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THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON RESPONDS TO THE BOMBSHELL THAT THEY WERE BEHIND THE DOSSIER!!!!!



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Fusion GPS and the Washington Free Beacon
A note to our readers

Matthew Continetti and Michael GoldfarbOctober 27, 2017 7:02 pm

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Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton. All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.

Representatives of the Free Beacon approached the House Intelligence Committee today and offered to answer what questions we can in their ongoing probe of Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier.
But to be clear: We stand by our reporting, and we do not apologize for our methods. We consider it our duty to report verifiable information, not falsehoods or slander, and we believe that commitment has been well demonstrated by the quality of the journalism that we produce. The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as we see fit, and we intend to continue doing just that as we have since the day we launched this project.

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THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON HELPED START THE FUNDING FOR THE DOSSIER!!!

@Conan The Barbarian is currently trying to spin this by saying "Well, the Washington Free Beacon initially paid for the opposition research against Trump, not the portion that produced the Russia dossier" :uncledenzel:

As if that's a meaningful distinction. :denzelcmonson:

Take your L like a man :bpufedup:
 

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MORE INFORMATION ABOT VESELNITSKAYA'S BOSS!




http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-yuri-chaika-2017-7

What we know about Yuri Chaika — the Kremlin's 'master of kompromat' who's behind the notorious Trump Tower meeting
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Russia's Prosecutor General Yury Chaika speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

  • Russia's chief prosecutor Yuri Chaika played a prominent role in lobbying against the Magnitsky Act during the 2016 election.
  • Chaika's relationship with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with top members of the Trump campaign last June, has raised questions about whether she was an agent of the Kremlin.
  • Chaika's foray into American politics appears to have begun in earnest last April, when Rep. Dana Rohrabacher visited Moscow and obtained a memo from Chaika's office criticizing the Magnitsky Act.
Russia's top prosecutor and "master of kompromat" has been working since at least last year to overturn legislation passed by President Barack Obama in 2012 that levied punishing sanctions and travel restrictions on high-level Kremlin officials suspected of human rights abuses and corruption.

Yuri Chaika, who served as Russia’s justice minister during Putin’s first term and was appointed prosecutor general in 2006, is far from a household name in the United States.

But his contact with the Russophile congressman Dana Rohrabacher and his relationship with a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya has raised questions about what role, if any, Chaika played in Russia's efforts last year to help elect President Donald Trump.

Chaika rose to prominence in the late 90's after he publicly authenticated a video of what appeared to be his predecessor, Yuri Skuratov, naked in bed with two women. :whoo:Skuratov had been investigating corruption by former President Boris Yeltsin when his career was destroyed by the video — and Chaika's testimony.

Chaika's foray into American politics, however, appears not to have begun in earnest until last April. That is when his office gave Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher and three other US representatives a confidential letter detailing American investor Bill Browder's "illegal scheme of buying up Gazprom shares without permission of the Government of Russia” between 1999 and 2006, one month after Rohrabacher returned from Moscow.

As Business Insider has previously reported, Veselnitskaya brought a memo to her meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort last June at Trump Tower that contained many of the same talking points as one written by Chaika's office two months earlier. The document is marked “confidential” but made the rounds on Capitol Hill upon the lawmaker's return to the US and was obtained by Business Insider.

Browder was targeted by Chaika's office because of his role in spearheading the Magnitsky Act — a law passed in 2012 aimed at punishing those suspected of being involved in the death of a Russian auditor Browder had hired to examine whether his company, Hermitage, had been the victim of tax fraud.


Magnitsky soon discovered that Hermitage was only a small pawn in a vast, $230 million tax fraud scheme that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. The scandal, exposed in 2008, quickly snowballed into one of the biggest corruption scandals of Putin's tenure, and Moscow has been working to discredit Browder ever since.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, greets Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, left, as he enters a hall to attend a meeting with regional officials in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

“There is not a jot of truth in Browder’s story, but this is the doctrinal essence of the story known as the ‘Magnitsky case’ put in as a basis for the U.S. Act that caused the most severe damage to the U.S.-Russian relations in recent years,” read the letter from Chaika's office to Rohrabacher.

Chaika's office also reportedly gave Rohrabacher a copy of an anti-Magnitsky propaganda film that Republican Rep. Ed Royce prevented him from showing to Congress. The film was screened instead at Washington DC's Newseum last June, four days after Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner met with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower.

