Part III: A British Intelligence Fraud Creates the Coup Against
Donald Trump
Saturday, January 12, 2019
The following article is part of a three part
series, please see Part I: The British Role in the
Coup Against the President Is Now Exposed. Will You Act Now to Save the Nation? and
Part II: The Integrity Initiative's Foreign Agents of Influence Invade the United States.
Part II: The Integrity Initiative's Foreign Agents of Influence Invade the United States.
by Barbara Boyd, barbara@lpac-organizers.com
Put now in the larger context of British
information warfare and regime change operations directed at Russia and
independent thinkers in the United States, Britain, and Western
Europe—operations which were put on steroids as of 2014 (operations which we covered in Part II of this
Report)—what are we to make of the Christopher
Steele dossier on Donald Trump and its use to impact the 2016 elections and the
Trump Presidency? As we shall show, the dossier itself is flat out, totally,
and utterly false, a stinking hideous fraud. Christopher Steele himself, in
subsequent testimony, has described it as “unverified raw intelligence” and
will not vouch for its accuracy. Even its most fervent champions, such as
Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff, who met personally with Steele in September of 2016,
now doubt the document, which provided the central legends of Russiagate. And,
as former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has repeatedly emphasized,
the operations against the Trump Campaign, using the dossier as its
investigative backbone, were not run through traditional U.S. channels. Rather,
they were run through the traditional channels of British influence in the
United States: the CIA and the State Department. All of these operations were
coordinated from the Obama White House.
Donald Trump was always the target of an
extraordinary and illegal FBI investigation, despite the earlier pretense of a
counterintelligence operation directed at Trump campaign volunteers and
advisors. The President became an explicit target when he fired James Comey,
according to the blaring headline of the January 12, 2018 New York Times.At that
point, the New York Times reports, top levels of the FBI decided they had to go after
the President of the United States as a covert Russian agent, accusing him,
under the circumstances, of treason, since they viewed Russia as the ultimate
foreign enemy of the United States. In this crazed atmosphere, having all the
earmarks of a coup, an American putsch in legal garb, Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein talked about wearing a wire to set the President up, while
others talked about invoking the 25th Amendment.
After the election, Tom Steyer, George Soros, and other Silicon
Valley billionaires provided some $70 million in an attempt to put meat on
Steele’s fact-free work product. A big part of this exercise is to create
enough atmospherics and smoke to prevent the public from concluding that those
who believe this crap are stark raving mad and belong in mental institutions
rather than having any say in our government. That is also a large part of the
function assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Belief that the dossier is true requires the assumption that
Christopher Steele had some 32 sources inside the Russian government. What they
allegedly told him is specific enough in time and content to identify them. You
have to further assume that the British government, therefore, was willing to
roll up this entire network, since the intention was for the dossier’s wild
claims to be published as widely as possible. By all accounts, Britain and the
United States together do not have 32 highly placed sources inside the Russian
government, nor would they ever make them public in this way or with this very
sloppy tradecraft. In fact, they would not engage in such covert intelligence
operational malpractice for even one valued source. Upon closer examination, it
is clear that the dossier uses aspects of readily available public information,
such as the sale of 19% of the energy company Rosneft (the alleged bribe
offered to Carter Page for lifting sanctions), to concoct a fictional narrative
of high crimes and misdemeanors. There were no “highly placed” Russian sources.
The info war campaign which spread, internationally, the legend
that Donald Trump was a Manchurian candidate, involved a small group of
individuals in the U.S.—journalists and government officials working or in some
way associated with the firm Fusion GPS, British steered networks in the State
Department, Obama’s DNI, CIA and FBI chiefs, and the Obama White House. These
people had all known each other for years, if not decades, and were skilled in
information warfare. In Britain, it involved the intelligence circles of Sir
Richard Dearlove, centered in the Henry Jackson Society, Steele’s Orbis
Business Intelligence, and the firm Hakluyt, billed as the favored “retirement
home” for MI6 spies. The dossier was given credence only because it was backed
by very powerful people who insisted that this obvious British hoax must be
taken with absolute dead seriousness. Not taking it seriously or speaking out
about its obvious flakiness was a career ender in the national security state.
