FBI had a "walk-in whistleblower" inside Trump's network during collusion.

[L. Coyote]

It's gonna rain shoes all week in DC.

NOTE on edit. Per NBC's Ken Dilanian, "walk-in whistleblower" was the Australian, not a member of Trump's team. In effect, the info came from inside Trump's team via Australian diplomat Alexander Downer reporting his meeting with drunken Papadopoulos. See post #44 below for more.

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[eleny]

1. 8 pages read - 312 to go

On page 8, "This interview is unclassified." Well, okay, then.

[L. Coyote]

50. Republicans have been completely ignoring all of the credible allegations of money laundering,

This sub-thread needs to be near the top. This may be the real bacon on this hog.

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[eleny]

52. This is the kind of thing that Rachel Maddow and probably Joy R will highlight in reporting

Husband had an appointment this afternoon so I had to rip myself away from the testimony to accompany him. At least I had the Wolff book on kindle. I should have downloaded the testimony document.

Interesting that he compares Trump to Browder in that they don't want to talk about certain aspects of their Russia business dealings. I've been viewing Browder practically like some kind of altar boy but he's got a shady tax evading past himself. Some colorful facts came out about him early on in the testimony.

Lots of good stuff to read these days.

[thbobby]

2. The wheels are exploding on the GOP bus.

Traitors are having a difficult time feigning patriotism and honesty. Behold the unfolding shit show!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. The Trumpanzees have the opposite reaction. They think Feinstein is desperate.

“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript”

What innuendo and misinformation”. She is trying to distract from the other investigations of both the leaks, FBI-DOJ collusion, and Hillary’s problems.

24 posted on 1/9/2018, 2:44:04 PM by heights

Backwards, of course. Those are invalid distractions from Trump-Russia

Looks like the DEMS are throwing HILLARY & HUMA under the bus, so they can rally behind OPRAH.

31 posted on 1/9/2018, 2:53:57 PM by stars & stripes forever

Fantasy. Hillary remains highly respected. Huma is being used by Trumpanzees, as always, as a salacious distraction.

Fusion GPS is a money laundering operation for the FBI / DNC.
What legit consulting firm would have a single web page with only an email address? No phone numbers. No names. No list of satisfied clients.
http://www.fusiongps.com

40 posted on 1/9/2018, 3:07:41 PM by Flick Lives

Legit consulting firms who are good enough that their quality reputation precedes them do not need to advertise.

[thbobby]

21. GOP traitor's game of whack a mole.

[sprinkleeninow]

33. 🎶"The wheels on the bus 🚌 go 'round and 'round,

'round and.... BLAM! KABLOOEY! 🚨🚧

[Cha]

3. Wipe the shit eating grin right

off the big stupid fuck's face.

Gracias, LCoyote

[L. Coyote]

5. This is why "someone" had a truckload of Depends delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Imagine how Trump reacted when Grassley called this in.

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[radical noodle]

4. The whistleblower will be a big, fat liar

according to trumpians.

[L. Coyote]

6. This is the sort of news that might destabalize an otherwise very stable genius.

[malaise]

8. Delish

just starting to read it

[L. Coyote]

7. This "walk-in" whistleblower had same concerns as Steele that Trump was being blackmailed

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..... Steele first reached out to the FBI with his concerns in early July 2016, according to people familiar with the matter. When they re-interviewed him in early October, agents made it clear, according to Simpson’s testimony released Tuesday, that they believed some of what Steele had told them.

“My understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson said. Using the parlance of spies and law enforcement officials, Simpson said the FBI had a “walk-in’’ whistleblower from someone in Trump’s organization. ................

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[anneboleyn]

10. Any chance its Bannon?! Im still hoping that he brings it all down.

[lagomorph777]

9. Holy fuck

This is BIG

[L. Coyote]

14. So much for being able to cover-up and lie their way out of this one. Was a wire worn?

Imagine how many are already caught in lies!

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[world wide wally]

11. Let's see if Grassly has the nerve to sue her or anything of the sort.

Perhaps a severe finger wag or something. After all, she is betraying their treason.

[Roland99]

16. Just released photo of Grassley...

[erronis]

25. Something along the lines of "And, still she betrayed her cross-the-aisle comrades in the Senate."

And I use comrades in the rUSSRian sense.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that there are a lot more informants throughout the government than just the WH mole. The puppeteers may have a hard time juggling all the strings.

I wonder how many strings are needed to control
- a lobbyist? Guessing just 1 - $$s.
- a repuglican congresscritter: maybe 2 if they seem to have any sense of patriotism
- a pResident*: flattery and a signed picture of vlad riding another mount.

[OAITW r.2.0]

55. You are sooo correct.....

We have to start showing our colors in public. Name a date and show a color (pick a pantone tint that makes sense.....totally not common, but a color inclusive of all of us and the real progressive history that we all know and understand. Lets have a peaceful understanding where we prove that the vast majority of us wear the color of Obama. Lets make this an opportunity to have a referendum on Trump and Obama dedicates their sales to their favorite charity?

