John Solomon is reporting that President Trump is likely to declassify a trove of Russia Collusion/Conspiracy documents prior to departure from the White House.
John Solomon – “President Trump is declassifying a massive trove of FBI documents showing the Russia collusion story was leaked in the final weeks of the 2016 election in an effort to counteract Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
The memos to be released as early as Friday include FBI interviews and human source evaluation reports for two of the main informants in the Russia case, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and academic Stefan Halper.” (read more)
In June of 2019 CTH noticed a little-known media report from the U.K. The DNC-contracted author of the infamously sketchy dossier on Trump, Christopher Steele, was willing to cooperate with U.S. authorities. This was a reversal of prior position.
Steele was hired by Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson as an outcome of a contract between the Clinton campaign and Fusion-GPS. Steele was hired by Fusion to work with Nellie Ohr (wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr), generate political opposition research, and write a dossier targeting candidate Donald Trump.
According to the London Financial Times, the former MI6 intelligence operative was willing to talk to U.S. investigators regarding his contact with corrupt DOJ and FBI officials during the 2016 campaign and seditious aftermath. It appears a key part of the declassification “trove” will be records from these Steele statements to Durham investigators.
Daily Caller) Former British spy Christopher Steele has agreed to meet in London with U.S. officials regarding the dossier, The Times of London is reporting.
A source close to Steele told the newspaper he plans to meet with American authorities within the next several weeks, but only about his interactions with the FBI and only with the approval of the British government. (more)
Steele’s testimony could be a key issue to expose corruption within the FBI that was previously identified by Senator Chuck Grassley. The FBI said Christopher Steele never told them he was shopping his dossier to the media; however, Christopher Steele told a British court the FBI was fully aware of all his media contacts, and they used the dossier anyway.
Christopher Steele had no motive to lie to the FBI about his media contacts; the FBI had tons of motive to lie about their knowing Steele talked to the media. It’s just common sense.
Christopher Steele wasn’t meeting in secret with the media, it was well known. He was traveling around to meet them in August and September 2016. Why would he lie to the FBI about such transparently well known action in October? Answer: He wouldn’t.
Back in April 2019 Margot Cleveland presented an interesting article in The Federalist outlining how the DOJ (Mueller) investigation of Christopher Steele was dropped [READ HERE].
Essentially the Cleveland article outlines how Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral of Chris Steele to Rosenstein/Mueller in January 2018; however the case was used as a shield to ward-off FOIA inquiry, but the case was never actually pursued – and eventually dropped.
At the time of the 2018 referral CTH noted the Grassley/Graham referral was not what it appeared [See Here]. Additionally, with hindsight and a greater understanding of the Weissmann-Mueller team corruption, we can see how that specific referral hits the center of the FBI intent around their Russia collusion-conspiracy.
The issue surrounds the October 2016 Carter Page FISA application and how the Steele Dossier was used therein. When the stories first broke about the Steele Dossier being the majority of the FBI evidence (December 2017), the FBI investigators were claiming they were never aware of Chris Steele shopping his dossier to the media. However, at the same time Glenn Simpson was testifying to congress the FBI fully knew Chris Steele was shopping the dossier.
SIDE NOTE: The need for everyone to see what Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) was saying is the reason why Dianne Feinstein “accidentally” released the Simpson transcript (remember, she had a cold). Feinstein released the Simpson transcript five days after the Graham/Grassley referral. Democrats knew everyone in the FBI needed to be on the same page and reading from the same manuscript; she needed to tip-off corrupt DOJ and FBI officials about the testimony of Glenn Simpson. I hope everyone can clearly see this now.
Remember, Robert Mueller took over the counterintelligence investigation; so the FBI investigators from Crossfire Hurricane (2016) were now the same “40 FBI investigators” on Mueller’s team in 2017.
In late 2017 and early 2018 those FBI investigators were saying they were not aware of Steele shopping the dossier to the media; AND they were also claiming that Chris Steele never told them. However, Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), and later Chris Steele himself, were telling a completely different story. According to Simpson and Steele the FBI was fully aware of Steele shopping the dossier.
Enter Senator Graham and Senator Grassley.
Senators Graham and Grassley suspected, likely knew, the FBI/DOJ was the group lying about this ‘Steele/Dossier/Media’ angle in an effort to support the validity of the Dossier used in the FISA application. In order to prove the DOJ and FBI were lying, Grassley and Graham sent a criminal referral to Rod Rosenstein:
Essentially Graham and Grassley were saying: ‘if the FBI is being truthful, then Chris Steele lied to the FBI’… so go prosecute him.
Remember, these FBI agents are on Mueller’s team and the criminal referral was sent to Rosenstein; but due to the scope of Mueller’s investigation the referral was -in effect- being sent to Robert Mueller.