These people had one strategic goal in mind: to destroy Trump, the American
disrupter, or, at the very least, to undermine his rational desire, expressed
throughout his presidential campaign, for better and sane relations with
Russia.
A much larger group of partisan officials and journalists were
willing to leave their brains and morals behind in an all or nothing effort to
defeat, neuter, or remove Donald Trump, even if it resulted in a deranged and
mounting national hysteria about Russia, a hysteria which now champions war
against both Russia and China. As we said at the outset, the British operation
had two goals. Though they continue to rage and wield their knifes, they have
yet to succeed in removing Donald Trump. But, as the House of Lords and Richard
Dearlove emphasize, this remains a central British strategic goal. In the
meantime, a large section of our population and most in Congress, are nuts
about Putin and Russia, blocking every effort the President has undertaken to
improve relations. According to the Lords, this is facilitated by Trump’s own
cabinet and a fawning, Anglophilic Congress. So, with respect to that second
goal, creating a McCarthyite war fever infecting official Washington and a
large portion of the population of the United States, the British and their
toadies can say, “mission accomplished.” At least for now.
The
Richard Dearlove Network of Networks and the British Push
The Steele Dossier and the Integrity Institute involve the same
British intelligence networks revolving around Sir Richard Dearlove, the former
head of MI6. Dr. Victor Madeira, one of the key staffers at the Integrity
Institute used to work directly for Dearlove and Sir Christopher Andrew at the
Cambridge Intelligence Forum. In 2014, then DIA chief Michael Flynn was invited
to visit that forum and chatted about Russian intelligence history with a
Russian graduate student and historian there. Christopher Steele was at the
same event. So was Stefan Halper, the close friend of Dearlove who subsequently
worked with the CIA and British intelligence in entrapment operations targeting
Trump volunteers George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Sam Clovis. In 2014,
Halper and others claimed that Flynn was compromised by a Russian historian and
spread their absolutely false bilge throughout the trans-Atlantic intelligence
community in an effort which many believe led to Flynn’s firing by Barack
Obama. Flynn’s real sin was his confrontation of the Obama Administration and
the British for using terrorists to fight the Assad regime in Syria,
highlighting their other alliances with Islamic terrorist groups, and for
insisting that Russia could be a valuable ally in the war on terror and on
other fronts.
Andrew Wood (the former UK Ambassador to Russia, a friend of
Dearlove, and an advisor to Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence
Company) is listed as a Specialist Team Member of the Integrity Institute. Drew
Foxall of the Henry Jackson Society, where Dearlove is the leading light, is
listed as a member of the “inner core” of the Institute.
Both the Integrity Initiative and Christopher Steele traffic in
intelligence lies targeted at Russia, and both employ the media echo chamber to
legitimize these lies through media retainers and witting government
accomplices. Among the specializations which have been, at one point or
another, listed as special skills of Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence are,
“creating public opinion groundswells,” and “delivering targeted political
campaigns.” Richard Dearlove is an old hand at such operations. While leading
MI6, Dearlove infamously vouched for the doctored dossier which said that
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, collaborating with the CIA’s
George Tenet on one of the most deadly intelligence lies in the last century.
Christopher Steele has a similar, albeit less developed pedigree.
He was the MI6 case officer for Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian defector who
worked for the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and took up residence in
Britain. Litvinenko was murdered, using polonium poison, in 2006. Berezovsky,
after making millions of dollars looting Russia, fled to London and went to war
against Putin on behalf of MI6. It is not a stretch to opine that Steele also
ran Berezovsky’s operations. Prior to his murder, Litvinenko was characterized
as Berezovsky's “bomb thrower” against Putin.
Steele instantly blamed Litvinenko’s murder on Putin and obviously
had a role in the orchestrated and notorious death bed statements by Litvinenko
which did the same. The death bed statement was drafted by another Berezovsky
associate, Alex Goldfarb, a former George Soros employee. It was further
massaged by Bell, Pottinger, the disgraced British public relations firm famous
for such contracts as its $540 million effort for the CIA making fake al-Qaeda
propaganda films for the war in Iraq. The British government didn’t bite, and
instead indicted a sole Russian for the crime, not the Russian state. In the
wake of the Ukraine coup, the Litvinenko case was revived for propaganda purposes.
