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Most Comprehensive Deep Dive into Trump/Collusion/Dossier Accusations that I've Seen
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm
ETA: I deleted the original posts and moved a more compact, easy to understand version to the front page.
A gentleman using the name Yaacov Apelbaum has a blog post up that uses Open Source Intelligence tools to discover details concerning the nature of the Trump/Russia dossier. He appears to be involved in Intelligence / tech, and I've found a linked in profile for him HERE
The original blog post can be found at The Mechanics of Deception
I'll try to break down this data in a way that's easy for people to follow without needing 15k words. It's not easy to do, and the original blog post is quite long and difficult to follow without drawing graphs/taking notes along the way.
A list of names/businesses of interest; If you see a name pop up later that you don't know, reference this list:
I'll cover some highlights to keep everyone on the same page.
Fusion GPS (Bean LLC), owned by Glenn Simpson (former reporter ) and Mary Jacoby (wife of Glenn, also a former reporter). Peter Fritsch, and Benjamine Schmidt were also members at founding. Later Neil King Jr. and Tom Catan Joined Fusion GPS. All Democrats.
Their employee roster in 2015:
Glenn Simpson
Mary Jacoby
Peter Fritsch
Tom Catan
Jason Felch
Neil King Jr.
David Michaels
Taylor Sears
Patrick Corcoran
Laura Sego
Jay Bagwell
Erica Castro
Jason Raymond
Benjamin Schmidt
Joshua Levy
Jackie Flores
David Ford
Jason Schwartz
Some details about these employees:
Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, Peter Fritsch, Neil King, Tom Catan
Perkin-Coie, law firm that paid for the opposition research on Trump on behalf of the DNC. They are also the law firm that is heading up the accusations against congressman Jim Jordan in Ohio. Coincidentally...
So who was responsible for collecting and organizing the data to compose the dossier?
Dossier collectors/organizers: Nellie Ohr (Married to Bruce Ohr, 4IC at the DOJ), Christ Steele (former MI6 agent and ostensibly owner of Orbis), Chris Burrows, Edward Baumgartner
Chris Steele and Chris Burrows: Steele is ‘officially’ the primary author of the dossier and a second contributor after Simpson. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1986 with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at college, he wrote for the student newspaper Varsity. Steele was recruited by MI6 directly following his graduation. From 1987 to 1989, he worked in London at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), then from 1990 to 1993 at the UK Embassy in Moscow. Steele returned to London in 1993 and was posted to Paris in 1998. In 1999, his cover was blown when a media leak disclosed the identity of 116 MI6 agents.
In 2009, Steele and his fellow MI6-retiree Chris Burrows and Nicholas Butcher founded the private intelligence agency HL3299 Limited, later renamed Orbis Business Intelligence. In 2014, Steele and Burrows registered Walsingham Training, with Orbis being the majority controller.
Nellie Hauke Ohr: hr was the third contributor to the dossier. She earned a degree in history and Russian literature from Harvard-Radcliff 1982–1983 and MA and PhD in history from Stanford 1986-1990.
After graduation she worked for:
Accenture iDefense (acquired from VeriSign) – Principal Mar 2017
VeriSign iDefense – Cyber Threat Intelligence Researcher Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
Fusion GPS – Analyst content Creator Mar 2016 – Dec 2016
Miklos Systems – Senior Analyst Mar 2015 – Dec 2015
Plessas Experts Network – Analyst content Creator Oct 2013 – Jan 2015
Open-Source-Works – Senior Analyst Sep 2008 – Sep 2014
MITRE Corporation – Linguist analyst Jan 2000 – Dec 2008
Vassar College – Assistant Professor, History Department Jan 1990 – Dec 1998
Edward Emil Baumgartner:Baumgartner was the forth contributor to the dossier. He is a British/French national. He earned his BA in history from Vassar College in 1995 and an MA in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies from Harvard in 2000.
These are the main players used to do the link analysis in the blog post. the next post will demonstrate what that link analysis uncovered.
A gentleman using the name Yaacov Apelbaum has a blog post up that uses Open Source Intelligence tools to discover details concerning the nature of the Trump/Russia dossier. He appears to be involved in Intelligence / tech, and I've found a linked in profile for him HERE
The original blog post can be found at The Mechanics of Deception
I'll try to break down this data in a way that's easy for people to follow without needing 15k words. It's not easy to do, and the original blog post is quite long and difficult to follow without drawing graphs/taking notes along the way.
