- This is my own exclusive story based on my analysis and deductions of months of work. This summary covered many articles in the media/press/blogs with misleading narrative putting blame elsewhere where the IC from Britain and America worked in collusion to defeat Trump.
Spooks should serve at the pleasure of the U.S. President and should not be running Foreign Policy, run military operations across the globe or a drone assassination program. What guarantees are there that the media and the blog community are following the leads leaked by the IC for some nefarious machinations to unseat the elected president.
I have been quite uncomfortable to read who I should believe and who I shouldn’t.
In my lifetime I have learned that much, anything coming out of the mouth of an intelligence spook to just not believe. Intelligence ‘evidence’ should be vetted by the President, his National Security Council, U.S. Congress and where applicable, by the judiciary.
As soon as Donald Trump became the leading Republican candidate in the primaries, the political world went topsy turvy and everything turned upside down. Republican dirty dossiers were handed over to Democrats to stop Trump and foreign intelligence outfits were hired for dirty campaign tricks. Add a lot of misinformation, lies, fake news and social media accounts and one gets a mud fight instead of politics run on issues concerning the electorate.
See yesterday’s diary about the link between Fusion GPS and Russian lawyer/lobyist Veselnitskaya who teamed up with Russian mobsters to undo the sanctions imposed by the Magnitsky Act. Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS worked together with former MI-6 agent Chris Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd. to build the British Dodgy Dossier on Trump.
○ Revealed: Trump Linked to the Music Industry
○ Globalisation: Katsyv links Moscow – London – NY – Tel Aviv
The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr and allegedly offered to supply damaging information about Hillary Clinton, is apparently linked to a firm that helped compile the notorious dossier of wild and unproven allegations about the US President.
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The President’s eldest son said he met lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, after being told she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms Clinton. He said it soon become clear she had no such information and rather wanted to press him about her effort to overturn the Magnitsky Act, a US law that blacklists several Russians linked to the 2009 murder of another Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
A spokesman for the President’s legal team told The Independent they now believed Ms Veselnitskaya and her colleagues had misrepresented who they were and who they worked for.
Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent… went nowhere but had to listen. https://t.co/ccUjL1KDEa
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) 10 juli 2017
In a statement, Mark Corallo added: “Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.”
Fusion GPS, which is based in Washington DC and was established by former Wall Street Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, found itself in the spotlight earlier this year after it emerged it was behind an “oppo research” dossier containing unproven and often salacious allegations about Mr Trump.
○ Russian officials: Banned by the US, on holiday in the EU
[Update-1] In FBI counterespionage cases, the prosecution would entice the defendant for a plea bargain by offering a ‘sweet’ deal. Is that what happened in the trial of money laundering with Katsyv and Prevezon Holdings. See my earlier post of Katsyv meeting with FBI outside knowledge of the prosecutor Preet Bharara.
Breaking News today from the UK – Daily Mail …
The Moscow lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. is an accused Russian government agent who once stuck U.S. prosecutors with a $50,000 Plaza Hotel and restaurant bill while representing a Russian oligarch client on money-laundering charges in New York.
Natalia Veselnitskaya, who landed a meeting with Trump Jr. last June by claiming she had dirt on Hillary Clinton’s Russian financial involvements, has come under congressional scrutiny for her ties to the Washington lobbying world.
Veselnitskaya was part of an extensive pro-Moscow legal campaign in Washington that involved Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that later released the explosive dossier that claimed Donald Trump was being blackmailed by the Kremlin.
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The U.S. charged Katsyv’s company Prevezon Holdings as part of a $230 million tax fraud case. That case was settled for $6 million in May.
Got Off Easy Laundering thru Hapoalim
Once again, many more links of NY mobsters with Israel and equally with [Jewish] mobsters from Moldova, Ukraine and Russia. Israel’s Netanyahu looks after his own interests when dealing with foreign policy. Illegal contracts even reached Iran during the US and UN economic boycott.
