What follows is more results of research by Sundance over at CTH. Again, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is not a lawyer. However, she is a patriot. Gabbard is focused on providing evidence to the DOJ that essentially forces action. I wholeheartedly support Tulsi Gabbard’s efforts.
On March 2, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from all issues around Trump-Russia.
On March 16, 2017, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Devin Nunes held a press conference to share stunning information he just reviewed at the White House Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Nunes reviewed an Obama-era Presidential Daily Brief (PDB).
We do not know the date on the PDB; however, we do know the reason for Nunes’ shock. Within the PDB, Devin Nunes read clear evidence the Obama administration was conducting an investigation against Donald Trump. Prior to this March 16 date, the FBI/DOJ were denying President Trump was the target of an investigation.
Let’s be reminded that once Nunes did this, he and his family became a target of those who would rule over us. Devin Nunes was targeted for exposing Steele, HRC, Simppson, Ohr smear campaigning and the machine of the FBI and CNN of fabricating Dossiers and diffusing them as a political, FISA, spying and hate tool.
Four days later, on March 20, 2017, James Comey made the first public admission that President Trump was under FBI investigation. However, it is the activity between March 16th and March 20th that provided the biggest storyline about criminal conduct within the Russiagate operation.
March 2017 was the key month when Russiagate political operatives were trying to get a special counsel appointed to control the investigation of Trump. Media reports were full of leaks, rumors and accusations of Trump-Russia. Following Nunes presser, on March 16th, the effort went into overdrive.
And overdrive is hugely understating the situation. The criminal acters behind Russiagate could not afford to have any evidence of their activities come to light as has recently happened due to the results of the efforts of the current DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
The effort by these criminals now had to be to show that an extremely dire situation existed that “forced the government to investigate PDJT.” Enter the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mark Warner (D-VA).
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice-Chairman Mark Warner had requested to see the rumored FISA application against an unknown Trump campaign official. On March 17th, one day after the Nunes press conference, the Carter Page FISA application was delivered by Washington Field Office Supervisory Special Agent, Brian Dugan, to the Senate basement SCIF for Senator Warner to read and return.
The Carter Page FISA application was received by SSCI Security Director James Wolfe on March 17th and prepared for Vice-Chairman Warner to review.
To gain momentum for the objective of a special counsel, Senator Warner instructed Senate Security Director James Wolfe to leak the 82-page FISA application. Wolfe took 82 pictures of the “Read and Return” document.
Later that evening, Wolfe sent the 82 images to journalist Ali Watkins using an encrypted messaging app. Ms. Watkins then shared the FISA content with her peers and used the information to leverage a top-tier job at the New York Times.
From the perspective of FBI Director James Comey, his previously denied investigation of Trump was now in the media. Three days later, March 20, 2017, FBI Director James Comey publicly admitted the Trump-Russia investigation for the first time.
The media were off to the races talking about FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign and using the leaked FISA as evidence of the ongoing investigation, later known as Crossfire Hurricane.
At the time of the Mark Warner/James Wolfe leak, no one outside the DOJ-FBI and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had ever seen a FISA application. Heck, in 2017 through early 2018, it was considered a classified intelligence breech to even discuss the FISA process, the procedures or the court itself. People forget that.
The 2017 leaking of the FISA application was the biggest national security breach in years, perhaps seconded only to the 2017 leaking of the TSCI transcript from National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, given to the Washington Post by the FBI a month earlier.
What these two leaks show is that there was no limit to what these people would do to keep from having their criminality exposed. They would commit fraud, leak classified information and engage in other nefarious acts to keep their hold on power. And let’s be reminded that Sen. Mark Warner is still a sitting Senator.
The Wolfe indictment [SEE HERE] describes FBI investigators informing Mr. Wolfe in October of 2017 about their investigation of national security leaks. In December of 2017, Mr. Wolfe was confronted with evidence of his leaking to journalists including a woman then working for the New York Times named Ali Watkins, with whom he was having a sexual relationship – implied as a possible quid-pro-quo.
What the Wolfe arrest shows is that there were still some FBI agents who took their obligations as agents seriously. Brian Dugan had set a trap to catch any leaks. And catch one he did. And he pursued the case through Indictment.
Wolfe left the SSCI quietly in mid-December 2017 and resigned shortly thereafter. No one, outside of the principal characters involved, knew about the investigation until six months later, June 2018, when the indictment is made public.
After James Wolfe was arrested for the FISA application leak, his defense lawyers threatened to expose the role of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the leak and subpoena the SSCI members as witnesses.
WASHINGTON—Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have been notified they may be asked for testimony as part of the criminal trial of a veteran Senate staffer accused of lying to the FBI while working for the panel.
Attorneys for James A. Wolfe sent letters to all 15 senators on the committee, notifying them that their testimony may be sought as part of Mr. Wolfe’s defense, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Wolfe’s defense lawyers are considering calling the senators as part of the proceedings for a variety of reasons, including as potential character witnesses and to rebut some of the allegations made by the government in the criminal complaint, these people say.
If senators declined to appear voluntarily for either a deposition or at trial, they could be subpoenaed. That action that could spark a legal battle over a constitutional provision that gives lawmakers certain immunity and privilege for actions undertaken as part of their official duties, as well as over how much national security information can be disclosed in open court. (read more)
Following this threat, the US Attorney for DC dropped the charges of leaking the FISA. Why were the charges dropped? They had Wolfe dead to rights. I think we all know why the charges were dropped.
Interestingly, during the sentencing phase of the plea agreement, the FBI filed an attachment to the DOJ sentencing request and they forever noted Wolfe specifically leaked the FISA.
Sundance continues:
Senator Mark Warner directed Senate Security Director James Wolfe to leak the Carter Page FISA warrant to media source Ali Watkins on March 17, 2017.
The FBI caught Wolfe, in part by using Mark Warner’s text messages as intercepted.
Who did the FBI then tell about the security compromise?
The Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Who was the Vice Chair?
Mark Warner.
See the problem?
There is no doubt it was the FISA application that James Wolfe leaked.
This led directly to the next operation. Who wrote a letter to the court asking for leniency for James Wolfe?
The underlined sections are not true. In involving themselves with this case (Warner had to to protect himself), did these individuals commit a fraud on the court? Again, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is still one of the Senators from Virginia. Should an investigation be opened into Mark Warner’s involvement? There is no statute of limitations against leaking Top Secret Compartmented Intelligence.
Please note which judge presided over this case. Yes, she is now sitting on the Supreme Court. Coincidence?
Everyone in DC knew that crimes were being committed against candidate and later President Trump. This included the DC judges and the senior Republicans in Congress. And everyone went along with it. That is the biggest obstacle to getting justice.
As one wag noted:
This is not really a law enforcement problem. This is a multi-system failure. There are several safeguards and checks built into the system which are supposed to prevent anything like this from ever happening. And every last one of these safeguards failed.
If the Republicans behaved like an actual opposition party instead of the Democrats mini-me, none of this could occur.
If the various department IG’s were doing their jobs, none of this could occur.
if the courts and the judges were carrying out their assigned functions, none of this could occur.
if the press acted to investigate and report truthfully, none of this could occur.
There is still a ton of work to be done if We The People are to reclaim our country.
