georgephillip
Diamond Member
Following the money continues as Individual-1 says "I never did anything wrong"
"(2018)
"So far, the release of transcripts of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s interviews with the House Intelligence and Senate Judiciary committees have provided rich detail to obsessives but few major headlines for the average reader.
"The interviews give some more clarity on how Fusion came to investigate Donald Trump; who was paying the company; and how it gathered information, but they offer much help in assessing the Trump dossier.
"Perhaps the most interesting thread is Simpson’s suggestion that the Trump Organization could have been used by Russians to launder money—an arrangement that would have both allowed Kremlin-linked figures to scrub cash and would have created possible blackmail material over the now-president, since the Russian government would be aware that a crime had been committed."
www.theatlantic.com/...
Are we still wondering who paid for the dossier?
Well, we know Republicans started the dossier investigation and paid for the first part of it. After they dropped out - the Democrats took it over and paid for the completion.And Mueller's footnotes may provide some fresh perspective on the Steele Dossier's role in launching the investigation of Donald Trump:
What Happens Next with the Mueller Report? The Answer May Lie in the Footnotes
"Volume I
"Footnote 465
"This footnote addresses a question that has been raised time and again, and which was echoed by Attorney General William Barr in his testimony to Congress on April 10: What was the basis, or predicate, for the Russia investigation?
The White House has claimed that the investigation was based on the 'Steele Dossier,' an intelligence report compiled by a former British spy and financed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which alleged that there were ties between Trump and the Kremlin.
"But in this footnote, Mueller explains the sequence and timing of events that gave rise to a credible threat to national security, warranting an investigation.
"First, Mueller notes earlier in the report that in July 2016, Wikileaks began disseminating emails stolen from the DNC.
"A few days later, the U.S. intelligence community assessed with 'high confidence' that the Russian government had orchestrated the hack of these emails.
"Within a week of that release, a foreign government informed the FBI that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, told a representative of their government that Russia had offered to 'assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.'
"Mueller states that this information 'is contained in the case-opening document and related materials.'
"This means that it was these facts, not the Steele Dossier, which raised an open question on whether Russia had attempted or was trying to attempt to coordinate with members of the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential campaign and led to the official opening of an investigation."
That would be fine and dandy if it were true. However evidence shows that the hack was not a hack at all, but an inside job.
If the computers were hacked, it would have recorded a download from the hacker. The computers didn't show that. What happened is somebody stole that material without downloading it which means it was an inside job; something Trump was nohow capable of performing. Kind of like putting it on a jump drive or somethings like that which would not have been recorded.
That fits in well with the fact that the DNC refused to let the FBI examine those computers. Instead, they provided a "mirror image" and had a private company that they paid for look at the computers instead.
The Big Lie About ‘Russian’ ‘Hacking’ – Ray McGovern
On what date did this specific hack/leak occur?
Democratic National Committee cyber attacks - Wikipedia
"On January 25, 2018 Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant and TV program Nieuwsuur reported that in 2014 the Dutch Intelligence agency General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) successfully infiltrated the computers of Cozy Bear and observed the hacking of the head office of the DNC and subsequently The White House and were the first to alert the National Security Agency about the cyber-intrusion.[22]
"'Cozy Bear' had access to DNC systems since the summer of 2015; and 'Fancy Bear', since April 2016.
"There was no evidence of collaboration or knowledge of the other's presence within the system.
"Rather, the 'two Russian espionage groups compromised the same systems and engaged separately in the theft of identical credentials'.[4][19][23]
"'Cozy Bear' employed the 'Sea Daddy' implant and an obfuscated PowerShell script as a backdoor, launching malicious code at various times and in various DNC systems.
"'Fancy Bear' employed X Agent malware, which enabled distant command execution, transmissions of files and keylogging, as well as the 'X-Tunnel' malware.
"DNC leaders became aware of the compromise in April 2016."
The Tweets Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