A list of names/businesses of interest; If you see a name pop up later that you don't know, reference this list:
I'll cover some highlights to keep everyone on the same page.
Fusion GPS (Bean LLC), owned by Glenn Simpson (former reporter ) and Mary Jacoby (wife of Glenn, also a former reporter). Peter Fritsch, and Benjamine Schmidt were also members at founding. Later Neil King Jr. and Tom Catan Joined Fusion GPS. All Democrats.
Their employee roster in 2015:
Glenn Simpson
Mary Jacoby
Peter Fritsch
Tom Catan
Jason Felch
Neil King Jr.
David Michaels
Taylor Sears
Patrick Corcoran
Laura Sego
Jay Bagwell
Erica Castro
Jason Raymond
Benjamin Schmidt
Joshua Levy
Jackie Flores
David Ford
Jason Schwartz
Some details about these employees:
quote:
The political makeup of the team was exclusively democratic with many of the employees and interns having a strong political connection to the Clinton or Obama administrations. Jason Raymond, the Research Director, came from John Kerry’s press office and was affiliated with USAID; Laura Seago, a senior analyst, came from the Brennan Center for Justice and was also affiliated with USAID. It’s also noteworthy that the senior management had a documented history of misconduct and ethical-related issues. Glenn Simpson has a Profane Cursing and Public Intoxication conviction; Jason Felch, a former reporter and the managing partner of the LA office, was fired from the LA Times for deceitful reporting. He was also cheating on his wife on multiple occasions with his Occidental College investigative source. Tom Catan, his wife Begoña Segurola, and Peter Fritch were involved in vicious attacks and a character assassination campaign against a fellow reporter. Jason Andrew Felch Jason Felch, the Fusion GPS LA office Managing Partner and his routing data to one of his Occidental College escapades with the School’s sexual misconduct administrator
Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, Peter Fritsch, Neil King, Tom Catan
Perkin-Coie, law firm that paid for the opposition research on Trump on behalf of the DNC. They are also the law firm that is heading up the accusations against congressman Jim Jordan in Ohio. Coincidentally...
So who was responsible for collecting and organizing the data to compose the dossier?
quote:
The Dossier Team Even after several testimonies and investigative reports, the composition of the dossier team is still shrouded in secrecy.
When Glenn Simpson testified on November 8th and 14th in front of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he was vague and evasive about the names of the people that worked on the document and just said that he hired Steele, who then: “Use[d] his old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf“.
Two of these “native Russian speakers” were subsequently identified as Nellie Ohr (wife of Bruce Ohr, senior employee at DOJ) and Edward Baumgartner. But even after this revelation, there are still many unanswered questions about this team. For example, what was the organizational structure of their network? How and where was the raw intelligence collected, stored, and transmitted? Or, how was Steele, a private British national living in England able to so quickly and effectively reach top US politicians like McCain and Pelosi, publish through and get full backing from media outlets like Yahoo, NYT and WaPo, and gain access to senior officials at the State Department, the DOJ, and FBI?
Dossier collectors/organizers: Nellie Ohr (Married to Bruce Ohr, 4IC at the DOJ), Christ Steele (former MI6 agent and ostensibly owner of Orbis), Chris Burrows, Edward Baumgartner
Chris Steele and Chris Burrows: Steele is ‘officially’ the primary author of the dossier and a second contributor after Simpson. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1986 with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at college, he wrote for the student newspaper Varsity. Steele was recruited by MI6 directly following his graduation. From 1987 to 1989, he worked in London at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), then from 1990 to 1993 at the UK Embassy in Moscow. Steele returned to London in 1993 and was posted to Paris in 1998. In 1999, his cover was blown when a media leak disclosed the identity of 116 MI6 agents.
In 2009, Steele and his fellow MI6-retiree Chris Burrows and Nicholas Butcher founded the private intelligence agency HL3299 Limited, later renamed Orbis Business Intelligence. In 2014, Steele and Burrows registered Walsingham Training, with Orbis being the majority controller.
Nellie Hauke Ohr: hr was the third contributor to the dossier. She earned a degree in history and Russian literature from Harvard-Radcliff 1982–1983 and MA and PhD in history from Stanford 1986-1990.
