Sara Carter:
If what you already know about the FBI’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia has you wondering what can come next, “make sure you are sitting down because it’s about to get worse,” said Patrick Byrne, the philanthropist and CEO of the mega online retail chain Overstock.com.
Byrne revealed never published details about his intimate relationship with the Russian gun right’s activist and libertarian, Maria Butina, who is now serving out her sentence after pleading guilty in 2018 to working as a foreign agent in the U.S. without registering.
In an interview several weeks ago, Byrne recounted first meeting Butina at Freedom Fest 2015. He described the relationship that developed between the two and revealed that he had initiated contact in July, 2015 with the FBI after his first meeting with Butina. He also disclosed that he met twice with Justice Department attorneys in April, 2019 giving a total of seven hours of interviews on the separate occasions. A source directly familiar with the interviews, confirmed those meetings took place.
Butina’s lawyer, Robert Driscoll, also confirmed the relationship between Byrne and Butina. Driscoll stated that he also had relayed the information to the FBI and prosecutors earlier during his trial, and asked repeatedly about any Brady material -exculpatory information – that the bureau may have collected from Byrne on Butina, to no avail. The bureau denied it had any information regarding Byrne and Butina’s relationship, said Driscoll.
On Thursday, Driscoll sent a letter to United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the FBI’s handling of the Russia investigation; Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who is conducting an investigation into the bureau’s origins of the Trump probe and Corey Amundson, with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
The FBI is a hot mess!!!
Dang. Too bad about that Brady material. Gotta have that.
The FBI is treasonous.
They knew dam well Obungo’s B.C. & selective
service registration were cheap fakes.Wrap
your head around that…
That’s quite a story. Thanks MJA.
Honeypot my ass! I’m married to a Russian woman. I’ve been to Moscow and spent time there with my wife visiting with many of my her friends. We spent a lot of time seeing Moscow. I can tell you that Miss Butina is below average in the looks department as far as Russian women go. I had never seen so many beautiful women concentrated in one place.
Wow, this has been an EPIC Friday!! And the end of an epic week!
Anyone tired of winning yet? 🙂
I was mad 18 years ago when Bush mad either an agent or a tool of the KGB head of the FBI. The Russian agent’s name is Herr Bob.If you think I am over having a Red head the FBI read 15 of my comments her the last 5 years.
IMHO Communists should not be in my government; having a Commie head any agency to me is VERY BAD!
Are they really as incompetent as they appear to be, or just feigning senility like mueller?
Sounds like the CEO was “probing” the Russian!