Epstein Secrets

itutions. To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020045 Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she was shut down on all

mp believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is only famous

dence, believing that he had). And so it was with Director Comey. In their several meetings since he took office—

ni. He believed they would both perform kamikaze acts for him—yjust as everyone else knew they would almost certainly never be confirmed. OOK Ok As James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee approached—it would take place on June 8, twelve days after the presidential traveling party retur

ng investigation and is classified I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining. He had, however, said quite enough. Comey converted rumor, leaks, theory, innuendo, and pundit hot air—and until this moment that was all there was, at best the hope of a scandal—into a forma

order on an American citizen must be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications _ in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DA

ntained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in Septemb

report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was—according to his June 2017 testimony—‘“salacious and unverifie

imally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of th

cting AG job needed someone with Senate confirmation. And even though she seemed to see herself as something of a prisoner held in hostile territory, Yates accepted the job. Given this context, the curious information she presented to White House counsel Don McGahn during the administration’s first week

White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team. 7 OK O

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urvived the release of the Billy Bush tape when, in the uproar that followed, the RNC had had the gall to pressure him to quit the race. FBI director James Comey, having bizarrely hung Hillary out to dry by saying he was reopening the investigation into her emails eleven days before the election, had helped av

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

rs Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text Message

y to come in August." She will testify on Aug. 5. Graham told the Times, "I think she will have some interesting testimony and [former FBI Director James] Comey and [former Deputy FBI Director Andrew] McCabe. We are looking at September to call them." Graham also "noted that it's possible former special coun

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. Counter-Intelligence • DOJ Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

rs Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. Counter-Intelligence • DOJ Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text Message

ly to come in August." She will testify on Aug. 5. Graham told the Times, "1 think she will have some interesting testimony and [former FBI Director James] Comey and [former Deputy FBI Director Andrew] McCabe. We are looking at September to call them." Graham also "noted that it's possible former special cou

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

rs Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text Message

y to come in August." She will testify on Aug. 5. Graham told the Times, "I think she will have some interesting testimony and [former FBI Director James) Comey and [former Deputy FBI Director Andrew] McCabe. We are looking at September to call them." Graham also "noted that it's possible former special cou

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

rs Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text Message

y to come in August." She will testify on Aug. 5. Graham told the Times, "I think she will have some interesting testimony and [former FBI Director James] Comey and [former Deputy FBI Director Andrew] McCabe. We are looking at September to call them." Graham also "noted that it's possible former special cou

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fend Sessions, and who believed that he had militantly— indeed with scathing attacks on the Jarvankas for their stupidity—walled himself off from the Comey smashup, was now suddenly getting calls from reporters with leaks that painted him as an engaged participant in the Comey decision. In a furious pho