Mueller dismisses top FBI agent in Russia probe for anti-Trump texts

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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

- Abraham Lincoln
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Is @UndeadFOIA Ryan Millron? Maybe this is common knowledge but I haven't seen it spelled out.

https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/court-of-appeals/2023/a23a1163.html

This post seems to describe how the Obama White House and Clinton campaign were using public funding from DARPA to generate bogus evidence of Russian interference in elections.



In addition to all the work Antonakakis did under the DARPA contract to smear Trump and create the illusion of Russian collusion, he is central to a False Claims Act whistleblower complaint against his GTRI lab for fraudulently claiming that his labs networks used to store data for the federal government were compliant with NIST SP 800-171. DFARS Clause 252.204-7012 that enforces NIST 800-171 conpliance was part of the DARPA contract. The GTRI network administrator confronted Antonakakis and told him his lab was not compliant. Antonakakis told him to mind his own business. IIRC, GTRI has admitted guilt.
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I don't really understand who he is but it is interesting.


I do wonder how much Flynn just made from the settlement.
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Ha, that is funny. GTRI is the repository for every IT security breach or attempted breach on the government and their contractors.

Those NIST requirements are easy to violate and CMMC 2.0 is going to be even rougher. Small businesses are being driven out of the government contract space.
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nortex97 said:

I don't really understand who he is but it is interesting.


I do wonder how much Flynn just made from the settlement.


$1.25 M

Not enough.
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BQ78 said:

Ha, that is funny. GTRI is the repository for every IT security breach or attempted breach on the government and their contractors.

Those NIST requirements are easy to violate and CMMC 2.0 is going to be even rougher. Small businesses are being driven out of the government contract space.


The Associate Director of Cyber Security at Georgia Tech, Christopher Craig and his ISSE, Kyle Koza had to file suit because they were blamed for the FCA violations of Manos Antonakis' lab even though they tried to hold him accountable and alert Georgia Tech leadership to the violations.

Antonakakis claimed that his System Security Plan (SSP) contained a blanket exemption from having endpoint protection agents to detect malware from being installed. He also claimed to have all his computers protected by a firewall when several were outside the firewall.

https://www.insidethefalseclaimsact.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/860/2024/04/US-ex-rel-Craig-v.-Georgia-Tech-Research-Corp.pdf

After the GTRI Office of Sponsored Programs confirmed that the Manos Lab was required to comply with the NIST 800-171 and shut off invoicing for the DARPA contract for lack of compliance, the GTRI CISO stepped in told Craig and Koza to close their investigation of the Manos Lab and that the issues had been resolved. Craig and Koza were given adverse performance evaluations and then filed suit for whistleblower protection. This was in Dec 2021, years after Antonakakis had been generating BS assessments supporting the Russia Hoax that were provided to the government as work products under the DARPA contract.

This is relevant context to the Mueller investigation because it shows that Antonakakis was just functioning as a hired gun to generate findings of cybersecurity exploitations when in fact his own lab was flagrantly ignoring compliance policies for the DARPA contract under which he was being paid.
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The 2019 impeachment (I think following the initial one) via Mueller's sham team of frauds/traitors was a lie through and through.


And CTH this morning proved Atkinson was no neutral/honest broker, too.
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Looking closely at the information in these three documents makes it clear why the HPSCI never wanted them released. Both current and former members, including Republicans, are tied to a pattern of willful blindness, knowing the details yet choosing to stay silent for months and even years afterward.

Former HPSCI Chairman, then HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes was a participant in the testimony. Former HPSCI member, now CIA Director John Ratcliffe was a participant in the testimony. Former HPSCI staff, now FBI Director Kash Patel was a participant in the testimony. [Think about it]

Principle Players
The National Security Council leaker was Alexander Vindman. The CIA "Whistleblower" was Eric Ciaramella. The Intelligence Community Inspector General was Michael Atkinson.
There is a lot of information to review as the documents include:
(1) The CIA complaint from Ciaramella and subsequent ICIG investigation. (pdf)
(2) The first interview of the ICIG Atkinson by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), dated September 19, 2019. (pdf)
(3) The second interview of ICIG Atkinson dated October 4, 2019. (pdf)

In total there are about 450 pages of documents and transcripts to read and review. The story they tell is remarkable as it outlines how internal people within the various intelligence agencies of the United States government, collaborated and used their positions of responsibility to target a sitting president for impeachment and removal.

In short, in addition to all the "Spygate" surveillance and "Russiagate" wrongdoing, these documents highlight the real and actionable activity by the U.S. Intelligence Community to work collaborative with congress during their targeting of President Trump.

