Spygate

NSA

 * "NSA Whistleblower: Government Collecting Everything You Do" -Empire Files, April 1, 2019. (Noted: all claims are by external parties).
 * Noted: 1 petabyte (10^15) = 1000 terabytes, not a million.
 * Noted, World internet users: 4.3 bln (4.3*10^9) as of March 25, 2019).
 * (1 PB: 2^50 ; 10^15 ; 1 TB = 2^40; 10^12 ).
 * Is Pending IG Report on FISA Abuse Being Held-Up To Facilitate NSA Bulk Data Re-authorization That Expires December 15th? - The Conservative Treehouse, November 7, 2019
 * Obama Era Political Surveillance, and The Dual Purpose of Fusion GPS - The Conservative Treehouse, December 14, 2019
 * ''The assembly of government reports and public records now indicates a political exploitation of the NSA database, for weaponized intelligence surveillance of politicians, began mid 2012.

Operation Crossfire Hurricane

 * Final ‘October Surprises’ Reveal FBI Is Probing Trump’s Alleged Russia Ties - Margaret Hartmann, NY Mag, November 1, 2016
 * Here’s Why Devin Nunes Could Submit a Criminal Referral for CIA Director John Brennan… - The Conservative Treehouse, March 28, 2019
 * A Coup in Imperial Washington - David Stockman, Deep State Declassified, May 3, 2019
 * John Solomon Reports: Bucket Five Release Within 7 to 8 Days… - The Conservative Treehouse, May 21, 2019 (+ZeroHedge)
 * ''President Trump can prove the July 31st, 2016, Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation originated from a scheme within the intelligence apparatus by exposing the preceding CIA operation that created the originating “Electronic Communication” memo. Declassify that two-page “EC” document that Brennan gave to Comey.
 * Ohr 302 Notes Prove FBI Tried to Hide True Source of Trump-Russia Allegations - Brian Cates, The Epoch Times, August 22, 2019
 * Why John Brennan, Peter Strzok and DOJ Needed Julian Assange Arrested – And Why UK Officials Obliged - The Conservative Treehouse, November 3, 2019
 * John Brennan's CIA Trump Task Force - Philip Giraldi, Unz Review, November 12, 2019
 * The Mysteriously Redacted Paragraph – 700 Days Since Lindsey Graham Outlined Susan Rice CYA Memo, and DC Doesn’t Want Answers? - The Conservative Treehouse, November 29, 2019

Papadopoulos - Downer meeting

 * ''See also Joseph Mifsud


 * What happened when Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos sat down with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer - ABC News (Australia), September 23, 2018
 * ''Erika Thompson, a career diplomat working as a political counsellor at the commission, had a boyfriend called Christian Cantor, the head of the political branch in the Israeli embassy. Papadopoulos also knew Cantor, describing him as someone "who just hated Trump, he hated his guts". Australian sources describe Cantor, who is now engaged to Thompson, as a "liberal internationalist" who'd be no Trump fan. "All of a sudden, [Cantor] decides one day to introduce me to his so-called girlfriend, who just happened to be an Australian intelligence officer and the assistant to Alexander Downer," Papadopoulos said. Australian sources emphatically deny Thompson is an ASIS agent, but a "mainstream DFAT officer". She asked Downer if he'd like to meet Papadopoulos, explaining he was known to Cantor and was part of the Donald Trump campaign.
 * The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything - ABC News (Australia), May 24, 2019
 * ''"This sort of idea that there is a kind of a ASIS-ASIO-MI6-MI5-FBI-CIA-Ukrainian Government conspiracy to bring down the Trump administration, that this is treason, that I should be in Guantanamo Bay... I mean it's a little bit sad that people take that kind of thought seriously," he (Alexander Downer) said.

