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EXCLUSIVE: FUSION GPS FOUNDER HAD CONTACT WITH STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL DURING 2016 CAMPAIGN
Daily Caller ^ | 3/4/2019 | chuck ross

Posted on 03/04/2019 8:30:32 PM PST by bitt

Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson was in contact with a State Department official who had close contacts with dossier author Christopher Steele, according to emails recently obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The September 2016 emails show Simpson was desperate to make contact with Jonathan Winer, a longtime associate of then-Secretary of State John Kerry.

Winer has been confirmed as a source for an article published the following day. That article, written by journalist Michael Isikoff, was the first to publicize Steele’s claims about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

One of the co-founders of the opposition research firm that commissioned the Steele dossier was in contact with a State Department official in the days before a news article was published laying out allegations contained in the salacious anti-Trump report.

Emails obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show that Glenn Simpson, an executive at Fusion GPS, contacted Jonathan Winer, who then served as State’s special envoy for Libya, on Sept. 19 and Sept. 22, 2016. That was days ahead of the publication of a Yahoo! News article that was the first story to cite information gathered by Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the dossier.

Winer, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State John Kerry, was a source for that article, which laid out Steele’s allegations about Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser who would become the target of FBI surveillance.

The emails, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed on TheDCNF’s behalf by Judicial Watch, show for the first time that Simpson had direct contact with a State Department official.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201609; 20160919; 20160922; abuseofpower; bananarepublic; christophersteele; collusion; coup; deepstate; fusiongps; johnkerry; jonathanwiner; kerry; libya; russia; silentcoup; winer
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To: bitt

Sounds like Collusion.


21 posted on 03/04/2019 9:04:58 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: tatown

Rino crickets in congress, Paul Ryan and the Bushes saying the probe is legit and must continue... yep yep yep.

Time to indict some Rinos.

What did they know, when did they know it


22 posted on 03/04/2019 9:08:51 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: bitt

This has always been obama.. he knew and was in it.. he set the example how to do whatever, and it not be reported.. irs and his temper..dare anyone to tell him no.

There are those who would rather be corrupt than live an honest life


23 posted on 03/04/2019 9:13:52 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: rlmorel

And let us not forget that Glenn Simpson also met with Natalia Veselnitskaya on the night BEFORE the Trump Tower meeting...AND the night after.
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I believe this to be true but I’m looking for the original source of that info.

Any idea?


24 posted on 03/04/2019 9:20:10 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: rlmorel
And Senator Mark Warner (D-Va), in 2017, was texting a Russian oligarch in an effort to contact Christopher Steele.

Fox News: Mark Warner Texted Russian Oligarch

25 posted on 03/04/2019 9:20:49 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: bitt

Isn’t that foreign interference in the election?


26 posted on 03/04/2019 9:24:24 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Bullish

The law enforcement, the DOJ and all the agencies belong to Trump now.
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Not so sure about that........


27 posted on 03/04/2019 9:36:58 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jane Long

If the corrupt courts and Deep-State-infested Justice Department fail to act, then it’ll be time to convene citizen grand juries.


28 posted on 03/04/2019 9:44:35 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: bitt

It was all an international and US Intergovernmental coup attempt. Even when it is out in the open they can’t stop.


29 posted on 03/04/2019 10:01:22 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: bitt
This article by the American Spectator, spells out an even more damning description of the Dossier frame job on Trump, the players and, of course, DemonCRAP operatives in the FBI. We get this information from the American Spectator:

https://spectator.org/worse-than-watergate-part-2/

" the Grassley-Graham letter says that Steele admitted to a British court that he included in the dossier reports “unsolicited — and unverified — allegations.” Unsolicited and unverified information received from whom? Through Winer, Steele received some or all of the information he gathered indirectly from Blumenthal and Shearer. It was “unsolicited” in the sense that he may not have asked for it. But the Clinton campaign planted it in his “dossier” as was their privilege to do because they were paying him through Fusion GPS to write it. They were his customer and he was their scribe."

Attorney General Bill Barr has his work cut out for him.

30 posted on 03/04/2019 10:32:23 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

I’m hearing rumbles that there is now proof that O met with the FISA judge in the WH re: the Carter Page original FISA..

Must be Contreras, who suddenly recused himself from the Flynn matter..


31 posted on 03/04/2019 10:44:15 PM PST by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: InterceptPoint

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fusion-gps-official-met-with-russian-operative-before-and-after-trump-jr-sit-down


32 posted on 03/04/2019 10:47:19 PM PST by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: TBP

“Isn’t that foreign interference in the election?”

That’s the honey trap...even WORSE ‘foreign interference’ in the election was Obama’s recruiting the UK and AUS to spy on American citizens for him - the FVey agreement - which will be in the DECLASS, coming to a theater near you soon!!!!


33 posted on 03/04/2019 10:50:19 PM PST by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: jonrick46

and now we will get to see every bit of Steele’s testimony, thanks to Judicial Watch!


34 posted on 03/04/2019 10:51:48 PM PST by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: bitt

Just remember who he was and what mattered to him.. he was involved with everything that went on.. if fox said one thing he didnt like, he said so next thing.. he controlled all the other networks news.. he used the irs and whatever was needed to conttol.. he was on tv for every black person who was killed.. he was on everything.. dont think he didnt know all this was going on.. he knew and wanted to discredit the man who replaced him. He was afraid he’d undo his 8 yrs.. and he did.

No one upstages the king barack


35 posted on 03/04/2019 10:59:47 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: bitt

Wow. Nice find. Much thanks.


