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Prologue

1. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

2. Ibid., p. 11.

3. Ibid.

4. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff

5. Ibid.

6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-testify-on-russian-interference-in-the-presidential-election/2017/03/20/cdea86ca-0ce2-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.6ee32e745868

7. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html?mtrref=t.co&_r=0

8. Ibid.

9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-once-planned-to-pay-former-british-spy-who-authored-controversial-trump-dossier/2017/02/28/896ab470-facc-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.e2fd2c5da9e5

10. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/christopher-steele-fbi-expenses/index.html

11. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele-idUSKBN14W0HN. On October 31, 2016, Mother Jones did publish an interview by David Corn with a “former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence” who claimed to have provided the FBI with reports showing “an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit” and suggesting that Trump had been compromised by the Kremlin. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump

12. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-leak-sir-andrew-wood-john-mccain-british-ambassador-spy-a7524931.html

13. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clapper-denies-trump-wiretap-claim-calling-distraction/story?id=45944926

Introduction

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/russia-hack-report.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1

2. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

3. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/05/30/clapper-we-still-have-zero-evidence-wrongdoing-on-russia-n2333267

4. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/25/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-ive-seen-no-evidence-collusion-russia/

5. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2252532-despite-allegations-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-found/

6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.7b8f875a2553

7. Ibid.

8. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/russia-trump-manafort-flynn.html?_r=0

9. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

10. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html

11. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html

12. http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312767-fbi-never-examined-hacked-dnc-servers-report

13. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/politics/russian-hackers-dnc-trump.html

14. Ibid.

15. http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-investigating-unconfirmed-claims-trump-compromised-election/story?id=44693343

16. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/ . . . /donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html

17. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/world/europe/donald-trump-finds-a-russian-policy-he-wont-defend.html

18. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/08/18/russian-cheerleader-gets-classified-briefing/?utm_term=.5e7416ae475d

19. http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-investigating-unconfirmed-claims-trump-compromised-election/story?id=44693343

20. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/us/politics/democrats-allege-dnc-hack-is-part-of-russian-effort-to-elect-donald-trump.html

21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-russia-to-meddle-in-the-us-presidential-race-with-clintons-emails/2016/07/27/a85d799e-5414-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.88410a298f85

22. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-russia-emails-20160727-snap-story.html

23. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-democratic-convention-2016-live-hillary-clinton-campaign-sounds-alarm-1469637426-htmlstory.html

24. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/trump-conference-highlights.html

25. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/robby-mook-russians-emails-trump-226084

26. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-emails.html?_r=0

27. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/us/politics/democrats-allege-dnc-hack-is-part-of-russian-effort-to-elect-donald-trump.html

28. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-dnc-leaks-obama-hints-at-possible-motive-for-russia-to-help-trump/2016/07/26/cfd33692-538a-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html?utm_term=.13873bce5397

29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/07/what-is-hillary-clinton-trying-to-say-with-this-ad-about-donald-trump-and-putin/?utm_term=.a1ff7e193ebe

30. Ibid.

31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKmtfTe2rc&list=PLXlk_TEo7Llxi5LqDR8q7DyaLt7AtQGGi

32. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?utm_term=.4765e8e5a515

33. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump

34. http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/22/heres-how-much-the-fbi-planned-to-pay-trump-dossier-author/

35. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/05/comey-pressed-for-anti-trump-dossier-in-classified-russia-report-sources-say.html

36. http://www.kgw.com/news/politics/sen-merkley-vows-to-honor-the-peaceful-transfer-of-power/387358158

One

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html; http://time.com/4682791/fbi-russia-reince-priebus-andrew-mccabe-justice-rules/

2. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/05/comey-pressed-for-anti-trump-dossier-in-classified-russia-report-sources-say.html

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-testimony-trump-senate-hearing/2017/06/07/afadf87c-4bd0-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html?utm_term=.af6ad1e76971

4. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/james-comey-testimony-donald-trump/index.html

5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-testimony-trump-senate-hearing/2017/06/07/afadf87c-4bd0-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html?utm_term=.af6ad1e76971 and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/05/30/james-comey-and-the-most-watchable-20-minutes-of-congressional-testimony-maybe-ever/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.8a49ab217823

