In the next few days, much more about the overall investigative review underway in Florida will begin to surface. The review has been led by USAO Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida.
As with all investigations containing multiple players and actors, the first investigative information is extracted from testimony by those furthest away from the principals, yet closest to the granular details of the events being reviewed. The questioning then goes upstream, using information collected to assemble more specific questions as the principal players are approached.
The widest concentric circles are questioned first. Then, using the responses and investigative information from that circle, the questioning and inquiry goes to the next inner circle of participants. The information is assembled, and more pointed questions are then targeted to the next inner circle; the process continues until the core is questioned.
Beginning with the end in mind, the biggest challenge is knowing what the correct questions are to ask of those who were closest to the corrupt activity (the outer circle). Background research is critical – CTH of value. From those pointed questions you get answers. Then, next level of more specific questions get focus, and so on, and so on.
FLORIDA – Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed in connection with a wide-ranging investigation being run by a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Florida, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Thursday.
The probe, which focuses on an earlier investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other prosecutions related to President Donald Trump, is being led by Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. The sprawling probe has been dubbed a “grand conspiracy” investigation by Trump allies.
An attorney for Comey did not have an immediate comment, while Quiñones’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (read more)
Please remember, there are two distinct and different aspects to the overall conspiracy and timeline.
There was surveillance of the 2016 Republican candidates by contractors working on behalf of the FBI who was institutionally collaborating with the Clinton campaign; that is known as “Spygate.” There was then an FBI operation to target and eliminate the threat represented by the 2016 GOP primary winner, Donald Trump; that is known as “Russiagate.”
‘Spygate’ and ‘Russiagate’ are two distinctly different corrupt pathways that eventually merged due to common interests.
The Mueller investigation, an extension of Crossfire Hurricane (Russiagate) was used by Obama-era politicians and internal government officials as a mechanism to block President Trump from executing a divergent foreign policy. The primary policy of focus was to protect the Iran deal.
Based on mounting evidence, a pattern in other international activities and U.S. participants, the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Iranian deal likely included a mechanism for return payments to U.S. officials following the release of billions in frozen Iranian asset funds and the loosening of sanctions – (ie. pallets of cash). Qatar was the mediator/broker.
However, it is speculated, perhaps being currently evidenced, that return payments to the Obama team contained a timing mechanism and the quid-pro-quo payments were stopped after President Trump withdrew from the Iran deal and re-instituted sanctions.
Thus, a much larger background context exists for why the totality of the U.S. government and Intelligence Community opposed President Donald Trump. Is it all about the money? Time will tell. Current events may not be coincidental.
♦ September 2015 – Billionaire Paul Singer contracts with Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS for opposition research on candidate Donald Trump during 2016 GOP presidential primary. Simpson prior work during time at Wall Street journal serves as reference.
♦ November 2015 – Simpson hires Nellie Ohr to assist on Trump project. Ohr was CIA open-source analyst. Revelations by NSA compliance officer in April 2016 point to November 2015 as origin of multiple unauthorized searches of NSA database.
♦ December 2015 – Mrs. Ohr contacts Christopher Steele, submitting data for cross-reference with sources and seeking collaboration on Trump project. Ohr using ham radio license as independent operator.
♦ January – March 2016 – GOP Presidential primary ongoing. Candidate Donald Trump wins majority of primary delegates from all early state contests. Momentum for Donald Trump becomes significant. Cruz, Kasich, Rubio final group along with Trump. Late March, Paul Singer contacts Glenn Simpson to cancel opposition research. NSA compliance officer notifies NSA Director Mike Rogers about unauthorized use of database by “contractors.” Rogers asks for full review.
♦ April 2016 – April 16, 2016, NSA compliance officer reports to Director Rogers of approximately 10,000 database searches, using “same identifiers” over “multiple dates.” Rogers responds by shutting down contractor access and blocking all FISA-702(17) “about” queries. April 17, 2016, Glenn Simpson wife, Mary Jacoby, visits White House. Glenn Simpson pitches preassembled oppo-research file on Trump to Clinton Team. Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann takes over payments and signs contract with Fusion for continued work.
♦ May/June 2016 – Chris Steele constructing dossier on Donald Trump, submissions returned to Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr and husband Bruce Ohr, #4 in DOJ-NSD. External contacts made to Trump orbit by foreign officials from Australia (Downer), U.K (Mifsud) and Cyprus. Trump campaign continues presidential primary victories. Trump enlists Paul Manafort as delegate manager for upcoming RNC convention.
