Some data on the Russia conspiracy investigation & its players

[LittleLebowski]

Folks, Dan Bongino is the tip of the spear on this data. I am endeavoring to update this every coupla days but #ModsHereAreShit If you don't have the patience for me, catch Bongino's podcast. Otherwise, wait for Bongino's book due out October 9th.



Did you know that Christopher Steele (author of the infamous "dossier" on Trump) was advocating for the renewal of a banned-from-the-country Russian oligarch? That Steele was doing so through Bruce Ohr at the Justice department?

The same Russian oligarch (Deripaska) had a failed business venture with Manafort and sued Manafort.

Deripaska is "Putin's favorite oligarch"

[LittleLebowski]

The vast bulk of the Clinton/Huma Abedin emails on the confiscated Wiener/Abedin laptop were NOT examined.

Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.

One career FBI special agent involved in the case complained to New York colleagues that officials in Washington tried to “bury" the new trove of evidence, which he believed contained the full archive of Clinton's emails — including long-sought missing messages from her first months at the State Department.

The search warrant was so limited in scope that it excluded more than half the emails New York agents considered relevant to the case. The cache of Clinton-Abedin communications dated back to 2007. But the warrant to search the laptop excluded any messages exchanged before or after Clinton’s 2009-2013 tenure as secretary of state, key early periods when Clinton initially set up her unauthorized private server and later periods when she deleted thousands of emails sought by investigators.

[Drang]

I figure the only reason Mueller still has a job is that Trump knows that shit-canning him would be the worst possible optics.

I also think that he has worked this out with Sessions.

[LittleLebowski]

Despite Steele previously being banned as a source by the FBI do to persistent leaks to the media. You might have to search for "Ohr Kimberly Strassel" and then click on the Wall Street Journal article.

Mr. Ohr was until last year associate deputy attorney general. He began feeding information to the FBI from dossier author Christopher Steele in late 2016—after the FBI had terminated Mr. Steele as a confidential informant for violating the bureau’s rules.

Furthermore, Strzok and Page knew that Ohr was leaking anti Trump stories (that originated from Steele). A text between Strzok and Page:

An Oct. 7, 2016, text message from now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok to his colleague Lisa Page reads: “Jesus. More BO leaks in the NYT,” which could be a reference to Mr. Ohr.

Of course, Ohr's wife (Nellie Ohr) was an employee of the opposition data research firm Clinton employed to dig up dirt on Trump (including the infamous "dossier" that Christohpher Steele wrote from London).

All the while, Mr. Ohr failed to disclose on financial forms that his wife, Nellie, worked alongside Mr. Steele in 2016, getting paid by Mr. Simpson for anti-Trump research. The Justice Department has now turned over Ohr documents to Congress that show how deeply tied up he was with the Clinton crew—with dozens of emails, calls, meetings and notes that describe his interactions and what he collected.

[RoyGBiv]

No justice, no peace.

[blues]

No justice, no peace.

No... just us, no peeps.

[feudist]

Comey et al dug a deep hole for the FBI to climb out of.

[jtcarm]

Comey et al dug a deep hole for the FBI to climb out of.

I don’t see much fallout except for MCabe & Strzok.

Everyone thumbs their noses at Congressional oversight with no consequences.

Sessions fiddles while the Gang of Eight burns.

Well, half of them burn, anyway.

[LittleLebowski]

Updated OP. More news soon.

[LittleLebowski]

OK, this is some slimy, slimy stuff. In the words of The Dude, "new shit has come to light. But that's what you're paying me for man, to stay on top of this new shit. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind...limber."


As many of us know, the Chinese were literally watching Hillary Clinton's email server traffic in real time.

A second source briefed on the matter told Fox News that officials outside of the FBI indicated code on the Clinton server suggested a foreign source was receiving copies of emails in real time.

What is not well known as of yet (thanks to our wonderful media), is the fact that FBI agent Peter Strzok was warning of this fact regarding the Chinese hacking the Clinton email server and he later claimed not to remember being briefed on the fact that the Chinese via a front company in Northern Virginia, was watching Clinton's emails in real time.

The Chinese firm obtained Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation.

The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server, which was kept in Clinton’s residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant “courtesy copy” for nearly all of her emails and forwarded them to the Chinese company, according to the sources.

The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that virtually all of Clinton’s emails were sent to a “foreign entity,” Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said at a July 12 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing. He did not reveal the entity’s identity, but said it was unrelated to Russia. (RELATED: Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’)

Two officials with the ICIG, investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan, met repeatedly with FBI officials to warn them of the Chinese intrusion, according to a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues, who was briefed on the matter. He spoke anonymously, as he was not authorized to publicly address the Chinese’s role with Clinton’s server.

Among those FBI officials was Peter Strzok, who was then the bureau’s top counterintelligence official. Strzok was fired this month following the discovery he sent anti-Trump texts to his mistress and co-worker, Lisa Page. Strzok didn’t act on the information the ICIG provided him, according to Gohmert.

Gohmert mentioned in the Judiciary Committee hearing that ICIG officials told Strzok and three other top FBI officials that they found an “anomaly” on Clinton’s server.

The former intelligence officer TheDCNF spoke with said the ICIG “discovered the anomaly pretty early in 2015.”

“When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer told TheDCNF.