#glennsimpson

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**🇺🇸MAGA ROLLER COASTER🇺🇸** Where is Robert Mueller when its real evidence of election interference!! CRICKETS... Par for the course when it comes to #Democrats meddling in our election and results actually being affected but its ok when the Democrats destroy ballots and pay a foreign national #christophersteele who gets dirty money funneled through #perkinscoie and #fusiongps 12 million dollars to create #TrumpRussia #Collusion narratives THATS AGAINST THE LAW YOU CAN SEE THEM TERRIFIED BY TEXT MESSAGES OF #Strzok #glennsimpson #podesta Ohr, Page etc and #comey getting caught for the private #emailscandal #mueller no were to be found again!! FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE WERE EVER IT LEADS YOU UNLESS IT'S THE DNC #CrookedHillary #lockherup THEN THAT'S OFF LIMITS! THATS WHY THE SCOPE MEMO IS SO IMPORTANT!!! THE ONE WE HAVE NOT SEEN DOES IT SAY ONLY THE #trumpcampaign MOST LIKELY!! #corruption #DrianTheDeepState #DeepState #MAGA #Trump2020 #Florida #BREAKING #dossier #Trump #voterfraud #trumpderangementsyndrome #TrumpTrain #browardcounty #Republicans https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKnrv0g-Rr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vvqfx8xf7jo0

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BREAKING NEWS !!!! THERE HAS BEEN A GRAND JURY IN PANLED..... Sources say there are a bunch of the #deepstate crooks scared and flipping on each other to the likes of calling this grand jury the flipper grand jury before it is all over with. See who can flip the most and earn the nickname "FLIPPER" Judge Joe Digenova said in a quote" They are all going down" Digenova said thats not even a question anymore.... #Trump #DonaldJTrump #Trump2020 #MAGA #BREITBART #LockHillaryUp #LockHerUp #Brennan #Comey #Strzok #LisaPage #BruceOhr #fusiongps #glennsimpson #russianhoax https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn0uBOOF6Pb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1isj6mt9l4c0v

[roguenewsdao]

GOP Led House Panel Votes to #ReleasetheMemo, Grassley Tightens Noose Around Steele and the British Putschists

We now know, as the spotlight turns to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, that Rosenstein approved a reauthorization of FISA surveillance against Page after the 2016 election. Today Page remains a free man, after lots of leaks smearing his character and portraying him as a Russian intelligence asset, but with no proof or indictments presented to the public ever justifying the intense surveillance directed his way. Democrats and their allies hide behind protecting 'sources and methods' excuses, claiming other intelligence behind the curtain justified the FISA abuse. Thank God, the ultimate declassification authority lies with the Congress and the President, not with the career bureaucrats. Within five days or less, the public will be reading the memo that so disturbed GOP members of Congress. 

As for the supposed integrity of those the Dems and Fusion GPS payola'd fan boys and girls with press passes are defending, it's telling that Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe resigned, or was told to resign, ahead of his designated retirement date, almost immediately after current director Christopher Wray viewed the Nunes memo in a designated classified viewing room on Capitol Hill. The weasely McCabe told then White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, that a CNN story about Trump campaign was false, only to later leak that Priebus had pressured the FBI into releasing a statement based on McCabe's words.

The following extended quote from the longest serving western correspondent in Moscow, John Helmer, may be of interest regarding whether the Steele Dossier was used to launder fakeint manufactured by CIA and MI6 into the FBI and use it to justify surveillance of the Trump campaign. We know that one of the lines of inquiry Sens. Grassley and Graham have pursued is whether Steele lied to the FBI about the origins of his oppo research and its distribution to (likely Fusion GPS paid off) members of the press. Among the likely reasons why the Obama politicized FBI let Steele get away with lying to its agents are, 1) Comey, McCabe and others put agents sympathetic to Steele like Peter Strzok in charge of handling the Steele contacts 2) CIA thanks to its 5Eyes intel sharing partnership with the British overrode or overawed any voices at the FBI who may have objected to the use of Steele's material without adequate vetting including its inclusion in briefs to the secret FISA court. -- JWS

