Thread by @BusterUSMC

26. Madeliene Albright was always trying to get me to go into public debates. I told her I was there just as a listener, just as an attendee.

Hmm.🤔

27. Oddly enough, that's exactly how Comey; McCabe & Brennan work.
At the FISA court, the FBI, to bolster their reliance on the Steele dossier, pointed to newspaper stories appearing to corroborate aspects of it - even though,theduran.com/fbi-agent-fbi-…

28. ....as he subsequently testified under oath at the Old Bailey, those stories were in FACT fed to those reporters by Steele himself.
Nevertheless, it works like a charm on FISA judges.
You take 1 thing & make it 2 things.
Or even better, you take 0 and make it "a HUGE thing":

29. Here, from a ltr by Senator Ron Johnson, are McCabe, Sally Yates & other FBI/DOJ honchos arranging for Comey to brief @realDonaldTrump on the Steele dossier for the sole purpose of giving CNN a news peg for leaking details abt what's in it. scribd.com/document/37984…

30. It's almost as if that's what Madeleine Albright is doing here, isn't it?
spectator.org/the-spying-tha…
It's one thing to invite Carter Page to show up at some tedious yakfest at Cambridge w/Halper sitting in front of him and Chris Steele sitting behind.

31. But what if you could get Carter Page to stand up & say something?
Then you could find a friendly journo to report it & instead of just a nobody on the fringes of the campaign, u'd have a "senior @realDonaldTrump advisor" .....

32. ...sharing his thoughts on the global scene w/Albright & Sir Richard & Sir Malcolm & all the bigshots, then you could use THAT story 3wks later at the FISA court, to ..demonstrate how deep into the heart of the campaign the Russkies had penetrated.mpcdot.com/forums/topic/1…

33. Instead, Professor Halper has to 'make do' with chit-chatting to Carter Page over the tea and biscuits, and 'planting the seeds' for a friendly relationship. bigleaguepolitics.com/stefan-halper-…

34. Herewith a note on the academic circuit: emeritus professors & visiting fellows are popular covers w/espionage agencies bc there's minimal work & extensive foreign travel, to international talking shops like the one above.

35. If you make the mistake of being a multinational businessman & go to foreign countries to mt w/other businessmen, u'll b investigated up the wazoo.
🕵🏼‍♂️🤵🏼👨🏼‍💻

36. But, if you're a "professor" & you go to foreign countries to meet with other "professors", the world is your oyster.
👨🏼‍🎓🎓
You also get to meet young people, who are the easiest to recruit.

37. Here's another professor fr another Commonwealth country
🇲🇹Malta-Joseph Mifsud is/was a professorial fellow at University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland, but is (was) based in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿London as "London Cntr of Intrntn'l Law Practice"dailycaller.com/2018/03/30/jos… and ..

38. ..a director of the "London Academy of Diplomacy", both of which sound fancy-schmancy but are essentially hollow entities operating from the same premises -Lincoln's Inn Fields, a tony address (next to the London School of Economics & the Royal College of Surgeons) ...

39. ...but the "London Centre/Academy"'s 5th in 3yrs & at which they & a handful of other endeavors are holed up in a minimally furnished back room filled by 4 interns round a trestle table on 75 bucks (or 50 quid) a wk.

40. Professor Mifsud also has (had) similarly undemanding academic sinecures at the "Euro-Mediterranean University" in 🇸🇮Slovenia and "Link Campus University" in Italy.🇮🇹
europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_…

41. At the beginning of Mar 2016, a young man called George Papadopoulos joined the @realDonaldTrump campaign.
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/chi…
On March 14th, traveling through Italy, he met with Professor Mifsud.

42. They got together again in Britain, and at some point Papadopoulos became head of the London Centre of International Law Practice- Centre For International Energy & Natural Resources Law & Security"
a post for which he had no obvious qualifications.
thenationalherald.com/180368/joseph-…

43. Happily, like most other jobs at the "London Centre", it didn't require work, or showing up at the "London Centre" or even being in London.

44. Mifsud is said to have ties to high-ranking figures in Moscow,🇷🇺 but there seems to be more prima facie evidence of ties to high-ranking figures in London. 🇬🇧

On Oct 31st Joseph Mifsud disappeared & has not been seen since.
newsmax.com/newsfront/jose…

45. Isor was Professor Mifsud an
👤FSB asset?
🕵🏼‍♂️An MI6 asset?
Both-Neither?

Well, there's more circumstantial evidence of Mifsud's ties to British intel, incl multiple mtgs with, inter alia, Claire Smith of the UK's Joint Intel Committee. themarketswork.com/2018/05/10/tie…

46. At any rate, back in London on Apr 26 2016, Professor Mifsud told young Papadopoulos the Russians have "dirt" on Hillary "thousands of emails".
dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/geo…

47. Just a couple days later, a friend of George Papadopoulos' at the Israeli Embassy, Christian Cantor, introduced him to Erika Thompson, who worked for Alexander Downer, Canberra's High Commissioner in the UK, at Australia House.

48. On May 4th, Papadopoulos was quoted in The Times of London denouncing David Cameron for calling Trump "divisive, stupid and wrong". thetimes.co.uk/article/say-so…
On May 6th, Ms Thompson called Papadopoulos to say that Mr Downer wanted to meet him.

49. On May 10th they met for drinks at the Kensington Wine Rooms.
Young George claims that the High Commissioner told him to
"leave David Cameron alone".

Which doesn't sound quite right to me.

50. Somewhere in the course of the evening a pretty squiffy Papadopoulos lifted his head up from the bowl of cocktail olives and started blabbing to Downer about Russian "dirt" on Hillary.