Do not lose sight of the forest while surrounded by the details of the trees.

More at the links. Lots of charges and revocations of security clearances should be immediately following.
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It's a shame most (maybe all) of these bad actors will never face justice. Half the nation doesn't even care and believe what they did was justified. This nation is broken.
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Half the nation wants the communists to retake the House and begin anew on fresh impeachment shenanigans.

This thread has certainly stood the test of time.
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Note: This would not be covered by the Biden pardons (except Hunter).

Todd Blanche, what are you going to do about this?

I'm Gipper
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Just The News has still today the Ukraine (Vindman Ciaramella Atkinson) impeachment as a continuation of the Russiagate-Hillary steele dossier one as their lead online headline;
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The Democrat-led Ukraine impeachment effort of 2019 was linked to and a continuation of the Russiagate saga and of the failed effort by special counsel Robert Mueller to unearth criminality by President Donald Trump, newly-declassified documents and testimony indicate.

Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. Gabbard also declassified long-secret transcribed interviews from the watchdog, and these, combined with the memos, provide further evidence that the Ukraine impeachment saga was a continuation of the Russiagate saga which had flamed out.

The newly-released memos flagged the Ukraine whistle-blower for having a "potential for bias," elicited an apology from him for misleading the probe about his prior contact with staffers on the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee, showed he criticized GOP congressmen, recounted that he asked to hide his complaint from Republicans on the intelligence committee, pointed to his close links to Joe Biden's efforts in Ukraine, and more. Atkinson kept much of this from the House investigators.

An alleged witness whose name was redacted and who told investigators he had been assisting the alleged whistle-blower with making his disclosures admitted to having a connection to Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who was fired in 2019 for his misbehavior while helping lead the discredited Russia collusion probe.

This witness identified only as "Witness 2" disclosed that he had also worked on a controversial December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that claimed Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton in that year's presidential race, a conclusion that the CIA now admits was based on faulty intelligence and a failure of spy tradecraft.

Prior to being nominated by Trump to be the intelligence community watchdog, Atkinson himself was an Obama holdover in the first Trump administration and was a former top counselor to key Russiagate figure and DOJ official Mary McCord.

Ahem, some of us called that the whole time. And, Ciaramella was not a CIA agent, with a need for secrecy, he was an analyst working nominally for Trump (actually for the seditionist dems/Ukraine) in the NSC. Today, he works for the 'Carnegie Endowment for Peace.' Oh, and he's a contributing editor at Lawfare. These are utterly shameless people.

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Ellis Wyatt
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Time for prison.
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Ellis Wyatt said:

Time for prison.


Prison? Try seven figure book deal or podcast or tv show.
Ellis Wyatt
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Yeah, I am not confident anything will happen to them.
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Ellis Wyatt said:

Yeah, I am not confident anything will happen to them.

I'll be dead before even history records what happened in 2020, 2019, 2022, and so on.

I fought the good fight, though. Being correct on the law and that never being good enough just reinforced my decision long ago to stop practicing in a courtroom. Decorum be damned, I would have been in contempt lock up all of the time.
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I have a good friend who is a prosecutor in a fairly large county, and he is very conservative. It sickens him how lawyers and more and more judges have no regard for the law anymore. We talk about it all the time.
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nortex97
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Giardina.


Svetlana has a lot more on her timeline the past few days, fwiw. We'll see.
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Start locking these people up!
will25u
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Works best this way.

nortex97
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I mean, yeah, that sure is part of it, John.
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Guess Brennan doesn't like being on the receiving end of what he spewed like someone at Mardi Gras drinking too many Hurricanes at...checks notes...Brennan's Restaurant in NOLA.
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Not directly Mueller related, but further proof the IC needs a complete purge.

Ellis Wyatt
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What was it?
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Ellis Wyatt said:

What was it?

Does it not show when you click on the link?

It basically lays out that the IC ignored and minimized reports that the CCI was attempting to interfere with the 2020 election by negging Trump. Title of the article- EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Alleges 2020 CCP Election Influence Ops Targeting Trump Were Suppressed
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I'm not on Twitter, so it just says "this page doesn't exist."
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nortex97 said:

I mean, yeah, that sure is part of it, John.


Yes John, Now take the medicine.
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We don't get new names too often at this point. Gavin Wilde. Funny how many of these traitors wind up working at the Carnegie Endowment.

A Russian disinformation specialist, I guess. And of course pals with British intelligence/RUSI.

