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let me say it this way, the FBI chief Cash
Betel has now declassified more information on the Russia collusion hoax.
And there is a massive right up by Jerry Dunlevy
at justthanews dot com. I read it so you don't
have to, and according to well, I don't know, Well,
I guess it's the Brave browser. When you turn it
onto reader mode, it tells you how long it's going
to take you to read the article, and it says
forty two to fifty three minutes. And that's about right,
that is about how long it took me to read it.
So I read it so you don't have to. I've
got some of the highlights here. Here's how Dunleavy begins
the piece. Newly declassified FBI documents shine new light on
the FBI's mishandling of its relationship with anti Trump dossier
author Christopher Steele on the FBI's double standards on defensive briefings,
right when they would go and let people know, hey,
we got some information that maybe you're getting targeted by
a foreign government, right in the way that they did
that for Hillary Clinton Eric swall Well versus the way
the FBI did it for Donald Trump. Also topic of
these declassified documents key elements of the debunked collusion saga.
Just the News reports that the declassified documents show that
Stepan Halper remember that guy H. A. L. P. R.
Stefan Helper, a key FBI informant in the widely debunked
Russia collusion case, was paid nearly one point two million
dollars over the course of thirty years and was motivated
in part by monetary compensation. Also that he continued snitching
for the Bureau even after agents had concluded that he
told them an inaccurate story about Mike Flynn, the future
Trump National Security advisor, Mike Flynn, so they knew he
lied to them, told them an accurate story, but they
still kept using him and paying him just The News
also reveals that the newly released documents showed that then
NSA director Mike Rogers shot down a Pulitzer Prize award
winning Washington Post article about the baseless Russian collusion investigation.
By the way as the Washington Post. Ever, no they haven't.
They have not returned that Pulitzer, which they should because
the story was not true, but they'll keep the award.
A new review of hundreds of pages of declassified documents
provides new information about the politicized Russia Gates scandal, although
significant reactions do still remain in these documents. Now, Pete,
why are you going over this? We all know this well,
not everybody knows it. There are a lot of people,
like I think a majority still of Democrats believe this
stuff is still true. Number one and number two. This
is why you have to look at think of it
in right, think of it in these terms. October seventh,
the attack on Israel and what do you hear from
the Hamas Holace. It didn't start on October seventh. There's
a whole history before then, right, Okay, By that same logic,
this is why you see people who support Trump completely
immune and dismissive of virtually everything that legacy media outlets
and Democrats but I repeat myself say about Trump, they
don't believe you because of this, among other stories. But
this is a primary driver of the animus and the
disbelief in you, much like the J six riot. Right,
the left says that's only because Donald Trump told him
it was rigged, right, But remember the years leading the
two years leading up to j six, Right, we saw
the Black Lives Matter riots all over the country, and
we saw the left not do it and Obama, right,
they did not do anything to stop the destruction of
the cities, the lawlessness, rampant lawlessness that was permitted. Right,
Those things lead up to the atmosphere of the event
that you want to focus on. So while you're focused
right now on why are these Trump people, why are
they also still you know, pro Trump, he could do
anything and all this like this is a major driver
because of the way the government was weaponized against Trump,
and his campaign and really everybody in his orbit. SOBI
Director Cash Betel transmitted to Congress hundreds of pages of
declassified documents from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was related
to false claims about Trump Russia collusion following a declassification
executive order from Trump last month. Justthnews dot com made
all seven hundred pages from the declassified binder available on
their website. An investigation by Special Council Robert Muller did
not establish any criminal Trump Russia collusion. The DOJ Inspector
General Michael Horowitz found huge flaws with the FBI's investigation.
He criticized the central and essentral role of the Steele
dossier in the FBI's politicized surveillance of former Trump campaign
associate Carter Page. Carter Page went to Russia, and that
was enough for the FBI investigators. That was enough for
Democrats and the media. But I repeat myself, like that
was enough. But what we found out later was that
while the FBI used that as the premise to surveil
Page and others he was talking to in the Trump campaign,
when the FBI asked the CIA, which is protocol they're
supposed to go and ask other intel agencies and such.
They're supposed to say, Hey, is this guy working with you?
And the CIA said, yes, he is. He's one of
our guys. He's not an agent, but he comes back
and he tells us stuff that he learns while he's
over there, And the FBI lawyer omitted that from the
FISA court application which allowed for the wiretapping to occur.
Special Counsel John Durham's report concluded that neither the US
law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed
any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings. At the
commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. There was no predicate. Basically,
they didn't have a reason to launch it. So first
there's Mike Rogers, Admiral Mike Rodgers, who had he retired
in twenty eighteen. He was the National Security Agency chief
and commander of the US Cyber Command for four years.
