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Mueller Probing Pre-Election Flynn Meeting with Pro-Russia Congressman (Not Nunes, unfortunately)

WASHINGTON — Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are questioning witnesses about an alleged September 2016 meeting between Mike Flynn, who later briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a staunch advocate of policies that would help Russia, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told NBC News.

The meeting allegedly took place in Washington the evening of Sept. 20, while Flynn was working as an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign. It was arranged by his lobbying firm, the Flynn Intel Group. Also in attendance were Flynn’s business partners, Bijan Kian and Brian McCauley, and Flynn’s son, Michael G. Flynn, who worked closely with his father, the sources said.

Mueller is reviewing emails sent from Flynn Intel Group to Rohrabacher’s congressional staff thanking them for the meeting, according to one of the sources, as part of his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Rohrabacher, a California Republican, has pushed for better relations with Russia, traveled to Moscow to meet with officials and advocated to overturn the Magnitsky Act, the 2012 bill that froze assets of Russian investigators and prosecutors. The sources could not confirm whether Rohrabacher and Flynn discussed U.S. policy towards Russia in the alleged meeting.

Mueller’s interest in the nature of Flynn and Rohrabacher’s discussion marks the first known time a member of Congress could be wrapped into the investigation.

Most of what has been reported about Mueller’s questioning of Flynn’s lobbying work has concerned his efforts on behalf of Turkey. Less is known about his lobbying ties to Russia, though he was paid $45,000 plus expenses for attending a gala in Moscow in December 2015 and being interviewed by RT, the Kremlin-financed cable TV news channel.

Flynn was fired after just 24 days as Trump’s national security adviser over misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.

Multiple sources have told NBC News that Mueller has gathered enough evidence to lead to an indictment in the investigation into Flynn and his son.

Federal investigators have been probing Flynn’s lobbying efforts on behalf of Turkey, including an alleged meeting with senior Turkish officials in December 2016 where he was offered millions of dollars to secure the return of the Turkish president’s chief rival to Turkey and see that a U.S. case against a Turkish national was dismissed.

A grand jury impaneled by Mueller is continuing to interview witnesses with knowledge of Flynn's business activities over the next week, the two sources said.

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Wow I don't think so breh I believe Russia will intentionally release it when it is all said and done.

and that is when we all fap.

 

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Wow I don't think so breh I believe Russia will intentionally release it when it is all said and done.

i am 100% certain that the tape will come out.
I bet there are multiple angles as well.
we gonna see a nude cheeto laying on his back with his legs pulled back getting his ass ate.
we gonna see cheeto getting pissed on and slapped up...maybe even choked.

and there will not be a single erection in any of the footage.

If it were only in the hands of US intel agencies, then it would never see light of day (similar to Osama death pics).

My sense is that most of the people whom you could reasonably see as being President within the next few terms, would say no. It would be very embarrassing to the country on many levels. They then will use whatever leverage they can muster as President (which needless to say is a lot) to tell the other country to lock it down. And assuming, as is being hinted, that the country is one of those smaller Baltic countries who are deathly afraid of Russia and need US/NATO protection - they will listen.

But if it truly is in the hands of MULTIPLE intel agencies, I don't think they will be able to keep it a secret. At the very least I could see the Russians releasing it once trump's impeachment/arrest is a fait accompli.

Its better used as rumor. You can control rumors to your advantage if you possess the leverage.

You can't blackmail someone with something you give out.

Notice how we went from hookers to pedophiles? See that?

And we've seen nothing yet to prove either one, only strong (albeit likely) suspicion.

Thats way more powerful than the revelation. If it comes out, then Trump would just be able to downplay it, however possible. When the parameters are set, its easier to defend. That would mean Russia has no cards left.

Its harder fighting ghosts.

 

[wickedsm]

There really is absolutely no bottom
No limit to the sickness of these people
And their voters and fans
None
Every day is just worse.

 

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There really is absolutely no bottom
No limit to the sickness of these people

 

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Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign​

Julie Bykowicz
Nov. 10, 2017 1:42 p.m. ET

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica contacted the founder of WikiLeaks to ask him to share Hillary Clinton -related emails at the same time that people familiar with the matter say the British data-analytics firm had begun working for President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“We received a message back from them that he didn’t want to and wasn’t able to, and that was the end of the story,” Mr. Nix said at the digital conference Web Summit in Lisbon. He called the exchange “very benign.”

When Mr. Nix’s approach to WikiLeaks was reported by The Wall Street Journal last month, it wasn’t clear whether Cambridge was working for the Trump campaign at the time. Federal Election Commission records show the first payment by the campaign to Cambridge Analytica is dated July 29, 2016.

