20 Jun, 2023 15:31

‘We need Russia, and Russia needs us’ – former Reagan adviser to RT

Talking is easier and cheaper than using weapons, Suzanne Massie says

The US and Russia must find a way to resume dialogue as good bilateral relations are vital for both countries, Suzanne Massie, ascholar of Russian history who advised the administration of Ronald Reaganin the 1980s, has told RT.

Massie, who is considered to have played an important role in efforts to end the Cold War, said in an interview on Tuesday thather desire is now to help Washington and Moscow start talking again. “I believe that we [the US] need Russia, and Russia needs us,” Massie argued.

The two countries “should go and find a way to get back to discussing something else besides war,” the former adviser insisted, referring to the conflict in Ukraine. Russia has described the fighting in the neighboring country as a “proxy war” waged by the Americans and their allies against Moscow.

“It’s a lot easier and a lot cheaper [to talk] than to use weapons,” the 92-year-old added.

Massie, who first visited the Soviet Union in the 1960s, has been studying Russia and writing about it all her life. She described St. Petersburg, where she owns a small apartment, as a “home away from home.”

The American scholar has published five books on Russia, including ‘Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia’, which is said to have impressed President Reagan and sparked his own interest in Russia.

Massie said that her recent decision to pass her wholearchive over to the Russian Presidential Library in St. Petersburgwas part of her efforts to mend ties between the US and Russia.

(Just watch it’ll be a bum rush of criticism for her from the Bidan Admin, or insinuations she has dementia. That’s how they roll.)

https://www.rt.com/news/578351-us-ukraine-massie-reagan/

PN>>19038382 U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss said 'the investigation is ongoing'

I knew this and the MSM taking a victory tour this am are now heartbroken, tomorrow they will be hopping mad, kek!

PN>>19038639 Barr Visits Italy on "Official Business"? – Remember That Audio-Tape Deposition by Joseph Mifsud?…

Remember Durham went with Barr, is this were Barr decided Durham couldn’t report anything they found out. They also went to the Vatican bank, what did they find?

Was the corruption they found so bad that Barr got scared shitless and shut the whole thing down?

Mifsud was potentially a contractor for SeeEyeAye, Mossad and other agencies and for some odd reason no one could seem to find him after that. Nunes kept on asking “where is Joseph Mifsud?”

I thought Barr and Durham also went to Ukraine, does anyone remember. I hate to consider this but was Durham involved in the coverup (unlikely)? Or was he ordered to never mention anything they found out?

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Amid impeachment furor, Barr and John Durham flew to Rome to hear a secret tape of Joseph Mifsud, mysterious professor at center of Mueller investigation

October 02, 201911:12 AM

Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham met with Italian intelligence and listened to a secret recording of Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious professor at the center of the Trump-Russia saga.

The quiet trip to Rome by Barr and Durham last week as impeachment furor swept Washington, D.C., was part of the “investigation of the investigators.” The Justice Department is looking into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 and any possible ties to the Trump campaign, which later became part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Barr and Durham listened to a taped deposition of Mifsud at the U.S. Embassy in Rome as well as met with Italian security officials who provided them with other informationthat the Italian government had on Mifsud, according to the Daily Beast. Mifsud explained why he was leaving his job at Rome’s Link University and asked for police protection, claiming that his life might be endangered. (That’s how he disappeared probably helped by IC)

The Trump administration's interest in Mifsud likely stems from a 2016 conversation in which Mifsud allegedly told Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos about possible Russian dirt on then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos allegedly mentioned this to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who passed it to the Australian government, who passed it to the United States, leading to the official launch of the Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016.

The Australian government is also cooperatingwith Barr in his efforts, and the DOJ said last week that Barr and Durham were reaching out to foreign governments for help.

“Mr. Durham is gathering information from numerous sources,including a number of foreign countries,” DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. “At Attorney General Barr’s request, the president has contacted other countries to ask them to introduce the attorney general and Mr. Durham to appropriate officials.”

Stephan Roh, a lawyer who says he represents Mifsud and shared a picture of Mifsud allegedly signing a power of attorney in 2018, told the Washington Examiner that Mifsud “is in Italy, at least until recently.” But Roh said Mifsud, whose whereabouts are unknown, hadn’t contacted him in a while.

Mifsud denied he told Papadopoulos the Russians had Clinton's emails, and Roh claimshis client cooperated with Western intelligence, not Russian intelligence, aligning with what some GOP investigators have said. Roh previously said Durham was seeking an interview with Mifsud, but it was not clear if Durham and Barr were doing so.