It is the FBI who lied to the FISA Court in the application. It is the FBI who were claiming in their FISA application the dossier was not ‘shopped’. It was the FBI attempting to enhance the dossier credibility by making statements/claims about what Chris Steele presented to them. It is NOT Christopher Steele making these claims. Christopher Steele knew the ‘dossier’ was presented to media. Heck, Christopher Steele briefed media.
It was Robert Mueller’s FBI investigators who were lying; and the referral was sent to Robert Mueller because the special counsel held all jurisdiction on the Russian collusion investigation; and at the heart of that investigation was the Steele Dossier and FISA application. Mueller’s 2017, 2018 and 2019 FBI team were essentially investigating the claims within the Steele Dossier they helped create in 2016.
This is where Margot Cleveland’s article comes in. The FBI used the Grassley/Graham criminal referral, the existence of an ongoing criminal investigation, to argue against public disclosure (and enforce redactions) within the James Comey’s memos on May 4, 2018. However, in December of 2018 those reasons for redaction were dropped because the criminal investigation was no longer ongoing. Heck, it was never opened.
The FBI used the referral as a shield and never investigated the underlying claim because the referral would have actually proved FBI lying, not Chris Steele lying.
♦ The key takeaway is to point out the scale of corruption amid the forty FBI investigators participating in the Mueller Probe. [BACKSTORY HERE]
They honestly did not think we could see them. They acted like the Wizard of Oz after the curtain was pulled back & they are still shouting into the microphone. It was quite amazing.
After Glenn Simpson delivered his testimony, Grassley knew the FBI was lying about the dossier. In an early 2018 speech on the Senate Floor Grassley outlined the problem.
…”If those [FBI] documents are not true, and there are serious discrepancies that are no fault of Mr. Steele, then we have another problem—an arguably more serious one”…
This is likely why Steele was eventually willing to talk to investigators. The aspect of the FBI lying about knowledge of Steele talking to media speaks to their motives in using the dossier for the FISA warrant. A motive to use the dossier regardless of the false content.
52) The Criminal Referral
#ReleaseTheReferral pic.twitter.com/YiSwHdkAtg— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) January 31, 2018
It’s ABOUT TIME!
It’s FAR too late. As Solomon even said in the audio “To prevent this from happening again…” Even that won’t happen because no one has or is going to go to jail.
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Augustine of Hippo (read this on another site this AM,.. so apropos now.)
Release all the Truth, President Trump.
In this above case of the FBI/DOJ, et al Fed Govt ABC Agencies,… I was told by a Biz partner doing business with a foreign Govt bureaucracy that we had to be patient and wait for the approval of new USA biz investment licenses to be approved for our USA Corp clients because even if the current President has already approved the Deal, the bureaucrats can kill it by delaying it until those (EU players) they want to get the deal win it and pay them their kickback fees that they are awaiting.
The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits this criminal activity so I wasn’t going to risk my neck for such petty BS.
He told me the bureaucrats know that the Political Leaders come and go,… but they stay and run the show as they see fit,.. eventually.
This was with the Govt of Vietnam in 1994, not the Fed Govt here and I flew back to LAX soon after, all the wiser as to how this works,… worldwide.
Incontrovertible video and audio evidence of a bad call in the 2018 Super Bowl.
Retired Magistrate here: President Trump has been the best President in my lifetime. All the hand wringing over what he should have done, could have done, etc. only serves to divide us at a time when we should all be thankful that we had this wonderful President for four years. I truly believe the President was trying to unite the country and believed that he actually could convince everyone to support him because he had the country’s best interest at heart.
Little did he know that the people he was trying to sway were not only out to get him, but out to destroy the country and there were willing to do whatever it took to accomplish their agenda. So, we know that President Trump won “bigly”; however, that didn’t fit the left’s agenda so our vote was stolen.
President Trump has done what he thought was best for the country. Is this the last we will hear from him; NO, he will take his fight to Make America Great Again to another venue. I think we will see what that is in the coming weeks.
…and this changes…what? I fear it’s not consequential. Too late for anyone but us diehards to care about. I want to see documents outing the players in 2020 and how they threw an election. Maybe in four years?
Greg, with all due respect, there will not be any more elections. The Deep State has proven it can throw any election it wants, and with absolutely zero consequences. I think we need to wrap our minds around the fact that we will now be living in a Communist Dictatorship, with fake elections. Any thoughts of future elections, and electing another patriot like Trump, are monumentally misguided.
agree about no more fair elections.
As horrible as it will be, hyperinflation is the only way I can see out of this now. How else could a group of states withdraw from this banana republic?.
