{"id":100761,"date":"2018-07-06T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100761"},"modified":"2018-07-06T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T01:51:33","slug":"spygate-state-department-officials-deeply-implicated-in-doj-fbi-spy-scandal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100761","title":{"rendered":"<b>SPYGATE<\/b>: State Department Officials Deeply Implicated in DOJ\/FBI Spy Scandal (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-06-at-9.50.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-06-at-9.50.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-06-at-9.50.01-PM.png 647w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-06-at-9.50.01-PM-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Devin Nunes, His Growing List of Names &amp; Victoria Nuland<\/h1>\n<p>by Jeff Carlson, CFA<br \/>\nthemarketswork.com<\/p>\n<p>On June 29, 2018, Devin Nunes sent a letter to Chairman Gowdy and Chairman Goodlatte (<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/06\/29\/a-letter-from-devin-nunes-17-recognizable-names-referred-for-open-interviews\/\">discussed here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Nunes referred seventeen highly recognizable names to the joint task force of Committees on Oversight &amp; Government Reform and the Judiciary for\u00a0<strong>open-setting<\/strong>\u00a0interviews.<\/p>\n<p>On July 2, 2018, Nunes added ten names to his list in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/383069622\/nunes-letter-gowdy-and-goodlatte-of-witness-referrals#from_embed\">follow-up letter<\/a>, expanding it to twenty-seven individuals (complete list w\/descriptions at bottom).\u00a0The new names are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Dribble<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Finer<\/li>\n<li>Colin Kahl<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Kavalec<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Lukens<\/li>\n<li>Shailagh Murray<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Nuland \u2013 See,\u00a0<a class=\"scf-post-link\" href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/03\/14\/new-details-of-victoria-nulands-role-in-the-steele-dossier\/\">New Details of Victoria Nuland\u2019s Role in the Steele Dossier<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jake Sullivan<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Williams<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Winer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that names cut off at a certain political level. Below Sally Yates at DOJ. Below Comey at FBI. Below Kerry at State.<\/p>\n<p>Following the addition of new names, Nunes appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show. His comments were noteworthy. I encourage you to read them in full. Nunes specifically notes he intends to refer more names later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Video &amp; comments below (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/2018\/07\/02\/nunes-tightens-screws-in-his-probe-into-surveillance-abuses.html\">transcript here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nunes tightens screws in his probe into surveillance abuses\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyttxEhAR2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0House Intel Chair Devin Nunes is tightening the screws in his investigation into alleged surveillance abuses of the Trump campaign.\u00a0<strong>The Congressman in now referring the names of 17 current and former justice department and FBI officials to the heads of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees for interviews. Just hours ago he added ten more names to the list,<\/strong>\u00a0this time\u00a0<strong>former Obama state department employees<\/strong>\u2026there are a lot of people on this list that are\u00a0<strong>new names to people like Victoria Nuland.<\/strong>\u00a0Tell us why you want her to testify.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0Well first of all I want to make sure the American people know that this is just one more step in the process. I think we\u2019ve been very transparent about how we\u2019ve conduct this process. We went on to FISA abuse and other matters and\u00a0<strong>I\u2019ve said for a long time that we are looking at the state department.<\/strong>\u00a0When we began looking state department,\u00a0<strong>you had Victoria Nuland and other people who decided to go out and talk about things publicly which actually helped our investigation out quite a bit.<\/strong>\u00a0The reason why is we still don\u2019t understand how this investigation was actually opened but\u00a0<strong>we know that many people in the Obama era state department were involved in the opening of that investigation.<\/strong>\u00a0So it all comes down to\u00a0<strong>how did the information make it from \u2013 supposedly \u2013 from an Australian High Commissioner Ambassador to the FBI?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So we know that\u00a0<strong>didn\u2019t come through what I would call Five Eyes Intelligence, it wasn\u2019t real intelligence product.<\/strong>\u00a0It somehow short circuited that process. We also know that\u00a0<strong>many people in the state department were also meeting with Christopher Steele.<\/strong>Christopher Steele is the person who was hired by the Democrats to dig up dirt on President Trump. So this is why this investigation has taken a while, but the good thing is that I believe that Chairman Gowdy and Goodlatte, I believe that\u00a0<strong>their task force will interview these people and they will interview them in public<\/strong>\u00a0so it will be the first time during this entire investigation that the American people get to see actual questions get answered to these potential witnesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0Again, now why would the state department be involved with the Christopher Steele Dossier issue? Again, phony Dossier, Christopher Steele, MI6, worked as an agent, supposedly has all these Russian sources. And\u00a0<strong>why would this woman Elizabeth Dibble be on your list. She was the deputy chief of the Mission in London for the state department?