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01 June 2018

Senator Dianne Feinstein Update Investigating Russian Collusion 2016 Election



Senator Dianne Feinstein 
To:martinp
May 31 at 1:48 PM


An Update From Senator Dianne Feinstein

An Update From Senator Dianne Feinstein

May 31, 2018
INVESTIGATING RUSSIAN COLLUSION IN THE 2016 ELECTION
Preliminary Findings About Trump Campaign’s Effort to Obtain Incriminating Information on Secretary Clinton from Russia at Trump Tower Meeting  (May 16, 2018)
“The June 9, 2016, meeting is one piece of a much larger puzzle and confirms that the Trump campaign was willing to accept Russia’s assistance. The Committee’s staff interviews reveal that top Trump campaign officials were frustrated and angry that the meeting did not produce enough damaging information on their opponent. Their efforts to conceal the meeting and its true purpose are consistent with a larger pattern of false statements about the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE 
   
The Committee’s investigation remains incomplete, including further review of the June 9, 2016 meeting. Nonetheless, the following preliminary findings are clear:
  • The Trump campaign was willing to accept Russia’s assistance.
     
  • Top campaign officials Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner accepted the offer of incriminating information on the campaign’s opponent from a hostile foreign government.
     
  • These Trump campaign officials did not report the offer of Russian assistance to proper authorities.
     
  • Top campaign officials made clear their frustration that more damaging information was not produced at the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower.
     
  • Donald Trump Jr. and the White House misled the public about the June 9 meeting with Russians and other campaign contacts with Russia.
     
  • Several significant questions remain unanswered about this meeting and the numerous other contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian associates.
To read the preliminary findings of the Senate Judiciary Democrats in full,  CLICK HERE .


Feinstein to Rosenstein: Protect Special Counsel Investigation  
(May 21, 2018)
“Allowing the Special Counsel to complete his work, without interference or delay from the President or Congress, is the best way to bring this matter to its conclusion. … We ask that you uphold the integrity of Department of Justice investigations, as you stated you would in your confirmation hearing, and protect information regarding Special Counsel Mueller’s ongoing investigation.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .

Feinstein On Trump, Republican Attacks on Rule of Law  
(May 23, 2018)
“President Trump’s repeated attempts to undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation are unprecedented. He’s now demanding that the Justice Department convene a partisan briefing to share highly-classified information about an open and ongoing counterterrorism and criminal investigation with Republican members of Congress. This is alarming and threatens the independence of the special counsel.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .


INVESTIGATING  
REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO STACK THE COURTS
Judiciary Committee Democrats: Republicans Remaking Federal Judiciary (May 10, 2018)
“To fill these vacancies as quickly as possible, Republicans have changed how judicial nominees are considered and weakened the Senate’s vetting process, even diminishing the role of home-state senators by undermining the 100-year old blue-slip tradition. Many of these circuit court nominees are outside the mainstream, in their 40s or have little or no relevant experience. This is a clear strategy to reshape our courts for decades.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .

Key Findings of Senate Judiciary Committee Minority Members on Republican Efforts to Stack Federal Courts  (May 10, 2018)
  1. Senate Republicans’ obstruction of President Obama’s judicial nominees provided President Trump an opportunity to dramatically remake federal courts.
  2. To confirm President Trump’s often ideological and even unqualified nominees as quickly as possible, Senate Republicans have undermined the Senate’s advice and consent role.
  3. Having demanded that their blue slips be honored and used the blue slip to block 18 Obama nominees, Senate Republicans eliminated the guarantee that blue slips would be honored for Democrats.
  4. Senate Republicans have pushed two circuit court nominees on hearings, making it more difficult to vet and question them.
  5. President Trump and Senate Republicans have undermined the independent, nonpartisan role of the American Bar Association (ABA) in ensuring judicial nominees are qualified.
  6. President Trump and Senate Republicans are reshaping the nation’s circuit courts at breakneck speed.
  7. President Trump’s circuit court nominees have been far more controversial than President Obama’s circuit court.
  8. President Trump’s circuit court nominees have been young, with more than half in their 40s, allowing them to serve for more than a generation.
  9. Outside and dark-money political groups, including the Federalist Society, the Judicial Crisis Network, and the Heritage Foundation, have been central to the effort to fill vacancies as quickly as possible.
  10. President Trump’s nominees reflect a lack of diversity, with far fewer women and people of color than President Obama’s nominees.

