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Ex-FBI Intel Chief Who 'Investigated' Trump-Russia Collusion Gets 4 Years In Prison For Colluding With Russia

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Friday, December 15, 2023 3:11 PM

SIGNYM

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A former top FBI official who led the agency's New York counterintelligence division, and played a key role in the Trump-Russia collusion probe, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for colluding with Russia - and he may face an even longer sentence under a second indictment for hiding $225,000 in payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer.

Charles McGonigal, 55, was arrested in January and slapped with two separate indictments - one in New York and one in Washington, with the New York case related to taking nearly $200,000 in bribes from Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska to investigate a rival oligarch, and the Washington case concerning the Albanian money.

Mr. McGonigal made at least $25,000 as an investigator for the law firm before directly working for Mr. Deripaska. He received an initial payment of $51,000 and then payments of $41,790 each month for three months from August 2021 to November 2021, the indictment said.

Prosecutors said Mr. McGonigal concealed his ties to the Russian oligarch by telling friends he was working for a “rich Russian guy” and stressed that his work was legal. In conversations about Mr. Deripaska, he would try to keep his employer’s identity a secret by referring to him as “the big guy” and “you know whom.” -Washington Times


McGonigal pleaded guilty in August after being hit with four initial corruption charges - including conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions, money laundering, conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to violate federal law against doing business with sanctioned individuals. Each count carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.


. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-fbi-intel-chief-who-investigate
d-trump-russia-collusion-gets-4-years-prison-colluding

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Friday, December 15, 2023 6:25 PM

THG


Yep, I was right again. Trumps been colluding with Russia since 2016.

T


A Binder on Highly Classified Russian Intel Went Missing Under Trump

A 10-inch-thick binder of highly classified raw data regarding Russian election interference went missing in the final days of the Trump administration, a new report reveals.

The loss of the massive binder, which has yet to be found two years after it was first reported missing, included details on Russian agents that informed the government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election, according to a sprawling CNN investigation.

The information inside was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides looking to review the materials had to do so under top secret security clearances and only inside a locked safe at CIA headquarters.

The binder included a GOP report on Russian intelligence, foreign intelligence surveillance warrants on a Trump campaign adviser from 2017, interview notes with Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele, internal FBI and DOJ communications, and FBI reports from a confidential source related to FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, among other documents, according to the outlet.

It was last seen at the White House.

In the waning hours of the administration, Trump ordered a host of documents, including the binder, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for mass declassification in a scheme to prove that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation into his 2016 campaign ties was a hoax.

Republican aides spent days scrubbing the binder, redacting the most sensitive details so that an abridged version could be released to the public, even against the behest of other top Trump administration officials who repeatedly attempted to block the former president from releasing its contents, according to the outlet.

A day before his term was set to end, Trump issued an order to preemptively declassify most of the binder’s contents well before it was ready and regardless of some of the redactions. Multiple copies of the redacted version had been created inside the White House, with plans to hand them off to Republicans and right-wing journalists. But that’s not what happened. Instead, White House lawyers scrambled, forcing an immediate retrieval of some documents that had already been sent off, and demanding that the documents be stripped down more.

“The Crossfire Hurricane binders are a complete disaster. They’re still full of classified information,” White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled a White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, telling her. “Those binders need to come back to the White House. Like, now.”

With minutes to spare before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hand-delivered a redacted copy of the binder to the Justice Department for a final review.

“I personally went through every page, to make sure that the President’s declassification would not inadvertently disclose sources and methods,” he wrote in his book detailing his time as Trump’s chief.

Meanwhile, the original, unredacted version had gone missing.

But Hutchinson believed she had a clue as to its location. In a closed-door testimony before the January 6 committee, Hutchinson pointed a finger directly at her old boss in relation to the possible whereabouts of the original binder.

“I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson said, according to transcripts.

Meadows’s legal team has vehemently denied that he mishandled any classified or sensitive documents.

Apart from Meadows, there seem to be no obvious leads for the location of the binder, which could expose some of America’s most closely guarded national security secrets. Somehow, it was not one of the 11,000 documents discovered at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.

https://news.yahoo.com/binder-highly-classified-russian-intel-16012145
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Friday, December 15, 2023 6:31 PM

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I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?

Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!

And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?

I doubt such a binder even exists.