And in early January twenty seventeen, so just as Trump
is taking office, four principles meet, and this would be Rogers,
Jim Comey, chief of the FBI, the Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, and the CIA Director of the Communist
John Brennan. Right, So they meet and Rogers tells the
group that he is unclear why the ICA, which is
the Intelligence Community Assessment the ICA. He's like, why, I'm
not clear. Why does the ICA need to focus on
the dossier because it's basically uncorroborated, And Comy responds that
the information was relevant. Rogers said, the information could be
included maybe like in an appendix or something, stick it
at the end, rather than prominently featuring this thing in
the nearly one page summary that he had read. So
that's when Komy, Clapper and Brennan brief Trump about their
election meddling findings by the Russians that they had bought
some Facebook ads. Right, they go to Trump Tower, they
have this meeting to warn him about this, and then
that's when Jim Comey stays behind and tells Trump about
the dossier's salacious allegations about the peing on the beds
and such at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, which were
complete nonsense. Then Comy my belief is Comy then leaks
that that the briefing occurred, and that gave BuzzFeed the
opportunity to publish the Steele dossier, because that was their
window in because you couldn't You couldn't leak it out
and report that this was true. But you could report
that I told the President that these rumors are out there,
and that's how they got it into the public domain.
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All right, So among the declassified documents from the Oh,
hang on second, let me read some tweets. These are
peat tweets. This is from stovetop hits. That's the handle,
that's the person's name. At least all of the corrupt agents, judges, lawyers,
and Hillary Clinton have been arrested, tried, and sentenced accordingly. Right, No,
that hasn't happened. Well, that one guy, the one lawyer
who changed the PISA application to lie about Carter Page's
involvement with the CIA. He did get some though. Actually no,
he had his law license suspended and then he got
it back a couple months later. So it really was
about the friends we met along the way, you know,
Eric says the purpose of the Stele dossier briefing from
Komy to Trump was to give it legitimacy and make
salacious slop cooked up by the Clinton's newsworthy. Yeah, that
was it. That was the entire intention of that defensive
briefing or whatever they call him. I think that's what
they call him, Like, hey, be on the lookout. There's
a spy from China named Fangfang and she oh No. Eight.
That was Swallwell. Mike Rogers was surprised when Jim Coomy
told a congressional committee in open session on March twentieth,
twenty seventeen, that the FBI was investigating potential links between
individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian interference.
Komy did not tell him in advance about the ongoing
set of investigations, so they kept Rogers out of the loop.
A host of top Obama officials received information in response
to the unmasking requests targeting retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn
in the final weeks of the Obama administration, according to
a memo that was declassified some years ago. Republicans have
alleged since twenty seventeen that Obama era officials improperly unmass
asked associates of then candidate Trump's presidential campaign during the
Russia collusion investigation. Now, look, there is a perfectly reasonable
explanation for why Republicans have alleged this. It's because Obama
air officials did it. Like that's why they're alleging it
is because it's obvious that there was like this flurry
of unmasking requests, which means when the NSSA, the intelligence
agencies are scooping up everybody's phone calls and emails and
everything else. I mean, just you know, targeting the foreign
bad actors. Only right that sometimes those foreign people are
talking with American citizens and so we have special protections,
constitutional protections. The government's not allowed to do that kind
of an illegal search on you. And so you're in
a conversation with somebody from overseas, they're listening in on
that person, and then now you get caught up in that.
So they mask your identity, but you can ask to
have the identities unmasked. And then you know, if you're
in the Trump campaign, then the Obama administration will say, yeah, totally,
here's here's who it actually is. And so that's how
they got Mike Flynn. That's how they got his connection.
The records this is now on the State Department awareness
of the FBI's relationship with a person identified as Crown,
which is Christopher Steele, former MI I six officer who
worked with Clinton allies at the State Department, and the
records draw out the links between Steele and Hillary Clinton
and how he passed to the FBI investigators the unfounded
Russia allegations during an election year. He met with Kathy Cavalak,
Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of European Affairs, ten days prior
to the very first fize a warrant application that targeted
Carter Page, after which she forwarded her notes to the FBI.
During the meeting that she had with Steele, Steele admitted
that he was encouraged by his client to get his
research out before the twenty sixteen election. Cavalac's notes also
show she found flaws with Steele's allegations and like others,
cast doubt on his credibility. So people were saying, I'm
not so sure about this guy. They were saying it
from the very beginning, and he gave her the motive
which was got to get this out before the election.
