Posted on Nov 10, 2021
Durham Makes Another Big Move Against the Clinton Gang -- MORE COMING?
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discuses John Durham's latest indictment against Igor Danchenkoo, what it means going forward, and if Hillary Clinton should be questioned.
"A Russia analyst who contributed key research to the so-called Steele dossier that detailed alleged ties between ex-President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election was arrested Thursday as part of a probe by special counsel John Durham.
Igor Danchenko, the analyst, was charged in a grand jury indictment with five counts of making false statements to FBI agents during several interviews with agents in 2017 about his work providing information to former British spy Christopher Steele for the dossier.
Steele’s controversial dossier on Trump became the basis for the application of an FBI warrant to tap the phone of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page a month before Election Day in 2016
Steele’s inquiry was funded by the firm Fusion GPS, which itself had been hired by the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research on the then-Republican candidate Trump.
Danchenko, 43, is the third person criminally charged in Durham’s investigation, which is focused on the origins of the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with Russian agents to influence the outcome of the 2016 race for the White House.
The Department of Justice said that Danchenko, a Russian national who lives in Virginia, was taken into custody Thursday morning. He later appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where he reportedly was released on a $100,000 bond.
The indictment charges that Danchenko lied when he told FBI agents he had never communicated with a public relations executive who was active in Democratic politics about allegations in Steele’s reports, when in fact Danchenko had sourced at least one of those allegations to the executive.
That public relations executive is not identified by name in the indictment, but a lawyer for him confirmed to CNBC that he is Charles Dolan Jr., who most recently has worked at KGlobal in Washington. Dolan has worked on issues related to Russia.
Dolan also served as state chairman of the Virginia presidential campaigns of President Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and is a former executive director of the Democratic Governors’ Association. An online biography shows he also was on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the State Department."
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"A Russia analyst who contributed key research to the so-called Steele dossier that detailed alleged ties between ex-President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election was arrested Thursday as part of a probe by special counsel John Durham.
Igor Danchenko, the analyst, was charged in a grand jury indictment with five counts of making false statements to FBI agents during several interviews with agents in 2017 about his work providing information to former British spy Christopher Steele for the dossier.
Steele’s controversial dossier on Trump became the basis for the application of an FBI warrant to tap the phone of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page a month before Election Day in 2016
Steele’s inquiry was funded by the firm Fusion GPS, which itself had been hired by the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research on the then-Republican candidate Trump.
Danchenko, 43, is the third person criminally charged in Durham’s investigation, which is focused on the origins of the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with Russian agents to influence the outcome of the 2016 race for the White House.
The Department of Justice said that Danchenko, a Russian national who lives in Virginia, was taken into custody Thursday morning. He later appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where he reportedly was released on a $100,000 bond.
The indictment charges that Danchenko lied when he told FBI agents he had never communicated with a public relations executive who was active in Democratic politics about allegations in Steele’s reports, when in fact Danchenko had sourced at least one of those allegations to the executive.
That public relations executive is not identified by name in the indictment, but a lawyer for him confirmed to CNBC that he is Charles Dolan Jr., who most recently has worked at KGlobal in Washington. Dolan has worked on issues related to Russia.
Dolan also served as state chairman of the Virginia presidential campaigns of President Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and is a former executive director of the Democratic Governors’ Association. An online biography shows he also was on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the State Department."
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Okay my friends, I decided to do some basic research on Fusion GPS since MSgt Steve Sweeney stated that 'conservative "Free Beacon" that originally hired Fusion GPS before the 2016 Republican primary election.'
1. In 2016 it seems mainstream/centrist republicans and democrats hired Fusion GPS after Donald Trump sought to be nominated for President.
2. Hopefully after the mid-term election results in November 2022, Congress may well investigate the background in 2023 on the Steele Dossier including FBI directors, elected officials in 2016 former POTUS Barrack Obama former VPOTUS Joe Biden, former POTUS Donald Trump and other significant players.
Background from {[https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/347858-five-things-to-know-about-fusion-gps]}
By Katie Bo Williams - Friday 08/25/17 09:01 AM EDT
1. What is Fusion GPS?
Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, cofounded the strategic intelligence firm with two other Journal alumni in 2012.