    To read the full report,  CLICK HERE 

     
STANDING UP FOR AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ABROAD
Feinstein: Strategic Mistake to Abandon Iran Nuclear Agreement  (May 8, 2018)
“Everything President Obama has done, this president wants to undo. An agreement that prevents Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one thing that should never be undone. President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement is a strategic mistake contrary to our national security interests.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE . 
Feinstein: Trump Administration Must Show Support for Two-State Solution (May 14, 2018)
“The location of the embassy is a final-status issue that should have been resolved as part of peace negotiations where both sides benefit, not just one side. Israel will only know true security when it is at peace with its neighbors.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
Feinstein Votes “No” on Gina Haspel Nomination (May 17, 2018) 
“The location of the embassy is a final-status issue that should have been resolved as part of peace negotiations where both sides benefit, not just one side. Israel will only know true security when it is at peace with its neighbors.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .

KEEPING INFORMED 
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06 January 2018

Trump Liar But Trump-Russia Dossier True "Collusion" Author Luke Harding Fusion GPS Transcripts House Intelligence Full Release On Unanimous Vote Senate Judiciary GPS Fusion Transcript Release By Top Democrat Feinstein GOP Ryan McCarthy Nunes Grassley Graham Conspiracy Against U.S. Divert Trump-Russia Obstruct Justice Abuse Power Attack DOJ/FBI And MI6 Steele Hero Spy Warned FBI Far More Hard Facts Russia Blackmailed Trump Treason Than GOP-Led Committees Year Largely Of Taxpayer Waste Fraud And Abuse Trump NSC Pro-Putin Kevin Harrington Still Senior National Security Official


Christopher Steele, the former British spy, had repeated contacts before and after the election with F.B.I. counterintelligence agents who were investigating links between the Trump campaign and Russians.

CreditVictoria Jones/Press Association, via Associated Press

UPDATED to 11 February 2018

     Saturday, 6 January 2018, WASHINGTON, DC - Exactly one year after the GOP initiated three separate congressional committee investigations of Russia's interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election intended by Russia both to disrupt it while also greatly assisting longtime Russian "partner-in-crime" Donald Trump election efforts and significantly harm Putin's hated Hillary Clinton election efforts as assessed a year ago with a high degree of confidence unanimously by the U.S. intelligence community at least two of these three GOP-led committees have largely steadfastly gone out of their way to come up with no concrete meaningfully actionable evidence from neither of their charged investigation objectives of identifying and developing effective responses to ongoing and future Russian election interference nor in identifying Trump team collusion with Russia in furthering such interference to benefit Trump.
       Team Trump increasingly appears to all who are paying attention to have done its best to and temporarily succeeded in stealing an illegitimate presidential election by the sophisticated precision targeting of voters and electoral college votes with large-scale assistance from the Putin-directed Russian GRU and FSB intelligence services and their criminal surrogates enabled by coordination with treasonous Trump Cambridge Analytica and other including RNC supplied data analytics even as Trump lost the popular vote overwhelmingly by more than 3 million votes with Trump's so-called victory therefore coming nowhere close to representing the will of the majority of American voters who did not vote Trump into the office of President and now overwhelmingly want the dangerously ignorant malignant narcissist Trump and his maliciously inept and morally and ethically bankrupt cadre of agents of the rich and corporate welfare out of the People's White House which their presence has so denigrated.
       Given the ever-growing relentlessly blatant partisan divide driven both by the long nauseatingly disingenuous Senate Judiciary Committee GOP chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Intelligence GOP Chair (Recused) Dope Extraordinaire Devin Nunes (R-CA) (as well as Dope Devin Nunes' rogue semi-secret DOJ/FBI Harassment Committee) both have come to focus assiduously far from their initial mandates with a dedicated vigor avoiding, discrediting, diverting and subverting any information and/or witness that might have advanced their actual charge in order instead to discredit, distort and even respond with legal attacks against them (with the exception to the foregoing apparently still being the more measured Senate Intelligence Committee under GOP Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) and Democrat Vice-Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) seemingly deliberately together advancing the proper investigation with which their committee was charged reflecting their apparent singular concern of no apparent consequence to other GOP committee chairmen that Russian malicious interference not remain an unchecked extensive intrusion destroying our American constitutional democracy.)
       In but one of many ways this quite possibly final cycle of the Republican party's existence has seen its remarkable transformation here from the espoused party of anti-Soviet and then Russian hawks to the party of Putin and Russia belying its thoroughly insincere past as not one of authentic patriotism but like all else with the GOP just having been the best route for self-profiteering largely from defense industry cronies and contributions at the expense of all else that has made this country great. Essentially all that is necessary to "Make America Great Again" is to take all the wretched Trump GOP's horrific plans as to that which given the opportunity they would subject the United States destroying the nation while enriching themselves and toss both their heinous schemes and the terminally corrupted GOP out in the trashbin of history then simply execute exactly the opposite of those plans as a blueprint for what need be done to the true great and lasting benefit of this nation and its people.
       As such the GOP members charged with investigating this most serious threat to the Nation's electoral system and foundation of its continuing survival as a legitimate constitutional democracy instead largely have demonstrated that their fidelity to illegitimate partisan "victory" at any cost far outweighs their recognition of and acting in accordance with their oaths to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States they are sworn to uphold. Abdicating such duty and betraying the Constitution their apparent legitimate power in government has dissolved and reverted to the people where all power ultimately resides as set forth unequivocally by the founders of the U.S. Constitution including its preamble as well as by the signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence which is a predicate foundational document to the U.S. Constitution. There is no doubt that the founders of this republic would have expelled today's Republican party and its members from government and as necessary taken up arms against them just as the founders did against their putative corrupt non-representative master the King of England and those who exercised repression and taxation without representation of the American people on his behalf.