FISA application

 * IG Report – Continued, Specific, FISA Date Redactions - The Conservative Treehouse, December 9, 2019
 * ''Right there, in that FBI Special Agent description is the bombshell admission that James Wolfe leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins at Buzzfeed.
 * Followup: Modifies FISA Report, Adds Declassification Aspect Per DOJ (Barr?)
 * Federal surveillance judge orders FBI to answer for ‘misleading’ courts & omitting key evidence in effort to spy on Trump campaign - RT, December 17, 2019

FISA abuse memo (Nunes memo)
The memo: PDF, text, Scribd
 * The Evidence Inside The “House Intel Committee Four Page FISA Memo” - The Conservative Treehouse, January 19, 2018
 * ...Congressman Leads 65 Lawmakers in Push for...
 * where he states: “the audience of this document should not be limited to Members of Congress — the American people deserve to know the information it contains.”  (FWIW).
 * meanwhile, similar material is in the top two on Hamilton68, tracking Russian influence on twitter
 * House Intelligence Committee votes to release the # - Fox News, 29 January, 2018
 * Dan Bongino Has a Theory Devin Nunes Memo Contains References To Obama PDB’s and FISA Documents - The Conservative Treehouse, January 29, 2018
 * The FBI and CIA Failed Coup Against Trump Unravels by Publius Tacitus - Sic Semper Tyrannis, February 2, 2018
 * The Nunes memo is a dud - Zack Beauchamp, Vox, February 2, 2018
 * Rampant abuse and possible contempt of Court: full analysis of GOP memorandum - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, February 5, 2018
 * Horowitz Report Will Be Damning. Criminal Referrals Likely. - Sara Carter, November 11, 2019
 * The Washington Post Helps Identify FBI Lawyer Who Altered FISA Docs - The Conservative Treehouse, November 22, 2019

DoJ Inspector General report

 * Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation - Inspector General report, edited for public release, 476 pages, December, 2019
 * page IV 3. Omitted information relevant to the reliability of Person 1, a key Steele sub-source (who was attributed with providing the information in Report 95 and some of the information in Reports 80 and 102 relied upon in the application), namely that (1) Steele himself told members of the Crossfire Hurricane team that Person 1 was a "boaster" and an "egoist" and "may engage in some embellishment" and (2) (redacted)
 * Statement by Attorney General William P. Barr on the Inspector General's Report of the Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation - US DoJ, December 9, 2019
 * Barr Says Obama And The FBI Were A Greater Threat Than Russia - article by Jason Easley with embedded video of an interview with US AG William Barr, politicususa.com, December 9, 2019
 * Barr: ''I think probably from a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally, the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents. But as to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election.
 * Full Interview: Barr Criticizes Inspector General Report On The Russia Investigation | NBC News - NBC News, December 10, 2019
 * DOJ Watchdog Expected To Downgrade 'Spying' On Trump Campaign To 'Typical Law Enforcement Activities' - ZeroHedge, November 28, 2019
 * Horowitz Doesn't Have Access to Core Information - George Washington, ZeroHedge, December 9, 2019
 * DOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser -The Guardian, December 9, 2019
 * ‘Corroboration Zero’: An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, December 10, 2019
 * @realDonaldTrump on Twitter, December 10, 2019
 * Horowitz Goes Full Comey - Daniel John Sobieski, American Thinker'', December 11, 2019
 * Examining the Inspector General’s Report on Alleged Abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, December 11, 2019 (video)
 * Inspector General’s Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, December 12 2019
 * Former CIA Spook: Eric Holder Just Revealed That The "Deep State Is Running Scared" - ZeroHedge, December 15, 2019 (source)
 * AG Barr Hits Back At Comey's 'Nonsense' - TheDC Shorts, December 19, 2019 (video)

Durham investigation

 * Reportedly Seeking Ex-CIA Director Brennan's Emails, Call Logs Over Russian Probe - ZeroHedge, December 19, 2019
 * Durham Is Scrutinizing Ex-C.I.A. Director’s Role in Russian Interference Findings - The New York Times, December 19, 2019 (archive)
 * Former NSA Director Is Cooperating With Probe of Trump-Russia Investigation - Matthew Cole, The Intercept, December 20, 2019
 * Russiagate Investigation Now Endangers Obama - Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture, December 29, 2019

Did GCHQ spy on Trump Tower?