The company has done research for Democrats on 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and for Planned Parenthood on a series of undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists, among other clients.
It has also done work for an American law firm defending Prevezon Holdings, a company owned by the son of a senior Russian government official. The U.S. government sued Prevezon in 2014, alleging fraud.
2. What does Fusion GPS have to do with the dossier and who were their customers?
In 2016, Fusion GPS retained a well-respected former British spy, Christopher Steele, to research any connections between then-candidate Trump and the Russian government. The firm had been hired first by Republicans during Trump’s primary run and later by Democrats to produce opposition research on Trump.
Steele produced an unconfirmed, 35-page dossier full of salacious allegations about Trump and Russia, all of which Trump has vehemently denied. The document — which circulated around Capitol Hill for months before BuzzFeed made the controversial decision to publish it in its entirety in January — has been a focal point for the intrigue surrounding the president’s relationship to Moscow.
The dossier has yet to be independently verified or publicly confirmed by U.S. intelligence officials. Simpson on Tuesday declined to tell Senate investigators who paid for the report.
Simpson’s attorney, Josh Levy, said Tuesday, August 22, 2017 after the interview that the firm remains “proud” of the dossier and “stands by it.”
4. How do the dossier and Fusion GPS relate to the Trump Jr. meeting?
During the campaign, Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian government lawyer who, an intermediary claimed, had dirt on then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But participants claim that the meeting centered on the Magnitsky Act, a slate of sanctions imposed on Russia after a Russian tax accountant who had investigated the alleged Prevezon Holdings fraud was arrested and died in prison.
The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was then lobbying for the removal of the sanctions while also working on the Prevezon case for the same law firm that had engaged Fusion’s services, according to a declaration she filed in federal court in 2016.
5. Did Fusion GPS violate federal lobbying rules?
Information uncovered by Fusion as part of its contract with the U.S. law firm defending Prevezon ended up in the anti-Magnitsky lobbying effort — sparking complaints that Fusion had failed to register as a lobbyist for a foreign interest under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Fusion said in a statement that it “worked for and under the supervision of an American law firm to provide support for civil litigation in New York” — in other words, that its work product was for the litigation related to Prevezon, not for the anti-Magnitsky lobbying campaign.
Prevezon settled the case in May for $6 million with no admission of wrongdoing. The law firm had already ended its representation of the company in late 2016, at a judge’s behest, because of a conflict of interest.
But Grassley’s committee is now investigating whether Fusion GPS failed to appropriately register as a lobbyist under FARA — still required even if a firm is paid through an intermediary. He said Thursday that the committee would hold a vote on whether to make public the transcripts from Simpson’s Tuesday interview.
Critics of the firm, including the president, have suggested that the timing of the Prevezon case is suspicious when juxtaposed against the creation of the dossier.
“It seems that Russia spent a lot of money on that false report, and that was Russian money, and I think it was Democrat money, too. You could say that was collusion,” Trump said earlier this month."
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1. In 2016 it seems mainstream/centrist republicans and democrats hired Fusion GPS after Donald Trump sought to be nominated for President.
2. Hopefully after the mid-term election results in November 2022, Congress may well investigate the background in 2023 on the Steele Dossier including FBI directors, elected officials in 2016 former POTUS Barrack Obama former VPOTUS Joe Biden, former POTUS Donald Trump and other significant players.
Background from {[https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/347858-five-things-to-know-about-fusion-gps]}
By Katie Bo Williams - Friday 08/25/17 09:01 AM EDT
1. What is Fusion GPS?
Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, cofounded the strategic intelligence firm with two other Journal alumni in 2012.
The company has done research for Democrats on 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and for Planned Parenthood on a series of undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists, among other clients.
It has also done work for an American law firm defending Prevezon Holdings, a company owned by the son of a senior Russian government official. The U.S. government sued Prevezon in 2014, alleging fraud.
2. What does Fusion GPS have to do with the dossier and who were their customers?
In 2016, Fusion GPS retained a well-respected former British spy, Christopher Steele, to research any connections between then-candidate Trump and the Russian government. The firm had been hired first by Republicans during Trump’s primary run and later by Democrats to produce opposition research on Trump.
