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CHAPTER 5: DEEP STATE I: RUSSIAN COLLUSION—THE HOAX OF THE CENTURY
  1. 1
    . Michael Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe Ties between Trump Adviser and Kremlin,”
    Yahoo News
    , September 23, 2016.
  2. 2
    . “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,”
    BuzzFeed News
    , January 10, 2017.
  3. 3
    . Greg Gordon and Peter Stone, “Sources: Mueller Has Evidence Cohen Was in Prague in 2016, Confirming Part of Dossier,” McClatchy, April 13, 2018.
  4. 4
    . Franklin Foer, “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?”
    Slate
    , October 31, 2016.
  5. 5
    . Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” December 9, 2019, ii.
  6. 6
    . Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Department of Justice, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” March 2019, vol. 1, 5.
  7. 7
    . James Comey, “No ‘treason.' No coup. Just lies—and dumb lies at that,”
    Washington Post
    , May 29, 2019.
  8. 8
    . “Minority Views,” House Intelligence Committee Democrats, March 26, 2018, 19,
    https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20180411_-_final_-_hpsci_minority_views_on_majority_report.pdf
    .
  9. 9
    . Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe.”
  10. 10
    . Howard Blum, “How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier,”
    Vanity Fair
    , March 30, 2017.
  11. 11
    . David Corn, “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump,”
    Mother Jones
    , October 31, 2016.
  12. 12
    . “Christopher Steele, Trump Dossier Author, Is a Real-Life James Bond,” NBC News, January 13, 2017.
  13. 13
    . Meghan Keneally, “Comey Says He Believes the Source of the Steele ‘Dossier' to Be ‘Credible,' ” ABC News, April 15, 2018.
  14. 14
    . Kenneth P. Vogel, “Clinton Campaign and Democratic Party Helped Pay for Russia, Trump Dossier,”
    New York Times
    , October 24, 2017.
  15. 15
    . Ibid.
  16. 16
    . Margot
    Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,”
    Federalist
    , April 16, 2020.
  17. 17
    . “Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy On The 2016 Election Scandal—The Real One,”
    Hugh Hewitt Show
    , February 12, 2018.
  18. 18
    . “James Comey on Clinton Probe, Russia Investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.
  19. 19
    . House Intelligence Committee Republicans, “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” January 18, 2018.
  20. 20
    . Charles E. Grassley, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Lindsey O. Graham, Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Referral of Christopher Steele for Potential Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001,” January 4, 2018.
  21. 21
    . House Intelligence Committee Democrats, “Correcting the Record—the Russia Investigation,” January 29, 2018.
  22. 22
    . “Comey: Notion That FISA Process Was Abused Is ‘Nonsense,' ”
    Real Clear Politics,
    December 7, 2018.
  23. 23
    . “Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: ‘The Department of Justice Is Not Going to Be Extorted,' ”
    Real Clear Politics
    , May 1, 2018.
  24. 24
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, vi.
  25. 25
    . Ibid., viii, xi.
  26. 26
    . Margot Cleveland, “Declassified Info: DOJ, FBI Knew Trump Surveillance Was Based on Russian Disinformation,”
    Federalist
    , April 13, 2020.
  27. 27
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, 110.
  28. 28
    . Ibid., 188.
  29. 29
    . Margot Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,”
    Federalist
    , April 16, 2020.
  30. 30
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.
  31. 31
    . Ibid.
  32. 32
    . Ibid., xvii.
  33. 33
    . “James Comey on Clinton probe, Russia investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.
  34. 34
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.
  35. 35
    . John Solomon, “FBI's Steele Story Falls Apart: False Intel and Media Contacts Were Flagged before FISA,”
    Hill
    , May 9, 2019.
  36. 36
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, iii.
  37. 37
    . Ibid., 67.
  38. 38
    . “Inspector General Report on Origins of FBI's Russia Inquiry,” C-SPAN, December 11, 2019.
  39. 39
    . “Full Interview: AG Bill Barr Criticizes Inspector General Report on the Russia Investigation,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , December 11, 2019.