"How did Simpson know with such confidence what the “Intelligence Community” was “saying”, and who were Simpson’s and Steele’s sources in the “Intelligence Community”? Rooney failed to inquire. Instead, he and Simpson exchanged question and answer regarding the approach Simpson and Steele made to the FBI when they delivered their dossier. In the details of that, Simpson repeated what he had already told the Senate Judiciary Committee. Rooney then asked what contact had been made with the CIA or “any other intelligence officials”. Simpson claimed he didn’t understand the question at first, then he stumbled. Source: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180118/106796/HMTG-115-IG00-20180118-SD002.pdf -- page 61. What Simpson was concealing in the two pauses, reported in the transcript as hyphens, Rooney did not realize. Simpson was implying that noone from Fusion GPS, his consulting company, had been in contact with the CIA, nor him personally. But Simpson left open that Steele had been in contact with the CIA. Rooney followed with a question about “anyone”, but that was so imprecise, Simpson recovered his confidence to say “No”. That was a cover-up – and the House Intelligence Committee let it drop noiselessly. Intelligence community sources and colleagues who know Simpson and Steele say Simpson was notorious at the Wall Street Journal for coming up with conspiracy theories for which the evidence was missing or unreliable. He told the Committee that disbelief on the part of his editors and management had been one of his reasons for leaving the newspaper. “One of the reasons why I left the Wall Street Journal was because I wanted to write more stories about Russian influence in Washington, D.C., on both the Democrats and the Republicans… eventually the Journal lost interest in that subject. And I was frustrated…that was where I left my journalism career.” Left: Glenn Simpson reporter for the Wall Street Journal in 1996, promoting his book, Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics. Right: Simpson in Washington in August 2017. When Simpson was asked “do you – did you find anything to — that you verified as false in the dossier, since or during?” Simpson replied: “I have not seen anything – “. Note the hypthen, the stenographer’s signal that Simpson was pausing. “[Question]. So everything in that dossier, as far as you’re concerned, is true or could be true?” “MR. SIMPSON: I didn’t say that. What I said was it was credible at the time it came in. We were able to corroborate various things that supported its credibility.” Sources in London are divided on the question of where Steele’s sources came from – CIA, MI6, or elsewhere. What has been clear for the year in which the dossier’s contents have been in public circulation is that the sources the dossier referred to as “Russian” were not. For details of the sourcing. The subsequent identification of the Maltese source Joseph Mifsud, and the Greek-American George Papadopoulos, corroborates their lack of direct Russian sources. Instead, the sources identified in the dossier were either Americans, Americans of Russian ethnic origin, or Russians with no direct knowledge repeating hearsay three or four times removed from source. So were the allegations of the dossier manufactured by a CIA disinformation unit, and fed back to the US through the British agent, Steele? Or were they a Simpson conspiracy theory of the type that failed to pass veracity testing when Simpson was at the Wall Street Journal? The House Intelligence Committee failed to inquire."  -- http://johnhelmer.net/the-cia-bull-in-glenn-simpsons-russia-shop/

Jan. 28, 2018 (EIRNS)—Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sent a letter Jan. 25 to four former high-ranking officials in the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, and at least one current DNC leader. The letter asks 12 sharply framed questions centering on the individuals’ knowledge of or collaboration with Christopher Steele, and on their and others’ communication or distribution of Steele’s dossier. The four are John Podesta, former chair of the Hillary Clinton campaign; Joel Benenson, who worked with the Obama 2008 and 2012 campaigns, and was chief strategist for the Clinton campaign in 2016; former DNC Chairwomen Donna Brazile and Debbie Wasserman Schultz; and current DNC Chairman Tom Perez. A deadline of Feb. 8 was set for the individuals to respond.

Grassley and Graham state in their letter, that they are seeking to find out

"the extent to which the FBI may have relied on information relayed by Mr. Steele in seeking judicial authorization [from the FISA court] for surveillance of individuals associated with Mr. Trump."

