The Right Opinion: The Michael Flynn Saga Part 1 - a podcast by Wayne Noon

Origins of the Russia investigation
5/10/16 - Downer meets with Papadopoulos 
5/11/16 - Downer called the State Department; McCabe calls the State Department and Strzok/Page are super excited about it.
Bongino clip on the absurdity of the FBI’s official story 
 
Part 1 - The Witch Hunt
 
7/18/16 - Flynn is interviewed by Michael Isikoff and asked about his speaking engagement at the Russian TV anniversary dinner.
7/18-19/16 - Just as Flynn is speaking in Russia, Lisa Page and Peter Strozk are texting like wildfire and many of those texts are still heavily redacted.
Mid-to-Late July: The FBI receives the Steele Dossier.  
7/31/16 - FBI opens Crossfire Hurricane
8/10/16 - FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into Manafort, Page and Papa-D
8/10/16 - Steele Memo with this date conspicuously falls into FBI hands with the dirt they were looking for on Flynn
8/11/16 - Stefan Halper (a spy) shows up asset. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
8/15/16 - “insurance policy” text from Strozk to Page
8/16/16 - FBI opens the case on Flynn. But why?
@JohnWHuber tweet about the predication of the investigation. 
10/17/16 - The Trump Team (Trump, Flynn, Christie and others) were given an intelligence briefing, from which Trump and Flynn said they could tell that the intelligence community was not happy with Barack Obama.
What Really Happened at Donald Trump's Intelligence Briefing (NBC News)
10/21/16 - The FISA warrant is approved on Carter Page 
10/31/16 - Brad Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers write the following article in the New York Times: Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia
11/17/16 - Pres.-Elect Trump offers Flynn the job of National Security Advisor
Donald Trump offers retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn job as national security adviser
11/18/16 - Strozk/Page/McCabe are texting each other about Brennan having dinner with Clapper that night….”Just FYSA” (for your situational awareness). 
12/29/16 -The completely legal call in question occurs between Flynn/Kislyak
Flynn’s Name Never ‘Masked’ in Call Transcripts Briefed to Obama, Records Indicate (The Epoch Times)
Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation for US election hacking (The Guardian)
1/4/17 - FBI drafts a letter that says they couldn’t find and derogatory info on Flynn; they were going to end the investigation.    
Records Show Strzok Intervened when FBI Moved to Close Flynn Investigation Due to Lack of ‘Derogatory Information’ (National Review)
1/4/17 - Strozk asks the Flynn case agent to keep the case open for now.
@Techno_Fog tweet regarding the FBI closing the Flynn case. 
1/5/17 - The big meeting - Obama, Biden, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Yates and Rice
Obama knew details of wiretapped Flynn phone calls, surprising top DOJ official in meeting with Biden, declassified docs show (Fox News)
-OBAMA KNEW.  
1/5/17 - Steele deletes his emails regarding primary source of dossier material. How do we know?
EXCLUSIVE: Dossier Author Testified His Emails Were ‘Wiped,’ He No Longer Has Documents Related To Primary Source (The Daily Caller)
1/6/17 - Comey meets with Trump at Trump Tower to discuss allegations in the Dossier. (Brennan, Clapper and Rogers are there too.)
1/11/17 - BuzzFeed publishes the Steele Dossier
1/12/17 - David Ignatius writes this article in the Washington Post, which outs Michael Flynn’s conversation with the Russian Ambassador: Why did Obama dawdle on Russia's hacking? - The Washington Post 
1/12/17 - Pentagon Insider Adam Lovinger blows the whistle on the fact that the Office of Net Assessments (within the Pentagon) is paying Stepan Halper.
1/20/17 - Trump takes office, and Susan Rice sends a weird email to herself.
Susan Rice Sent ‘Unusual Email’ To Herself Moments Before Trump’s Inauguration (The Daily Caller) 
1/23/17 - Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller put out this article in the Washington Post: FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit (Washington Post)
1/24/17 - Strzok/Pientka interview Fly

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