  40. 40
    . Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “A Review of
    Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election,” June 2018, v.
  41. 41
    . Rod J. Rosenstein, “Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , May 9, 2017,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/Rosenstein_Memo.pdf
    .
  42. 42
    . Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey's Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda,” August 2019, 60.
  43. 43
    . Jonathan Turley, “No Glory in James Comey Getting Away with His Abuse of FBI Power,”
    Hill
    , December 15, 2018.
  44. 44
    . Greg Re, “FBI discussed interviewing Michael Flynn ‘to get him to lie' and ‘get him fired,' handwritten notes show,” Fox News, April 30, 2020.
  45. 45
    . Byron York, “Memo: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have a lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences,”
    Washington Examiner
    , December 11, 2018.
  46. 46
    . Chuck Ross, “FBI Planned To Close Michael Flynn Investigation, And Then Peter Strzok Intervened,”
    Daily Caller
    , April 30, 2020.
  47. 47
    . House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence, “Report on Russian Active Measures,” March 22, 2018, 54.
  48. 48
    . DOJ IG, Report into Comey's Disclosure, 17–18.
  49. 49
    . Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “A Report of Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,” February 2018, 2.
  50. 50
    . Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment,”
    New York Times
    , September 21, 2018.
  51. 51
    . Adam Goldman, “Prosecutors Face Increased Pressure to Make Decision in McCabe Case,”
    New York Times
    , October 1, 2019.
  52. 52
    . Daniel Chaitin, “Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Officials ‘Have Six Ways from Sunday at Getting Back at You,”
    Washington Examiner
    , January 3, 2017.
  53. 53
    . Kimberley A. Strassel, “Brennan and the 2016 Spy Scandal,”
    Wall Street Journal
    , July 19, 2018.
  54. 54
    . Ibid.
  55. 55
    . Matt Zapotosky, “Trump Said Mueller's Team Has ‘13 Hardened Democrats.' Here Are the Facts,”
    Washington Post
    , March 18, 2018.
  56. 56
    . Eleanor Mueller, “Adam Schiff Wants Mueller to Bring His Report ‘to Life,' ”
    Politico
    , July 21, 2019.
  57. 57
    . Naomi Lim, “Matt Gaetz Grills Mueller on Steele Dossier's Role in Russian Disinformation Efforts,”
    Washington Examiner
    , July 24, 2019.
  58. 58
    . “Rep. Schiff on MSNBC: Much More Than Circumstantial Evidence,
    Worthy of Investigation,” Rep. Adam Schiff YouTube channel, March 27, 2017,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftxB-WV58_o
    .
  59. 59
    . “Adam Schiff on Russia investigation (full interview), CNN's
    State of the Union
    , December 10, 2017,
    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/12/10/adam-schiff-russia-investigation-entire-sotu.cnn
    .
  60. 60
    . Ibid.
  61. 61
    . DOJ IG, Review of FISA applications, 12.
  62. 62
    . “Statement of U.S. Attorney John H. Durham,” United States Department of Justice, District of Connecticut, December 9, 2019,
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/statement-us-attorney-john-h-durham
    .
CHAPTER 6: DEEP STATE II: IMPEACHMENT—THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO DECAPITATE THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
  1. 1
    . “House Judiciary Committee Unveils Investigation into Threats Against the Rule of Law,” House Committee on the Judiciary, March 4, 2019,
    https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1502
    .
  2. 2
    . Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Rep. Al Green Fears Trump ‘Will Get Reelected' if He's Not Impeached,” Fox News, May 7, 2019.
  3. 3
    . Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Hunter Biden Says Role with Ukraine Firm Was ‘Poor Judgment' but Not ‘Improper,' ”
    Washington Post
    , October 15, 2019.
  4. 4
    . Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev, and Luke Baker, “What Hunter Biden Did on the Board of Ukrainian Energy Company Burisma,” Reuters, October 18, 2019.