Steele produced an unconfirmed, 35-page dossier full of salacious allegations about Trump and Russia, all of which Trump has vehemently denied. The document — which circulated around Capitol Hill for months before BuzzFeed made the controversial decision to publish it in its entirety in January — has been a focal point for the intrigue surrounding the president’s relationship to Moscow.
The dossier has yet to be independently verified or publicly confirmed by U.S. intelligence officials. Simpson on Tuesday declined to tell Senate investigators who paid for the report.
Simpson’s attorney, Josh Levy, said Tuesday, August 22, 2017 after the interview that the firm remains “proud” of the dossier and “stands by it.”
4. How do the dossier and Fusion GPS relate to the Trump Jr. meeting?
During the campaign, Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian government lawyer who, an intermediary claimed, had dirt on then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But participants claim that the meeting centered on the Magnitsky Act, a slate of sanctions imposed on Russia after a Russian tax accountant who had investigated the alleged Prevezon Holdings fraud was arrested and died in prison.
The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was then lobbying for the removal of the sanctions while also working on the Prevezon case for the same law firm that had engaged Fusion’s services, according to a declaration she filed in federal court in 2016.
5. Did Fusion GPS violate federal lobbying rules?
Information uncovered by Fusion as part of its contract with the U.S. law firm defending Prevezon ended up in the anti-Magnitsky lobbying effort — sparking complaints that Fusion had failed to register as a lobbyist for a foreign interest under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Fusion said in a statement that it “worked for and under the supervision of an American law firm to provide support for civil litigation in New York” — in other words, that its work product was for the litigation related to Prevezon, not for the anti-Magnitsky lobbying campaign.
Prevezon settled the case in May for $6 million with no admission of wrongdoing. The law firm had already ended its representation of the company in late 2016, at a judge’s behest, because of a conflict of interest.
But Grassley’s committee is now investigating whether Fusion GPS failed to appropriately register as a lobbyist under FARA — still required even if a firm is paid through an intermediary. He said Thursday that the committee would hold a vote on whether to make public the transcripts from Simpson’s Tuesday interview.
Critics of the firm, including the president, have suggested that the timing of the Prevezon case is suspicious when juxtaposed against the creation of the dossier.
“It seems that Russia spent a lot of money on that false report, and that was Russian money, and I think it was Democrat money, too. You could say that was collusion,” Trump said earlier this month."
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
LTC Stephen F. - Right... Democrats did get involved until after the Republican primary. Fusion GS was FIRST hired and retained by Republicans. Democrats then picked up the ball AFTER Trump won the Republican primary. We may be saying the same thing and not in disagreement, but it seems you are trying hard to set the whole thing at the feet of the Democrats and some "rouge" Republicans... which is not the case.
And Hillary Clinton was never VPOTUS. It is mistakes on simple facts like this that calls into the question any number of other assertions.
And Hillary Clinton was never VPOTUS. It is mistakes on simple facts like this that calls into the question any number of other assertions.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you for catching my error Capt Gregory Prickett I corrected it to former VPOTUS Joe Biden.
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William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, Michele Obama should be sent to North Korea with a one ticket.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth - would you take them all the way to North Korea, on the same one way ticket?
Those four are American citizens, and you swore an oath to protect them when you swore to protect and defend the Constitution. We don't exile people from this country. Never have, and I hope that we never will.
Those four are American citizens, and you swore an oath to protect them when you swore to protect and defend the Constitution. We don't exile people from this country. Never have, and I hope that we never will.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
CPO Arthur Weinberger - So do they. Just because they don't agree with you does not mean that they should be exiled. You swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, which includes protecting their right to disagree with you, hell, even their right to be dead wrong.
We don't exile citizens from the United States.
We don't exile citizens from the United States.
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OK, let me make sure that I've got this straight--you're using the assertions of someone who has repeatedly sued Hillary as the source of information against her? So you would be good with accepting the assertions of someone who has repeatedly sued Trump as a source of information against him? For example, the woman who alleged that Trump raped her at age 13? Or Jean Carroll or Summer Zervos?
You need to use better sources.
You need to use better sources.
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