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“We also investigated an allegation, raised by Papadopoulos, that the FBI used Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese citizen who was living in London and serving as a university professor, to pass information to Papadopoulos in April 2016 as a set up, so that the FBI could predicate the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Papadopoulos raised this possibility during his October 25, 2018 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, by stating that Mifsud might have been “working with the FBI and this was some sort of operation” to entrap Papadopoulos. The FBI’s Delta files contain no evidence that Mifsud has ever acted as an FBI CHS”
No one said Mifsud was FBI. He was CIA/western intelligence.
p. 370 Source 2 is halper. This completely exonerates Papodopolous
Later in the conversation, Source 2 asked Papadopoulos directly whether help “from a third party like WikiLeaks for example or some other third party like the Russians, could be incredibly helpful” in securing a campaign victory.
Papadopoulos responded: Well as a campaign, of course, we don’t advocate for this type of activity because at the end of the day it’s, ah, illegal. First and foremost it compromises the US national security and third it sets a very bad precedence [sic].... So the campaign does not advocate for this, does not support what is happening. The indirect consequences are out of our hands.... [F]or example, our campaign is not. .. engag[ing] or reaching out to wiki leaks or to the whoever it is to tell them please work with us, collaborate because we don’t, no one does that.... Unless there’s something going on that I don’t know which I don’t because I don’t think anybody would risk their, their life, ah, potentially going to prison over doing something like that. Um ... because at the end of the day, you know, it’s an illegal, it’s an illegal activity. Espionage is, ah, treason. This is a form of treason .... I mean that’s why, you know, it became a very big issue when Mr. Trump said, “Russia if you’re listening .... “ Do you remember? ... And you know we had to retract it because, of course, he didn’t mean for them to actively engage in espionage but the media then took and ran with it.
When Source 2 raised the issue again, Papadopoulos added: to run a shop like that ... of course it’s illegal. No one’s looking to ... obviously get into trouble like that and, you know, as far as I understand that’s, no one’s collaborating, there’s been no collusion and it’s going to remain that way. But the media, of course, wants to take a statement that Trump made, an off-the-cuff statement, about [how] Russia helped find the 30,000 emails and use that as a tool to advance their [story]. .. that Trump is ... a stooge and if he’s elected he’ll permit the Russians to have carte blanche throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East while the Americans sit back and twiddle their thumbs. And that’s not correct.”
Papodop basically said Trump’s not interested in working with Russians, twice, period.
The conspirators and Horowitz are using the reference by Papadopoulus in his testimony that ‘mifsud may be fbi’ and ran with that as proof of the conspiracy theory collapsing and therefore ignoring the fact that many suspected Mifsud was western intelligence...ie Five Eyes...CIA
Did Horowitz investigate the “western asset” theory [fact] at all?!?!?!
Was non-FBI outside his purview?!?!
This is the fact that blows up the entire scheme, and he missed it?!?!