John Kerry Officially Under Investigation As Dossier Probe Targets Obama State Department

This part of "Phase 2" of Devin Nunes' investigations, looking at people at the State Department who knew of or aided the abuse.

The House Select Committee on Intelligence is now investigating former Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s possible role into the unverified dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton Campaign, this reporter has learned. The dossier, assembled by a former British spy, laid the foundation for the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between President Trump and Russia and was the essential piece of evidence used by the FBI to get a warrant to spy on a former volunteer for the Trump campaign.

For more than a month, the committee has been in its second phase of investigations focused on former Obama State Department officials and their role in either transmitting information or using information provided by former British spy and investigator Christopher Steele. Steele was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS, also under several congressional and Senate investigations.

While FBI director, Robert Mueller and his Bureau task force led by now-fired FBI executive Andrew McCabe sought the help of a Putin-linked Russian billionaire while he was reportedly under investigation by the FBI as part of an organized crime probe, federal sources said.

And while — as Special Counsel — Mueller has used the unlimited resources of the United States government to try and tie President Donald Trump to Russia, the former FBI chief largely ignored his and McCabe’s associations with Russian mobsters and a Putin-linked billionaire under federal investigation by their the Bureau.

The same Russian billionaire at the center of Mueller’s recent indictment of Paul Manafort.

Even officials at CIA were concerned about McCabe’s Russian contacts, sources confirm.

• McCabe, under Mueller’s leadership, maintained an alliance with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska a tycoon and close associate of Vladimir Putin. And McCabe apparently met with him in Europe without proper clearance from FBI, while Deripaska was a possible target on a FBI organized crime probe. McCabe also privately acknowledged to FBI agents that Deripaska was a friend.

• The FBI asked for Deripaska’s assistance to help free an American hostage being held in Iran.

• Yes, this is the same Deripaska who was trumpeted as part of Mueller’s recent Paul Manafort indictment. If Manafort’s connections to Deripaska’s billions helped indict him, why didn’t McCabe’s associations with the oligarch warrant similar investigation by the very man, Mueller, who slammed Manafort?

• During McCabe’s liaisons with Deripaska, Peter Strzok was running the FBI’s Post-Adjudication Risk Management plan, or PARM, a program initiated to catch problematic and criminal associations of FBI agents. Strzok and PARM should have snagged McCabe’s Russian associations, especially Deripaska. Many agents were fired for far less, under the stringent internal program. Where was Strzok’s oversight of McCabe or did Strzok simply look the other way?

• CIA officials looked at McCabe’s Russian contacts, especially Deripaska, fearing a possible data breach like convicted FBI spy Robert Hanssen.

• McCabe for years worked Russian organized crime in New York for the FBI, previous to his Washington D.C. rise. He led the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, a joint operation with the NYPD.

• While in New York, McCabe worked in tandem with Bruce Ohr, the recently demoted DOJ official linked to the Trump fake dossier who often coordinated with McCabe’s Russian organized crime task force. Ohr worked Organized Crime too for DOJ. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS and previously worked for the CIA.

• Corrupt Democrat Senator Mark Warner has been colluding with Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripraska. He had knowledge of Christopher Steele.