15. Byron York, “Did Dossier Trigger the Trump-Russia Probe?,” Washington Examiner, November 12, 2017.
16. Letter from Senator Harry Reid to FBI Director James Comey, August 27, 2016, available at https://archive.org/details/ReidLetterToComey08272016.
17. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, “Summary Table of Findings,” p. 4, March 2018, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/russia_report_findings_and_recommendations.pdf.
18. Ian Schwartz, “GOP Rep. Jordan: House Intel Committee ‘Confirmed’ James Clapper Leaked Info on Russian Probe,” RealClearPolitics, March 14, 2018.
19. Ibid.
20. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, “Summary Table of Findings,” p. 4, March 2018, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/russia_report_findings_and_recommendations.pdf.
21. Scott Shane, Nicholas Confessore, and Matthew Rosenberg, “How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump,” New York Times, January 11, 2017; Amy Entous, Devlin Barrett, and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Clinton Campaign, DNC Paid for Research That Led to Russia Dossier,” Washington Post, October 24, 2017.
22. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Clinton Campaign and Democratic Party Helped Pay for Russia Trump Dossier,” New York Times, October 24, 2017; Mark Hosenball, “Ex-British Spy Paid $168,000 for Trump Dossier, U.S. Firm Discloses,” Reuters, November 1, 2017.
23. Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder, and Mark Schoofs, “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,” Buzzfeed, January 10, 2017, available at https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.nkzKndwXx#.bmqVQvK34.
24. Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, and Marshall Cohen, “Fusion Co-Founder: Dossier Author Feared Trump Was Being Blackmailed,” CNN, January 10, 2018.
25. Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Hero or Hired Gun? How A British Former Spy Became A Flash Point In The Russia Investigation,” The Washington Post, February 6, 2018.
26. Ibid.
27. Lena Felton, “The Full Text of the Nunes Memo,” Atlantic, February 2, 2018.
28. Ken Bensinger, Mirum Elder, and Mark Schoofs, “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia.”
29. Paul Roderick Gregory, “The Trump Dossier Is Fake—And Here Are the Reasons Why,” Forbes, January 13, 2017.
30. Ibid.
31. Owen Matthews, “Thirteen Things That Don’t Add Up In The Russia-Trump Intelligence Dossier,” Newsweek, January 11, 2017.
32. Ibid.
33. Rosie Gray, “Michael Cohen: ‘It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump,’ ” Atlantic, January 10, 2017.
34. Ian Schwartz, “Woodward: Trump Right to Be Upset About ‘Garbage Document,’ Deserves Apology,” RealClearPolitics, January 15, 2017.
35. Fox News Insider, “ ‘Garbage Document’: Woodward Says U.S. Intel Should Apologize Over Trump Dossier,” Fox News, January 16, 2017.
36. Bill Neely, “Kremlin Spokesman: U.S. Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking ‘Ridiculous,’ ” NBC News, January 12, 2017.
37. Fox News (Associate Press contributed), “Putin: Those Who Leaked Trump Dossier ‘Worse Than Prostitutes,’ ” Fox News, January 17, 2017.
38. Ibid.
39. Anna Giaritelli, “Carter Page Says He’s Never Spoken with Trump in His Life,” Washington Examiner, February 6, 2018; Testimony of Carter Page Before the House Intelligence Committee, November 2, 2017, pp. 11 and 15, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf.
40. Ibid., p. 11.
41. Ibid., p. 157.
42. Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Adam Goldman, “Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow Got the FBI’s Attention,” New York Times, April 19, 2017.
43. Testimony of Carter Page Before the House Intelligence Committee, November 2, 2017, p. 19, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf/.
44. Ibid., p. 40.
45. Manu Raju, Jeremy Herb, and Katelyn Polantz, “Carter Page Reveals New Contacts with Trump Campaign, Russians,” CNN, November 8, 2017.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Testimony of Carter Page Before the House Intelligence Committee, November 2, 2017, p. 38, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf.
