The CHS, who appears to have meaningful knowledge of Steele’s and Fusion GPS’s activities, gives the FBI a list of "individuals and entities who have surfaced in [the investigative firm's] examination.
2) Aug 2 - A supervisor of the Counterintelligence Division shares information that had been provided in late July 2016 by a confidential human source with Jonathan Moffa, who then provides the information to Strzok, Pientka, and the supervisory intel analyst on the same day.
3) Mid-Sept: McCabe tells Pientka not to have any further contact with an unknown former confidential human source (CHS) who reached out to the FBI in late July 2016 and appeared to have personal knowledge regarding Steele’s election reporting and sources.
4) McCabe would later tell the IG that he didn’t remember giving Pientka these instructions.
These IG notes on unknown CHS bothered me enough to have several different entries re: them in FISA Abuse Infographic.
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.
Newly released documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new…
"The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
“The viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell.” — @R_H_Ebright
1) July 2, 2021: "Lawmakers were informed last week by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl that Biden had granted a waiver, thereby allowing the Pentagon to move forward with the withdrawal without providing that assessment to Congress..." edition.cnn.com/2021/07/02/pol…
2) "...or answering a series of key questions about his plan for countering terrorists in Afghanistan going forward."
"The Pentagon is legally required to provide that assessment to Congress..."
3) "The President was thoughtful and deliberate in considering a range of facts and advice before he made his decision to withdraw our remaining US forces from Afghanistan," Kahl wrote to the Republicans."
1) Here is unclassified Intelligence Community Summary on Covid-19 origins. dni.gov/index.php/news…
2) Four IC elements and the National Intelligence Council assess with Low Confidence that the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection was most likely caused by natural exposure to an animal infected with it or a close progenitor virus
3) One IC element assesses with Moderate Confidence that the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
1) The two most significant articles promoting “natural origins” theory originated from scientists who were part of a response team of “experts” brought in by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM)
2) The articles appear to have been part of a coordinated effort originating from a Feb. 1, 2020, teleconference organized by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the British Wellcome Trust. theepochtimes.com/fauci-team-scr…
3) Immediately prior to Daszak circulating the draft of the Lancet letter, there was a meeting on Feb. 3, 2020, organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM).