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The Permanent Coup

By Lee Smith

https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Coup-Domestic-Targeted-President/dp/1546059555

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Brennan "said that in late July 2016 he'd assembled a team of hand-picked CIA, FBI, and NSA analysts at CIA headquarters to put together everything they had on Russia and contacts with the Trump team.

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Christopher Steele "met with Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, Michael Isikoff from Yahoo News, MATTHEW MOSK of ABC NEWS, Eric Lichtblau and David Sanger from the New York Times; and the Washington Post's Dana Priest and Tom Hamburger."

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Brennan "said he started sharing information with the FBI in the summer." Brennan "explained it was 'even previous' to the summer. He was feeding information into the FBI long before it opened Crossfire Hurricane... 'over the course of the year.',

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"In the beginning of August, Brennan sent Obama reports about the Trump team's ties to Russia. He said they came from a source inside the Kremlin."

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At first, Brennan only told White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, national security advisor Susan Rice, and her deputy Avril Haines.

Nunes "says Brennan didn't have anything when he came to brief him on Capitol Hill in September." "Laughed when he left."

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Nunes disputes Brennan's claim they (Gang of 8) all got the same briefing. "He didn't tell me what he told Harry Reid."

August 11 Nancy Pelosi
August 17 Adam Schiff
August 25 Harry Reid

August 29 Reid writes Comey about Carter page.

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May 20, 2016 Fusion GPS' Trump-Russia document "identifies three of the Trump campaign officials whom Steelw would name in his collection of memos: Manafort, Michael Flynn, and Carter Page."

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April 2016 Russian-language news site interviews Sergei Millian. "In my opinion, if Trump becomes president of the United States, relations with Russia will go upward, or at least not worsen." "I know for sure that in Russia he does not have a single business conflict."

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"Simpson claimed Millian was variously a close Trump associate, a dossier source, an intermediary between Trump and Russia, and a Russian spy. He was none of them."

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According to Millian, starting in the summer of 2016, the press began to contact him for interviews. "There were many requests," he explains to me via Twitter direct message, "hundreds." The first was ABC NEWS.

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Simpson had reached out to an "old colleague" at ABC News, producer Matthew Mosk, and told him to get Millian on camera.

On July 26 Mosk invited Millian to come to the ABC studios for an interview about Trump.

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Mosk published that same day a story about Trump and Russia hacking the DNC. Millian says the story misquoted him, "I never said that I helped arrange 'meetings between Trump and Russian businessmen' during his 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant."

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"In the early spring... Cody Shearee began research for two Trump-Russia reports, less detailed than Steele's memos, even less literate, and considerably more vulgar... Shearer passed them on to... Sidney Blumenthal, who in turn got them to Steele associates."

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"In one of the reports, Shearer describes a conversation with Ross. "Brian told me that he had been told that Trump had been compromised sexually in Mosco right before the beauty contest he was hosting. He told me that if... source... he would fly to Moscow to tape..."

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Millian receives a July 28 email from Mosk again inviting him for an interview the next day, this time for TV. Ross asked repeatedly... if he was a Russian spy.

Millian complained to Mosk about the accusation. Mosk said they wouldn't be aired. They were later aired.

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"Simpson had incriminated Millian by putting him in front of a reporter who accused him of being a Russian spy on television and by inserting him into the dossier. Simpson told Bruce Ohr that Millian was a Russian intelligence officer." Ohr relayed-> FBI investigation.

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"Less than a month to Election Day, and it was all coming together. Millian was the subject of an FBI investigation. The Trump campaign as a whole was under investigation, and the Bureau was cutting information directly from the dossier...FISA... to spy on Trump circle

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Fusion GPS had several big stories lined up.

1 Foer on Alfa Bank for Slate.
2 Corn on Carter Page for Mother Jones.
3 Steele w Belton on Millian for Financial Times.
4. Lichtbau and Myers on Trump FBI investigation.

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Taken together... Alfa Bank, Millian, and Page; thr Bureau's investigations and what the FISA warrant was destined to uncover would combine for a powerful explosive force scheduled to detonate at the end of October-the 31st, to be precise, Halloween...Trump swallowed.

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"But Crossfire Hurricane came up empty. They obtained the FISA warrant October 21, allowing them to sort through the Trump campaign's... communications as well as any past communications... They'd been hopeful to find some Russian-related dirt... Found nothing. Exposed

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"Once the FBI drilled a dry hole, they wanted to get out of it as soon as possible," says Devin Nunes. "When the October surprise blew up in their face, they were all in legal jeopardy."

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Oct 28 Comey announced reopening the Clinton email case. With that, Comey's FBI career was over. "He's done," says Nunes. "Clinton fires him immediately, the first day she's in." Nunes surmises new job opportunities contributed to FBI's change on Times Halloween story.

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Andrew MCCABE must have seen himself as the next FBI director. He was already in good standing with the Clinton campaign. But he had to make sure the FBI President Clinton was inheriting would appear to be above reproach.

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"Now that they're thinking Comey's gone," says Nunes, "the people suo think they're in line to replace Comey wanted to get a story out to clean up their mess and absolvr the FBI of any wrongdoing...show they'd closed everything out. They're all good guys."

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"On Halloween everything else fell into place- the Financial Times story on Millian. Foer's article on Alfa Bank, and David Corn's piece on Page. But instead of detonating an October surprise, the Times's article deflated it.

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"Law enforcement officials... say that none of the investigationa so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government."

1. FBU threw cold water on Alfa Bank story.

2. FBI even rejected Brennan's... thesis Putin helping Trump

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Glenn Simpson told Lichtbau:

"I think first of all you need to know what an abortion of a story you guys wrote on Halloween. We told you a lot about how the FBI was investigating the Trump team for its ties to Russia... Your story made it sound as if...nothing to it."

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Even Simpson's wife ripped into the Times's Halloween article. "That bogus story," Mary Jacoby posted on Facebook, "had a profound effect just before the election."

Perhaps that's true. In any case, Donald Trump would be elected the forty-fifth President...