Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline

September 2005: Bill Clinton visits Kazakhstan with Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra on a visit arranged by Siberian nuclear physicist Sergei Kurzin, a former employee of Marc Rich who traveled Russia scouting investment opportunities for Rich; Giustra makes a deal to acquire uranium assets through shell company UrAsia, to be transferred through a merger with South African/Canadian company Uranium One in February 2007; Senator Hillary Clinton applies pressure to Kazakh officials to approve the deal; Giustra subsequently gives $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several large donations; Uranium One will begin buying uranium assets in the U.S., putting in on track to control half of U.S. uranium output by 2015

2009-2012: Uranium One chairman Ian Tefler begins funneling an eventual $2.35 million to Clinton Foundation through the Fernwood Foundation, a Canadian entity, and through the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative; the Clinton Foundation fails to disclose this in its tax records; Uranium One associates Robert Disbrow, Paul Reynolds, and Frank Holmes also make multi-million dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation

June 2009: Russia’s state nuclear energy agency Rosatom, which operates in Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Myanmar, begins buying stakes in Uranium One, reflecting a 2006 $10 billion decision to increase Russian uranium production 600 percent

December 2009: Rosatom’s chief lays out plan to Russian government officials to begin acquiring uranium outside Russia; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meanwhile negotiating the 123 Agreement with the Russian government allowing U.S. and Russian firms to cooperate in development of civilian nuclear energy

March 2010: Secretary Clinton meets with Putin in Moscow to discuss pressuring Iran, but Putin proposes completing a civil nuclear power station, prompting Clinton to object to the mixed message this would send Iran; however, Clinton and Putin agree on New START nuclear talks and commercial opportunities in areas such as civilian nuclear power

May 2010: Obama administration submits US-Russian Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to Congress; weeks later, Rosatom announces decision to seek majority share in Uranium One; meanwhile on May 21, 2010, Canadian investment company Salida Capital cosponsors a Bill Clinton speech in Calgary; Salida subsequently moves into the Ukranian market in partnership with an adviser to Energy Ministery Yuri Boyko, who helps create a trading company Putin uses to control Ukranian natural gas trade

October 2010: Russian majority share purchase of Uranium One is approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a body that includes Secretary Clinton

2011: A “Salida Capital” is identified in a Rosatom annual report as a wholly-owned subsidiary; when contacted, Canada’s Salida Capital refuses to discuss whether this is the same company

June 2011: FBI arrests members of a Russian spy ring which has targeted a leading fundraiser for and friend of Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton receives $500,000 for speaking in Moscow to an event for Renaissance Capital (RenCap), a firm registered in Cyprus with former Russian intelligence officers on staff; Clinton also meets with Putin

2013: Rosatom announces plans to take 100 percent control of Uranium One; in fall 2013, Rosatom passes operational control of Bushehr nuclear reactor to Iran; Uranium One attempts to buy uranium mine in Arizona but the Navajo Nation objects

November 2013: Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych refuses to sign free trade agreement with EU, triggering protests linked to CIA-backed groups funded by George Soros

March to June 2015: Obama administration, the UK, France, Russia, and China work out nuclear deal with Iran

Spring 2015: Hackers target DNC consultant Alexandra Chalupa, who was doing opposition research on Donald Trump; Chalupa’s emails will later be released by Wikileaks

July 2015: Koch brothers screen Republican Presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker; they also decide not to support Trump

September 2015: A “wealthy Republican donor who strongly opposed Mr. Trump” hires Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump; Fusion GPS hires former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s firm Orbis Business Intelligence

Late February 2016: Clinton team meets to discuss Donald Trump’s February 20 win in South Carolina and February 23 win in Nevada; most of team does not see Trump as a threat but Bill Clinton insists “that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.”

February 25, 2016: Anti-Defamation League, previously involved in bribing Clinton to pardon Marc Rich, issues press release calling on Trump to disavow ex-KKK leader David Duke

February 28, 2016: CNN’s Jake Tapper, interviewing Trump, cites the ADL’s press release and calls upon Trump to disavow Duke; when Trump says this is the first he’s heard of the story and he wants to check it out for himself before responding, Tapper continues insisting that he answer; press subsequently reports that Trump “failed to disavow” Duke

April 2016: Hacker FANCY BEAR infiltrates DNC network, targets Trump opposition research; FBI notifies DNC of breach

May 9, 2016: Judge Andrew Napolitano says Russia has 20,000 of Clinton’s emails they are debating releasing

May 2016: NATO deploys missile defense to Romania and Poland over Russian objections

June 12, 2016: Wikileaks’ Julian Assange announces he has information to indict Hillary Clinton

June 14, 2016: Hack of DNC is publicly disclosed, attributed to Russia; Washington Post reports that Russian hackers targeted information on Trump; Russia denies responsibility

