Deep state colluded with the Russians

[chuck_curtis]

Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.

But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.

Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.

The Levinson mission is confirmed by more than a dozen participants inside and outside the FBI, including Deripaska, his lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired agent who supervised the case. Mueller was kept apprised of the operation, officials told me.

Some aspects of Deripaska’s help were chronicled in a 2016 book by reporter Barry Meier, but sources provide extensive new information about his role.

They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in 2009 in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris; Vienna; Budapest, Hungary, and Washington. Agents persuaded the aluminum industry magnate to underwrite the mission. The Russian billionaire insisted the operation neither involve nor harm his homeland.

“We knew he was paying for his team helping us, and that probably ran into the millions,” a U.S. official involved in the operation confirmed.

One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple sources confirmed.

Deripaska’s lawyer said the Russian ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with Iranian contacts under the FBI’s watchful eye. Photos and videos indicating Levinson was alive were uncovered.

Then in fall 2010, the operation secured an offer to free Levinson. The deal was scuttled, however, when the State Department become uncomfortable with Iran’s terms, according to Deripaska’s lawyer and the Levinson family.

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So why care about some banished Russian oligarch’s account now?

Two reasons.

First, as the FBI prepared to get authority to surveil figures on Trump’s campaign team, did it disclose to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that one of its past Russian sources waived them off the notion of Trump-Russia collusion?

Second, the U.S. government in April imposed sanctions on Deripaska, one of several prominent Russians targeted to punish Vladimir Putin — using the same sort of allegations that State used from 2006 to 2009. Yet, between those two episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to ask him to fund that multimillion-dollar rescue mission. And to seek his help on a sensitive political investigation. And to allow him into the country eight times.

I was alerted to Deripaska’s past FBI relationship by U.S. officials who wondered whether the Russian’s conspicuous absence from Mueller’s indictments might be related to his FBI work.

They aren’t the only ones.
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http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch

[Truman62]

Wow Chuck, just keep dealing with speculation, while the REAL story continues
about Frump's Collusion with Russia.

The White House official had a startling assertion: He thought he had received an email in the first
half of 2016 alerting the Trump campaign that Russia had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Testifying behind closed doors on Capitol Hill in late March, the official, John K. Mashburn, said he
remembered the email coming from George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the campaign
who was approached by a Russian agent, sometime before the party conventions — and well before
WikiLeaks began publishing messages stolen in hackings from Democrats.


Such an email could have proved explosive, providing evidence that at least one high-ranking Trump
campaign official was alerted to Russia’s meddling, raising questions about which advisers knew and
undercutting President Trump’s denials of collusion.

But two months after Mr. Mashburn testified, investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee have
not found any such message. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was also searching for similar
emails, according to a person familiar with a request for documents that his investigators sent to the
Trump campaign. The campaign, which has examined its emails and other documents, also cannot find
the message, and officials do not believe it exists.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tantalizing-testimony-from-a-top-trump-aide-sets-off-a-search-for-proof/



Wow the emails just disappeared...  Well THAT is obvious proof that there was collusion,
since hillary's disappearing emails are proof of her wrong doing.

So when will you start your trial?

Lock him up!

Lock him up!

Lock him up!

[gwboolean]

Mr. Chuckles making another pathetic attempt to carry water for President Queeg by providing yet another false narrative, provided by his SFN thought leaders.  It is assumed that his pathetic effort today is to distract from President Queeg having been caught taking $500 million from China to get the sanctions against them removed and kill the $1 Billion fine that went with the sanctions.  Not working Mr. Chuckles.  #So Sad 

[chuck_curtis]

There's your collusion, but don't expect the deep state to prosecute itself.

[gwboolean]

Finally, Mr. Chuckles admits that he, President Queeg, the TrEA$on/NSSA party and his Elite Soviet Establishment Masters are the Deep State he often refers to.  Interesting, because that would mean that he and they are also the Red State.  Hmmmmmm! 

[LadyRavensWing]

Presdent Queeg, GWBoolean???

ROTFLMAO!!! Yea, THAT fits tRump to a tee!

"He's got those *Yellow Stain* blues.

Right down from his head to his shoes..."

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRoVFdbBNc


*Ldy R.*