Just-released Trump-Russia documents show anti-Trump leaks in NYT were wrong 9 times in same article

The first document is a 57-page summary of a three-day FBI interview in January 2017 with Christopher Steele's 'primary sub-source' in the anti-Trump allegations and 'dossier.' Document number two takes apart a New York Times article written by Michael Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has released two newly-declassified documents related to government surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign in 2016.

The first document, withheld from public view until now, is a 57-page summary of a three-day FBI interview in January 2017 with Christopher Steele’s so-called "primary sub-source" in the anti-Trump allegations and "dossier."

According to the analysis by Sen. Graham's office:

The document reveals that the primary "source" of Steele’s election reporting was not some well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian-based contract employee of Christopher Steele’s firm. Moreover, it demonstrates that the information that Steele's primary source provided him was second and third hand information and rumor at best.

Critically, the document shows that Steele's "primary sub-source" disagreed with and was surprised by how information he gave Steele was then conveyed by Steele in the Steele dossier.

Document number two, also withheld from public view until now, takes apart a New York Times article written by Michael Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo.

Comments made by then-FBI agent Peter Strzok undercut a litany of claims made in the Times article, which was entitled: "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contact With Russian Intelligence."

Claim in NYT article: "Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials."

Note by Strzok: "This statement is misleading and inaccurate as written. We have not seen evidence of any individuals in contact with Russians (both Governmental and non-Governmental)" and "There is no known intel affiliation, and little if any [government of Russia] affiliation[.] FBI investigation has shown past contact between [Trump campaign volunteer Carter] Page and the SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation], but not during his association with the Trump campaign."

Claim in NYT article: "… one of the advisers picked up on the [intercepted] calls was Paul Manafort, who was Mr. Trump's campaign chairman for several months …"

Note by Strzok: "We are unaware of any calls with any Russian government official in which Manafort was a party."

Claim in NYT article: "The FBI has obtained banking and travel records …"

Note by Strzok: "We do not yet have detailed banking records."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/just-released-trump-russia-documents-show-anti-trump

Declassified Docs Reveal FBI Agents Didn’t Believe Russia Trump Conspiracy. When Will AG Barr Deliver Justice For The Nation?

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham released declassified FBI documents Friday revealing that senior bureau officials, including those who led the Russia probe, were skeptical early on of stories suggesting President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was conspiring with Russia.

So when will there be justice?

For the past several years Americans have seen documents turning the narrative that suggested there was such a conspiracy on its head. So if the same senior Obama and law enforcement officials didn’t believe there was evidence to prove a conspiracy, or that one even existed, then who in power gave the directive to target the Trump campaign and continue investigating beyond the election?

Graham, who has promised to call former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, among others, to testify before his committee needs to focus on those very questions. For years, colleagues and friends of Trump have been the target of those in the FBI intent on proving what they appeared to have known was an obvious lie.

Moreover, strategically feeding those lies in newspapers, social media and cable news outlets throughout the world harmed America’s national security. It was a disinformation campaign unlike anything ever seen in U.S. politics and it was cultivated by former senior intelligence officials with extraordinary power. Lastly, and most importantly, the lies have harmed the American people and ripped the nation apart.

That’s why the discovery of documents revealing the truth is so important. It is the only way to begin to cleanse the nation. Graham made the documents public as part of his investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation. His ongoing probe coincides with a separate but ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed by Barr last year.

But Americans have witnessed over the past nearly four years investigation after investigation with no actionable results and no indictments. And Barr’s most recent statement that Durham’s investigation may not be completed until after the November election is beyond concerning.

I just don’t buy the excuse that the COVID-19 epidemic has set back Durham’s investigation, as suggested by Barr. I hope I’m wrong. But I haven’t seen any real results since first publishing stories more than three years ago on the subject.I’m starting to feel, like most people involved in exposing what has happed, like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.

But I haven’t given up all hope.

https://saraacarter.com/new-docs-reveal-fbi-agents-didnt-believe-russia-trump-conspiracy-when-will-ag-barr-deliver-justice-for-the-nation/

"Ask Prince Andrew About It": Trump Warned Epstein's Island Was "Absolute Cesspool" In 2015

President Trump suggested in 2015 that reporters ask Prince Andrew about his good friend Jeffrey Epstein's so-called 'pedo' island, calling it an "absolute cesspool."