♦ July 2016 – FBI opens official investigation of Trump for Russia collusion, predicated on contact from Australian Ambassador about non-existent claim Trump group receiving Clinton/DNC emails from Russian hackers. Attempted FISA application rejected.
♦ August 2016 – CIA Director John Brennan informs Harry Reid of Clinton oppo-research effort known colloquially as Trump-Russia. Former Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell, long time Clinton ally, publishes article in New York Times claiming Russians want Trump victory. Hillary proclaims vast Russian conspiracy theory.
♦ September 2016 – Director Brennan directly informs White House, President Obama, Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco of Clinton oppo-research effort known colloquially as Trump-Russia. Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Michael Sussmann identified as sources for organizing oppo-research Steele Dossier.
♦ October 2016 – Steele Dossier assembly used by DOJ-NSD in FISA application against Trump campaign official Carter Page. Through April 2016, FBI used Carter Page as undercover employee in case against Russian Evgeny Buryakov; now October 2016, FBI claims Carter Page is official “agent of a foreign government” to gain FISA warrant. Steele Dossier serves as replacement for Woods File supporting Title-1 search warrant.
♦ November 2016 – Donald Trump wins 2016 presidential election defeating Hillary Clinton and stunning world. Clinton campaign blames Russians for her loss. Accuses Trump of colluding with Russia. Trump campaign and transition team now under Title-1 full counterintelligence surveillance by FBI via Page FISA warrant.
♦ December 2016 – Joint Analysis Report released by intelligence community, claiming Russians were involved in attempting to influence 2016 election. All Trump campaign and transition members under full physical and electronic surveillance. All communication intercepted. Officially FBI Director James Comey denies President-elect Trump under investigation.
♦ January 2017 – Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) released by Obama administration claiming confidence Russia had attempted to interfere in the 2016 election. Sanctions imposed by Obama; Russian diplomatic corps expelled. FISA surveillance warrant resubmitted with no new context and renewed by FISC without question.
♦ February 2017 – National Security Advisor Michael Flynn under fire for talking to Russian ambassador in December during Christmas holiday. Flynn wrongly accused of discussing possible policy changes and not to worry about Obama sanctions. Full court press by FBI and DOJ to leak information to media about Trump under FBI counterintelligence investigation. James Comey leaks information to friend, Columbia University Professor Daniel Richman as intermediary to media. Washington Post publish article citing FBI intercept of Flynn-Kislyak phone call.
♦ March 2017 – • On 16th HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes releases information to public about Obama presidential daily briefing containing information about Trump-Russia collusion investigation and surveillance of Trump campaign by FBI. First public indications that “wires were actually tapped.” • On 17th copy of FISA application delivered from FISA Court to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice-Chairman Mark Warner. Shortly after 4pm, Warner instructs SSCI Security Director James Wolfe to leak the FISA application to media. Wolfe transmits 82 pictures to Politico journalist Ali Watkins via encrypted phone images [FISA application 83 pages with one blank page]. FISA application returned to courier FBI Agent Brian Dugan. • March 20th, James Comey testifies to HPSCI during open hearing admitting for first time publicly that President Trump, and his entire administration, is under official FBI counterintelligence investigation. Comey claims no information previously given to congressional oversight due to “sensitivity of the matter.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions forced to recuse.
♦ April 2017 – Absent AG, and without confirmed DAG, interim and acting DAG Dana Boente receives request for FISA renewal from FBI Director James Comey. On same day FISA application is renewed for second time, journalist Ali Watkins -having ownership of illegal and leaked unredacted FISA application- writes first details of FISA application, then transfers employment to New York Times for senior role in Trump-Russia reporting. FBI continues leaking details of investigation to media. Mid April Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein arrives to take all responsibilities related to AG Sessions recusal.
♦ May 2017 – Early May, Deputy AG Rosenstein has phone call with FBI Director James Comey, “What do you want me to do – wear a wire?” Mid-May, Rosenstein takes former FBI Director Robert Mueller to White House for oval office meeting with President Trump. Next morning Mueller returns to White House to pick up cell phone he accidentally left in Oval Office. Later in afternoon, President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey. Following day Rosenstein talks to Mueller (3X) and coordinates meeting. Robert Mueller appointed Special Counsel; Mueller chief deputy Andrew Weissmann assumes organization of investigation.
