Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

August '16. FBI denied FISA App. (not enough evidence)

August '16. McCabe office Page/Strzok "ins policy".

Sept. '16. FBI asks for Oleg help.

Oct. '16 Steele, via Oleg, sends more chapters/Dossier

Oct. '16 Dossier added to FISA app.

Oct. '16 FISA approved.

Nov. '16 FBI drop Steele (cover) Bruce Ohr now conduit.

"Pee Tapes" in Dossier (Oleg fingerprint)

"Pee Tapes" Also Defense by Oleg sparrow (Taiwan).

Jan. '17 FISA renewal. (01/12/17)

McCabe knows/constructed primary sub-source (Ins.Policy and Dossier).

Jan '17 Dossier public. Per leak to CNN (McCabe)

Jan. '17 FBI interviews Primary Sub-Source.

Jan. '17 Inauguration.

Steele secondary sub-sources.

FBI unfazed by unreliability of Steele Dossier as foundation for Dossier because FBI worked on creating that foundation.

FBI McCabe knew primary-sub-source was feeding nonsense into Dossier because FBI McCabe set up the network.

Without Dossier, no FISA.

Without Dossier, no FISA.

Without FISA, no insurance policy.

Without Dossier and FISA, no Mueller.

FBI already targeting Manafort (DOJ Bruce Ohr, Financial Crimes Unit) and Flynn (FBI CoIntel target) prior to opening Crossfire Hurricane.

Chris Steele Dossier inputs:
*Fusion GPS (Nellie Ohr)
*Oleg Deripaska (Primary Sub Source)

Targets: Manafort, C. Page, Papadopoulos, Flynn

After Election Outcome: FISA as insurance policy executed.

Simultaneously, how the Dossier was constructed (which gained FISA) now becomes the paramount issue to cover-up.

Oleg and Steele pushed to arms length to create plausible deniability.

IMHO Comey genuinely didn't know, and Bruce Ohr only knew half of the purpose (the Steele part).

Between January 12th FISA renewal and April 7th FISA renewal, key activity in March.

Adam Waldman (Oleg lawyer) and Dan Jones (former SSCI top staff) know of FISA existence.... Hence Mark Warner request.

Bottom Line: Strong evidence Oleg Deripaska, who was well known to FBI, was *THE* Primary Sub Source for the material in the Chris Steele Dossier.

[OIG Horowitz doesn't know actual identity of PSS, only through FBI internal discussions]

In 2009 the FBI, then headed by Robert Mueller, requested the assistance of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in an operation to retrieve former FBI officer and CIA resource Robert Levinson who was captured in Iran two years earlier.

The agent assigned to engage Oleg Deripaska was Andrew McCabe.

[The primary FBI need at the time was financing and operational support.]

Fast Forward to September of 2016.... Andrew McCabe is now Deputy Director of the FBI, when two FBI agents approached Deripaska in New York – again asking for his help.

This time the FBI request was for Deripaska to outline Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort as a tool of the Kremlin.

This is a key element of the Steele Dossier.

thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Deripaska once hired Manafort as a political adviser and invested money with him in a business venture that went bad. Deripaska sued Manafort, alleging he stole money.

This represents a perfect alignment for the September 2016 needs of Andrew McCabe, who has been told internally by the DOJ-NSD (prior month) that his current application for a FISA is too thin.

John Solomon reports that Deripaska wanted to testify to congress in 2017, without any immunity request, but was rebuked. Who blocked his testimony?

In 2017 Oleg Deripaska was represented in the U.S. by Adam Waldman. Mr. Waldman was also representing Christopher Steele, the author of the Dossier.

Adam Waldman was the liaison Senator Mark Warner (Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman) was using to try and set up a secret meeting with Christopher Steele.

scribd.com/document/37110…

As you can see from the text messages the 2017 House Intelligence Committee (Nunes) wanted to interview Deripaska. However, based on their ongoing contact and relationship Deripaska’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, asks Senator Mark Warner for feedback.

If Deripaska was blocked from testifying to congress, it was obviously not from HPSCI (Nunes) but rather by the Senate Intel Committee, Mark Warner.

Why?

It's highly likely the FBI would be risk adverse to Deripaska's uncontrolled testimony. WATCH:

Attorney and Lobbyist Adam Waldman represented both Oleg Deripaska and Christopher Steele. This does not seem accidental.

Deripaska contracted Steele to represent his interests in a U.K. case.

Again... March 2017:

Did Robert Mueller omit any mention of Oleg Deripaska from his 2017 Manafort indictment purposefully?

Now that we know Deripaska was employing Chris Steele; and now that we know the FBI was aware that Deripaska was employing Chris Steele; it's worth reconsidering that Sept. 2016 FBI request for Oleg assistance.

August '16. FBI denied FISA App. (not enough evidence)

August '16. McCabe office Page/Strzok "ins policy".

Sept. '16. FBI asks for Oleg help.

Oct. '16 Steele, via Oleg, sends more chapters/Dossier

Oct. '16 Dossier added to FISA app

Oct. '16 FISA approved

See how it works?

KEY POINTS: And this is where it appears people are getting confused...

...This doesn't mean Oleg agreed to be a source for Christopher Steele. The key implication is that Steele used conversations with Deripaska as his source material.

... AND that's exactly what IG Horowitz outlines in his explanation of how the PSS responded incredulously when the FBI contacted the "primary sub source" about the material in the dossier.

... The primary sub-source responding incredulously and undercutting the dossier by saying those conversations were based on "rumor", "innuendo" and "bar-room talk".

... Which is why Oleg Deripaska also responds publicly, to the extent people listen, about not having involvement.

In essence, Oleg was the *unwitting* primary sub-source.

Make sense now?

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