Gotta undermine Trump, gotta gotta make sure Hillary wins. Talk
about collusion. Oh, by the way, apparently the steel information
I may have been funneled to him from Russia. Yeah,
talk about Russia collusion. All right. If you're listening to
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Key elements of the Steel Christopher Steele interview with the
FBI in twenty seventeen still remain hidden behind reactions, but
newly declassified notes from the interview now include alleged Maine
steel dossier source. A guy's name was Igor, not kidding Danchenko,
Igor Danchenko. His name is now no longer redacted. The
notes also lifted the reaction on Steel, saying that dan
Chenko had worked with Fiona Hill at the Brookings Institution,
and the notes now show Steele told the FBI that
Igor Denchenko was a US resident. Steele outlined Denchenko's motivations
to the FBI that he's a US resident, his daughter
was born in the United States, and Steele was also
motivated himself by finances. The FBI notes now reveal Steele
said that Danchenko quote had someone over at the Russian
Embassy in Washington, DC, asked dan Chenko about where they
could buy furniture or something like that, and Steele said
it was strange but not alarming. Okay, I don't know
why Danchenko would say that, unless furniture is some sort
of a code word for something else. While the dossier
was being compiled, Steele said that Denchenko traveled to Russia
three times in twenty sixteen. The FBI had previously redacted that.
Steele told the FBI that Danchenko's trip to Moscow in
twenty sixteen quote was paid for by an organization funded
by the Russian government. That was his third trip to Moscow.
That was funded by some group funded by the Russian government.
That's now been that redaction has been lifted, So now
we know that. So what does that tell us? Steele
is relying on dan Chenko for information that he puts
into this dossier, and dan Chenko is going back and
forth to Russia three times that year in the election year,
and the last time he goes he has his trip
paid for by some Russian government funded outfit. Steele admitted
to the FBI that he leaked the Russia collusion story
during the height of the twenty sixteen election to help
Hillary Clinton overcome her lingering email scandal. He also said
he believed Donald Trump's election would be bad for US
relations with his home country of Britain. What else do
we learn? Oh? I mentioned Fiona Hill. The FBI documents
also showed that Steel, the Steele dossier's alleged main source, Danchenko,
was introduced to Steele by Fiona Hill. Hill had worked
at the Brookings Institution liberal think tank with dan Chenko.
She then went on to serve on the Trump National
Security Council and was a witness in his first impeachment.
The FBI report revealed that Steele said, Fiona Hill knows
that the primary sub source was involved in the dossier.
She knew dan Chenko was involved in the Steele dossier,
but that contradicts Fiona Hill's sworn testimony before the House
Intelligence Committee in October twenty nineteen, when she said, I
have no knowledge whatsoever of how he developed that dossie.
That was a lie or perjury, you could call it.
She also told House lawmakers a month later, November twenty nineteen,
that it was Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbot who showed
her the dossier. She was critical of Steele's dossier when
she spoke to Congress. Who is Strobe Talbot? You usually
find him dangling from the center of the ceiling at
nineteen seventies era discothechs. But Talbot Strobe Talbot is an
Ohio Democrat. He was also a Moscow correspondent for Time
magazine and then US Deputy Secretary of State under Bill
Clinton between nineteen ninety four to two thousand and one. Guys,
there's a reason why this looks as bad as it does.
It's because it is as bad as it looks. The
Inspector General report on the Russian investigation criticized the DOJ
and the FBI for at least seventeen significant errors and
omissions related to the FISA Warrens against Carter Page, and
for the FBI's reliance on the Democratic funded dossier compiled
by Steele. Steele was hired by Fusion GPS in June
of twenty sixteen, and the opposition research firm had been
hired by the Perkins Koe law firm. Perkins Koe Law
firm also working for Hillary Clinton's campaign. My goodness, there
are so many connections we may never be able to trace.
