The Notorious “catch and kill" campaign: Turning the National Enquirer into an arm of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

Yes, and they paid $5 Million of campaign funds to Perkins Coie to pay Fusion GPS, which the Clinton Campaign expensed as a legal expense.

And knowing full well that the Steele Dossier was a political hit job, the Obama administration went ahead and opened an FBI investigation into Trump, placed operatives inside his campaign, and lied to the FISA Court to secure eavesdropping warrants on Carter Page who they knew was a CIA informant.

Those FISA warrants are much more intrusive than a normal warrant- they allow the FBI to reach down 3 or 4 levels deep on the contact lists and spy on everyone who has contacts with the subject, and everyone they have contacts with, etc, down 3 or 4 levels.

IOW, the warrant on Carter Page meant everyone in Trump's circle and campaign were under constant surveillance.

After the election, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation morphed into the Mueller investigation, knowing full well that the Russian Collusion narrative was a hoax.

The FBI agent (Kevin Clinesmith) who lied to the FISA court (a felony) got off with a slap on the wrist, while people like Popadopolous were sent to jail for "lying to the FBI" because he got a date mixed up on the phony meeting in London (that meeting was a setup from the start).

The lady Russian lawyer from the infamous "Trump Tower Meeting" was a client of Fusion GPS, who she had hired to lobby for the removal of the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russian oligarchs. She went straight from that meeting to Glen Simpson (Fusion GPS) to make her report.

Igor Danchenko was the source of the "pee tapes" lie. He was another dem operative and Brookings Fellow, who got off scot-free because Durham didn't make a serious case against him.

And this entire fiasco was supported by the so-called "IC assessment" which was equally fraudulent, because the CIA, NSA, and FBI were all aware that the Collusion story was made-up and they were participating in the witch hunt.

Nixon resigned over the Watergate break-in, which was nothing in comparison to the lying and spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama Administration.

No one was punished because they were working for the dems, and it's all just fine to lie and break the law when it's for a "worthy cause" like taking down Trump...

All wrong. The US has monitored communication in and out of Russian embassies since 1960s..... worldwide. It's SOP. The Trump campaign called the Russian embassy 140 times seeking a back channel to the Kremlin. That triggered surveillance and the FISA warrants.

It would be the same if you kept calling the Russian embassy.
 
And yet, Hillary paid for the Steele dossier.
Ah yes, the inevitable but specious analogy to the dossier. It was only a matter of time. You need to do some homework on how Fusion GPS was paid. Not that you care about the details/truth.
 
Trump had help from foreign actors in beating Hillary.

Sleepy Joe beat the shit out of Trump in 2020, without anyone's help.
Oh, there was plenty of fraud going on. Nobody in their right mind would vote for that Senile BASTARD Biden who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. We get it though, Liberals want to remain in power and they have a "marshmallow disguised as a potato" taking orders from the Libs. He admits it constantly!
 
Yes, and they paid $5 Million of campaign funds to Perkins Coie to pay Fusion GPS, which the Clinton Campaign expensed as a legal expense.

And knowing full well that the Steele Dossier was a political hit job, the Obama administration went ahead and opened an FBI investigation into Trump, placed operatives inside his campaign, and lied to the FISA Court to secure eavesdropping warrants on Carter Page who they knew was a CIA informant.

Those FISA warrants are much more intrusive than a normal warrant- they allow the FBI to reach down 3 or 4 levels deep on the contact lists and spy on everyone who has contacts with the subject, and everyone they have contacts with, etc, down 3 or 4 levels.

IOW, the warrant on Carter Page meant everyone in Trump's circle and campaign were under constant surveillance.

After the election, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation morphed into the Mueller investigation, knowing full well that the Russian Collusion narrative was a hoax.

The FBI agent (Kevin Clinesmith) who lied to the FISA court (a felony) got off with a slap on the wrist, while people like Popadopolous were sent to jail for "lying to the FBI" because he got a date mixed up on the phony meeting in London (that meeting was a setup from the start).

The lady Russian lawyer from the infamous "Trump Tower Meeting" was a client of Fusion GPS, who she had hired to lobby for the removal of the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russian oligarchs. She went straight from that meeting to Glen Simpson (Fusion GPS) to make her report.

Igor Danchenko was the source of the "pee tapes" lie. He was another dem operative and Brookings Fellow, who got off scot-free because Durham didn't make a serious case against him.

And this entire fiasco was supported by the so-called "IC assessment" which was equally fraudulent, because the CIA, NSA, and FBI were all aware that the Collusion story was made-up and they were participating in the witch hunt.

