Watching Ben Wittes' Zoom conference with Peter Strzok, will put observations here:
The question I've submitted -- doubt it will get asked -- is whether Strzok/FBI considered simply asking Papadopoulos early on about what he allegedly told Downer. If he shared that with an Australian diplomat, perhaps he'd have shared it with FBI, too.
Wittes asks @JerryDunleavy's question about Strzok's inconsistency about what prompted Downer to contact the U.S. government regarding Papadopoulos....
"So I got that wrong," Strzok says.
He'd written that Downer reached out to U.S. gov't after hearing Trump say "Russia, if you're listening."
Downer actually reached out after Wikileaks' first DNC dump.
He'd written that Downer reached out to U.S. gov't after hearing Trump say "Russia, if you're listening."
Downer actually reached out after Wikileaks' first DNC dump.
In response to a question about violations of civil liberties, Strzok sympathetically mentions that DHS monitored Ben Wittes' tweets; says nothing about the FBI's FISA abuses against Carter Page.
Interesting non-Russia observation -- Strzok suggests that Chinese intelligence might exploit the EB-5 visa program. He doesn't identify EB-5 by name, but refers to a prominent visa-for-investments program
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