wow. In June 2016 (!?!), Vorontsov, while attending a reception at US ambassador, was "whisked away" by FBI agents and interviewed about Danchenko. June 2016!!
3/ if Danchenko was already on FBI radar in June 2016, his identification as Steele's Primary Sub-Source by FBI intel analysts in late 2016 ought to have set off five-bell alarm in FBI. 🔥😡🔥
4/ this is much worse than anyone thought.
5/ FBI appears to have concealed that they were investigating Danchenko in June 2016 and their interview with Vorontsov from Barr, Ratcliffe, Grenell and anyone that would not participate in coverup
6/ it's been suggested June 2016 is typo for June 2017. 2017 would make more sense and is plenty bad enough. We've seen Washington lawyers make some bizarre errors of fact (e.g. reversal of Danchenko and Millian in Carter Page pleadings). Best to confirm before more editorials
7/ @Alkurtz4 observed that Spaso House (residence of US Ambassador to Russia) hosted presentation on US elections on June 8, 2016. carnegie.ru/2016/06/07/ame…
This is leading candidate at present for when Vorontsov was accosted by FBI.
8/ this date is definitely not firm, as Spaso House hosts events fairly regularly. But any date in June 2016 for FBI interview of Vorontsov presents formidable difficulties for the legend that FBI has spun for four years.
9/ if FBI interviewed Vorontsov about Danchenko on June 8 (or any date prior to Vorontsov-Danchenko-Abyshev drinks on June 15), the chances of Vorontsov spilling inadvertent gossip to Danchenko are less than zero.
10/ if FBI interviewed Vorontsov about Danchenko in late June or early July, it would have been just after Vorontsov's drinks with Danchenko on June 15. So FBI would almost certainly have known about the June 15 conversation and been already briefed on it.
11/ either way, the FBI is on the horns of a dilemma. The lying and concealment, combined with toxic incompetence, is worse than anyone could have imagined.
12/ a question to ask oneself about FBI attribution of DNC hack and release to Russian intel agencies under Putin's personal direction to aid Trump: if FBI later discovered evidence pointing in another direction e.g. ordinary hackers or US partisans, would they announce it?
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at present, Canadian media is non-stop sanctimonious moralizing about anti-hate but condones and even praises hate crimes against symbols of Canadian heritage e.g beheading of statue of Egerton Ryerson, an important and liberal figure in formation of 19th C Ontario
the supposed rationale for the symbolic beheading of Egerton Ryerson is the discovery of graves at a residential school in western Canada founded after Ryerson's death and thousands of miles away from Toronto.
the message of the beheading is hate and revenge. But the president of Ryerson University, instead of standing up against the hate expressed in the beheading of the Egerton Ryerson statue, eagerly accepted the hate statement. Re-naming university will be next.
while local private businesses in Canada are being eviscerated, the fattest and most indolent public sector in Canada - Canadian federal government - rewards itself.
I worked in Ottawa federal govt for a couple of years in late 1970s. Every building had book store so that employees would have something to read in the afternoons.
Largest section of federal phone book was Indian Affairs, which had thousands of employees who didn't seem to do anything useful. Since then, department has more than doubled in size and become less useful.
an extremely interesting graphic. I first became interested in climate from a smart "deep-time" geologist whose view was that we are still in a geological Ice Age and that climate zealots were merely a noxious variety of Creationist.
2/ not shown on this graphic is the development of continental-scale North American ice sheet in the Pleistocene. Abe-Ouchi 2013 convincingly explained NoAmer ice sheet as further CO2 starvation. twitter.com/search?q=abe-o…
3/ Abe-Ouchi showed convincing explanation of 100 kyr Pleistocene cycle as interaction of NoAmer isostatic subsidence and Milankovich cycles. In Little Ice Age, there was incipient neoglaciation in the areas which had been centers of ice sheet spreading in LGM
I've commented several times that SIA Brian Auten, who's been under radar, had unique role in burying Danchenko evidence and puffs to Steele. Look what Strzok and Page said in October about Brian [Auten?].
2/ "if this thing ever gets FOIA'd, there are going to be some tough questions asked and a great deal of those will be related to Brian having a scope way outside the boundaries of logic."
3/ "[Auten] is one of the worst offenders of the rabbit holes and conspiracy theories. This guy traveled with that guy, who put down 3rd guy as his visa sponsor. 3rd guy lives near a navy base, therefore..."
a German writer has examined and translated radio traffic leading up to landing of Ryanair flight at Minsk. Based on this article, it appears that US/NATO fabricated allegations that Belarus forced plane to land in Minsk. anti-spiegel.ru/2021/alle-jahr… anti-spiegel.ru/2021/komplette…
2/ in saying this, I have no knowledge or information on who sent email threat to airports or what their motive was. But there doesn't seem to be ANY evidence that Belarus threatened to send MIGs to force airplane down, as alleged in many stories.
3/ it is, of course, possible that Belarus sent email to airports to induce the flight to land at Minsk, but, to my knowledge, no proof of that has been adduced so far. Maybe we'll find out more.
savage commentary in WSJ today about the "grifters" and the dossier archive.is/vpkcP. But even this editorial under-states and mis-identifies the much more serious issue in relation to the dossier which Meier neglected and even misdirected away from.
archive.is/vpkcP Editorialist Holman Jenkins recognizes the flimsiness of Steele's supposed "network", but it's worse than he says. "Millian's role" wasn't "inflated"; it was fabricated. Neither Steele nor Danchenko ever met or had contact with Millian. Meier ignored this
3/ the most alarming allegations of collusion, set out in their most gory detail in Report 95 (which was delivered less than a week after Wikileaks drop as intel porn fulfilling Dem fantasies) were based on supposed "network". They were fabricated in Beltway and/or UK.