Thread by @themarketswork

Reminder: Former top FBI lawyer James Baker said Sussmann was source for NYT.

Baker: He was the source — he told me the New York Times was aware of this. We, the FBI, went to the New York Times and then started a series of conversations with them to try to get them to slow down.

2) Baker’s initial meeting with Sussmann took place on Sept. 19, 2016.

Steele had just produced a series of three new memos dated Sept. 14, 2016. One of these memos directly referenced Alfa Bank—misspelled in Steele’s memo as “Alpha.”
theepochtimes.com/baker-testimon…

3) On Sept. 23, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News published his article on Carter Page, which came from information provided by Steele, would later be cited by the FBI in the Page FISA application.

4) The same day, Hillary for America released a statement touting Isikoff’s “bombshell report” with the full article attached.
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/hill…

5) Also on Sept. 23, Politico published a lengthy article on Carter Page.

Alfa Bank was mentioned.

"I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin."
politico.com/magazine/story…

6) The information that Sussmann provided to Baker on Alfa Bank’s alleged communications with a Trump Tower server was later detailed in a since-debunked article by Slate, published on Oct. 31, 2016.
slate.com/articles/news_…

Also on Oct. 31, 2016, two other related articles were published.

One by NYT, appeared to be an updated version of the article they had intended to publish before the FBI asked them to delay their reporting.

Sussmann had been their early source per Baker
nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/…

8) The other article published on Oct. 31, by Mother Jones reporter David Corn, provided the first public reporting on the existence of the Steele dossier.

Corn’s article also mentioned Alfa Bank.
motherjones.com/politics/2016/…

9) On the same day, Oct. 31, Hillary Clinton sent a tweet that included a statement from Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser:

“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?s=20

10) The Alfa Bank story took off—despite the same-day story from The New York Times that specifically noted the FBI had investigated that matter and found nothing untoward.

Sussmann’s decision to choose Baker as his FBI contact was apparently effective.
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11) One other detail meant to be included higher up in thread:

On July 29, 2016, Steele [& Simpson] met with Sussmann.

According to UK court docs, Sussmann told Steele of allegations re: potential communications between a server in Trump Tower and a server at Alpha Bank.