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Let's take some time out to talk about The Daily Beast's Michael Weiss.
Weiss wrote the book "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror and the Menace of Unreality: How Russia Weaponises Information, Culture and Money", which was written with Hassan Hassan and released on March 29, 2016.

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Weiss has contributed to numerous outlets, not just The Daily Beast, such as Foreign Policy, World Affairs Journal and NOW.

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Weiss is also the founder and editor-in-chief of The Interpreter, an organisation created in May 2013 to translate articles from the Russian press, which eventually became chronicling events in Ukraine during the events of EuroMaidan in 2014.

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The staff of The Interpreter includes Michael Weiss (Editor-In-Chief, as mentioned), James Miller (Managing Editor), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (Translator and Analyst) and Pierre Vaux (Translator and Analyst).

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James Miller reports on Russia, Ukraine and Syria, and is a contributor to The Daily Beast, Reuters, Foreign Policy, and once worked as an editor for RFE/RL.

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Catherine Fitzpatrick works as a Russian translator, having previously worked for EurasiaNet and RFE/RL and Media Matters For America. She has translated numerous memoirs, including those of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

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Pierre Vaux covers Ukraine, Russia and Syria as well, and also contributes to The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, RFE/RL and Left Foot Forward, while also examining the relationship between the "far-right and far-left with the Kremlin".

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The Interpreter was the creation of Russians working at the Institute of Modern Russia, alongside financial assistance from a London-based organisation known as the Herzen Foundation, on May 1, 2013.

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The Interpreter's content has been cited by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Business Insider, The Atlantic and more, as well as used by presidents, ambassadors, NATO and the Department of State for its news on Ukraine.

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The Herzen Foundation is a presumably now defunct organisation, established in 2011, to support the "democratic transformation of Russia". It operated under the umbrella of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and named after Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen.

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The Charities Aid Foundation / CAF Bank describes itself as a "charity, bank adn champion for better giving", having been around for 90 years.

The Patron of the Charities Aid Foundation is the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip.

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Trustees of the Charities Aid Foundation include Dominic Casserley, Saphié Ashtiany, Robin Creswell, Matt Hammerstein, Peter Kellner, Tiina Lee, Carole Machell, Dr. Julie Maxton, Roger Perkin, Janet Pope and Susannah Storey.

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Executives of the Charities Aid Foundation include Sir John Low, Mike Dixon, Peter Ostacchini, David Stead, Bridgit Richards, Ben Russell, Michael Mapstone and Corinne Wells.

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Directors of the CAF Bank include Janet Pope, Peter Ostacchini, Martyn Beauchamp, John Grout, Mairi Johnstone, Sir John Low, Alistair Ray, Carole Machell, Graham Toy, Mark Sinclair, Malcolm Himsworth and Kees Diepstraten.

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Executives of the CAF Bank include Peter Ostacchini, Dina Henry and John Grout.

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The Institute of Modern Russia was founded in 2010 and is located in New York City as an affiliate of the Open Russia movement.

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Staff members of the Institute of Modern Russia include:

* Pavel Khodorkovsky, President
* Maria Logan, Secretary and Treasurer
* Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, Senior Policy Advisor
* Olga Khvostunova, Editor-In-Chief of imrussia

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Contributors to the Institute of Modern Russia include Donald N. Jensen, Ekaterina Mishina, Alexander Podrabinek, Elena Servettaz, Tatyana Stanovaya and Denis Volkov.

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Trustees of the Institute of Modern Russia include Lyudmila Alexeeva, Pavel Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Pastukhov, Robert Louis Arsenault, Jr. and Margery Kraus (who founded APCO Worldwide).

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As mentioned, the Institute of Modern Russia is a member of the Open Russia movement.

Pavel Khodorkovsky is the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was imprisoned in 2003 and eventually released in 2013 through a pardon issued by Putin.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky is the founder of the organisation Open Russia.