Nixon resigned over the Watergate break-in, which was nothing in comparison to the lying and spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama Administration.

No one was punished because they were working for the dems, and it's all just fine to lie and break the law when it's for a "worthy cause" like taking down Trump...
And what "Dem operative" was responsible for Trump raw dogging a pornstar, then paying her hush money, ripping off top secret documents & hiding them in his country club, then lying about it & attempting a coup to overthrow the election that he got his ass beat in?
 
All wrong. The US has monitored communication in and out of Russian embassies since 1960s..... worldwide. It's SOP. The Trump campaign called the Russian embassy 140 times seeking a back channel to the Kremlin. That triggered surveillance and the FISA warrants.

It would be the same if you kept calling the Russian embassy.
Bullshit. That is flat-out false.

...the record in this matter reflects that upon receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately.

Strzok, at a minimum, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump. The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence.

Had it done so, again as set out in Sections IV.A.3.b and c, the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject. In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials. The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign. As described in Section IV.B, in the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election. In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution.

In one such matter discussed in Section IV.B.l, FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference. In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated. And in a third, the Clinton Foundation matter, both senior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how those matters were to be handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.

These examples are also markedly different from the FBI' s actions
with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.

Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan,
the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information.

This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its receipt. It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral memorandum to Director Corney and the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action. The investigative referral provided examples of information the Crossfire Hurricane fusion cell had "gleaned to date.

Within days after opening Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI opened full investigations on four members of the Trump campaign team: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. No defensive briefing was provided to Trump or anyone in the campaign concerning the information received from Australia that suggested there might be some type of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, either prior to or after these investigations were opened. Instead, the FBI began working on requests for the use of FISA authorities against Page and Papadopoulos. The effort as related to Papadopoulos proved unsuccessful. Similarly, the initial effort directed at Page was unsuccessful until the Crossfire Hurricane investigators first obtained what were designated as "Company Intelligence Reports" generated by Christopher Steele. As set forth in Sections IV.D. l .b.ii and iii and in brief below, the Steele Reports were first provided to the FBI in early July 2016 but, for unexplained reasons, only made their way to the Crossfire Hurricane investigators in mid-September. The reports were ostensibly assembled based on information provided to Steele and his company by a "primary sub source," who the FBI eventually determined in December 2016 was Igor Danchenko.

Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was
Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration. Further, when interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, Danchenko also was unable to corroborate any of the substantive allegations in the Reports. Rather, Danchenko characterized the information he provided to Steele as "rumor and
speculation" and the product of casual conversation. Section IV.D. l .h describes other efforts undertaken by the Crossfire Hurricane
investigators working on the Page FISA application. Those efforts included having CHSs record conversations with Page, Papadopoulos and a senior Trump foreign policy advisor. The FBI's own records and the recordings establish that Page made multiple exculpatory statements to the individual identified as CHS- I, but the Crossfire Hurricane investigators failed to make that information known to the Department attorneys or to the FISC.
 
Bullshit. That is flat-out false.

...the record in this matter reflects that upon receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately.

Strzok, at a minimum, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump. The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence.

Had it done so, again as set out in Sections IV.A.3.b and c, the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject. In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials. The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign. As described in Section IV.B, in the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election. In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution.

In one such matter discussed in Section IV.B.l, FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference. In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated. And in a third, the Clinton Foundation matter, both senior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how those matters were to be handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.

These examples are also markedly different from the FBI' s actions
with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.

Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan,
the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information.

This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its receipt. It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral memorandum to Director Corney and the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action. The investigative referral provided examples of information the Crossfire Hurricane fusion cell had "gleaned to date.

Within days after opening Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI opened full investigations on four members of the Trump campaign team: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. No defensive briefing was provided to Trump or anyone in the campaign concerning the information received from Australia that suggested there might be some type of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, either prior to or after these investigations were opened. Instead, the FBI began working on requests for the use of FISA authorities against Page and Papadopoulos. The effort as related to Papadopoulos proved unsuccessful. Similarly, the initial effort directed at Page was unsuccessful until the Crossfire Hurricane investigators first obtained what were designated as "Company Intelligence Reports" generated by Christopher Steele. As set forth in Sections IV.D. l .b.ii and iii and in brief below, the Steele Reports were first provided to the FBI in early July 2016 but, for unexplained reasons, only made their way to the Crossfire Hurricane investigators in mid-September. The reports were ostensibly assembled based on information provided to Steele and his company by a "primary sub source," who the FBI eventually determined in December 2016 was Igor Danchenko.

Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was
Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration. Further, when interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, Danchenko also was unable to corroborate any of the substantive allegations in the Reports. Rather, Danchenko characterized the information he provided to Steele as "rumor and
speculation" and the product of casual conversation. Section IV.D. l .h describes other efforts undertaken by the Crossfire Hurricane
investigators working on the Page FISA application. Those efforts included having CHSs record conversations with Page, Papadopoulos and a senior Trump foreign policy advisor. The FBI's own records and the recordings establish that Page made multiple exculpatory statements to the individual identified as CHS- I, but the Crossfire Hurricane investigators failed to make that information known to the Department attorneys or to the FISC.
Thank goodness they did. They would have been derelict of their duty not to investigate the ties between Trump and his campaign to Russians.

And boy did they find a mountain of them. As did Mueller.
 
In fact, given the comments by trumps family, the foreign government money that poured into his businesses while president, and his nefarious efforts to help Russia while president, that investigation should be reopened.
 
Wow!

"The DNC was fined $105,000 and the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000, according to a letter sent by the Federal Election Commission to a conservative group that requested an inquiry." -- such a bog deal! Better Call Durham. :laugh:

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During the Republican primaries, a research firm called Fusion GPS was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, to unearth potentially damaging information about Mr. Trump. The Free Beacon — which was funded by a major donor supporting Mr. Trump’s rival for the party’s nomination, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — told Fusion GPS to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.

After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates — including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.

In October, Mr. Trump said in a Twitter post that his party was outraged at Mrs. Clinton’s involvement.
So you think Trump should just pay a fine.

Got it.
 
FreeBeacon and Paul Singer hired the dossier. They did try to extort Ukraine for oppositional research.
Lies. That wasn’t related to the Russian disinformation Hitlery bought, liar
 
It was against the law. It’s a campaign finance violation since he did it in coordination with Trump for the benefit of the campaign.

That’s an in kind donation and cannot exceed the contribution limits and must be reported.
FEC said it wasn’t. Bragg has no authority over federal campaign laws, Simp.
 
Nothing on Earth could better confirm just how pathetic Hillary was as a candidate. She had the whole of the mainstream media as an arm of her campaign and liberals are whining about losing because of a tabloid. Petty and vindictive doesn't even begin to cover it. Sad.
 
And boy did they find a mountain of them. As did Mueller.
Bullshit. Mueller said there was no evidence that any US person conspired or coordinated with the Russians to interfere with the election.

After Trump won the election, there were numerous contacts between Trump's people and their foreign counterparts- the exact same thing that any incoming administration does.
 
Bullshit. Mueller said there was no evidence that any US person conspired or coordinated with the Russians to interfere with the election.
Mueller found a mountian of contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign. It's simply a fact.

And what he actually said was that they didn't find enough evidence to charge anyone with a criminal conspiracy. He explicitly said he did not evaluate collusion.

Why lie?




After Trump won the election, there were numerous contacts between Trump's people and their foreign counterparts
Yes, illegal and unethical contacts made in an effort to back door negotiate ways to help Russians, like giving back their spyhouses for free.

We know.
 
Mueller found a mountian of contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign. It's simply a fact.

And what he actually said was that they didn't find enough evidence to charge anyone with a criminal conspiracy. He explicitly said he did not evaluate collusion.

Why lie?
I don't know- why do you keep lying?

Mueller said "no evidence"of any US person conspiring or coordinating". Got that? NO EVIDENCE.

He did not say "insufficient evidence" or anything that would lead anyone to conclude that there was something there, just not enough to charge.

It wasn't for lack of looking- his investigation lasted 22 months, and the FBI was about a year before handing it off- complete with multiple illegal FISA warrants and informants planted inside the Trump campaign.

He NEVER said what you are attributing to him- e.g. a "mountain" of anything, or anything wrt "collusion".

Because the entire fiction was a Clinton campaign smear piece- all of it, and it was aided and abetted by the Obama administration's DOJ.

The only thing Mueller left open was whether or not Trump obstructed the investigation by firing Comey.

Get your facts straight.
Yes, illegal and unethical contacts made in an effort to back door negotiate ways to help Russians, like giving back their spyhouses for free.

We know.
More bullshit from the resident bullshit artist, there are always communications with incoming administrations and your characterization is just your own TDS talking, not representative of any factual record.
 
Mueller said "no evidence"of any US person conspiring or coordinating". Got that? NO EVIDENCE.
No, he said he didnt find enough evidence to charge anyone with criminal conspiracy.

I don't have to aside by your lies and your spin.

And when Trump said "no collusion, no obstruction", Mueller refuted him.

As I am refuting you now.

Have fun performing the losing exercise again.
 

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