36 posted on 03/04/2019 11:08:20 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: bitt

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 : (FUSION GPS’ GLENN SIMPSON CONTACTS JONATHAN WINER [See STATE DEPT, JOHN KERRY, LIBYA])

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016: (CLINTON VISITS UKRAINE ) Hillary Clinton visits Ukraine, vows to defend its borders
-—— Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline, Original research | 01/13/2017 | Fedora

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 : (PREET BHARARA OFFICE ISSUES SUPOENA FOR ANTHONY WEINER’S CELL PHONE, ETC -— WEINER CASE)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 : (FEINSTEIN AND SCHIFF GO PUBLIC WITH RUSSIA CLAIM [See BRENNAN])

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 : (ISIKOFF WRITES ARTICLE FOR YAHOO NEWS BASED DIRECTLY ON THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER; IT REVEALS THE FBI WAS LOOKING INTO CARTER PAGE’S ALLEGED CONTACTS IN RUSSIA ; THIS ARTICLE WOULD LATER BE USED
BY THE FBI CONSPIRATORS TO OBTAIN A FISA WARRANT TO SPY ON CARTER PAGE, TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN ADVISOR — See CARTER PAGE, FISA COURT WARRANT OF OCT 21, 2016, FUSION GPS, GLENN SIMPSON)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 : (FUSION GPS’ GLENN SIMPSON CONTACTS JONATHN WINER [See STATE DEPT, JOHN KERRY, LIBYA]...AGAIN)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 : (CARTER PAGE, WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT ON BOARD BY MANAFORT, LEAVES THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN [A FEW DAYS AFTER YAHOO ARTICLE BY ISIKOFF? AND BEFORE THE FISA WARRANT WAS ISSUED- SO WHY DID THE FBI GET TO USE
HIM AS EXCUSE TO MONITOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN?])

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 : (DOJ ADMITS TO FISC THAT SURVEILLANCE INCLUDED OBAMA’S POLITICAL OPPONENTS -— See DOJ’S JOHN CARLIN RESIGNATION, NOTE THE PLURAL “OPPONENTS”) 09/26/16 DOJ National Security Divison (NSD) admits to
FISC that surveillance included Obama’s political opponents, FISC
https://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/OLC%20IG%20Act%20Opinion%20-%207-20-15%20.pdf -— VIA -— DIRECTORBLUE.BLOGSPOT TIMELINE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 : (OBAMA’S OFA MAKES A SECOND BATCH OF PAYMENTS - $700,000 TO PERKINS COIE)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 : (COMPLETELY BOGUS “OCTOBER SURPRISE” CASE FROM CA IS FILED AGAINST TRUMP AND EPSTEIN IN THE S DISTRICT OF NY )


37 posted on 03/05/2019 12:14:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: bitt

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 : (FUSION GPS’ GLENN SIMPSON CONTACTS JONATHN WINER [See STATE DEPT, JOHN KERRY, LIBYA])

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016: (CLINTON VISITS UKRAINE ) Hillary Clinton visits Ukraine, vows to defend its borders
-—— Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline, Original research | 01/13/2017 | Fedora

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 : (PREET BHARARA OFFICE ISSUES SUPOENA FOR ANTHONY WEINER’S CELL PHONE, ETC -— WEINER CASE)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 : (FUSION GPS’ GLENN SIMPSON AGAIN CONTACTS JONATHN WINER [See STATE DEPT, JOHN KERRY, LIBYA])

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 : (FEINSTEIN AND SCHIFF GO PUBLIC WITH RUSSIA CLAIM [See BRENNAN])

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 : (ISIKOFF WRITES ARTICLE FOR YAHOO NEWS BASED DIRECTLY ON THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER; IT REVEALS THE FBI WAS LOOKING INTO CARTER PAGE’S ALLEGED CONTACTS IN RUSSIA ; THIS ARTICLE WOULD LATER BE USED
BY THE FBI CONSPIRATORS TO OBTAIN A FISA WARRANT TO SPY ON CARTER PAGE, TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN ADVISOR — See CARTER PAGE, FISA COURT WARRANT OF OCT 21, 2016, FUSION GPS, GLENN SIMPSON)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 : (CARTER PAGE, WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT ON BOARD BY MANAFORT, LEAVES THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN [A FEW DAYS AFTER YAHOO ARTICLE BY ISIKOFF? AND BEFORE THE FISA WARRANT WAS ISSUED- SO WHY DID THE FBI GET TO USE
HIM AS EXCUSE TO MONITOR TRUMP CAMPAIGN?])

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 : (DOJ ADMITS TO FISC THAT SURVEILLANCE INCLUDED OBAMA’S POLITICAL OPPONENTS -— See DOJ’S JOHN CARLIN RESIGNATION, NOTE THE PLURAL “OPPONENTS”) 09/26/16 DOJ National Security Divison (NSD) admits to
FISC that surveillance included Obama’s political opponents, FISC
https://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/OLC%20IG%20Act%20Opinion%20-%207-20-15%20.pdf -— VIA -— DIRECTORBLUE.BLOGSPOT TIMELINE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 : (OBAMA’S OFA MAKES A SECOND BATCH OF PAYMENTS - $700,000 TO PERKINS COIE)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 : (COMPLETELY BOGUS “OCTOBER SURPRISE” CASE FROM CA IS FILED AGAINST TRUMP AND EPSTEIN IN THE S DISTRICT OF NY )


38 posted on 03/05/2019 12:16:08 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

DISREGRD THIS ONE I MADE AN ERROR ON SEPT 26 ON COTCT OF WINR, SHOULD BE SEPT 22


39 posted on 03/05/2019 12:18:44 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: GOPJ

...and nobody at the DOJ cares. Make of that what you will but my recommendation is stop using the phrase “Our Country” cause it ain’t.


40 posted on 03/05/2019 2:16:15 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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