I think we need to wrap our minds around the fact that we have been living in a Conmunist dictatorship, FOR SOME TIME NOW, with FAKE elections.
Fixed it.
All the evidence in the world means NOTHING unless it is tethered to substantive legal action. We KNOW that ain’t happening.
We’re now well out of sight of our Constitutional Republic and well inside the dark chambers of a banana republic. Our FBI is the American version of the Stasi, our Enemedia the successor to Pravda and the Ministry of Information, and Big Tech truly has become the omnipotent, ever watchful Big Brother.
God help us.
I miss TrumpSoldier. Sure hope he is okay. Haven’t seen or heard from him on twitter in a year.
Good. What does he have to lose at this point…
Ok so here is the question: Why did he not do this 2 months ago? And I don’t think he will do it. Looks like the Deep State won and we will never see another person like Trump in this country again.
Hmm, another possibility is that someone 🙂 plans on starting some sort of media programming and putting this out there on TV or other media. Can you imagine the numbers that would flock to his mediator? Now also, I wonder if he has “declassed” something, but not made it public yet……he can still put it out even as a private citizen. That really would be awesome if he could get it done. I would think lots of DC knows (thru friendly leaks) what is declassified, just think of viewers flocking to see what he reveals each night. That would be awesome.
Maybe all the extra military force at the Capitol is for the bad guys even though they called them for protection from Trump. Wouldn’t that be a dream come true. 😇
The general low information public have attention spans of fleas. I doubt any of this is even reported in the MSM/social media. Or whatever dribbles out will be censored or called some more ‘conspiracy theory.’ Dots will intentionally not be connected.
Far too late for this to make a difference. Who will take it further and prosecute anyone?
As it turns out there never was a ‘big ugly,’ ‘kracken’ or game changing revelation. Thousands of hinting tweets and cryptic statements but the swamp never suffered at all.
Even exposure and pulling back the curtain on their players and playbook didn’t change a thing. Things actually got terribly worse in the last year post Mueller. Dubious Covid measures, politically driven riots, in your face censorship, blatant election fraud, compromised judges, cynical legislative theater, and so much more. Exposure of the roots of theMueller/2016 stuff is long past the point when it can matter.
What will happen? Anyone going to be prosecuted? Just a footnote that will never see the real history books. A tree falling in a diseased forest with no one of power listening or caring.
I am still waiting for Radcliffe’s legally required report of foreign interference due in Dec. He turned out to be a traitor to the nation as well. Grennell did more in that spot as the “acting” Director in 2 weeks than he has in over 2 months.
“Essentially Graham and Grassley were saying: ‘if the FBI is being truthful, then Chris Steele lied to the FBI’… so go prosecute him.”
This was the – Arrest Steele or change your story FBI.
Question: What did the FBI DOJ do in response to this event?
Hint – Sundance always talks about the Month and Year of Feb 2018.
did Grassley have access to Dugan reports?
Horowitz report wasnt released until Dec 9, 2019. . . . . .
It still comes down to RELEASE as in will anything actually be released to be shown to the public. Unless the President or trusted ally (allies) have physical control over the declassified materials, the fate of this declassification will be the SAME as many of the past efforts….NOTHING makes it to the public.
I will believe it when the published materials appear.
Why only the FBI/CIA/DOJ coup records thay should have been relesd long ago?
Where are the unredacted Collyer FIS report on 85% illegal spying, the unredacted IG horowitz report on innegal spying? Where are the records of swallwell/feinstein china corruption (with ‘juicy’pictures)? Where are the records of biden kickbacks, bribes, 50% to the Big Guy, drug use (remember persecuting Rush?). The biden records are needed for Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Impeachment motion for biden. Where are the jussie smollet-kamala fake ‘lynching’ records the FBI secreted away?
Where are the still-withheld JFK assassination records which cannot possibly be a national security threat?
Where are the wolfe-warner records Sundance listed? Where are all the records Bogeyfree outlined? There is no reason whatsoever to have kept these all secret for years.
They all should have been released long ago l…the best defense is a good offense, rather than wait around tor the Trump-haters to first strike somewhere like terrorists and then try to defend or counter punch.
C’mon man, ‘just do it’ !!!
Ought to be sending everything he can out. But then again, the Deep State will likely stall. I love our POTUS, but we know that just because he orders it doesn’t mean that it gets done.
Please release ALL the Comey memos in full and complete form, together with the various Archey Declarations, explaining why such memos could not be publicly disclosed.
In addition, please release in full and unredacted form every document DJT ordered declassified and released in September, 2018, before abruptly reversing himself, saying “key allies” objected and Horowitz had agreed to conduct an “expedited” (!!!) review (which took 15 months!).