I have been asked to outline why the author of the “Steele Dossier”, former British intelligence officer Chris Steele, is doubling down on two central and disproven claims within his dossier.
In this preview segment of the Chris Steele interview with George Stephanopoulos, you will note that Steele denies two major flaws in his dossier: (1) the Russian pee-tapes story of Trump having Russian hookers peeing on him in a Moscow hotel; and (2) Michael Cohen traveling to Prague to facilitate the Trump-Russia collusion.
Both of these claims are ridiculous and debunked by Robert Mueller and FBI investigations, yet Chris Steele stands by them. There is an obvious reason why Steele must stick to those claims; however, few people understand the deep background of both claims. CTH knows the likelihood of both false claims and as a consequence we see the motive for why Steele needs to stick to them. First, watch this preview segment (prompted):
https://youtu.be/l561_SfQaPA?t=35
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It is highly likely that John Durham knows the exact origin of the Pee-Tapes and Cohen in Prague story. It is also likely when this interview took place that Chris Steele did not know what Durham and Aldenberg know, well, until now. {Hi Chris} Whether Durham does anything to hold Steele accountable will depend on whether Durham is going to act on the criminal referral he was given for Nellie Ohr {Go Deep}. I do not hold any level of confidence.
That said, let me explain why each of those fabricated elements of the Steele Dossier must be retained or else Steele opens himself up to a much larger issue. You’ll understand why he cannot admit they are false when you understand where he likely got the information. We shall start with the origin of the Pee Tapes story, and embed a bunch of links for those interested in going deep.
Chris Steele (left) and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos (right)
♦ The story of the Russian hookers peeing on Donald Trump almost certainly came from a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska.
Christopher Steele was actually a contracted employee of Deripaska, at least Deripaska was paying Chris Steele for some type of work in the U.K. Oleg Deripaska is a typically sketchy wealthy Russian with some quirky aspects to his humor. Oleg’s U.S. lawyer was a guy named Adam Waldman. You might remember that Adam Waldman was also the legal liaison between Chris Steele and SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner {Go Deep}.
Adam Waldman is the connective tissue between Chris Steele, Oleg Deripaska and another name from the SSCI, former staffer Dan Jones. When Senator Chuck Grassley wanted to question the lawyer/lobbyist Adam Waldman, Waldman lied to avoid testimony {Go Deep}. Unfortunately it was a line of Senate query that was quickly dropped.
Oleg Deripaska was on his yacht in the summer of 2016 with a sketchy Russian sex/intelligence worker named Anastasia Vashukevich (27). [Both Pictured Left]
Vashukevich is the Belarusian woman who was being held in a prison in Thailand under charges of recruiting women to act as prostitutes and escorts. {Go Deep}
Ms. Vashukevich name surfaced early in 2018 when CNN claimed she had dirt on Trump and “tapes” of some sort relating to Deripaska and his activities with contacts around the 2016 election. [More Backstory]
In the height of the Trump-Russia madness, CNN sent Ivan Watson to Thailand to interview Ms. Vashukevich in the hopes that she could validate the “hookers” and “pee-tapes” material that was in the Steele Dossier. However, by the time CNN arrived, Anastasia changed her mind.
It turned out the recording Ms. Vashukevich was promoting/leveraging, was actually a recording of Oleg Deripaska; and, at his request she returned them to him.
FOX NEWS: […] Vashukevich told The Associated Press that she had turned over audio recordings to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whose conversations about election interference she claimed to have taped.
She has said she provided “escort” services to Deripaska, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and who has links to Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager now being tried in the United States on money laundering and other charges.
Speaking to an AP reporter in the courtroom in Pattaya, Vashukevich said she had promised Deripaska she would no longer speak on the matter, and that he had already promised her something in return for not making that evidence public. (read more)
The tapes Ms. Vashukevich was discussing at the time (trying to leverage her way out of jail) was a previous recording by Deripaska of a conversation between Oleg and his retained employee Christopher Steele about then presidential candidate Donald Trump. This is the conversation where Trump, Russian hookers and pee-tapes came up. Keep in mind, Oleg likely knew what Steele’s questions were for; Oleg knew what Chris Steele did for a living, and Oleg had a motive to snark at the entire operation and U.S. election.
Deripaska didn’t trust anyone related to intelligence operations in either the U.K or the U.S, and Deripaska had previously been burned by the FBI in 2009 after they asked for his help. {Go Deep}
In 2009 the FBI, then headed by Robert Mueller, requested the assistance of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in an operation to retrieve former FBI officer and CIA resource Robert Levinson who was captured in Iran two years earlier. The agent assigned to engage Deripaska was Andrew McCabe; the primary FBI need was financing and operational support. Deripaska spent around $25 million and would have succeeded except the U.S. State Department, then headed by Hillary Clinton, backed out.
In the summer of 2016, Steele was under retainer by Deripaska and also working for Fusion-GPS. In hindsight, the conversation was almost certainly part of the research Steele was doing for his Fusion-GPS assignment and assembly of the dossier into Trump. Oleg was an easy and obvious source, and Anastasia Vashukevich just happened to be with Oleg when the conversation took place. She snagged the tapes upon departure, she was busted in Thailand and tried to use the info to get out.