After graduation she worked for:
Accenture iDefense (acquired from VeriSign) – Principal Mar 2017
VeriSign iDefense – Cyber Threat Intelligence Researcher Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
Fusion GPS – Analyst content Creator Mar 2016 – Dec 2016
Miklos Systems – Senior Analyst Mar 2015 – Dec 2015
Plessas Experts Network – Analyst content Creator Oct 2013 – Jan 2015
Open-Source-Works – Senior Analyst Sep 2008 – Sep 2014
MITRE Corporation – Linguist analyst Jan 2000 – Dec 2008
Vassar College – Assistant Professor, History Department Jan 1990 – Dec 1998
Edward Emil Baumgartner:Baumgartner was the forth contributor to the dossier. He is a British/French national. He earned his BA in history from Vassar College in 1995 and an MA in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies from Harvard in 2000.
These are the main players used to do the link analysis in the blog post. the next post will demonstrate what that link analysis uncovered.
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 12:11 pm
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Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm to MrCarton
Yaacov scraped open source information using name/worrd searches, object recognition and facial recognition. This a list of some of the players along with their 3d reconstructed frontal facial profiles used to do the scrape:
This is an example of data found linking various players in the dossier together using facial recognition:
Martha Ohr, is Bruce Ohr's sister, she works as a producer at ABC. Her FB Avatar is “MarthaPoliwag”
Dossier Team Connections:
Some Open Source Links:
Here is the British Intel Community connection with Chris Steele (some of his 'sources'). Basically, these people are NEOCONS who have been involved in "private" sector opposition research for decades.
Michael Gaeta in action:
Old School Dossier Connections:
This is an example of data found linking various players in the dossier together using facial recognition:
quote:
FR matches for keyword searches “Nellie+Bruce Ohr” and “Martha Ohr+EKM” and example of one 2 degree network linkage to the ABC News anchor Jeremy Hubbard and his reporter wife Taunia Hottman and their SM Russia collusion and anti-Trump activity
Martha Ohr, is Bruce Ohr's sister, she works as a producer at ABC. Her FB Avatar is “MarthaPoliwag”
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**ABOVE** An example of collusion and dossier related content created and distributed through Martha Ohr’s social network. Metadata on many of the images indicates that they were produced in a commercial studio environment during business hours
Dossier Team Connections:
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Image 9: The Dossier Network, the actors, entities, and their roles These relationships between the team members transcended their changing places of employment and job titles.
The following is a short sampling of the dossier network linkage results: Christopher Steele knew Sir Andrew Wood from his days at the UK Diplomatic Service since 1986. In 2013, Wood had a paid consulting gig with Orbis. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6 who promoted the Dossier in UK, Australian, Canadian, and US government circles was Steele’s boss in MI6.
Steele knew and worked with Paoblo Miller in MI6 since 1994 and Luke Harding from The Guardian since 1996; Harding and Miller were also Orbis and Hakluyt contractors since 2009. Steele and Chris Burrows worked with Stefan Halper (Hakluyt) as early as 2005. Steele knew Jonathan Clarke from his days in MI6 and communicated and met him in the US. Burrows knew and communicated with Joseph Mifsud since 2010.
Edward Baumgartner had been contracting with Orbis and Hakluyt since 2011. Steel and Burrows knew and worked with Nigel Inkster from MI6 for over twenty years. They continued to work with him when he joined IISS and PS21. Inkster was also Sir Richard Dearlove’s deputy in SIS. Orbis hired US nationals that previously held US government positions. For example, Tatianna Duran, an Orbis Senior Intelligence Analyst, previously worked for the US State Department and had a US government “Secret” security clearance. Tatianna Duran and Nigal Inkster worked together at PS21 and with Ilya Zaslavskiy at the Chatham House.
Some Open Source Links:
quote:
Chris Burrows exchanged dossier related emails with Nicholas Fishwick, the former director of PGI and an MI6 officer, and with Stefan Halper who consulted for Hakluyt, a private UK intelligence firm similar to Fusion GPS and Orbis Business Intelligence.
Here is the British Intel Community connection with Chris Steele (some of his 'sources'). Basically, these people are NEOCONS who have been involved in "private" sector opposition research for decades.
quote:
Steele worked with the FBI as early as 2010 on the FIFA investigation. In 2016, he met them several times including at two meetings with agent Michael Gaeta, a leading FBI ‘Russia corruption expert’, in Rome and in London to discuss the dossier. Gaeta coordinated and got clearance for these meetings from Victoria Nuland at the State Department. Gaeta was the FBI case officer in Europe and controlled Orbis, Stefan Halper, and the Hakluyt dossier assets.
