Posted on 04/27/2020 6:08:13 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Kenyanesian Usurper weaponized EVERY agency against the citizens.
The Federal Bureau of Incrimination and Sedition already had some practice......
That now-debunked tip, from Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann, set off a chain of events that led to Steele publishing a Sept. 14, 2016 memo accusing the founders of the bank, Alfa Bank, of having “illicit” ties to Vladimir Putin. A week after Steele wrote that memo, he had another meeting with Sussmann’s colleague, Marc Elias. . .
Steele testified under oath in London on March 17 and 18.
He revealed that Sussmann, a former Justice Department official, told him during a meeting on July 29, 2016 about suspicious network traffic between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. He also said that the theory about the computer server traffic was the catalyst for the dossier memo he would write six weeks later about Alfa Bank.
“I’m very clear is that the first person that ever mentioned the Trump server issue, Alfa server issue, was Mr. Sussman [sic],” Steele told Hugh Tomlinson, a lawyer for the Alfa Bank owners, on March 17.
Steele went on to say that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson instructed him at some point after the Sussmann meeting to write a report about Alfa Bank.
“I was given the instruction sometime after that meeting by Mr. Simpson,” said Steele, adding that the instruction from Simpson “was absolutely, definitely linked to the server issue.”
It was not previously known whether Steele keyed in on Alfa Bank on his own initiative, or if someone else tasked him with investigating the bank.
Steele said that he directed his dossier source to collect information from Russia about the bank. He claimed that the source, who has not been identified, met with a “top level Russian government official,” who reported back on the Alfa Bank founders. . .
Sussmann shopped the allegations about the Alfa Bank computer servers around to others besides Steele, including to journalists and the FBI’s top lawyer.
He shared the information with reporters from the New York Times and Slate, which ran a story on Oct. 31, 2016.
According to that story, Alfa Bank’s servers were communicating in a peculiar fashion with those of the Trump Organization. A team of computer experts who studied the traffic determined that the Alfa-Trump channel was being used for some sort of communication between the two sides. That assessment, if true, would have fit into Steele’s theory that the Trump campaign was conspiring with the Kremlin.
The Slate story appeared as rumors gained steam that the Trump campaign was somehow involved in the hack and release of emails from the DNC and Clinton campaign. On Sept. 23, 2016, Yahoo! News published a story alleging that Trump campaign aide Carter Page met secretly with Kremlin insiders to discuss exchanging material on Hillary Clinton.
On the day the Slate story appeared, Mother Jones reporter David Corn published a report citing a “former Western intelligence officer” who claimed that the Russian government had compromising material on Trump.
It is now known that Steele was involved in one way or the other in all three of the stories. He met with both reporters from Mother Jones and Yahoo, and had investigated the allegations central to the Slate story.
To further spread the Alfa Bank story, Sussmann contacted James Baker, his former DOJ colleague who then served as general counsel for the FBI. Baker told House investigators on Oct. 18, 2018 that Sussmann contacted him to share the information and that they met on Sept. 19, 2016.
That day was a busy one for the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team. The Justice Department IG report said that Steele provided six memos from his dossier to the FBI that same day.
The FBI began almost immediately drafting an application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Carter Page. The applications relied heavily on Steele’s dossier, which alleged that Page was a key link between the Trump team and Kremlin.
Notably, Steele did not provide the FBI with Report 112 from his dossier. The FBI eventually obtained the memo on Nov. 6, 2016, when provided it to Baker.
It is unclear whether Sussmann and Steele’s outreach to the FBI on Sept. 19, 2016 was coordinated, or merely coincidental.
Three days later, Steele met with Elias at Perkins Coie’s offices in Washington, D.C., the ex-spy testified. Steele did not provide details of his discussions with Elias.
He also met with several journalists to discuss the dossier during that same visit to the U.S. capital. One of the journalists Steele met was Michael Isikoff, the author of the Yahoo! story about Carter Page.
Perkins Coie has been reluctant to discuss its affiliation with Fusion GPS and Steele. Elias, the Perkins Coie partner, did not disclose his involvement in the matter when he attended a congressional deposition regarding the dossier along with his client, former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel has said that Elias misled him in 2017 when asked if Perkins Coie funded the dossier.
One mystery is where Sussmann obtained the information regarding an Alfa Bank connection to the Trump Organization. Steele testified that a group of cyber experts passed Sussmann the information in late July 2016.
The cyber experts, who go by the pseudonyms “Max” and “Tea Leaves,” have spoken to numerous reporters about their investigation, including at Slate, The New Yorker and The New York Times.
A cyber firm that Alfa Bank hired to investigate the server allegations determined that the computer records were likely fabricated by “threat actors” who wanted “to make it appear as though a connection existed” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank.
“If true, this would constitute a potential violation of various US federal laws,” Ankura, the cyber firm, wrote in a report released Friday.
no more delays. get on with some indictments now.
He’s outside the USA, so whoever happens to get to him would be very difficult to prosecute in the USA
Not really. He works for Briish spooks. Tampering with US Election by a foreign ally? Not good optics for any future trust. I would just call Boris and I’m sure he would punt his ass out in a heartbeat, or we can just kick the UK Embassy out.
Admission that he got direction from Simpson
Lots of interest in there.
1. Sundance (at the Conservative Treehouse) has been saying since day 1 that Steele was not hired to obtain intelligence. He was hired to launer it — to give respectability to stuff Fusion GPS had already dug up through being the unnamed contractor at the center of the original FISA abuses. This is more evidence.
2. Note that the memo “revealing” the Alpha Bank connection was Sept. 14th. Sussman’s meeting must have been at least a week before, maybe 2 or 3. Then the memo on the 14th. But he only brings it to Slate in late October, they publish on Oct. 31.
Either he’s the world’s biggest procrastinator or something changed. What?
The Comey announcement was Oct. 28th.
“Clinton woke up on the morning of Oct. 28 as the likely — by no means certain — next president.”
After the letter ...
“In the average swing state,3 Clinton’s lead declined from 4.5 percentage points at the start of Oct. 28 to just 1.7 percentage points on Nov. 4. If the polls were off even slightly, Trump could be headed to the White House.”
So he rushed to print to help smear Trump. OK
But why was he holding off before? Why was he making dossiers if he wasn’t planning to use them?
Because in Sundance’s theory, the dossiers were never oppo-research to smear the candidate. They were supporting evidence for (in this case renewal of) the FISA warrants that the FBI needed to explain where it got all the intelligence it already had on the Trump campaign (answer: from patently illegal FISA abuses).
The evidence came from patently illegal FISA searches, was laundered through Steele and served up to the court to get ostensibly legal FISA warrants to cover the whole mess.
RICO link?
The charge would be obstruction of justice. Intentionally filing false information is defacto obstruction. And obstruction is one of the RICO charges. Could this provide the “link” with DNC and Clinton?
If financial gain can be linked as well, there is a WHOLD lot of money that could (should) be followed.
Sept. 2, 2016: FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text that “[President Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
Fusion GPS and Steele were also funded by Daniel Jones, founder of the Democracy Integrity Project.
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