Keep in mind, in September of 2016 Andrew McCabe was Deputy Director of the FBI, when two FBI agents approached Deripaska in New York – asking for his help. The FBI request was for Deripaska to outline Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort as a tool of the Kremlin. Deripaska once hired Manafort as a political adviser and invested money with him in a business venture that went bad. Deripaska sued Manafort, alleging he stole money. However, according to a John Solomon article, despite Deripaska’s disposition toward Manafort, he viewed the FBI request as absurd. He laughed the FBI away, telling them: “You are trying to create something out of nothing.”
After Trump won the 2016 election, the entire apparatus of the U.S. intelligence system and DOJ turned on Deripaska because he now represented a risk {Go Deep}.
Chris Steele is sticking to that story of the pee-tapes because his connection to Oleg Deripaska, Adam Waldman, SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, Dan Jones, Fusion-GPS, Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr and Bruce Ohr is very prickly when it comes to his participation and intentional fabrication.
♦ The origin of the Michael Cohen in Prague is even more convoluted. However, that story connects to the recently highlighted connection between Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann and Rodney Joffe. While working for Perkins Coie, Sussmann also represented Rodney Joffe, a cybersecurity expert referred to in Durham’s indictment as “Tech Executive-1.” In 2016, Joffe, who has not been previously identified, worked with researchers to collect internet data about the Trump Organization that Sussmann took to the FBI. {Go Deep} You’ll see where Joffe surfaces toward the end.
The Michael Cohen in Prague story originates in the research conducted by Fusion-GPS after Glenn Simpson hired former CIA open-source researcher, Nellie Ohr.
Mrs. Nellie Ohr was the wife of DOJ-NSD lawyer Bruce Ohr who was also the primary 2016 conduit between Chris Steele and the FBI.
In September 2015, Nellie Ohr was hired by Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) to work on the Trump research project {Go Deep}. In April 2016 Fusion-GPS was contracted by Clinton Campaign, through Perkins Coie, specifically to use their previous research and help fabricate evidence that Donald Trump and his associates were in collusion with the Russians. Fusion-GPS then contracted with Christopher Steele for the creation of the Trump-Russia dossier which later became the “Steele Dossier.”
For all intents and purposes, Christopher Steele was a laundry operation where he was given information from Nellie Ohr (and others), washed it, and then passed it back to his DOJ contact Bruce Ohr, who then passed it along to the FBI seemingly washing away the originating political fingerprints of Fusion-GPS and Nellie Ohr.
After the laundry was discovered; and after Bruce Ohr was demoted from his position at the DOJ; he was later interviewed by FBI investigators where Bruce Ohr passed along a thumb-drive with the total of his wife’s research. However, when he did that the Fusion GPS header was stripped (link).
It’s worth remembering here that Nellie Ohr’s involvement in the scheme was considered such a risk that the New York Times even ran an article saying Nellie Ohr did not work on the dossier. However, both Bruce Ohr and Nellie Ohr gave testimony that she did. The way Bruce Ohr described it, his wife’s research was like an additional dossier assembled from Fusion GPS research to augment what Steele was separately providing the FBI.
In October of 2018 Mrs. Nellie Ohr was questioned by a House committee about her involvement with Fusion-GPS while working as a paid contract agent for the firm. Additionally, she was questioned on: her relationship with the dossier origination; her contacts with Christopher Steele; her role and responsibility within Fusion as it related to the Trump project; and the nature of the communication between herself and the participating players inside and outside of government.
Mrs Ohr invoked spousal privilege to protect any communication between herself and her husband.
We now know that in 2016 a cybersecurity expert named Rodney Joffe was under contract with Perkins Coie and collaborating with researchers to collect internet data about the Trump Organization that Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann took to the FBI.
So we know the FBI was getting research information from Nellie Ohr via Chris Steele, and from Rodney Joffe via Michael Sussmann.
What do Nellie and Rodney have in common? They are both HAM Radio operators. What a coincidence.
There is every indication the Michael Cohen visiting Prague story originated from Nellie’s research and was passed along to Chris Steele becoming a point in his dossier. An unfortunately named art dealer from New York was likely mistaken for President Trump’s lawyer.
Former Senate Intelligence Committee lead staffer Dan Jones was working with Glenn Simpson at Fusion-GPS. Fusion-GPS contracted with Nellie Ohr in “late 2015”. This is the exact same time when thousands of unauthorized “contractor searches” were taking place within the NSA/FBI database. This is where the Ham radio comes in handy to receive, share and discuss information from database extraction.
Nellie Ohr then sends research outcomes to Chris Steele for the dossier assembly; and the dossier is then laundered back to Bruce Ohr and FBI for use in their operation against the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, Simpson and Jones are leaking to the media who are writing articles. Nellie then captures those articles to validate material in the dossier; puts the citations on a thumb-drive and gives it to Bruce. Again, it’s the same damn origin.