  5. 5
    . Davey Alba, “Debunking 4 Viral Rumors About the Bidens and Ukraine,”
    New York Times,
    October 29, 2019.
  6. 6
    . Alana Goodman, “John Kerry's Son Cut Business Ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian Oil Deal,”
    Washington Examiner
    , August 27, 2019.
  7. 7
    . Paul Sonne, Michael Kranish, and Matt Viser, “The Gas Tycoon and the Vice President's Son: The Story of Hunter Biden's Foray into Ukraine,”
    Washington Post
    , September 28, 2019.
  8. 8
    . Ibid.
  9. 9
    . Ibid.
  10. 10
    . Gregg Re, “State Dept. Official Flagged Hunter Biden's ‘Conflict of Interest' in Ukraine, Testimony Shows,” Fox News, November 7, 2019.
  11. 11
    . Adam Entous, “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father's Campaign?”
    New Yorker
    , July 1, 2019.
  12. 12
    . Ibid.
  13. 13
    . James Risen, “Joe Biden, His Son, and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch,”
    New York Times
    , December 8, 2015.
  14. 14
    . “Foreign
    Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden,” Council on Foreign Relations, January 23, 2018,
    https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden
    .
  15. 15
    . Peter Schweizer, “What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal—and That's the Problem,”
    New York Times
    , October 9, 2019.
  16. 16
    . “1-on-1 with Hunter Biden,”
    ABCNews.com
    ,
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/hunter-biden-66298958
    .
  17. 17
    . Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire,”
    Politico,
    January 11, 2017.
  18. 18
    . John Solomon, “Let's Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,”
    Hill
    , September 23, 2019.
  19. 19
    . Telephone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine, July 25, 2019,
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
    .
  20. 20
    . “Trump on Ukraine: I Have an ‘Obligation to Investigate Corruption,' ”
    Real Clear Politics
    , October 21, 2019.
  21. 21
    . White House Whistleblower Complaint, August 12, 2019,
    https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf
    .
  22. 22
    . Sean Davis, “Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge,”
    Federalist
    , September 27, 2019.
  23. 23
    . Byron York, “Whistleblower Had ‘Professional' Tie to 2020 Democratic Candidate,”
    Washington Examiner
    , October 8, 2019.
  24. 24
    . Paul Sperry, “The Beltway's ‘Whistleblower' Furor Obsesses Over One Name,”
    Real Clear Investigations
    , October 30, 2019.
  25. 25
    . Julian E. Barnes, Michael S. Schmidt, and Matthew Rosenberg, “Schiff Got Early Account of Accusations as Whistle-Blower's Concerns Grew,”
    New York Times
    , October 2, 2019.
  26. 26
    . Bill McCarthy, “Adam Schiff's False Claim That ‘We Have Not Spoken Directly with the Whistleblower,” PolitiFact, October 4, 2019.
  27. 27
    . Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Carol D. Leonnig, and Shane Harris, “Trump Offered Ukrainian President Justice Dept. Help in an Investigation of Biden, Memo Shows,”
    Washington Post
    , September 25, 2019.
  28. 28
    . Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman, “ ‘Do Us a Favor': Call Shows Trump's Interest in Using U.S. Power for His Gain,”
    New York Times
    , September 25, 2019.
  29. 29
    . Tristan Justice, “Adam Schiff Makes Up His Own Transcript of Call Between Trump and Ukraine President,”
    Federalist
    , September 26, 2019.
  30. 30
    . “Telephone Conversation with President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine,” April 21, 2019,
    https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6550349/First-Trump-Ukraine-Call.pdf
    .
  31. 31
    . Paul
    M. Krawzak, “OMB: Ukraine Aid Delay Was Consistent with Law, Past Practice,”
    Roll Call
    , December 11, 2019.
  32. 32
    . “Ambassador Sondland Says President Never Told Him of Military Aid Preconditions,” C-SPAN, November 20, 2019,
    https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4831945/ambassador-sondland-president-told-military-aid-preconditions
    .