The new British review lasted two years, ending in January 2016 and charging
that Russia and Putin were “probably” responsible for the murder. The report
used the word “probably” 35 times with respect to its major findings.
Litvinenko’s father blames organized crime associates of Berezovsky for the
murder. Berezovsky himself was suicided in 2013.
Dearlove mentored Steele in Orbis’s
operations and specifically worked with him on the Trump dossier operation,
vouching for and hyping Steele’s claims throughout the Five Eyes intelligence
community. Dearlove is also associated with Hakluyt. Hakluyt is named after
Richard Hakluyt, the geographer and retainer of the British East India Company
known for his work promoting the colonization of America by the British. Stefan
Halper, the MI6/CIA asset deployed to entrap Trump campaign volunteers George
Papadopoulos and Carter Page in London, is an advisor to Hakluyt and a
long-time professional colleague of Steele. Alexander Downer, the High
Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom, was on Hakluyt’s Board and
played a significant role in the operations against Papadopoulos which the FBI
incredibly claimed as the investigative predicate for their investigation of
Trump. Luke Harding, who wrote the book Collusion to legitimize Steele’s dossier, has served for a very long
time as Steele’s publicist and scribe while conducting similar trysts with
other major British intelligence figures. Harding has worked with both Hakluyt
and Orbis. Similarly, Pablo Miller, the MI6 handler of Sergei Skripal, has
worked with Steele since their days in MI6 and also worked with Hakluyt.
Finally, the mysterious Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud, whose job was to flip
Papadopoulos, by giving him a job in London and then offering the Trump Campaign
access to Putin’s inner circle, runs in the very same intelligence networks.
Claire Smith, the member of the Joint UK intelligence committee famously
photographed and working with Mifsud, reportedly worked with Christopher Steele
in Afghanistan.
Luke Harding has just finally been
exposed. He wrote a completely fabricated story in the London Guardian on November 27, 2018, saying that
Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange of Wikileaks several times in London,
presumably concerning the Wikileaks publication of emails liberated from
Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta, and the Democratic National Committee in
2016. Harding’s story was widely debunked as a complete fabrication. The
narrative blaming Russia hackers for liberating truthful documents from the DNC
and Podesta and providing them to WikiLeaks, is, of course, the foundational
fake story concerning Trump-Russia collusion.
Operation
Trump/Putin Commences
We now know that the chronologies presented about the Steele
dossier operation in various official reports are off by many months, missing
the early collaboration. Judicial Watch has unearthed documents using the FOIA
which show that Steele was being paid as an FBI source as of February 2016.
Steele told the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer that in
April 2016, the month that his U.S. employer, Fusion GPS, was hired by Clinton
and the DNC to produce dirt on Trump, he had just “finished a special
investigation called Project Charlemagne,” for a “private client.” Mayer
writes: “It involved a survey of Russian interference in the politics of four
members of the European Union—France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and
Germany—along with Turkey, a candidate for membership. The report chronicles
persistent, aggressive political interference by the Kremlin: social-media
warfare aimed at inflaming fear and prejudice, and ‘opaque financial support’
given to favored politicians… The Kremlin’s long-term aim, the report
concludes, was to boost extremist groups and politicians at the expense of
Europe’s liberal democracies. The more immediate goal was to ‘destroy’ the
E.U., in order to end the punishing economic sanctions that the E.U. and the
U.S. had imposed on Russia after its 2014 political and military interference
in Ukraine.” This is the same type of bilge which was being ground out by the
Institute for Statecraft and the Integrity Initiative prior to the Brexit vote
in Britain in June of 2016.
