s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 1 转自《华盛顿邮报》原文
A complete timeline of the events behind the memo that threatens to rip D.C.
in two
Before the election
Sep. 11-12, 2012. Terrorists attack two American facilities in Benghazi,
Libya, killing four people including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Feb. 1, 2013. Hillary Clinton steps down as secretary of state. During her
tenure, she used a private email address for department business, hosted on
a server located at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
June. Carter Page, an energy industry consultant, is interviewed by the FBI
after it records a Russian agent, Victor Podobnyy, discussing a plan to
apparently leverage a relationship with Page to get information. “It’s
obvious that he wants to earn lots of money,” Podobnyy allegedly said of
Page.
July 29. James B. Comey becomes director of the FBI, replacing Robert S.
Mueller III.
May 8, 2014. The House votes to establish a select committee to investigate
the attacks at Benghazi and any failures of Clinton‘s State Department to
prevent them.
2015
March 2. The New York Times reports that Clinton used a private email
account during her time as secretary of state. The revelation came after the
Benghazi committee requested records of communications between Clinton and
her staff.
March 11. Jill McCabe, wife of FBI then-associate deputy director Andrew
McCabe, announces her candidacy for the Virginia state Senate. McCabe begins
the process of resolving any conflicts within the FBI that day.
April 12. Clinton announces her candidacy for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
June 16. Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination.
Summer. Hackers believed to be linked to the Russian Federal Security
Service access the servers of the Democratic National Committee. This is one
of the first overt acts the Russians take as part of what American
intelligence officials come to believe is an attempt to influence the
results of the 2016 election.
July. The State Department inspector general alerts the FBI’s
counterintelligence office that classified information was being stored on
Clinton‘s private server. The FBI initiates an investigation. Among those
involved in the investigation is an agent named Peter Strzok.
Autumn. The conservative website Free Beacon hires a firm called Fusion GPS
to investigate Republican candidates for the presidency, including Trump.
October. A PAC called Common Good VA, tied to Terry McAuliffe, then Virginia
’s governor, makes several large donations to Jill McCabe’s campaign, as
it does to other Democrats seeking office.
Nov. 3. McCabe loses her bid for the state Senate.
2016
Feb. 1. Andrew McCabe is promoted to the position of deputy director. In
that role, he assumes responsibility for the Clinton email server
investigation.
March 4. FBI agent Strzok texts with an FBI attorney named Lisa Page (not
related to Carter), with whom he’s involved in an extramarital affair.
Among the texts are a series, following a Republican primary debate, in
which Strzok calls Trump “an idiot” and says that Clinton should win “100
,000,000-0.” (He later jokes that he may vote for Trump because “he was
pretty much calling for death for Snowden.” He adds: “I’m a single-issue
voter…. Espionage Machine Party.”)
The texts continue for the duration of the campaign and include
disparagement of Trump by Strzok as a “f—ing idiot.”
March 21. During a conversation with The Post, Trump announces his foreign-
policy team, including Page and an energy consultant named George
Papadopoulos.
April. With Trump‘s nomination all but inevitable, Fusion GPS approaches
the Clinton campaign and the DNC about continuing its research into Trump.
Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the two organizations, hires the firm.
April 26. Papadopoulos is told by a contact with connections to the Russian
government that it has “dirt” on Clinton in the form of emails. The next
month, Papadopoulos mentions this during a conversation with an Australian
diplomat.
May 26. Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
June 6. Clinton secures the Democratic nomination.
June 15. The first documents stolen from the DNC are released, including a
party opposition research file on Trump.
June 20. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer hired by
Fusion GPS, files the first of 17 reports that, together, will come to be
known as the “dossier.” The first report focuses on what Steele describes
as Russian efforts to “cultivate” Trump and suggests that the Russians
have dirt on both presidential candidates.
Early July. Steele, after consulting with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson,
reaches out to the FBI about what he has heard.
July 2. Clinton is interviewed by the FBI.
July 5. Comey announces that the FBI has completed its investigation and
that he would not recommend charges against Clinton, despite “evidence of
potential violations.”
July 7. Page travels to Moscow with the campaign’s approval to give a
speech.
July 19. Steele writes a report alleging that Page met with high-ranking
Russians during his trip to Moscow. At some point in this period, Steele
writes an undated memo outlining allegations from an “ethnic Russian close
associate” of Trump that the campaign is conspiring with Moscow.
July 22. Shortly before the Democratic convention begins, WikiLeaks starts
releasing more emails stolen from the DNC.
July. After receiving a tip from the Australian diplomat apparently spurred
by WikiLeaks’ release of material stolen from the DNC, the FBI begins a
counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling, including any
connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents.
Summer. At some point, the FBI obtains a warrant to surveil Page. The secret
warrant is authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillence Act, or
FISA.