<\/strong>\u00a0That seems like someone you might be looking at for one of the people put into the Trump campaign, allegedly, as an informant, correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0Well I wouldn\u2019t go there but the two parallel tracks here, you kind of touched on both of them. So\u00a0<strong>one we have the London episode, somehow information made it from the Australian government to the FBI.<\/strong>\u00a0We believe that went through London and\u00a0<strong>somehow went to the Obama state department but then ended up in the justice department.<\/strong>\u00a0So that\u2019s one track,\u00a0<strong>the second track is Christopher Steele. What on earth was Christopher Steele doing meeting with state department officials?<\/strong>\u00a0Why was the Steele Dossier that supposedly the FBI was trying to get their hands on,\u00a0<strong>why was that also going through the state department?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0<strong>a lot of people had their hands on the Steele Dossier including many people in the media<\/strong>\u00a0who knew about the Steele Dossier. And this is really a collapse. What we\u2019re having to do here as the legislative branch of government, we\u2019re having to do the work that the media won\u2019t do \u2013 because there are very few in the media that actually cover this story to try to get to the bottom of it \u2013 and that\u2019s part of what\u2019s taking so long.\u00a0<strong>Typically you would have a free and fair and transparent media trying to get to the truth but in this case we haven\u2019t had that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0So Jonathan, is it Weiner, was on your list. Who was he and, I guess several months ago, he said he\u2019s being unfairly targeted by you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah that was quite interesting that he thought that we were targeting him because, at the time, we weren\u2019t sure exactly what he knew or didn\u2019t know but\u00a0<strong>thankfully he was very clear in the statements that he made that he was one of the people that was looking at the Steele information and was conveying that information in some form or fashion to the FBI.<\/strong>\u00a0So look, we want to interview these folks. These folks work for the American tax payer, they were paid by the American tax payer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0But how do you compel that Congressman? How do you compel that? I\u2019m sorry, you can subpoena them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh\u00a0<strong>they\u2019re going to testify. Well they can plead the Fifth but this isn\u2019t like the documents where we\u2019ve had to continue to fight with the justice department in order to have access to<\/strong>\u00a0documents. This is much different, these are all American citizens.\u00a0<strong>If they do not agree to appear under oath and testify, then they will be subpoenaed,<\/strong>\u00a0that I can tell you for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0I want to get your reaction to something Congressman Schiff, ranking Democrat on your committee said about you and your colleagues last week on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM SCHIFF:<\/strong>\u00a0The four horsemen of this apocalypse have been Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan. They have been leading the charge, basically to require the justice department to give them materials that can be leaked of fed or misrepresented like the infamous Nunes Memorandum in the service of the President. And in the meantime they do enormous damage to these institutions. Ultimately they\u2019ll be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0Sounds like a threat Congressman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah,\u00a0<strong>we are not going to be threatened by the Democrats. They are the ones that have all this blood on their hands.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>They are the ones who have completely destroyed the FBI and DOJ.<\/strong>\u00a0How did they do that? They did that by digging up dirt,\u00a0<strong>the Clinton campaign dug up dirt, put it into a dossier, fed into the FBI, and the FBI used our counterintelligence capabilities against a political campaign. That\u2019s what happened here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So the Democrats in the House and Senate, they continue to want to obfuscate. They continue to want to cover up.\u00a0<strong>If we\u2019d listened to the Democrats, we would have never even found out that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid Christopher Steele to generate this dirt on President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I tend to ignore everything that they say. We continue to do our work day in and day out to get you the truth, and gradually we are gritty to the truth. And I believe as these hearings take place and testimony is are given to Congress,\u00a0<strong>it will be much needed sunlight in this investigation.<\/strong>\u00a0I think the American people will\u00a0<strong>begin to see who is telling the truth and who\u2019s not telling the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0Congressman, I think we all want an open session. A lot of us are getting tired of this closed session deal where the America people are kept in the dark, and then people come out, and somehow mysteriously we hear little bits and pieces about what happened, or the flavor of what happened behind closed doors. With\u00a0<strong>someone like a Victoria Nuland,<\/strong>\u00a0other Obama State Department people, and maybe even Joseph Pientka who interviewed Michael Flynn, he could \u2014 sources tell me he could be a potential whistleblower to tell what he actually understood in that interview, namely, reportedly\u00a0<strong>that Michael Flynn did not lie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NUNES:<\/strong>\u00a0I agree with you 100 percent. I agree with you 100 percent, and that is partly why I am sending these names over to Judiciary and Oversight Committee because they already have a task force that has been convened.