Michael Gaeta in action:
Old School Dossier Connections:
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Baumgartner, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, and David Kramer are all Harvard alumni. Nellie Ohr knew Stefan Halper since at least 2000. Nellie Ohr also worked in the MITRE Corporation with Halper’s son Marin Halper for six years from 2002-2008.
quote:
Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, and Baumgartner all attended Vassar College. Nellie Ohr and Baumgartner were together at the History department at Vassar between 1991-1995, where Baumgartner was her student.
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Tom Catan, knew and worked with Steele, Harding, Burrows, and Baumgartner since 2011. Catan’s wife Begoña Segurola and Fritch’s former wife Beatriz “Bea” Hidalgo are from Spain/Mexico and the two families have known each other for over 30 years.
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Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby knew Bruce and Nellie Ohr from their days at the International Assessment and Strategy Center as early as 2004. Simpson and Jacoby knew and worked with Stefan Halper at the WSJ since 1996. They also knew Steele from their days at the WSJ going back to 2009.
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 10:41 am
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm to MrCarton
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Glenn Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby, founded Main Justice in 2009, a company specializing in paid corruption research and reporting. She has been the Chief Executive at Fusion GPS since 2010. Jacoby also worked as a reporter for organizations such as GIR, and Law Business Research (which purchased Main Justice in 2015). While at Main Justice, she worked with Bruce Ohr and in fact nominated his FIFA investigation for the GIR Anti-Corruption award.
quote:
While working in Main Justice, GIR, Law Business Research, and the WSJ, Jacoby cultivated a large network of key Federal (FBI, SEC, and DOJ) executives that included notables such as Adam Hickey, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the DOJ who was familiar with the dossier and the FISA application and Andrew Weissmann, the Chief of the DOJ’s criminal fraud section, who is now working for Robert Mueller the Special Counsel investigating the alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and leading the Manafort prosecution.
quote:
Jacoby knew and worked with Christopher Steele, Nellie Ohr, Peter Strzok and his wife Melissa Hodgman—the Associate Director in SEC Enforcement Division, Peter Fritsch, Neil King Jr. and his wife Shailagh Murray, David Kramer, Jonathan Winer, and Sidney Blumenthal who worked with her at Salon in 2004.
quote:
Sidney Blumenthal’s network is noteworthy because his email address book contains many of the dossier characters including Jacoby, Simpson, Winer, and others. It also contains most of the journalist involved in the ‘favorable’ dossier coverage. For example his friendly reporter count includes:
[quote]In 2007, Simpson and his wife, Jacoby, authored an article entitled: “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington”. This mercenary form of journalism promoted the specific political interests of one Ukrainian faction and alleged that prominent Republican politicians provided US business access to Kremlin-affiliated oligarchs and other friends of Putin. One such friend was Viktor Yanukovich who become president of Ukraine in 2010. According to the article, Yanukovich’s facilitator in the US was Paul Manafort. Manafort figures prominently throughout the article and later in the dossier.
Interesting link to Manafort....
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Keeping in mind Simpson’s and Jacoby’s paid interest in Manafort and Yanukovich, it is important to note that Rinat Akhmetshin, the alleged facilitator of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, is married to Lyudmila Vereshchagina—a Ukrainian national with ties to FISU who has been living in the US since 2008. Both Akhmetshin and Vereshchagina knew and communicated with Simpson, Jacoby, and Alexandra Chalupa (the junkyard dog of the DNC) and were involved in the organization of anti-Putin/Yanukovich/Trump activity across the US.
Amazing coincidence between these connections and the random Trump tower meeting. Incredible even.
quote:
Rinat Akhmetshin’s lawyer/partner was Edward Lieberman, who concurrently worked for the Albright Stonebridge Group and used the Liebermane@dco.coudert.com email account. The Albright Stonebridge Group is a “Commercial Diplomacy” firm in Washington DC that is heavily involved with Ukrainian politics and lobbying activity in the US. Even more noteworthy, is Edward Lieberman’s wife, Evelyn Lieberman’s senior affiliation with the Clintons, Madeleine Albright and Joseph Biden. The following short bio illustrates her political R&R from 1988-2015.