Sep. 21. Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, husband of top Clinton
aide Huma Abedin, is accused of sexually explicit online interactions with a
minor.
Late September or early October. Steele again meets with an FBI contact in
Rome.
Early October. FBI agents investigating the Weiner allegations find emails
on one of Weiner’s computers that were sent using Clinton‘s private server
to and from Huma Abedin.
Oct. 7. The government issues an unusual warning about attempts by Russian
actors to influence the election.
That same day, WikiLeaks begins releasing emails stolen from the email
account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Oct. 23. Trump tweets out a Wall Street Journal article about the
contributions that McCabe‘s wife received.
McCabe becomes a fixture in Trump‘s stump speeches about the corruption of
Washington.
Oct. 28. Comey informs Congress about the discovery of the new emails and
indicates that they are being assessed to determine if they include
classified information or are otherwise pertinent to the email server
investigation.
Oct. 31. The New York Times reports that the FBI doesn’t see a clear link
to Russia. According to later testimony from Fusion GPS‘s Simpson, this
alarms Steele and prompts him to cut off contact with the Bureau. There had
reportedly been some discussion about the FBI paying Steele for his research
, which didn’t come to fruition, though the Bureau did reimburse Steele for
some of his expenses.
Nov. 6. Comey announces that the new emails don’t change the FBI’s
position on charges against Clinton.
Nov. 8. Trump wins the presidential election.
Dec. 13. Steele writes the last of the dossier’s reports, dealing with an
alleged trip to Prague by Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen to contact
Russian actors. Cohen denies that he took such a trip.
2017
Jan. 6. Comey, along with other intelligence officials, travel to Trump
Tower to brief Trump on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016
election. Comey briefs Trump on the dossier.
Jan. 20. Trump is inaugurated as president.
Jan. 24. National security adviser Michael Flynn is interviewed by the FBI
about his conversations with the Russian ambassador the previous month.
Jan. 25. The House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-
Calif.), announces its intent to investigate Russian meddling and any
connections to political campaigns.
Jan. 26. The Trump White House learns that Flynn provided information to the
FBI that conflicts with what Vice President Pence was saying publicly.
Jan. 27. Trump invites Comey to dinner at the White House. Comey later
testifies under oath that Trump asked him for his loyalty during that
meeting.
Feb. 8. Jeff Sessions is confirmed as attorney general.
Feb. 14. At another meeting in the White House, Trump indirectly asks Comey
to drop the investigation into Flynn, who had resigned the previous day.
March 2. After it is revealed that he had provided inaccurate information
about his contacts with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing,
Sessions recuses himself from anything involving the Russia investigation.
March 4. Trump, spurred by a Breitbart report, alleges on Twitter that the
administration of Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower prior to the
election.
March 20. The House Intelligence Committee holds a hearing in which it takes
testimony from Comey and the head of the National Security Agency. It is at
this hearing that Comey publicly reveals the existence of the investigation
into meddling and Trump’s campaign.
During the hearing, Comey also denies that Trump was the focus of
wiretapping.
March 21. Nunes is invited to the White House complex to view information
about surveillance of people associated with Trump‘s campaign. At least
some of the intelligence was collected by surveilling foreign agents, which
would normally mean that Americans whose communications were “incidentally
” collected — meaning they were not the targets of the surveillance —
would not be identified. (There are restrictions on surveillance of American
citizens that do not apply to foreign individuals.) Nunes is shown “
unmasked” intelligence — meaning that this anonymity has been removed.
Some of the intelligence appears to involve Flynn’s conversations with the
Russian ambassador.
Nunes‘s visit is not revealed until several days later.
March 22. Nunes holds a news conference accusing the Obama administration of
unmasking the names of Trump transition team members even though the
intelligence is not related to the Russia investigation. He does not
indicate how he learned about this unmasking — a term that becomes central
to Trump‘s defense of his tweets about having been wiretapped.
April 6. Nunes recuses himself from the Intelligence Committee’s Russia
investigation after the House Ethics Committee announces that it is
investigating whether he made an unauthorized disclosure of classified
information.
April 25. Rod J. Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for Maryland since his
appointment under George W. Bush, is confirmed as deputy attorney general
following a nomination from Trump. With Sessions’s recusal, this
effectively puts Rosenstein in charge of the FBI’s Russia investigation.
May 9. Trump fires Comey, citing as his rationale a report from Rosenstein
criticizing Comey‘s handling of the investigation into Clinton‘s email
server. (Trump later tells NBC’s Lester Holt that he was thinking about “
this Russia thing” as he contemplated axing Comey.) With Comey out, McCabe
becomes the acting director of the FBI.
May 10. Trump reportedly calls McCabe to chastise him for allowing Comey to
return to D.C. on an FBI-owned plane after being fired.
May 12. Apparently responding to a Times story detailing Trump‘s request
for loyalty from Comey, Trump tweets out a threat.
