While the indictment is vague on what non-public data was being accessed to spy upon Donald Trump during the campaign, it is almost certainly connected to this April 2017 ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. #Spygate
Let's first look at what the indictment says...
Sussman represented IC-1 in Feb. 2015 in a matter with an agency, likely to be FBI.
I believe this matter was gaining access to non-public information from FBI.
IC-2 employees queried non-public data to spy upon Trump & his associates.
TE-1 then brough in University-1 & Researchers 1 & 2.
Their missionL spy upon Trump & find information to please VIPs.
The University was negotiating a contract with Agency-1, likely the FBI, to get large quantities of non-public data.
Tea Leaves (O-1) & TE-1 were going to sell the data to the Uni with Agency-1 paying them to analyze it.
As a 'proof of concept' IC-1 gave the Uni access to the non-public data that the IC-1 gained access to from a US government office as part of a sensitive relationship with the US govt.
O-1, R-1 & R2 used non-public data that IC-1 had been granted access to to protect the US from cyberattacks, to instead spy upon Trump & his associates.
R-1 conducted an about query for "mail1.trump-email.com" almost certainly using that access to Agency-1 data provided to IC-1.
If this all sounds familiar it is!
This FIS Court opinion & order covers a very similar incident.
On 3/9/17 an audit of an FBI office, almost certainly the Washington Field Office, found that an organization consisting of mostly contractors had been given access to FBI's raw FISA database.
I believe it is FBI's Washington FO because on that same day, Lisa Page texted Peter Strzok to inform him of a huge "f up" at WFO that Andrew McCabe was dealing with.
The contractors were given access to FBI raw FISA data to provide analytical assistance to the FBI.
But were given access far beyond what was necessary.
FBI closed this specific access on April 18th 2016.
This access was ruled to be illegal by the FIS Court! FBI notified the court on 10/4/16 that it was investigating whether other similar accesses had been set up.
The date is uncertain on this one, but a private agency working for another government agency had been given similar access by FBI. These contractors were installing a software tool but FBI could not explain why it gave them access to raw FISA data.
FIS court wanted more information on these violations.
Here's the kicker, the date the improper access was given is redacted. But the access was intentional with a Memorandum of Understanding approved by unnamed or unknown FBI lawyers.
I don't have a source handy, but guess who was Associate Director In Charge of the Washington FBI Field Office in early 2015? Andrew McCabe.
Who was his counsel assigned to provide him lawyerly opinions? Lisa Page.
What are the odds that the same people dealing with the F up at WFO are the same people who were running it when the FISA access was granted?
Did McCabe, Page & Sussmann negotiate FISA access for IC-1 & TC-1?
In an similar story to IC-1s access to do about queries on FISA date?
And how did the story end?
With Admiral Rogers of the NSA reporting the illegal about queries to the FISC in October of 2016. The same day the @carterwpage's FISA was signed using data from Sussman's contractor Fusion GPS!
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For those who don't understand the law in this case, Congress has authorized the Attorney General to specially appoint lawyers & conduct legal proceedings at the same level as US Attorneys without confirmation. It's specifically authorized.
While Canon ignores Section 515, it specifically authorizes AGs to appoint special attorneys to prosecute criminal cases & run grand juries same as a US Attorney can.
She claims the law does not authorize the AG to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a US Attorney.
Julian Assange flying to the North Marianas to plead guilty to espionage.
Gets a 62 month prison sentence, but will be released with time served for his 5 years in British prison.
The choice of the Northern Marianas Islands is unusual.
That US territory is a hub for Chinese money laundering to the US & to US politicians. Wonder if he will testify to a US grand jury while he is there? Or has he already done so by Zoom?
The Chinese have been buying off Swampy politicians on Pacific islands that are US territories to infiltrate them to get into the US financial system.
The Northern Marianas, the Solomons, & many others...
Beny Steinmetz connects to so much corruption around the world!
Steinmetz was arrested 3 years ago shortlay after FBI seized Hunter & Rudy's electronic devices including communications with his lawyer former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
#ButNothingsHappening
On behalf of Steinmetz & other clients, Freeh tried to gain access to Trump & Biden through Guiliani & Hunter. Freeh marked all his emails as Attorney Client privileged in an effort to protect them. DOJ needed filter teams or a special master to read them.
Exclusive: The case of the Michael Cohen condo just got a whole lot more interesting!
I found an online report on the resident. It isn't an embassy or a diplomat.
It appears to be a couple who are financial reporters for CNBC & Bloomberg?
It was well publicized that Michael Cohen's condo at 111 Murray Street is 19West or 19W.
A condo that he rented on 11/27/18 prior to pleading guilty in SDNY on 11/29/18.
The website identifies as a resident of 19W Sara A Eisen, 39 formerly of Cincinatti, OH.
It appears to be Sara A. Eisen the co-host of CNBC's Squakbox. One of her associates listed on the website is her husband Matthew Levine. usphonebook.com/address/111-mu…
The majority of Daszak's funds came from DOD, but the previous investigations focused on Daszak taking money from NIH that prohibited him from conducting GoF work.
Work he did in Wuhan anyway & concealed it from NIH.
Daszak claimed he 'accidentally' conducted GoF work in Wuhan in 2018-2019. But he concealed this from NIH until 2021 even though his grants required immediate reporting of 'accidental' GoF results.
US sanctions Russian Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov, the owner of the financial firm Titul for colluding with Putin's Oligarch Oleg Deripaska to sell his shares in an Austrian construction firm!
Shares frozen by sanctions...
#ButNothingsHappening