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"The most serious charge again Bijan Rafiekian was acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 951." So, the most serious charge again him was the FARA violation. Something they never prosecute.

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Eleven pages of State Department documents released on Jan. 7 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch show that Jonathan Winer, an assistant to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, used his private email address to convey information he received from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to top U.S. diplomatic officials.

"I will send them to her [his assistant, Nina Miller] from my non-State email account, not copying myself," Winer said in response to a December 2014 email from Paul Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs.

Jones wanted Winer to use the State Department's secure email system, known informally as the "high side," to transmit reports from Steele's firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

"Given our ongoing concerns about security of open net, [then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland] and I wonder if it would be possible for you to flip Orbis reports to this system before sending them to us. Understand that's yet another step in the process for you. We just want to be sure we don't inadvertently undermine a very good source of info or worse."

Winer, who was then-special coordinator for Libya under Kerry, continued in his response, telling Jones "she will then send them to us. You know who they are coming from, so even high side from here I will just refer to them as 'O Reports,' and strip out any other identifying information as to sourcing."

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Documents Show Senior Kerry Aide Used Private Email to Send Steele Reports to State Department Colleagues

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Eleven pages of State Department documents released on Jan. 7 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch show that Jonathan Winer, an assistant to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, used his private email address to convey information he received from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to top U.S. diplomatic officials.

"I will send them to her [his assistant, Nina Miller] from my non-State email account, not copying myself," Winer said in response to a December 2014 email from Paul Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs.

Jones wanted Winer to use the State Department's secure email system, known informally as the "high side," to transmit reports from Steele's firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

"Given our ongoing concerns about security of open net, [then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland] and I wonder if it would be possible for you to flip Orbis reports to this system before sending them to us. Understand that's yet another step in the process for you. We just want to be sure we don't inadvertently undermine a very good source of info or worse."

Winer, who was then-special coordinator for Libya under Kerry, continued in his response, telling Jones "she will then send them to us. You know who they are coming from, so even high side from here I will just refer to them as 'O Reports,' and strip out any other identifying information as to sourcing."

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Jesus, was Steele handing out reports like party favors? I feel left out that I didn't get one. He's like the Hare Krishna of political intelligence.

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After conducting preliminary open source and FBI database inquiries, intelligence analysts on the Crossfire Hurricane team identified three individualsCarter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn-associated with the Trump campaign with either ties to Russia or a history of travel to Russia. On August 10, 2016, the team opened separate counterintelligence FARA cases on Carter Page, Manafort, and Papadopoulos, under code names assigned by the FBI. On August 16, 2016, a counterintelligence FARA case was opened on Flynn under a code name assigned by the FBI. The opening ECs for all four investigations were drafted by either of the two Special Agents assigned to serve as the Case Agents for the investigation (Case Agent 1 or Case Agent 2) and were approved by Strzok, as required by the DIOG.178 Each case was designated a SIM because the individual subjects were believed to be "prominent in a domestic political campaign."179

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drcrinum said:

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https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/a20009.pdf#page=2

Here's a link to the OIG report on validating confidential human sources.
I've scanned it. There are no citations or specific incidents/procedures/applications that identify any individual persons or FBI sections involved...all generalities...so there is no way to directly assess anything with respect to SpyGate or its associated actors IMO.

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From my experience in Internal Audit, I think you are missing very grave points in the results (U) section.

This was a process audit, about key people following / implementing a key process. Any of you who have heard the term "Material Weakness", should be able to translate that impact to "significant weakness" in this report. Material Weaknesses will often end up as sanctions from the SEC...

This process audit opens Manager / Director types to varying levels of organizational punishments, from slaps on the wrists all the way up to termination. These are not civil or criminal findings, but governance transgressions. Horowitz knows who is in each position, though, which will enable enforcement of penalties or punishments on the individual.

It will be up to Barr as the top of the organizational pyramid in DoJ to determine what actions can/need to be taken.

Again, while this report does not yield a list of names and civil/criminal actions to punish, it does reveal how pitifully this FBI CHS program has been operated, especially the part about re-assigning people during sequestration . If this were a large corporation, there would be h_ll to pay, IMO.

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.....The IG's report on CHSs issued the prior month made clear that the CHS files weren't squeaky clean because the sources were or because of mistakes, but because FBI agents intentionally excluded derogatory information to maintain the sources' apparent credibility and reliability. That conclusion from the previously released IG audit on CHSs changes everything.

