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Clinesmith falsified documents and helped the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Team omit exonerating evidence about Carter Page on four separate FISA applications. The FBI was told Carter Page was a U.S. intelligence agency source months before the agency began keeping that information from the secret court that authorized spying on him and nearly a full year before the agency altered documents to claim otherwise. Federal charging documents against Kevin Clinesmith, the top FBI attorney who was expected to plead guilty today to altering documents, show that the FBI withheld in three separate spying applications the fact that Page had served as...

The FBI released 34 pages of notes, known as “302s,” of its 2016 and 2017 interviews with Bruce Ohr, the DOJ official who met with the British dossier author Christopher Steele and opposition research firm Fusion GPS’s Glen Simpson. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, when they were hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Convention. The FBI was sued by the watchdog group Judicial Watch to comply with their requests for access to the notes via Freedom of Information Act. Read the documents below:

Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff said Friday that he was surprised to find out that an article he wrote about Carter Page prior to the election was used to obtain a spy warrant against the former Trump campaign adviser.The revelation, which was made in a memo released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, “stuns me,” Isikoff said in an episode of his podcast, “Skullduggery.”The four-page memo alleges that the DOJ and FBI submitted inaccurate and incomplete information in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Page. The spy warrant was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.One “essential” part of the...

Some of what former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page disclosed in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee last week matches up loosely with allegations made in the infamous Steele dossier, according to a transcript of his interview released on Monday. In particular, Page’s statements about a trip he made to Moscow in July 2016 included details that are laid out in the dirty document, which was financed by the Clinton campaign and DNC and authored by former British spy Christopher Steele.

An ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. it has been claimed. Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day in mysterious circumstances. Erovinkin was a key aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and now head of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, who is repeatedly named in the dossier.

[Full title and subtitle: DIRTY DOSSIER DEATH Russian spy linked to Donald Trump’s dirty dossier found DEAD in his car in Moscow: Oleg Erovinkin is suspected of being Brit spy Christopher Steele's key source behind widely discredited allegations against President Trump]A FORMER KGB spy chief suspected of helping Brit spook Christopher Steele compile the Trump ‘dirty dossier’ has been found dead in mysterious circumstances.Oleg Erovinkin, described as a key source behind the widely discredited document, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day. Media reports in Russia suggest his death was the result of...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's deputy blamed Google, the company behind the world's number one Internet search engine, for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. "Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published today (22 February). The strength of the comments from one of Putin's most trusted deputies is a clear signal of growing concern among Russian hardliners about the role played the Internet...

On 3 December 2007 a curious item appeared in the Russian media. It concerned Igor Ivanovich Sechin, a Russian political figure close to then President Vladimir Putin. Kommersant [2] featured a quote from Oleg Shvartsman, head of the Financial-Industrial Group: "For us, the Party is represented by the power bloc headed by Igor Ivanovich [Sechin]." This statement was offered in response to a journalist's question about Shvartman's strategic task of velvet re-privatization. "Who set this task for you?" asked the journalist. Shvartsman's extraordinary answer slipped inadvertently from his post-Soviet lips: "The party! (laughing)." On 3 December 2007 a curious item...

Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, met top Russian officials in Moscow yesterday in an effort to reassure them that the company’s commitment to Russia, the source of a quarter of its oil production, was undiminished after the catastrophic oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico. The question of Mr Hayward’s future was never very far from people’s minds, however, and in a mysterious slip up, Igor Sechin, deputy prime minister, appeared to raise the issue in press comments before the meeting. Mr Sechin, who oversees energy policy, was quoted by several Russian news agencies as saying “Hayward is leaving...

Russian Vice Premier Igor Sechin reached out to OPEC late Tuesday, calling for greater cooperation between the cartel and his country, the world's second biggest oil producer. Sechin, who is chairman of Russia's biggest Russian oil group Rosneft, said a "draft memorandum of understanding" had been submitted to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries on closer cooperation between Russia and the group

President Vladimir Putin warned the head of state oil company Rosneft on Wednesday that he should count on competition when tapping Russia's vast reserves. Putin's remarks to Rosneft chief Sergei Bogdanchikov underscored the energy ambitions of powerful groups in the Kremlin, including Rosneft's chief rival in the race to consolidate control of the oil industry _ Gazprom. advertisementAfter Bogdanchikov informed Putin that Rosneft would be the nation's biggest oil producer in two years' time, with daily production of some 2.5 million barrels within a decade, the president cut in. "How much do you plan to grow by?" a smiling Putin...

On 16 June, Gazprom’s Board of Directors finally agreed on the mechanism of buyout of the 10.74% of its shares necessary for the state to become the controlling shareholder in this monopolist company (until that time, the state had controlled 39% of shares in Gazprom). The decision is an element of the consistently implemented plan of strengthening the state’s position in economy. At the same time, it ends a subsequent stage of the battle between Kremlin-based coteries for control of the strategic assets in the energy sector. This battle has laid bare the divisions and conflicting interests among influential Kremlin...