ETA: JTN has a front page piece on Wilde this am too, I just discovered.
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To paraphrase Clausewitz, impeachment is just the continuation of the Russia Hoax by other means.
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Quote:

We don't get new names too often at this point. Gavin Wilde. Funny how many of these traitors wind up working at the Carnegie Endowment.

As I commented during Trump's first impeachment, nearly all of the State Department wienies spent some time on a Soros payroll off and on.
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There's a lot to investigate of course in this long-term conspiracy, but ultimately there's plenty of evidence in broad daylight at this point too.

Complex litigation is always a challenge but some of this is really quite simple, imho.
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No s***. I have been starting threads and talking about Elias' old firm, Perkins, Coie was smak dab in the middle of everything RussiaGate. Hillary campaign, Google, Crowdstrike, Fusion GPS, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Obama Foundation, DNC and DCCC to name just a few of their clients.
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Ship has an article on substack out this week about Elias (or rather his recent article in 'Just Security').
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Andrew Weissmann "left" DOJ in the months following the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision reversing his crowning achievement as head of the Enron Task Force, the conviction of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen. It is always instructive to remember exactly who and what Andrew Weissmann was and represented during his time at DOJ he's long been a stain on the integrity of the Department.
I've never liked him and I'm not going to sugarcoat the facts here:
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  • Weissmann was part of the Enron Task Force when it was created in 2002, and became its Director in 2004. But the Arthur Andersen investigation began prior to the Task Force, with Weissmann leading the investigation while in the Fraud Section of DOJ's Criminal Division. The case moved to the Enron Task Force when Weissmann moved.
  • The indictment was handed down in March 2002, and the trial was in May-June 2002. The facts were largely undisputed and the issues at trial mostly involved "intent" and a legal interpretation of the "obstruction" statute Weissmann relied upon.
  • The conviction led to Arthur Andersen's collapse as a company, with 85,000 jobs lost world-wide, and 30,000 jobs lost in the U.S. Publicly traded companies cannot use the services of a CPA with a felony conviction. Most of Arthur Andersen's clients were forced to drop the firm, and it collapsed as a result. Weissmann KNEW this would be the consequence of a conviction so he had as a GOAL putting Arthur Andersen out of business, thereby costing its partners billions of dollars as costing tens of thousands of people their jobs people who had done nothing wrong.
  • The Supreme Court reversed the conviction on May 31, 2005. The vote was 9-0 that the theory used by Weismann was constitutionally unsound with Justice Scalia agreeing with Justice Ginsburg that Weissmann didn't know what he was doing.
  • DOJ announced Weissmann's departure from the Enron Task Force on July 18, 2005 6 weeks after the Supreme Court's decision.
  • When Weissmann joined Jenner & Block in New York in January 2006, the firm's announcement said he had been "Special Counsel" to FBI Director Mueller from July to December 2005 Mueller "hired" him to save him from being "let go" by DOJ in the aftermath of the Arthur AndersenFIASCO.
  • [/ol]
    This is a passage taken from the Supreme Court's opinion in Arthur Andersen, commenting on the legal theory pressed by Weissmann as reflected in the jury instructions he persuaded the trial judge to use:
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    The instructions also were infirm for another reason. They led the jury to believe that it did not have to find any nexus between the "persua[sion]" to destroy documents and any particular proceeding…. [T]he Government relies heavily on 1512(e)(1), which states that an official proceeding "need not be pending or about to be instituted at the time of the offense." It is, however, one thing to say that a proceeding "need not be pending or about to be instituted at the time of the offense," and quite another to say a proceeding need not even be foreseen. A "knowingly … corrup[t] persaude[r]" cannot be someone who persuades others to shred documents under a document retention policy when he does not have in contemplation any particular official proceeding in which those documents might be material.

    Weissmann pressed the theory that a criminal conviction for document destruction could stand even when the entity engaging in the destruction had not been subpoenaed and no actual investigation had yet been started. To him it was enough that the company suspected there might be an investigation even if the actual document destruction engaged in was consistent with a longstanding company policy to discard client documents when they were no longer needed.

    He was reversed 9-0 but 85,000 people still lost their jobs and a Big Five accounting firm disappeared because of him.

    Hopefully that background is ok to share here (sorry if it's not). As with the later Russiagate, his impact on the world was just sleaze and pain/suffering via the legal system due to his absolutely wretched legal theories and the power of his office. He hasn't changed and is still slime, and not a particularly bright/good lawyer, imho. His efforts have benefited from the political bias of the judiciary around DC.
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