Yesterday Senator Burr asked Victoria Nuland if she was present for Christopher Steele’s briefing of officials at the State Department offices. Wait what?
Boring Public hearing first, followed by classified hearing off camera. After Nuland and the cyber guy read their prepared statements, blah blah blah
Then Senator Burr drops a bomb about Steele briefing the State Dept on the dossier. Skip to 36:00
First Burr asks when Nuland first became aware of Steele’s actions. This stumped her, as the State Dept has been getting his reports since 2013. She asks “about the dossier?” as he clarifies he meant just the dossier.
Then she says she saw her first glimpse of the dossier in mid July. Mid fricking July. How? What were the circumstances? Was it from Agent Gaeta? Burr doesn’t ask her anything about this. COME ON!
Burr then moves on to casually drop the bomblet that Christopher Steele was on the State Dept visitor logs “briefing officials” in October 2016. He asks if she had ANY role in that briefing. While shaking his head no while asking her. An investigative no no btw.
Nuland: I ACTIVELY avoided that briefing.
Burr: But you were aware of the briefing?
Nuland: I was not aware of that briefing until afterwards. The camera was still on Burr so we couldn’t see the look on her face.
Does Burr ask her how can you actively avoid something you do not know about? Nope.
So no question why she saw parts of the dossier in July and yet had no role in the briefing at State Dept in October. 🤦♀️ he did say she had talked to their investigators earlier. Hope it wasn’t this guy
Senator Warner took up questions after that. A few others asked some questions. The rest was pretty zzzzz.
Daily Caller story on this.
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But muh jacket! President Trump AND his wife trolled the living f—k out of fake news today and they still chase the laser.
Regarding the mention of Steele providing the State Dept his reports since 2013, check here in State Department official Jonathan Winers own words washingtonpost.com/opinions/devin…
MEANWHILE. Robert Otto, the State Departments foremost expert on Russian stuff is communicating with some dossier related people such as McCain handeroffer David Kramer and 👉Fusion GPS employee Nellie Ohr👈He was hacked and his emails released in 2017.
So far, people connected to the dossier at the state dept are
Victoria Nuland
Jonathan Winer
Robert Otto
There’s 1 more, Jon Finer. He received a two page summary of the dossier, showed it to SOS John Kerry and everyone decided to tell the FBI and be done with it. 🤔
Three things strike me about the official evolving narrative.
1 why does Nuland have to ok FBI meeting with Steele? I’d think it would be the other way around but...what do I know
2. narratives repeating. There are three journalists associated with Fusion GPS payments. And three journalists associated with James Wolfe, senate leaker.
Also with the dossier, a two page summary was presented by Winer to John Kerry. A two page summary was presented to Obama
3 Winer and Steele collaborated on “RUSSIAN matters”, his own words. Winer worked for APCO during this time frame. APCO, if you recall, was hired to lobby for the Uranium One deal and also worked for Clinton Global Initiative, which they said were not related.
3 cont. the Senate report about Russian influence mentioned Steele’s contacts with Marc Elias/Perkins Coie. Slid into that section was a meeting at {redacted} s office. Tucked into the footnotes was an unredacted mention of the law firm associated with the office meeting.
Kathy Ruemmler represents:
Clinton Global Initiative
Susan Rice
George Nader (he’s the pedo CIA informant involved with Erik Prince backchannels post election)
Now, Kathy Ruemmlers footnote is in response to a previous request. I could not find the original request in a Grassley letter. I did find Ruemmlers 2nd response to Grassley, about Rice’s weird note to self which has been widely reported. politico.com/f/?id=00000161…
That’s enough for now I think. I’ve seen enough to know that all is not as it seems with the narratives we’ve been fed. I’ll end with this thought.
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One last thing. Why #footnote318 bugs me so much. Kathy Ruemmler was Obama’s WH Counsel.
She’s no slouch.
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The headquarters of the resistANCE is on Capitol Hill. Wow. Grassley is sitting on many investigations into a lot of resistance. To see the same people who surfaced for this Ford show (Preet, Laufman, McCabe (via his lawyer) is making him angry. You will like him angry.
You will not be the same after watching this. It’s long but articulates the problems very well. I see things different now. When you tell a story about a fight, you use your hands. Look for Ford’s hands.
At 10:21 she’s talking about leaving the house. This caused one of Grassleys staffers to key in on it, then Grassley caught it then turned around to tell the rest of the staffers. I think this was a point for Mitchell to ask about.
Around 11:30 you can start to see Feinstein’s head, she’s now leaning forward as Ford goes over the weird door story. The camera pans out to catch Feinstein more fully. Feinstein later asks her about the door. Coached.
Keep an eye out for statements from Christopher "Squi" Garrett and his attorney. I'd like to see if he is open to meeting with FBI a la Judge or stays lawyered up.