Papadopoulos has claimedMifsud has “connections to Italian intelligence.”

The Mueller report confirmed the role information from Mifsud played in prompting the FBI “to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities.” The investigation “did not establish” any criminal conspiracy between the Kremlin and anyone associated with Trump.

Mueller's report said Mifsud “had connections to Russia” and “maintained various Russian contacts.” Mueller also said Mifsud misled investigators when they questioned him, but he was not charged. As part of Mueller’s Russia investigation, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in 2017 to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Mifsud and served 12 days in prison late last year.

Republicans have alleged thatforeign intelligence agencies, like those in Western Europe, may haveplayed a role in monitoring Trump associates in 2016.

Durham’s investigation is separate from the one just finished by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The DOJ watchdog investigated allegations of abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the DOJ and the FBI, and Horowitz has spoken with Durham, who is handling any criminal referrals from Horowitz’s investigation.

(Did Barr give Trump a report when he came back? Is that why DOJ and FBI had to raid Mar A Lago? BTW what other foreign countries?)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amid-impeachment-furor-barr-and-durham-flew-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-of-joseph-mifsud-mysterious-professor-at-center-of-mueller-probe

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Why has AG Barr enlisted Italy and Australia to review the origins of the Russia probe?

ABC NewsOctober 1, 2019

As President Donald Trump last week defended his prodding of Ukraine’s president to dig into still-unfounded allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General William Barr quietly flew to Italy to dig into another set of politically-charged allegations pushed by Trump: allegations that the FBI improperly targeted members of Trump’s presidential campaign during its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In fact, according to a Justice Department official,the trip to Italy was organized with help from Trump himself, who introduced Barr to theItalian prime minister and other “appropriate officials,” as a Justice Department spokeswoman described them.

Among the otherscontacted by Trumpon Barr’s behalf was theprime minister of Australia, the Justice Department official told ABC News.

What do Italy and Australia have to do with Russian interference in the 2016 election and members of Trump’s presidential campaign? A lot, actually.

At the heart of Barr's inquiry is whether the FBI or any other U.S. agency abused its authority in investigating and conducting surveillance of certain members of Trump's campaign.

In early 2016, Trump’s campaignrecruiteda new adviser: businessman Carter Page, who by his own admission had been targeted by Russian spies for recruitment years earlier. After being announced as a member of Trump’s campaign team, Page flew to Moscow to give the commencement address at a prominent graduate school that U.S. authorities have said has ties to Kremlin officials. (Page said he volunteered)

Then, in late July 2016, the FBI received what FBI officials at the time described as a startling tip from the Australian government: The Russians had obtained "dirt" on Hillary Clinton and were willing to help the Trump campaign defeat Hillary Clinton.

The tip was passed through another Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.

A few months earlier, looking to promote his work outside the campaign, Papadopoulos flew to Rome, Italy, where he was introduced by an unidentified individual to Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese-born professor with ties to Russia, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report.

“Mifsud at first seemed uninterested in Papadopoulos when they met in Rome,” Papadopoulos told Mueller’s team, the report recounted. “After Papadopoulos informed Mifsud about his role in the Trump Campaign, however, Mifsud appeared to take greater interest in Papadopoulos.”…

The Australian government then alerted the FBI. And, “The FBI opened its investigation of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump Campaign a few days later based on [that] information,” according to Mueller’s report.

In particular, former FBI officials told lawmakers, the FBI wanted to identify who inside the Trump campaign could be in a position to work even unwittingly with Russian intelligence services.

As the FBI saw it, Carter Page, who was previously targeted for recruitment by Russian spies, was a distinct possibility. And in addition to Mifsud’s meeting with Papadopoulos in Rome a subsequent allegation against Page relayed to the FBI in Rome is likely part of why Barr is now so interested in Italy.

While Steele’s reports didn’t prompt the opening of the FBI’s investigation, they did play a substantial part in the FBI later obtaining a federal judge’s approval to eavesdrop on Page’s communications.

That secret surveillance and whether it was appropriately “predicated” is now a central part of Barr’s review, the attorney general has said. Mueller's investigation ultimately "did not establish" that Page or anyone else on Trump's team "coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election," Mueller's report said.

"I think spying did occur," Barr told lawmakers in April.

The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has conducted a similar review, and Horowitz’s office recently completed a draft of its report on the matter, the inspector general recently told lawmakers.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ag-barr-enlisted-italy-australia-review-origins-russia/story?id=65979014