In late 2015, by his own account, John Brennan’s British friends
began flooding him with reports of Trump/Russia financial and intelligence
flows aimed at helping Trump’s election. The first source of such information
was, allegedly, Estonia, a player in NATO’s StratCom information warfare
initiative. According to Brennan and others, the Brits persistently demanded
investigations of Trump in order to save the “special relationship.” In the
March-April timeframe, Brennan convened a task force, an act of very
questionable legality, at CIA headquarters to “investigate” this garbage. At
the same time, Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele were being hired by the Clinton
Campaign and the DNC. Entrapment operations targeting Carter Page, George
Papadopoulos, and other tangential Trump campaign figures were initiated. In
the case of Page and Papadopoulos, these operations were mostly done on British
soil. There were repeated offers of “dirt on Hillary Clinton from Russia,”
“Hillary Clinton’s missing emails,” and for meetings with Putin or other
Russian officials. These offers were dutifully conveyed back to the Trump
Campaign, creating the documentary email chain necessary to justify further
investigation.
Paul Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign chairman for a few
months in 2016, was intensely investigated at the same time, for corruption
surrounding his activities in Ukraine on behalf of deposed President
Yanukovych. These investigations were led by Alexandra Chalupa at the DNC and
supported by official Ukrainian intelligence sources as well as the heavily
British penetrated Free Russia network of NGOs. Michael Isikoff of Yahoo served
as Chalupa’s publicist.
In April, the initial Trump/Russia
collusion stories began to appear in the press. Thanks to Lee Smith’s excellent
re-examination of the Steele dossier chronology at The Federalist, we know that the echo chamber of Trump-Russia stories (New York
Magazine, Slate, and two in Politico) began right after the DNC and Clinton
hired Fusion GPS.
During late 2015 through May 2016,
according to the timeline provided to Robert Mueller by CrowdStrike and the
DNC, and swallowed whole by him, Russian military intelligence, the GRU, was
hacking files from the DNC and various Clinton operatives, including Clinton’s
campaign manager, John Podesta. In June of 2016, the Guccifer 2.0 persona
appeared on the web sharing emails he alleged he had hacked from the Clinton
Campaign and the DNC and referring people to the DC Leaks website and Wikileaks
for the documents. We have previously documented that this was the great Russian hack that
wasn’t. Creation of the fabricated persona,
Guccifer 2.0, was accompanied by a media campaign typified by a phony New York Times story which
appeared on June 12, 2016. It claimed that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had
told Britain’s ITV that he had the emails and hoped that they would harm
Clinton’s campaign and that he planned to release them in conjunction with the
Democratic Party Convention. Assange made no such statement about harm to
Clinton or timing in the ITV interview.
On July 25, Anne Applebaum, she of the Integrity Initiative and the
Center for European Policy Analysis, weighed in wearing her Washington Post
“journalist” hat. She scolded people for being too interested in the content of
the emails (namely Clinton campaign operatives openly conspiring to sabotage
Bernie Sanders’ campaign and Clinton herself fawning all over Wall Street
executives for big bucks). Applebaum instructed her readers to divert their
gaze from such glaring true facts and to focus, instead, on the claim that it
was the evil Ruskies who obtained this information. She cataloged her claims of
Russian electoral interference in Eastern Europe in support of this argument.
The same day, Thomas Rid, one of the Dearlove network’s very own “security
experts” weighed in from King’s College, Oxford, saying the evil Ruskies had
crossed a “red line.” Steele’s dossier, also of course, immediately attributed
responsibility for the DNC email publications to a conspiracy between the
Russians and the Trump campaign in memos he produced and circulated at the same
time.
The Trump Tower entrapment operation also occurred in June 2016. It
involved an elaborate operation in which the State Department issued an
extremely unusual business visa to Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Employees of Fusion GPS were directly involved in the meeting. The State
Department’s chief Russia intelligence “expert” Robert Otto tracked the entire
process, working with Kyle Parker (the Congressional author of the Magnitsky
Act), and, reportedly, Michael Weiss of the Henry Jackson Society, the
Institute for Modern Russia, and the Daily Beast. The Trump Campaign was baited
with alleged dirt about Clinton from Russian state sources in the email chain
setting up the meeting. The meeting itself, however, was a bust. As a result,
it was only made public amidst Russiagate investigations in 2017.
During the first week of July, Christopher Steele officially met
with his FBI “handler” Michael Gaeta in London. The meeting was brokered by
Victoria Nuland at the State Department. Jonathan Winer, Steele’s long-time
friend and John Kerry’s go-to aide at the State Department, was also on top of
Steele’s memos and briefings, including Putin’s alleged compromise of Trump
based on sexual entrapment. Winer is the inventor of the idea of the Magnitsky
Act sanctions that have done much to completely poison US–Russian relations.