Two Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee formally recommended criminal charges against Christopher Steele in connection with their Russia investigation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/christopher-steele-dossier-judiciary-committee.html
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/lindsey-graham-and-chuck-grassley-should resign


Senior Democratic Senator On Judiciary Committee Feinstein responds by unilaterally releasing full transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson Senate Judiciary testimony fed up with treasonous Senators Grassley and Lindsey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/politics/feinstein-fusion-gps-glenn-simpson-transcript.html

Senate Judiciary Committee Full Transcript Fusion GPS Glenn R. Simpson:

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf

UPDATE 10 January 2018 Latest revealed "like" really smart self-styled "genius" Trump team nutcase traitor National Security Council senior official for national strategic planning Kevin Harrington a former Thiel hedge fund managing director with no prior military nor government experience of any significance astoundingly remains today in his Trump senior NSC national security position despite having early in the Trump administration advanced the theory that U.S. close relations with Russia supposedly were necessary because of what he predicted was a coming "energy apocalypse" among other things Harrington proposed including unilaterally lifting Russia sanctions as well as pulling back U.S. armed forces from eastern Europe as well as withdrawing circulating U.S. armed forces from the (former Soviet Union) Baltics in order to "please Putin."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-official-floated-withdrawing-us-forces-to-please-putin

UPDATE 19 January 2018 House Intelligence Committee Fusion GPS Simpson Transcript Release

House Intelligence Committee Full Transcript Fusion GPS Glenn R. Simpson 8 + 14 November 2017:

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180118/106796/HMTG-115-IG00-20180118-SD001.pdf
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180118/106796/HMTG-115-IG00-20180118-SD002.pdf

UPDATE 22 January 2018 "Why The Trump-Russia Dossier Is Not 'Fake News'" Luke Harding "Collusion" author comments and video:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-trump-russia-dossier-politics-fake-news-spy-luke-harding-collusion-2017-12 Video 2:26

UPDATE 6 February 2018 "Hero Or Hired Gun? How A British Former Spy Became A Flash Point In The Russia Investigation." by Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post, 6 February 2018:
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-or-hired-gun-how-a-british-former-spy-became-a-flash-point-in-the-russia-investigation/2018/02/06/94ea5158-0795-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html  

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