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<\/a>However, there is a new wrinkle in the investigation of the roots of the Russian collusion charge that is very interesting. Yesterday John Solomon posted an article at The Hill<\/a> that contains what he describes as surprising information.<\/p>\nThe article reports:<\/p>\n
Multiple witnesses have told Congress that, a week before Trump\u2019s inauguration in January 2017, Britain\u2019s top national security official sent a private communique to the incoming administration, addressing his country\u2019s participation in the counterintelligence probe into the now-debunked Trump-Russia election collusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n Most significantly, then-British national security adviser\u00a0Sir Mark Lyall Grant<\/a> claimed in the memo, hand-delivered to incoming U.S. national security adviser Mike Flynn\u2019s team, that the British government lacked confidence in the credibility of former MI6 spy Christopher Steele\u2019s\u00a0Russia collusion evidence<\/a>, according to congressional investigators who interviewed witnesses familiar with the memo.<\/strong><\/p>\n It gets more interesting:<\/p>\n Congressional investigators have interviewed two U.S. officials who handled the memo, confirmed with the British government that a communique was sent and alerted the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the information. One witness confirmed to Congress that he was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a><\/span> about the memo.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now the race is on to locate the document in U.S. intelligence archives to see if the witnesses\u2019 recollections are correct. And Trump is headed to Britain this weekend, where he might just get a chance to ask his own questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA whistleblower recently revealed the existence of a communique from our allies in Great Britain during the early days of the Russia collusion investigation,\u201d Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told me.<\/strong><\/p>\n So Robert Mueller knew that there were doubts about the Steele Dossier–the basis for the charge of Russian collusion.<\/p>\n The story continues:<\/p>\n The revelation of a possible warning from the British government about Steele surfaces less than a month after a long-concealed document was made public, showing that a State Department official in October 2016 met with Steele and\u00a0took notes<\/a> that raised concerns about the accuracy of some information he provided.<\/strong><\/p>\n Those notes, as I have written, quoted the British operative as saying\u00a0he had a political deadline<\/a> of Election Day to make his information public and that he was leaking to the news media \u2014 two claims that would weigh against his credibility as an FBI informant. They also flagged a piece of demonstrably false intelligence he provided.<\/strong><\/p>\n The British Embassy in Washington did not return a call or email seeking comment. Grant, who left his post in April 2017, did not respond to a request for comment at the university where he works. His former top deputy, Paddy McGuinness, declined comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n If the British memo exists, it was never shared with the House Intelligence, House Judiciary, House Oversight and Reform or Senate Judiciary committees, despite their exhaustive investigations into the Steele dossier, congressional investigators told me. These investigators learned about the document in the past few weeks, setting off a mad scramble to locate it and talk to witnesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n If the witnesses\u2019 recollections are correct, the British communique could become one of the most significant pieces of evidence to emerge in the investigation of the Russia-collusion investigators.<\/strong><\/p>\n It would mean that Trump was never told of the warning Flynn\u2019s team received, and that the FBI and DOJ continued to rely on Steele\u2019s uncorroborated allegations for many months as they renewed the FISA warrant at least two more times and named Mueller as special prosecutor to investigate Russia collusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Calif.), whose staff has been fighting unsuccessfully to gain access to the British communique, told me Wednesday its public release would further accentuate “that the FBI and DOJ were dead wrong to rely on the dossier in the Russia investigation and to use it as a basis to spy on Americans.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The investigation into President Trump was a hoax, pure and simple. However, that won’t stop impeachment proceedings. As the truth dribbles out, those impeachment proceedings are going to look really silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following appeared on my Facebook feed yesterday. I feel that it sums up Robert Mueller’s final statement on his investigation: However, there is a new wrinkle in the investigation of the roots of the Russian collusion charge that is … Continue reading