Chris Steele is not defending his lies, he is defending the mistaken research of Nellie Ohr.
For obvious reasons, Chris Steele cannot reveal where he got both points of erroneous information without exposing himself to the legal ramifications that accompany a group of political operatives successfully weaponizing the FBI against a U.S. presidential candidate. This is not conspiracy theory, this is a factual conspiracy.
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It’s becoming clearer (just to me- and I DON’T mean this in a bad way, but in appreciation!) that you are inside the whole thing, SD. You fit into this somewhere and they know it- which is why they are afraid of pushing you too far. Like Seneca and others, I SALUTE you, but I fear for your safety. One of these days the entire global network of traitor$ is going to risk everything to try and save themselves. I’d wager it won’t be ALL of them together (evil like this only pretends to be together, but will $ell each other out in a heartbeat to ‘$ave’ themselves). It’s gonna be one just ONE scumbag who left the door cracked open just a bit TOO far to keep his face out of the light that’s gonna tumble the whole hill of marbles.
But, again- THANK you. You have a set of brass balls that could sink the biggest shipping container in the world if they tried to load ’em. But, however deep you are in this- I’m glad you OPEN that crack in the door as the wind blows through.
You are a hero. Keep leaking in the light. Of course, all just IMVHO and I fully admit so. Thank you, sir.
The roaches are running for their LIVES as the hammer is coming down. Xi is terrified of- Chinese. Putin- scared of Russians. And on and on- ad infinitum. STOCK your shelves, friends. Keep your family close. A fire is coming.
Very True and the people who looked us in the eye and lied to us every single day for over two years trying to have us believe the preposterous narrative that Donald Trump was somehow working with the Russians are the VERY SAME PEOPLE now trying to convince us that the overwhelming (and mounting) evidence of the stolen election doesn’t exist.
I couldn’t even watch the interview.
It is bad enough I can’t defend my body from what they want to inject into us, but I can still defend my mind.
I have to thank Sundance for his willingness to watch something as perverse as that and reporting back to us.
Yep, SD not sure who you are or what your background is… but, you are an AMERICAN ASSET. You have opened many of our eyes through the years with great courage. Thank you to you and your staff who keep this going. You have the eyes of the country, a tremendous following. The truth always seeks light… God be with and bless you.
Norma Jean,
Not just “the eyes of the country”, but the last vestiges of sanity in our satanic world.
Over here in the Scottish marxist gulag, we have just had Chinese Communist so called vaccination passports imposed upon us today, just like the Jewish mark before they were sent to the ovens.
..VVP scare of Russiann ??? uh boy you got it very wrong….
“For obvious reasons Chris Steele cannot reveal where he got both points of erroneous information without exposing himself to the legal ramifications that accompany a group of political operatives successfully weaponizing the FBI against a U.S. presidential candidate. This is not conspiracy theory, this is a factual conspiracy.”
Pay attention.
Made – EXCELLENT comment and you are right the hell on about BRASS BALLS!!
We should ALL demonstrate courage and resolve when the opportunity presents itself.
No one has EVER appeased and cooperated their way to freedom.
But, it’s OK for Joe Biden to select a Russian, ‘reformed’ Moscow college graduate communist, to be Controller of the Currency.
I’m sure the Russian hoax perpetuation throughout the Trump presidency wasn’t projection…
In the deep state world, liars always lie, for one reason. To protect, those more powerful and influential and likely, more dangerous than themselves.
Yeah we believe Steele! NOT ONE WORD!
Before he was gay…
Superman would have bent Steele in his bare hands 🙂
Bending Steele is not the American Way apparently.
Ohr just needed ANY Michael Cohen, this was not a misidentification.
She would have known it was wrong because of non-matching passport numbers.
Nope, imo, not a mistake, just part of the scam.
It was too juicy of a narrative to throw away. They had/have every confidence that nobody was/is going to dig too deep.
Banking on the nano-second “news” cycle…
Correct … RATS can totally bank on their media lackeys to report all RAT lies and spins – in very serious tones and concerned looks – as absolute facts … the problem … NOBODY watches RAT media except RAT media … so the effect of their lies literally fall on deaf ears.
The “Russia Russia” stratagem served the Chinese and their running American dogs by estopping Trump from opening a countervailing opening toward Russia (cf Kissinger/Nixon opening to China). Meanwhile, China buys all in the “District of Corruption” and injects misinformation re “Trump/Russia” forestalling a Russia/ US rapprochement and keeping the Sino traitors game going in DC.
Somewhere I read of an event at the state department where Chris Steele tried to confirm the Cohen passport travel information with one of his contacts there – and that’s when STEELE learned that he had the wrong cohen.
Anyone remember this?
Found this….but there is more for sure specifically about Cohen:
The Hill:
Government officials confirm that an October 2016 email revealing that Steele met with State Department officials — a breach of protocol for an informant if it was unauthorized — was sent to an FBI counterintelligence supervisor.