♦ June 2017 – Weissmann assembles Crossfire Hurricane team into Special Counsel. WFO FBI Agent Brian Dugan begins to suspect SSCI leak of FISA application based on media reporting. Agent Dugan requests and receives first warrant for cell phone records of SSCI Security Director Wolfe and NYT journalist Ali Watkins. June 29th Andrew Weissmann requests renewal of Carter Page FISA warrant to continue surveillance of administration. Application renewed.
♦ July 2017 – While conducting investigation of internal FBI conduct during Clinton email investigation, Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovers inappropriate activity within FBI investigative team. Horowitz informs DAG Rosenstein and SC Robert Mueller about Lisa Page and Peter Strzok compromise. Weissmann removes Page and Strzok to avoid scrutiny by OIG of special counsel team. President Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn discovers all 2016/2017 transition team emails, phone records, electronic communications and devices have been given to Andrew Weissmann by General Services Administration as requested by the FISA authority carried by special counsel.
♦ August 2017 – DAG Rod Rosenstein officially expands Special Counsel investigative scope as requested by Andrew Weissmann to include five specific targets: Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Walid Phares [targeting angle = FARA violations, per DOJ-NSD authority] Mr. Phares organized interview between Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abel Fattah al-Sisi during 2016 campaign. FISA surveillance authority used to collect evidence of financial transactions, banking records, travel, communication and full Title-1 counterintelligence operations deployed against targets.
♦ September 2017 – FBI Agent Brian Dugan conducting surveillance of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and communication between SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner and Chris Steele representative Adam Waldman. Dugan intercepts Waldman side of conversation for investigative file. Weissmann and 18 lawyers, 50 FBI agents and 200 staff continue Trump targeting operations, continue full Title-1 authorized FISA surveillance, and outline cases against Manafort (financial crimes/FARA), Flynn (FARA), and Papadopoulos (lying to investigators).
♦ October 2017 – FISA search warrant used by Mueller/Weissmann special counsel expires. Weissmann requests expanded scope memo from Rosenstein to target Michael Flynn Jr for use against his father, Michael Flynn. Cases against Manafort and Papadopoulos ongoing. Media 24/7 with Trump-Russia collusion. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Brian Dugan first approaches SSCI Security Director James Wolfe about FISA leak and media contacts. Agent Dugan forced by USAO Jessie Liu to inform SSCI Chair Burr and SSCI Vice-Chair Warner about ongoing leak investigation.
♦ November 2017 – All prior surveillance and assembled evidence used via Title-1 search warrant authority, in combination with FARA and threats against Mike Flynn Jr, used to coerce a guilty plea by Michael Flynn (Nov 31). House Intelligence Committee now seeking to review FISA warrant, DOJ and FBI denying access. Political debate between Chairman Devin Nunes and ranking member Adam Schiff ongoing.
♦ December 2017 – AFTER securing Flynn guilty plea, immediately first reports of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages released. Within days, Bruce Ohr identified, demoted twice, former Crossfire Hurricane investigation now being scrutinized. Nellie Ohr’s name surfaces. Chris Steele and Fusion GPS now being reviewed with increased suspicion. Testimony to Senate by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson “accidentally” leaked by SSCI member Dianne Feinstein (keep stories straight, motive). Nunes memo -vs- Schiff memo battle for media narrative. Internal details of prior FBI targeting operation begin to surface with evidence showing sketchy behavior. FBI Agent Brian Dugan confronts SSCI Security Director James Wolfe with evidence against him, Wolfe admits to leaks. SSCI fire Wolfe.
♦ January 2018 – Apex for Special Counsel. Brian Dugan assembles file against Wolfe submits for grand jury indictment. Due to file touching on Trump-Russia issues, Wolfe criminal activity file submitted to Special Counsel Weissmann for review. Nunes memo released and discussed.
♦ February 2018 – Text messages between SSCI Vice-Chair Warner and Chris Steele layer Adam Waldman surface. Andrew Weissmann organizes a press conference for Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to conduct, announcing indictments of 17 Russians and entities for 2016 election interference; this is timed as Trump departs for summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
♦ March 2018 – Public begins to absorb totality of FBI (mis)conduct in the Trump targeting operation. The information war is in full swing. Narrative battles are throughout media.
♦ April 2018 – Leaks of the FISA application against Carter Page now under scrutiny. A criminal referral from OIG toward FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for lying to INSD investigators about his media leaks.
♦ June 2018 – The criminal indictment of SSCI Security Director James Wolfe unsealed and made public.
