Posted on 02/08/2018 10:22:03 AM PST by Starman417
As you know, I've been wondering about whether the Russia collusion theory was ever a reality or a construct of FBI. I put together a timeline of events, this time including Carter Page and some pivotal events with which you are familiar. Have a look at how it went down.
2013: Carter Page is working for the FBI to help catch spies
June 2015: Trump announces candidacy
Clinton campaign puts down payment on the false dossier
April 2016: Perkins Coie, using money from the Clinton campaign and DNC, hires Fusion GPS. Marc Elias, a Perkins Coie partner and general counsel for both the campaign and DNC, would serve as the bagman.
That month, Federal Election Commission records show that the Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie a total of $150,000 for legal services. The DNC paid the firm around $107,000. It is unclear how much of that went to Fusion GPS. Both the campaign and DNC would pay Perkins Coie hundreds of thousands more dollars throughout the campaign.
April 2016: Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud
May 2016: Comey decides Clinton is innocent.
May 26, 2016: Trump secures nomination
June 2016: Australia informs US that Papadopoulos has information about Clinton emails when leaked Podesta emails appear online.
The scramble for the emails begins
June 2016: Fusion GPS hires former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his London-based firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. Steele discloses this in court filings earlier this year as part of a lawsuit he faces over the dossier. Steele said he worked for Fusion GPS from June through November.
June 20, 2016: Steele writes first memo of the dossier. It alleges that Trump used prostitutes during a visit to Moscow in 2013 and that the Kremlin was blackmailing him with the evidence. The memo also alleges that the Trump campaign was engaged in a well-orchestrated collusion campaign with Russian operatives.
July 5, 2016: With Strzok's input, Comey lets Clinton off the hook.
July 19, 2016: Trump officially becomes GOP nominee
July, 2016: Carter Page travels to Russia.
"Back in June 2016, I mentioned in passing that I happened to be planning to give a speech at a university in Moscow," Page told CNN. "Completely unrelated to my limited volunteer role with the campaign and as I've done dozens of times throughout my life."Very curiously, he would later testify without a lawyer.
Page’s decision to appear before the committee without a lawyer surprised members, including Conaway. Castro said Page’s decision to testify without a lawyer was “a first” for the committee. “You know, as an attorney myself, I certainly would think that somebody would want to have a lawyer with them, but there’s also a high cost financially for somebody to be able to afford a lawyer.”July 2016: Chatter began appearing on social media referring to damning information about Trump’s ties to Russia. Republican strategist Rick Wilson told The New York Times back in January, after the dossier was published, that he was first asked about the document by a reporter in July.
(This is when Steele begins leaking the story to the media)
Late July 2016: FBI opens investigation into Trump-Russia- signed off by Peter Strzok.
I think this started as an investigation into who might have the Clinton emails but then it morphed into the collusion accusation.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
sorry for the poor formatting.
Bkmrk - FBI, Trump, Clinton timeline
“Do you know if the Michael isikoff(?) guy is the one named in the Fisa warrant?”
If you mean was he the one whose article was used to “legitimize” the dossier... yes.
Glanced through (did not read but noted their source links) the entire scribd document. While being well formatted and easy to read one item stuck out like a sore thumb. For the most part every one of their source material links goes to a ideologically suspect site. (Well, there is ONE reference I saw that said it was ‘direct from Breitbart’ but the link went to Daily KOS of all places.)
Their sources include NYT, WaPo, Salon, Daily Beast, MSNBC, Politico, Politifact, Wikipedia, Village Voice, Twitter, The Atlantic, Snopes, The Guardian, CNN, Time, Far Right Watch, Reuters, Yahoo, Bloomberg, BBC, Slate, HuffPo, the Steele Dossier, Mother Jones, Daily Beast, Think Progress, NBC News, Time, ABC News, Observer, Newsweek, AP, and even good Ol’ Babs Feinstein and That Schiff thing..
SO get your grains of salt together if you choose to wade through it ..
Papadopoulos... of interest because of Alexander Downer, the “Australian diplomat” who said Papadop bragged about Russian contacts and info on Cankles:
Here he is wearing fishnets and heals: https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/947221557339766784/photo/1 (oh, just an Australian fundraising tradition, libs say)
And he is one and the same the subject of “multiple allegations of mishandling millions of dollars contributed to the Clinton Foundation by the Australian government.”
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/alexander-downer-clinton-foundation/
Wow. I wish I knew how to copy that!
This needs to be a stand alone post... I don’t usually support ‘vanities’, but this is an exception. Wonderful work.
