Every (EVERY) Papadop 302 in volume 16 was already in previous volume: mostly 4, except one from 6 and one from 7. There is one 302 in prior releases that is not in present release (4:82 from Feb 10, 2017)
2/ in a fairly quick reconciliation, I only noticed TWO short phrases unredacted in new drop. In other words, re-release of nearly all the 302s is pointless waste of time.
3/ first small unredaction is on 16:212, memorializing a strange telecon of Feb 16, 2017 from crooked FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith to Papadop, at which FBI handling agents were NOT included. The unredacted phrase was "Pap met with foreign representatives".
4/ Feb 2017 was a month in which Crossfire (which, during campaign, had more or less kept its nose clean) was metastasizing into the resistance culminating in the Mueller lawfare insurrection. As we all know, DOJ gave Clinesmith, who had Democrat privilege, a sweetheart deal.
5/ here we have a small glimpse into a different front on which Clinesmith was meddling: why was he doing telephone interview with Papadop without agents present?
6/ also, watch the pea. Clinesmith puts the phrase "foreign representatives" into the conversation - and THIS is the phrase that FBI redacted. Mifsud was NOT a "foreign representative". Here Clinesmith is putting thoughts into head of gullible Papadop.
7/ the FBI concealed this tainting of questions by Clinesmith under previous redaction. It's odd that this was unredacted now, since almost nothing else was unredacted.
8/ only other unredaction that I noticed was also in the Feb 16, 2017 telephone interview by Clinesmith on 16:213, who asked Pap about a meeting with REDACTED. Hard to say who this is about - maybe Israelis during P's trip to Israel in early April 2016.
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here's a text exchange from Feb 2, 2017 (in Grassley Dec 2020 drop) that gives some light on poorly documented early inauguration period as Comey led metastasis of Crossfire into resistance. On Jan 1, Crossfire had been decentralized. Prob to make it harder to uproot.
Interview with Danchenko had been on Jan 24, 2017. Auten said that he filed interview notes in case file and never briefed anyone on inconsistencies. Somma was transferred to new job. Comey and other FBI officials obtusely say that they know nothing about Danchenko interview.
3/ this is for context. Texts don't refute implausible obtuseness, but shed other light.
(a) Agent told Boone that OIO (FBI Office of International Operations) was discussing Steele with REDACTED and forwarded Boone an email from an OIO Undercover (UC) on Steele. This is new.
The impact of the descent into extremism of French Revolution in July 1793 reverberates today in Toronto in the re-naming of a major city street (Dundas St.) In April 1793, Henry Dundas had sponsored a bill to end slave trade in British empire. Today Dundas is being canceled
2/ for supposedly prolonging slave trade for decades. In fact, Dundas' 1793 bill, amended to put an end date of 1796 instead of 1800, was first bill passed in Commons to end slave TRADE (slavery already illegal in Britain itself), but defeated in Lords.
3/ an amendment for an earlier end date was defeated in Commons. Yet today's ahistorical partisans somehow blame Dundas for failure to end slave trade in April 1793. When issue was raised again in 1796, Britain was embroiled in war with revolutionary France.
and what did these generals do to stop Obama admin from regime change operations against Libya, Syria, Yemen. Did they ask why Obama admin was "so intent on attacking Syria"? Libya? Yemen? Why did generals sabotage Trump attempt to exit Syria?
what does New Yorker article archive.is/vlAuF actually show? That Trump had one set of advisers that were anti-Iran zealots and another set of advisers who weren't. Milley says that his belief was that "Trump did not want a war". Nor did Trump start one.
2/ Milley said that Trump "kept pushing for a missile strike in response to various provocations against U.S. interests in the region". I.e. exactly as Biden did on Feb 21 and again in June and what Trump had done in Jan 2020 cnn.com/2021/02/26/pol…
A new thread on Curveball and how he was eventually exposed as a fabricator.
In theory, source validation (as even FBI James Baker claimed) attempts to validate whether source was in location of supposed meeting or made alleged telephone call, or, as here, presence at accident
2/ a few analysts were suspicious of Curveball prior to Powell's notorious speech to UN and subsequent Iraq invastion, but suspicions ignored. After invasion, none of the project designers named by Curveball knew who he was, contradicting narrative that Curveball part of program
3/ in Sept 2003, inconsistencies began to accumulate. Curveball had claimed to be part of bioweapon program that began in 1995, but it turned out that Curveball had been fired in 1995 and could not have been part of any supposed program.
@BarryMeier@tafrank@praddenkeefe@HansMahncke@FOOL_NELSON@walkafyre 2/ examine original documents. We do not shrug when documents are redacted, but, using deep knowledge of the subject matter and ingenuity, interpolate and interpret the documents so that their story is revealed and not concealed.
@BarryMeier@tafrank@praddenkeefe@HansMahncke@FOOL_NELSON@walkafyre 3/ instead of advocating for secrecy and suppression of documents and concealing identity of fabricators like Danchenko and Steele, we believe in transparency and cleansing power of sunshine. Definitely not NYT "journalism", which whinged about identification of Danchenko
the report of the WMD Commission in March 2005 is important to read (or re-read) in light of our present knowledge that Danchenko/Steele fabricated Steele dossier. fas.org/irp/offdocs/wm…
2/ perhaps their most important concern was that CIA intelligence officials "failed to convey to policymakers new information casting serious doubt on the reliability of a human intelligence
source known as Curveball", whose information was relied on in intel assessment.
3/ the WMD Commission regretted that "once again", the intel community "failed to give policymakers a full understanding of the frailties of the intelligence on which they were relying."