\u00a0<strong>They should be able to do all of these hearings in the public, full transparency,<\/strong>\u00a0so that people can watch on live television. That is my recommendation to the committee chairman.\u00a0<strong>I believe they will follow that recommendation.<\/strong>\u00a0And they may have other names. So far we sent them the 17 plus the 10, it\u2019s 27 names we have sent them.\u00a0<strong>We will be sending more names here later this week this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INGRAHAM:<\/strong>\u00a0All right, congressman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe will be sending more names here later this week this week\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Nuland likely plays a large part in this. I\u2019ve been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/03\/14\/new-details-of-victoria-nulands-role-in-the-steele-dossier\/\">pounding the table<\/a>\u00a0on her role for some time. More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/03\/09\/victoria-nuland-alexandra-chalupa-ukrainian-ties-the-steele-dossier\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/03\/11\/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuland approved the FBI meeting with Steele. Did she also require that she be presented information from the Steele meeting ahead of anyone else.<\/li>\n<li>Nuland says she and the State Department received the talking points of the Dossier in mid-July 2016 \u2013 either directly from Steel or via an intermediary \u2013 and\u00a0<strong>they<\/strong>\u00a0passed the information to the FBI.<\/li>\n<li>The implication seems to be that Nuland received the talking points before FBI leadership ever saw the information.<\/li>\n<li>Nuland and Winer have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/devin-nunes-is-investigating-me-heres-the-truth\/2018\/02\/08\/cc621170-0cf4-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.88d43c35e662\">both stated<\/a>\u00a0the information was given to Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/li>\n<li>Which raises the question. Did Nuland share the Dossier with anyone other than the FBI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Nuland said on the matter during a February 4, 2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/victoria-nuland-says-obama-state-dept-informed-fbi-of-reporting-from-steele-dossier\/\">appearance<\/a>\u00a0on Face the Nation (begins at 4:23 mark):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How does the release of the memo affect national security?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGUEewoK6r8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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. It was one of, you know, hundreds of sources that we were using to try to understand what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Then,\u00a0<strong>in the middle of July, when he was doing this other work and became concerned, he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding<\/strong>\u00a0and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That\u2019s something for the FBI to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuland said the State Department received the Dossier directly from Steele in mid-July 2016, whereupon the State Department turned it over to the FBI<\/strong>\u00a0(segmented video\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/02\/04\/former_assistant_secretary_of_state_victoria_nuland_christopher_steele_also_shared_information_with_state_department.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 transcript\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-michael-morell-fran-townsend-victoria-nuland-on-face-the-nation-feb-4-2018\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short video of Nuland testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee (h\/t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Freelassie\/status\/1014326567516934144\">@Freelassie<\/a>). Nuland appears a bit more\u2026nervous\u2026than previously:<\/p>\n<p>Listen closely:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/VvXJ5H2TRzM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was first shown excerpts of the dossier in mid-July 2016\u2026I actively chose not to be part of that briefing\u2026I was not aware of it until afterwards\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did you notice Nuland tells Burr that she actively avoided being in that briefing, then goes on to say she didn&#39;t know about the briefing until after it took place. Inconsistent testimony???<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeana Hurst (@jeana_hurst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeana_hurst\/status\/1014634089511436288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m confident you\u2019ll be hearing Nuland\u2019s name with greater frequency going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of individuals referred to Gowdy &amp; Goodlatte\u2019s joint task force \u2013 the Committees on Oversight &amp; Government Reform and the Judiciary \u2013 for\u00a0<strong>open-setting<\/strong>interviews. As Nunes noted, this list is expected to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Names have been added to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/05\/01\/a-listing-of-participants\/\">A Listing of Participants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Names:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trisha Anderson<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 DOJ lawyer \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thelastrefuge2\/status\/957069484526850048?lang=en\">Adviser<\/a>\u00a0in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel, was previously an attorney at Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s former firm, Covington &amp; Burling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Baker<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former FBI General Counsel \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/fbis-top-lawyer-said-to-be-reassigned\/2017\/12\/21\/2ac76640-e6b5-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.fa08e02342f5\">demoted