Posted on 09/09/2018 12:09:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said in a court filing Friday that the London-based Maltese professor who told former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton may be dead. Joseph Mifsud vanished from the public eye late last year after his name surfaced in stories about the Russia investigation.
The DNC, which is suing Russia, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks for interfering in the 2016 election, said that it believes that all the defendants in the case had been served with the complaint, “with the exception of Mifsud (who is missing and may be deceased).” The lawyers apparently didn’t elaborate.
The DNC indicated that an investigator had been hired to locate Mifsud, and was told he may be dead.
“The DNC's counsel has attempted to serve Mifsud for months and has been unable to locate or contact him. In addition, public reports have said he has disappeared and hasn't been seen for months," DNC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told The Hill.
This news came on the same day President Trump's former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced to a grand total of two weeks in jail for lying to investigators about the timing and scope of his contacts with the Maltese academic. Mifsud allegedly told Papadopoulos that the Kremlin had “dirt” on the Democratic Party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton, in the form of “thousands” of “emails of Clinton.”
The FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane, its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, in July 2016 after learning that Papadopoulos had repeated Mifsud’s claim to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in London over drinks.
According to the Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel, Downer gave this information directly to the Obama State Department, not the FBI as had been previously reported.
One of the biggest mysteries in the whole Russia collusion investigation is who the Maltese professor was working for.
Mifsud reportedly surfaced briefly at a conference in Washington, D.C., in February 2017, and at the time told the FBI that he never said anything to Papadopoulos about Clinton's emails, that he didn't even know about the emails, and that he wasn't a Russian operative.
Yet in their April report on Russian interference in the election, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee described Mifsud as “Kremlin-linked.”
According to Fox News, the professor also "had Western ties at academic institutions like the Link Campus University in Rome, the University of Stirling in Scotland, the London Academy of Diplomacy and the London Center for International Law Practice."
“The most fishy parts of the story are: Is Mifsud really a Russian agent?” former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy mused on “Fox and Friends” back in June.
Investigative journalist Lee Smith reported at RealClearInvestigations that there is no evidence to support the claim that Mifsud is/was a Russian spy. “Although Mifsud has traveled many times to Russia and has contacts with Russian academics, his closest public ties are to Western governments, politicians, and institutions, including the CIA, FBI and British intelligence services,” he wrote.
Smith suggested that Mifsud may have actually been working with Western intelligence.
“While most media accounts have simply repeated official claims that Mifsud is a sketchy character whose visits to Russia and academic contacts suggest he is working for Russian intelligence, a look at the available evidence challenges that narrative,” Smith wrote. “It also raises the possibility that Mifsud [may]…have actually been working for Western intelligence agencies.”
The professor was last seen at the Global Ties national conference on February 8, 2017, where he was featured as a speaker. The Global Ties national conference was run by the State Department’s Office of International Visitors.
The Independent in July reported that Mifsud was a "ghost on the run from Americans, Russians, and Italians."
Mifsud "is not only on the run from the Americans, Russians and the press, but also from the Italian judicial authorities, who have been unable to track down the wayward academic," the paper reported.
I have a friend, a libertarian type, and even he cannot ignore the wake of fishy death around the Clintons.
Arkancide
Living it up with a new identity.
This cut out operative may be bigger fish than is apparent. He most likely knew too much and has been vaporized. Tracking his movements over his lifetime is gonna create a better terrain map into some very sensitive connections at the operations end of the financier globalist conspiracy.
BTW anyone investigate where that $400 Million Gold and mixed Currencies "sent" to Iran went? Clinton ? Kerry? Obama? Where is Sessions when you need him?
He was last seen traveling with Obama’s birth certificate, Trumps tax returns and copies of Hillary’s 33K missing emails along with a collection of Stormy Dainel’s movies with Bill Clinton. Even if they put up a 25M reward, he won’t be found. OH wait, Obama found Osama, this should be an easy one for him.
Mysterious Prof Who Peddled Clinton Dirt to Papadopoulos May Be Dead, DNC Lawyers Say
The headline should be:
Prof Who Peddled Pap to Papadopoulos May Have Perished
LOL. Pap and Paadopoulos make a good pair. Just saying.
May be? Did the DNC’s cleaner report back to them or not?
That's a Downer:
If the Rats say he’s dead we know damn well that he isn’t.
Why would a dnc lawyer have an opinion on the whereabouts of a Maltese professor based in London.
Have they tried to blame the russians for this yet?
Arkincide.
Now, that is pithy.
Hillary with a pistol.
It strikes me as odd that the information about Misfud’s whereabouts comes from the Democrats and not one of family members or foreign police agencies.
DNC suing? helloooo…
why isn’t it the GOP suing the DNC, Clinton, FusionGPS etc over their collusion with foreign agent Christopher Steele and Russians to stop Donald Trump becoming president?
this story is just another means of controlling/maintaining the narrative of the Deep State.
Good one - keeping
Wonder if that article is out there on the internet.
Neat meme but you know she would never get her hands dirty
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