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.

Is Russia the enemy?

 * Democrats Need to Unite the Country Against Russia - John Stoehr, Washington Monthly, January 31, 2018
 * ''The Democrats should do everything they can to tie the Republicans to something most sane people would agree, even if they are hopelessly polarized, is an indisputable threat to the United States—Russia.
 * ''I think Russia is a solution to political polarization. The Democrats should and must start using Russia as a way to break through the vicious cycle consuming the parties, Washington, and the whole country. Russia is our enemy. This is a fact. It attacked our presidential election. It continues to attack us in what is emerging as a new Cold cyberwar. In tying the Republicans to an enemy, the Democrats have the potential to break the Republicans. Do they stand with America or do they stand with Russia? The best part is that the Democrats do not have to lie, distort or otherwise misrepresent reality to make the case."

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
 * Trump-Russia Isn’t About the Cover-Up. It’s About the Crime. - The Daily Beast, February 9, 2018

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
 * The Russiagate Stakes Are Extreme - Paul Craig Roberts, January 25, 2018
 * New Book: McCabe Initiated White House Meeting That Led To Leak - Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist, January 29, 2018
 * Is John Brennan the Mastermind Behind Russiagate? - Mike Whitney, UNZ Review, February 13, 2018
 * The New Blacklist - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, March 5, 2018
 * ''Russiagate may have been aimed at Trump to start, but it's become a way of targeting all dissent

DNC Leak

 * See Seth Rich and Guccifer 2.0

Steele dossier

 * Dossier on documentcloud, announced on buzzfeed, 10/11 January, 2017
 * Steele was paid (via a law firm + Fusion company) $160,000 for this by DNC, and separately 'payment was authorized by FBI for the same information' (Nunes memo)
 * Alleged information is allegedly gained via some low-level staff or 'trusted compatriots, 'confidants' talking to high ranking officials (note the level of funding compared to level of sourcing).
 * The Trump Dossier Is Fake -- And Here Are The Reasons Why - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes, January 13, 2017
 * The Spy Who Wrote the Trump-Russia Memos: It Was “Hair-Raising” Stuff - David Corn, Mother Jones, January 13, 2017
 * ''When I broke the story in October, I spoke with him. Here’s what he said.
 * Sir Andrew Wood, former UK-Moscow ambassador, consulted on Trump dossier - Luke Harding and Alice Ross, The Guardian, 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
 * The CIA Bull in Glenn Simpson's Russia Shop - John Helmer, January 21, 2018
 * Clinton, Podesta And Others In Senate Crosshairs Over Dossier; Given Two Weeks To Respond - ZeroHedge, January 27, 2018
 * The Steele Dossier Fits the Kremlin Playbook - Daniel Hoffman, Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2018
 * On Disinformation & The Dossier - EmptyWheel, January 29, 2018
 * Second "Trump Dossier" Emerges One Day After FISA Memo Vote - ZeroHedge, January 30, 2018
 * Intel Memo Mystery: John McCain Pushed ‘Pee’ Dossier to FBI Months After Feds Already Used It to Gain FISA Warrant - Aaron Klein, Breitbart, February 6, 2018
 * U.S. Spies, Seeking to Retrieve Cyberweapons, Paid Russian Peddling Trump Secrets - Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times, February 9, 2018
 * Dossier’s 10 core collusion accusations remain unverified 20 months later - Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times, February 12, 2018
 * Was Christopher Steele Paid by Russian Oligarch and Putin Ally Oleg Deripaska? - Lee Smith, Tablet, February 13, 2018
 * Christopher Steele: The Real Foreign Influence in the 2016 Election? - Peter van Buren, The American Conservative, February 15, 2018
 * Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier - Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, March 5, 2018
 * The New Yorker Attempts But Fails To Boost The Steele Dossier - Moon of Alabama, March 6, 2018
 * DNC Hack Involved Russian Agents "Within The Democratic Party": Unreleased Steele Memo - ZeroHedge, March 7, 2018

Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS

 * Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility -The Guardian, January 12, 2017
 * ''Over a career that spanned more than 20 years, Steele performed a series of roles, but always appeared to be drawn back to Russia; he was, sources say, head of MI6’s Russia desk. When the agency was plunged into panic over the poisoning of its agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, the then chief, Sir John Scarlett, needed a trusted senior officer to plot a way through the minefield ahead – so he turned to Steele. It was Steele, sources say, who correctly and quickly realised that Litvinenko’s death was a Russian state “hit”.
 * Inside the battle between an anti-Putin banker and the firm that produced the Trump-Russia dossier -Business Insider, July 27, 2017
 * ''Steele, who served for decades on the MI6 Moscow desk, was hired by Fusion in October 2015 to investigate whether the Trump campaign had ties to Russia. Fusion itself had been hired by unnamed anti-Trump Republicans who dropped their funding for the project when Trump won the GOP nomination. Democrats believed to have links to the Clinton campaign later started to foot the bill.
 *  The wealthy investor (Bill Browder)'', who renounced his US citizenship in 1998, has since characterized Fusion's work for BakerHostetler as a "smear campaign" against him and Magnitsky carried out "in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act." Fusion has denied that its opposition research against Browder on behalf of BakerHostetler was an effort to undermine the Magnitsky Act, and has insisted that Veselnitskaya's lobbying activities against Magnitsky were separate from the Prevezon proceedings.

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
 * #ReleaseTheMemo Explained: #DeepState Treachery That Will Blow Your Mind and Hasten the #Revolution - Lionel Nation, January 19, 2018 (video)

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
 * Does This Man Know More Than Robert Mueller? (Glenn Greenwald’s war on the Russia investigation) - Simon van Zuylen-Wood, New York, January 21, 2018

Timeline

 * 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.
 * Indict Clinton For the Russian DNC Hack - George Eliason, Washington's Blog, January 16, 2017
 * EXCLUSIVE: White House Fingers John McCain As Media Leak; Believes U.S. Senator Eavesdropped on Trump’s Classified Phone - True Pundit, February 21, 2017
 * 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
 * EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s Own Political Terror Plot; Deputy Director and FBI Brass Secretly Conspired to Wage Coup Against Flynn & Trump - True Pundit, March 14, 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
 * Russsia-Gate Implodes - Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, January 22, 2018
 * Major Criminal Conspiracy Behind #RussiaGate, Google, FusionGPS, DNC, Perkins Coie, Revealed - Bethany Blankley, The Hayride, February 3, 2018
 * The FISA Court ‘Title-One’ Application, Re-authorizations, and The “Clinton-Steele Dossier” - The Conservative Treehouse, February 7, 2018

FISA abuse 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