Shortly after Steele met with Gaeta, a Wall Street Journal reporter
texted Carter Page asking whether he had met with Igor Sechin, a Russian energy
executive and Putin ally, to discuss “energy deals and the possibility of the
U.S. government lifting sanctions.” This is straight out of Steele’s July 19
memo. NBC’s discredited national security reporter, Brian Ross, interviewed
Sergei Millian, having been directed to him by Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson as the
source of Steele’s most salacious sexual allegations concerning Trump.
By the end of July, the FBI had officially opened its unprecedented
Cross-Fire Hurricane counter-intelligence investigation of the Trump Campaign.
It focused on four targets: Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and
George Papadopoulos. This investigation had obviously already been going on
informally for months before. Remember, John Brenna’s CIA task force, the State
Department, and British intelligence had all been highly active for months.
Reportedly, the FBI liaison to Brennan’s task force was Peter Strzok. But
despite everything which had gone on before the FBI opened its official
investigation, Strzok told his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, that there was
“still no there, there” concerning Trump and Russia. Yet, the first stage of
the British operation had succeeded. There was now an open FBI investigation,
with the preposterous Steele dossier providing the actual investigative
backbone. The FBI investigation provided a “news hook” and credibility for
further stories pumping Steele’s wild and unsubstantiated claims.
To understand the reach of this propaganda operation in the U.S.,
it is important to understand Steele’s American employer, Fusion GPS. Bruce
Ohr, the now demoted third man in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal
Division hierarchy, is married to Nellie Ohr, who worked for Fusion. Both Ohrs
had a longstanding relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson based
on investigations of Russian organized crime dating back decades. Lisa Page,
Andrew McCabe’s lawyer at the FBI and Peter Strzok’s mistress, had previously
worked for Bruce Ohr for five years. Neil King, Jr., who works for Fusion, is
married to Shailagh Murray, who was Barack Obama’s senior policy adviser at the
White House, having previously worked for years for Vice-President Biden.
Otherwise most of Fusion’s staff is composed of former reporters for major
national newspapers who know how to feed tips and hot stories to their former
friends or those they hire to put bylines on the propaganda ordered up by their
clients. A major client for Fusion’s products has always been law enforcement.
It is a major drop point for feeding and amplifying stories planted by the
intelligence community out to its network of journalists. It has had a
“professional relationship” with Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business
Intelligence in Britain since 2010, and perhaps other entities associated with
Sir Richard Dearlove.
No
Summer Vacation in Campaign Season
In late August 2016, John Brennan briefed the Gang of Eight—the
Speaker and Minority leaders of the House and Senate, and the heads of the
Senate and House Intelligence Committees—about Steele’s reports, deliberately
interrupting their summer vacations and Washington’s traditional dead month,
with urgent calls on secure telephone lines. According to Brennan’s testimony
to Congress, he did this with the explicit approval of President Obama.
Brennan, of course, never did anything in this operation without discussing it
with Obama.
It was obvious that Brennan’s briefing
would leak, and it did. On August 27, Senator Harry Reid published a letter he
wrote to FBI Director Comey noting that the FBI was investigating allegations
of Trump/Russia collusion, featuring Steele’s allegations about Carter Page
among others, and demanding that the FBI tell the American people about their
investigation. Reid says that Brennan blessed this letter. Evidence available
to the Republican-led House of Representatives committees investigating
Russiagate indicates that top officials at the FBI were also aware that the
Reid letter was orchestrated. In all probability, it had two purposes: to
convince saner FBI and DOJ officials to drink the British Kool-Aid, while, at
the same time, circulating the “Trump is a Manchurian candidate” meme to the
public in order to directly impact the upcoming November election. In
September, Steele himself briefed reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Mother Jones, CNN, and the New Yorker. Nonetheless, no one immediately saluted this unsubstantiated crap
except for Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff, Glenn Simpson’s long-time friend, who
was already enmeshed in the Manafort “investigation.”