6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/05/30/james-comey-and-the-most-watchable-20-minutes-of-congressional-testimony-maybe-ever/?utm_term=.af55b167996e

7. Ibid.

8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-tale-of-two-comeys/2017/06/12/4ffa9d8e-4fb5-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.9487b60418b1

9. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/13/comey-admitted-single-trump-leak-but-were-there-others.html

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg12DQhwTgg; https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/08/lynch_told_me_to_call_clinton_email_scandal_a_matter_and_not_an_investigation.html

14. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/337152-former-attorney-general-lynch-made-justice-department-an-arm-of

15. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/08/comey-says-lynch-tarmac-meeting-directive-to-downplay-probe-prompted-him-to-go-rogue-on-clinton-case.html

16. ibid.

17. ibid.

18. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/lessons-martha-stewart-case

19. Ibid.

20. https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/12/james-comey-long-history-questionable-obstruction-cases/

21. Ibid.

22. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-is-robert-mueller-conflicted-in-trump-probe/article/2625638. See also https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/14/mueller-should-recuse-himself-from-investigating-russia—comey-william-otis-column/102827924/

23. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/robert-mueller-donald-trump/index.html

24. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gingrich-robert-mueller-is-the-tip-of-the-deep-state-spear-trying-to-bring-down-trump/article/2626057

25. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/robert-mueller-donations-democrats-fec/index.html

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid.

28. http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/03/how-obamas-influence-could-continue-after-his-term-through-his-political-appointees/

29. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4117040/I-introduced-wife-James-Bond-Former-spy-Chris-Steele-s-friends-shadowy-007-figure-MI6-bosses-brand-idiot-appalling-lack-judgement-Trump-dirty-dossier.html

30. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm

31. https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2017/01/11/could-this-be-the-british-mi6-agent-behind-the-trump-fbi-memos/#6c210cf94393 And Steele was in contact with Alex Younger, head of MI6, who included material allegedly uncovered by Steele about Russian cyberattacks in his first pubic speech. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dossier-mi6-christopher-steele-russia-documents-alex-younger-a7528681.html

32. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/12/this-former-british-spy-was-identified-as-the-trump-dossier-source-now-he-is-in-hiding/?utm_term=.1fd87054470a

33. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786

34. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html?_r=0

35. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/

36. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/12/intelligence-sources-vouch-credibility-donald-trump-russia-dossier-author

37. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/world/europe/christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier.html

38. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-dossier-looking-increasingly-credible-2017-1

39. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-u-k-ambassador-to-russia-says-fsbs-use-of-sexual-entrapment-widespread/

40. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/01/steele-trump-report-mi6-170115081202438.html

41. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4117040/I-introduced-wife-James-Bond-Former-spy-Chris-Steele-s-friends-shadowy-007-figure-MI6-bosses-brand-idiot-appalling-lack-judgement-Trump-dirty-dossier.html

42. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33678717

43. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11381789/The-assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-20-things-about-his-death-we-have-learned-this-week.html

44. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/lurid-donald-trump-dossier-casts-shadow-mi6-christopher-steele/

45. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/01/steele-trump-report-mi6-170115081202438.html

46. Ibid.

47. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2017/01/12/christopher-steele-felt-kremlin-broke-rules-murdered-litvinenko/

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid.

50. https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/sir-andrew-wood

51. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Wood.pdf

52. http://www.businessinsider.com/sir-andrew-wood-russia-meddle-scottish-independence-referendum-2017-3

53. Ibid.

54. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/us-intelligence-evidence-trump-russia-ties-might-be-credible

55. Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, “Top Secret America,” Washington Post, July 19, 2010.