Seriously, doofus, you're recycling debunked shit from back then. It stinks even worse now.

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Friday, December 15, 2023 8:17 PM

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Saturday, December 16, 2023 11:08 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?

Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!

And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?

I doubt such a binder even exists.

Seriously, doofus, you're recycling debunked shit from back then. It stinks even worse now.

Signym, you failed to read to the end: "no obvious leads for the location of the binder, which could expose some of America’s most closely guarded national security secrets." Somebody who should NOT have top secrets has top secrets they can sell. That's the problem, Signym.

Charles McGonigal would be the kind of person who can sell top secrets. He retired from the FBI in 2018. Since he was born June 23, 1968, 50 years old is considered "early retirement". (Special agents with 20 years of federal law enforcement service are eligible to retire at age 50. Agents with 25 or more years of service are eligible for retirement, regardless of age.) https://work.chron.com/fbi-agent-salary-upon-retirement-26660.html

Nobody knows how many binders Charles McGonigal took home, waiting for the opportunity to sell them but he did need additional income because of personal matters (including adultery ):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McGonigal#Personal_life

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, December 16, 2023 11:16 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


There was a binder.

We can't prove there was a binder because it was top secret.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023 1:23 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?

Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!

And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?

I doubt such a binder even exists.

Seriously, doofus, you're recycling debunked shit from back then. It stinks even worse now.

SECOND: Signym, you failed to read to the end: "no obvious leads for the location of the binder, which could expose some of America’s most closely guarded national security secrets." Somebody who should NOT have top secrets has top secrets they can sell. That's the problem, Signym.

Charles McGonigal would be the kind of person who can sell top secrets. He retired from the FBI in 2018. Since he was born June 23, 1968, 50 years old is considered "early retirement". (Special agents with 20 years of federal law enforcement service are eligible to retire at age 50. Agents with 25 or more years of service are eligible for retirement, regardless of age.) https://work.chron.com/fbi-agent-salary-upon-retirement-26660.html

Nobody knows how many binders Charles McGonigal took home, waiting for the opportunity to sell them but he did need additional income because of personal matters (including adultery ):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McGonigal#Personal_life


I wasn't being clear, so you missed my point:



If such a binder went missing ... why the hell would they tell us?? What are we, the hoi poloi, supposed to do with that info?
BOLO for a top secret binder in our trash bins or something?

You would think that its absence should remain a deep dark secret.

There's only one reason to float that story, and that's to pin the blame on someone. Trump, specifically, is where they're aiming.
And in that case, given the improbability that "they" would voluntarily reveal a major fuckup in their security, and considering the number of LIES they made up whole cloth about Trump and Russia, this is probably just another lie.

And if not ... well, their history of extensive lying has caught up with them, as it should.


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Saturday, December 16, 2023 1:31 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I wasn't being clear, so you missed my point:



If such a binder went missing ... why the hell would they tell us?? What are we, the hoi poloi, supposed to do with that info?
BOLO for a top secret binder in our trash bins or something?

You would think that its absence should remain a deep dark secret.

There's only one reason to float that story, and that's to pin the blame on someone. Trump, specifically, is where they're aiming.
And in that case, given the improbability that "they" would voluntarily reveal a major fuckup in their security, and considering the number of LIES they made up whole cloth about Trump and Russia, this is probably just another lie.

And if not ... well, their history of extensive lying has caught up with them, as it should.

How do we know Charles McGonigal exists? Have you known him in real life? Signym, you have a habit of declaring everything a lie when it works out to be convenient for you. Also, you have powerful attachments to conspiracy theories. Again, the particular conspiracies you believe just so happen to work out to be convenient for you.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, December 16, 2023 2:14 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I wasn't being clear, so you missed my point:



If such a binder went missing ... why the hell would they tell us?? What are we, the hoi poloi, supposed to do with that info?
BOLO for a top secret binder in our trash bins or something?

You would think that its absence should remain a deep dark secret.

There's only one reason to float that story, and that's to pin the blame on someone. Trump, specifically, is where they're aiming.
And in that case, given the improbability that "they" would voluntarily reveal a major fuckup in their security, and considering the number of LIES they made up whole cloth about Trump and Russia, this is probably just another lie.

And if not ... well, their history of extensive lying has caught up with them, as it should.