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Open Russia lists numerous parts which form it, including the Institute of Modern Russia, Open Politics, Human Rights Initiative, Open University, Open Media, Open Russia Club and MBK Media.

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The Open Russia Club opened on November 10, 2015 in London, England.

Guests at the Open Russia Club included Masha Slonim, Andrei Orlov, Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, Irina Yasina, Marina Davydova, Anton Dolin, Mikhail Zygar and Yuliya Latynina.

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On April 1, 2016, an event at Atlantic Council HQ was hosted by the Atlantic Council, the National Endowment For Democracy, McCain Institute and the Institute of Modern Russia.

Attendees included Vladimir Kara-Murza, David Kramer, John Herbst, Carl Gershman and Zhanna Nemtsova.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is also the Vice Chairman of Open Russia and former deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party, resides in Washington, DC and has been poisoned twice - once in May 2015 and again in February 2017.

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David Kramer has been covered previously (kind of), with information available here:

More information on David Kramer here:

On March 18, 2016, David Kramer moderated an event at the Atlantic Council on March 15, 2016 titled "Silencing Voices of Russian Opposition", featuring Marina Litvinenko, Dr. Alex Goldfarb and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

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Michael Weiss and Peter Pomerantsev wrote a special report in 2014 titled "The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponises Information, Culture and Money", as mentioned earlier in the thread. It is 44 pages long.

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On November 13, 2014, the National Endowment For Democracy hosted an event in Washington, DC to present the launch of "The Menace of Unreality", which featured Peter Pomerantsev, Hannah Thoburn and Michael Weiss. It was hosted by David Kramer.

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Because of these types of connections, Michael Weiss writes a lot about Russia and Ukraine, such as the article from February 3, 2017 about Vladimir Kara-Murza titled "Has Putin Poisoned Another Opponent?" for The Daily Beast.

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Weiss has also attended the Lennart Meri Conference in both 2013 and 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Michael Weiss is listed as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center For Strategy and Security.

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A some stage, Michael Weiss was listed directly as a Fellow of the Institute of Modern Russia, and was once interviewed by Fathom Journal.

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Michael Weiss published the article "Ghosts of the Maidan" on September 18, 2014 for Foreign Policy, where he visited Kiev, Ukraine to meet with Oksana Forostyna to discuss the fall of Viktor Yanukovych, EuroMaidan and the rise of Petro Poroshenko.

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Michael Weiss also published "Russia's Long History of Messing With American Minds Before the DNC Hack" on July 26, 2016, where he discussed Russian disinformation mixed with facts which are then leaked to third parties.

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Weiss also published "Ukraine Is On the Verge Of War And Putin Is To Blame" on February 20, 2014, which was during the fall of Viktor Yanukovych and the conflicts with EuroMaidan.

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On March 9, 2015, Andrea Chalupa posted "Want to Understand President Obama's Foreign Policy?", where she mentioned an event to be hosted on March 14, 2015 featuring Michael Weiss, Mouaz Moustafa and Damian Kolody at the Ukrainian Museum of New York.

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This led to the photograph of Damian Kolody / Damian Kolodiy, Andrea Chalupa, Mouaz Moustafa and Michael Weiss together.

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You can find more information on Digital Maidan / EuroMaidan here:

I'd like to think I've made my point on Michael Weiss at this point, so I'm stopping there.
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Since @jimsciutto doesn't understand that Christopher Steele was hired in June 2016 and the contract between Fusion GPS and Free Beacon ended before then, and that the first memo was written for June 20, 2016, I will explain it:

Christopher Steele was hired to write the dossier.
The fact that @CNN and @jimsciutto keep saying that Republicans funded the dossier would join with @Comey's idea that Republicans funded the dossier, which is completely incorrect.
You know, it's not the first time @jimsciutto has claimed that parts of the dossier have been verified. This was back in February 2017 though. I wonder who his source is?

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"The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington Field Office, the DOJ's National Security Division, and US Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation..."
"... but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers", Eric Walker, the DNC's deputy communications director, told BuzzFeed News in an email.

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