The meeting was the second time that year that Chaika is believed to have to meddled on behalf of the Kremlin
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Earlier this month, Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, tweeted an email chain from June 2016 in which he entertained accepting damaging information on Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government's support for his father's campaign.

Rob Goldstone, the publicist for the Azerbaijani pop star Emin Agalarov, wrote to Trump Jr. on June 3: "Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.

"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father," he continued, referring to Aras Agalarov, a wealthy Azerbaijani-Russian developer who brought Trump's Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.

There is no such thing as a "crown prosecutor" in Russia. But "the analogue would be the top federal prosecutor of Russia, and that is Yury Chaika," The Atlantic's Julia Ioffe explained recently. Chaika's position in Russia now is comparable to that of the US Attorney General, she noted, and "Chaika has been extremely loyal to Putin."

Aras Agalarov, similarly, has been loyal to Chaika. When one of Russia's leading opposition activists Alexi Navalny produced a documentary outlining allegations of corruption against Chaika’s family and close associates, Agalarov wrote a lengthy op-ed in Kommersant — one of Russia's largest newspapers — defending Chaika and saying he and his sons have "nothing to hide."


Navalny's documentary focused on Chaika’s two sons, Artem and Igor, who Navalny said accumulated vast wealth by using their father’s connections to powerful Russian interests. The documentary, titled “Chaika,” also accused Artem of understating his income to avoid revealing where the money came from.

“He continuously exploits the protection that his father, the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika, gives him, to extort from and steal other peoples’ companies,” Navalny alleged.

In one deal the anticorruption group investigated, Artem Chaika seized the Upper Lena River Shipping Company in the Irkutsk province, which ultimately led to the death of the company’s former CEO in 2003. Despite the local coroner’s conclusion that the CEO had been murdered, the local district attorney did not open an investigation.:weebaynanimated:

By 1986, Chaika became first deputy prosecutor of the Irkutsk province, but eventually went back to work at the Provincial Committee in 1988, before ultimately becoming Irkutsk Province’s top prosecutor in the 1990s. After being appointed Chaika was threatened by his former boss with a kompromat file that implicated him in several criminal investigations, according to an investigation by the Russian newspaper Meduza.

Chaika slammed Navalny's documentary after it was released, calling it “a hatchet job, not paid for by those who made it,” suggesting that Navalny was acting on someone else’s orders. He added that the allegations were “deliberately falsified” and had “no basis in fact.”

The Kremlin has pushed back on calls to dismiss Yuri Chaika since the documentary was released, saying it does not reflect on the prosecutor general, but on his sons.

A staple within the world of espionage
Though Trump Jr. said he got "no meaningful information" about Clinton from the meeting — and that they met primarily to discuss a Russian adoption program — some national security experts believe the meeting may have been a Russian intelligence operation.

The discussion about the Magnitsky Act, the law that prompted Russia to retaliate by stopping US adoption of Russian children, could have been a way for Moscow to approach the campaign "in a way that can be masked," CIA veteran Glenn Carle told Vox.

This tactic is a staple within the world of espionage, said Ned Price, a former CIA analyst who served as senior director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama.

"By using Russians with subtler links to the Kremlin, Moscow is able to leverage operatives, witting or unwitting, with natural access to the Trump universe," Price said.

Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, the vice president of Aras Agalarov's company Crocus International, attended the Trump Tower meeting on Agalarov's behalf. It is unclear whether Kaveladze knows Chaika personally like his boss, Agalarov, does. But a Facebook post from April 2016 may offer a clue.

In it, Kaveladze recalls "driver Yura" approaching him while he was in Moscow and asking when he was going to the US again. Kaveladze says he "named a date. Now he'll ask me to bring a car part." Instead, Yura asked him to relay a message for him.

"Me and the boys in the transportation department discussed it and decided that we all support Trump," Yura recalled, according to Kaveladze. "We all know it. He's a normal guy. Some boys have photos with him" from when he visited Crocus in 2013 for the Miss Universe contest.


"The other candidates are shady," Yura continued. "Who the hell knows what you can expect from them. Pass that on to them."

