Director
Appointed: April 2014
Geithner with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the opening session of the first U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on July 27, 2009
Ping . . . More on CrowdStrike.
Both Alexandra Chalupa and Andrea Chalupa led “Digital Maidan”
http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/wp-content/uploads/current-pdf/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2015-05.pdf page 5, bottom left
“Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, Alexandra Chalupa, Constatin Kostenko and others”
Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency
The Atlantic Council on August 26 gathered experts, policymakers, and US government officials as part of its ongoing "Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency." The off-the-record event, chaired by Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson, covered topics such as how to deal with Russian aggression in the Ukraine context and more broadly; what diplomatic tools are being used – and how could the US use them more strategically; and whether or not the US should be supplying military assistance to Ukraine and the potential consequences of doing so.
Other Council participants included Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security; Hon. Julie Finley, Atlantic Council Board Member; Ambassador John Herbst, director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center; John Herbst, vice president and director of the Transatlantic Relations Program; Irene Chalupa, editor of the Council's UkraineAlert; Liz Harper, managing editor; and James Rupert, editor. Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia and Eric S. Rubin, deputy assistant secretary of state for the bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, also participated in the discussion and provided background briefings.
Michelle told him to carry around the numbers of his secret offshore
accounts in this shopping bag------to throw Congress off the scent.
From 7/8/2015 through 7/7/2016 Crowdstrike had a no-bid $150,000 contract with the FBI
To date (07/14/2017) The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has donated between $10,000,001 to $25,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%2410%2C000%2C001+to+%2425%2C000%2C000
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From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted (Nov 2013), the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, headquartered in Kiev.
From 2009 up to 2013 Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State.
https://www.rt.com/usa/243017-ukraine-clinton-foreign-donors/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-charity-tapped-foreign-friends-1426818602
Aleksander KwaśniewskiBurisma Board of Directors and Atlantic Council Advisory Board
https://web.archive.org/web/20140720002206/http://burisma.com/board-of-directors/
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/international-advisory-board
Devon ArcherAtlantic Council member
Mr. Archer is the General Partner and Chairman of Rosemont Realty which he founded together with Mr. Hunter Biden. Joining the board at the same time was one of Mr. Biden’s American business partners, Devon Archer. Both are involved with Rosemont Seneca Partners, an American investment firm with offices in Washington.
John Kerry’s advisor during his 2004 presidential campaign
https://web.archive.org/web/20140720002206/http://burisma.com/board-of-directors/
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/support/members-program/members-program-roster
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html
http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-democrats-are-lining-their-pockets-in-ukraine/
David LeiterMarried to Tamera Stanton Luzzatto - chief of staff to Senator Hillary Clinton
Founder of ML Strategies - lobbyist hired by Burisma
Bundler for Clinton's 2016 campaign
WJC Energy Department appointee
Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator John Kerryhttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/style/weddings-tamera-luzzatto-david-leiter.html
https://www.plurusstrategies.com/leiter
https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=processSearchCriteria
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/301392-lobbyists-rain-cash-on-clinton
Devon Archer works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz. Heinz is John Kerry’s stepson.
