Nuland told the Senate Intel Committee in 2018 that she was "not aware" of a meeting Chris Steele had at State Dept in Oct. 2016. But she also claimed she intentionally avoided taking part in that meeting.
Nuland said in an interview on CBS she deferred to the FBI on how to handle information from Steele that was given to State Department.
But, according to internal FBI emails, Nuland was reluctant to give FBI the information in late Sept. 2016.
One FBI official felt that Nuland was crossing the line by asking FBI for an update about a meeting with Steele on Oct. 3, 2016.
"That is sending flags up," the official wrote.
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NEW: Mystery Chinese Firm Approached Hunter Biden With An Offer Of Charity, And A More Lucrative Pitch
Much has been written about Biden's relationship with CEFC China Energy, but emails and interviews fill in the gaps of how they first crossed paths. dailycaller.com/2021/01/04/hun…
A consultant working on behalf of CEFC emailed Hunter in October 2015 saying the company wanted to donate to a charity Biden chaired. They *also* wanted to invest $100 million w/ an asset mgmt firm linked to Biden.
The consultant tells me that Biden and his partners had already discussed CEFC with Vuk Jeremic, a former Serbian and UN official who would later testify at the trial for Patrick Ho, the CEFC affiliate charged with bribery.
Nobody knows what Hunter did for Patrick Ho’s legal defense, especially to warrant $1 million. He’s not listed on court filings and wasn’t at Ho’s trial.
Here's Patrick Ho at an event next to former CIA director James Woolsey in 2017. Ho's think tank gave $350k to a think tank founded by Woolsey and Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane.
NEW: Two Biden Cabinet Picks Were Reprimanded For Roles In Clinton-Era 'Pardongate' Scandal
Xavier Becerra and Alejandro Mayorkas intervened to help get commutation for Carlos Vignali, a convicted cocaine trafficker. dailycaller.com/2020/12/07/joe…
A House report from 2002 said Vignali's father donated to Becerra's political campaigns.
The report said Mayorkas' involvement was "totally inappropriate" given that he was a U.S. attorney at the time. He contacted the White House on behalf of Vignali.
Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted Vignali in 2004, said that Mayorkas should have "stay[ed] the hell away from it" since he wasn't involved in the initial case.
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.