The Katsyv family’s involvement in the laundering of money from Russia into Israeli banks reflects the use of weak international channels, and exposes the route of official money being sent abroad from Russia. Peter Katsyv and his son Denis Katsyv were charged in Israel in 2005 with laundering money through their Martash Investment accounts in the Israeli Hapoalim Bank. Petr Katsyv, who was the Russian Deputy Minister of Transportation, allegedly laundered, through the company and its bank accounts, 250 million Israeli shekels (about $64 million) that he skimmed off from the Russian government.
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Katsyv ended up settling, and Martash Investment signed an agreement with the Israeli government in order to not be indicted for money laundering. In this agreement they were ordered to pay 35 million shekels (about $8 million). The settlement reflects the overall fear from the Katsyv family of an investigation, which could have led to the source of the money.
FBI Entrapment Draws Critical Attention in ‘Homegrown Terror’ Stings
The NYTimes reported today that the FBI has increased its use of sting operations in ISIS cases. While any attention paid to the Bureau’s is welcome we must be clear: this is not a new tactic.
According to a 2014 study, Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions, by Human Rights Watch,
in some cases the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by conducting sting operations that facilitated or invented the target’s willingness to act. According to multiple studies, nearly 50 percent of the more than 500 federal counterterrorism convictions resulted from informant-based cases; almost 30 percent of those cases were sting operations in which the informant played an active role in the underlying plot. In the case of the “Newburgh Four,” for example, a judge said the government “came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles,” and had, in the process, made a terrorist out of a man “whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.”
A 2014 study, “Inventing Terrorists: the Lawfare of Preventive Prosecution” by Project Salam and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, found that almost every domestic terrorist plot from 2001 to 2010 was in some way cooked up or assisted (and eventually “busted”) by the FBI. The report analyzed about 400 domestic terror cases and found only that only four cases were initiated or driven without the encouragement of the bureau. The study author’s summarized their findings as follows:
The statistical analysis shows that 72.4% of convictions on the DOJ list represent cases of preemptive prosecution that were based on suspicion of the defendant’s perceived ideology and not on his/her criminal activity.
Another 21.8% of convictions on the DOJ list represent people who began on their own to engage in minor, non-terrorist criminal activity but whose cases were manipulated and inflated by the government to appear as though they were “terrorists”; these cases are referred to in the study as “elements of preemptive prosecution” or “elements.”
Overall, 94.2% of all the terrorism-related convictions on the DOJ list have been either preemptive prosecution cases or cases that involved elements of preemptive prosecution.
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While outrage has rightly been focused on Donald Trump’s Islamo-racist rants, attention should also be paid to the Bush and Obama Administrations’ long-running counterterrorism policies that fan the flames of bigotry. The use of paid informants to entrap and demonize vulnerable members of the Muslim community has been a centerpiece of the FBI’s war on terror since 9/11.
○ The FBI’s Fake Russian Agent Reveals His Secret | Smithsonian |
What a nest of snakes!!!
On all sides.
If they tell you it’s raining, check for piss.
And if anyone…anyone…claims to base some part of their understanding regarding how the world actually works on the disinformation/misinformation leaked out of the various spook centers around the world?
Run…do not walk…away.
They are either simple-minded, credulous fools or they take you for one.
Either way, they are not to be trusted.
Later…
AG
P.S. Or…and this is becoming increasingly possible…they are AI bots aimed at you and your basic belief system.
Believe nothing that you do not see clearly for yourself.
Everything else?
Post-factual bullshit from every conceivable direction.
Bet on it.
These are the supposed catchwords of Hassan-i-Sabbah, The Old Man of the Mountain, the founder of the Assassin cult.
Given the vagaries of translation, I often wonder if what he really said was “When nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
Maybe he was truly a prophet, because that’s where we are all living now. Welcome to the PostFactual World.
The Information Age is over, assassinated by professional liars.
Now?
We can only trust ourselves.
Bet on that as well.
