Follow-up on yesterday’s release of Glenn Simpson‘s testimony by Dianne Feinstein where Fusion GPS literally destroyed all credibility of Bill Browder and undermined the Congressional arguments for the anti-Russian Magnitsky Act under president Obama. Steps towards some transparency at last?
○ Fusion GPS Transcript of Testimony Released
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues BuzzFeed for publishing Steele dossier | NBC News |
A personal lawyer for President Donald Trump filed a defamation action against the website Buzzfeed on Tuesday for publishing a 35-page dossier alleging that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia.
The lawyer, Michael Cohen, provided NBC News with a copy of the lawsuit, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court.
Cohen has consistently and strongly denied any personal role in Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, both publicly and when he appeared before the House and Senate intelligence committees in October.
More below the fold …
In the action, Cohen highlights several allegations in the dossier that he says are provably false. For example, the dossier claimed that Cohen’s wife is Russian and that her father is a leading property developer in Russia, allowing Cohen to carry on a possibly criminal relationship with the Russian government.
The suit says Cohen’s wife was born in Ukraine, immigrated to the United States more than 40 years ago and “has never been to Russia.” Her father, it says, has been to Russia only once.
Enough is enough of the #fake #RussianDossier. Just filed a defamation action against @BuzzFeedNews for publishing the lie filled document on @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and me!
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) 10 January 2018
Ben Smith, Buzzfeed’s editor, who is a named respondent in the lawsuit, wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday night that he was proud to have published the dossier, saying “a year of government inquiries and blockbuster journalism has made clear that the dossier is unquestionably real news.”
Timeline 2014-2015
2014
- Steele authored more than 100 reports on Russia and Ukraine between 2014 and 2016, which were written for an unidentified private client and shared with the U.S. State Department; sent to Secretary of State John Kerry and Victoria Nuland [transcript].
- The FBI obtains a FISA warrant to surveil Paul Manafort in 2014, based on his political consulting work in Ukraine. Were Steele’s reports used to obtain the 2014 authorization to surveil Manafort?
- Ukrainian President Yanukovych was forced to flee Kiev on Feb. 22, 2014, following a coup d’etat by followers of Ukrainian World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. According to Stephen Dorril, author of MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Bandera’s organization, OUN-B, was re-formed in 1946 under the sponsorship of MI6. The organization had been receiving some support from MI6 since the 1930s. Bandera was recruited by MI6 to work in London in 1948. Bandera’s second in command, Mykola Lebed, was brought to New York City in the same year by the CIA’s Allen Dulles.
- Flynn wrote a letter in 2014 on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz on his official Pentagon stationery. He gave a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz and offered to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was accused by Gritz of sexual discrimination. McCabe never recused himself from Flynn investigation.
2015
- McCabe attends a meeting in March 2015 with Clinton ally Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, for the purpose of gaining support for his wife Jill McCabe to run for state legislature against State Senator Richard Black, a leading opponent of Obama’s regime change policy and supporter of General Flynn. McCabe is now being investigated for violation of the Hatch Act.
- Donald Trump announces candidacy for President on June 16, 2015.
- GCHQ surveilled Trump associates beginning late 2015. The alleged intelligence was passed to the United States over the next several months.
Previous diaries on this topic …
○ British Intelligence Delivers Another ‘Dodgy Dossier’
○ Fusion GPS linked to UAE Sheikh and Rubio Donor
○ Another British Spook Stands Up to Vent His Opinions
○ The Trail of VP Alperovitch @CrowdStrike
Further reading …
How Trump walked into Putin’s web | The Guardian | by Luke Harding
The inside story of how a former British spy was hired to investigate Russia’s influence on Trump – and
uncovered explosive evidence that Moscow had been cultivating Trump for years.
○ NSA directors defend surveillance tactics in Congressional hearing | The Guardian – Oct. 2013 |
○ Bruce Schneier on the Steele Dossier plus comments (Jan. 2017)
Note for esquimaux: for the West jihadists are freedom fighters, for most other nations they are terrorists. See Afghanistan – Chechnya – Kosovo – Iraq – Libya – Syria. The Colour Revolutions are mostly coup d’états funded and encouraged by western intelligence agencies, NGO’s, and oligarchs looking for profit and exploitation. Accepted facts everywhere except in puritan America. The new US ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra, will be reformed by Dutch tolerance within his term of four years … I expect Pete to leave a frustrated man. With emigrants of a backward religion, the first generation tend to be more conservative than their parents and cling to values of the 1950s. Poor man, fortunately he found a home with the Trumpistas of the GOP … destroying America. Holland had 400 years of economic cooperation with the America’s, it’s about to end. Europe will in the short term look Eastward to China and … yes, Russia for economic ties. Brexit and Trump came just-in-time for deliverance.
○ The slow and steady death of Dutch Reformed church
The bloggers @BooMan used to be left and progressive … many have lost their feathers:
○ This revolution is NOT being televised
○ America’s New Cold War
○ Modus Operandi of Sniper Killings: Color Revolutions Red
Today the Democrats are pursuing an anti-Russia stance along with the likes of John McCain … just unbelievable. Who needs an enemy? Russia is militarily powerless as Obama stated: a regional power at best. So the US leadership is threatening with low yield nuclear bombs for the battle field? Insane, inhuman and purely genocidal.