♦ July 2018 – The DOJ informs the FISC that despite issues surfacing about the predicate of the FISA warrant they authorized against Carter Page for being an agent of a foreign power, everything was ok. A week later, the DOJ then releases to the public the first FISA Title-1 search warrant ever seen, …
…the publicly released version of the FISA application is the exact copy of FISA that was contained in the FBI evidence file against James Wolfe. The same exact document hand carried from the FISC to the SSCI on March 17, 2017, was the copy released by the DOJ in July 2018 – not the DOJ-NSD copy. How did that happen?
♦ December 2018 – Despite the DOJ refusing to indict James Wolfe for leaking the Top-Secret Compartmented Intelligence Carter Page FISA application, and after the guilty plea was entered for lying to investigators, and while the Judge was considering Wolfe’s sentencing, in December of 2018, after the midterm election and under penalty of perjury, the USAO in Washington DC swears to the Judge in the case that James Wolfe leaked the FISA application.
Cover up much?
What we got here as y’all can plainly see…IS AN OBAMA ORCHESTRATED AND DIRECTED TREASONOUS COUP.
Can anyone IMAGINE if say, the worthless John McCain in o8-09 was meticulously documented to have done this EXACT SAME THING to Barry the Magnificent?????
I mean the Marxist media’s collective head’s EXPLODED over a FAKE “RUSSIA COLLUSION!!!” fairy tale. Could you fathom their reaction to a factual COUP ATTEMPT against their Kommmie Kenyan????
What did Frank Barrone used to say?….
“HOLY CRAP!!!”
The stories would have NEVER ended until there were long prison sentences. How many indictments do you think are coming for this coven of demonic losers?
OZero!
Anomalies in the Trump-Russia-DNC Email Theft Theory:
(1). The reaction of the DNC to the alleged intrusion into the DNC network by the Russian GRU Advanced Persistent Threat (APT 48) “Fancy Bear” has never been adequately explained. CrowdStrike allegedly knew the hack was Russian shortly after the start of their Incident Response engagement on May 5, 2016. In an Incident Response, the primary objective is to secure the sensitive information from the intruders. CrowdStrike was not permitted by the DNC to do anything prior to the last primary being held in California in June 2016. Donna Brazile, who would assume the Chair of the DNC after the resignations of Amy Dacey and Debbie Wasserman Schultz in August 2016, described the situation in her book, HACKS:
“Falcon (the CrowdStrike security application) was like a window into the system with a video camera that recorded everything that went on inside. Through it, we were able to see Russian actors who were logging on to the system and how they were talking ot the computers inside our network…As soon as CrowdStrike installed Falcon, it detected an intrusion underway with two Russian state actors digging deeper into the DNC.
“In May, when CrowdStrike recommended that we take down our system and rebuild it, the DNC told them to wait a month because the state primaries for the presidential election were still underway, and the party and the staff needed to be at their computers.”
That was a Stand Down Order from DNC executives to CrowdStrike, which CrowdStrike obeyed. The media apparently finds nothing abnormal about the DNC being perfectly accepting of a bunch of Russian spies prancing around in their network while not securing any sensitive information from them. People as strong in Russophobia as the Democratic Party just carried on their work while Russians could take anything from the network they wanted.
A few weeks after the Stand Down Order was issued, the Russians stole the infamous emails that supposedly cost Hillary Clinton the election. Now, just who was actually responsible for that if not the people who issued a Stand Down Order from to the people allegedly conducting an “Incident Response Engagement?” “Incident Response” according to WHOM? Wholesale theft of sensitive information under the noses of an Incident Response team is not an “Incident Response.”
(2). When Cozy Bear (APT 29), another Russian Intelligence hacking group penetrated the DNC shortly after Hillary’s investigation for exposing Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) to possible theft in an unsecured private email system was opened by Comey’s FBI, again we see a nonchalant response to the presence of Russian spies inside the DNC’s toilet paper network. Russians from either the SVR, or the FSB, or both were cavorting around in the DNC network for the majority of 2015. According to Shawn Henry’s testimony to Congress about the alleged “Incident Response” engagement he supervised in 2016, the Cozy Bear group had access to the DNC’s Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone system. The Russians were monitoring the DNC’s phones. What happened? Nothing. Nobody did anything serious during the 2015 presence of Cozy Bear in the network.