Grassley and Graham’s questions include:

"Prior to the Washington Post’s article in October of 2017, were you or anyone else at Hillary for America aware of Mr. Steele’s efforts on behalf of the Clinton campaign to compile and distribute allegations about Mr. Trump and the Russian government?... Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America receive copies of any memoranda comprising Mr. Steele’s dossier prior to its publication by BuzzFeed in January of 2017? Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America receive other memoranda written or forwarded by Mr. Steele regarding Mr. Trump and his associates that were not published as part of the BuzzFeed dossier? Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America distribute outside of the organization any of the dossier memoranda, information contained therein, or other information obtained by Mr. Steele? Were you or anyone else at Hillary for America aware of Mr. Steele’s contacts with the FBI or other government agencies prior to the 2016 election?..."

The letter demands specifics.

The final question demands all communications to or from any in a group of 40 named individuals, including John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS, and James Baker, and includes former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who had used Steele’s memos in the coup against the Ukraine government in 2014 which brought pro-Nazi Bandera elements to power.

On Jan. 6, Grassley referred Steele to the U.S. Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution.

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[go-redgirl]

Fusion GPS co-founder pleads the Fifth following House GOP subpoena The Hill ^ | 0/16/18 | OLIVIA BEAVERS

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson on Tuesday pleaded the Fifth following a GOP-issued subpoena to testify behind closed doors before two House committees.

Joshua Levy, a lawyer representing Simpson and the opposition research firm behind the “Steele dossier," said his client would not be participating in the Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s joint investigation, calling it a smear campaign that aims to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

Simpson's attorney said the Republican-led Judiciary committee has turned a blind eye to “White House efforts to influence and interfere with the Justice Department’s investigation in this administration,” noting that it has gone after whistleblowers and Mueller.

Levy compared their efforts to McCarthyism.

“Like Sen. McCarthy, this committee has largely conducted its business in secret confidential interviews and depositions, binding witnesses and their counsels to silence, while the members walk outside to all of you and the media and the public and selectively leak from those interviews to tell you what they want you to hear," Levy added.

Levy, who said his client has cooperated with the investigations of three other congressional committees, has recently taken aim at the GOP lawmakers on the Judiciary and Oversight committees.

In a letter last week, Levy said Simpson will “invoke his constitutional rights not to testify under the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution” because this inquiry “is not designed to discover the truth.”

“Consistent with the September 27, 2018 letter we sent to you, Mr. Simpson, whose testimony is a matter of public record, will not be participating in a confidential deposition before this Committee,” lawyers for Simpson wrote to Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) in an electronic letter, according to a copy obtained by The Hill.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), one of the two GOP lawmakers present for Tuesday's interview led by committee staff, said the panel will be having discussions in the “coming days” on whether they will move to hold Simpson in contempt for refusing to testify.

“Simpson has to have a reasonable apprehension of criminal prosecution in order to validly invoke the Fifth… but if not, you cannot just invoke the Fifth to avoid answering congressional questions,” Meadows told reporters.

He also connected Simpson’s decision to plead the Fifth as a way to “protect himself” from a potential crime he may have committed.

Simpson, a former journalist who later co-founded Fusion GPS, hired former British spy Christopher Steele to help compile dossier on Trump that ended up making a series of salacious, unsubstantiated allegations about President Trump’s possible ties to Russia.

The opposition research against Trump was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign — a flashpoint for Republicans who have pointed to ties between Fusion GPS and top federal officials as evidence to support their claims that there was political bias against Trump among the top brass at the FBI and Department of Justice.

Some conservative House members have alleged that a contractor working for Simpson's firm, Nellie Ohr, could have passed the dossier on to her husband, Bruce Ohr, who worked as a top official with the Department of Justice during the election.

Simpson is one several witnesses tied to the dossier who Republicans have sought to interview as part of their joint investigation. Congressional investigators are expected to interview Nellie Ohr on Friday.

Levy on Tuesday said there seems to be a double standard when it comes to congressional testimony.