According to The Sun, Trump's comments came around the time that accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleged that Epstein coerced her into having sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions when she was 17.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ask-prince-andrew-about-it-trump-warned-epsteins-island-was-absolute-cesspool-2015

Ukrainian Men Plead Guilty to Conspiracy and Trafficking of Counterfeit Cancer and Hepatitis Drugs

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrainian-men-plead-guilty-conspiracy-and-trafficking-counterfeit-cancer-and-hepatitis-drugs

US Carries Out Third Federal Execution in Nearly 20 Years, Bureau of Prisons Says

The United States carried out its third federal execution in nearly 20 years by executing Dustin Lee Honken, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a press release.

"The Court Order to execute Mr. Dustin Honken has been fulfilled," the release said on Friday. "Pursuant to the sentence of the United States Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Dustin Honken has been executed by lethal injection."

Earlier on Friday, the Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Honken's appeal to delay his execution. His execution is the third federal execution to take place within a week, which were the first to happen since 2003.

Honken, 52, was convicted in 2004 for killing five people during his time in a criminal enterprise, including two men who planned to testify against him, and a woman and her ten-year-old daughter and her six-year-old daughter.

The United States is scheduled to carry out its fourth federal execution on 28 August.

Although. until this week, the US did not carry out a federal execution since 2003, about 700 people have been executed within the United States at the state-level during the same time period, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007171079919973-us-carries-out-third-federal-execution-in-nearly-20-years-bureau-of-prisons-says/

Four Arrested for Splattering Blue Paint on Black Lives Matter Mural in NYC, Shouting ‘All Lives Matter’ and ‘Blue Lives Matter’

Four people have been arrested for splattering blue paint on the state-sanctioned Black Lives Matter eyesore painted in the road outside Trump Tower in New York City.

The brave activists shouted “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” as they painted over the city-approved vandalism.

De Blasio is planning to paint four more of the ridiculous murals throughout the city.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/watch-four-arrested-splattering-blue-paint-black-lives-matter-mural-nyc-shouting-lives-matter-blue-lives-matter/

Powerful CEO group calls for all companies to have mandatory mask policies

Association of CEOs from major U.S. corporations, including Walmart, Apple, and Marriott, are calling for mandatory masks.

Walmart announced Wednesday that it will require customers to wear face masks in all of its stores nationwide. Other retailers have adopted a mandatory mask policy this week, and a powerful association of CEOs from major U.S. corporations are calling for all companies to require face coverings.

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The Business Roundtable is an "association of chief executive officers of America's leading companies working to promote a thriving U.S. economy and expanded opportunity for all Americans through sound public policy."

Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon serves as BRT chairman. Other members of BRT include Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky, Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson, and CVS Health CEO Larry J. Merlo.

On Friday, the influential business association, based in Washington, D.C., called for every company to require face masks.

"Rising infection rates around the country are putting public health and our economy at grave risk," the statement read. "Failure to bring the pandemic under control will have devastating, long-term consequences for millions of Americans."

"One of the most effective things we can all do to protect public health and the economy is to wear face coverings in public settings, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain," BRT said.

"Business Roundtable applauds the many companies that are protecting their employees and customers by mandating the use of face coverings indoors consistent with CDC guidelines," BRT said. "We encourage every company to adopt this practice and hope that all Americans will adopt the use of face coverings to protect their families, friends, neighbors, and our economy."

Earlier this month, BRT co-signed a letter along with the National Retail Federation addressed to President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The letter requested national guidelines for "imposing location-based mandatory mask requirements in all public spaces."

The National Retail Federation is also "encouraging all retailers to adopt a nationwide policy that requires customers to wear face coverings or masks to protect the health and well-being of customers, associates and partners during the coronavirus pandemic."

The NRF has members from Walmart, Google, Facebook, Macy's, BJ's, American Express, IBM, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., and the Ralph Lauren Corporation.

"The health and safety of associates and customers is retailers' number one priority and wearing a face covering or mask is scientifically proven to reduce the spread of COVID-19," the statement from the NRF read. "Workers serving customers should not have to make a critical decision as to whether they should risk exposure to infection or lose their jobs because a minority of people refuse to wear masks in order to help stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus."

Many nationwide companies have already instituted policies of requiring patrons to wear face masks in stores.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/list-stores-requiring-face-masks-