In September, Steele met personally with Jonathan Winer, providing
with a detailed briefing and copies of his memos. Winer, in turn, gave Steele
copies of memos written by Clinton operative and dirty trickster Cody Shearer
designed to corroborate Steele’s crazy claims about Trump’s sexual conduct.
On September 23, Michael Isikoff published what he called a
bombshell story about Carter Page and the Russians, which went on to recite,
verbatim, Steele’s allegations about Carter Page. Isikoff attributed this to “a
well-placed Western intelligence source.” The Clinton campaign jumped all over
Isikoff’s story, spinning its own opposition research as a government
investigation into Donald Trump. Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign’s
communications director, took to television the next day to tout the Isikoff
story and cite “U.S. intelligence officials” concerns about Trump and Russia
only six weeks prior to the election.
The FBI used Isikoff’s article as corroborative of Christopher
Steele’s claims about Page in a FISA application for a surveillance warrant
targeting Page. It never informed the Court that Isikoff’s article was not
corroborative of Steele; it was Steele himself speaking to Isikoff. It never
informed the court that Steele had been hired to produce this crap by Hillary
Clinton’s campaign.
Also, in October 2016, Steele visited the
State Department conducting a full-scale briefing for officials and a select
group of journalists there. He provided handouts to the audience. In October,
David Corn published another iteration of the “Trump is Putin’s puppet” meme in Mother Jones. Now, however, the
obvious tack Steele was taking of using the FBI to buttress his propaganda
campaign became too much for even some in the FBI. He was fired, but continued
his relationship with top levels of the FBI by continuing to brief then Associate
Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, who, in turn, continued to brief the FBI.
The FISA warrant turned Page into a walking microphone into Trump
campaign circles. FISA warrants allow agencies to surveil not only an immediate
target, but anyone the target contacts and anyone those people then
contact—so-called “two-hop” surveillance. It is pretty obvious that this
counterintelligence investigation was also employing surveillance under
Executive Order 12333, which is far more pervasive than that allowed by FISA.
The FBI had had Page on its radar for years, based on his cooperation in a
previous espionage investigation in which he was the Russian target and based
upon his continuing loud defense of the Russian state. They had interviewed him
again in March, prior to his association with the Trump campaign. Since he has
never been charged with anything, it is likely the FBI and Steele considered
Page a useful tool, based on his prior involvements, around which to build the
fake Trump/Russia collusion charges.
Trump
Gets Elected: Now It’s War
In the runup to Trump’s inauguration, the White House, Christopher
Steele, the Clinton Campaign and the State Department/National Endowment for
Democracy networks which had been part of the initial round of Russiagate, kicked
into high gear. We know that Samantha Power, Cass Sunstein’s wife, went into a
mad round of unmasking classified intercepts of Trump transition activities at
the White House for purposes of attacking the incoming President. We know that
Obama signed new regulations, allowing for widespread distribution of
classified intelligence intercepts throughout the government, knowing that it
would result in massive and untraceable leaks. This mass distribution included
intercepts made under E.O. 12333 and may very well be the source of many of the
transcripts now being used by Robert Mueller’s team to trap and elicit pleas
from those they have indicted. We know that the Clinton campaign and Fusion GPS
went into a full mobilization on the Trump/Russia collusion story hoping to
sway the electoral college vote against Trump and portray Trump’s victory as
the result of Russia tampering with votes. We know from remarks by the
Integrity Initiative’s Evelyn Farkas on Morning Joe, that Farkas and others
were dumping their accumulated manure on Trump and Russia, including info war
“weaponization” of classified intercepts, into Congress. They claimed that
their criminal abuse of classified information was justified, according to
Farkas, in order to prevent a “coverup” by the incoming Trump Administration.
At the same time, Christopher Steele and Richard Dearlove were
mapping their next moves. At the Halifax Security Forum in mid-November,
Senator John McCain ran into Sir Andrew Wood. Some say McCain ran into Dearlove
himself a few days earlier. Wood briefed McCain on Steele’s work, and McCain
immediately dispatched his aide, David Kramer to London to meet with Steele and
obtain the dossier. There is, however, substantial reason to view this widely
publicized account of McCain and Kramer’s involvement as highly incomplete.