Two

1. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff

2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-christopher-steele-dossier-us-senate-intelligence-hotel-british-spy-mi6-evidence-a7608456.html

3. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786

4. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff

5. Ibid.

6. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

7. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff

8. http://halifaxtheforum.org/participants

9. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4119148/Theresa-told-dirty-dossier-Donald-Trump-MONTH-ago-Boris-Johnson-amid-fears-sex-allegations-cause-diplomatic-crisis.htm

10. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314432-trump-nato-is-obsolete

11. http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/halifax-conference-ends-on-uncertain-note-as-world-awaits-trump-white-house-1.3169186

12. http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2016/11/16/trump-top-of-mind-at-halifax-international-security-forum.html

13. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317

14. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/02/mccain200702

15. Ibid.

16. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/306901-mccain-we-will-not-waterboard

17. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-hires/313041-ukraine-hires-lobby-firm-ahead-of-trump-inauguration

18. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraines-yanukovych-missing-as-protesters-take-control-of-presidential-residence-in-kiev/2014/02/22/802f7c6c-9bd2-11e3-ad71-e03637a299c0_story.html?utm_term=.8f8215e812e9

19. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/events/2016-tbilisi-international-conference/

20. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff/

21. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin; see Scribd document appended.

22. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-report-opposition-research-john-mccain

23. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele.

24. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-leak-sir-andrew-wood-john-mccain-british-ambassador-spy-a7524931.html

25. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts

26. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/01/12/john-mccain-intrigue-grows-donald-trump-dossier-affair/96498178/

27. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/11/cnr.05.html

28. Ibid. When asked why he thought that he had been given the dossier, he replied, “I don’t know.”

29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/decision-to-brief-trump-on-allegations-brought-a-secret-and-unsubstantiated-dossier-into-the-public-domain/2017/01/11/275a3a6c-d830-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.35728a3ca5b

30. Ibid.

31. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/james-clapper-donald-trump

32. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-s-comey-told-trump-about-russia-dossier-after-intel-n706416

33. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/

Three

1. http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/24/chuck-grassley-studies-dossier-money-source/

2. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/

3. Ibid.

4. https://www.infowars.com/trump-twitter-smackdown-hillary-guilty-as-hell-phony-allegations-from-failed-spy/

5. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/its-official-the-fbi-is-investigating-trumps-links-to-russia/520134/

6. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin

7. Ibid.

8. http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-clapper-no-evidence-of-collusion-between-trump-and-russia-890509379597

9. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/10/obamas-intelligence-director-identifies-one-part-of-trump-dossier-that-is-accurate-video/

10. http://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509222337/seriously-what-a-day-7-things-that-actually-happened-on-tuesday; https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/12/buzzfeed-editor-ben-smith-defends-decision-to-publish-trump-dossier

11. http://nypost.com/2017/01/10/buzzfeeds-trump-report-takes-fake-news-to-a-new-level/

12. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinformation

13. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele

14. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin

15. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/michael-cohen-it-is-fake-news-meant-to-malign-mr-trump/512762/

19. https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/09/cnns-jake-tapper-trump-administrations-handling-flynn-was-stunning-and-petty-partisan-politics/216357

20. Interview with authors, May 7, 2017.

21. Ibid.

22. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

23. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 18

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 34

27. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. https://www.rferl.org/a/czech-intelligence-trump-lawyer-prague-meeting/28226228.html

31. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 30

32. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 34-35

33. http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/buzzfeed-sued-over-publishing-trump-dossier-sparking-apology-234638

34. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/12/buzzfeed-editor-ben-smith-defends-decision-to-publish-trump-dossier

35. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 35

36. http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/17/this-lawsuit-could-answer-lingering-questions-about-the-trump-dossier/

37. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article145755049.html

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid.

40. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

41. Ibid.

42. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-source-d-the-man-said-to-be-behind-the-trump-russia-dossiers-most-salacious-claim/2017/03/29/379846a8-0f53-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.235104f16f4b

43. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-38607833/ex-mi6-officer-trump-dossier-hard-to-believe

44. http://freebeacon.com/politics/david-brock-offers-money-new-dirt-donald-trump/

45. http://www.businessinsider.com/david-brock-trump-tapes-the-appentice-2016-10

46. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427

47. http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2015/11/how_john_le_carre_reinvented_t.html. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), it was John le Carré who coined the phrase “honeypot,” which means “using sex to gain information.”

48. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/fbi-dossier-carter-page-donald-trump-russia-investigation/

49. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784

50. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/fbi-dossier-carter-page-donald-trump-russia-investigation/

51. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?utm_term=.bfc08b4d5075

52. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 30

53. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 31

54. http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/22/trump-team-asked-carter-page-to-cease-calling-himself-a-campaign-advisor/

55. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 35

56. Ibid.

57. Ibid. at 20

58. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26304842

59. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/ukraines-fallen-leader-viktor-yanukovych-paid-bribes-of-2-billio/

60. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-yanukovych-trial-absentia-treason/28467538.html

61. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 20

62. http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-trump-russia-spy-2017-story.html

63. https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-tech-entrepreneur-denies-link-to-donald-trump-hacking-report-1487096190

64. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele

65. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-ally-says-smoke-no-fire-no-russia-trump-collusion-n734176

66. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2011951/John-Le-Carre-In-day-MI6—I-called-Circus-books—stank-wartime-nostalgia.html

67. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-ally-says-smoke-no-fire-no-russia-trump-collusion-n734176

68. Ibid.

69. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/01/hitler-diaries-mark-ii-hope-changed-mattress/

70. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-who-is-christopher-steele-man-behind-the-trump-dossier-perverted-sexual-acts-mi6-agent-a7524191.html

71. http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/16/garbage-document-woodward-says-trump-owed-apology-over-unverified-russia-dossier

72. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-38607833/ex-mi6-officer-trump-dossier-hard-to-believe

73. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786

74. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/05/obamas-intelligence-director-strongly-denies-any-secret-warrants-against-trump-or-campaign-video

75. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 1

76. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 1-2

77. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 2

78. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 32

79. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 25

80. www.newsweek.com/alfa-bank-buzzfeed-trump-dossier-616763

81. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html, dossier at 25

82. www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786

Four

1. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia?CMP=share_btn_tw

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html?_r=0

5. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314432-trump-nato-is-obsolete

6. http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35906493

7. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-latest-brexit-european-union-act-together-uk-angela-merkel-a7663641.html

8. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291818-trump-they-will-soon-be-calling-me-mr-brexit

9. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-mr-brexit.html

10. https://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2016/jun/20/remain-in-eu-say-former-uk-security-and-intelligence-chiefs

11. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2360529/mi6s-chief-warns-theresa-may-her-brexit-deal-must-not-damage-britains-intelligence-network-across-europe/

12. https://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2016/jun/20/remain-in-eu-say-former-uk-security-and-intelligence-chiefs

13. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/why-this-lifelong-patriot-is-voting-remain/

14. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/06/among-the-russians-in-london

15. http://www.cityam.com/214488/sunday-times-rich-list-2015-london-has-more-billionaires-any-city-world

16. http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/16/mariah-carey-russian-billionaire-wedding

17. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/17/russia-accused-waging-secret-war-against-britain-using-cyber/

18. Ibid.

19. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

20. Ibid.

21. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4114008/MI6-officers-never-ex-Russian-embassy-issues-dark-tweet-Christopher-Steele-scandal-claiming-British-spies-briefing-ways-against-Moscow-US.html

22. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/

23. http://ijr.com/2017/04/857604-spy-behind-trump-dossier-admits-judge-raw-unverified-intel/

24. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dossier-mi6-christopher-steele-russia-documents-alex-younger-a7528681.html

25. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/gchq-chief-robert-hannigan-quits

26. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4113576/Former-MI6-spy-hiding-Russians-Trump-dirty-dossier-1million-two-years-working-undercover-supplying-FBI-information-cracked-open-corruption-FIFA.html

27. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4111608/Will-look-cat-Ex-MI6-spy-worked-murdered-Litvinenko-flees-1-5m-home-fearing-life-leaving-pet-neighbours-outed-man-dirty-dossier-Donald-Trump.html

28. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4119148/Theresa-told-dirty-dossier-Donald-Trump-MONTH-ago-Boris-Johnson-amid-fears-sex-allegations-cause-diplomatic-crisis.html

29. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/uk-british-former-moscow-ambassador-andrew-wood-trump-dossier

30. http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505261053/13-times-russian-hacking-came-up-in-the-presidential-campaign

31. http://time.com/4528049/hillary-clinton-john-podesta-emails-hackers-russia/

32. http://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/497056227/fact-check-clinton-and-trump-debate-for-the-second-time

33. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/transcript-second-debate.html

34. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/19/se.01.html

35. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-quick-cuts/watch/clinton-putin-would-rather-have-a-puppet-as-president-789608003695

36. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech

37. http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/25/5-times-liberals-mocked-mitt-romney-for-warning-about-russia/

38. http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/30/the-cold-war-wants-its-foreign-policy-back-2012-obama-laughs-in-romneys-face-for-worrying-about-russia-video/

39. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/424840/becoming-putins-poodle-arthur-l-herman

40. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/barack-obama-russia-regional-power-ukraine-weakness

41. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCM4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

42. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-churchill-oval-office/

43. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/the-week-in-global-affairs-writing/513632

44. https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/foreign-affairs

45. Nicholas John Cull, Selling War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Five

1. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jamesresto147742.html

2. http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-contractor-is-charged-with-leaking-top-1496716102-htmlstory.html

3. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/magazine/the-cia-s-most-important-mission-itself.html?pagewanted=all.

4. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/19/us/house-panel-says-cia-lacks-expertise-to-carry-out-its-duties.html

5. http://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/15/nation/na-tenettext15

6. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/weekinreview/aging-shop-of-horrors-the-cia-limps-to-50.html

7. www.truth-out.org/article/john-yoo-architect-imperialism

8. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/books/06book.html

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Warwick Funnell, Michele Chwastiak, Accounting at War (New York: Routledge, 2015), p. 164.

15. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/weekinreview/the-nation-hide-and-seek-to-fight-in-the-shadows-get-better-eyes.html

16. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020826.html

17. www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11022104/iraq-war-neoconservatives

18. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1610392388

19. edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/07/bush.transcript/

20. http://freebeacon.com/politics/46-times-president-obama-told-americans-thats-not-who-we-are/

21. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31052241/ns/world_news-terrorism/t/cheney-gitmo-holds-worst-worst/

22. Author interview with Frank Gaffney, April 3, 2017.

23. http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/19/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-john-brennan/

24. http://freebeacon.com/politics/cia-director-once-voted-for-communist-presidential-candidate/

25. https://spectator.org/leaky-john-brennan/

26. Ibid.

27. Author interview with source, April 7, 2017.

28. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/cia-john-brennan-waterboarding-donald-trump-brookings-institution/

29. http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/17/outgoing-cia-director-known-for-wearing-rainbow-lanyard-at-office-to-show-lgbt-solidarity/

30. http://investigatingtrump.com/wsj-cia-director-calls-trumps-nazi-germany-comments-repugnant-denies-leaking-kompromat-dossier/

31. Author interview with source, April 7, 2017.

32. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/world/la-fg-iran-intel-20120224

33. https://spectator.org/donald-trump-rants-and-raves-at-the-press/

34. Ibid.

35. https://spectator.org/leaky-john-brennan/

36. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314436-trump-on-outgoing-cia-director-was-this-the-leaker-of-fake-news

37. http://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/lt-col-tony-schaffer-reveals-who-was-directly-behind-mike-flynn-phone-call-leaks/

38. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/01/22/priebus-the-former-cia-director-has-a-lot-to-answer-for-in-regard-to-the-leaked-documents/

39. https://spectator.org/confirmed-john-brennan-colluded-with-foreign-spies-to-defeat-trump/

40. John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, Obama’s Enforcer (New York: Broadside Books, 2014). Kindle edition.

41. Ibid., p. 411.

42. Ibid., p. 1224.

43. Ibid., p. 1165.

44. http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/331374/dojs-partisan-disparate-impact-litigation-agenda-part-1-ammon-simon

45. Fund and Spakovsky, Obama’s Enforcer, Kindle loc. 1238.

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid., 1248.

48. Ibid., 1257.

49. Ibid., 1271.

50. Ibid.

51. Ibid., 1271.

52. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/former-cia-analyst-believes-leftover-obama-staffers-withholding-intel-from-trump-admin/

53. Fund and Spakovsky, Obama’s Enforcer, Kindle loc. 2595.

54. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/18/raw-data-letter-cia-directors-president-obama.html

55. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/186024/panetta-profanity-laced-screaming-match-nro-staff

56. Fund and Spakovsky, Obama’s Enforcer, Kindle loc. 2605.

57. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cias-exoneration-and-holders-reckoning/2011/07/04/gHQASrfnxH_story.html?utm_term=.f4a52cc0c8f9

