Based on this nice catch by @smc12256 it seems more likely that @AndrewCMcCarthy guess of May 2018 was accurate meaning the call took place during the tenure of Geoffrey Berman.
Current "requirements can make removing poorly performing employees difficult. Only a quarter of Federal supervisors are confident that they could remove a poor performer."
"Career employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy‑making, and policy-advocating positions wield significant influence over Government operations and effectiveness."
Igor Danchenko, Steele's "Primary Sub-Source" for the discredited dossier has given an interview to Luke Harding - the same UK journalist used by Steele to promote the dossier. theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…
Immediately, there are some problems.
Danchenko on his dossier work: "I stand by it."
As to the salacious allegations made re: Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. “I got it right,” say Denchenko in the interview.
He adds: “I stand by my raw intelligence.”
Danchenko told a differing version to the FBI, as noted in IG Horowitz's FISA Abuse Report (P. 187): justice.gov/storage/120919…
Same people using anonymous sources to push Clinton disinformation dismiss "on the record" unnamed source confirming emails.
"One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages" foxnews.com/politics/hunte…
The author of this article claims the information is discredited, but provides no proof - of any sort.
Meanwhile, the FBI took the laptop via a Grand Jury subpoena from US Attorney office - not IC community.
Brennan: "We put together a Fusion Center at CIA that brought NSA and FBI officers together with CIA to make sure that those proverbial dots would be connected.” theepochtimes.com/brennans-role-…
Brennan: “We, the CIA and the intelligence community, had collected a fair amount of information in the summer of 2016 about what the Russians were doing on multiple fronts. And we wanted to make sure that the FBI had full access to that.”
Brennan: "the FBI has a very close relationship with its British counterparts. And so the FBI had visibility into a number of things that were going on involving some individuals who may have had some affiliation with the Trump campaign.”
"Strzok’s notes...reveal that former President Obama, James Comey, Sally Yates, Joe Biden, and apparently Susan Rice discussed the transcripts of Flynn’s calls and how to proceed against him." courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"Mr. Obama himself directed that “the right people” investigate General Flynn. This caused former FBI Director Comey to acknowledge the obvious: General Flynn’s phone calls with Ambassador Kislyak “appear legit.”"
"According to Strzok’s notes, it appears that Vice President Biden personally raised the idea of the Logan Act. That became an admitted pretext to investigate General Flynn."