Rob Goldstone is a agent for Emin Agalarov who was married to Leyla Aliyeva — social activist and elder daughter of the Azerbaijani President.
The Russian lawyer/lobbyist Natalia Veselnitskaya is not well known and has an obscure office in a southern suburb Ul. Lazareva Admirala of Moscow. She made headlines when she was hired by Denis Katsyv to lead his defence in Manhattan trial for money laundering of Prevezon Holdings Ltd. linked to the Magnitsky case. On May 12, 2017, US Attorney Joon Kim settled out of court, a ‘sweet’ deal some would say:
The U.S. agreed to take $5.9 million to settle a money-laundering lawsuit tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud, avoiding a trial that was set to begin mid May.
Veselnitskaya hired Fusion to do investigative work and Fusion shared her lobbying effort in the States to get rid of the sanctions enforced on Katsyv by the Magnitsky Act of Congress.
The meeting with Trump Jr. took place on June 9, 2016.
Fusion GPS signed a contract with the British Orbis Business Intelligence group of Chris Steel, and Sir Andrew Wood. Orbis leadership worked as MI6 spies in the British Embassy in Moscow during the 90s.
Orbis worked for Fusion from June until early November 2016.
Fusion had already worked for Republican candidate Rubio who was supported by Paul Singer. There was an ‘opposition’ dossier on candidate Trump build up during the primaries. Fusion has financial links with Clinton supporters.
Katsyv was part of the $230 million tax scam to defraud the Russian government/taxpayer.
The Katsyv family’s involvement in the laundering of money from Russia into Israeli banks reflects the use of weak international channels, and exposes the route of official money being sent abroad from Russia. Peter Katsyv and his son Denis Katsyv were charged in Israel in 2005 with laundering money through their Martash Investment accounts in the Israeli Hapoalim Bank. Petr Katsyv, who was the Russian Deputy Minister of Transportation, allegedly laundered, through the company and its bank accounts, 250 million Israeli shekels (about $64 million) that he skimmed off from the Russian government. Hapoalim Bank allowed for the money to be transferred, and according Sam Vaknin, there is evidence that Israel has turned a blind eye to the origin of money transferred from South Africa and Russia.
Katsyv ended up settling, and Martash Investment signed an agreement with the Israeli government in order to not be indicted for money laundering. In this agreement they were ordered to pay 35 million shekels (about $8 million). The settlement reflects the overall fear from the Katsyv family of an investigation, which could have led to the source of the money.
Summarizing:
British citizen Rob Goldstone is linked to Russian Emin Agalarov and via Leyla Aliyeva to the Azerbaijani President.
Rob Goldstone was used to arrange a meeting between Russian lawyer/lobbyist Natalia Veselnitskaya and the Trump campaign.
Veselnitskaya did not deliver any goods about Clinto as reported so far, and from my viewpoint, the meeting does not in any way proof “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Veselnitskaya is directly linked to Glenn Simpson, partner in Fusion GPS of Washington DC, an organization that worked for Republicans, Democrats and a Russian mobster.
Fusion GPS is directly responsible and linked to British intelligence through former MI6 agents who worked in a spy nest in Moscow. I refer to their set of 16 “intelligence” documents simply as a “Dodgy Dossier” and so typically British.
Orbis is facing a lawsuit for libel. From the court proceedings Chris Steele has stated that the dossier was handed by Sir Andrew Woods to Mr. Kramer, assistant to Senator John McCain. Later Orbis gave an additional December memorandum to Fusion which was handed in hard copy to McCain and a senior UK government national security official.
The arranged meeting could just as well have been an entrapment by a Federal agency or IC. Trump has long been suspect of being too close to Moscow/Kremlin. Still I really have no idea what is going on!
An expanded version (more of your own words) of this comment with embedded links and a few (ie 2-4) one to four sentence direct quotes from media sources would make for a decent diary.
Second that! I want to find thought provoking stuff in your diaries but instead find a memory dump.
