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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2018 11:31:07 GMT -6
Stephen McIntyre @climateaudit 27/ here's something new and intriguing. We knew that hackers set up fake site (actblues) to receive donations. NEW: they modified DCCC website to point to fake donations page. Why would GRU try to scam donations? Doesn't this seem more like financial scammers? pic.twitter.com/9fMFImuHRp 9:35 PM - Jul 14, 2018 ...... Eerily similar wording to the Podesta case. Paragraph 44 of the complaint: www.classaction.org/media/sweigert-v-podesta-et-al.pdf In paragraph 44 of the Complaint, Sweigert notes that the DNC had created a phishing scheme to divert donations away from the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a different account controlled by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and/or Imran Awan. The account was labeled Actblue.com which was changed to Actblues.com. ..... Coincidence or?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2018 14:02:01 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/tom-perez-dnc-hacking/Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Sunday sidestepped a question about whether or not the DNC has given the FBI access to the their computers to investigate Russian hacking during the 2016 election. “Today’s tweet is rehashing old gruel, more conspiracy theories. The fact of the matter is that we cooperated fully with the FBI,” Perez said to CNN’s Ana Cabrera. “And when then Director Comey went to Congress, he himself said that what he should have done differently was, I think his term was ‘cast a flare up’ to the DNC even earlier about what was going on.” Cabrera then pushed back asking, “Has the DNC done everything in its power to make sure this doesn’t happen again and to get to the absolute bottom of what happened? Have you turned over the DNC servers?” “We have cooperated from day one and we continue to cooperate. And again, all you need to do is read the testimony of then Director Comey when he was in front of Congress. This is again another red herring,” he responded.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2018 14:03:55 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/nunes-mueller-indictment/House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday that the special counsel’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers “would look ridiculous” had President Donald Trump declassified portions of a congressional report that laid out Russian efforts to steal and disseminate Democrats’ emails. That’s because, according to Nunes, an Intelligence Committee report released to the public on April 27 contained “almost everything” laid out in Mueller’s indictment, which was handed down Friday. ........ Nunes said in an interview on “Fox Sunday Futures” that much of the information was included in Chapter 2 of the House Intelligence Committee’s report, but it was heavily redacted in response to requests from the Department of Justice and intelligence community. Nunes, an ally of Trump’s, suggested that Trump missed an opportunity by failing to declassify the Intelligence Committee report, which was written by Republicans without support from committee Democrats.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2018 15:19:56 GMT -6
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ From FBI veteran:
"Strzok embarrassed the FBI today, Agents past & present. He looked and sounded like a jerk...not going to go over well with the American people."
Also:
"He’s under an OPR but has FBI Counsel? How does that work???" 12:38 AM - Jul 13, 2018
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Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ From another FBI veteran: "In 27 yrs in the Bureau, I have never known, worked, associated, trained with any agent as obnoxious as Strzok. The common trait among he, Comey, McCabe, is apparent: I'm smarter than you. Elitist arrogance. The Bureau is in this plot over their head" 12:02 PM - Jul 13, 2018
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Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ Wait a minute: How can Strzok both be under Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigation for misconduct by the FBI and yet at the same time be protected and aided by FBI counsel? 12:48 AM - Jul 13, 2018
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Post by trumped on Jul 15, 2018 16:59:28 GMT -6
Lol If you really believe this there is no hope for you. Fuck you traitor, you and your ilk are enemies of liberal democracy. You want that orange faced moron to be your king and dictator
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Post by trumped on Jul 15, 2018 17:01:47 GMT -6
Reminder what we are up against:
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Post by trumped on Jul 15, 2018 17:05:01 GMT -6
This puts things in perspective:
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Post by sooner98 on Jul 15, 2018 17:31:26 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/nunes-mueller-indictment/House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday that the special counsel’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers “would look ridiculous” had President Donald Trump declassified portions of a congressional report that laid out Russian efforts to steal and disseminate Democrats’ emails. That’s because, according to Nunes, an Intelligence Committee report released to the public on April 27 contained “almost everything” laid out in Mueller’s indictment, which was handed down Friday. ........ Nunes said in an interview on “Fox Sunday Futures” that much of the information was included in Chapter 2 of the House Intelligence Committee’s report, but it was heavily redacted in response to requests from the Department of Justice and intelligence community. Nunes, an ally of Trump’s, suggested that Trump missed an opportunity by failing to declassify the Intelligence Committee report, which was written by Republicans without support from committee Democrats. Thank you, Team Mueller, for this completely useless indictment. Can anyone convince me that this wasn't done three days before the Trump/Putin summit, with a political agenda in mind?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2018 4:04:53 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2018 4:06:45 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2018 4:08:31 GMT -6
So you’re watching him get read, basically the riot act. Ha – he’s such a turd. We saw his body wiggle. His facial expressions are comical, indeed. It’s like he has a permanent snarl on his face. You sit there and if you can kind of imagine in your mind and do it as you sit here, put a snarl in your nose around your upper lip and just think of the mindset that you would have to be in to keep it there. Your only friends and the only people you let into your box are the only people that think like you,and so everyone else is going to get that snarl and disdain.