Multiple sources confirm to me that the recipient of the State Department email was Special Agent Stephen Laycock, then the FBI’s section chief for Eurasian counterintelligence and now one of the bureau’s top executives as the assistant director for intelligence under Director Christopher Wray.
The email to Laycock from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec arrived eight days before the FBI swore to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that it had no derogatory information on Steele and used his anti-Trump dossier to secure a secret surveillance warrant to investigate Trump’s possible ties to Moscow.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/443710-state-departments-red-flag-on-steele-went-to-a-senior-fbi-man-well-before#.XNtJ-Pn_-4g.twitter
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https://theconservativetreehouse(DOT)com/blog/2021/01/15/senate-judiciary-committee-releases-11-transcripts-from-investigation-into-doj-fbi-misconduct-during-crossfire-hurricane/
transcript Laycock to congress:
BY MR. SOMERS:
23 Q Do you know — and I’m guessing you probably
24 answered this more generally in some of your previous
25 responses. Do you know if anyone in the Eurasia section
1 tried to verify any facts in the Steele dossier?
2 A I’m not aware.
3 Q Do you know if they tried to help identify or
4 locate any of Steele’s sources or sub-sources?
5 A No, I’m not aware.
6 Q So Kathleen Kavalec meets with Christopher
7 Steele on October 11th. Sometime thereafter, I think she
8 contacts you to relay that she met with Steele. Prior to
9 your discussion with Kathleen Kavalec where she relays her
10 October 11th meeting, did you know anything about
11 Christopher Steele?
12 A I had heard the name before
Duh…i read it here at CTH, of course.
See my other posts, far below.
To those who were skeptical before, it is now quite clear the process of misinformation and media cooperation.
Steele, a foreigner, affected our Presidential election and four years of Trump Presidency. He harmed our country.
And Stephanopoulos and ABC gives him a platform to continue the lies?
We are living in the Obama Matrix as Mitt Romney accused,”just because you keep repeating it doesn’t make it true”.
“Steele, a foreigner, affected our Presidential election and four years of Trump Presidency.”
Comey was right. There WAS foreign interference in the Presidental election.
They layered a soundtrack to this slanderous farce—a powerful indication that the Clinton deviates at the ABC network are keeping alive the pee-tape story—it’s still a mystery you know.
By playing purveyor of the truth, but strongly suggesting via the Steele—sticking to his story—interview, the accusations remain, the ‘seriousness of the charge’ still hangs over the head of Donald Trump.
The visible manifestation of the fourth branch involvement, the very (first) cover up in the overall Russia Russia conspiracy, surfaced with the exoneration of Hillary Clinton from any criminality concerning classified information found on her secret server, and her own ‘potential’ Russia Reset problems—Uranium One and Skolkovo.
The FBI/DOJ investigation of her emails began in August 2015. Eleven months later, Chief FBI Apparatchik, James Comey, ministered the unfettering of Hillary Clinton from potential espionage charges, unloosing her campaign to then hang the Russia Russia agitprop around the neck of Donald Trump and his campaign. Hillary skipped off on Air Force One with Obama in tow. The Spygate Conspiracy was always being guided by fourth branch operatives within the White House hierarchy.
No one puts it together like you do. Ergo, be careful but tell everyone and chronicle everything.
Steele is saying Cohen is scared of the consequences for why he doesn’t come clean on Prague , when in fact it applies to Steele as mentioned above , “Steele” must stay with his ridiculous assertions because he himself is afraid of the consequences , This is just another example of “turn speak” propaganda, it seems that’s the only card they have and it’s totally transparent.
Sadly, the damage caused is done.
The questions become, will people choose to accept the lies and therefore, do nothing?
or, will people choose to accept they were lied to and therefore, do the right thing and stop listening to the liars?
Either way, the damage to our country is done.
Sundance, this article is important for the historical record of the events and would be even more important if there was anyone pursuing justice. What I want to know is why are the powers to be rolling out Steponallofus and Steele at this time ? Is this a Team One versus Team Two thing ?
sewing confusion now that Durham is supposedly doing something. maybe. yawn.
Sundance, my sincere appreciation for the way your mind grasps and presents this stuff. I find it amazing. Thank you.
Clearly, Steele is not worried about the Durham investigation.
But somebody is, else, why bother?
or is this an example of “whistling past” – not referring to Treeper “Whistling Past” 🙂
It would seem at this point Durham has all the records necessary to indict and prove all these people were in collusion to illegally investigate and smear a Presidential candidate and then President. The woods file alone should have been the tip of the iceberg, “no supporting documention does not state the fact”. My biggest fear, is that Durham is another broom in the larger picture of sweeping away any evidence left behind by Mueller gang. The fact that Sundance and we have no idea how many others tried to persuade Bill Bondo Barr to do his job, is a reflection that Barr and most recently Durham weren’t put in place to do the job we think but a much more nefarious job. All trails including the hacking of the DNC servers (cough cough) lead to the Clinton Cabal, and we all know they are simply untouchable. Too many of these high level officials have been on the payroll far to long. Sundance, stay safe. God Bless you for all you’ve done to shed light on this atrocity. You are a true modern day David.
