this article perfectly exemplifies how preoccupation with Page FISA by so many Russiagate critics leads to false and distracting narrative. Article presumes that Page FISA was cornerstone of investigation and that DOJ was protecting its "poisoned fruit". Nope,
2/ while the Page FISA was seedy, it was, to mix metaphors, a dry well. It bore no fruit, poisoned or otherwise. Nothing from Page FISA appears in any of the proceedings or in Mueller report. In the end, it was irrelevant to progress main Russiagate hoax.
3/ yet we hear of almost nothing else - FISA, FISA, FISA - in complaints from majority of Russiagate hoax commentators and talking heads, even insiders like Ratcliffe.
4/ Page was damaged, not by the FISA per se, but by false allegations in the Steele dossier and by leaks from intel community that indicated that they took those false allegations seriously (including leak of existence of FISA on Page by reporter Blowjob Ali).
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I think that we have a clear winner in the identification of the mysterious October 2016 conference at which Danchenko and Dolan were participants. Three-day YPO "Inside the Kremlin" conference. Organizer-1 probably Steven Kupka. Credit to @_mzishi_
this is an amazing link. Frustrating that we didn't manage to make complete archive of Dolan's social media before he went dark. Time to dig into the other likes. Likes on a single Danchenko page were the Rosetta stone to his "network".
Gordon Carera of BBC Radio (in related but separate programming to The Trick) has second instalment online of Hack That Changed the World. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Second instalment describes dead ends, closes with teaser that next episode goes "east to Russia".
2/ in 2nd instalment, police told him that climategate hacker used proxy servers all over the world in operation. I expect that Corera will talk a lot about Mr FOIA using a proxy server in Russia, while being silent about his use of proxy servers in US and Germany.
3/ I wonder if he'll mention the upside-down Bellingcat analysis purporting to deduce Mr FOIA timezone from epoch timestamps in nomenclature of CG1 emails, which Bellingcat claimed to show +05:00. But they got it upside-down: if anything, it was -05:00 Eastern N America.
2/ The Trick portrayed Climategate hack as part of conspiracy by Russian intel services, US fossil fuel corporations and "follow the money" to derail Copenhagen, rather than spat between CRU and Climate Audit about withholding data, together with open-door UEA web "security"
3/ we left off at beginning of August shortly after I
had exposed that CRU, after refusing station data due to supposed confidentiality agreements, had nonetheless placed data on a public FTP site (which it took private after exposure while issuing new passwords to CRU staff).
86/ I had left off narrative of events in summer 2009 at Mole article at Climate Audit on Jul 25 climateaudit.org/2009/07/25/a-m…. I had announced that I was now in possession of version of very data that CRU refused on basis world order would collapse if released to non-academic.
87/ An additional reason for riffing on this segment of The Trick is that, according to chronology of events in eventual police report, the Climategate hack did not begin until Sep 2009; their chronology also noted summer FOI requests. Metadata (to be discussed) support mid-Sep.
68/ here's a screengrab of police analyst supposedly pointing out comment at Climate Audit which contained the original link to the Climategate zipfile. Take a look, especially old-time blog readers.
69/ next, the analyst points to a picture of not-me and a woman who is not-my-wife and says, This is Steve McIntyre. The picture in my Twitter avatar (which is 16 years old now) also shows me in front of a tree.