Posted on 02/15/2019 11:37:02 PM PST by blueplum
A Republican and a Democratic senator have called on the Federal Reserve and the publisher of a foreign policy magazine to provide more details on 2015 meetings involving senior U.S. financial officials, a Russian central bank official, and Russian spy Maria Butina.
Now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley R-Iowa, and the top Democrat on that panel, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., want more information. The meetings involved Butina, now-former Russian Central Bank Deputy Governor Alexander Torshin, former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, and former Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs Nathan Sheets. They were reportedly arranged by the Center for the National Interest...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Remind me again why The Fed pulled $500 Billion per year out of our economy with Reverse QE and also raised interest rates 9 times in a row after it was clear Obama was finished, Maria...
Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, met with Natalia Veselnitskaya just a couple of hours before her meeting with Trump Jr. and the two met again just hours after the meeting that lasted less than a half an hour.
Hillary’s team meeting with Russians.
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Remind me again....who was president in 2015?
Such behavior seems odd for an FBI that now says in court records it has evidence dating to 2015 of Butina’s efforts to influence American politics — especially when compared to the bureau’s conduct in the earlier case of another Russian, Anna Chapman.
Chapman was, before Butina, the most famous Russian arrested on U.S. soil. She led a ring of about 10 Russian spies embedded in America; one of them posed as an accountant as she tried to gain influence in political circles.
Both Butina and Chapman were stunning in appearance, two redheads who were flawlessly Western in comportment and cunning in how they penetrated political circles.
But that is where the comparisons end — at least when it comes to the FBI’s conduct.
As soon as one of Chapman’s associates, who went by the name of Cynthia Murphy, made inroads with Alan Patricof, a major Democratic donor close to Hillary Clinton, the FBI acted swiftly to arrest the entire cell before it compromised any political leaders or institutions.
“In regards to the woman known as Cynthia Murphy, she was getting close to Alan, and the lobbying job. And we thought this was too close to Hillary Clinton,” former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi explained to me last year. “So when you have the totality of the circumstance, and we were confident we had the whole cell identified, we decided it was time to shut down their operations.”
For some reason, the FBI’s “too close” alarm bell didn’t sound off the same way for Butina, even as she posted to a Russian Facebook-like site photos of her attending events where she had contact with former or current U.S. officials such as John Bolton (2013), former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (2014), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (2015), former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and future President Donald Trump (2015).
There also was no urgency from the FBI when she helped to arrange a major dinner at the 2015 NRA convention in Nashville and brought her reputed handler, Russian banking and political figure Alexander Torshin, along to meet the big-money figures of the GOP. Likewise, no pre-emptive FBI action when she helped to arrange a delegation led by a former NRA president to meet with Putin’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, in December 2015.
Instead, Butina got her student visa from the U.S. government, despite influence-peddling that was brashly recorded on websites and social media.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Eff you, Wyden, you hypocritical scumbag!
thank you
Seems evident that Andy McCabe’s book is his [or his handlers’] effort to make it look like the coup conspirators started their work after Trump fired Comey rather than in 2015.
Gee, which candidates didn't get a visit?
So, did John Solomon alert any of those people of his suspicions then?
That woud be “ obama” administration officials
Wait! What? There was Russian collusion under “I’ll have more flexibility after the election Obama”, say it ain’t so
Precisely
Senators demand why Joe Blow used Russian dressing on his salad! /S
This once again proves the point several of us have been making. There are numerous instances where by Obama/Hilary/Bill have been involved with Russian officials. You might say they were “in bed” with the Russians.
To cover these many transgressions, they blame Trump and conspire to frame him and take out a properly elected president.
Treason by any definition.
Why don’t they just ask McConnell and Schumer, since they were in on this Conspiracy to Overthrow the President of the United States from the beginning??
How about Obama’s open mic deal ?
The worry having Wyden involved is that he’s there to run interference not investigate.
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