Do John Brennan and Rodney Joffe Know Each Other?
In revisiting the Eric Lichtblau article in the New York Times from October 31, 2016 on the Alfa allegations, I came across something quite interesting.
That says that intelligence officials were briefing Congress during August and September on Alfa Bank allegations. This was during the same period that John Brennan was briefing the Gang of 8 and it’s not immediately clear if this passage refers to the same briefings although I would lean towards a yes.
The problem is, Michael Sussmann didn’t take the white papers to the FBI until September 19, 2016.
Either the New York Times is egregiously wrong in this October 2016 article, or, there is another chapter to this story.
I have previously offered speculation about ties to the CIA and NSA for Rodney Joffe and our other cyber researchers. Privately, sleuths have discussed Brennan’s “Fusion group” as a possible avenue for this relationship.
If this reporting is accurate, then Rodney Joffe had to have sent these allegations to CIA or NSA officials weeks in advance of sending them to the FBI.
There is no other explanation that makes sense.
We do know that Steele provided a narrative to Bruce Ohr about Alfa Bank allegations perhaps as early as July 30th, with some additional meetings over the following weeks. However, the article is quite specific to what “cyber experts” allege and without taking any investigative steps that we are aware of until after the meeting with Sussmann in September, it doesn’t make sense that this would account for what was briefed to members of Congress in August and September.
1+1 is not adding up to 2.
I’ll try to expand on this after collecting my thoughts as I get into part two of my Russiagate theory.
You’re a dog. Russiagate is a bone. Keep tracking and I’ll keep sending kibble.
Looks like an interesting fresh angle. God bless.
Devil's advocate: Suppose there was a series of briefings across August and September, and the phony Alfa Bank stuff doesn't get briefed to congress until a meeting on, say, September 21, a couple days after Joffe - er, I mean Sussmann - presented the info to the FBI.
Maybe the anti-Trump conspirators knew there would be something along these lines forthcoming, but in early meetings, the briefings to Congress only allude to it and they say they are looking into it. Then in September, they have their phony ducks in a row and present the Alfa gobbledygook to the FBI and the FBI runs and briefs it to Congress.
Wouldn't that technically fall under the description in the article? That is, they started briefing generally on possible financial ties in August and that set the table for presenting the Alfa crap in September?