The FBI found out when Dutch Intelligence, in 2015, turned up DNC documents inside Moscow Center. The FBI warned the DNC several times during 2015 that Russians were inside their network, but DNC consultants like Yared Tamene could find nothing to verify that. Cozy Bear was very stealthy in its breach of the DNC, which is why it took a foreign agency to alert the US government about the hack. Again, no one did much that was serious. Just phone calls and meetings while the Russians transmitted date to Moscow from the DNC, according to an FBI report to the DNC in November 2015.
Contrast this Russian behavior on the part of Fancy Bear, as described by Donna Brazile in HACKS: “Fancy Bear showed up in April 2016. Fancy Bear, the one our IT department detected (The IT department never found any trace of Cozy Bear) was loud and did not seem concerned about being found out. As out technology director Andrew Brown said it was like Fancy Bear smashed in the front window and raged around grabbing whatever was at hand, less concerned about being detected than Cozy Bear had been.
Fancy Bear was supposedly the bunch that stole the emails and gave them to Wikileaks in May or June since Julian Assange told ITV on June 12, 2016, that Wikileaks had “emails about Hillary Clinton that we will publish coincident to the Democratic National Convention.” Why would Putin send this bunch in to do what Cozy Bear could do anytime they wanted and on one in or out of the federal government or the DNC would do a damn thing about it. In fact, Fancy Bear had no business inside the DNC Network since Putin relegated them to gathering military intelligence and not political intelligence, yet there they were and not at all worried about being “covert.” This story never made any sense.
(3). The idea the Russians might interfere with out elections started inside the CIA in 2014 when, allegedly, John Brennan received intelligence about exactly that subject. Read all you want about it here:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/14/obama-russia-election-interference-241547
I still think that the Crowdstrike program either didn’t exist , or was an existing program re-upped to
support the lie. The company had already been bought out by another firm, at big expense. Convenient
to everything else going on.
Thesis created: (Russian interference).
Means of detection created (past evidence of Cozy Bear. )
Meeting of the minds ( buy out/bribe of Crowdstrike)
Evidence planted ( “Fancy Bear smashed the front window and grabbed whatever was in hand LESS
CONCERNED ABOUT BEING DETECTED THEN COZY BEAR HAD BEEN). Which was intentional.
Narrative created : Fancy Bear, which was Crowdstrike’s creation IMO, was trumpeted around as
being Russian interference, like the similarly named actual Russian creation Cozy Bear.
Narrative furthered: Memory a little vague, but wasn’;t there quite a few links between Simpson,
Simpson’s wife, and Crowdstrike?
The whole thing reminds me of a Bullwinkle episode. Something bad occurs to our heroes, and
Boris Badenov shows up in a bad disguise to lead them off to their doom after the first attempt
fails.
Imagine how much better this world would be if those actors would turn all of that time, energy, and money toward a noble goal. But, then again, they probably think they’re doing just that
Falcon could not do most of what was claimed. It certainly couldn’t “tag” a whole document and trace it to where its thieves took it. No documents go through the Internet in one piece, but in packets that take separate routes to the destination. Only the NSA can trace those.
My first theory was CrowdStrike stole the emails. They were a reasonable suspicion, and still are. They had means and opportunity. The idea that they were given a STAND DOWN ORDER is where to start knocking the pins out from under this story.
The Ali Watkins article I linked proves all the IC knew there was a Russian plan to interfere with elections or sabotage them. That was in 2014—ONE YEAR BEFORE COZY BEAR BREACHED THE DNC IN 2015, and MORE THAN ONE YEAR BEFORE FANCY BEAR ALLEGEDLY STOLE THE EMAILS AND GAVE THEM TO WILILEAKS. Where was the IC between 2014 and 2016? They did nothing about TWO HACKS by the Russians at the DNC. Those who think Seth Rich did it have nothing explain more than the IC does about DOING NOTHING when the Russians first showed up. Let the bastards explain that. See if this story holds up. As it is, it is absurd, but there were crazy things in the official evidence of the JFK killing and on one has been forced to explain anything.
I read your entire post but I’m not sure of the point you’re trying to make. Could you help me out?
Check my reply to a reply above yours.
I see that now. Thanks
Everyone involved in this nefarious plot should be tried for treason.
Great timeline, greatly interesting to read, peruse names, remember how things progressed in late 2016-early 2017… including 17 Intel agencies goose-stepping, like good little tin soldiers, to the tune of “Russia Collusion! Heil! Heil! Heil Obama! Heil Hillary! Death to the Donald!” As the state of American justice swirled faster and faster around the drain.