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Evelyn Lieberman’s Political Bio
2002–2015: Director of communications and external affairs, Smithsonian Institution
1999–2001: Under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, for Madeleine Albright
1997–1999: Director of Voice of America **Deep State apparatus
1996–1997: White House deputy chief of staff and assistant Bill Clinton
1994–1996: White House deputy press secretary for operations Bill Clinton
1993–1994: Assistant to the chief of staff in the Office of Hillary Clinton
1988–1993: (5 years) Press secretary for Senator Joseph Biden
And...the Ukrainian lobbying connection:
So Akhmetshin, who is deeply connected to the Clinton machine is married to anti-Putin ukrainian activist Vereshchagina, but still set up a meeting between Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer to "get dirt" on HRC...
The truth has ALWAYS been right there in front of everyone, but they count on us not knowing who these people are and how they are connected. Interestingly, many involved in this Trump/Russia/dossier scam deleted their Social Media in an attempt to hide these obvious connections.
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 10:43 am
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm to MrCarton
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Jonathan Winer from the State Department knew Steele from mid-2000s. Winer also knew and worked with Glenn Simpson and Douglas Farah, his partner at IASC in 2004. Winer and Farah even cross endorsed each other on their LinkedIn profiles.
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Nellie Ohr, Peter Fritsch, and Jonathan Clarke (hakluyt/british private intel) knew each other from the Wilson Center.
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In 2010, several of the members of the future dossier team participated in a workshop dedicated to “Racketeering in Russia”. The event was hosted by the National Institute of Justice and featured among others: Glenn Simpson – Senior Fellow International Assessment and Strategy Center Nellie Ohr – Researcher Open Source Works Bruce Ohr – Chief Organized Crime and Racketeering Section Criminal Division DOJ Lisa Holtyn – Intelligence Advisor Organized Crime and Racketeering (who hosted Bruce Ohr multiple times at the White House)
In 2012, Steele did some work for the US state Department and was in communication with Winer and the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. This was done directly and through Sir Andrew Wood, who was the former British Ambassador to Russia and an employee of Orbis. Steele’s communications included over 100 reports on the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
These reports were based on information from UK and Ukrainian government sources and contained political and financial data about Russian companies that was shared with Bruce Ohr at the DOJ.
When questioned about Steele’s relationship with Jonathan Winer, Victoria Nuland said: “During the Ukraine crisis in 2014-15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them. Chris had a friend [Jonathan Winer] at the State Department and he offered us that reporting free so that we could also benefit from it.” In June 2018, Nuland also confirmed that Steele was invited to the State Department on October 2016 (just two weeks before the elections) to give a dossier briefing.
The meeting lasted over 3 hours, and included a presentation, handouts, a Q&A, and representatives form several federal agencies.
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Steele’s information didn’t only flow in one direction. In January 2016, before the Fusion GPS dossier project kicked-into-gear, Johantan Winer and Strobe Talbott were sharing with Steele via Orbis’s Canada hosted servers and email system documents authored by Cody Shearer, who produced a ‘second Trump-Russia dossier’.
This document consisted of two four-page reports, one titled “Donald Trump—Background Notes—The Compromised Candidate,” the second “FSB Interview”.
The reports are almost identical in terms of content and layout to the Steele dossier but references unnamed Turkish businessman with “excellent contacts within the FSB” as the source. The reports echo the same salacious claims and alleged corruption and collusion. Cody Shearer’s mysterious ‘one-eyed man from Istanbul’ source claims that Trump was “filmed in Moscow in November 2013, during the Miss Universe pageant in the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel”. He also said that there was a copy of the video somewhere in Bulgaria but that he couldn’t get it.
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Strobe Talbott is Cody Shearer’s brother in law and was Cody’s brother Derek’s roommate in Yale. Talbott is a State Department Russian expert who served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration[/b]. Talbott’s wife Brooke Shearer was Hillary Clinton’s personal aide and the lead investigator (nicknamed “The Dumpster Diver”) responsible for digging-up dirt on Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct accusers. [b]Strobe Talbott and his wife Brooke Shearer knew and worked with Mary Jacoby, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Neil King, and Shailagh Murray since the mid 1990s. Talbott know Steele since at least 2006.