Brilliant synopsis. A graphic with timeline would make it even more clear, for us rubes and the even lazier media mob.
Timelines are great!
Have you seen the new Testament – or any historic timeline that shows multiple group events simultaneously so they can be read horizontally, and vertically?
Here is a searchable timeline (in the box can scroll down and to the right which gives links to sources):
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-timeline-of-treason-how-fbi.html
Thank you!
The thing to keep in mind first and foremost is that these are stories about stories about stories…
And they all get paid to spread them, whether they take or not. It is a,ll about disinfrmay6tion and misinformation. Discrediting ones opponents, political, business or personal, or all of the above.
Fusion GPS worked for Elizabrth Holmes, Sunny Balwani and Theranos, currently in federal court n trial for numerous counts of fraud. So did Harvey Weinstein’s thug lawyer, David Boies, Esq. Their job was to go after their perceived opponents. Theranos was committing MASSIVE fraud on investors, customers and the customers customers, the patients and the doctors, and their families. Their health care decisions and their already limited personal healthcare pocketbooks. Just as much the same crew is doing today with the FAKED COVID PLANDEMIC.
It was the job of Fusion GPS & David Boies, Esq & team to bully, threaten and intimidate any and all perceived enemies of Holmes & Balwani. If they anyone died as a result, who cared. I fully believe they used NSA records in their “research”. Their employment with Theranos began Jun 2015.
Barry Meier, who was a part of Sundance’s Chris Steele’s above linked video, recently put out a book called ‘Spooked‘ on these “spy” operations and operatives, and a great article on it back when the book was launching. I remembered his name from the work I have done on Theranos recently.
Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists
A booming, renegade private intelligence industry is increasingly shaping (and misshaping) the news.
By Barry Meier
15 May 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/media/spooked-private-spies-news-media.html
Review of Barry’s book:
The Murky World of Private Spies and the Damage They May Be Doing
By William D. Cohan
17 May 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/books/review/spooked-barry-meier.html
In conclusion, the media is a part of this big lie. The media is on trial now with Durham and with Theranos. They will do anything they can to help those who helped them perpetuate their lies and collusion. Hence the interview with the weak little man interviewer. People are finding out the truth, slowly but surely.
They are a dying breed, and are kept around only to spread the lies and fabrications of the rich. That makes them complicit in many crimes.
TwoLaine, I put this on the following page but thought you might appreciate it as it ties in with the covid plandemic angle.
https://alethonews.com/2021/07/24/why-is-disgraced-ex-spy-christopher-steele-involved-in-a-controversial-group-seeking-harsh-covid-restrictions/
So basically the future of our country as being one noted for its stance of all are equal under the eyes of the law, that we as a nation stand firm on the Rule of Law and Order –
hangs on the thread of Durham and his team choosing between the mob of political expediency or actually holding people accountable for their actions regardless of what politician they were acting on behalf of.
Geeze, what could possibly go wrong?
Pray that God intervenes.
This performance by Georgie Stephanopoulos and Steele means that the media/commiecrats are going to make it an issue in the mid-terms and ’24 General by perpetuating the story.
Like a dog returning to it’s own vomit.
It’s a sin to wish harm to others.
But stories like this bring my worst thoughts to mind.
May God grant me the resolve to have exactly as much consideration for them as they do for me.
In a sense, the story is as old as the ages. A bunch of godless, power-hungry, vindictive creeps conspire to bring down someone better than themselves, in a futile effort give significance to their empty lives.
They are all damned.
What is interesting is how the media is responding to these “once dead” stories. That is a “tell” as far as I can see. Why bring up these ancient stories which the mainstream media consumers either forgot or never heard of before?
It’s obvious they are trying to get out ahead of something. The first Durham indictment definitely started a panic!
So, will Steele be ‘arkancided’?
This is why it was creepy watching the new Bond film.
James Bond 007, former MI6, working with CIA friend, Felix Leiter.
It’s not funny, and it’s not charming, anymore
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Oh, and the new movie, is about a bioweapon that uses DNA-specific poisons and nanobots to target victims.
The poison effect seems suspiciously similar to small-pox, btw.
Don’t worry – in 2019 –
“Thanks in part to Army scientists, the world has gained a new weapon in the fight against one of history’s most feared diseases: smallpox.
A new vaccine approved on Sept. 24 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), prevents both smallpox and the related disease monkeypox in adults. Marketed under the brand name JYNNEOS, the vaccine was developed by biotechnology firm Bavarian Nordic and tested by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
“In addition to its public health importance, this vaccine will have a direct impact on improving force health protection for U.S. troops who are required to be immunized against smallpox,” said Col. E. Darrin Cox, Commander of USAMRIID; which is headquartered at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
https://www.army.mil/article/228578/army_study_leads_to_approval_of_new_smallpox_vaccine
Yeah, the CIA and FBI and DOJ were never heroes.
They are moral midgets at best.
Or corrupt as hell itself.