New details about the timing of Cambridge Analytica’s Trump campaign work show that the firm’s effort to obtain the Clinton emails—which U.S. intelligence agencies later determined had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to the Sweden-based WikiLeaks—came as the company was in the advanced stages of contract negotiations with the campaign and had already dispatched employees to help it.

Mr. Nix first pitched Mr. Trump’s advisers on working with Cambridge Analytica in mid-May, after Steve Bannon —who went on to become White House chief strategist—introduced them, according to people familiar with the matter. In the first week of June, the company dispatched a small team to San Antonio, where Mr. Trump’s digital operation was based, according to people familiar with the company’s hiring.

On June 13, 2016, after weeks of negotiations, the company shipped a contract to the campaign, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Nix and a Trump campaign representative signed the contract on June 23, a person familiar said.

A representative for Cambridge Analytica didn’t return a request for comment.

Mr. Nix on Thursday denied any collusion with Russia. “We did not work with Russia in this election, and moreover we would never work with a third-party state actor in another country’s campaign,” he said during the Web Summit interview.

The exact date of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange is unclear. On June 12, 2016, Mr. Assange told U.K. television that he had Clinton-related emails “pending publication.” In July, WikiLeaks began publishing emails stolen from the account of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and from the Democratic National Committee.

Trump campaign officials said last month they were unaware of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange and have sought to distance the campaign from Cambridge Analytica. None of the people familiar with the matter suggested Cambridge Analytica made the approach at the campaign’s request.

Cambridge Analytica became a key part of the Trump campaign during the ensuing months, providing data, polling and research services. The firm collected close to $9 million from the campaign, including $6 million that was publicly disclosed and additional funds routed through Giles Parscale, a firm run by Trump digital director Brad Parscale, according to a person familiar with the payments—about 50% more than publicly reported. Such payment structures aren’t unusual in campaigns.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said ties between Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks were of “deep interest” to the committee, which is probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.

According to a January report from the U.S. intelligence community, the interference was directed by the highest levels of the Russian government. The tactics included hacking state election systems, stealing and leaking information from party committees and political strategists, and using social media and other outlets to disseminate negative stories about Mrs. Clinton and positive ones about Mr. Trump, the report said.

Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees have requested information from Cambridge Analytica as they investigate whether anyone in the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow, according to lawmakers and a company spokesman. The Cambridge Analytica spokesman has said the firm itself isn’t under investigation.

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Mr. Trump has denied any collusion by his campaign with the Russians, and Moscow has denied meddling in the election.

Mr. Nix “and others at Cambridge Analytica are certainly persons of interest to us that we’re going to want to speak with,“ said Mr. Schiff, a California Democrat. He added that revelations that Messrs. Nix and Assange were in contact are ”yet another connection between the campaign and those that received stolen information from the Russians.”

On Thursday, Mr. Nix called the notion that Russians “significantly interfered” in the U.S. election “frankly absurd.”

In August 2016, top Trump donor Rebekah Mercer asked Mr. Nix whether his company could help better organize the Clinton-related emails WikiLeaks was releasing, the Journal previously reported. Mr. Nix responded that he had reached out to Mr. Assange two months earlier and had been rejected, but that he would have employees at his company look into it further.

Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by Ms. Mercer and her father, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Mr. Mercer made his first donation to Mr. Trump on June 21. Mr. Bannon served on Cambridge Analytica’s board and held a stake in the company worth at least $1 million, according to his financial disclosure released by the White House.

Since the British firm first broke into U.S. politics in 2013, it has kept a stable of political clients, working for more than a dozen federal campaigns and super PACs in the 2016 election cycle. It hasn’t notched any new federal political clients this year, a review of FEC records shows.

—Byron Tau contributed to this article.






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This would be hilarious if it weren't the President (and the rest of the U.S.) that was being drug through this mess....

 

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Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign​

Julie Bykowicz
Nov. 10, 2017 1:42 p.m. ET

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica contacted the founder of WikiLeaks to ask him to share Hillary Clinton -related emails at the same time that people familiar with the matter say the British data-analytics firm had begun working for President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“We received a message back from them that he didn’t want to and wasn’t able to, and that was the end of the story,” Mr. Nix said at the digital conference Web Summit in Lisbon. He called the exchange “very benign.”

When Mr. Nix’s approach to WikiLeaks was reported by The Wall Street Journal last month, it wasn’t clear whether Cambridge was working for the Trump campaign at the time. Federal Election Commission records show the first payment by the campaign to Cambridge Analytica is dated July 29, 2016.

New details about the timing of Cambridge Analytica’s Trump campaign work show that the firm’s effort to obtain the Clinton emails—which U.S. intelligence agencies later determined had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to the Sweden-based WikiLeaks—came as the company was in the advanced stages of contract negotiations with the campaign and had already dispatched employees to help it.

