Thread by @ClimateAudit

23/ as Papadop interview approaches, Strzok and Boone (the two ADs) chat. Strzok expects Papadop to name Carter Page or Manafort as secret conduit to Russia. I don't view Strzok as malevolent, but as someone living in a totally paranoid fantasy, whose judgement was appalling.

24/ 😂🔥 this is rich. FBI was ("FYSA") listening to Papadop and his mother in the Papadopoulos home in real time. His mother told him not to go to FBI office. Strzok snickered: "That's what you get for not listening to mom...;)"

25/ texts presumably related to Papadop had already been obtained

26/ on Jan 27 6 pm (EST), they learn that Papadop said that "Joseph Mifsud stated to TYPHOON it was the "Russians" who had the e‐mails". Hans Mahncke has long argued that Papadop composed this to please/distract FBI or simply because he has loose connection to reality.

27/ by Jan 30, in a text beginning "FYSA", they state that they had already opened some sort of surveillance on Mifsud. (Recall that Mueller lied to court that Papadop's false statement had had material impact on investigation.) Pap lies, but so did Mueller.

More later. It is crazy that this material has been concealed so long.

On Feb 1 and Feb 2, Chicago agent (prob Heide) texted updates to Strzok in real time. These texts all appear to come from same agent. FYSA - military: for your situational awareness. Nothing to do with FISA.

29/ 302 for Feb 1 interview is in Vault Volume 4, p74. Curtis Heide was SA. Papadop did internet search on Mifsud and Russia, further feeding FBI fantasies. Papadop said that Mifsud introduced Olga as a student and it was Nagi Idris who "grumbled" that she was "Putin's niece".

30/ Mueller Report stated that "Mifsud introduced Polonskaya as a former student of his who had connections to Vladimi Putin", citing Papadop's Aug 10, 2017 interview. However, by August, Papadop was composing wildly and even Mueller thugs unconvinced by some of his ravings.

31/ in the Feb 1 interview, Papadop was asked about Millian and told FBI that Millian had told him that he had no knowledge of information sourced to him and that the dossier claims about him were untrue. Papadop believed him. Mueller concealed this info exculpatory to Millian.

32/ on Feb 10, FBI interviewed Mifsud. Moffa observed afterwards that it "might have been good to, like, have a plan, come up with the right questions". Wait until Pap interviews done. uh, d'oh.

33/ Mueller later lied to Court that Papadop's deceptions had materially damaged FBI interview of Mifsud. Real problem was FBI incompetence.

In fact, early on, before we had any documents, I speculated that FBI failed to ask right questions.

34/ one of the weird aspects of counts to which Papadop pled guilty is that he had logical technical defense to each of them. So why didn't he put up better defense? (Hans Mahncke had observed same phenomenon - which is how we first twitter met.)

35/ eventually, we concluded tht there was no actual injustice to Papadop in that he had lied, just that he lied on different things than he pled guilty to. And that he lied not just to FBI, but serially to Trump campaign and more recently to US public. Then composed for Mueller

36/ but on the issue of whether Papadop's lies about Mifsud timing were material lies to FBI investigation, Mueller lied to the court. They didn't matter a damn.

37/ on Feb 9, there are important new Strzok texts about Washington Post. But first, readers should recall that killshot on Flynn was Feb 9 WaPo article archive.is/5hOg7 stating that, based on multiple leaks, Flynn had talked about SANCTIONS.

38/ all readers of this thread will be familiar with fact that explusions and sanctions were different measures taken on Dec 29 and that Flynn talked about expulsions, but NOT about sanctions. And that Strzok didnt ASK about "sanctions". So leaks were a lie.

39 (replacement): Strzok notified by FBI's Richard Quinn (of Director's Office) that he had met with WaPo- almost certainly leaking Flynn information to decapitate Flynn. Strzok's Counterintelligence in charge of catching leakers. No wonder he didn't catch any.