This inspires Comey to ask a friend to leak information to the Times about
Trump‘s request to let the Flynn investigation go. That story, implying an
attempt to obstruct the investigation, runs on May 16. (Trump later accuses
Comey of leaking classified information, an allegation that is not supported
by the available evidence.)
May 17. Rosenstein, as acting lead on Russia following Sessions’s recusal,
appoints Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian meddling and any
links to the Trump campaign. Strzok and Lisa Page are both included on
Mueller‘s team.
July. Mueller learns about the Strzok-Page texts. Page has already left his
team; Strzok is reassigned.
Aug. 1. Christopher A. Wray is confirmed as director of the FBI.
Aug. 22. Fusion GPS‘s Simpson testifies before the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
Sep. 1. Nunes, despite his recusal, sends a letter on behalf of the House
Intelligence Committee to Sessions claiming that the Department of Justice
has been slow to respond to subpoena requests.
Oct. 24. The Post reports that the Steele dossier was funded by the DNC and
the Clinton campaign.
Oct. 30. Mueller‘s team charges Trump‘s former campaign chairman, Paul
Manafort, with conspiracy and money laundering. The team also reveals that
Papadopoulos has admitted lying to the FBI and has apparently been
cooperating with the investigation.
Dec. 1. In documents released by Mueller‘s team, Flynn admits lying to the
FBI.
Dec. 2. The Strzok-Page texts are reported by The Post.
Dec. 7. Nunes is cleared of wrongdoing by the Ethics Committee on charges
that he revealed classified information. This was the predicate for his
recusal from the Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation.
2018
Jan. 4. In a letter to Rosenstein, Nunes suggests that his committee is
expanding its investigation to include the Department of Justice’s handling
of the Russia investigation itself.
Jan. 9. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) releases the transcript of Simpson
’s Senate testimony.
Mid-January. Staffers for Nunes compile a four-page document summarizing
classified information to argue that the FBI abused its power in its
investigation of Trump‘s campaign. While the document is not public, it
appears to argue that the FISA warrant issued for Page relied on information
compiled by Steele, implying that the warrant should not have been issued
and, apparently, that the process for requesting it was tainted by politics.
Democrats who have seen the memo argue that the information is cherry-picked
and reliant on classified information to which people would not be privy
even if the memo itself were declassified. The central argument also ignores
the other layers of oversight that apply to FISA warrants, including the
need for approval by a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Jan. 18. Republicans and their allies — particularly in the media — rally
around the memo, arguing that it should be released to the public. In a
broadcast on the evening of Jan. 18, Fox News’s Sean Hannity tells Mueller
that his “witch hunt is now over,” apparently because of the memo, which
is still classified and which Hannity should therefore not have seen.
Among those interested in releasing the memo is Trump.
Jan. 23. Axios reports that Sessions, at Trump‘s behest, had been
pressuring FBI Director Wray to fire McCabe. In response, Wray reportedly
threatened to quit.
Jan. 24. The Justice Department, which was not allowed to view the memo,
warns the House Intelligence Committee that releasing it without allowing
the FBI and Justice to review its contents would be “extraordinarily
reckless,” risking the sources and methods used to collect the information
underlying the information it contains.
Jan. 28. Wray is allowed to review the memo. Politico reports that Wray was
told he could flag any concerns. Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam
B. Schiff (D-Calif.) tells the outlet that Wray informed him that his
concerns about the release of the memo were not entirely addressed.
Jan. 29. McCabe leaves his position as deputy director of the FBI effective
immediately. Wray suggests that McCabe‘s early departure (he was scheduled
to retire later this year) was in part a function of an upcoming inspector
general’s report about the Clinton email investigation.
The Times reports that Trump’s interest in the memo may stem in part from
his belief that it casts Rosenstein in a negative light, since Rosenstein
approved a request to renew the Page warrant after taking office last year.
Rosenstein, as lead on the Russia investigation, is the only person directly
authorized to fire Mueller.
