Carter Page Surveillance Documents Indicate State Department Provided Initial Info

Documents released on Saturday related to the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page reveal information that contributed to the government’s application to monitor Page originated with the State Department under the Obama administration in October 2016.

That detail may be particularly relevant since numerous officials from John Kerry’s State Department have been fingered for playing roles in the distribution – and in one case, possibly also the compilation – of the largely discredited, 35-page anti-Trump dossier which focused in significant part on Page.

Winer related that while he was at the State Department, he repeatedly passed documents from Steele related to Russia to State officials, including to Victoria Nuland,...Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful,” he wrote.

Besides bringing Steele’s dossier information to the State Department, Winer conceded that he also passed information from Blumenthal to Steele, specifically charges about Trump that originated with Shearer.

LOOK AT WHAT I’M ADDING RIGHT NOW ABOUT ‘WINER’.

From the U.S. (now defunct) Marxist weekly, (The)”Guardian”, January 2, 1987, Classifieds Guardian page,
“Calendar: Manhattan, NY, “New York Marxist School”, schedule of events,

“Thursday January 29 - “Roy Smith, attorney on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild Central American Task Force presents: “IRAN-CONTRAGATE FORUM. 7 pm. PLACE: New York Law School, 47 Worth Place. SPEAKERS: Ellen Ray and Bill Schaap, “CovertAction Information Bulletin” (NB:CAIB of ex-CIA agent Philip Agee turned communist traitor, DGI/KGB); Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights (NB: A creation of the Communist Party controlled National Lawyers Guild); JONATHAN WINTER (SIC, MISPELLED) SHOULD BE “WINER”, counsel to Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.)”

MM comments:
Ray, Schaap and Ratner were all key members of the NLG and/or the CCR (created by a CPUSA/supporters cabal of William Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy (a covert CPUSA lawyer on the Rosenbergs appeal - only trusted CPUSA lawyers were used on the team, according to the late Internal Security expert and former CPUSA member Herbert Romerstein, and a quote from a communist publication in the HCUA volume (One), “The National Committee to Defend the Rosenbergs”,said that those lawyers who were held in contempt of court and jailed (including George Crockett Jr), were “Marxists”; id. CPer Morton Stavis; and Peter Weiss (of the Soviet disinformation front, the Institute for Policy Studies, “S. Steven Powell, “Covert Cadre”, 1987), husband of Hanoi asset Cora Weiss, and member of the NLG and the other cited CP legal front, the NECLC (National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee).

I can see why Winer was asked to join this group, but he knew who the NLG was and decided to participate anyway. He will claim that he did it because of his knowledge as Kerry’s counsel on the Iran-Contra investigations, but his position and actions in the “Dossiergate” subversive operations means that he has been a far-left “DEEP STATE” operative since his time with Kerry in the late 1980s.

Time to put his ass under oath and before all the congressional investigating committee re “Dossiergate”. It will be interesting to see if he takes the 5th or not.

Then subpoena Kerry. Time to reveal what this traitor has been doing against the US since Vietnam.

More on Winer

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As Winer tells it, he and Steele were old pals. They “met and became friends” in 2009, when both were in the business of selling “business intelligence,” much of it involving Russia. Winer went back to work at State in 2013, after his old Capitol Hill boss, John Kerry, had become secretary of State. But he didn’t lose track of his friend Steele—not at all. He shared, and shared, and shared Steele’s corporate intelligence work with the State Department’s Russia desk. “Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful.” (Let’s not speculate about how much it may have been worth to Steele to be able to tell his clients that the materials they were paying for were being regularly consumed by policy-makers in Foggy Bottom.). . ."

Come the summer of 2016, Steele’s prime client was the campaign of Hillary Clinton, by way of the hired-guns at Fusion GPS, for whom he was assembling a grab bag of Trump tales from some sort of Russian sources. Come the fall Steele was spreading dossier info to various news organizations, the FBI, and the State Department. “In September 2016, Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the ‘dossier.’” Here’s where it starts getting particularly weird: “I was allowed to review, but not to keep, a copy of these reports to enable me to alert the State Department,” Winer writes. “I prepared a two-page summary and shared it with [Winer’s boss at State, Victoria] Nuland.” I doubt I’m the only one who finds this bit of peekaboo passing strange.

To hear Winer tell it, when he gave her his memo, Nuland was all for the State Department doing something about it: She “indicated that, like me, she felt that the secretary of State needed to be made aware of this material.” Maybe. But to hear Nuland tell it, she recognized the dossier for what it was: “What I did was say that this is about U.S. politics, and not the work of—not the business of the State Department,” Nuland said in an interview with Politico, “and certainly not the business of a career employee who is subject to the Hatch Act, which requires that you stay out of politics. So, my advice to those who were interfacing with [Steele] was that he should get this information to the FBI, and that they could evaluate whether they thought it was credible.”

But according to his piece in the Post, Winer had other people to share the Steele info with, too: “In late September, I spoke with an old friend, Sidney Blumenthal.” Given Blumenthal’s well-earned reputation as a Clinton hatchet-man, the words “old friend, Sidney Blumenthal” should be telling, if not alarming. So what was the nub of the conversation between these two old friends who just happen to have gotten together in the thick of a presidential campaign? Perhaps they were talking Libya—Blumenthal had been trying for some time to get federal contracts for work in Libya, and Winer was the special envoy to the war-wracked country. But no, they ended up talking about the dossier. You see, it just sort of came up naturally: Blumenthal’s emails had been hacked a few years before, and so “While talking about that hacking, Blumenthal and I discussed Steele’s report.” You’d think that Sid would have been gob-smacked, astonished at the information sleuthing spook Steele had unearthed. Instead, and ever so matter-of-factly, Blumenthal pulled out a dossier of his own: “He showed me notes gathered by a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, that alleged the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a sexual and financial nature.”

That’s right, Blumenthal had a dossier of his own, compiled by a Clinton crony of decades’ standing, Cody Shearer, and right at the ready. What are the odds?. . .

Winer seems not to have been at all astonished that two of his old friends—Steele and Blumenthal—themselves unacquainted, should each independently and of their own volition have presented him with the same bombshell material. Winer did not, so far as we know, look around for Allen Funt. No, instead he shared the Shearer memo with Steele, who in turn passed it along to the FBI. Do you think anyone bothered to mention to the Bureau, at the time, the peculiar circumstances and provenance of the notes, most notably that they had come from a source as compromised as Cody Shearer? Well, it never occurred to Winer, because he “did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the U.S. government.”

The Weird Tales of Jonathan Winer

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NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the Obama State Department official who acknowledged regularly interfacing and exchanging information with the author of the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier, headed a firm that helped the company owned by the United Arab Emirates government in its controversial failed bid to take over some terminal operations at major American ports.

Obama State Dept Official Who Aided Dossier Author Was Key Player in Dubai Ports Scandal

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