and reassigned<\/a>\u00a0on December 20, 2017. Working member of \u201cInsurance Policy\u201d group. Senior-most legal counsel at FBI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gregory Brower<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former FBI Congressional Liaison. Assistant Director for the Office of Congressional Affairs. Resigned suddenly on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/05\/politics\/greg-brower-fbi-office-of-congressional-affairs\/index.html\">March 30, 2018<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Carlin<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Assistant Attorney General \u2013 Head of DOJ\u2019s National Security Division \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/head-of-justice-departments-national-security-division-to-step-down\/2016\/09\/27\/59cb95c4-84e6-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.8910013ef7a6\">announced<\/a>\u00a0resignation on September 27, 2016 after filing the Government\u2019s proposed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/documents\/icotr\/51117\/2016_Certification_Cover_Filing_Sep_26_2016_part_1_and_2_-merged.pdf\">2016 Section 702 certifications<\/a>\u00a0on September 26, 2016. The filing does\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>disclose known FISA Abuses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Clinesmith<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 FBI lawyer. Outed as \u201cFBI Attorney 2\u201d on Mueller Team. Removed by IG\/Mueller.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tashina Gauhar<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 DOJ official.\u00a0<span class=\"st\">Deputy Assistant Attorney General. National Security Division<\/span>. FISA lawyer.\u00a0<strong>Appears in Strzok Texts as \u201cTash\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Laufman<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 DOJ National Security Division, Former Deputy Asst. Attorney General in charge of counterintelligence \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/justice-dept-official-who-helped-oversee-clinton-russia-probes-steps-down\/2018\/02\/07\/ab19f24e-0b69-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.7718afb3f782\">resigned<\/a>\u00a0on February 7, 2018. Laufman \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ericgeller\/status\/961404212327452672?lang=en\">played a leading role<\/a>\u00a0in the Clinton email server and Russian hacking investigations.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew McCabe<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Deputy FBI Director \u2013 on December 23, 2017\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/facing-republican-attacks-fbis-deputy-director-plans-to-retire-early-next-year\/2017\/12\/23\/b4802b8c-e67a-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?utm_term=.789833ba3f51\">announced<\/a>retirement effective March 22, 2018. Forced to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/andrew-mccabe-fbi.html\">resign<\/a>\u00a0active position on January 29, 2018. Fired on March 16, 2018. Involved in all aspects. Subject of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/04\/13\/a-preamble-to-whats-coming-the-inspector-generals-report-on-andrew-mccabe\/\">IG Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary McCord<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Acting Assistant Attorney General \u2013 Acting Head of DOJ\u2019s National Security Division (replacing John Carlin) \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/21\/politics\/doj-official-mary-mccord-stepping-down\/index.html\">announced resignation<\/a>\u00a0on April 17, 2017 \u2013 Left on May 11, 2017. Complicit in Flynn Surveillance and surveillance of Trump Campaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Moffa<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 FBI official. Copied on Comey\u2019s Draft Statement exonerating Clinton of Email Scandal. Mentioned in Strzok\/Page texts.\u00a0<strong>Surprisingly hard to find any information on Moffa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sally Moyer<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 FBI lawyer. Outed as \u201cFBI Attorney 1\u201d on Mueller Team.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Ohr<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Associate Deputy Attorney General \u2013 demoted twice.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/12\/07\/top-doj-official-demoted-amid-probe-contacts-with-trump-dossier-firm.html\">Stripped<\/a>\u00a0of Associate Deputy Attorney General title on December 6, 2017. Removed as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/01\/08\/doj-official-who-concealed-meetings-with-trump-dossier-figures-loses-another-job-title.html\">head<\/a>\u00a0of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force January 8, 2018. Unofficial liaison between Fusion GPS and FBI\/DOJ. Wife worked at Fusion. Long-standing ties to both Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson\/Fusion GPS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lisa Page<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former FBI\/DOJ Lawyer \u2013 forced off Mueller\u2019s team \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/special-counsels-russia-probe-loses-top-fbi-investigator\/story?id=49249486\">demoted<\/a>\u00a0August 16, 2017. IG Horowitz\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/doj-provides-congress-with-hundreds-of-texts-between-ex-mueller-team-agent-peter-strzok-and-alleged-mistress-lisa-page\/article\/2643321\">discovered<\/a>\u00a0texts July 27, 2017. Working member of \u201cInsurance Policy\u201d group. Page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/james-baker-lisa-page-fbi.html\">resigned\/fired<\/a>\u00a0May 4, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Pientka<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 FBI Agent \u2013 Counterintelligence Division. Pientka potentially\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/05\/12\/grassley-pushes-hard-on-the-mike-flynn-case\/\">identified<\/a>\u00a0by Grassley as second FBI Agent (Strzok the other) present at Flynn Interview.