Remember this when on the jury and a DOJ lawyer is addressing you, or an FBI agent is “testifying.” As a practical matter, they are immune from prosecution for lies.
At this point, I think even drug prosecutions are political. The FBI is working for a competing drug lord and prosecuting the competition. Or the drug lord didn’t pay enough protection money to the DNC.
Our “justice” system has been exposed as garbage.
Chris is look’n for a Frankie Five Angels deal.
here is my problem. Did Mueller ever say why there was no Trump Russia collusion? Actually say why there was notning to prove there was?
I’m not sure “Mueller” ever knew anything at all or actually said anything in his own words during “his” investigation.
Speaking of Mueller, why was Whitey Bulger moved to another prison and then died?
(Mueller and company let 4 guys go to prison earlier to protect Whitey and I think that story was heating up again during his “Russia Russia Russia” investigation)
Not sure but his nephew is tight with the new administration.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/hunter-bidens-china-deal-partners-include-mobster-whitey-bulgers-nephew-john-kerrys-stepson/
This is nothing most of us don’t already know. The Bidens, Kerrys, Romneys and the Bulger nephew were all up to their eyeballs raking in money from sketchy Ukrainian deals.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/it-becomes-clear-why-theyre-all-trying-to-destroy-trump/
IOW, there is a whole lot of grift in those families and a lot to gain by having the IC witch-hunt kneecapping President Trump and his administration.
Sundance wrote: July 5, 2019
While the “reluctant witness” is not specifically identified by Herridge in her reporting, as you can see above there is enough background material to identify it is likely former State Department official Kathleen Kavalec.
Kathleen Kavalec was the Deputy Assistant Secretary – Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, serving under Victoria Nuland and covered Russia as part of her State Dept. duties. Kavalec was contacted by Christopher Steele prior to the FISA application on Carter Page being sought by the FBI and DOJ. Kavalic wrote a series of notes and emails to the FBI undercutting the dossier central claims made by Steele.
The original reporting on the Kavalec emails and Steele contact was done by John Solomon. Here’s the basic background that explains why Inspector General Michael Horowitz would be interested in interviewing Kathleen Kavalec.
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It’s almost guaranteed the reason Kavelec’s email to the FBI was redacted is specifically because Ms. Kavelec used her State Dept. portal to check on travel records and noted the “Michael Cohen in Prague” story was false. Kavalec would have easy access to State Dept. travel records.
Chris Steele told Ms. Kavalec about Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen traveling to Prague to communicate/coordinate with the Russians.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/07/05/report-new-horowitz-witness-likely-kathleen-kavalec-agrees-to-talk-to-ig-investigators/#more-165933
Sundance – July 5, 2019
So put it all together. Chris Steele was producing the dossier for the FBI to use. Steele told State Dept. official Kavalec about the same information in his dossier. The State Dept. checked, and found out the information was false. The State Dept. warned the FBI. However, the FBI ignored the warning; and a week later used the dossier in the application for a retroactive Title-1 surveillance warrant against U.S. Person Carter Page.
To cover themselves; and because the claim was so central to the purpose of the Steele Dossier; the FBI then redacted the State Dept. warning about Michael Cohen traveling to Prague in the public email from the State Department.
Worse yet, in the application itself the FBI said the information proving Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power came from the State Dept:
The false claim about Cohen’s travel to Prague has been discussed here for well over a year. [January 2018]
So, the question is: Why is the FBI so damned committed to this Steele Dossier?
(Sundance had it all.)
Sundance – July 15, 2019
Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. The intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. They already knew everything about the Trump campaign.
The Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a justification for pre-existing surveillance operations. Fusion fulfilled that objective by contracting for the Steele Dossier.
That’s why the FBI, and later the Mueller team, were/are so strongly committed to, and defending, the formation of the Steele Dossier and its dubious content. Once they had the dossier in hand the FBI proceeded forward for an ex post facto FISA warrant.
The goal was surveillance authority. The FBI used the Carter Page FISA application. The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the dossier in the system, and the FISA authority as justification to execute the “insurance policy”.
You can’t blame these heroic bureaucrats, journalists and politicians for throwing the Hillary prosecution, wiretapping Trump, trying to frame him and finally, rigging the election because it was the only way they could “win”.
It’s our broken Constitutional Coup system.
Clearly, we need Comprehensive Coup Reform.
Michael Flynn shouldn’t have resigned so easily.
Imagine how differently all this would have played out.
The corrupt in government have access to enormous resources they use to destroy their opponents with. Flynn would have needed to have tens of millions of dollars available to defend against the avalanche of lawfare the corrupt in our government would have employed against him and his family to accomplish their corrupt objective of preventing him from doing his job, should he have chosen to fight rather than resign and plead guilty to something he didn’t do to protect his family.
It becomes pretty clear that it should have been Pence tendering his resignation and not General Flynn.
