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4 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
A few things that caught my eye from the Senate document dump yesterday. From the DOJ portion:

In Sept. 2017 interview w/ FBI, Steele leaves out that he was meeting w/ reporters well before Comey's letter reopening the email probe.

hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
FBI personnel who interviewed Steele assured him that details of the interview were going "straight to Mueller." This undercuts the claim by some who say that the dossier played no role in Mueller probe (it didn't, only b/c it was garbage).
Nellie Ohr gave FBI a thumb drive of her research on Manafort.
In Nov. 2016, FBI was planning to focus on Michael Cohen, which Steele dossier accused of having secret Russian meeting in Prague. That claim has been debunked.
FBI was deliberating as late as Nov. 2016 getting a FISA on George Papadopoulos aka Hurricane TYPHOON. We knew from the IG report they were considering that (but never applied for one), but this clears up timeline.
Charles McGonigal, who was top counterintel official at FBI's New York field office, expressed concern that details of the Carter Page FISA would leak after a briefing to House Intel on March 16, 2017. It ended up leaking to WaPo for a story on April 11, 2017.
From the FBI batch: hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

Steele told FBI in Oct 2016 that he had a "business association" with Jonathan Winer, a State Department official. Steele and Winer exchanged Trump intel.

We reported on those business ties here: dailycaller.com/2019/06/10/jon…
McCabe requested some sort of intelligence on Russia in part because Trump was scheduled to have a phone call w/ a foreign leader, probably Putin.

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I'm a few minutes behind on the Comey hearing -- first note -- Graham says "Igor" was the Steele source. He's naming Igor Danchenko
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Strzok-Page texts released in the Flynn case last week have a new clue. "Typhoon" is unredacted in this new batch. That's FBI's code for @GeorgePapa19.

Page tells Strzok on May 10, 2017, they need to "lock in" the case in a "formal chargeable way."

Timeline is interesting... Image
Because Papadopoulos was later charged for an interview he gave FBI several months earlier. So what was their plan to lock him in in a "chargeable way" after that text, and why would they need to?
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Watching Ben Wittes' Zoom conference with Peter Strzok, will put observations here:
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A look at Peter Debbins' work after 2011, which is the end date for an indictment accusing him of spying for Russia.

Neil Kent, a Cambridge professor, tells me he invited Debbins to the board for an academic journal because of his top-secret clearance.
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(Snowden worked at Booz Allen when he stole classified info)
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