The Russiagate Hoax, with Svetlana Lokhova and Chuck Ross (20:00 mark) theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-u…
quote [Chuck Ross] (21:00 mark): "..unmasking has been an issue...the main thing they have been trying to figure out is...who leaked classified information about Micheal Flynn to newpapers papers back in early 2017, before the Trump administration came into office?"
quote [Interviewer] (23:12 mark): “what’s so extraordinary to me is that it is now looking more and more like the story we were getting three or four years ago... about all this... is actually upside down from reality...
..and now it looks like one of the really nefarious players in the media, or a person who was kind of carrying water, was David Ignatius.. who is a guy who of course that has a huge reputation as a national security reporter here in Washington.”
quote [Svetlana Lokhova] (25:30 mark): “so David Ignatius is actually one of the first people who brought me into the spygate saga”
quote [Svetlana Lokhova] (27:23) “Reporters burst into my life in February 2017, (28th of February to be precise, and the dinner with Gen Flynn by some kind of chance happened on 28th of Feb 2014.. so three years to the date…
..suddenly all these people are bursting into my life asking me about my relationship with a man I met once at the [Cambridge event] dinner 3 years previously..”
quote [Svetlana Lokhova] (29:20) “the dinner was just a standard dinner, I sat far away from Gen Flynn because I wasn’t that important (he may have spoken to the hosts) and then I showed him some of my research…and that was that…
..so suddenly to find myself in 2017 being bombarded with journalists requests...It got quite surreal because they started contacting my colleagues at Cambridge University alleging an affair with Gen. Flynn…
..I was completely shocked. I’m a mom, I’m a wife , I’m an academic, I didn’t understand where this was coming from...And so one of the people who got in touch with me.. he actually flew all the way from Washington to England to see me.. and that was David Ignatius..
..who we now know within weeks of him [Ignatius] publishing this leak, he wanted to meet me to discuss Gen. Flynn saying he had insights into his career..and if I was to meet him he would help me promote my history book, which I was about to publish..
..and my University professor (my mentor of twenty years) in a separate email also highly recommending.. insisting actually...I met David Ignatius and again, how much help he would give me for my book..so they were in a sense ..it’s kind of a quid pro quo situation..
..Of course, I didn’t meet them, I didn’t meet David Ignatius.. I don’t know who he is.. some guy from Washington fly’s to see me.. I’m a new mom… there are affair rumors circulating around Cambridge University.. under the circumstances I wasn’t going to meet any reporter..
..At that stage I did not know this was an intelligence and political operation. I just knew it was strange, so I refused the meeting."
quote [Svetlana Lokhova] (32:35 mark): “as part of that review he [Jeff Jensen] found documents dated 2017, around the time of the unmasking and the leaks, which show how the FBI were trying to investigate Gen Flynn..
..and continued to investigate him even though he had been completely cleared of any connections to Russian intelligence… page 2 of that document has a report by a confidential human source [CHS] of the FBI who I know is Stefan Halper..
..Stefan Halper was masquerading as a professor at my University [@Cambridge_Uni].. but now we know, and that’s of course due to Chucks' amazing reporting, that he [Halper] was a long term informer for the FBI and potentially other people… and he was a spy..”
quote: [Interviewer] (36:25) “do we know anything about who at the FBI was working directly with Halper?”
quote [Chuck Ross] (36:35): “yeah, the FBI agent has been identified as Stephen Somma he works in the New York Field Office…Somma not by name, but Case Agent #1 is what he is referred to he is hammered hard in the Inspector General (IG) report..”
quote [Chuck Ross] (38:50 mark) “It’s not so much the unmasking itself, it’s the unmasking plus the subsequent leaks…plus all the innuendo that was put out there about Michael Flynn”
quote [Interviewer]: “so the fact that David Ignatius had the contact information… and the Washington Post..[was] reaching out to Svetlana is the unusual part?”
quote [Chuck Ross] (39:30 mark): “absolutely…how the media is used and manipulated through the process is what fascinates me... they did that to Michael Flynn… Svetlana was collateral damage in a lot of this...
..she was used to smear Michael Flynn, in my opinion, through US officials giving anonymous leaks to the media...planting innuendo... things like that..”
quote [Chuck Ross] (40:20 mark): “the illegal part would be the leak of the classified info that was contained in these transcripts [to the media]... If it's someone in the government who does not have the authority to provide classified info to the media then, that is a crime”
watchful1 summary (45:00 – 50:00 mark): the significance of smearing Gen. Flynn and Svetlana in the media was that Gen. Flynn had already been cleared...
..yet, a month after Flynn had been cleared…. Stefan Halper makes up information (providing no evidence) using an event that occurred three years earlier 2014 (which Halper did not even attend) and that was used to continue to go after Micheal Flynn.
recall: Halper's made up lie and subsequently illegally leaked smear.