Source: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-raises-further-concerns-over-foreign-agent-registrationJuly 20, 2017VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONThe Honorable Rod J. RosensteinDeputy Attorney GeneralU.S. Department of Justice950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20530Dear Mr. Rosenstein,According to news reports, during the 2016 presidential election, “Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump” and did so by “disseminat[ing] documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter…”[1] Ukrainian officials also reportedly “helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.”[2] At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia.[3] Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”[4]Reporting indicates that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to interface with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.”[5] Chalupa also met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador in March 2016 and shared her alleged concerns about Manafort. Reports state that the purpose of their initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.” However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians. He reportedly said, “[t]hey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana [Shulyar] was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.[6]Chalupa’s actions appear to show that she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S voting population but U.S. government officials. Indeed, Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar, “[i]f we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”[7] Later, Chalupa did reportedly meet with staff in the office of Democratic representative Marcy Kaptur to discuss a congressional investigation. Such a public investigation would not only benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign, but it would benefit the Ukrainian government, which, at the time, was working against the Trump campaign. When Politico attempted to ask Rep. Kaptur’s office about the meeting, the office called it a “touchy subject.”Aside from the apparent evidence of collusion between the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Ukrainian government, Chalupa’s actions implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). As you know, the Committee is planning a hearing on FARA enforcement. Given the public reporting of these activities in support of a foreign government, it is imperative that the Justice Department explain why she has not been required to register under FARA.FARA requires individuals to register with the Justice Department if they act, even through an intermediary, “as an agent, representative, employee, or servant” or “in any other capacity” at the behest of a foreign principal, including a foreign political party, for purposes of engagement with a United States official.[8] The registration applies to anyone who attempts to influence a U.S. government official on behalf of a foreign principal in an effort to “formulat[e], adopt[], or chang[e] the domestic or foreign policies of the United States.”[9] As such, the focus of FARA is to require registration for individuals engaged in political or quasi-political activity on behalf of a foreign government. Likewise, an individual whose activities are subject to registration under FARA and who sends informational material “for or in the interest of [a] foreign principal” with the intent or belief that such material will be circulated among at least two persons must transmit the material to the Attorney General no later than 48 hours after actual transmission.[10] Notably, an ongoing failure to register is an ongoing offense.[11]According to documents provided to the Committee, the Justice Department required the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC to register under FARA for working on behalf of the Ukrainian government.[12] Their registration was required even though the client, the European Centre for the Modern Ukraine (ECFMU), wrote a letter saying it was not directly or indirectly controlled by the Ukrainian government. That did not matter to the Justice Department because their lobbying activity was not to “benefit commercial interests” of the ECFMU but instead to promote the “political or public interests of a foreign government or foreign political party.” The Justice Department made clear that an individual acting in the political or public interests of a foreign government must register under FARA. As such, because Podesta and Mercury were effectively working on behalf of Ukrainian government interests, they were required to register.Unlike that situation where the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC worked for the middleman (EFCMU) and not the Ukrainian government, here Chalupa reportedly worked directly with Ukrainian government officials to benefit Ukraine, lobbying Congress on behalf of Ukraine, and worked to undermine the Trump campaign on behalf of Ukraine and the Clinton campaign. Accordingly, these facts appear to be exactly the type of activity Congress intended to reach with FARA. Please answer the following:1. What actions has the Justice Department taken to enforce FARA’s requirements regarding Chalupa given the public reporting of her actions on behalf of the Ukrainian government?2. Why has the Justice Department not required her to register under FARA?3. Has the Justice Department sent a letter of inquiry to Chalupa? If so, please provide a copy. If not, why not?4. Under 28 C.F.R. § 5.2, any present or prospective agent of a foreign entity may request an advisory opinion from the Justice Department regarding the need to register. Has Chalupa ever requested one in relation to her work on behalf of the Ukrainian government? If so, please provide a copy of the request and opinion.5. Please differentiate the facts that required the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC to register with Chalupa’s.6. Are you investigating the Ukrainian government’s intervention in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of the Clinton campaign? If not, why not?7. Are you investigating links and coordination between the Ukrainian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee? If not, why not?I anticipate that your written response and the responsive documents will be unclassified. Please send all unclassified material directly to the Committee. In keeping with the requirements of Executive Order 13526, if any of the responsive documents do contain classified information, please segregate all unclassified material within the classified documents, provide all unclassified information directly to the Committee, and provide a classified addendum to the Office of Senate Security. The Committee complies with all laws and regulations governing the handling of classified information. The Committee is not bound, absent its prior agreement, by any handling restrictions or instructions on unclassified information unilaterally asserted by the Executive Branch.Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this request. Please respond no later than August 3, 2017. If you have questions, contact Josh Flynn-Brown of my Judiciary Committee staff at (202) 224-5225.Sincerely,Charles E. GrassleyChairmanSenate Committee on the Judiciary
How The Ukrainian Tail Wagged the U.S. Dog
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