We won’t even pretend that we can in any way piece all of this together so thankfully this thread on the Steele dossier does that for us.
This is all starting to read like some John Grisham novel, doncha think?
Fascinating thread. https://t.co/2KMw5v1LAt
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 16, 2019
This thread is long but as Sean Davis said, it’s fascinating.
EXCLUSIVE: The "Steele" dossier source who falsely claimed there was a Russian Consulate in Miami was ALSO was a source for the Moscow “pee tape” AND **the key source** alleging an “extensive conspiracy” between the Trump campaign & Russia involving Manafort and Page ?
THREAD
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Christopher Steele tells State Dept. Official Kathleen Kavalec on Oct 11 2016 that a "human/technical operation run out of Moscow targeting the election" is "hacking" and "recruiting" and "payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami" pic.twitter.com/RXWYCcEHzU
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Kavalec (likely after a cursory search) says "It is important to note there is no Russian Consulate in Miami" ?
This is critical to the credibility of Steele's source for this "payments to hackers" allegation: if they're wrong about "Miami" what *else* are they wrong about? ? pic.twitter.com/uRhqy8rg42
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
They were wrong about so many things.
N.B: Kavalec was right: at the time, the Russian Consulate in Florida was 450KM away from Miami, in Tampa (apparently in the same building as the US Commerce Dept.) – literally a 60 second Google search would have shown that this allegation about payments from "Miami" was false
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
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FYI: These notes from Kavalec are immediately forwarded to Stephen Laycock in FBI Counterintelligence, who then passes them onto Peter Strzok (note: the Page FISA is generated out of the Counterespionage section [CD4] of the Counterintelligence division, which Strzok supervises)
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Strzok.
Interesting.
Here is the part of Steele's dossier about the "Miami" payments to "cyber operators" (i.e. hackers) "based in the U.S." and it is attributed to…
…"SOURCE E" ?
("Miami" is not mentioned anywhere else in the dossier except attributed to Source E) pic.twitter.com/iOJMo25wRI
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Source E is also "confirms" the Trump/hookers "pee tape" allegations and provides an introduction to a Ritz-Carlton hotel employee for validation of this kompromat allegation pic.twitter.com/tNBOTV2nsz
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Source E.
Told ya’ this is like a Grisham novel.
Steele even tells Kavalec that he's only "persuaded the story about the prostitutes is accurate" *BECAUSE OF SOURCE E*. The same guy who doesn't know where the Russian Consulate is in Florida? Yep, he's the Pee Tape confirmation pic.twitter.com/iqHhLucaZS
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Reminder: Intel sources called Steele "meticulous" with a "formidable record" pic.twitter.com/nBdbzbbSxq
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Meticulous with a formidable record.
HA HA HA HA HA HA
Back to Source E. He is *also* the primary source for "Steele's" explosive claim of a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between [Trump] and the Russian leadership", which is managed by Paul Manafort via @carterwpage, including the DNC hacking/release to Wikileaks ? pic.twitter.com/qZZtOUrMSI
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
That allegation of a conspiracy involving Page and members of the Trump campaign to interfere in the election in "coordination" with Russia is what the FBI/DOJ swore they believed to the FISA court. "Conspiracy" is also the exact word needed to implicate potential federal crimes pic.twitter.com/GhuxlI8Vh6
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Some conclusions:
–The FBI should have known there was no Russian Consulate in Miami *themselves*, when they attempted to verify the dossier claims
–Even if the FBI didn't try and properly verify the dossier (likely), Kavalec told the FBI this fact explicitly *BEFORE THE FISA*
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
BEFORE the FISA.
–So, Steele's SOURCE E for the "Miami" payments is giving Steele FALSE information, either mistakenly, or worse: deliberately
–The next logical source verification step once the FBI realizes this is to check all of the *other* allegations made by SOURCE E as they're also suspect
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
There is no evidence that the FBI/DOJ even tried to verify the dossier before the FISA, and no evidence they even informed the FISC that SOURCE E was potentially unreliable after the first FISA was sought.
And it gets worse…
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
No evidence they even tried to verify the dossier before the FISA.
Unreal.
Bruce Ohr testified to Congress that Glenn Simpson called him on Jan 20 2017 (the day of Trump's inauguration as POTUS) expressing "concerns for the safety of the source" pic.twitter.com/ErPh4zIA1M
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
This was reported by @ChuckRossDC who noted that *just four days* after Simpson called Ohr, the WSJ and ABC news outed SERGEI MILLIAN as either SOURCE D, SOURCE E or both sources ?https://t.co/iHQaPpFisS
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
FYI: I believe that is misdirection and Millian is not both sources and probably not Source E. Source E may even be Felix Sater – a CIA/FBI asset for decades who is no longer apparently testifying to Congress anytime soon. Wonder why? ? https://t.co/SbfuhtyUQL
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Finally: what effort did "Steele" and Fusion GPS make to verify what they were being told by "Source E" was true? Well, we now know for sure they didn't Google whether a Russian Consulate existed in Miami. So what did they do?
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
Didn’t even Google it.
This can’t be real life.
Nellie Ohr was *definitely looking into Sergei Millian* (likely as a dossier source, as Bruce Ohr testified), and this was during the time period of the memos "written" by Steele about payments from the Russian Consulate in Miami (as confirmed by Nellie Ohr's testimony) pic.twitter.com/2QMx77Z2X1
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
So Fusion GPS's "vetting" failed, the FBI's vetting failed, and the FBI/DOJ ignored Kavalec's cursory analysis which showed that anything in the dossier sourced to SOURCE E was suspect as that source couldn't get basic facts right like a non-existent Russian Consulate in Miami
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
And nobody seems to have told the FISA court any of this @JusticeOIG
/ENDS
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
N.B 2 "Nothing in the Steele dossier has been disproven". Take that talking point outside and shoot it, Collusion Truthers, it's over. ?
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
N.B.3 @SethAbramson once called SOURCE E the "Deep Throat" of a scandal "many times bigger than Watergate" ???https://t.co/JLiUzqiqxh
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) May 16, 2019
This Steele dossier thing just gets stranger and stranger.
But you knew that.
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