<\/li>\n<li><strong>E.W. \u201cBill\u201d Priestap<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Assistant Director \u2013 Head of FBI Counterintelligence \u2013\u00a0<strong>Holds same position.<\/strong>\u00a0Strzok\u2019s boss \u2013 reported directly to McCabe. More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/04\/18\/is-bill-priestap-a-white-hat-udp-fbi-surveillance\/\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2017\/12\/28\/where-is-bill-priestap-fbis-counter-intelligence-head\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarketswork.com\/2018\/02\/11\/fbi-counterintelligence-head-bill-priestap-a-cooperating-witness\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Strzok<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Assistant Director of FBI\u2019s Counterintelligence \u2013 forced off Mueller\u2019s team \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/special-counsels-russia-probe-loses-top-fbi-investigator\/story?id=49249486\">demoted<\/a>\u00a0August 16, 2017 to FBI\u2019s Human Resources. IG Horowitz\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/doj-provides-congress-with-hundreds-of-texts-between-ex-mueller-team-agent-peter-strzok-and-alleged-mistress-lisa-page\/article\/2643321\">discovered<\/a>\u00a0texts July 27, 2017. Strzok involved in all facets of Clinton exoneration. Working member of \u201cInsurance Policy\u201d group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Toscas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 D<span class=\"st\">eputy Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division. Toscas contacted by NY Prosecutors (possibly Preet Bharara) about Weiner investigation re: HRC\/Huma emails on Weiner computer. Toscas contacts FBI, forcing McCabe to tell Comey of emails.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Newly Added Names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth Dribble<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires &amp; former Deputy Chief of the Mission in London \u2013 received tip on Papadopoulos via Downer (h\/t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnWHuber\/status\/1002553291950247936\">@JohnWHuber<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Finer<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Planning for former Secretary John Kerry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colin Kahl<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 National Security Advisor to former VP Biden and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kathleen Kavalec<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Assistant Secretary \u2013 Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Served under Nuland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lewis Lukens<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in London \u2013 also likely involved in Downer interactions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shailagh Murray<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Assistant to Obama and Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victoria Nuland<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at State Department. Gave permission for FBI Agent Michael Gaeta to meet with Christopher Steele in London. Received abbreviated copy of Steele Dossier directly from Steele in mid-July 2016 (<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/03\/14\/new-details-of-victoria-nulands-role-in-the-steele-dossier\/\">see here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jake Sullivan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 S<span class=\"st\">enior Policy Advisor to Clinton C<\/span><span class=\"st\">ampaign \u2013 expertise in foreign policy. Along with Jennifer Palmieri, Sullivan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/03\/24\/the-clinton-campaign-warned-you-about-russia-but-nobody-listened-to-us\/?utm_term=.be79b30c359e\">took the lead<\/a>\u00a0in briefing the press on the Trump-Russia collusion story.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Williams<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Deputy Chief of Mission \u2013 State Department.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Winer<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 F<span class=\"st\">ormer Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Law Enforcement and former Special Envoy for Libya.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/373131-former-obama-official-confirms-steele-dossier-was-given-to-state\">Received copy<\/a>\u00a0of Shadow Dossier from Blumenthal. Also received copy of Steele Dossier in September 2016. Has known Steele for some years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After yesterday\u2019s somewhat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/07\/03\/a-strange-unsettling-day\/\">somber post<\/a>, I\u2019ve been asked to what extent this type of ongoing investigation matters. My response:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes &#8211; it matters. The question is how high they climb and what areas are avoided.<br \/>Hint: it appears FISA Abuse is a very touchy area. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6uaNV785v7\">https:\/\/t.co\/6uaNV785v7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themarketswork\/status\/1014574179054542849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As to the Swamp:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I still believe it will be drained. I&#39;m wrapping up a piece on Nunes now.<br \/>I think your timeframe is probably accurate.<br \/>Not all who deserve to be prosecuted will. Some will slowly fade from influence.<br \/>Meanwhile, our country is indeed being repaired and reborn.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themarketswork\/status\/1014590968895422464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/07\/04\/devin-nunes-his-growing-list-of-names-victoria-nuland\/\">http:\/\/themarketswork.com\/2018\/07\/04\/devin-nunes-his-growing-list-of-names-victoria-nuland\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}