Ping to reply #7
Date Description Source Link
7/23/14 House Select Committee on Benghazi reaches agreement with State Dept. to produce Clinton emails relevant to their investigation USNews https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta-computer-specialist-who-deleted-hillary-clinton-emails-may-have-asked-reddit-for-tips
7/24/14 Clinton IT aide Paul Combetta, using the alias “stonetear”, requests assistance on Reddit for deleting VIP email addresses USNews https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/paul-combetta-computer-specialist-who-deleted-hillary-clinton-emails-may-have-asked-reddit-for-tips
10/15/14 Clinton team instructs Datto to begin purging emails from their backup storage devices, which they apparently failed to do Exam http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clintons-tech-firm-worried-about-involvement-in-cover-up/article/2573526
3/2/15 News that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email server for official State Dept. business is disclosed in the New York Times NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
3/3/15 Clinton aides call Platte River Networks, which operated her email server, to confirm all emails were deleted per their 2014 order NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-investigation.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined
3/9/15 Clinton associate Terry McCauliffe meets with FBI official Andrew McCabe’s wife Jill to encourage her to run for office JW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-fbi-records-show-fbi-leaderships-conflicts-interest-discussions-clinton-email-investigation/
3/12/15 izJill McCabe announces her candidacy for the state senate in Virginia JW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-fbi-records-show-fbi-leaderships-conflicts-interest-discussions-clinton-email-investigation/
Sept. 8/9, 2005: Guistra’s “fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency KazAtomProm.” (NYT 4/23/15)
KazAtomProm had to approve the deal, according to its then-CEO Moukhtar Dzhakishev and, he added, President Nazarbayev ultimately signed off on the transaction. (NYT 1/31/08)
“The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company [UrAsia Energy Ltd.] into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.” (NYT 1/31/08)
2006: Frank Giustra donates $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation. (Neither Giustra nor Clinton disclose precisely when the donation was made.) (NYT 1/31/08)
September 2006: Giustra co-produces a gala for Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday, which raises $21 million for the Clinton Foundation. (NYT 1/31/08)

February 2007: Giustra’s company, UrAsia Energy, merges with Vancouver-based Uranium One, a reported $3.5 billion deal. In Uranium One, UrAsia Energy is still controlled by one of its investors, Ian Telfer, a Canadian. (NYT 4/23/15)
February 2007: KazAtomProm CEO Moukhtar Dzhakishev travels to Chappaqua, N.Y. and meets with Bill Clinton in his home, a meeting arranged by Frank Giustra. Clinton and Giustra at first denied to the New York Timesthat the meeting occurred but when presented with facts about the meeting, “both men acknowledged it.” Giustra also admitted that he arranged the gathering, claiming that the event “escaped my memory until you raised it.” (NYT 1/31/08)
“Mr. Dzhakishev said he had a vivid memory of his Chappaqua visit, and a souvenir to prove it: a photograph of himself with the former president. ‘I hung up the photograph of us and people ask me if I met with Clinton and I say, Yes, I met with Clinton.’ He said, smiling proudly.” (NYT 1/31/08)
2007: Ian Telfer donates no more than $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation. (NYT 4/23/15)
2007: Frank Giustra sells his stake in the Uranium One merger for a reported $45 million. (NYT 4/23/15)

April 2007: In addition to its newly acquired assets in Kazakhstan, Uranium One starts buying uranium mines in Utah, Wyoming, Texas and Utah. (NYT 4/23/15)
May-June 2009: KazAtomProm CEO Moukhtar Dzhakishev is removed from his position and arrested “on charges that he illegally sold uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.” (NYT 4/23/15)
June 2009: Rosatom, the Russian Federation state corporation that oversees nuclear energy, seeks to buy into Uranium One. (NYT 4/23/15)
Mid-June 2009: ARMZ, “a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom completed a deal for 17 percent of Uranium One.” ARMZ/Rosatom takes steps to obtain larger shares in Uranium One and contacts the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review and potential approval. (NYT 4/23/15)
2009: Uranium One’s Ian Telfer, through his family charity the Fernwood Foundation, donates $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, “the year his company appealed to the American Embassy to help keep its mines in Kazakhstan.” (NYT 4/23/15)
2010: Telfer, through the Fernwood Foundation, donates $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, “the year Russians sought majority control” of Uranium One. (NYT 4/23/15)
June 2010: Bill Clinton gives a speech in Moscow for a $500,000 fee, paid for by Renaissance Capital, “a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin,” and whose analysts “talked up Uranium One’s stock,” saying in a July 2010 report “that it was ‘the best play’ in the uranium markets.” (NYT 4/23/15)
October 2010: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approves the partial sale of Uranium One to Rosatom, which gives the Russians (and President Vladimir Putin) a 51 percent controlling stake in Uranium One. With this deal, Rosatom controls 20% of U.S. uranium production. Members of CFIUS included, among others, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and Attorney General Eric Holder. (*Bloomberg 10/18/2017 and NYT 4/23/15)
2011: Telfer, through the Ferwood Foundation, donates $600,000 to the Clinton Foundation. (NYT 4/23/15)
2012: Telfer, through the Ferwood Foundation, donates $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. (NYT 4/23/15)
2009-2012: Between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions were made to the Clinton Foundation by people “with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines.” (NYT 4/23/15) compiled from CNS
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