Russiagate

RussiaGate was a criminal conspiracy by the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign, and the Deep State to steal the US presidential elections of 2016 and prevent the Trump presidency, thus enabling the continuation of the US covert war on Syria and the preparation of a war on Russia.

Did Russia Elect Trump?

 * Putin didn’t undermine the election. We did. - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, November 29, 2016
 * ''Ignoring rot in our election laws and journalistic standards, the media points to hacking and “fake news.”
 * Putin Derangement Syndrome October-November 2016 - Patrick Armstrong, December 6, 2016
 * Did Russia Elect Trump? - Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative, December 12, 2016
 * Deconstructing the Almighty Russian Hackers Myth - Patrick Armstrong, Strategic Culture, December 15, 2017

What is Russiagate?

 * The Left’s great Russian conspiracy theory - Brendan O'Neill, The Spectator, March 2, 2017
 * The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare - Charles Hugh Smith, March 9, 2017
 * ''This profound split in the Deep State has now broken into open warfare. The first salvo was the absurd propaganda campaign led by Establishment mouthpieces The New York Times and The Washington Post claiming Russian agents had "hacked" the U.S. election to favor Trump.
 * ''This fact-free propaganda campaign failed--having no evidence didn't work quite as well as the NYT and Wapo expected-- and so the propaganda machine launched the second salvo, accusing Trump of being a Russian patsy.
 * A Poisonous Giant Russian Squid Ate Trump's Brain! - Anatol Lieven, Valdai Club, April 7, 2017
 * The political and social roots of the Democratic Party’s anti-Russia hysteria - Andre Damon, WSWS, May 13, 2017
 * The Big Fat Compendium Of Russiagate Debunkery - Caitlin Johnstone, June 5, 2017 (Part 1, 2, 3)
 * Did Hillary Scapegoat Russia to Save Her Campaign? - Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, August 1, 2017
 * The De-Putin-Nazification of America - CJ Hopkins, Counterpunch, August 11, 2017
 * The Global Russo-Nazi Axis Has Reared Its Ugly Head - CJ Hopkins, Russia Insider, September 27, 2017
 * RussiaGate: Soft Power Suicide of a Superpower - Andrew Korybko, Sputnik, November 1, 2017
 * Russiagate Explained - Caitlin Johnstone, November 26, 2017
 * The Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken - C.J. Hopkins, Unz Review, December 8, 2017
 * Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections - Robert Parry, December 11, 2017
 * What Happens When A Russiagate Skeptic Debates A Professional Russiagater - Caitlin Johnstone, December 26, 2017
 * Russiagate Is Devolving Into an Effort to Stigmatize Dissent - James Carden, The Nation, December 28, 2017
 * What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking - Jackson Lears, LRB, January 4, 2018

DNC Leak

 * See Seth Rich and Guccifer 2.0

Steele dossier

 * The Trump Dossier Is Fake -- And Here Are The Reasons Why - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes, January 13, 2017
 * Your Trump Dossier Cheat Sheet by Publius Tacitus - Sic Semper Tyrannis, December 15, 2017
 * In the Russian Collusion Debate, Who’s Fooling Who? - Scott Ritter, The American Conservative, January 8, 2018
 * Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court? - Sara Carter, January 10, 2018
 * The Dossier Rehab Campaign - Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2018 (spin on FOX)
 * The Democrats Have a “Dossier” Problem, and It Will Not Go Away - The Conservative Treehouse, January 12, 2018
 * ''The Steele Dossier is the “least bad” option to justify the origin of the DOJ/FBI “Trump Operation”. However, what if the Steele Dossier is the finished product of the DOJ/FBI “Trump Operation”,  not the beginning of an investigation?
 * Horsepucky, Narratives, Political Suppositions and The ATOMIC HAMMER OF TRUTH: Occam’s Razor - The Conservative Treehouse, January 15, 2018
 * House committee takes step toward making Trump dossier findings public - Byron York, Washington Examiner, January 18, 2018
 * A Bombshell House Intelligence report exposing extensive FISA abuse could lead to the removal of senior government officials - Sara Carter, January 18, 2018

Did GCHQ spy on Trump Tower?

 * Why there may never be proof even if Obama spied on Trump - Fox News, March 14, 2017 (video)
 * 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

Mueller Investigation

 * How the Trump Dossier and the Syrian Crisis caused Russiagate - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, July 24, 2014
 * Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence - Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, December 2, 2017
 * FBI’s McCabe stonewalls on Trump Dossier - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, December 21, 2017
 * Dirty Cops Mueller and Comey Held Secret Meeting Before Comey Testified to Congress – For This Alone Mueller Should Resign! - Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, December 28, 2017
 * NYT Writes Epic Cover For Comey's FBI - Its Sole Source: "Officials Said" - Moon of Alabama, January 1, 2018