  33. 33
    . Tim Hains, “Sondland Confirms POTUS Told Him: ‘I Want No Quid-Pro-Quo,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , November 20, 2019,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/11/20/sondland_confirms_potus_told_him_no_quid-pro-quo.html
    .
  34. 34
    . Tim Hains, “Ukrainian President Zelensky: ‘Nobody Pushed Me' To Investigate Biden,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , September 25, 2019,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/25/ukrainian_president_to_trump_at_un_nobody_pushed_me.html
    .
  35. 35
    . Mark Moore, “Ukraine's Zelensky Again Denies Quid Pro Quo during Trump Phone Call,”
    New York Post
    , December 2, 2019.
  36. 36
    . “Ukraine Minister Denies Trump Put Pressure on Zelensky during Call: Report,” Reuters, September 21, 2019.
  37. 37
    . 
    Washington Post
    Staff, “Transcript: Kent and Taylor public testimony in front of House Intelligence Committee,
    Washington Post
    , November 14, 2019,
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/14/transcript-kent-taylor-public-testimony-front-house-intelligence-committee/
    .
  38. 38
    . Oliver Carroll, “Ukraine President Zelensky Says ‘No Blackmail' in Trump Call,”
    Independent
    , October 10, 2019.
  39. 39
    . Christopher Miller, “Ukraine Was Still Checking Its Bank Account for US Aid for a Month After the Trump Call,”
    BuzzFeed News
    , October 2, 2019.
  40. 40
    . Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He's Just Not Worth It,' ”
    Washington Post Magazine
    , March 11, 2019.
  41. 41
    . Tim Hains, “Turley to House Dems: If You Make Going To The Courts An Abuse Of Power, It Is ‘Your Abuse Of Power,' ”
    Real Clear Politics
    , December 4, 2019,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/04/turley_to_congress_if_you_make_going_to_the_courts_an_abuse_of_power_it_is_your_abuse_of_power.html
    .
  42. 42
    . “Schumer Accuses McConnell Of Plotting ‘Most Unfair' Senate Impeachment Trial,” NBCNews YouTube channel, December 19, 2019,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvYREYD7YM
    .
  43. 43
    . Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says,”
    New York Times
    , January 26, 2020.
  44. 44
    . “Flashback: John Bolton Described the President's conversations with Zelensky as ‘warm and cordial,' ” Trending Politics YouTube channel, January 29, 2020,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgkHaLa-x8
    .
  45. 45
    . Tim
    Hains, “Audio; Russian Comedians Prank Called Rep. Adam Schiff, Promised Him Naked Photos Of Trump,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , February 6, 2018,
  46. 46
    . Alana Goodman, “Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI' after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump,”
    Daily Mail
    , February 6, 2018.
  47. 47
    . John Solomon, “Let's Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,”
    Hill,
    September 23, 2019.
  48. 48
    . Stu Cvrk, “Impeachment Trial: Compare and Contrast Two Wildly Different Steele Dossier Explanations,”
    RedState
    , January 31, 2020.
  49. 49
    . Trial memorandum of President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2020, 24,
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Trial-Memorandum-of-President-Donald-J.-Trump.pdf
    .
  50. 50
    . “Transcript: Sen. Cruz praises Alan Dershowitz's ‘powerful and compelling' constitutional argument,”
    Hannity
    , January 28, 2020,
    https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/sen-cruz-praises-alan-dershowitzs-powerful-and-compelling-constitutional-argument
    .
  51. 51
    . Trial memorandum of Donald J. Trump, 44.
  52. 52
    . Jonathan Easley, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise Staggering $125 Million in Third Quarter,”
    Hill
    , October 1, 2019.
  53. 53
    . Max Greenwood, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise $154M in Fourth Quarter of 2019,”
    Hill
    , January 3, 2020.
  54. 54
    . Emily Jacobs, “Trump Approval Rating Hits a High Post-Impeachment,”
    New York Post
    , February 19, 2020.

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