49. Ibid., p. 36.
50. “Dossier” Purportedly Prepared by Christopher Steele, Orbis Business Intelligence, “Company Intelligence Report 2016,” p. 9, available at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, published by Buzzfeed, January 10, 2017.
51. Ibid., p. 25.
52. Ibid., pp. 20–22.
53. “Dossier” purportedly prepared by Christopher Steele, Orbis Business Intelligence, “Company Intelligence Report 2016,” p. 30, available at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html.
54. Manu Raju, Jeremy Herb, and Katelyn Polantz, “Carter Page Reveals New Contacts with Trump Campaign, Russians,” CNN, November 8, 2017.
55. Elena Mazneva and Ilya Arkhipov, “Russia Sells $11 Billion Stake in Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar,” Bloomberg, December 7, 2016.
56. Washington Post Staff, “Full Transcript: FBI Director James Comey Testifies on Russian Interference in 2016 Election,” Washington Post, March 20, 2017, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/20/full-transcript-fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-on-russian-interference-in-2016-election/?utm_term=.7c66b8617838.
57. Elena Mazneva and Ilya Arkhipov, “Russia Sells $11 Billion Stake in Rosneft to Glencore And Qatar.”
58. Testimony of Carter Page Before the House Intelligence Committee, November 2, 2017, pp. 7–8, available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf.
59. Elena Mazneva and Ilya Arkhipov, “Russia Sells $11 Billion Stake in Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar.”
60. Margarita Papchenkova, “Rosneft Looking for Investors in Itself,” Corporation Energy, July 11, 2016.
61. Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Schiff Memo Harms Democrats More Than It Helps Them,” National Review, February 25, 2018; United States Code, 50 U.S.C. 1804, “Applications for Court Orders.”
Chapter 7: Government Abuse of Surveillance
1. Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983).
2. Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman, “Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier,” New York Times, October 27, 2017.
3. Scott Shane, Nicholas Confessore, and Matthew Rosenberg, “How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump,” New York Times, January 11, 2017.
4. Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, Interview of Glenn Simpson, Founder Fusion GPS, August 22, 2017, p. 148, available at https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf.
5. Ibid., p. 93.
6. Ibid., p. 233.
7. Ibid., p. 235.
8. Ibid., p. 246.
9. Ibid., p. 279.
10. Ibid., p. 203.
11. Ibid., p. 275.
12. Ibid., p. 292.
13. Ibid., p. 170.
14. Ibid., p. 242.
15. Kimberley A. Strassel, “Who Paid for the ‘Trump Dossier’?,” Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2017.
16. Kimberley A. Strassel, “The Fusion Collusion,” Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2017.
17. Ibid.
18. Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, Interview of Glenn Simpson, Founder Fusion GPS, August 22, 2017, pp. 160–61, available at https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf.
19. Ibid., p. 210.
20. Todd Shepherd, “
Fusion GPS Paid Journalists, Court Papers Confirm,” Washington Examiner, November 21, 2017.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, “Memorandum: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” January 18, 2018 (declassified by order of the president, February 2, 2018), available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/memo_and_white_house_letter.pdf.
24. James Rosen and Jake Gibson, “Wife of Demoted DOJ Official Worked for Firm Behind Anti-Trump Dossier,” Fox News, December 11, 2017.
25. James Rosen and Jake Gibson, “Top DOJ Official Demoted Amid Probe of Contacts with Trump Dossier Firm,” Fox News, December 7, 2017.
26. Ibid.
27. Luke Rosiak, “DOJ Official Bruce Ohr Hid Wife’s Fusion GPS Payments from Ethics Officials,” Daily Caller, February 14, 2018.
28. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1001, “Statements or Entries Generally.”
29. Rowan Scarborough, “Hillary Defends Trump Dossier, Makes Dubious Claims About Its Release,” Washington Times, November 2, 2017.