We are not talking about mere mistakes; we aren't even talking about recklessness. We are talking about a corrupt culture that buried bad news to bury the bad guys (and a few innocents along the way)....

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It isn't merely a matter of Steele's handling agent not corroborating the FISA source classification. The agents working Crossfire Hurricane also did not document in Steele's Delta file many details relevant to his credibility, reliability, and bias. We know from the IG's previous CHS audit that this isn't just sloppiness--it is an institutional penchant for prettying up a CHS's profile by omitting negative information from the source's file.

This reality casts in a much more sinister light the IG's conclusion that "there were instances where information we deemed significant about Steele was not included in his Delta file.".....

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Does this indicate the investigative arm of federal law enforcement is far too cozy with the prosecutorial arm, in that it may view itself as working to build a case instead of working to objectively investigate, and an institutional bias has emerged from that approach?

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Does this indicate the investigative arm of federal law enforcement is far too cozy with the prosecutorial arm, in that it may view itself as working to build a case instead of working to objectively investigate, and an institutional bias has emerged from that approach?

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Does this indicate the investigative arm of federal law enforcement is far too cozy with the prosecutorial arm, in that it may view itself as working to build a case instead of working to objectively investigate, and an institutional bias has emerged from that approach?

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And repeated in just about every jurisdiction in the United States.

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In the more recent NYT offering, headlined 3 Hours From Alert to Attacks: Inside the Race to Protect U.S. Forces From Iran Strikes, there is this vignette from the debate over kill/no-kill on Suleimani:

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Appearing on a video screen was Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, who was monitoring the crisis from the agency's headquarters in Northern Virginia. In the days before General Suleimani's death, Ms. Haspel had advised Mr. Trump that the threat the Iranian general presented was greater than the threat of Iran's response if he was killed, according to current and former American officials. Indeed, Ms. Haspel had predicted the most likely response would be a missile strike from Iran to bases where American troops were deployed, the very situation that appeared to be playing out on Tuesday afternoon.
Though Ms. Haspel took no formal position about whether to kill General Suleimani, officials who listened to her analysis came away with the clear view that the C.I.A. believed that killing him would improve not weaken security in the Middle East.

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the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said.

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Huber's tasking was nebulous from the start. Some people involved in the matters he was said to be reviewing expressed surprise that they were not contacted by the U.S. attorney, and wondered privately what he was doing.

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Robert Mueller is a liar and a partisan hack who has no interest in truth or justice.

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Robert Mueller is a liar and a partisan hack who has no interest in truth or justice.

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/09/report-john-huber-completes-review-of-clinton-foundation-and-uranium-one-finds-nothing/

Nothing official, based upon a WaPo article, per former & current law enforcement officials.

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.....I just want to point out that reporters like Devlin have been used to get out ahead of a bad story to try and blunt what is coming. Like the texts, like the IG report, etc. So let's all take a deep breath and wait for more information.

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A D.C. FRIEND WHO REQUESTS ANONYMITY SENDS THIS:

These are the top 10 items that have not been released to Gen Flynn and his lawyer. These documents would exonerate him. It is a disgrace that DOJ, the DC prosecutor, the FBI have not complied with the Flynn request for the Brady material. And yet, the prosecutor recommended a jail sentence for him. It is enough to make one very cynical about the Rule of Law. I hope you will do whatever you can to make sure people realize this is going on in America and do everything you can to get these documents released.

1. The original 302
2. The internal DOJ document dated January 30, 2017, that exonerates Flynn of being "an agent of Russia."
3. Notes and documents of any kind dealing with any briefings that Mr. Flynn provided to DIA after he left the government.
4. Unredacted notes and 302s of both agents who interviewed Flynn on January 24.
5. The EC of SSA 1 interview of Flynn during the sample PDB where he went in to spy on Trump and Flynn.
6. The EC that started the whole investigation and drafts including anything written by Strzok that went into it.
7. The 1-A filethe whole audit trail of the Flynn 302 process.
8. The unredacted Strzok-Page text messages in their entiretyother than purely personal.
9. Unredacted McCabe memo.
10. Unredacted 302s of interviews of Strzok and SSA1 and raw notes.

These are all crucial.

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