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 10:45 am
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:42 pm to MrCarton
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A Vast Shadow Legion of Sources
Simpson pimped Steele as a real-life James Bond with deep connections inside the Kremlin and because of this, he didn’t have to corroborate any of his reports. But Steele—his previous contacts in Russia now long gone—had to rely on others like Ohr, Baumgartner, and Ukrainian sources to generate his so-called ‘raw intelligence’.
When Simpson was asked how Steele procured the intelligence he said:
I don’t know. I think there’s been a little bit of confusion I would like to clear up. Some people were saying that he was paying people for information. I don’t know whether he does or not, but that’s not basically how I understand field operations to work. You commission people to gather information for you rather than sort of paying someone for a document or to sit for an interview or something like that. That’s not how I understand it works.
Considering the fact the Simpson paid Steele about $160K (according to Orbis’s income statement it was over $270K) for the information, it is a somewhat puzzling that he didn’t’ bother getting the specifics. But luckily for us, Steele was kind enough to share his methods with The New Yorker.
It consisted of the following process:
Orbis employs dozens of confidential “collectors” around the world whom it pays as contractors. Some of these collectors are private investigators; others are investigative reporters or highly placed experts in strategic positions. Depending on the task and the length of project, the fee for a collector can be as high as two thousand dollars per day. The collectors harvest intelligence from a larger network of unpaid sources, some of whom don’t even realize they are being treated as informants. These sources occasionally receive favors—such as help in getting their children into Western schools—but money doesn’t change hands because it could violate laws against bribing government officials or insider trading.
So in other words, Orbis has a “large network” of highly placed government informants in Russia, that don’t know that they are informants—and none of them gets paid for the classified information because that would violate European union bribery laws. So what is the incentive of all for these FSB, Kremlin, and Russian Foreign Ministry personnel to share state secrets with Steele?
This business model also raises some serious questions. Assuming that by “Western schools” Steele means Ivy League and not your average local community college and that his secret compensation formula is:
‘High value intelligence’ = ‘Getting the source’s child into a Western school’
Than how is Steele able to perform this magic with the university admissions office? Is it plausible that Orbis is bribing admission committee members in Cambridge University? And who pays for these students’ tuition, room, and board? The cost of attending a school like Cambridge university for an international student is over $60k per year. How can an FSB source who draws a $10K per year salary possibly afford it? And what about the FSB’s counter intelligence team? Wouldn’t they have a few questions for their fellow employees regarding their children’s attendance at western Ivy League schools?
And if this is the model, is this how Ivanna Voronovych, Pelosi’s legislative aide got into a top US university?
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 10:47 am
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:44 pm to MrCarton
Reserved for smartass comment
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:45 pm to MrCarton
NOT RESERVED
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:03 am to MrCarton
Bookmarked.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:05 am to MrCarton
Literally every part of this thing stinks like shite.
The Fusion GPS team and long-standing professional and political connections
people connected to the dossier team meeting in the WH...
the "sources"
the quality of the report
the similarity of the report to several previous and unrelated reports
the timing of the talking heads and democratic operatives social media activity
the fact that it's unlikely that Steele even wrote the dossier
the fact that the FBI used this dossier to get another FISA extension (despite having no clear reason for extending, yet again, on Page)
The fact that Page hasn't been charged and apparently won't be charged (Most likely a willing participant in an a scheme to bypass FISA requirements)
The fact that the FBI fired Steele for his disclosure of his CHS status to the media, then using the Yahoo report as "dual sourcing" to beef up the FISA memo...
If anyone even asked the 5Ws about any given aspect of the dossier collection and compilation or the FBI FISA/Wiretapping, it would become immediately apparent that this situation extended well beyond "patriotic concern for national security" and into the realm "multi-agency, multi-corporation, multinational, and possibly multi-governmental collusion to smear a political candidate with a fabricated 'dossier'. But nobody, least of all the fricking FBI OR the Media (who are strangely uninquisitive on matters pertaining to right wing smears) ever asked any of these questions. I find it impossible to believe that multiple agencies and the media, whose jobs specifically including vetting and validating sources and information could allow such obviously biased, baseless reporting to go unchallenged by even basic questioning.
The Fusion GPS team and long-standing professional and political connections
people connected to the dossier team meeting in the WH...
the "sources"
the quality of the report
the similarity of the report to several previous and unrelated reports
the timing of the talking heads and democratic operatives social media activity
the fact that it's unlikely that Steele even wrote the dossier
the fact that the FBI used this dossier to get another FISA extension (despite having no clear reason for extending, yet again, on Page)
The fact that Page hasn't been charged and apparently won't be charged (Most likely a willing participant in an a scheme to bypass FISA requirements)
The fact that the FBI fired Steele for his disclosure of his CHS status to the media, then using the Yahoo report as "dual sourcing" to beef up the FISA memo...