The Oh no, actually yeah we did. They did. It's
all trace. The FBI has all of the documentation in
these hundreds of pages. They had all these charts and
stuff about where things went. They built like this matrix
of who told who what and when. FBI notes of
a January twenty seventeen interview with Igor Denchenko showed that
he told the beer he did not know the origins
of some Steel dossier claims, and he did not recall
other dossier information. Denchenko also noted much of what he
gave to Steele was word of mouth and hearsay, some
of which stemmed from a conversation he had had with
friends over beers, and that the most salacious allegations may
have been made in jest. Newly declassified records from the
FBI also showed the bureau's Validation Management Unit, or the VMU,
assessed in twenty seventeen that Steele had received one hundred
and twenty seven thousand dollars plus in payments from the FBI,
and that the FBI had offered him an incentive of
up to one million dollars if he could prove the
allegations in his discredited anti Trump dossier. That was in
October of twenty sixteen. They offered him payment to confirm
the dossier's contents right before the election, but shockingly, he
was not able to back up his claims because they
weren't true. Then there was the Durham Report in twenty
twenty three. It concluded that the investigation was also launched
without conducting any interviews of witnesses essential to understand the
raw information that the FBI had received. They did not
interview witnesses. Also, they did not use any of the
standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI when evaluating
raw intelligence. The report asserted that if the bureau had
taken these basic steps, the FBI would have learned that
their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump
being involved with Russian leadership of faials. Nor were others
in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, the Department
of State. None of them were aware of such evidence
concerning the subject. It was just Christopher Steele. But that
was enough for them. That was enough for Crossfire, Hurricane
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Jerry Dunleavy going over what has been now newly declassified
by Cash Bettel on the orders of Donald Trump regarding
the Russia collusion hoax of twenty sixteen. Declassified footnotes from
the Inspector General report showed that a twenty fifteen report
concerning oligarchs written by the FBI's Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit,
or the TOCIU or the TATCHU as I call it
noted that from January twenty fifth through May of twenty fifteen,
ten Eurasian oligarchs sought meetings with the FBI, and five
of these had their intermediaries contact Christopher Steele. So the
TOCIU report noted that Steele's contact with five Russian oligarchs
in a short period of time was unusual. Also, declassified
footnotes from the Horowitz report, the Inspector General report said
some of the Steele dossier claims about now former Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen were quote part of a Russian disinformation
campaign to denigrate US foreign relations. The footnote also added
that a US intelligence community report concluded that the Steele
dossier's baseless and salacious claims about Trump and the peing
on the bed at the Ritz Carlton Hotel where the
result of a Russian intelligence infiltration. They infiltrated a source
into the network managed by Steel, so the Russian government
put that into Steele's orbit. Steele and his company, Orbis
Business Intelligence, worked for Russian oligarch Olegg Derek Pasca, Olegg
Derek Paska allegedly helping recover millions of dollars the Russian
oligarch claimed Paul Maniford had stolen from him. Hmm, another
interesting connection. Steele sought help in this anti Trump research
effort from Fusion Gps. The founders of the company wrote,
and Fusion Gps hired Steel soon thereafter, So that's how
they hooked up. Steele was trying to do the research,
and so he asked Fusion for help, and then Fusion
hires him. The Senate in Tel Diligence Committee's twenty twenty
report assessed that quote the Russian government coordinates with and
directs Oleg Deripaska on many of his influence operations. The
report found multiple links between Steele and Deripaska and indications
that Deripaska had early knowledge of Steele's work, and said
Steele's relationship with Derek Paska provided a potential direct channel
for Russian influence on the dossier. Steele himself admitted in
an ABC interview with George Stephanopolos, quote, I think there's
a chance that Russia fed him disinformation, but he tried
to downplay the possibility during that interview. What else, Oh,
there's a whole big section in the piece here about
how the Steele dossier circulated inside the FBI. Right just
the News has the internal FBI emails discussing the Steele dossier.
They were sent among FBI agents like Peter Struck, FBI
leader Jonathan Maffa, and thirteen FBI officials whose names are redacted.
The newly declassified version lifts redactions on many of these
FBI officials who were sending and receiving updates to the dossier.
Here's a name, Bruce or remember that guy, former DOJ official.
The email includes a tracking matrix on the receipt of
Steele dossier reports. Also included Fusion Gps founder Glenn Simpson,
also Mark Elias, a former Perkins Cooey lawyer who served
as general counsel for Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen presidential campaign
and who played a key role in the funding and
the spreading of Steele's discredited dossier. He hired the opposition
firm Fusion Gps, which in hired Steel. The FBI documents
also include a spreadsheet laying out how the dossier reports
had been injected into the FBI, including left wing journalist
David Korn from Mother Jones, Glenn Simpson, former Republican Senator
John McCain. Yeah, also a FGI, which is a foreign
Government information indicating that there's some yet unrevealed foreign government
that was involved. Yeah, there's a reason why Trump supporters
believe what they believe, and this is it. This is
why when you see this kind of stuff because most
of this information Trump people know this. I've known this stuff.
It's good to get more redactions and to have this
stuff buttoned down or nailed down. But we knew where
all of these signs were pointing years ago, and we
were told that we were making stuff up. All right,
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