A Brief History of Russia Collusion Posts 1-14 #TheStory

0:00 Post 1 (U.S. Intel, Hillary, Obama, McCabe, Page) 1:13 Post 2 2:06 Post 3 (Comey, Buryakov, Page, Benghazi, Ukraine, Manafort, Podesta, Chalupa, Clinton) 3:26 Post 4 4:21 Post 5 (McAuliffe, McCabe, Clinton, Podesta, McCain, Obama, Kadzik, Comey, Lynch) 5:09 Post 6 6:52 Post 7 (Chalupa, Manafort, Simpson, Comey, Bladel, Podesta, Clinton, Preistap) 9:11 Post 8 13:01 Post 9 (Chalupa, Manafort, McAuliffe, Comey, Blelkova, Strzok, Buryakov, Kaptur) 16:01 Post 10 17:52 Post 11 (Steele, Simpson, Manafort, Papadapolous, Comey, Seth Rich, Assange, Rice) 21:56 Post 12 26:47 Post 13 (Unmasking, Strzok, Page, Poroshenko, Clinton, Obama, Steele, Manafort, Ukraine) 29:15 Post 14 Post #1 2011 U.S. intel community vastly expands its surveillance authority, giving itself permission to spy on Americans who do nothing more than “mention a foreign target in a single, discrete communication.” Intel officials also begin storing and entering into a searchable database sensitive intelligence on U.S. citizens whose communications are accidentally or “incidentally” captured during surveillance of foreign targets. Prior to this point, such intelligence was supposed to be destroyed to protect the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens. However, it’s required that the names of U.S. citizens be hidden or “masked” –even from inside U.S. intel agencies –to prevent abuse. #TheStory Post #2 July 1, 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton improperly uses unsecured, personal email domain to email President Obama from Russia. June 2013: FBI interviews U.S. businessman Carter Page, who’s lived and worked in Russia, regarding his ongoing contacts with Russians. Page reportedly tells FBI agents their time would be better spent investigating Boston Marathon bombing (which the FBI’s Andrew McCabe helped lead). Page later claims his remark prompts FBI retaliatory campaign against him. The FBI, under McCabe, will later wiretap Page after Page becomes a Donald Trump campaign adviser. Sept. 4, 2013: James Comey becomes FBI Director, succeeding Robert Mueller. October 2013: FBI secretly records suspected Russian industrial spy Evgeny Buryakov. It’s later reported that Carter Page helped FBI build the case. Interview and then work with him? Early August 2014: State Dept. turns over 15,000 pages of documents to Congressional Benghazi committee, revealing former secretary of state Hillary Clinton used a private server for government email. Her mishandling of classified info on this private system becomes subject of an FBI probe. Note**If Americans didn't die in Benghazi, nobody would ever know about her private server except Obama. Late August 2014: Russia invades Ukraine. Ukraine steps up hiring of U.S. lobbyists to make its case against Russia and obtain U.S. aid. Russia also continues its practice of using U.S. lobbyists in Ukraine. Lobbyist like Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta. #TheStory Post #4 September 2014: Ukraine forms National Anti-Corruption Bureau as a condition to receive U.S. aid. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau later signs evidence-sharing agreement with FBI related to Trump-Russia probe. October 2014: Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa, a paid consultant for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), begins researching lobbyist Paul Manafort’s Russia ties. November 2014: FBI investigates, and then wiretaps, Paul Manafort for allegedly not properly disclosing Russia-related work. FBI fails to make a case, according to CNN, and discontinues wiretap. A year in solitary confinement 23 hours a day and hasnt broke yet..... 2015 FBI opens investigation into Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, including for donations from a Chinese businessman and Clinton Foundation donor. FBI official Andrew McCabe meets with Gov. McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally. Afterwards, “McAuliffe-aligned political groups donated about $700,000 to Mr. McCabe’s wife…for her campaign to become a Democrat state Senator in Virginia.” The fact of the McAuliffe-related donations to wife of FBI’s McCabe—while FBI was investigating McAuliffe and Clinton—later becomes the subject of conflict of interest inquiry by Inspector General. #TheStory Post #6 Feb. 9, 2015: U.S. Senate forms Ukrainian caucus to further Ukrainian interests. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is a member. March 4, 2015: New York Times breaks news about Clinton’s improper handling of classified email as secretary of state. In internal emails, Clinton campaign chairman (and former Obama adviser) John Podesta suggests Obama withhold Clinton’s emails from Congressional Benghazi committee under executive privilege. March 2015: Attorney General Loretta Lynch privately directs FBI Director James Comey to call FBI Clinton probe a “matter” rather than an “investigation.” Comey follows the instruction, though he later testifies that it made him “queasy.”