Jan. 29, evening. The House Intelligence Committee votes along party lines
to release the memo. | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 2 疮破今天在回答是否会借口备忘录开除司法部副部长罗森斯坦时用了耐人寻味的”你自
己去琢磨“这样的话。
如果疮破开除罗森斯坦用走狗替换，进而开除特别检察官，美国的宪法危机正式开始，
而且不会像尼克松被弹劾辞职这么简单结束。 | h*******n
发帖数: 8906 | 3 华邮还有脸写memo的东西？它自家是不是dossier造假的六家媒体之一？ | t********1
发帖数: 3150 | 4 真的，比男克在白宫里啪啪啪实习生还严重？
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 疮破今天在回答是否会借口备忘录开除司法部副部长罗森斯坦时用了耐人寻味的”你自
: 己去琢磨“这样的话。
: 如果疮破开除罗森斯坦用走狗替换，进而开除特别检察官，美国的宪法危机正式开始，
: 而且不会像尼克松被弹劾辞职这么简单结束。
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 5 所有的人都在陷害你家疮破，疮破怎么这么招人恨啊？
【在 h*******n 的大作中提到】
: 华邮还有脸写memo的东西？它自家是不是dossier造假的六家媒体之一？
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 6 疮破招妓完了花13万封口费连个首页都上不了，克林顿搞个胖妞算个屁，共和党好意思
居然弹劾了总统，共和党不要脸的程度地球上稍有第二个。你这个傻逼这种丑事也好意
思提。
【在 t********1 的大作中提到】
: 真的，比男克在白宫里啪啪啪实习生还严重？
| m********s
发帖数: 55301 | 7 别急，FBI里面对华人政客及各个华人团体的组织者暗中调查的档案很多。
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 所有的人都在陷害你家疮破，疮破怎么这么招人恨啊？
| j*****l
发帖数: 1624 | 8 川普当然招人恨。一窝子烂人快被收拾了，不恨才有鬼了。 | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 9 FBI有很多人的档案，也包括你的。但你要想被调查至少要有一星半点价值。华人有政
客但没有大陆出身的政客。你我只配按间谍候选人处置。
【在 m********s 的大作中提到】
: 别急，FBI里面对华人政客及各个华人团体的组织者暗中调查的档案很多。
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 10 只有精神病才相信整个独立的情报，司法，警察系统会勾结一气对付一个候选人。整个
媒体，包括默多克的Foxnews，都会串通起来对付你家疮破。你家疮破成了全民公敌了
怎么还没被FBI或者CIA直接做掉，用这么费劲的方法整真是有病。
【在 j*****l 的大作中提到】
: 川普当然招人恨。一窝子烂人快被收拾了，不恨才有鬼了。
| | | h*******n
发帖数: 8906 | 11 废话 不是内定总统么 抢了人家的宝座能不招人恨 拉里呢那么好的日子居然不出来
: 所有的人都在陷害你家疮破，疮破怎么这么招人恨啊？
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 只有精神病才相信整个独立的情报，司法，警察系统会勾结一气对付一个候选人。整个
: 媒体，包括默多克的Foxnews，都会串通起来对付你家疮破。你家疮破成了全民公敌了
: 怎么还没被FBI或者CIA直接做掉，用这么费劲的方法整真是有病。
| m********s
发帖数: 55301 | 12 联邦政府的华人雇员人人都被监视，哈哈哈
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: FBI有很多人的档案，也包括你的。但你要想被调查至少要有一星半点价值。华人有政
: 客但没有大陆出身的政客。你我只配按间谍候选人处置。
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 13 如果总统可以内定，你丫疮破根本没可能走到初选就已经被做掉了。
【在 h*******n 的大作中提到】
: 废话 不是内定总统么 抢了人家的宝座能不招人恨 拉里呢那么好的日子居然不出来
:
:
: 所有的人都在陷害你家疮破，疮破怎么这么招人恨啊？
:
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 14 政府雇员都被监视，程度看你的security Clarence的级别。公司的华人工程师一样被
监视，如果你从事的技术跟军事有点瓜葛。 华人不被监视的职业无非是无关痛痒毫无
本事的小龙套。能被监视说明你身价已经到了一个级别。
【在 m********s 的大作中提到】
: 联邦政府的华人雇员人人都被监视，哈哈哈
| s***3
发帖数: 742 | 15 起草memo的烙印很快就要火了
C.
on
FBI
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 转自《华盛顿邮报》原文
: A complete timeline of the events behind the memo that threatens to rip D.C.
: in two
: Before the election
: Sep. 11-12, 2012. Terrorists attack two American facilities in Benghazi,
: Libya, killing four people including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
: Feb. 1, 2013. Hillary Clinton steps down as secretary of state. During her
: tenure, she used a private email address for department business, hosted on
: a server located at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
: June. Carter Page, an energy industry consultant, is interviewed by the FBI
| s***3
发帖数: 742 | 16 起草memo的烙印很快就要火了
C.
on
FBI
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 转自《华盛顿邮报》原文
: A complete timeline of the events behind the memo that threatens to rip D.C.
: in two
: Before the election
: Sep. 11-12, 2012. Terrorists attack two American facilities in Benghazi,
: Libya, killing four people including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
: Feb. 1, 2013. Hillary Clinton steps down as secretary of state. During her
: tenure, she used a private email address for department business, hosted on
: a server located at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
: June. Carter Page, an energy industry consultant, is interviewed by the FBI
| c*******o
发帖数: 8869 | 17 烙印就会吹，这个memo没有干货。
【在 s***3 的大作中提到】
: 起草memo的烙印很快就要火了
:
: C.
: on
: FBI
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