Writing a different narrative, one gets hit by the thought police. Much worse than I ever experienced in the bad, very bad days @dKos. OK, I’ll give it a try …
See the result here, here and here.
So much bs, so much bullying. Not my neighbourhood, which I had learned to love when we called it still the Pond.
Stop polluting the waters here at the Pond!
In which month did the first FISA request fail?
Ahh … I missed that! In August 2017, British spy Christopher Steele briefed the F.B.I. about dealings of shadowy Russian figures and the Trump campaign! What a creep he is!
○ How ex-spy Christopher Steele compiled his explosive Trump-Russia dossier | Vanity Fair – March 2017 |
○ FBI Made Deal With Ex-Spy for Trump Dossier | NBC News – March 1, 2017 |
No.
I am tempted to say, yes shortly after they covered up the evidence about the Grassy Knoll.
Oui you are now citing people who are taking Trump’s tweets as believable evidence.
It has been a wild 48 hours of conspiracy theories.
Sean Hannity now sounds identical to some at C99.
There is no doubt that some in the Democratic Party are focused on Russia to avoid a broader discussion over Democratic Failures in 2016. I think it is true to say that the DC establishment, and in particular the consultant/think tank groups are invested in this to distract from their own manifest incompetence.
As a result, some on the left are determined to fight the idea that Russia was involved in 2016. I understand the motivation.
But they have lost their minds. C99 engaged in Seth Rich conspiracy theories.
And yet, based upon what has currently been revealed about the Trumpkin’s tete-a-tete, there’s something about this that more than a little bit screams sting. Beginning with the three dummies (the Trumpkin, Goldstone, and Emin) who knew/trusted each other and would have been eager to become BYOBs in the Trump campaign. (Not even DT considered the Trumpkin for an important role in his campaign; that went to the girl and her hubby.)
While there isn’t anyone that more deserves grief over BS allegations than Trump for having spent two years screaming about Obama’s “real” birth certificate (the one from Kenya) to build his political power base with the teabag dimwits — and for that reason I’m amused by all of this — this is a real challenge for those that hold principles above politics and personalities. Dismissing those on the left that loathe Trump as much as you for pointing out the Trump-Putin-Russia BS as Trump supporters is lazy and cheap.
What gives CT folks a bad rep is that they run too far and too fast with suspicions based on very limited facts that a spun into narratives that are too convoluted to be real. The real story (in past cases that have been somewhat revealed) — even when it’s complex — is always less convoluted. Or a rational leap that omits all other possible rational leaps.
An illustration of the above points was evident in 2002-03. Those that believed the Bush/Cheney BS about Saddam’s WMD said:
Technically, Saddam did come clean, but as it was presented to the UN instead of the US, that factoid was denied. However, even if he hadn’t there’s still a problem with the leap. It didn’t serve Saddam to have it known to his internal and neighboring enemies that his military capabilities were fifth rate. After the Iran-Iraq War and Gulf War it was easy to see that his military was a hollow shell. Except for the possibility that he had a bunch WMD in reserve. Not likely because he didn’t have the means to acquire them, but still a possibility. For Americans what Saddam lacked was delivery systems to the US and most likely European countries. That last point may have factored into France and Germany’s decision not to join the coalition because they would have been the most vulnerable among western nations if Saddam had WMD and sufficient delivery systems to reach them.
wrt Seth Rich as the DNC leaker, I’m totally on the fence. It’s not the least bit implausible. OTOH, there are too many other possible narratives and too few known facts to complete the story of the leak and his death for me to run with this. However, I appreciate those that are obsessed enough with it to stay on top of any information that surfaces. And so far that has been precious little.
With respect to Seth Rich you and Hannity are on the same page.
Oh.
Nevermind.
I forgot.
We’re not s’pose to see both sides of the forest. Only specific, mass media-chosen trees.
Like this one.
My bad.
Sorry.
Yore freind…
Emily Litella