FBI Takes Discredited Dossier Seriously
Carter Page, the American financial consultant who was tangentially and briefly associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told this reporter that the controversial, largely discredited 35-page “dodgy dossier” served as the “central foundation” for the FBI’s extensive questioning of him about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
On Monday, the Washington Post reported that FBI agents repeatedly questioned Page for about 10 hours over a series of five meetings in March about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections.
“Both the blessing and the curse of all my discussions with the FBI rested on the fact that the Dodgy Dossier clearly stood as the central foundation of the interrogations,” Page told Breitbart News.
“All of the various questions, in one format or another, largely stemmed from those same specific lies marketed by the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election.”
He continued: “The blessing rested in the fact that every aspect of these lies could be readily disproved for anyone with basic common sense. … The curse is the fact that our country allowed this clearly biased and baseless political opposition research to drive law enforcement for many months.”
Page further claimed that the FBI agents who questioned him indicated their “management” was concerned that he did not believe the conclusions made in the January 6 National Intelligence report alleging that Russian hacking meant to influence the outcome of the election.
The dossier that Page says was at the center of the FBI’s questioning of him reportedly also served as a “roadmap” for the FBI’s general investigation into unsubstantiated charges of coordination between Moscow and members of Trump’s presidential campaign. The dossier further reportedly served as part of the FBI’s justification for seeking the FISA court’s approval to clandestinely monitor Page.
The dossier claimed that a “Russian source” alleged that Page met secretly in Moscow with Kremlin officials to discuss the possible lifting of U.S. sanctions as well as compiling a Kremlin “file” on Hillary Clinton. Page has steadfastly denied the dossier claims.
The same dossier contains wild and unproven claims that the Russians had information regarding Trump and sordid acts.
Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier also claimed that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016. That charge unraveled after Cohen revealed he had never traveled to Prague, calling the story “totally fake, totally inaccurate.”
The Atlantic confirmed Cohen’s whereabouts in New York and California during the period the dossier claimed that Cohen was in Prague. Cohen reportedly produced his passport showing he had not traveled to Prague.
Famed Whistleblower: NSA Likely Has Recordings Of Trump-Comey Conversations
William Binney, a former highly placed National Security Agency (NSA) official turned whistleblower, surmised it is “very likely, in fact, most probable” that the NSA has recordings of President Donald Trump’s phone conversations with former FBI Director James Comey.
“It is very likely, in fact, most probable that NSA does have those tapes,” stated Binney.
Binney continued: “I think you already have examples of it where you had conversations that President Trump had with the president of Mexico and also with Australia. All of those have been leaked. Also phone calls involving [former National Security Advisor Michael] Flynn and so on and the White House.”
“And the point is here, you see, I don’t know of any time that the president makes a phone call that is not encrypted. So that means that the people who are intercepting the president have to be able to decrypt it. And the people who provide the encryption and the keys to the systems to be used are NSA,” he added.
Binney made these comments Sunday night on this reporter’s talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.
Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001 after spending more than 30 years with the agency. He has remained a sought-after expert on NSA surveillance.
Asked pointedly whether he believes the NSA is bugging the Oval Office, Binney replied, “Absolutely.”
Binney was responding to a series of tweets from the U.S. president last week in which Trump wrote that he “did not make” and does not have recordings of his conversations with Comey.
However, Trump allowed that “with all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey.”
Pulitzer Prize Winner Dreams Of Trump’s Death
Last week, Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, expressed his “hope” that President Donald Trump will have a “massive stroke” and be “carted out of the White House on a gurney.” Chabon made this comment on an Israeli radio program on Monday after seeking the host’s suggestions “about how to get rid of Donald Trump.”
Here is a transcript of the exchange between Chabon and Goel Pinto, host of a daily morning radio program also televised on the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation:
PINTO: Michael, you have Donald Trump.
CHABON: Yeah. You are right. Can you do something about that?
PINTO: No I can’t.
CHABON: I would love to hear anything you have to say about how to get rid of Donald Trump. I welcome your input.
PINTO: Tell me your view about your president.
CHABON: Every morning I wake up and in the seconds before I turn my phone on to see what the latest news is, I have this boundless sense of optimism and hope that this is the day that he is going to have a massive stroke, and, you know, be carted out of the White House on a gurney. And every day so far, I have been disappointed in that hope. But, you know, hope springs eternal. He’s an old guy, he doesn’t eat well, he’s overweight. He has terrible nutrition. He doesn’t exercise and it is that not that hard to imagine.
Chabon’s statement expressing his hope that Trump will suffer a “massive stroke” was met with an audible gasp from Pinto.
Speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem, Pinto said he was surprised by the comments. “At the beginning, I was sure he was joking,” Pinto said. “But when I realized he was serious, I understood the harshness of his words, and how much America is divided.”