This is simply not true. The OIG report issued in Dec 2019 says explicitly that Operation Crossfire Hurricane & the investigation of Carter Page was initiated as a result of intelligence provided by a friendly foreign government (FFG) & had no origination from the Steele dossier.
We did not find information in FBI or Department ECs, emails, or other documents, or through witness testimony, indicating that any information other than the FFG information was relied upon to predicate the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
These officials, though, did not become aware of Steele's election reporting until weeks later and we therefore determined that Steele's reports played no role in the Crossfire Hurricane opening.
Based upon this analysis, the Crossfire Hurricane team opened individual cases in August 2016 on four U.S. persons- Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn-all of whom were affiliated with the Trump campaign at the time the cases were opened.
Billy Barr’s boy Durham is aiding and abetting Alfa Bank’s efforts to weaponize the court system in order to cover up their crimes and further their own agenda.
During the era in which it has been reported that the CIA was collaborating with anti-communist proxies to ship heroin out of Laos using Air America aircraft.
Remember when former Kirkland and Ellis attorney Alex Acosta gave Epstein a special deal and said that he was told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence”?
Isn’t it obvious that Epstein was laundering money for the CIA’s covert off-the-books covert ops? And that criminal networks who were (or later became) associates of Alfa Group were partners in the smuggling operations? And that K&E was doing legal work for all of it?
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With all of the recent interest in the Alfa Bank/Spectrum Health/Heartland Payment Systems/Trump Org server communications story (and the related Durham indictments), I’ve been asked to make an index of my various threads on the subject. So here we go…⬇️⬇️⬇️
So I first made the connection to the Khawaja micro donation scheme here:
The arrest of two of Russia's top businessmen in recent months was more than a distant headline for Washington's well-connected private equity firm, Carlyle Group.
Carlyle, known for the glittering roster of former statesmen among its partners and advisers, has ties to both Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the jailed Russian tycoons.
So, I don’t have the time or energy to do a full analysis on this story right now, but I want to get it out there, before I get completely distracted and forget about it.
Windward is an Israeli company (2018 startup) that has created a set of analytic tools to help bring clarity to the world of shipping, analyzing global shipping movements to track vessels at sea.
Marine insurance companies can use them to help predict the probability of accidents, & governments can use them to check for illegal activity such as breaking sanctions; if a ship’s activities are unusual — turning off its radar or visiting an at-risk port — it will be flagged.
Ballard Partners, the firm dubbed “the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington,” ended its years-long contract with Turkey’s state-run Halkbank last week, the day after that bank’s indictment in a record-breaking money-laundering scheme.
Halkbank’s prosecution comes amid the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria following a phone call between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.