Who will wear the color of Trump?

What is your color Barack. You Choose, we win.

[Roland99]

12. More credible than the GOP? My last bowel movement was more credible than them!

[Sancho]

13. What will the unstable moran do now?

This calls for a a KFC Bucket Meal?

All night Fox reruns?

Hope steaming is pants?

[FSogol]

29. He probably doesn't know. How Fox & Friends commented yet? Trumpy's advisers are fighting

over who has to tell him.

[longship]

15. Wow!!! Just WOW!

The CNN clip posted above is a good one, too.

[RandomAccess]

17. I am just euphoric over this

I really am. I'll have to break out the chocolate and celebrate.

[L. Coyote]

18. Internet rains hell on Grassley and Graham for covering up explosive testimony

Meanwhile Citizens for Trump tweets "Cover-up Queen Dianne Feinstein Disrespects Grassley" Make that "End the Coverup Queen"

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[neohippie]

20. Not sure if this is anything new

The source inside Trump's campaign is still Papadapolus and the Walk in whistle blower appears to be the Australian Ambassador, so I don't think this is uncovering much new ground in that aspects from what I am hearing

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[L. Coyote]

23. This would be news. Currently, the whistleblower is not identified, we knew of Australian before.

The Australian would not be called an informant inside the Trump group, so I have to wonder about this. Is someone trying to push back on the story already? Surprisingly, the trolls are not yet active, probably won't kick in until this trends too much and they need to redirect to their own media. Fusion GPS is now trending #3.

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[erronis]

26. The trolls are still awaiting final copy from their leader

[Botany]

36. Go coffee boy go!

[L. Coyote]

22. Grassley blasts Feinstein's release of Fusion GPS transcript

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[haele]

40. Does Grassley really want us to believe that Feinstein is tampering with the investigation...

When the Steele Dossier has already been gone over for over eight months in Congress, and everyone associated with it has already been interviewed?
Does he want us to believe that Feinstein may not have already discussed this with Mueller's group and is undercutting his investigation?
Or does he want to hide the GOP's current feeble attacks to socially manipulate the credulity of Steele Dossier before anyone can read it?

There are leaks, and then there's turning on the faucet to get the water you need.
Feinstein is just turning on the faucet so we can get water hot enough to clean with...

Haele

[Eyeball_Kid]

53. And why would the release of the transcripts inhibit the ability of Grassley to call in Kushner??

Chuck, you just subpoena the bastard. Come on. You can do it!

But really, Chucky wanted to waste everyone's time by concealing the Fusion GPS testimony, then calling in Kushner and pitch him a bucketful of softball questions and send him on his way. NOW, Chucky might have to work a little harder and reference the GPS AND Steele statements, which could mean that Jerod might be sweating a little more than usual. Without the testimony disclosure, Grassley and the GOP could soft-shoe Kushner and accuse the Dems of being shrill and irrelevant. That's what Grassley is really concerned about.

[BadGimp]

24. "FBI had a whistleblower in Trumps network"

In the immortal words of George Takei: "Oh My!"

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[C Moon]

27. A new meeting with Putin is probably being arranged...and-or another with Ryan and McConnell.

[dchill]

28. K&R.

[dchill]

30. K&R.

[Perseus]

31. More credible than the GOP!

Pleeease...who isn't "More credible than the GOP!"...If I were Steele I would be offended by the comparison.

[Jarqui]

32. Is Trump ever having a bad week ....

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/explosive-fusion-gps-testimony-details-trumps-alleged-ties-to-international-money-laundering-operations/

“So there was a civil case, at least one civil case in New York involving — filed by the city of Almaty… against some alleged Kazakh money launderers,” Simpson testified. “I don’t remember exactly how, but we learned that — it wasn’t from Chris. We learned that Felix Sater had some connections with these people, and it’s been more recently in the media that he’s helping the government of Kazakhstan to recover this money. There’s been media reports that the money went into the Trump Soho or it went into the company that built the Trump Soho.”

Sater’s financial relationship with Trump dates back to at least 2003, when the Trump Organization rented out office space to Sater’s former company.

Even though Trump initially tried to distance himself from Sater after news of his criminal past came to light in 2007, he subsequently tapped Sater in 2010 to scout out real estate. Additionally, Sater presented clients with business cards that claimed he was a senior adviser to Trump, and his office was on the same floor as Trump’s office in Trump Tower.

Sater wasn’t the only figure with ties to organized crime that Simpson found working with Trump, either. As he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, as he also discussed another man involved in the Trump Soho project by the name of Arif Tevfik, who according to Simpson is “an organized crime figure from Central Asia and he had an arrest for involvement in child prostitution.”