Chaika spent most of his career as a prosecutor for the east Siberia transportation department. The references to the "transportation department" and a "car part," then, could be interpreted as an inside joke of sorts about Chaika. But Kavaladze did not return multiple phone calls requesting comment.

Chaika was still trying to discredit Browder and the Magnitsky Act as recently as last month.

"The motivation is very simple," he told the state-owned news channel NTV. "To show that the business community in Russia and Russian leadership, especially law enforcement agencies, are corrupt; to discredit the Russian Federation through this. Moreover, it's to stop us from further investigating the criminal case against Browder."


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Woolsey spoke to Mueller about a meeting with Flynn, Turkish officials

Ex-CIA Director Spoke to Mueller About Flynn’s Alleged Turkish Scheme

by Ken DilanianOct 27 2017, 7:24 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director James Woolsey has been interviewed by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller about allegations that Mike Flynn discussed the potentially illegal removal of a Turkish cleric from the U.S., Woolsey's spokesman told NBC News.

"Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have been in communication with the FBI regarding the Sept. 19, 2016 meeting Ambassador Woolsey was invited to attend by one of Gen. Flynn's business partners," Woolsey spokesman Jonathan Franks said in a statement. "Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have responded to every request, whether from the FBI, or, more recently, the Office of the Special Counsel."

Franks clarified that the FBI has been "in communication" with Woolsey both before and after the matter was taken over by Mueller's office.




Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey testifies before a state legislative committee on the legalization of growing hemp at the Capitol Annex in Frankfort, Kentucky on Feb. 11, 2013. James Crisp / AP file


Related: 'I Had Nothing to Do With General Flynn'

Mueller's interest in Woolsey's allegations was first reported by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Woolsey was CIA director under President Bill Clinton, but was a volunteer adviser to Donald Trump's campaign.

In March, Woolsey confirmed to MSNBC the contents of a Wall Street Journal story which reported Woolsey's account of a meeting he says made him so uncomfortable he felt compelled to report what happened to Vice President Joseph Biden. Flynn. the former national security adviser, was paid more than $500,000 in 2016 for lobbying that benefited the Turkish government.

Woolsey told The Journal he arrived at the meeting in New York on Sept. 19 in the middle of the discussion, and believed the actions being discussed were possibly illegal.




Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), national security adviser designate, at the U.S. Institute Of Peace on January 10, 2017 in Washington. Chris Kleponis / AFP - Getty Images file


The topic was a Turkish cleric living in the U.S., blamed by the Turkish government for fomenting a 2016 coup attempt.

Flynn's spokesman at the time disputed the account, saying "at no time did Gen. Flynn discuss any illegal actions, nonjudicial physical removal or any other such activities."

Flynn's lawyer, Robert Kelner, did not respond to a request for comment Friday night by NBC News.

Turkish government officials — including the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country's foreign minister — were discussing with Flynn how to get the cleric, Fethullah Gülen, back to Turkey, the Journal reported.




U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania on July 29, 2016. Charles Mostoller / Reuters file


Woolsey told the Journal that the idea was "a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away."

A source familiar with the matter told NBC News that Woolsey's allegations came under investigation by the FBI, and that Mueller's team inherited that aspect of the wide-ranging probe into Flynn's activities.

Flynn is also under scrutiny for meetings he had with the Russian ambassador, and what he later said about them.

Woolsey told the Journal he didn't say anything during the discussion, but later cautioned some attendees that trying to remove Gülen was a bad idea — and one that might violate U.S. law.




FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Dirksen Building on oversight of the FBI on June 19, 2013 in Washington. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call file


Woolsey said he informed the U.S. government by notifying Vice President Joe Biden through a mutual friend, the Journal reported.

Reuters, citing three people familiar with the matter, reported Thursday that Woolsey and his wife, Nancye Miller, pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit Gülen while Woolsey was an adviser to Donald Trump's election campaign.

In an email memo seen by Reuters, Woolsey and Miller sketched a plan to "draw attention to the cleric's possible role in the coup attempt" and encourage an official investigation into his activities.

In the statement, Woolsey's spokesman suggested the Reuters story was planted in an effort to discredit the former CIA director as a witness.

"It is unfortunate, yet predictable, that in an effort to defend themselves, certain individuals have attempted to impugn the Woolseys' integrity in the media," the statement said.

A source close to Woolsey said he could not authenticate the email, and said that Woolsey did not do the work described in it.




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