Thread by @arapaho415

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek This is a mind-blowing find @zipillinois, and it's nearly a year old! I completely missed this when it was published on Oct 7 2020. 1/
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https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/1424895130352459777

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 2/ "It is unclear whether lawyers for the Justice Dept & Alfa Bank are working together, but they 👉share an interest in pursuing people who have investigated Trump’s ties to Russia👈.
'👉There’s a unity of purpose👈' (con't) h/t @zipillinois
Oct 7, 2020:
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 3/ ...one lawyer involved in the litigation told me [Dexter Filkins]."
"'There’s a heck of a lot of mutual interest,' Wm Taylor, an attorney for [Daniel] Jones [former investigator for the Senate Intelligence Cmte who helped decipher the D.N.S. records], told me [Dexter Filkins]"

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 4/ "In a court filing, Fusion’s lawyer, Joshua A. Levy, accused Alfa Bank of engaging in a 'treacherous game': 👉using the U.S. court system to uncover covert methods used by American intelligence agencies🤨. (con't)
archive.is/mo3cR

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 5/ ...'Exposing these sensitive law enforcement methods to our enemies, including but not limited to the Russian government, would harm all of us,' Levy wrote. (Alfa Bank has denied the accusation.)"
More about #Barrgoyle exposing sources and methods downthread, but first...

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 6/ "Last year [2019], 👉Daniel Hoffman👈, a former Moscow station chief for the C.I.A., requested a meeting with me [Dexter Filkins], during which he asked me to introduce him to Max [one of Filkins sources later subpoenaed by Alfa Bank]. (con't)

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra 7/ ...Hoffman neglected to mention that he is a member of the advisory board for BGR, Alfa Bank’s lobbying firm in Washington. (Hoffman said later that he wanted to interview Max for a news story that he planned to write.)
May 3 2019⤵️: h/t @braisincapital

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1124363688658591746

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 8/ ...This year [2020], Alfa Bank commissioned a New York-based production company to make a documentary film intended to 'understand what really happened.'"
"The documentary was never made."
Oct 28, 2019 Daniel Hoffman thread⤵️: (more...)

https://twitter.com/arapaho415/status/1188971892431917063

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 9/ Alfa Bank "lawsuits appear to be receiving some unusual assistance from senior Republican leaders🧐. In July [2020], Barr took the 👉extraordinary step of declassifying investigators’ interview notes with a secret source👈 for the Steele dossier. (con't)

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 10/ ...The source was interviewed by American intelligence officials in 2017, in part 👉because they had also used him as a trusted source👈. The decision to make his testimony public was driven by Barr’s conviction that the Trump-Russia probe was launched by partisan...

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 11/ ...working for the 'deep state.' The source’s identity was blacked out of the notes. But, when Barr declassified the document, Senator 👉Lindsey Graham immediately posted it to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Web site👈, adding, 'I want to thank Attorney General Barr...

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 12/ ...for releasing these documents and allowing the American people to judge for themselves.' Within days, a pro-Trump blogger, claiming to have pieced together clues contained in the notes, revealed the source’s identity: Igor Danchenko, a Russian-American political analyst...

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 13/ ...in Washington, D.C."
Jul 25, 2020:
Danchenko's "hope of remaining anonymous evaporated last week after Attorney General William P. Barr directed the F.B.I. to declassify a redacted report about its 3-day interview of Mr. Danchenko in 2017...
nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/…

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 14/ ...and hand it over to Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Graham promptly made the interview summary public while calling the entire Russia investigation 'corrupt.' (con't)
archive.is/nJQZW

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 15/ ...The report blacked out Mr. Danchenko’s name and other identifying information. But within two days, a post on a 👉newly created blog👈 entitled 'I Found the Primary Subsource' identified him, citing clues left visible in the F.B.I. document. (con't)

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 16/ ...A pseudonymous Twitter account created in May [2020] then promoted the existence of the blog. And the next day, RT, the Kremlin-owned, English-language news and propaganda outlet, published an article amplifying Mr. Danchenko’s identification." (more...)

@zipillinois @SaysDana @ninaandtito @LincolnsBible @Knowledge2Seek @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @smp0312 @TammyinMT406 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra @braisincapital 17/ Per NYer Oct 2020, Igor Danchenko feared for his life, but his Twitter account is active (he's living in DC, so likely safe).
Alfa Bank's lawsuits were filed in "Pennsylvania and Florida, where the businesses that managed the servers linked to the Trump Org were situated."