July 2016: Steele shares his Russian Trump dossier with an FBI contact he knows from the FIFA corruption investigation

July 5, 2016: FBI announces it will not recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton

July 18-21, 2016: Donald Trump selected as Republican Presidential candidate; Steele begins shopping his opposition research to Hillary Clinton; NATO summit agrees to deploy rotating battalions of troops to Eastern Europe to ease anxieties about Russia

July 22, 2016: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC emails, the first of several document dumps

September 9, 2016: Donald Trump interview with Larry King appears on RT America, affiliated with Russian state broadcaster RT; Trump says he did interview as favor for King and CNN never told him the interview would appear on Russian TV

October 2016: Steele, frustrated that FBI does not seem to be seriously investigating his dossier, cuts off contact with Bureau

October 31, 2016: On eve of the election as an October Surprise, Plamegate figure David Corn--who previously published the Romney 47 percent story to influence the 2012 election--publishes description of Russian Trump Dossier in Mother Jones; bloggers immediately recognize elements of the story as derived partly from fanfiction passed on to Rick Wilson, an associate of Evan McMullin, an ex-CIA officer who began campaigning against Trump in August 2016

November 4, 2016: Newsweek senior editor Kurt Eichenwald publishes sotry titled “Why Vladimir Putin Is Backing Donald Trump”, asserting that Russians hacked German elections and Brexit vote and is now backing Trump

November 6, 2016: FBI announces it has not changed conclusions in Hillary Clinton investigation

November 8, 2016: Donald Trump is elected President, defeating Hillary Clinton; Clinton fails to appear for her concession speech, subsequently blames FBI and Russia for her loss; her supporters start calling for a recount

December 2016: Christopher Steele gives dossier to John McCain, who gives it to FBI

December 14, 2016: U.S. announces plans to send 4,000 troops to Poland in show of strength to Russia

December 27, 2016: US abstains from vetoing UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements “in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”

January 1, 2017: New York Times reports that over the past several months U.S. Special Forces troops have been quietly deployed to the Baltic states to bolster resolve of troops anxious about Russia

Week of January 1 to 7 2017: Obama and Biden receive briefing that covers Russian Trump Dossier; Trump later receives the same briefing

January 6, 2017: U.S. intelligence community releases declassified report on Russian interference in American election, which spotlights alleged pro-Trump bias in RT

January 10, 2017: BuzzFeed publishes Russian Trump Dossier; CNN reports on the story

January 11, 2017: McMullin insists in Business Insider interview that CIA would not have included dossier in Presidential briefing if it was not taken seriously

January 12, 2017: Joe Biden says he and Obama did not take the dossier seriously and did not ask the intelligence community to investigate it; C-SPAN broadcast interrupted by RT broadcast

Reconstructing the Russian Trump Dossier Story: A Timeline / by Fedora
September 2005: Bill Clinton visits Kazakhstan with Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra on a visit arranged by Siberian nuclear physicist Sergei Kurzin, a former employee of Marc Rich who traveled Russia scouting investment opportunities for Mark Rich; Giustra makes a deal to acquire uranium assets through shell company UrAsia, to be transferred through a merger with South African/Canadian company Uranium One in February 2007; then-Sen Hillary Clinton applies pressure to Kazakh officials to approve the deal; Giustra subsequently gives $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several large donations; Uranium One will begin buying uranium assets in the U.S., putting in on track to control half of U.S. uranium output by 2015.

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This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of the US uranium assets takeover.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.

NOTE Kazakh is remembered as the last state to peel off from the USSR.

CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man (Giustra) who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday. However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.

That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)

"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.

A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25

re. 4chan/Rick Wilson

FWIW, this twitter channel of one of the alledged 4chan dossier architects was taken down briefly, but reactivated yesterday.

https://twitter.com/trsprudence/with_replies

Nick Rochfort @trsprudence 23h23 hours ago
2/2 EXmi6 agent collected these rumors from various sources including our fake troll. This collection aka his “report” BuzzFeed published

Nick Rochfort @trsprudence 23h23 hours ago
1/2 Again we wrote the piss hotel story making fun of ricks sons piss fetish. Our troll was included in a collection of unverified rumors->

Nick Rochfort @trsprudence 23h23 hours ago
Its not quite clear how our story about piss that we sent to cuckservatives was fed to Ex MI6 but Wilson->McMulln is what we think

Nick Rochfort @trsprudence 23h23 hours ago
This story which we used declassified stories /documents to create was included in ex MI6 guys personal infocollection he gave to BuzzFeed

Nick Rochefort @trsprudence 24h24 hours ago
Spoke to a lawyer, full story will be realeased.
Specifically me and my flat mates created the piss FSB, story and circulated it to journos

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