 * Why there may never be proof even if Obama spied on Trump - Fox News, March 14, 2017 (video)
 * Judge Andrew Napolitano claim (video) (text)
 * Claim officially denied.
 * Napolitano: Obama Admin Used British GCHQ To Spy On Trump During Campaign - Tim Hains,  RealClear Politics, March 14, 2017
 * Did Obama spy on Trump? - Andrew Napolitano, Fox News opinion, March 16, 2017
 * Sean Spicer: GCHQ bugged Trump Tower for Barack Obama - Andrew Johnson, The Essential Newsletter, March 16, 2017
 * GCHQ brands claims it spied on Donald Trump as 'utterly ridiculous' and 'nonsense' - Matt Burgess, Wired, March 17, 2017
 * GCHQ dismisses 'utterly ridiculous' claim it helped wiretap Trump - The Guardian, March 17, 2017
 * Claims GCHQ spy agency wiretapped Donald Trump will not be repeated, Theresa May's spokesman says - Reuters, March 17, 2017
 * Donald Trump fuels diplomatic row with Britain after apology from US officials over GCHQ wiretapping claims - Steven Swinford, The Telegraph, March 18, 2017
 * Legal analyst who claimed GCHQ could have helped spy on Donald Trump is taken off air - Daily Mirror, March 21, 2017
 * GCHQ 'told US security services about meetings between Donald Trump's team and Russia' - Jack Maidment, The Telegraph, April 13, 2017
 * British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia - Luke Harding & al., The Guardian, April 13, 2017
 * British intelligence passed Trump associates' communications with Russians on to US counterparts - CNN, April 14, 2017
 * Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump - George Neumayr, Spectator, April 19, 2017
 * EXCLUSIVE: Six U.S Agencies Conspired to Illegally Wiretap Trump; British Intel Used as NSA Front to Spy on Campaign - True Pundit, September 20, 2017 (summary)
 * #ReleaseTheMemo Explained: #DeepState Treachery That Will Blow Your Mind and Hasten the #Revolution - Lionel Nation, January 19, 2018 (video)
 * Did the British Collude to Steal the Election for Hillary? - Thomas Farnan, American Greatness, October 18, 2018
 * Trump Confirms Q Claims of UK & Deep State Panic over FISA Declassification - Michael Salla, September 22, 2018
 * UK Begged Trump Not To Declassify Russia Docs; Cited "Grave Concerns" Over Steele Involvement - ZeroHedge, September 23, 2018
 * The British Role in ‘Russiagate’ Is About to Be Fully Exposed - LaRouche PAC, April 8, 2019
 * Jonathan Sacoolas Is Not, and Has Never Been, a Diplomat - Craig Murray, October 8, 2019
 * Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate - Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations, November 15, 2019

2019

 * Volker and Sondland Testimony Released – And Elise Stefanik, Once Again, On the Right Trail - The Conservative Treehouse, November 5, 2019
 * Curiouser and Curiouser - The Conservative Treehouse, November 6, 2019
 * ''By now people are familiar with the construct of CIA operations involving Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor now generally admitted/identified as a western intelligence operative who was tasked by the CIA (John Brennan) to run an operation against Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos in both Italy (Rome) and London. {Go Deep}
 * ''In a similar fashion the CIA tasked U.S. intelligence asset Stefan Halper to target another Trump campaign official, Carter Page. Under the auspices of being a Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper also targeted General Michael Flynn. Additionally, using assistance from a female FBI agent under the false name Azra Turk, Halper also targeted Papadopoulos.
 * ''The initial operations to target Flynn, Papadopoulos and Page were all based overseas. This seemingly makes the CIA exploitation of the assets and the targets much easier.

Analysis

 * The FBI - Pushed By John Brennan - Lied To The Court Seven Times To Spy On The Trump Campaign - Moon of Alabama, December 11, 2019
 * John Ratcliffe Explains Why Corrupt Senators on SSCI Would Never Allow His Nomination – And Why a Senate Impeachment Trial is A Risk - The Conservative Treehouse, December 15, 2019 (video)