When will the coup be prosecuted? This is madness.
Hillary Fingerprints All Over FBI’s Investigation Into Trump’s Russia Ties
By Rachel Stolzfoos, The Federalist, February 18, 2020 (thanks to Christian):
Her campaign is linked to at least three separate pieces of information fed to the FBI, including the dossier the FBI used as a pretext to spy on a Trump campaign associate.A significant part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s basis for investigating the Trump campaign’s Russia ties is looking more and more like a political hit job carried out by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Story continues below advertisementHer campaign’s fingerprints are on at least three separate pieces of information fed to the FBI, including the Christopher Steele dossier Republicans say formed the basis of a secret warrant obtained to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
A former State Department official confirmed on the record Thursday that Clinton associates were funneling information to Steele as he was compiling a dossier commissioned and paid for by the Clinton campaign and DNC. That’s on top of the recent revelation that a top Department of Justice official fed the FBI information compiled by his wife, who was working for the firm Clinton and the DNC were paying to dig up dirt on Trump, Fusion GPS.
The dossier was quoted “extensively” in the FBI’s application to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, according to a memo released by Republicans on the House intelligence committee. In a January letter to the FBI made public this week, two Senate Republicans also said Steele’s information formed a “significant portion” of the warrant application.
“It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility,” Sens. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Lindsey Graham wrote in the letter referring Steele to the FBI for a criminal investigation.
Taken together, here’s what we know so far about the extent of Clinton’s involvement in the FBI’s case.
1. Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal funneled information to the FBI through a contact at the State Department.
In an account published by The Washington Post, former State Department official Jonathan Winer describes how research compiled by a Clinton ally made its way into his hands and then to the FBI. Winer was in charge of combating transnational organized crime at the State Department under Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and returned under the Obama administration to work on international law enforcement. Between his two gigs, he became friends with Steele, who as a result began feeding information to the State Department, and tipped Winer off in Sept. 2016 to the Trump dossier he was compiling.
That same month, Winer met Blumenthal, who provided him with notes on Trump and Russia compiled by another Clinton insider, Cody Shearer. “What struck me was how some of the material echoed Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources,” Winer writes in The Washington Post. He decided to show the notes to Steele, who told him the information could be used to corroborate his dossier. Steele walked away with a copy of the notes, which he provided to the FBI.
Shearer and Blumenthal, known respectively as “Mr. Fixer” and “Vicious Sid” in Clinton world, are staunch allies of the Clintons. Winer notes he didn’t know whether the information Blumenthal fed him was accurate, but says he fed it to Steel anyway because he was “alarmed at Russia’s role in the 2016 election.”
Grassley and Graham express concern in their criminal referral that Steele was “vulnerable to manipulation” while compiling his dossier on Trump, as he has admitted to meeting with at least four different news outlets during that time (in violation of an agreement he had with the FBI), and indicated he received unsolicited and unverified tips on Trump and included them in his dossier. “Simply put, the more people who contemporaneously knew that Mr. Steele was compiling his dossier, the more likely it was vulnerable to manipulation,” they wrote in their letter.
Of course, the Clinton network knew to some extent about the dossier, since Hillary’s campaign and the DNC had commissioned and funded the effort through Fusion GPS. Whether Blumenthal was planting bogus information to manipulate Steele or passing along what he regarded as a legitimate tip is unclear, but it’s certainly not a good look.
Regardless, this second unverified and unsolicited dossier made its way to the FBI thanks to the Clinton camp.
2. Steele was at that same time compiling a dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
As noted, Steele was already well into work on a dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and DNC regarding Trump’s Russia ties when Winer approached him. Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, had hired Fusion GPS to dig up opposition research on Trump prior to the election. Fusion in turn employed Steele, a former British spy, to compile the dossier. His work was entirely funded by Democrats.
The FBI was never able to verify the salacious claims in Steele’s dossier, so relied heavily on his reputation to infuse the document with credibility before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, according to the Republican memo and criminal referral. The bureau continued to vouch for him before the court in subsequent applications to renew the warrant, even after learning he was “desperate” to stop Trump from getting elected, had broken the bureau’s trust by dishing to the press in one case, and potentially lied to the bureau outright in several other instances — a criminal offense. The court learned none of this, and continued to grant the FBI permission to spy on a U.S. citizen based in part on Steele’s research.
3. A top DOJ official fed the FBI research on Trump from his wife also paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
The third piece of information provided to the FBI in connection with Clinton allies is research compiled by the wife of former senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who worked closely with Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and her replacement, Rod Rosenstein. Ohr was also a friend of Steele.
Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to help compile opposition research on Trump. According to the Republican memo, Ohr eventually turned over all of the information she compiled — while working ultimately for the Clinton campaign and the DNC — to the FBI. It’s unclear whether this information made it into the FISA applications, but it’s one more example of evidence received by the FBI that can be traced back to the Clinton campaign.
According to the Republican memo, the FISA court was never informed of the Ohr’s connections to Fusion GPS and Steele.
In sum: To obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate, the FBI relied heavily on a dossier that was never substantiated, put together by a former spy “desperate” to stop Trump. That dossier was paid for by powerful Democrats on Trump’s rival campaign, who also paid for opposition research the FBI received from a powerful couple inside President Obama’s DOJ. Separately, two Clinton allies worked together to funnel a second unsubstantiated dossier to the FBI through the State Department.
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You are a bit slow FBI. We, the People already knew this.
I live to see the day that Hillary and the Kenyan are cuffed and led to prison…..
If this were only TRUE.
They sure are!
I have been trying to follow the nitty gritty detail over the Conservative Treehouse.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/ Sundance has and is suburb analyzing the criminal shenanigans that are going on and people are getting away with. I’ll let Sundance sum up my sentiments on our hyper sensitive, fragile A.G. Barr. Again, Barr, do your dam job! We don’t have a lifetime for justice. Stop dragging it out and protecting people – like Mueller…..your old buddy…..
WaPo Report: AG Bill Barr Threatens to Quit…
Posted on February 19, 2020 by sundance
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Right around this moment-in-time is where a multitude of mutually aligned beltway quisling pundits will declare that Bill Barr’s delicate sensibilities are being wounded by a President who demands forceful accountability; ie. traditional DC republican pundits [insert Laura Ingraham and Max Boot here].
The bottom line is President Trump is doing absolutely nothing to impede Bill Barr from doing his job; if the U.S. Attorney General is factually intent on doing that job.
Ever since he assumed office the Attorney General has been praising the likes of Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller and Christopher Wray. Given the nature of what is widely available in review, that level of logical disconnect is not representative of an individual who possesses reasonable judgement in the quest for deliberate justice…. just sayin’.
So until Bill Barr actually man’s-up and does something with the authority he has requested, the image of Bondo Barr attempting to cover-up the rot and wrongdoing while surrounded by visible and overwhelming corruption; and pontificating about “constitutional norms”; is a more apt descriptive.
President Trump has been victimized by the same institutions AG Bill Barr is now in charge of. So forgive me if I don’t impart sympathy upon a person who is in charge of those institutions, whining about background noise, and seemingly incapable of addressing the abuse unless all of the planets are aligned to provide him the quiet atmosphere he requires while thumbing through the final chapters of his indulgent memoirs over a glass of chardonnay.
Suck it up cupcake.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/19/wapo-report-ag-bill-barr-threatens-to-quit/#more-184013
Iowa parade float depicting Hillary in prison.
https://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhmqr8i0A05Vfpe2x6
You will never be President. All that humilitation you went through via Bill was for naught. Wallow in what could have been. Be bitter and angry. It doesn’t matter because you will not be the first female President. DJT beat you fair and sqaure despite your cheating, lying and criminal activity to prevent it.
That’s GREAT !!
Amen!
OUTSTANDING.
and in the end, all roads lead to the muslim. does anyone really think he didn’t know, or even direct, the actions of killery? unless trump puts both of them behind bars, or on a gallows on the white house lawn, his presidency will be a failure
Trump’s Presidency isn’t dependent on Hillary or Obama. I do agree that Obama is in up to his eye balls too. HE knew exactly what was going on and helping to orchestrate it. Trump has had success despite massive resistence and back stabbing. I want him to get MORE done but it isn’t a failure. Let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Maybe Barr will MAN UP and stop being an elitist, childish, prima donna.
Trump has every right to tell A.G.Barr what he wants looked into, within the law of course, and use social media to vent his views and frustrations. Obama had Holder and Lynch on speed dial for his demands. If Barr can’t handle that, then he should resign. Trump shouldn’t have these frustrations and foot dragging of results. Barr should be doing something about Trump’s frustrations! In case he has forgotten Trump is above him.
I too am getting very impatient with Barr.
http://evreimir.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rosenstein-barr-mueller.jpg
Yes, for Barr to make a news conference that he ‘can’t do his job’ because of all the ‘interference’ or whatever, is just plain immature. He should STFU and start handing down indictments instead of crying that Trump kicked sand in his face. What kind of milksop do we have holding the highest law enforcement post. Get him out of there!
