The most glaring omission from Peter Strzok’s book “Compromised” is any mention of the FARA investigation into George Papadopoulos for his ties to Israel.
Why is this lack of discussion important?
Let’s take a closer look. 🧐
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There are 14 mentions of Carter Page compared to 114 mentions of George Papadopoulos in Strzok’s book.
That disparity makes sense when we consider how the Crossfire Hurricane cases were divided up.
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We learned from the Strzok/Page texts there were two sides of the house: one side was the PapaD & Flynn investigations supervised by Peter Strzok; the other side, the Carter Page investigation supervised by Jennifer Boone.
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In the Inspector General’s Michael Horowitz’s FISA report, this organization split for the period of Jan 2017 - April 2017 was confirmed.
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During these months, the Crossfire Hurricane organizational chart looked like this:
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So while Strzok has plenty of self-interested reasons for distancing himself from the investigation of Carter Page, he is not without some justification.
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However, when it comes to Papadopoulos, Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane on him and had supervisory responsibility on his case until at least April 2017.
He owns that investigation.
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And, as the Mueller report makes clear, in addition to the counterintelligence investigation of possible Russian interference, there was an investigation to determine if PapaD was an agent of Israel.
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And this existence of this investigation is backed up by ample evidence, including from PapaD himself.
When Chuck Ross replied to a Ben Wittes tweet that no evidence of PapaD colluding with Russia was found, PapaD responded with “Aaactually….it was Israel.” 🤣
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In a recorded conversation between Stefan Halper and himself, PapaD boasts of his close connection to the Israeli government, a claim the IG determined was important enough to quote in his report.
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In his conversation with Source 3, it is evident that the source is probing PapaD for information about his ties to Israelis.
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Strzok is supervising this investigation. Yet when he does his rounds on Mockingbird media, he never gets asked about Israel. It’s “Russia, Russia, Russia” non-stop.
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There is nothing preventing an interviewer from asking him about it either. The FARA investigation is well documented in government releases.
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If nothing else, an interviewer could ask Strzok to respond to PapaD’s public claims he was investigated for his Israeli ties.
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Why is this important?
Because the FBI was able to pressure PapaD into composing a false Russian narrative by hanging the threat of a FARA investigation of his ties to Israel over his head.
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PapaD acknowledges in his book that the Special Counsel Office threatened him with FARA charges.
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Strzok accuses PapaD of repeatedly lying during his FBI interview.
And, indeed, PapaD did eventually plead guilty to giving false statements to the FBI.
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However, Strzok does believe one thing that PapaD said -- Mifsud told him that the Russians had thousands of Hillary’s emails.
💥Even though Mifsud denies making that claim
💥Even though there is no documentary evidence to back up Papa’s claim.
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The idea that PapaD composed for Mueller is not new (I would give credit, but fear I would leave someone out. You know who you are.)
What I’m suggesting is that the threat of a FARA investigation was the motivation for PapaD to go along with the false narrative.
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PapaD could still come clean, if that’s what happened. What are they going to do to him? Throw him jail for giving false statements? Nope. They’ve already done that.
(btw, don't bother tagging him since he has me blocked)
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Like most of you reading this, I just want the truth. Whatever that is.
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The genesis of this thread is an email I came across from a doc dump from the Clinton Library. It's been out there for nearly 10 years, but I've never seen it before. It sent me down a rabbit hole where I encountered a recurring cast of characters in DC scandals.
Read carefully
Starting with the creator of the email, Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal may be less famous than his son, Max, these days, but he's a prominent figure in Clinton circles. His official title was "Assistant to the President" when he was brought into the White House in 1997.
Leo Strauss, the academic godfather of the neocons, was a big fan of the TV show Gunsmoke because it showed the conflict between good and evil in a way that would be immediately intelligible to everyone. Sheriff Matt Dillon wore the white hat; the bad guy wore the black hat.
Strauss believed that societies needed powerful myths and stories, like the hero defeating bad guys on Gunsmoke, to inspire people and give them a sense of moral clarity.
Yes, if you want society to act, it's a powerful way to move people.
1. The most impactful Easter Sunday sermon I have ever heard was delivered by Chuck Swindoll. His sermon was a riff on the 1992 western film, Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
What lesson about Christ could we learn from this dark masterpiece?
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2. William Munny is the film's protagonist, a retired outlaw. He now supports his two children by raising pigs. His late beloved wife had persuaded him to leave behind his life of outlawry, drinking, and fighting.
In a sermon, Swindoll refers to Munny as "Clint Easterless."
3. Facing financial hardship, Easterless decides to pursue a bounty on a man who scarred a prostitute's face in an attack.
He is recruited for the job by a brash young man who goes by the name of the Schofield Kid. The Schofield Kid boldly claims to have killed five men.
1. During the week of the Republican National Convention in July 2016 Roger Stone contacted Donald Trump and informed him that Wikileaks was about to release a massive number of emails that would prove "damaging to the the Clinton campaign."
2. On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks did, in fact, release nearly 20,000 DNC emails.
3. It should be stated that the quote is from Michael Cohen. Unfortunately, choosing who's telling the truth between Cohen and Stone is not an easy task. However, to my knowledge, Stone hasn't denied the conversation.
The last evidence I saw that Tim Scott had a girlfriend was 11 years ago when a woman was his guest at Sea Island resort. The event they attended was a conference organized by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Scott's cozy relationship with AEI is the real scandal.
Scott returned to Sea Island in 2014 to participate once again in AEI's World Forum. Other participants included a Who's Who of the GOP Establishment: Paul Ryan, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Karl Rove, Kevin McCarthy, Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney, and many, many more.
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In a text sent in June of 2016, Strzok claimed that for him to be promoted to Assistant Director of the CounterIntel Division, he would need a "CT club card."
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We can tell from context that when Strozk and Page used the abbreviation “CT,” they were referring to counter-terrorism.