"Kenneth McCallion, who has represented several Ukrainian clients including former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko, said the FBI agents contacted him in February or March. They asked whether Giuliani had business dealings with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman." usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Michael Isikoff had inside knowledge in April 2016 that Paul Manafort had been "questioned by officials" over a Cayman Islands dispute with Oleg Deripaska?
"In April 2016, the Washington Free Beacon published a story about Manafort based in part on information from McCallion’s civil RICO lawsuit. That raises the question of whether the Beacon received that information from McCallion by way of Fusion GPS."
Why did Simpson purportedly stress to Ohr that 1) not only did he believe that Millian was secretly an agent for the SVR, but 2) that this idea had originated directly from himself, and 3) "not because he was told Millian was SVR"?
WHO TOLD GLENN SIMPSON IT WAS OKAY TO START THINKING FOR HIMSELF??
Can you imagine the look on Steele's face when he learned that the source for the most salacious parts of the dossier turned out to be an active agent for the SVR?
On April 30, 2016, was George Papadopoulos giving Professor Mifsud the expectation that Carter Page was believed to have been in attendance three days earlier at the Mayflower Hotel where Trump gave his first foreign policy speech?
SEDDON:
Finally! Alexey Kovalec unravels the enigma that is Will Stewart, the man with a mysterious UK tabloid mini-agency churning out regurgitated garbage news about Russia.
BAUMGARTNER:
Huh, was convinced Will Stewart was Tom Parfitt in a wig and funny glasses...
"There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York."
"Five months after the April 2013 indictment and after Interpol issued a “red notice” for Tokhtakhounov, the fugitive appeared near Donald Trump in the VIP section of the Moscow Miss Universe pageant. Trump had sold the Russian rights for Miss Universe to [Aras Agalarov]."
"Carter Page provided an April 15, 2013, briefing document authored by Russian trade diplomat, Ksenia Yudaeva, on Russia’s priorities for a summit of the 20 richest countries in the world to be held in St. Petersburg in September 2013." time.com/5132126/carter…
"According to published reports, the FBI obtained a first FISA warrant to eavesdrop on Page’s electronic communications during 2013."
IS THAT WHERE THIS STUPID RUMOR COMES FROM
Link goes to the infamous April 11, 2017, Washington Post article authored by Nakashima, Barrett, and Entous.
But, bad as the Post can be, there's no mention of a 2013 FISA on Carter Page in here...