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Aug 30, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
"Sources: Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign"

Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz, Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen

CNN

April 21, 2017

edition.cnn.com/2017/04/21/pol… I'll just skip to my favourite parts of the article.
Aug 30, 2018 11 tweets 6 min read
So let's take a small look at the Russian Institute For Strategic Studies then. Management includes:

* Mikhail Fradkov, Director
* Igor Borovkov, Deputy Director
* Aleksandr Panov, Deputy Director
* Anna Glazova
* Konstantin Kokarev
* Vladimir Milovidov

en.riss.ru/about/manageme…
Aug 30, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
"Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election"

April 19, 2017

Ned Parker, Jonathan Landay, John Walcott (contributions from Warren Strobel and Arshad Mohammed), Reuters

reuters.com/article/us-usa… "A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters' faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters."
Aug 30, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
So, you apparently have the British and Dutch intelligence agencies helping out with the Russian cyber attack report, as they had reviewed the Russian military intelligence network... ... and you had the British and Dutch intelligence agencies helping to propel the Crossfire Hurricane investigation...

Aug 30, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
I find myself reading this ridiculous article again.

nytimes.com/2018/07/18/wor… "Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election."
Aug 29, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
April 27, 2016, Kelly Roberts to Jeremy Brinster.

"We don't have a ton on [Dmitri] Simes, but the pro-Russia stuff ties in pretty well to the idea that Trump is too friendly with Putin/weak on Russia"

A FORMER RAND PAUL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER...

wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/ema… The article that Brinster and Kelly quote, however, was actually written and published by Alana Goodman on August 20, 2014.

freebeacon.com/politics/rand-…
Aug 28, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
"... but I want to get your perspective, since you are now the one who goes into the Oval Office on a regular basis to meet with the President to talk about the PDB..." -- John Brennan to James Clapper, August 24, 2016

"It's a real honour to be with my close friend and great professional colleague, John Brennan, who I believe is going to go down as one of the handful - and don't use all your fingers - of the most outstanding directors of the C.I.A. in its history." -- James Clapper
Aug 28, 2018 10 tweets 5 min read
Decided to re-read the origin of Crossfire Hurricane, and h/t to @shem_infinite for this, because it mentions the fake news Republican platform's stance on Ukraine from The Washington Post.

Absolute state of these people.

nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/… Makes me wonder if Trump's "Russia, find the e-mails!" comment is on one of the FISAs.
Aug 27, 2018 35 tweets 19 min read
Why have I never heard of Alexandra Chalupa's claim that the United States Department of Justice teamed up with an offshoot of Anonymous known as "The Protectors"?

Seriously, you'd think people would be talking about that.

facebook.com/story.php?stor… Just to mix things up as well, apparently "The Protectors" were in communication with Alexandra Chalupa as well throughout it all.

Really makes you think.
Aug 26, 2018 7 tweets 2 min read
"Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump"

Murray Waas, Vox, August 3, 2017

vox.com/policy-and-pol… "Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe told several of the highest-ranking managers of the bureau..."
Aug 25, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
Sean Spicer's first press briefing was on January 23, 2017. The Flynn investigation was about to close until "The Logan Act Stuff".

Aug 25, 2018 15 tweets 6 min read
"Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say"

Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, Philip Rucker (with contributions from Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller), The Washington Post, February 13, 2017

washingtonpost.com/world/national… "Two officials said a main topic of the relevant call was the sanctions. Officials also said there was no evidence that Russia had attempted to exploit the discrepancy between public statements by Trump officials and what Flynn had discussed."
Aug 25, 2018 9 tweets 4 min read
"Trump Russia dossier key claim 'verified'"

BBC News, Paul Wood, March 30, 2017

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-… "At one point he wrote, 'A leading Russian diplomat, Mikhail KULAGIN, had been withdrawn from Washington at short notice because Moscow feared his heavy involvement in the US presidential election operation... would be exposed in the media there."
Aug 25, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
"Decision to brief Trump on allegations brought a secret and unsubstantiated dossier into the public domain"

Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, Karen DeYoung (contributions from Sari Horwitz and Julie Tate), The Washington Post, January 11, 2017

washingtonpost.com/world/national… "The dossier was provided to multiple news outlets, including The Washington Post, which pursued numerous leads, including overseas, but could not substantiate its allegations."

washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Aug 25, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
"Some of Manafort's contacts there were under surveillance by the NSA for suspected links to Russia's Federal Security Service."

"Intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House."

Jan 19 2017

nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/… "The F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Manafort began last spring, and was an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine."

Spring 2016.

nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/…
Aug 23, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read
There's zero evidence that the Awan case is still ongoing.

It shouldn't be difficult to prove the "melodramatic panic merchants of doom" wrong if they are wrong.

Provide a direct link showing that the Awan case is still ongoing. Here's my thing: I posted what Huber / Rosenstein / Sessions / Horowitz were doing before when I linked to Huber's role in that letter that was sent.

But there's no proof that the Awan case is still ongoing except assumptions.
Aug 23, 2018 8 tweets 6 min read
It took a while but I finally found information on Mudd Management.

The reason why it took a while is because Philip Mudd is not his full name - it is actually John Philip Mudd.

napo.org/files/6714/885…

homeland.house.gov/files/Truth%20… Mudd Management LLC has been in existence since April 26, 2010. The registered agent of the company is Mercedes A San Miguel in Florida, a public accountant since 1979.

search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corpor…

mercysmcpa.com/about-us/
Aug 23, 2018 6 tweets 4 min read
European Movement UK is a non-profit grass roots pro-European organisation and a branch of European Movement International, which is active in over 40 countries. It acts as a pressure group to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union.

europeanmovement.co.uk The Chair of European Movement UK is Stephen Dorrell.

Richard Corbett and Graham Bishop act as the Vice Chairs.

Others involved include Brendan Donnelly, Keith Best, Nick Hopkinson, Chris Powers, Veronica Stiastny, Frank Hindle and Richard Morris.

europeanmovement.co.uk/exec_patrons
Aug 22, 2018 13 tweets 8 min read
Porto Montenegro is a naval port for yachts / superyachts in Montenegro. People such as Lord Jacob Rothschild, Bernard Arnault and Peter Munk have been known to dock at this port.

It was acquired in 2016 by the Investment Corporation of Dubai.

portomontenegro.com/en/about/proje… Porto Montenegro's marina is large enough to berth Roman Abramovich's yacht, Eclipse.

Oleg Deripaska's superyacht, Queen K, was also as a regular at Porto.

ft.com/content/7250ef…
Aug 22, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
GeoProMining's Board of Directors includes Siman Povarenkin, Roman Khudoliy, Igor Lojevsky, Vladimir Lelyukh and Vyacheslav Pivovarov.

geopromining.com/en/about/corpo… GeoProMining's Senior Management includes Roman Khudoliy and Oleg Belyaev.

geopromining.com/en/about/corpo…
Aug 22, 2018 6 tweets 4 min read
On Nov. 16, 2015, Alexander Yakovenko invited Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore to an evening meeting at the Russian Embassy.

On Nov. 17, 2015, Leave EU hosted its launch event with Brittany Kaiser.

On Nov. 18, 2015, Banks and Wigmore visited the embassy.

theguardian.com/politics/2018/… Andy Wigmore and Arron Banks visited Moscow in February 2016 to discuss a plan involving merging six Russian gold firms into one entity. Banks was scheduled to meet with officials from the state-owned bank.

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…