Stephen McIntyre

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

Aaron Mate (May 19, 2021 https://t.co/70MZdnFtiy ) and Matt Taibbi (October 13, 2021 https://t.co/fyFVcEIc6U) both interviewed Konstantin Kilimnik, raising serious questions about claims by Mueller and SSCI that Konstantin Kilimnik, a former Manafort associate, was “Russian intelligence” or a “grave counterintelligence threat”. These articles bear re-reading.

I’ve recently been re-examining the allegations against Kilimnik from a different perspective: did the evidence provided by Mueller/Weissmann support the claim? Elementary due diligence on the footnotes.

I originally started this project to assess whether it was possible that Danchenko had contributed to the FBI's Kilimnik assessment.

In a first article https://t.co/hwalto3Yz8, I showed that the relevant Mueller footnote led to a December 2017 court filing, which turned out to be a literal dead end: it led to a document that said nothing about Kilimnik’s supposed ties to Russian intelligence.

In March 2018, Mueller made a second court filing which similarly asserted Kilimnik “ties” to “Russian intelligence”. While this second assertion attracted national attention, it similarly proved to be merely declaratory and without supporting evidence.

See Kilimnik “Ties to Russian Intelligence” - Part 2.

https://t.co/Sa6myBnuyM

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@elonmusk Corruption in Ukraine, already corrupt, increased exponentially after US took control of Ukraine government in 2014. Amidst repeated US declarations of anti-corruption programs.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

framing the issue as Russia vs US/Europe underestimates internal separatism.
If Canadian federal government ever passed language legislation similar to Ukraine post-Maidan language legislation, Quebec would have separated in a nanosecond. The initial separation referendums in Crimea and Donbas were internal dialectic. US supported such referendum in Kosovo. US officials e.g. Bessent have encouraged Alberta separatists, so there doesn't seem to be any principled basis for Ukraine to be indivisible.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

a "federal university of transportation" - seems more useful and stimulating that wasting four years of young people's lives on sociology, gender studies and oppression studies.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China funded the construction of a university for Nigeria with a grant of 18 billion Nigerian Naira ($51,776,513).

🇳🇬🤝🇨🇳

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@RetiredMod @LauraAnneErb @jaketapper a lot of the nonsense appears to me to be anti-Russian pro-Ukrainian craziness in which Trump was viewed as an obstacle, as opposed to pure TDS

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

long ago, I observed that the August 7, 2020 statement by ODNI William Evanina (one day after the August 6, 2020 briefing by Floris and Benavides) presaged the "Russian disinformation" Hunter Biden laptop story. That these accusations were used to suppress true information from Derkach and Kulyk.
https://t.co/4UI1GR7dMB

[Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese]

These are the same two FBI officials who gave Sens. Grassley & Johnson an apparently fake "defensive briefing" in August of 2020 to cast their Hunter Biden investigation as advancing Russian disinformation.

Here's the letter the senators sent Floris & Benavides, demanding answers, in 2022.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@3_Whistleblower @melisandrePro @julie_wade link?

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

Kevin Clinesmith, later convicted, was author/lead author of NSL (National Security Letter) warrants in February 2017 for various Michael Flynn communications. A summary in Flynn pleadings https://t.co/YCxJLBmBCc stated that the predication was based on "reliable lead information received during the course of the investigation. Specifically, a senior foreign policy adviser for the Donald J. Trump campaign circa May 2016, made statements indicating he is knowledgeable that the Russians made a suggestion to the "Trump team" that they could assist the Trump campaign."
Despite all the handwringing about the ultimately irrelevant Carter Page FISA, there has been more or less zero complaining about the scores of NSL, 2703(d) and other warrants based on false predicates.
The information from Erika Thompson (Australian diplomat) wasn't "reliable lead information received during the course of the investigation". It wasn't reliable - Papadopoulos denied making such a statement and Thompson/Downer ultimately appear to have withdrawn the specific claim that Papadopoulos made such a statement. By February 2017, there was plenty of exculpatory information undermining the supposed predicate.
Barnett was asked about these NSLs in his Sept 2020 interview. He had apparently asked Clinesmith whether the predicate was valid and was re-assured that it was.
Needless to say, the hapless or hopeless Durham doesn't seem to have obtained evidence from Clinesmith on this or anything else.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@davies_JAK here's the remarkable obituary of a lead tunneler - Canadian John Weir.
https://t.co/cNC7M78orZ

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@ItsYourGov Rand Paul and Grassley have released documents in which names were named and not redacted. Nearly all the names in the present release are redacted. And almost 1/3 of all pages are TOTALLY blacked out.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@MichaelRCaputo @jsolomonReports @TelizhenkoAndy

[Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright]

"We've known it must happen- but this is the first documented point-to-point track! Two tagged monarchs just crossed the Gulf of Mexico, the first trans-Gulf monarch crossings recorded by Project Monarch"

Video at: https://t.co/qSR7lryUfD

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@Heminator are American politicians aware of World War 1? wouldn't it have made more sense to negotiate self-determination of Bosnia rather than incur millions of deaths?

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@walterkirn @peterboghossian US military allowed the Baghdad Museum to be looted, while placing guards on Toyotas. It was a disgraceful performance.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@DA_Stockman

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

nope. it's thanks to Canada. The heavy oil that US imported from middle east has been replaced by Canadian heavy oil. Under multiple administrations, including Democrats, US production of light oil has increased substantially over past 20 years and this is what US is exporting.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

newly released documents show (to no one's surprise) that Saudi Arabia was the largest sponsor of Al Qaeda and the largest state sponsor of terrorism. Yet it was never named as a state sponsor of terrorism by US State Department. Why? Why have US agencies concealed the role of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oligarchies as sponsors of terrorism?

[Paul Sperry @paulsperry_]

NEW: Declassified CIA docs show the Saudi Kingdom pumped massive cash into Al-Qaeda until 2003 -- two years after 9/11 -- yet Washington kept things quiet so as not to offend the oil-rich monarchy
https://t.co/gCEViPO6oD

[Kawhi Leonard @Way2Whi]

As I Return.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

A firm created by Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini's family offered to pay @AlinaHabba $10m/yr while she was an administration advisor.

Weeks after she started at the company, Trump pardoned Herrera Velutini, who had been charged in a bribery case https://t.co/7oFyiaRCHU

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

@KelleyBVlahos @GarethPorter Joe Kent's wife was killed in Syria two weeks later. And US troops stayed in Syria.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

this is a class war, not a culture war. The "retired at 50" class are the public sector privileged, not private sector deplorable working class. Steel workers don't have this privilege. For many decades in most western democracies, the dominant political party (Democrats in US, Liberals in Canada) has represented the class interest of the public sector privileged. Such parties have achieved electoral majorities by amplifying identity politics and immigration.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The Culture War We Need: Constructive, improvement and reality-based appreciation of progress vs. self-pity and grievance, by @RichardHanania https://t.co/gore5G1Eoh