30. Ned Ryun, “There Is Nothing Normal About the Fusion GPS Dossier,” The Hill, November 5, 2017.
31. Ariella Phillips, “Former Trump Adviser Carter Page Under FISA Warrant Since 2014: Report,” Washington Examiner, August 3, 2017.
32. Rebecca Ballhaus and Byron Tau, “Former Trump Aide Carter Page Was on U.S. Counterintelligence Radar Before Russia Dossier,” Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2018.
33. Andrew C. McCarthy, “A Foreign Power’s Recruitment Effort Is Not a Basis for a FISA Court Warrant,” National Review, February 26, 2018.
34. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, “Memorandum: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” January 18, 2018 (Declassified by order of the President, February 2, 2018), available at https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/memo_and_white_house_letter.pdf.
35. Dartunorrow Clark, “Schumer, Pelosi Call for Nunes to Be Removed as House Intelligence Chair,” NBC News, February 1, 2018.
36. Ibid.
37. CBS News, “Republicans Call for Release of Memo on Alleged Surveillance Abuses,” January 19, 2018.
38. Shimon Prokupecz, Laura Jarrett, Jim Sciutto, Abby Phillip, and Kevin Liptak, “FBI Chief Has ‘Grave Concerns,’ Clashes with Trump Over GOP Memo,” CNN, February 1, 2018.
39. Nicholas Fandos, “Committee Votes to Release Democratic Rebuttal to G.O.P. Russia Memo,” New York Times, February 5, 2018.
40. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Minority, “Memo: Correcting the Record—The Russia Investigations,” Unclassified, p. 1, January 29, 2018 (released to the public February 24, 2018).
41. Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Schiff Memo Harms Democrats More Than It Helps Them,” National Review, February 25, 2018; United States Code, 50 U.S.C. 1804, “Applications for Court Orders.”
42. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Minority, “Memo: Correcting the Record—The Russia Investigations,” Unclassified, p. 5, January 29, 2018 (released to the public February 24, 2018).
43. Ibid., p. 4.
44. Spencer Ackerman, “Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is 100% Wrong About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier,” The Daily Beast, February 2, 2018; Diana Stancy Correll, “Doubt Cast Upon Nunes Memo’s Bombshell Claim About Andrew McCabe’s Testimony on Trump Dossier,” Washington Examiner, February 2, 2018.
45. Fred Fleitz, “Democrats’ New Russia Memo Is an Anti-Trump Political Attack,” Fox News, February 25, 2018.
46. James B. Comey, “Statement for the Record,” Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, June 8, 2017, available at https://www.scribd.com/document/350651927/James-Comey-s-Opening-Statement?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=58287X1517246Xecc7 c2adb69f57650dc89af0db896eb0&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate# from_embed.
47. James Rosen and Jake Gibson, “McCabe Draws Blank on Democrats’ Funding of Trump Dossier, New Subpoenas Planned,” Fox News, December 20, 2017; Rowan Scarborough, “Embattled FBI Admits It Can’t Verify Dossier Claims of Russia, Trump Campaign Collusion,” Washington Times, December 25, 2017.
48. Letter and Memorandum from Senator Charles E. Grassley and Senator Lindsey O. Graham, “Referral of Christopher Steel for Potential Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001,” January 4, 2018 (made public February 10, 2018), available at https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-06%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf.
49. Ibid., p. 3.
50. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Minority, “Memo: Correcting the Record—The Russia Investigations,” Unclassified, p. 5, January 29, 2018 (released to the public February 24, 2018).
51. Larry Abramson, “FISA Court: We Approve 99% of Wiretap Applications,” National Public Radio, October 15, 2013.
52. Ibid., p. 4.
53. Ibid., pp. 3 and 4.
54. Letter and Memorandum from Senator Charles E. Grassley, Senator Lindsey O. Graham, Senator John Cornyn, and Senator Thom Tillis, “Referral of Christopher Steele for Potential Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001,” March 15, 2018.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. In the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division, Gubarev v. Orbis, “Defendants’ Response to Claimants’ Request for Further Information Pursuant to CPR Part 18,” p. 7, available at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3892131/Trump-Dossier-Suit.pdf.