“Even this Congress last year did nothing when members of the president’s staff invoked their privileges or outright just decided not to comply with subpoenas,” Levy said, pointing to former Trump campaign chairman Stephen Bannon and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“And so what are we to conclude?" he asked. "Unfortunately, if you are not one of the president’s men, these congressional Republicans will show utter disdain for your constitutional rights.”

TOPICS: News/Current Events KEYWORDS: fusiongps; glennsimpson

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[thenewsguru]

FUSION GPS DOUBTED THE CREDIBILITY OF A MAJOR DOSSIER SOURCE

(Daily Caller) The veracity of the Steele dossier is once again a topic of intense debate following the Justice Department’s release of secret warrants that the FBI used to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The four applications, which were obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), show that the bureau relied heavily on the dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC, to obtain the warrants, which accused Page of being a secret Kremlin agent. But not only do many of the allegations in the dossier remain unverified, there is a reason to doubt the credibility of a major source for the 35-page document, including for claims that the Kremlin has blackmail material on President Donald Trump and about Page’s alleged involvement in a collusion conspiracy. The founder of the firm that commissioned that the dossier expressed doubts about that source, a Belarusian American businessman named Sergei Millian. And Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier, has reportedly told associates that allegations about Donald Trump attributed to Millian have only a “fifty-fifty” chance of being accurate. According to the recent book “Russian Roulette,” Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, believed that Millian was a “big talker” who overstated his links to Trump world. “Had Millian made something up or repeated rumors he had heard from others to impress Steele’s collector? Simpson had his doubts. He considered Millian a big talker,” write authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn, who are good friends with Simpson. Millian is both Source D and Source E in the dossier, according to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. In the 35-page document, Source D alleged that the Russian government is blackmailing Donald Trump with video of a sexual tryst with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel room. Source E described an alleged “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership.” “This was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries,” reads the dossier. The Carter Page FISA applications released on Saturday are heavily redacted, so it is unclear what all information the FBI picked from the dossier to convince judges to grant the spy warrants. It is also unclear how far the FBI went to verify the dossier and the accuracy of Steele’s sub-sources. Republican lawmakers who have reviewed less-redacted versions of the FISA applications have said that the bureau did not provide evidence verifying the dossier. The use of the unverified Steele report has led Republicans to accuse the FBI of misleading the federal judges in the applications for the Page spy warrants. The unredacted portions of the applications show that the FBI did use allegations from dossier sources other than Millian, whose real name is Siarhei Kukuts. The applications cite Steele’s claims that Page met secretly with Kremlin insiders Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin during a July 2016 trip to Moscow. The dossier alleges that Page and Sechin discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia while the Trump aide and Diveykin discussed compromising material that the Russian government had on both Trump and Hillary Clinton. Those allegations are attributed to Kremlin insiders rather than Source D or E. Page has vehemently denied meeting with either Sechin or Diveykin or discussing any compromising material on Clinton during the campaign. Page has also disputed a dossier allegation attributed to Source E. “Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald TRUMP, admitted that there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership,” reads the dossier. “This was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries.” Page has denied taking part in a conspiracy with the Russian leadership. He has also denied ever speaking to Manafort. It is unclear whether the FISA applications include references to that section of the dossier. Millian, who operates an obscure trade group called the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, has repeatedly denied being a source for Steele’s, but he has avoided questions about whether he could have unwittingly provided information that ended up in the report. Millian did have one known link to the Trump campaign. In late July 2016, he reached out to George Papadopoulos, the Trump adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of his contacts with an alleged Russian agent. Sources close to Papadopoulos have told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he met Millian for the first time several days after Millian reached out to the campaign aide on LinkedIn. Sources close to Papadopoulos have also said that Millian offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month for a business deal that would require him to remain in the Trump orbit. Papadopoulos rejected the idea, according to TheDCNF’s sources. Despite his concerns, Simpson pitched Millian’s name to his friends in the media. According to “Russian Roulette,” Simpson “tipped off ABC News, which conducted an on-air interview with Millian.” In July 2016, ABC’s Brian Ross interviewed Millian about his connections to Trump world. In the interview, Millian denied being a Russian spy but acknowledged having contacts in the Kremlin. He told Ross he was one of the “very few people who have insider knowledge of Kremlin politics…who has been able to successfully integrate in American society.” He also spoke of Trump, saying that the former real estate tycoon “likes Russia because he likes beautiful Russian ladies.” “He likes talking to them, of course. And he likes to be able to make lot of money with Russians, yes, correct.” Follow Chuck on Twitter Read the full article

