Article by Jeff Carlson @themarketswork (Thread👇) theepochtimes.com/fbi-agent-who-…
“Make Special Agent Joe Pientka available for a transcribed interview with Committee staff,” Grassley said.
#Pientka was also the agent who provided defensive briefings to the Trump and Clinton campaigns in August 2016:
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Horowitz also said in his testimony he was concerned about this practice:
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But it appears that important information from this meeting was left out of the #CarterWPage #FISA application.
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It appears that #JoePientka also had direct involvement in the review of the #WoodsFile for the @CarterWPage #FISA application and subsequent renewals.
Pientka also told the IG that he did not personally review the entire document:
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On the original @CarterWPage #FISA application, #IGHorowitz noted 7 specific errors:
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#BruceOhr, the highest-ranking career official in the #DOJ in 2016, played a crucial role in passing on unfounded allegations against Trump from #Steele and #FusionGPS co-founder #GlennSimpson to the @FBI—specifically to Pientka.
#Pientka summarized their conversations in FBI FD-302 forms—which were obtained by @JudicialWatch and made public in August 2019. judicialwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
The next day, Ohr met alone with Pientka and the sequence of 302’s stemming from these ongoing interviews began.
Notably, #FBI had already terminated #Steele as a source at the start of November 2016 because of his communications with the media.
Simpson’s firm, #FusionGPS, had been hired by law firm Perkins Coie on behalf of the @HillaryClinton campaign and the @DNC in April 2016. Source: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4116…
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Read more: judicialwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
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#FBI told the #FISACourt that it “does not believe that Source #1 (Steele) directly provided this information to the identified news organization that published the September 23rd News Article.”
During a Dec. 20 interview, he provided #FBI with a thumb drive containing “the totality of the work…
Additionally, #BruceOhr provided the @FBI with a dossier on former Trump campaign chairman #PaulManafort titled, “Manafort Chronology” that had been compiled by #NellieOhr.
This was made apparent during questioning that took place during #Horowitz’s Dec. 11, 2019 testimony with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.):
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On Jan. 24, 2017, Lt. @GenFlynn, then-#NationalSecurity adviser to President Trump, was interviewed by both #Strzok and #Pientka about two conversations that #Flynn had with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in Dec 2016. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Read: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5526…
Notably, The @WashingtonPost reported on Jan. 23, 2017, that the @FBI found no evidence of wrongdoing in #Flynn’s actual call with the Russian ambassador. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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