Diana West: “There is so much we still don’t know, for example, about anti-Trump conspirator and Hillary Clinton operative, retired MI6 officer Christopher Steele. However, we do know that while at Cambridge University a half-century after Kim Philby, as I recount in “The Red Thread,” Steele was known as a “confirmed socialist,” “an avowedly left-wing student with CND credentials.” Another detail that fits the context of ideological profiling is that Steele would eulogize his late first wife as “always on the progressive side of an argument.” Let’s decode this further. “CND” stands for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Marxist-infiltrated organization deemed subversive by MI5 for its links and efforts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, to disarm Britain, force U.S. cruise missiles off British bases, and decouple Europe generally from the U.S.-led NATO alliance—at the time, the primary goals of Soviet foreign policy and its aggressive “nuclear freeze” and “peace movement” disinformation campaign. Further, as president of the Cambridge Union in 1986, Steele extended the debating society’s first invitation ever to a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, at the time still regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel, not to mention one of the Soviet Union’s proxy terror-armies against the West. Despite these and other indicators of strong left-wing and even pro-Soviet beliefs, British intelligence hired Steele following graduation from Cambridge and dispatched him to Soviet-era Moscow. …This should make us doubt the sanity (or the agendas) of Steele’s unknown patrons [Sir Andrew Wood] inside MI6…”
“Despite”?
Just another Campus Commie like the Clintons, Comey, Brennan, Holder, Ohr, Ogabe, etc.
Who pushed him at college? There was a missionary kid who grew up in Madrid at my uni who was pushed hard by the commies in the history department. One commie history prof took his little protégé to Nicaragua with him to visit the Sandinistas. The commie boy came back lauding the Sandinistas and their priests as having “a Bible in one hand and Dad Kapital in the other.” Commie Kid is now a high powered Wall Street mucky-muck.
The commie kids like BillyJeff Clin-toon and this Steele clown are always pushed in college by somebody. Groomed, if you will. They are starry eyed leftards who have their path to higher and greater achievement paved smooth by others. These clowns don’t earn their places. They aren’t smart enough. They have their places given to them because they are reliably leftarded and will push the commie internationalist agenda.
The fact that Brennan, Strzok, Comey, Clapper and McCabe each came out with books after President Trump won in 2016 shows they were panicked by their conduct and wanted to get out front of the grift. To quote Dr Lector, it’s “like the elaboration of a bad liar.” These guys are of a criminal class all their own. May they rot in hell for eternity. All eternity.
It’s amazing the hideous crimes those arrayed against reforming the corruption in the United States are able to get away with. They commit felony after felony with ease and literally walk away from them even when their strings of felonies and felonious conspiracies are exposed for the world to see.
Meanwhile, innocent people like President Trump, General Flynn, etc… were targeted by the corrupt in government for removal and when that failed the greatest election fraud conspiracy in U.S. history was initiated.
I imagine it would make quite a fictional Tom Clancy novel if it weren’t actually true and happening in real-time right before our very eyes.
Remember when the Steele dossier first made its way around the internet? 4chan and 8chan said it was so ludicrous that it read like something THEY would make up just to yank people’s chains!
The debate has long been over . There was never any collusion between Trump and Russia in the 2016. Anybody that believes so and then yammers on about “trusting the science” in terms of the jab are hypocrites ,sycophants and delusional. The same words the enemy uses to describe us deplorables.
One point left out in this article is the timing. The Michael Cohen in Prague came out the same week as the FBI was getting its first wiretap on Carter Page, and thus the entire campaign.
This report was made by Chris Steele with the intention of ‘validating’ the dossier for the FISA court.
If it was the actual Michael Cohen that had gone to Prague, then the FBI would say, ‘We checked Michael Cohen’s travel records, and discovered he went to Prague as stated by our informant.’ Then when they had someone run the check, they discovered the mistake and were forced to add a footnote of how they consider him reliable because of past work and laundered Isikoff’s article as validation.
The Cohen in Prague was written at the request of someone at the FBI, who sent along the advice that they are having trouble getting warrant approval.
Lee Smith figured this out on his own years ago.
The Communist Useful Idiots still believe it is all true
Give them a few more months and they can frame him all up.
“The FBI request was for Deripaska to outline Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort as a tool of the Kremlin.”
Oleg laughed.
What a total failure the FBI has become, in the hands of people who would concoct such a scheme.
How big is this network of crooks the Media is managing the outcome along with DNC C A FBI DOJ one big circular information laundering machine, grab the MSM by the short hairs the rest agencies will fall. That will take the war to end.
The fact that Steele is doing an interview with ABC News means that the news media is particularly fearful of the unraveling of the Russia hoax. The story needs to be that this is all “just politics” and that the Government (FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc.) was hoodwinked. They’ll all continue to claim that they had no idea all the information was 100% fake. The Government will claim it just had no choice but to investigate these 100% fake claims because it was all so serious.
If it seeps into the Public consciousness that not only was the Russia Hoax 100% fake, but that the FBI, DOJ, CIA and others were direct, willing, co-conspirators, in that hoax, then what is the Public to make of Government assertions that the 2020 election was legitimate?