This is the power of belief systems. It’s what’s wrong with the DOJ and the FBI. They are in a belief system. Remember if they believe they’re king, they’re not oppressing, they’re standing their ground.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2018 12:59:18 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/muellers-latest-indictments-russians-politicized-pointless/amp/Mueller’s Politicized Indictment of Twelve Russian Intelligence Officers By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY July 16, 2018 12:25 PM If the idea was to give Vladimir Putin and his thug regime a new way to sabotage the United States, nice work. So, is Russia now presumed innocent of hacking the 2016 election? If not, it is difficult to understand any proper purpose served by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of twelve military officers in the Kremlin’s intelligence services for doing what everybody in America already knew that they did, and has known since before Donald Trump took office — indeed, since before the 2016 election. Make no mistake: This is nakedly politicized law enforcement. There is absolutely no chance any of the Russian officials charged will ever see the inside of an American courtroom. The indictment is a strictly political document by which the special counsel seeks to justify the existence of his superfluous investigation. Oh, and by the way, the answer to the question posed above is, “Yes, it is now the official position of the United States that Russia gets our Constitution’s benefit of the doubt.” Here is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announcing the Friday the 13th indictment: “In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.” Of course, the indicted Russians are never going to be proven guilty — not in the courtroom sense Rosenstein was invoking. As is so often the case in today’s politicized Justice Department, Rosenstein was trying to make a different political point. As he went on to note, if people whom we have formally charged are presumed innocent, then, a fortiori, people who have not been accused — implicitly, Rosenstein was talking about President Trump — must also be presumed innocent. But, see, you can’t make that point without stepping on the political purpose of Friday’s charade: We have taken the not only pointless but reckless step of indicting operatives of a hostile foreign power who cannot be prosecuted and whose schemes could easily have been exposed — and, in fact, have been exposed, multiple times — in public government reports; so now, due-process rules oblige us to caution you that we must presume the Russians did not do what we have formally accused them of doing. They are entitled to that presumption unless and until we convict them in court . . . which is never going to happen. Rosenstein made another telling remark at his big press conference. The Justice Department, he explained, will now “transition responsibility for this case to our Department’s National Security Division while we await the apprehension of the defendants.” Now, stop giggling over that last part — the bit where we hold our breath until Russian dictator Vladimir Putin extradites his spies into the FBI’s waiting arms. I’m talking about the first part: Mueller’s case, the definitive case about what Russia did to interfere in the 2016 election, is no longer Mueller’s case. It is being “transitioned” — i.e., buried — in the Justice Department unit that deals with counterintelligence matters that do not result in public trials. This underscores what we have been arguing here since before Mueller was appointed: There was no need and no basis in federal regulations for a special counsel. A special counsel is supposed to be appointed only when there are (a) a concrete factual basis to believe federally prosecutable crimes have been committed, calling for a criminal investigation, and (b) a conflict of interest that prevents the Justice Department from conducting the criminal investigation. Among the worst aspects of Mueller’s new indictment is its continuation of the Justice Department’s politicized perversion of its critical counterintelligence mission. As we’ve observed countless times, there was no basis for a criminal investigation of President Trump or the Trump campaign. The fact that Russia interfered in an American election — as it routinely does — never meant that the perceived beneficiary of the interference was criminally complicit in it. There is no known evidence that Trump-campaign officials had any involvement in hacking by the Russian intelligence services. Mueller’s new indictment powerfully suggests that this could not have happened — the Russians were expert in their cyberespionage tactics, they did not need anyone’s help, and they took pains to conceal their identity from everyone with whom they dealt. Moreover, even though Trump-campaign officials have been charged with other crimes (having nothing to do with the 2016 election), and some of those Trump officials had “contacts” with Russians, Mueller has never charged one of them with a crime related to Russia’s espionage attack on the election, nor has he ever elicited from any defendant who pled guilty an admission of any such crime. The only known allegations of such a crime are contained in the unverified, Clinton-campaign-sponsored Steele dossier, and the Trump-campaign figures implicated in it have either not been charged at all (e.g., Carter Page, Michael Cohen), or not been charged with a “collusion” crime (Paul Manafort).