In this chapter of the tRump turns ...
Trump laundering stolen money from Kazakhstan that Sater is helping authorities to recover
(people knowing that and having some evidence of it could blackmail Trump)
Financial relationship with Russian Sater going back to 2003
ties to organized crime and child prostitution (fits right in with Roy Moore)

Now they have to collect the evidence but what are the GOP waiting for? This president is toast!

Trump is putting the presidency through a lengthy bath in a sewage system.

[DeminPennswoods]

34. GPS has since corrected the record

They've said that the "walk in" was the Australian Ambassador reporting his conversation with Popodopolous.

[uponit7771]

42. Was that record correction ... FROM ... FGPS or reporting of "sources"? thx in advance

[L. Coyote]

45. See post #44 below.

[Anon-C]

35. This is BFD! -nt

[lindysalsagal]

37. Rachel said, very mysteriously last night, "The democrats have options." after reminiscing about the

1971 release of the Pentagon Papers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

which proved the U.S. government had been lying about the failures in the Vietnam war.

I remember Feinstein coming out of a congressional meeting with a look of total shock on her face, and it was obvious she knew this was going to change the history of the country: having the potus colluding with a foreign power to undermine the election and engage in illegal international business transactions.

She's gone and done it: She's pulled the biggest "Time's Up" of all: Time for the biggest abuser of all abusing his power to be outed for his lies and theft and abuse.

She's gone and done it. She's outed the monster and all the gop weasles who protect him.

She's saving democracy.

Loving me some Feinstein. I'm marching in NYC on the 20th for her. Are you with me?

[ffr]

38. Kicking to get thee to the greatest section

[L. Coyote]

39. Donald Trump, Russian Mob associate. From the Fusion GPS testimony.

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[uponit7771]

41. Any bets the whistle blower was Bannon?

[L. Coyote]

43. Fusion GPS lawyer: "Somebody's already been killed" (because of the Trump Dossier)

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[L. Coyote]

44. Per NBC's Ken Dilanian, "walk-in whistleblower" was the Australian, not a member of Trump's team.

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[L. Coyote]

46. It was the Australian diplomat, it's in the corrections of the transcript.

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[triron]

49. Hmm

Not convinced of this. But maybe.

[L. Coyote]

51. This is key.

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[triron]

56. Plausible that's the way it came down. Not entirely convinced.

[L. Coyote]

57. Yes, it seems an open question still.

I can understand if there is an informer that there is also a security concern about not naming the person.
Plus she/he could still be wearing a wire.

[L. Coyote]

47. Carter Page "an espionage subject who the FBI had been investigating for years #FusionGPSTranscript

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48. Now that Feinstein has forced this into the open ... Republicans debunked again.

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[Sunlei]

54. thank you OP, the "FUSION GPS transcript" all 311 pages was well worth reading. I see why Rs try har

see why Rs try so hard to hide transcripts like that from 'the people'. That's 9 hours of questions from last August. If not for an elected D, releasing the PDF at that one & only link, we commoners would have never had a chance to read it. still it's in PDF where only Journalists & dedicated 'newsies' will ever take the time to read 311 pages.

Kind of scary some of those names mentioned, they're "Country busters' for personal profit. Billions of dollars money laundered, countries invaded, lots of people die.

Lets hope some in Republican party lets that cancer get cut out and thrown in Jail- any American who knowingly worked with those criminals, took money- has to be cut out of our democracy.

After reading that, I've had enough Republican-Russian "collusion" to last me a couple months and fear for Americas democracy even more. It will only take one large 'attack' of some horrific type to crumple our country to pieces. Will take the regular citizens decades to recover, if ever. Only the wealthy couple million people will survive in some civilized fashion.

[L. Coyote]

58. VIDEO: Fusion GPS Founder's Testimony Reveals FBI Knew About Trump-Russia Connection

Jan 9, 2018
NBC’s Ken Dilanian joins MTP Daily to break down all the revelations in Fusion GPS founder, Glenn Simpson’s Senate testimony.

[L. Coyote]

59. VIDEO: What testimony on the Trump dossier adds to the Russia probe

Jan 9, 2018
What does Glenn Simpson's newly released testimony about the Trump-Russia dossier reveal? In a unilateral move, Sen. Dianne Feinstein publicly shared the nearly 11-hour exchange. Judy Woodruff talks with Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times to recap why the Senate Judiciary Committee wanted to talk with Simpson about the Trump dossier and Republican resistance to releasing the transcript.

[heaven05]

60. good one

Saw in Twitter response "this POS potus, administration and repthugliKKKan party have shown just what kind of toilet culture has ALWAYS lain right under the surface of this swamp called ameriKKKa just waiting for a turd like this to show up and 'lead'.

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61. VIDEO: Sen. Feinstein's release - "Most Important Act" since inauguration.

Jan 9, 2018
Senate Judiciary ranking member Dianne Feinstein broke with Senate traditions and norms by releasing a transcript Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony about the dossier over the objections of Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley.

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