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"BREAKING NEWS" the #deepstate is shaking in their boots tonight, Remember fired DEPUTY FBI DIRECTOR ANDREW MCCABE is under a grand jury " SUBPOENA " is this huge the corruption is now going to be exposed. All OBAMA'S MEN are now going to fall like "THE HOUSE OF CARDS" sources say #demagogue #brennan #comey #clapper #steeldossier #ohr #glennsimpson #crookedhillary #strzok #rosenstien #sallyyates #trumpdossier is going to be exposed and the #president #trump is declassifing the corruption and documents. THERE IS NOW A GRAND JURY and ROD ROSENSTIEN is in the middle of it. THEY ARE ALL SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS....ITS ABOUT DAM TIME.... #gameover #thanksforplaying #liarsleakersliberals https://www.instagram.com/p/BnaA0x0FnEX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10lwukxtbu1u6

[roguenewsdao]

Desperate British Attack Frees Trump from "Populist" Mythology

This was precipitated by two panicked, and pathetic, operations unleashed from London over the past 48 hours, aimed at reviving the moribund and discredited Russiagate. First, FusionGPS honchos Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch ran an op-ed in the New York Times claiming they had saved America from "an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power," by hiring British intelligence "Russia expert" Christopher Steele to put together what Trump correctly labeled a "pile of garbage." Second, gossip columnist Michael Wolff, whose other work was a biography of Rupert Murdoch, slipped a pre-release copy of his new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" to the British intelligence leak sheet The Guardian, which published selections from the book quoting Steven Bannon, the anti-China, anti-Russian whacko who has continued claiming he is one of Trump's closest advisors, despite having been fired from the White House. Bannon is quoted saying that the meeting between Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was "treasonous," "unpatriotic," and "bad shit."

What was Trump's response? He immediately released a statement which says, bluntly, as is his wont (with an included reference to Frankin Roosevelt):

"Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.... Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country.... Steve doesn't represent my base — he's only in it for himself. Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books."

Consider this a declaration of independence from the right-wing populist clap-trap which has tried to woo Trump away from his commitment to establish friendly relations with Russia and China. Bannon and his Breitbart news site spend most of their time calling for preparations for confrontation, both economic and military, with Russia and China. Their only basis for defending Trump against Robert Mueller's Russiagate witch hunt has been to accuse Hillary Clinton, rather than Trump, of collusion with the big bad Russian bear — distorting the very real fact that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were hell-bent on starting a war with Russia and China, which was only prevented by Hillary's defeat in the presidential election.

Increasingly, Trump's real base is concerned about only one thing — that he'd better succeed in rebuilding American industry and the crumbling infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs, or he will lose his strong support from working people. Trump is holding several meetings this week to prepare a campaign for a national infrastructure policy. Even if they come up with a competent program, it will be missing the means to finance it, which will be impossible without taking on the massive speculative bubble which has set the western banking system on a course for a near-term collapse far greater than that of 2008. The years-long fight by this organization to restore Glass-Steagall, re-establish a National Bank, and unleash the industrial and scientific potential of this nation, is increasingly reflected in discussions from every side of the political spectrum, as seen in reports below.

But there is little time. The financial crisis, if not resolved through taking down the speculative bubble, will explode, and destroy any effort to Make America Great Again. While the LaRouche Political Action Committee continues to circulate the exposure of "Legal Assassin Robert Mueller," we are now also providing every Senator, every Congressman, and thousands of regional political and social leaders, with the pamphlet "LaRouche's Four Laws & America's Future on the New Silk Road." This is Trump's necessary path to victory.