In my history of twitter I have never tweeted “bombshell” anything. This is a bombshell. I will hold off speculating. This is enough on its own.
Bombshell. Bomb shell.
H/t @JudicialPollingbuzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
Obama’s Treasury Dept was emailing on unsecured Gmail accounts to Russia and providing information on people they requested. From 2015-2017.
The relationship was set up to track ISIS but evolved into asking for financial data on a list of people of interest to Russian intelligence. In a secret campaign to interfere in the election. WITH FULL PERMISSION YOU MEAN
Anti Defamation League and Natl Council of Jewish Women were russian requests. Along with data on the Ziff Brothers. “...weeks before the Trump Tower meeting”. Remember the Hillary dirt? Hillary’s connection to the Ziff Brothers.
Non paywall article on that. This sounds horrible until you realize Nellie Ohr and Browder were emailing the Obama State Dept about Veselnitskaya in April thru June. I have researched those details and I’ll add them down thread. newsmax.com/Finance/Street…
At the same time Russia was making these requests, which you will see is in March and April 2016, the Treasury Dept was communicating on Hotmail and gmail accounts SET UP BY THE RUSSIANS.
But wait there’s more. This went on into 2017. The treasury OIG was notified.
Eric Thorsen confirmed in August 2008.
Their reports page. I didn’t see a specific report as described by this article but there are some redacted reports and one in 2016 about classified info to an insecure email. treasury.gov/about/organiza…
FinCen officials reported the back channel and requested an investigation. For good reason. Nothing much happened and people kept using the back channel after being told to stop and why. This turned into a whistleblower incident.
The unit in Russia requesting the information was Rosfinmonitoring. I just did a search and besides this article no news stories about this yet.
The timeline starts in late 2015
The US Treasury Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TTFC) entered in to an agreement to help fight ISIS with Russia. “What we were seeing with Russia was the fruition of a long term strategy to try and compromise Treasury...”
By summer of 2016 the Russians deviated from the ISIS plan and started asking for info on non ISIS related people and even a Panama Papers business. Over 20 entities that may have been enemies of the Kremlin.
The she here is not clearly identified but she questioned the use of gmail. Well. Yeah. She also raised the alarm about Russia was manipulating the system.
It may be Natalie Mayflower Edwards, a whistleblower identified earlier in the article.
The agency has gone through leadership style changes and at a time where it was most vulnerable, a weak leader, Jamal El Hindi was put into place. Two units began to maneuver, the OIA and the TFFC. U
Jamal El Hindi
The dysfunction that ensued led to a crisis moment during the London Bridge terror attack
Also in the disarray, an employee caused security clearance requests to be halted due to the size of the breach he created. Another suspended for not notifying supervisors he was traveling to other countries.
An erroneous report on one of Trump’s “inner circle” was sent to the FBI. (Cohen comes to mind here but no one is specified).
After all this, documents still havent been turned over to Congress yet
The person over this division of the Treasury was Sarah Bloom Raskin. Jamie Raskin’s wife.
OIG Thorson
As far as the exact time frame, the article mentions June 2016. I said March and April up thread but this is as precise of a date as the article gives. I guess I was just thinking of the 6 agency task force Brennan stood up in April. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Before I forget, the Nellie Ohr connection
Also before I forget, the TFFC worked with other agencies, including the FBI’s TFOS (Terrorist Financing Operations Section. SSCI’ James Wolfe’s wife (Jane Rhodes Wolfe) was over TFOS until she retired in March 2016.
treasury.gov/resource-cente…
Wikipedia had some linking issues between under and deputy secretaries but I still believe Sarah Bloom Raskin was over the sections that were covered in the Buzzfeed article.
LOL I lied! I have tweeted a bombshell once before but that was when I found out Strzok worked on the ICA/ Russian Interference in 2016 Election report. Yeah.
I will not speculate
I will not speculate
I will not speculate
I will not speculate
If you smell a rat, you are not alone.
The “she” was FinCENs chief of staff, according to this article. There is a co conspirator in Mayflower’s indictment (above whistleblower) r justice.gov/usao-sdny/pres…
It should be noted that Mayflower’s indictment is a leak investigation that covers activities from 2017-2018. This article is shedding light on the abilities of Russia and the US to access financial data from 2015-2017.
In late 2015 this arrangement began with Russia to track ISIS. By June 2016 they had departed from ISIS and were giving Russia info on Russian and US citizens. Ziff Brothers info appears to have been requested in late May to earliest June.
If you have been following closely read the tweet about Nellie Ohr/State dept connection, and if you know of the Ukraine connection to the DNC and election (@stranahan) this nugget here is really interesting and alarming.
The dates of this story parallel the Trump Russia one.
Late 2015 Rus/US ISIS agreement
Late 2015 GCHQ -CIA Brennan
April CIA Brennan’s 6 agency task force with Treasury
March Flynn RT dinner payment
Manafort Ukraine $$ dealings
May/June Ziff data request
June 9 Trump Tower
At the time this activity was ramping up in the Treasury Dept, Brennan’s task force to investigate financial reports of Russian money going into the presidential campaign was ramping up. Curiously, Brennan spoke only the ones concerning the Trump campaign
themarketswork.com/2017/05/25/joh…
CNN reported that In early 2016, the FBI was investigating Manafort, who was under FISA up to joining Trumps campaign. Buzzfeed (same reporters) reported Manafort financial deals were investigated under FBI’s kleptocracy squad, who worked with FinCEN (DOJ press release source)
While Russia was cultivating treasury employees, FBI and CIA were working closely with the FinCEN units in this article on the TrumpRussia investigation. Flags were raised in summer 2016. What measures did FBI and CIA take to protect their investigation?
I’m quoting these because this kind of analysis is awesome. I said I wouldn’t speculate (I’m prone to lol) and this keeps me “honest”. My response is that both of these issues sprang up at the same time and a sting *could* certainly have been set up.
Browder chiming in. Note the date.
Up til this point, I do not think I’ve seen any mention of indictments of Russians in connection to this. Or any regarding Treasury employees. The only arrest seems to be for leaking about events surrounding this.
From 2017. This thread is crazy in light of yesterday’s article.
So either allllllllll of this is happening or it’s not. Everyone denies it except for people working in the treasury. The story is not going away.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Looks like a report is in progress at DOJ OIG oig.justice.gov/ongoing/all.htm
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