Mr. Nix first pitched Mr. Trump’s advisers on working with Cambridge Analytica in mid-May, after Steve Bannon —who went on to become White House chief strategist—introduced them, according to people familiar with the matter. In the first week of June, the company dispatched a small team to San Antonio, where Mr. Trump’s digital operation was based, according to people familiar with the company’s hiring.

On June 13, 2016, after weeks of negotiations, the company shipped a contract to the campaign, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Nix and a Trump campaign representative signed the contract on June 23, a person familiar said.

A representative for Cambridge Analytica didn’t return a request for comment.

Mr. Nix on Thursday denied any collusion with Russia. “We did not work with Russia in this election, and moreover we would never work with a third-party state actor in another country’s campaign,” he said during the Web Summit interview.

The exact date of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange is unclear. On June 12, 2016, Mr. Assange told U.K. television that he had Clinton-related emails “pending publication.” In July, WikiLeaks began publishing emails stolen from the account of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and from the Democratic National Committee.

Trump campaign officials said last month they were unaware of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange and have sought to distance the campaign from Cambridge Analytica. None of the people familiar with the matter suggested Cambridge Analytica made the approach at the campaign’s request.

Cambridge Analytica became a key part of the Trump campaign during the ensuing months, providing data, polling and research services. The firm collected close to $9 million from the campaign, including $6 million that was publicly disclosed and additional funds routed through Giles Parscale, a firm run by Trump digital director Brad Parscale, according to a person familiar with the payments—about 50% more than publicly reported. Such payment structures aren’t unusual in campaigns.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said ties between Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks were of “deep interest” to the committee, which is probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.

According to a January report from the U.S. intelligence community, the interference was directed by the highest levels of the Russian government. The tactics included hacking state election systems, stealing and leaking information from party committees and political strategists, and using social media and other outlets to disseminate negative stories about Mrs. Clinton and positive ones about Mr. Trump, the report said.

Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees have requested information from Cambridge Analytica as they investigate whether anyone in the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow, according to lawmakers and a company spokesman. The Cambridge Analytica spokesman has said the firm itself isn’t under investigation.

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Mr. Trump has denied any collusion by his campaign with the Russians, and Moscow has denied meddling in the election.

Mr. Nix “and others at Cambridge Analytica are certainly persons of interest to us that we’re going to want to speak with,“ said Mr. Schiff, a California Democrat. He added that revelations that Messrs. Nix and Assange were in contact are ”yet another connection between the campaign and those that received stolen information from the Russians.”

On Thursday, Mr. Nix called the notion that Russians “significantly interfered” in the U.S. election “frankly absurd.”

In August 2016, top Trump donor Rebekah Mercer asked Mr. Nix whether his company could help better organize the Clinton-related emails WikiLeaks was releasing, the Journal previously reported. Mr. Nix responded that he had reached out to Mr. Assange two months earlier and had been rejected, but that he would have employees at his company look into it further.

Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by Ms. Mercer and her father, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Mr. Mercer made his first donation to Mr. Trump on June 21. Mr. Bannon served on Cambridge Analytica’s board and held a stake in the company worth at least $1 million, according to his financial disclosure released by the White House.

Since the British firm first broke into U.S. politics in 2013, it has kept a stable of political clients, working for more than a dozen federal campaigns and super PACs in the 2016 election cycle. It hasn’t notched any new federal political clients this year, a review of FEC records shows.

—Byron Tau contributed to this article.






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This, and plenty of other things that have been posted are clear cases of collusion.

What the hell are we still waiting for

 

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This, and plenty of other things that have been posted are clear cases of collusion.

What the hell are we still waiting for

Mueller is just boiling the Pepe frogs

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

This, and plenty of other things that have been posted are clear cases of collusion.

What the hell are we still waiting for

as annoying as it may be to see all of these things going on unpunished, it's probably because there are even bigger things being worked on behind the curtain.
in Mueller we trust.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Who the fukk would be loyal to Trump -- as if he would return the favor ?

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Who the fukk would be loyal to Trump -- as if he would return the favor ?

I think it's obvious that this cast of characters (Page, Pap, Mooch, Flynn etc) won't be remembered for their keen intellect.

 

[LeVraiPapi]

This, and plenty of other things that have been posted are clear cases of collusion.

What the hell are we still waiting for

you right, but team Mueller wanna make an example outta Trump. He wants the slam dunk. He is not willing to waste time in the courtroom. Why rush when you can have about 10 cases if you take your time ? You know how many people Mueller can charge based on what we know along ?

Competent investigators are slow to bring charges.

Also, 2018-2019 is a perfect year to bring charges. Democrats gonna have a field day with Trump

 

[Blackfyre]

Murdoch may be trying to get his grubby hands on CNN.