Side chick's testimony released
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- David Laufman demanded the format of the Hillbag interviews change, his boss George Tsongas set it up with McCabe.
- Someone at DOJ approved Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson being present for the interviews, potential fact witnesses themselves.
- Her knowledge of the situation states it had to be Laufman, Tasongas, or Loretta Lynch to approve them being present.
- They learned about Crossfire Hurricane on 7/28/2016. ?
- All of the testimony about insurance policy and stopping the presidency is redacted. There is an open case against Strzok and/or Page, or more.
- Shiela Jackson Lee asserts that Republicans state James Baker wrote the dossier. Ummm, is she high?
- Sandie Kable and Randy Coleman both made statements to MYE team that they had to get her, political in nature.
- Mark Giuliano made the call to run MYE out of home office rather than a district office.
- “the FBI cannot execute a search warrant without approval from the Justice Department.” in regards to the computer hardware related to MYE. Toscas again.
- “To the extent that a foreign government or even a criminal outlet had had access to Secretary Clinton’s private email server, that would have been something we cared very much about. And it’s my understanding that there was no evidence that would have supported that kind of conclusion.”
- The reference to the Justice Department would be repeated multiple times with Page noting, “we had multiple conversations with the Justice Department about bringing a gross negligence charge. And that’s, as I said, the advice that we got from the department was that they did not think—that it was constitutionally vague and not sustainable.”
This was the rationale as to why “every single person on the team, whether FBI or DOJ, knew far earlier than July that we were not going to be able to make out sufficient evidence to charge a crime.” - “It’s the same day(8/25/2016) that Director Brennan is briefing Harry Reid, is why I ask. And so what you’re saying is you were unaware that Director Brennan was briefing Harry Reid that same day?”
Page said she was unaware of Brennan’s briefing to Reid. She was then asked the following:
“You give a brief on August the 25th. Director Brennan is giving a brief. It’s not a Gang of Eight brief. It is a one-on-one, from what we can tell, a one-on-one briefing with Harry Reid at that point. And it becomes apparent, based on your text messages and based on Director Comey’s emails, that you all are aware that that conversation took place. Were you aware that Director Brennan had a briefing with Harry Reid and that you expected a letter from Harry Reid?”
Page noted that she remembered the letter sent by Reid, but seemed confused as to Brennan’s involvement and possible knowledge of the Steele dossier. Worth noting is that while some within the FBI likely had parts of the dossier in July, the counterintelligence investigative team didn’t receive it until mid-September during a trip to Rome, where they met personally with Steele.
Page: “OK.”
Rep.: “So you get a brief that says, well, we got the letter, but it’s almost like it’s a coordinated effort between Harry Reid and the FBI director, because obviously, he’s briefing you.”
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Unidentified Representative: “We have documents that would suggest that in that briefing the dossier was mentioned to Harry Reid and then, obviously, we’re going to have to have conversations. Does that surprise you that Director Brennan would be aware [of the dossier]?”
Page: “Yes, sir. Because with all due honesty, if Director Brennan—so we got that information from our source, right? The FBI got this information from our source. If the CIA had another source of that information, I am neither aware of that nor did the CIA provide it to us if they did, because the first time we—”
Rep.: “We do know there are multiple sources.”
Page: “I do know that. I do know that the information ultimately found its way lots of different places, certainly in October of 2016. But if the CIA as early as August, in fact, had those same reports, I am not aware of—I’m not aware of that and nor do I believe they provided them to us, and that would be unusual.”
Rep.: “Were you aware that Christopher Steele had conversations or multiple conversations with Fusion GPS and others outside of just working special intel for you?”
Page: “As of August of 2016, I don’t know who Christopher Steele is. I don’t know that he’s an FBI source. I don’t know what he does. I have never heard of him in all of my life. So let me just sort of be clear. When the FBI first receives the reports that are known as the dossier from an FBI agent who is Christopher Steele’s handler in September of 2016 at that time, we do not know who—we don’t know why these reports have been generated. We don’t know for what purpose.”
A bit later in the discussion, the representative asked another question:
Rep.: “So you don’t know whether it’s a coordinated effort to get you those documents or not at that point in September?”
Page responds, “Coordinated by whom, sir?
Rep.: “Anybody, other than a confidential human source saying, ‘Listen, I’ve got reason to be concerned and bring it to you.’ It could be coordinated by the CIA. It could have been coordinated by Fusion GPS. You don’t know.”
Page: “At the time that we received the documentation, no. What we have is the preexisting relationship with the source and the reliability of his prior reporting.”
Big questions still outstanding for me.
- Only the Carter FISA is being discussed. What is in Papadopoulos', Flynn's, and Manafort's? Were there any other targets?
- The alleged failed June 2016 FISA - Who did it come from, and what were they after? My money is on John Carlin and the DOJ NSD.
- How much of the political junk from the DOJ was Lynch, and how much was Carlin? Why continue the MYE investigation after the DOJ had spiked it?
- How did 702 search info make it into the Steele dossier if the CH team wasn't the source(it's not really a question, I think Fusion had search capabilities)?
- Exactly how did Brennan get his paws on the dossier in July 2016?
- Why did Brennan, Comey, et. al. keep the Crossfire Hurricane team in the dark as much as they could?
- What events occurred from July to January 2017 to get Clapper involved in on the press release?
Amazing. The board libs had so much to say when it was anonymous sources for sources not named CNN. Now that it's actual testimony, they disappeared. They ALL must be getting some today. And tonight. And tomorrow.
Revision - Oh, except for KKKountry, who has no fracking clue what's going on.
Revision - Oh, except for KKKountry, who has no fracking clue what's going on.
You're seeing this as a binary system. It is not. The DOJ can be corrupt, and Trump can be corrupt, to different degrees. Trump will come and go. The DOJ will be a constant, and needs an enema, to never let this political discourse invade this agency ever again.
Hmmmm, Bongino is hinting to something bigger it seems. We know that Blumenthal's notes were added to Steele's already. It's theorized that Fusion was performing 702 searches as an FBI contractor, and that content could've been added (ala the wrong Michael Cohen in Prague), but this seems bigger?
No reasonable prosecutor...
Comey may not be such a bad guy. He threw himself under the bus to protect the institutions.
Comey may not be such a bad guy. He threw himself under the bus to protect the institutions.
Obstructing charges for gross negligence was the icing on the cake, in addition to -
- Not allowing subpoenas for computer equipment
- Changing standard FBI interviewing policy
- Allowing Hillbag lawyers, including other potential fact witnesses, in the interviews with key witnesses
- tarmac meeting
Again, is this standard for the DOJ to make the call on charging/not charging? You made it appear that this process was somehow unusual and that DOJ instructing the FBI not to go after gross negligence was not protocol or unusual.
The DOJ can choose to prosecute or not prosecute irrespective of the FBI’s recommendation. The problem here, as we know, is that Comey crafted a narrative to support it all. And it all would have been just another Deepstate conspiracy had Trump not one and the whole cabal lost Whitehouse topcover.