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 17, 2018 10:25:32 GMT -6
Translation:
Lisa Page just flipped & threw Strzok under the bus:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 17, 2018 11:15:53 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-lawmakers-want-doj-inspector-general-to-find-out-if-rod-rosenstein-threatened-house-intel-staffTwo leading conservative lawmakers wrote a letter to the Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to determine whether he threatened congressional staffers earlier this year. “This notion Mr. Rosenstein threatened to use his official investigative powers as Deputy Attorney General to retaliate against rank-and-file staff members for sending written oversight requests raises concerns he has abused his authority in the context of this investigation,” House Freedom Caucus leaders Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote to Inspector General Michael Horowitz in a letter dated Monday. Last month, Fox News reported Rosenstein threatened that he would “subpoena” documents from lawmakers and aides of the House Intelligence Committee during a January 2018 meeting.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 17, 2018 14:28:49 GMT -6
NBC reporter:
Tom Winter ✔ @tom_Winter NEW: The Special Counsel's Office notifies the court that they will seek immunity for up to 5 people to testify under conditions of immunity in the upcoming trial against Paul Manafort in Virginia.
They say these people have not been publicly named before in the case. 3:02 PM - Jul 17, 2018
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Tom Winter ✔ @tom_Winter Replying to @tom_Winter The Special Counsel's Office says they aren't sure if they will call any of the witnesses so they want to file the requests for immunity under seal. 3:06 PM - Jul 17, 2018
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Tom Winter ✔ @tom_Winter Replying to @tom_Winter From the filing: “The motions indicate that the named individuals will not testify or provide other information on the basis of their privilege against self-incrimination, and that the government is requesting that the Court compel them to testify at the upcoming trial.” 3:08 PM - Jul 17, 2018
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Tom Winter ✔ @tom_Winter Replying to @tom_Winter Before people jump to conclusions it is important to note that this potential testimony could be tied to prior "bad acts" SCO has indicated may be presented.
We also don't know who and what they may testify to. This happens in trial. 3:25 PM - Jul 17, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 17, 2018 15:59:53 GMT -6
Interesting if true:
TheLastRefuge @thelastrefuge2 .@tom_Winter We see this for what it is. Robert Mueller is necessarily granting immunity to John and Tony Podesta while prosecuting Paul Manafort (their former contracted employee). Team Mueller also wants the court records sealed to hide the partisan deal from public sunlight. Tom Winter ✔ @tom_Winter NEW: The Special Counsel's Office notifies the court that they will seek immunity for up to 5 people to testify under conditions of immunity in the upcoming trial against Paul Manafort in Virginia.
They say these people have not been publicly named before in the case. 4:04 PM - Jul 17, 2018
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Post by Cooter Brown on Jul 18, 2018 5:55:12 GMT -6
Mueller knows this, but ignores this...
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Post by stinger1066 on Jul 18, 2018 6:17:45 GMT -6
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Post by okirishfan on Jul 18, 2018 7:28:04 GMT -6
That proves it!!!! Witch Hunt!!!
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2018 11:01:06 GMT -6
That proves it!!!! Witch Hunt!!! Well, I’d lean more towards there currently being no evidence,(if there was then the WaPo/NYTimes would have been “leaked it by insiders”), no Americans named/charged/indicted, no votes or outcomes being changed, etc. But sure, go with that.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2018 11:22:02 GMT -6
Interesting development:
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: The CrowdStrike analyst who ran the forensics on DNC servers worked for Mueller at FBI and in fact was personally promoted by Mueller 12:19 PM - Jul 18, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 18, 2018 11:22:37 GMT -6
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Clinton campaign counsel Marc Elias hired CrowdStrike to write the unusual public report blaming Russia for hacking the DNC in June 2016 -- the same month Elias hired Fusion GPS & Steele to write the dossier pinning the hacking on not just Russia but also Trump campaign 12:27 PM - Jul 18, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 19, 2018 3:21:46 GMT -6
John Solomon: I’ll tell you a little story I’ve never told before. In March of 2015 I observed her at several events and really cozying up to conservatives and making what I thought was a weak-handed case that she was this courageous gun rights activist going up against Putin and there would one day be a Second Amendment in Russia. There’s never going to be a Second Amendment in Russia. I became very perplexed by her behavior and her efforts of going up to presidential candidates and congressional candidates. So I started to do some reporting and I called FBI and US intelligence sources and very quickly I learned, “Yeah, we know that she’s somebody here as an agent of influence. She’s connecte to this guy Tortian(sp?) and we know what she’s trying to do.” And I thought, that’s really interesting. Are they going to tell the people she’s meeting with and it doesn’t appear they ever did. I thought the role of FBI counter-intelligence was to prevent contacts from occurring that are not in the interest of the United States. It sounds like they sat around and watched this for three or four years until it was convenient to create a headline.