Exposing the conspiracy behind the Russiagate hoax

 * EXCLUSIVE: FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties To Russia - Louise Mensch, Heat Street, November 7, 2016 (original)
 * The Quasi-Legal Coup-Hillary Clinton Information Operations In Election 2016 - George Eliason, WashingtonsBlog, November 7, 2016
 * Eliason sees the election campaign for Hillary as an extension of the ongoing cyberwar operation against Russia.
 * Trump wiretap is the REAL scandal of the US election, bogus Russia story is the real cover-up - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, March 4, 2017
 * Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump - George Neumay, Spectator, April 19, 2017
 * Statement: NSA Stops Certain Section 702 "Upstream" Activities - NSA.Gov, April 28, 2017
 * Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup? - Robert Parry, May 10, 2017
 * On Watch: Episode 16 - Obama NSA used for domestic political intelligence & violated Constitution - Judicial Watch, May 25, 2017 (+ Top Secret FISA Court Order)
 * Throwing a Curveball at ‘Intelligence Community Consensus’ on Russia - Scott Ritter, The American Conservative, July 12, 2017
 * Declassified Memos Show Obama's NSA Spied On Americans Way More Than You Thought - ZeroHedge, July 26, 2017
 * The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate - Joe Lauria, Consortium News, October 29, 2017
 * ''The two sources that originated the allegations claiming that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — without providing convincing evidence — were both paid for by the Democratic National Committee, and in one instance also by the Clinton campaign: the Steele dossier and the CrowdStrike analysis of the DNC servers.
 * Lifting the Steele Curtain - Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2017 (mirrored on archive.is without paywall)
 * ''The Fusion GPS dossier was one of the dirtiest political tricks in U.S. history.
 * Ex-Spy Chief: Russia’s Election Hacking Was An ‘Intelligence Failure’ - Susan Glasser, Politico, December 11, 2017
 * Why Glenn Greenwald Deserves a Pulitzer Prize - Lee Smith, Tablet, December 11, 2017
 * The Foundering Russia-gate ‘Scandal’, Robert Parry, Consortium News, December 13, 2017
 * Fake News, Sedition and Public Apathy, Publius Tacitus, Sic Temper Tyrannis, December 14, 2017
 * Let’s Take a Stroll – Letter of Notice From Trump Transition To Congress Outlining Illegal Search and Seizure by Special Counsel Robert Mueller…. - The Conservative Treehouse, December 17, 2017
 * ''In essence, the Clinton’s created the Russian “angle” out of thin air; and the FBI and DOJ used that creation as the legal underpinning for the counterintelligence operation. The cointel op was always just a ruse for wiretapping, surveillance and monitoring of Donald Trump campaign officials.
 * The RussiaGate Witch-Hunt - The Deep State's 'Insurance Policy' - David Stockman, Ron Paul Institute, December 18, 2017
 * ''The inner circle of the Obama Administration plotted an "insurance policy". They saw it coming -- that is, an offensive rogue disrupter who was soft on Russia, to boot -- and out of that alarm the entire hoax of RussiaGate was born. As is now well known from the recent dump of 375 Strzok/Gates text messages, there occurred on August 15, 2016 a meeting in the office of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to kick off the RussiaGate campaign.
 * CONFIRMED: CLINTON OPERATIVES IN FBI MANUFACTURED RUSSIAGATE - Roger Stone, December 20, 2017
 * Did President Obama Read the ‘Steele Dossier’ in the White House Last August? - Lee Smith, Tablet, December 20, 2017
 * Oh Dear – Trail of Russian Dossier Origination Now Directly Leads to The Obama White House…. - The Conservative Treehouse, December 21, 2017
 * A TIMELINE OF TREASON: How the DNC and FBI Leadership Tried to Fix a Presidential Election - Doug Ross, December 21, 2017
 * How Obama manipulated sensitive secret intelligence for political gain - The Washington Times, December 21, 2017
 * The Shape of a Plot is Emerging, 1951 - The Still Report, December 22, 2017 (video)
 * Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’? - Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, December 23, 2017
 * Deep State Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to Retire Early - Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit, December 23, 2017 (quotes WaPo, Fox News)
 * Investigating the Investigators at DOJ and FBI - Sharyl Attkisson, December 25, 2017
 * Analysis: The quiet probe into Clinton email investigation could be a landmine for Robert Mueller - Kevin Johnson, USA Today, December 26, 2017
 * Trump Slams "Crooked Hillary Pile Of Garbage"-Funded "Bogus" Dossier - ZeroHedge, December 26, 2017
 * McCain Associate Subpoenaed Over Trump Dossier - ZeroHedge, December 27, 2017 (+ more spin by The Duran)
 * Crisis for Mueller: Lindsey Graham calls for new Special Counsel to investigate Trump Dossier and FBI - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, December 31, 2017
 * The Russian Collusion Narrative Was, As FBI Agent Peter Strzok Explained: “An Insurance Policy” - The Conservative Treehouse, January 1, 2018
 * DOJ deal gives Nunes access to 'all' documents, witnesses sought in Russia probe, letter says - Catherine Herridge, Fox News, January 4, 2018
 * Comey’s original Clinton memo released, cites possible violations - The Hill, January 4, 2018
 * Walls Close In Around DOJ and FBI “Small Group” Participants - The Conservative Treehouse, January 5, 2018
 * Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier - The New York Times, January 5, 2018
 * Operation Condor – How NSA Director Mike Rogers Saved The U.S. From a Massive Constitutional Crisis - The Conservative Treehouse, January 5, 2018
 * Upcoming OIG Report Likely To Trigger Second Special Counsel; Comey, Lynch And Clinton In Crosshairs - ZeroHedge, January 7, 2018
 * The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate - January 11, 2018, Consortiumnews, Ray McGovern
 * The DOJ and FBI Worked With Fusion GPS on “Operation Trump” - The Conservative Treehouse, January 11, 2018
 * CREEPS ON A MISSION: Michael Horowitz is Really Investigating the Investigators - (Sidney Powell?), Hannity.com, January 12, 2018
 * The Evidence Inside The “House Intel Committee Four Page FISA Memo” - The Conservative Treehouse, January 19, 2018