1) My latest @EpochTimes UK Intel Agencies Frame Spygate Involvement Ahead of Trump’s Declassification
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2) The Telegraph published two separate articles detailing their version of when the heads of UK intelligence were briefed on the contents of former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s dossier.

3) The article goes to lengths to make two separate points:

1) That UK intelligence heads were briefed on Steele’s information only after the 2016 presidential election had concluded.

2) UK Prime Minister Theresa May was never directly informed of the dossier’s existence.

4) The Telegraph also noted the involvement of Sir Charles Farr, the former chairman of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).

5) The Telegraph reported that Steele met with Farr on two separate occasions to inform him of the events and information contained within his dossier.

The first meeting was reported as being one week after the 2016 presidential election in mid-November 2016.

6) According to The Telegraph article, by the end of his first meeting with Steele, Farr had decided that the allegations within the Steele dossier “had to go up the chain of command.”

7) The article also referenced a second meeting with Farr in late November 2016, approximately ten days after the alleged date of their first meeting.

It was also around this time that the heads of MI6 and MI5 were allegedly briefed on the dossier.

8) The second meeting references two new Steele Memos - written in November.

The known Steele dossier contains 17 individual memos—including one final memo written in December 2016 for Sen. McCain.

However, no memos were written in November 2016.

9) In UK court documents, Steele himself stated that he produced no memos during November:

"None were produced in November 2016.”

10) If there are two November memos, as referenced in the Telegraph article, they were not disclosed to the UK court.

Although there were no known memos created in November, Steele did produce three separate memos in October 2016—on the 12th, 18th and 19th.

11) On Oct. 11, 2016, Steele met with Kathleen Kavalec, then-deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, just 10 days prior to the FBI obtaining a FISA warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Oct. 21, 2016.

12) Notes taken by Kalevec make several references to London and the words “Multi-lat JIC”.

JIC may be a direct reference made by Steele to the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and possibly his meeting with its chairman Sir Charles Farr.

13) If so, this timing would align with the known Steele memos and would place Steele’s meeting with Farr in October 2016 - one month before the presidential election.

14) Steele also held pre-election meetings with at least two other UK officials, specifically former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove, who is also Steele’s former boss and Sir Andrew Wood, the former British ambassador to Russia.

15) The Telegraph article portrays the involvement of senior UK intelligence officials as occurring after the 2016 presidential election.

This is an incomplete picture of actual events as UK intelligence actions appear to have begun much earlier.

16) Britain’s GCHQ was engaged in collecting information and transmitting it to the United States beginning in late 2015.

In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, then-head of Britain’s GCHQ traveled to Washington to personally meet with then-CIA Director John Brennan.

17) The meeting was especially unusual, given the fact that Hannigan’s U.S. counterpart was NSA Director Mike Rogers, not Brennan.

Hannigan would suddenly resign as head of the GCHQ on Jan. 23, 2017, just days following President Trump’s inauguration.

18) Brennan appears to have used the foreign intelligence to launch an inter-agency investigation of the Trump campaign.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper personally confirmed foreign intelligence involvement during Congressional testimony.

19) BBC reported that Brennan’s involvement went back to April 2016.

Brennan testified to Congress that any information he had regarding the Trump campaign was passed on to the FBI.

Brennan also admitted that it was his intelligence that helped establish the FBI investigation.

20) On Sept. 17, 2018, President Trump issued an order for the immediate declassification of three series of documents related to the Russia investigation and the spying on his presidential campaign.

21) On Sept. 20, 2018, President Trump hinted at the reaction from foreign allies in response to his declassification order during a live interview with Sean Hannity while at a rally in Las Vegas.

22) Trump: "We’re also dealing with foreign countries that do have a problem. I must tell you. I got called today from two very good allies saying, “please, can we talk.” So, it’s not as simple as all that. And we do have to respect their wishes. But it will all come out.”

23) These phone calls were telling, and likely came from the UK and Australia, confirming their involvement in the events leading to the establishment of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation.

24) On April 25, 2019, President Trump raised the prospect of declassification again, telling Sean Hannity in an interview:

“Yes. Everything is going to be declassified and more, much more than what you just mentioned. It will all be declassified."

25) In a May 2, 2019 interview with Catherine Herridge of Fox News, President Trump addressed the pending declassification again:

"I’m going to be allowing declassification pretty soon...I’m going to be doing it very soon, far more than you would have even thought."

26) Herridge: May, June, July?

Trump: No, soon. I mean whenever they need it. Whenever they need it I’ll be doing it. But I will declassifying it. Everything.

Note President Trump's “whenever they need it” reference…

27) The Telegraph articles appear to be an attempt on the part of UK intelligence agencies to get in front of the pending declassification of documents by President Trump.

But the story presented is an incomplete one at best.
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