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Post by xingtherubicon on Jul 19, 2018 7:36:46 GMT -6
Well, this is interesting... I found gaucho's source for his/her copy and paste plagiarisms www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/172-indictments-pending-in-the-robert-mueller-investigation/&page=117Post #5837 (posted 30 minutes before gaucho posted it here) I wish we could go back 5 years and tell the olds that Lou Dobbs, Fox News, the Republican President, and the GOP would refuse to speak out against Russian military intelligence trying to screw with our elections. oh wait, I have better things to do with a time machine than convincing simpletons of something they wouldn’t accept. Post #5852 I feel now's a good time to remind everyone that Mueller is a true patriot who has served his country and has stood up for what is right in a more heroic fashion than all of the MAGA-hat wearing, wrap-themselves-in-the-flag, Toby Keith-listening, I-hate-the-blacks-oops-I-mean-NFL-players-because-they-won't-stand-for-the-anthem, I-need-7-AR-15s-even-though-I-live-in-Southlake-NRA-members combined. Two posts this dolt tried to pass off for his own
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Post by politicalmexininja on Jul 19, 2018 7:46:53 GMT -6
Well, this is interesting... I found gaucho's source for his/her copy and paste plagiarisms www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/172-indictments-pending-in-the-robert-mueller-investigation/&page=117Post #5837 (posted 30 minutes before gaucho posted it here) I wish we could go back 5 years and tell the olds that Lou Dobbs, Fox News, the Republican President, and the GOP would refuse to speak out against Russian military intelligence trying to screw with our elections. oh wait, I have better things to do with a time machine than convincing simpletons of something they wouldn’t accept. Post #5852 I feel now's a good time to remind everyone that Mueller is a true patriot who has served his country and has stood up for what is right in a more heroic fashion than all of the MAGA-hat wearing, wrap-themselves-in-the-flag, Toby Keith-listening, I-hate-the-blacks-oops-I-mean-NFL-players-because-they-won't-stand-for-the-anthem, I-need-7-AR-15s-even-though-I-live-in-Southlake-NRA-members combined. Two posts this dolt tried to pass off for his own As if he couldn't get more pathetic...If I remember right he plagiarized on LT, too....what a piece of work LOL
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Post by soonerbounce13 on Jul 19, 2018 7:47:22 GMT -6
John Solomon: I’ll tell you a little story I’ve never told before. In March of 2015 I observed her at several events and really cozying up to conservatives and making what I thought was a weak-handed case that she was this courageous gun rights activist going up against Putin and there would one day be a Second Amendment in Russia. There’s never going to be a Second Amendment in Russia. I became very perplexed by her behavior and her efforts of going up to presidential candidates and congressional candidates. So I started to do some reporting and I called FBI and US intelligence sources and very quickly I learned, “Yeah, we know that she’s somebody here as an agent of influence. She’s connecte to this guy Tortian(sp?) and we know what she’s trying to do.” And I thought, that’s really interesting. Are they going to tell the people she’s meeting with and it doesn’t appear they ever did. I thought the role of FBI counter-intelligence was to prevent contacts from occurring that are not in the interest of the United States. It sounds like they sat around and watched this for three or four years until it was convenient to create a headline.not surprised
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 19, 2018 8:02:19 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/07/19/watchdog-awan-ethics-probe/A watchdog group is asking the congressional ethics committee to investigate a Democratic lawmaker for allegedly allowing nearly $120,000 of taxpayer-funded equipment ordered at the behest of IT staffer Abid Awan to go missing. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) asked the Office of Congressional Ethics Thursday to probe Rep. Yvette Clarke for corruption and misusing nearly $120,000. FACT extensively cited a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation into Awan’s misdeed as one of the main reasons for the group’s request. “The reported facts surrounding the loss, as well as the dollar amount, indicate abuse and corruption,” FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold wrote in a letter to Chairman Doc Hastings. The New York Democrat allegedly wrote off the money in 2016, months after Clarke then-staffer, Wendy Anderson, reportedly caught Awan rummaging through equipment in her office. Anderson discovered strange orders for equipment dating back several years after she became Yvette’s chief of staff. She found that the equipment ordered had no apparent business value and could not be accounted for on the books, according to TheDCNF’s reporting on the matter.