Robert Otto, the State Department’s chief Russia intelligence guy
had his email accounts leaked in 2017 as the result of a claimed hack by
someone using the name “Johnnie Walker.” The posted hacked emails don’t just
show Otto’s involvement in the Trump Tower meeting. They also show extensive
correspondence with David Kramer, Andrew Wood, and a host of Chatham House, and
British and Australian intelligence operatives about Trump and Russia as the
operation against Trump evolved throughout 2016. Kramer was then leading
McCain’s Institute for International Leadership. He is a former member of the
infamous and disgraced Project for a New American Century, the chief propaganda
group for war in the Middle East. He is also a long-time State
Department/National Endowment for Democracy cold warrior who violently hates
both Trump and Russia.
According to the court record in
the Gubarev v. BuzzFeed lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida, on November 30,
Kramer was tasked by McCain to provide the FBI and CIA with the dossier, after
Kramer met with Steele in London and obtained the dossier, subsequently, from
Glenn Simpson. In the next few days Kramer met with Victoria Nuland and Celeste
Wallander, the Senior Director for Russian Affairs at Obama’s National Security
Council. Both of them said that they were all in concerning Steele’s work and
had been, and that the dossier was to be taken very, very seriously. In the
meantime, on December 6, Christopher Steele wrote his final report, providing
it to David Kramer, an unnamed senior British intelligence official, Celeste
Wallander, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill) and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s
Chief of Staff, John Burks. Then on December 29, David Kramer leaked the entirety
of the dodgy dossier to BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger.
On January 5, 2017, the Obama Administration put forth its phony
“assessment” that Russia had intervened in the American election to defeat
Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump. A two-page classified summary of the
Steele dossier was attached to that piece of nonsense and was used to reach the
conclusions in this “Intelligence Community Assessment.” James Comey briefed
Donald Trump on the contents of the dossier at a meeting at Trump Tower on January
6, 2017, confronting the President-elect with claims of sexual compromise by
the Russians in what Comey actually referred to as his “J. Edgar Hoover”
moment. Comey never told the President that his campaign had been, in fact, the
target of this filthy operation. Based on leaks from James Clapper, CNN
published reports about the dossier and compromise of the incoming President of
the United States on January 10, followed by BuzzFeed’s publication of the
entire Steele dossier the next day.
As a result, the incoming President of the United States was
successfully portrayed to the American public and the world, as a sexually
compromised and blackmailed puppet of Vladimir Putin. In his Congressional
testimony, James Comey makes clear that he followed that up by staging a series
of encounters with Trump, planned by what he called a “murder board” of his
close circle at the upper levels of the FBI, each of them designed to entrap
the President. He recorded each of these encounters in “contemporaneous”
memoranda, which for evidentiary purposes, have an advantage over wiretaps.
Such memos are considered to be high grade evidence. And, they are much easier
to manipulate than wires. According to Comey, these classified and unclassified
pieces of fiction were leaked to the press, after Comey was fired, to provide
the justification for Robert Mueller’s appointment as Special Prosecutor.
A
Final Note on Steele’s Fakery
Lee Smith in his January 2 Federalist
article, contends, with documentary evidence,
that much of the dossier is simply drawn from public source postings, some of
which are foreign language publications, with embellishments by Steele to
change actual events into nefarious crimes. In other words, there are no real
Russian sources. Others have made a similar comment about the dossier’s most
salacious and incendiary allegation, that Trump cavorted with prostitutes in
Moscow who urinated on the bed in which the Obamas had slept. This seems to be
simply a rejiggered revival of 2009 British propaganda stories about former
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spending the night with a prostitute
in a hotel room in Rome and “defiling” a bed in which Putin had slept. No one
ever said that the British are original. The fact that anyone bought this junk,
ever, is a testament to how very, very stupid and decadent many have become.
In case
you missed them:
Part I: The British Role in the
Coup Against the President Is Now Exposed. Will You Act Now to Save the Nation?
Part II: The Integrity Initiative's Foreign Agents of Influence Invade the United States
Part II: The Integrity Initiative's Foreign Agents of Influence Invade the United States
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