58. Ibid., p. 7.
59. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1001, “Statements or Entries Generally.”
60. Letter and Memorandum from Senator Charles E. Grassley and Senator Lindsey O. Graham, “Referral of Christopher Steel for Potential Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001,” January 4, 2018 (made public February 10, 2018), p. 7, available at https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-06%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf.
61. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C. Chapter 36, section 1801 et seq.
62. James Rosen and Jake Gibson, “McCabe Draws Blank on Democrats’ Funding of Trump Dossier, New Subpoenas Planned,” Fox News, December 20, 2017; Rowan Scarborough, “Embattled FBI Admits It Can’t Verify Dossier Claims of Russia, Trump Campaign Collusion,” Washington Times, December 25, 2017.
63. Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914); Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961); Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, 251 U.S. 385 (1920).
64. Nardone v. United States, 308 U.S. 338 (1939).
65. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 242, “Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.”
66. United States Department of Justice, “Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, available at https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1621, “Perjury Generally”; United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1623, “False Declarations Before Grand Jury or Court.”
70. Ibid.
71. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1001, “Statements or Entries Generally.”
72. Ibid.
73. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1503, “Influencing or Injuring Officer or Juror Generally.”
74. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1515(b), “Definitions for Certain Provisions; General Provision.”
75. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1031, “Major Fraud Against the United States.”
76. Ibid.
77. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 371, “Conspiracy to Commit Offense or To Defraud United States.”
78. Ibid.
79. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 1001, “Statements or Entries Generally.”
80. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 951, “Agents of Foreign Governments”; United States Code, 22 U.S.C. 611 et seq., “Foreign Relations and Intercourse.”
81. Letter from Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chai
rman, Committee on the Judiciary Committee, to Dana Boente, acting deputy attorney general, March 31, 2017.
82. United States Code, 52 U.S.C. 30121, “Contributions and Donations by Foreign Nationals.”
83. United States Code, 52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq., “Voting and Elections.”
84. Complaint Filed Before The Federal Election Commission, October 25, 2017 (filed by Campaign Legal Center); http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/document/fec-complaint-hillary-america-dnc-failure-disclose.
85. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, “The Justice Department Is Now on the Campaign Beat,” Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, October 12, 2015; Crag Donsanto and Nancy Simmons, “Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses” (Seventh Edition), Department of Justice, May 2007, available at https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal/legacy/2013/09/30/electbook-rvs0807.pdf.
Chapter 8: Meeting with Russians Is Not a Crime
1. Joe Becker, Matt Apuzzo, and Adam Goldman, “Trump Team Met with Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign,” New York Times, July 8, 2017.
2. Tom Porter, “Donald Trump Jr. ‘Treason’ Emails Prove Russian Collusion: Tim Kaine,” Newsweek, July 11, 2017.
3. Rachel Stockman, “ ‘This Is Treason’: Some Legal Experts Say Trump Jr.’s Clinton Dirt/Russia Meeting Was Illegal,” LawNewz.com, July 9, 2017.
4. Ibid.
5. Constitution of the United States of America, Article III, Section 3; United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 2381, “Treason.”
6. Gabriel Schoenfield, “Donald Trump Jr. and the Whiff of Treason: Morally, He’s in Deep,” USA Today, July 19, 2017.
7. Carlton F. W. Larson, “Five Myths About Treason,” Washington Post, February 17, 2017.
8. Ibid.
9. United States Code, 18 U.S.C. 371, “Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud United States.”
10. Hass v. Henkel, 216 U.S. 462 (1910); Hammerschmidt v. United States, 265 U.S. 182. See “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States,” U.S. Department of Justice, Offices of the United States Attorneys, available at https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us.
11. Hammerschmidt, p. 188.
12. Jo Becker, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo, “Russian Dirt on Clinton? ‘I Love It,’ Donald Trump Jr. Said,” New York Times, July 11, 2017.
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