A Government conspiring with political operatives to overthrow a President, and the same Government conspiring to fabricate the Ukraine “bribery” charges, would have no problem at all rigging an election to achieve the same goal.
The whole point of this interview exercise seems to be to create the story that these Clintonistas truly believe that what they uncovered was 100% true…and so the Government – and by extension, the Government-controlled Media like ABC News – had no choice but to run with it.
Stephanopolous is a CLINTONISTA. Hence the choice of interviewers. This is also intended to try and provide cover for Hillary.
Thank you, Sundance.
I’m wondering if info will soon surface as to the purpose for the July 2015 nobid contract between the FBI and Crowdstrike. What triggered, who initiated, who approved, who billed work time under the contract.?
Did work scope change during the year long contract? Perkins Coie attorney Sussman involved?
Asking because it seems to be a potentially interesting loose thread…
Its disgusting, corrupt, appalling and any other words one cares to use, but in all this despicable behaviour there is one thing I now hold to be true. Every single leader, in every single country, is selected by the global secret services via vote fraud, blackmail, and murder.
They never cheated enough for Hilary, and they cheated too much for Biden, and when it came to unleashing “Russia Collusion” on Trump, they did so because he told Comey to investigate the allegations because he was innocent. Comey was hoping Trump would say what could be done to keep it quiet, and thereby having blackmail leverage over Trump.
Why did Romney choke? We now know why!
He didn’t choke. That was Romney’s best. Primary voters had a feeling he wasn’t up to it. We have to ask if Obama was spying on Romney’s campaign.
The Romney family has very sketchy associations along with the Biden and Kerry families.
Interview with George Stephanopoulis – is this just a defense of the Clintons while the FX “American Crime Story: Impeachment” series is running? Press some Trump Derangement Syndrome buttons to distract from the reminder of the historical black eye to the Clinton Presidency? A critical part of that story took place in Stephanopoulis’s office while he was gone!
Wait a second, wasn’t it Igor Danchenko, a sub source who back filled the content of the Steele dossier, when he asked his friends to to help him fabricate Trump connections and gossip, right? Igor a drunk and colleague of Fiona Hill at the lie factory, the Brookings Institute. Don’t leave old Igor out of the story.
“They are both HAM Radio operators. What a coincidence.”
I still fail to see the significance. Unless she was given the equipment to encrypt/encode messages and send them over Amateur radio spectrum (illegally) then they could have as easily done this via GMRS and not bothered with having to study to pass a test.
The pee tape starring former President Bill Clinton produced by Putin makes a whole lot more sense. Putin had it released as a “Trump” version to let BC know that he knew about the tape. BC hated Obama for defeating his wife. After a few vodkas, anything is possible in Moscow.
Putin let ut be known that there was a Trump
version but in actuality a BC versikn exists but not released.
Lol, never thought of it. Makes perfect sense to use radio. Unless you are in range and on the frequency at the moment in real time, completely untraceable. FOI that.
Regarding use of ham radio communications, it is likely that the transmissions were not direct and made use of repeaters to extend the sender’s reach beyond a low power station’s reach. I think repeaters might have logs of users’ call signs, which precede the message. Would be interesting to see if a particular pair of call signs keep appearing at about the same time on repeaters nearest to certain senders.
So, interesting the Ham radio connection was made. Would love to see her radio shack and determine whether she was running packet radio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio. Steele being nothing else probably knows enough tradecraft for one time key pad and how to secure such messages. On another note, I wonder if the contractor named in the 99 page FISA order will ever be revealed. And what ‘national security’ grounds is the reason for the redaction? That was a classified system, and information leaked out of that system, would be, without question, a class A felony. But, there is no such thing as a ‘bad document’ privilege so it’s hard to say that the name of the contractor itself is some national security. Booze-Allen? Lockheed? Mantech? Who? And why is it still classified?
Look, the bottom line of all this “HE SAID-SHE SAID” melodrama which includes Durham is that had any FBI or DOJ Officials attempted to frame a newly elected President Obama for a crime that never even happened AG Holder would have had every single one of them investigated, arrested and convicted within 20 minutes! Change my mind?
I can remember the F.B.I. raiding the office and hotel room of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Why hasn’t Durham raided Perkins Coie?
So….. if the Obamas stayed (while being President) at that hotel bugged with cameras in their hotel room, would he not be compromised too? I thought they would have stayed at the secure Embassy.
Also…..Trump being a fastidious person who doesn’t like grime on things…why would he want hookers peeing in the bed that he will have to sleep on later. Most like likely it was a California-King sized mattress (Stalin -Sized in Russia?) and would require at least 2 very strong hotel staffers or maids to remove it from the room and wrestle it down the back service hallway to the cramped elevator to the basement supply area and bring up a new one. All this time, Trump was in the room waiting for a whole new mattress and sheets while entertaining hookers? Doubtful. So they watched CNN on the TV until the staff left? The whole thing about Trump being obsessed at the Obamas and wanting to “defile” the bed is something only a woke liberal would have written.
An anonymous source revealed to me that it was little billy cliton who did the peeing, and hitlery watched.