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Post by trumped on Jul 19, 2018 9:12:08 GMT -6
Educating Liberals Educating Liberals @education4libs Liberals are so mad at President Trump you would think he stole 90% of the Haitian fund relief, sold 20% of our Uranium to Russia, & let innocent Americans die in Benghazi. 10:14 PM · Jul 18, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 19, 2018 12:08:44 GMT -6
Makes one wonder why neither the FEC, nor the DOJ are pursuing this,(rhetorical): www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/19/non-profit-files-fec-complaint-against-clinton-campaign-dnc-over-dossier/The non-profit Coolidge Reagan Foundation on Thursday filed a Federal Election Complaint against Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee, their law firm Perkins Coie, and Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy that authored the “pee dossier,” for violating campaign finance laws. The non-profit charged that those parties hid payments made to and received by Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to produce the dossier, in violation of finance laws. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of colluding with foreigners, when in reality it was the Democrats who colluded with foreigners, the non-profit charged. “For over a year, Democratic officials have accused the Trump Administration of collaborating with foreign interlopers to influence the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. In reality, it was the Clinton-backed Democratic machine that conspired with foreigners in violation of both federal campaign finance law and basic decency to manipulate the election,” it said in a complaint. “The Clinton campaign weaponized American intelligence and law enforcement communities — led by Democratic appointees of President Barack Obama —through false, malicious, wholly manufactured lies about the Republican nominee, now President, Donald J. Trump,” it said. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation is described in the complaint as a not-for-profit charitable organization whose mission is to “defend, protect, and advance liberty, and particularly the principles of free speech enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.” The 22-page complaint walks through in detail how Clinton and DNC officials colluded with Steele and anonymous former and current Russian officials to produce a dossier aimed at influencing the 2016 elections, and violated election laws while doing so. The complaint describes how the Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias for the 2016 presidential election cycle. Elias then hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump. The Clinton campaign and the DNC then funneled over $1 million through Perkins Coie to Fusion GPS. Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook personally approved the payment to Perkins Coie, the complaint said. The non-profit argued that that since Fusion GPS’s work was to further the Clinton campaign and the DNC’s political goals, rather than providing legal advice or assisting with any litigation, it was not protected by attorney-client, work-product, or any other privileges. However, the Clinton campaign and the DNC hid their payments to Fusion GPS in campaign finance filings. The Clinton campaign reported all of its payments to Perkins Coie from January 2016 through December 2017 as being for the purpose of ”LEGAL SERVICES,” but did not mention Fusion GPS. Meanwhile, the DNC reported its payments to Perkins Coie between January 2016 and December 2017 as being for the following purposes: ● “LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE CONSULTING,” ● “LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES,” ● “OFFICE SUPPLIES/EXP,” ● “TRAVEL,” ● “PRINTING & COPYING,” ● “DATA SERVICES SUBSCRIPTION,” ● “POSTAGE AND SHIPPING,” ● “CATERING,FOOD & BEVERAGE,” ● “INTERNET,” ● “CELLULAR/MOBILE,” ● “ADMINISTRATIVE FEES,” ● “FED/STATE FEES & LICENSE,” ● “RESEARCH CONSULTING” (a single entry on August 16, 2016, for $66,500), and ● “DATA ANALYTICS.” “None of these entries accurately describe the DNC’s payments to Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s opposition research into Donald Trump,” the complaint said. “By using Perkins Coie as a straw man intermediary for this pervasively political, non-legal work, [Hillary for America] and the DNC were able to mask their relationship to Fusion GPS from the public in the critical weeks before the 2016 presidential election, in direct violation of federal campaign finance law,” it said. The complaint details how Fusion GPS paid a total of approximately $168,000 to Steele and/or his company Orbis, and how Steele solicited foreign nationals — particularly current and/or former members of the Russian government and intelligence service — for information relating to Trump. “Thus, a foreign citizen controlled the collection and dissemination of information, largely from foreign government agents and other foreign nationals, intended to influence a federal election,” the complaint said. Steele then produced a dossier based on “dubious, unverified, and largely unverifiable information” he received from his “confidential sources of questionable credibility.” The dossier was then given to Fusion GPS, then to Perkins Coie, and then the Clinton campaignprovided a copy of the dossier to Fusion GPS, who provided it to the Clinton campaign and/or the DNC, the complaint said. The Obama Administration’s Justice Department went on to use the dossier to seek a secret surveillance warrant on the Trump campaign, without informing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that it was funded by, and developed at the behest of, the Clinton campaign or the DNC, it said. Steele also gave a copy of the dossier to Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn, who wrote an article days before the election entitled “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.” “His intent in providing that material to Corn was to influence the outcome of the election by preventing Donald Trump from becoming President, either by sparking an investigation into Trump or by inducing voters to vote against him, due to concerns about his relationship to Russia,” the complaint said.
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