How do we know Charles McGonigal exists? Have you known him in real life? Signym, you have a habit of declaring everything a lie when it works out to be convenient for you. Also, you have powerful attachments to conspiracy theories. Again, the particular conspiracies you believe just so happen to work out to be convenient for you.



How do you know there was a Confederacy? Were you there during the Civil War?

How do you know the climate is changing? Do you have direct, worldwide, centuries-long experience of how the climate was "then" and how it is now?

How do you know what "Trumptards" think? Have you met every single one? In fact, how do you know that anything about me that you CLAIM to know? Have you met me?

Virtually everything you know, you know very, very indirectly. Should you trash everything you know bc you don't have direct experience with it?

I tend to trash what individuals or organizations say when they

have an interest in lying,
a strong history of lying,
when it doesn't make sense, or
when there is no strong corroborating evidence.

In this case, the establishment has no interest in making up some guy - one of "theirs" - who confessed to selling secrets.

But they have a strong proven hx of lying about Trump and trying to smear him as a Russian collaborator.


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Saturday, December 16, 2023 4:57 PM

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I don't think there's any such thing as a "convenient" conspiracy theory.

They usually tend to be pretty dark, and if they are real it usually ends up pretty inconvenient. It's just too bad that given enough time so many of the appear to be true.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023 5:47 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I wasn't being clear, so you missed my point:

If such a binder went missing ... why the hell would they tell us?? What are we, the hoi poloi, supposed to do with that info?
BOLO for a top secret binder in our trash bins or something?

You would think that its absence should remain a deep dark secret.

There's only one reason to float that story, and that's to pin the blame on someone. Trump, specifically, is where they're aiming.
And in that case, given the improbability that "they" would voluntarily reveal a major fuckup in their security, and considering the number of LIES they made up whole cloth about Trump and Russia, this is probably just another lie.

And if not ... well, their history of extensive lying has caught up with them, as it should.

How do we know Charles McGonigal exists? Have you known him in real life? Signym, you have a habit of declaring everything a lie when it works out to be convenient for you. Also, you have powerful attachments to conspiracy theories. Again, the particular conspiracies you believe just so happen to work out to be convenient for you.



How do you know there was a Confederacy? Were you there during the Civil War?

How do you know the climate is changing? Do you have direct, worldwide, centuries-long experience of how the climate was "then" and how it is now?

How do you know what "Trumptards" think? Have you met every single one? In fact, how do you know that anything about me that you CLAIM to know? Have you met me?

Virtually everything you know, you know very, very indirectly. Should you trash everything you know bc you don't have direct experience with it?

I tend to trash what individuals or organizations say when they

have an interest in lying,
a strong history of lying,
when it doesn't make sense, or
when there is no strong corroborating evidence.

In this case, the establishment has no interest in making up some guy - one of "theirs" - who confessed to selling secrets.

But they have a strong proven hx of lying about Trump and trying to smear him as a Russian collaborator.

SIGNYM





How do we know comrade signym doesn't have a brain? Because of posts like this.

T


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Saturday, December 16, 2023 5:56 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?

Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!

And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?

I doubt such a binder even exists.

- SIGNYM




Trump is still being charged and this will continue for a while more.

T


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Saturday, December 16, 2023 6:32 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?
Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!
And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?
I doubt such a binder even exists.

- SIGNYM

THUGR: Trump is still being charged and this will continue for a while more.



Trump is being charged but NOT FOR THIS. THIS is just another piece of crap thrown against the media wall to see if it can be made to stick, and just as bogus the Trump!Russia!Collusion! lie that was perpetrated against Trump and the American people.

BTW, I think you're bogus, too.




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Saturday, December 16, 2023 9:15 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm sorry but... was this the only copy?
Bc if was all that important, I'm sure that at least ONE other person had a copy!
And if it was as all that important evidence for the "Russia interfered with our elections" case, don't you think it would have surfaced during criminal charges?
I doubt such a binder even exists.

- SIGNYM

THUGR: Trump is still being charged and this will continue for a while more.



Trump is being charged but NOT FOR THIS. THIS is just another piece of crap thrown against the media wall to see if it can be made to stick, and just as bogus the Trump!Russia!Collusion! lie that was perpetrated against Trump and the American people.

BTW, I think you're bogus, too.




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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM






LOL...

Don't tell me that you actually think Ted has the mental capacity to differentiate between the two.



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