Trump’s Presidency isn’t dependent on Hillary or Obama. I do agree that Obama is in up to his eye balls too. HE knew exactly what was going on and helping to orchestrate it. Trump has had success despite massive resistence and back stabbing. I want him to get MORE done but it isn’t a failure. Let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Maybe Barr will MAN UP and stop being an elitist, childish, prima donna.
Trump has every right to tell A.G.Barr what he wants looked, within the law of course, and use social media to vent his views and frustrations. Obama had Holder and Lynch on speed dial for his demands. If Barr can’t handle that, then he should resign. Trump shouldn’t have these frustrations and foot dragging of results. Barr should be doing something about Trump’s frustrations! In case he has forgotten Trump is above him.
I too am getting very impatient with Barr.
http://evreimir.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rosenstein-barr-mueller.jpg
Which is why CNN and MS-DNC have to move fast to the NEXT fake allegation. change the subject so they don’t have to answer for their previous fake news story.
Foreign collusion, then obstruction, then Stormy’s underwear, then quid pro quo, then something new.
Journalists are some of the most socio-pathic and pathological in society.
Keep this old sick “something” away from publicity!!!
Thanks a lot!
I never trusted Kilary nor that creepy bill “golden trumpet ” Clinton and his creepy admiration for JFK.
No merde! Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints and DNA are all over the FBI’s investigation in the Trump Russia witch hunt. Nor is Clinton the only one who has her fingers in the mix Obama, Soros, the entire faux-Democratic Party is culpable and should face indictment for treason and other subversive acts. It will, of course, never come to pass; the entirety of the DOJ, FBI, and other departments are enablers and confederates of this never-ending sedition.
Don’t forget Romney.
The list is so long, Romney is in the thick of it.
Especially is the Sor0s money is true.
Gee, what a surprise. It’s taken the gov four years to figure this out? A fifth grader could have figured this out years ago. That’s ok, I’m sure by 2103, indictments will be ready to be handed down. I just hope Hillary and Obama and friends leave notice where they will be buried, so they can be served.
These two are the most disgusting people in this country.
This is really very old news. It has been out there for over a year now. THEE Question is why is there no investigation of Hillary violating FEC laws to pass money to Steele via Perkins Coie?
Guns don’t kill people, Clintons do.
Well so now the FBI knows what we have known all along.
But have no fear, nothing will come of it.
no surprise…keep digging…we are not at the head of the snake yet.
If Hillary was standing naked over the body of a dead Republican, covered in blood, holding a .45 in one hand and a 6″ knife from her kitchen in the other, screaming “I did this and I’m proud of it! Wahhhhhhahaaha!”, do you honestly believe she won’t get off Scott free? Her defence, as usual, will be “It happened a long time ago. What does it matter?”
Love jail Hillary.
I’m fed up with people continually saying to be patient as if there is some grand plan to hold these traitors accountable. Well I am sick of waiting. Exactly how many years are we the people supposed to sit on our hands while nothing is done that brings true accountability while the traitors continue to damage the Republic? I suspect we’ll be lucky to see a slap on the wrist when in reality the death penalty is called for in some of these cases. I have no hope of that occurring. Lawlessness without accountability only fosters more lawlessness.
Delete Bill Barr and things will change only if an outsider as was Donald Trump was I’d vote for Jeanine Pirro, the cra… stops there.
I love Judge Jeanine!!!
If a LIE is quoted often enough, will that make it true?
If you don’t think so, you may commit suicide by shooting yourself, in the back of the head, two, or three, times.
A quick question for Attorneys at the D.O.J., prior to receiving your Bar Card, were you taught the term “STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS” ?
Any logical thinking person saw then and can see now what is happening. PELOSI, SCHITF, and the rest of the crowd are trying to gin up this Russian garbage again. And you can bet Hillary is in it up to her arm pits. Observing this up coming election I cannot see where either President Trump or Bernie Sanders would need any “help” from Russia.They’re both in front of the pack and there’s no way to change the direction this is going, not legally. I believe the DNC has every intention of sabotaging Sanders again. The super delegates like Donna Brazille can take him out and she, at least, has already made it clear she will not support Sanders. AND they changed the rules so as to get the 50 billion dollar man in the race. So it’s fairly evident who the DNC wants The rest of the candidates are just spinning their wheels. They’re being discarded by their own party leaders.