If anyone even asked the 5Ws about any given aspect of the dossier collection and compilation or the FBI FISA/Wiretapping, it would become immediately apparent that this situation extended well beyond "patriotic concern for national security" and into the realm "multi-agency, multi-corporation, multinational, and possibly multi-governmental collusion to smear a political candidate with a fabricated 'dossier'. But nobody, least of all the fricking FBI OR the Media (who are strangely uninquisitive on matters pertaining to right wing smears) ever asked any of these questions. I find it impossible to believe that multiple agencies and the media, whose jobs specifically including vetting and validating sources and information could allow such obviously biased, baseless reporting to go unchallenged by even basic questioning.
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 12:15 am
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:05 am to MrCarton
Thanks for posting. I'm gonna call in sick tomorrow and read it.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:20 am to THRILLHO
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:24 am to MrCarton
TLDR
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:44 am to MrCarton
Too late. Oh this looks good for tomorrow.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:56 am to MrCarton
quote:
Literally every part of this thing stinks like shite.
It does. It's why I'm so pessimistic about this, and have tried to convey to people the enormity of what we're seeing. This is a breeding of corruption, with a corrupt network of people, that has taken decades to get where it is.
A few tweets from Trump and a few firings are not even going to make a dent in this. We will need at least a decade of public corruption trials, and a lot of people doing a lot of time in jail, to get close to eradicating this mess. So far we don't have any deterrent for others to continue engaging in this corruption. Andrew McCabe for instance still has his pension. His LE kicker to that pension, which is all that he lost, has been made up for many times over by the money he got from the Clintons through Terry McAuliff (sp?). And then he got something like a million through a gofundme, so he'll never have to pay legal bills, and will likely end up pocketing hundreds of thousands from that. And with cowards like Jeff Sessions around, it doesn't seem likely that McCabe will even face charges, let alone jail time.
This type of corruption is why they estimate we have over 22 trillion dollars unaccounted for from our federal government. There is never accountability. It's hard to fathom how powerful of a nation we would be, and how great our quality of living would be, with an extra 22 trillion in the bank.
Our executive branch has been wholly and completely corrupted. The administrative state is a major component of the deep state. Our judiciary has slowly been corrupted through activism and indoctrination at the universities and their law schools. The one branch with the power of oversight on these two branches is the legislative, and they've been bought off and blackmailed.
The deep state controls the nodes which connect the systems that each branch make up, as well as most of the major gatekeepers and decision authorities. At the heart of the deep state is the IC. It's not a coincidence that law enforcement bodies like the DOJ have been brought in under the umbrella of the IC so they can dual hat as intell and LE. It's a more efficient systems design.
I'm very worried that after Trump leaves the WH, these corrupt networks are going seek revenge on all of us, and that we are not doing nearly enough to prevent that from happening. They are trying to initiate something like the Chinese Cultural Revolution right now - with Trump in the WH - what on earth are they going to do if Trump is not in the WH?
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:02 am to MrCarton
I'll bet they even had the Russians hack the DNC servers just to throw people off. Yaaawnnn
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:11 am to MrCarton
This post was edited on 8/15/18 at 1:14 am
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:22 am to MrCarton
quote:
On April 19, 2016, two months before the content of the dossier was leaked to the media, Jacoby spent a few hours in the White House in the company of the following five seemingly unrelated individuals:
# Name Vocation Relevant Relatives
What? That’s strange
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:23 am to TJGator1215
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The dossier played almost no part in the Russian collusion story other than distract the gullible.
Yet, for some reason, it was still used by the FBI to establish Probable Cause. So you’re saying the FISA judges were gullible then?
Posted on 8/15/18 at 2:15 am to MrCarton
TL;DR - needs less 
and cliff's please
Jus saying - If it takes a book to say fake and I'm finally to middle of what looks like footnotes, then maybe there's something after all.
*(Let me know when the fat lady sings.)
and cliff's please Jus saying - If it takes a book to say fake and I'm finally to middle of what looks like footnotes, then maybe there's something after all.
*(Let me know when the fat lady sings.)
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