58. nypost.com/2009/07/17/a-bleeding-heart-to-fight-terror/

59. Ibid.

60. Ibid.

61. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck

Six

1. https://www.wired.com/2012/04/michael-flynn-dia/

2. Ibid.

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say/2014/04/30/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?utm_term=.4710592ffb6b

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/603020

7. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/how-mike-flynn-became-americas-angriest-general-214362

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-republican-convention-2016-live-passed-over-as-vice-presidential-pick-1468897531-htmlstory.html

11. Ibid.

12. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/how-mike-flynn-became-americas-angriest-general-214362

13. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/14/14609618/michael-flynn-trump-hillary-clinton

14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_heap_of_history

15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/06/donald-trumps-most-terrifying-appointment/?utm_term=.e6cbdeaf0c02

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. http://observer.com/2015/09/lieutenant-general-retired-michael-flynn-and-the-iranian-nuclear-agreement/

21. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-24/the-secret-history-of-the-iran-deal-echo-chamber

22. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/michael-flynn-condemns-iran-actions/

23. https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/15/report-obama-loyalists-led-by-ben-rhodes-orchestrated-flynn-ouster/

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid.

27. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2036477_2036540,00.html

28. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-sanctions-election-interference-2016/

29. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/30/vladimir-putin-denies-us-election-interference-trump

30. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/01/15/mike-pence-on-rep-lewis-comments-us-russia-relation-brennan-on-russia-dossier.html

31. Ibid.

32. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-michael-flynn-russia-contact-strictly-coincidental/

33. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445045/general-michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-fbi-investigation-phone-call-russian-ambassador

Seven

1. http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-reportedly-told-mexican-president-you-have-a-bunch-of-bad-hombres-down-there/

2. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/01/trump-tells-mexican-president-to-stop-bad-hombres-down-there-in-phone-call.html

3. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-australia-prime-minister-turnbull-phone-call-2017-2

4. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel

5. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-approval-rating.html

6. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/politics/trump-controversies-chaos.html

7. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/fashion/the-perverse-thrill-of-chaotic-times-world-war-ii-baby-boomers.html

8. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/donald-trump-management-style.html

9. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/donald-trump-management-style.html

10. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article

11. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/bannon-ousted-from-national-security-council-236908; https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/stephen-bannon-white-house.html

12. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/secret-service-trump-first-family-protection.html?action=click&contentCollection=us&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Fdonald-trump-white-house

13. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/trump-interview-susan-rice.html?ref=todayspaper

14. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/12/this-former-british-spy-was-identified-as-the-trump-dossier-source-now-he-is-in-hiding/?utm_term=.f78511c9328b

15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/12/this-former-british-spy-was-identified-as-the-trump-dossier-source-now-he-is-in-hiding/?utm_term=.281a6ad2537a

16. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html

17. http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/trump-media-shouldnt-be-allowed-use-sources-unless-they-use-somebodys-name

18. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-idUSKBN1631GC

19. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03dd1b758ddc4693b5f2de2f23e169bb/joke-president-trump-returns-conservative-confab

20. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/candidates-poised-for-classified-briefings-despite-spy-agency-worries-over-trump/2016/07/28/865cd686-5500-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html?utm_term=.56b1ec131875

21. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-intelligence-idUSKCN0YO24T

22. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/public-editor/the-risk-of-unnamed-sources-unconvinced-readers.html

23. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/public-editor/liz-spayd-final-public-editor-column.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-public-editor&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

24. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/05/trump-fire-comey/

25. Ibid.

26. http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html

27. http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/333217-trumps-war-with-comey-intensifies?rnd=1494669813

28. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-hurt-by-trump-win-2016-election-231103

29. http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. Ibid.

34. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/it-went-off-the-rails-almost-immediately-how-trumps-messy-transition-led-to-a-chaotic-presidency/2017/04/03/170ec2e8-0a96-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.ba273897d452

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid.

37. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-deep-state-20170219-story.html

38. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/slow-pace-of-trump-nominations-leaves-cabinet-agencies-stuck-in-staffing-limbo/2017/04/25/0a150aba-252c-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.1e02cea4df67

39. https://counterjihadreport.com/2017/03/18/obama-used-nsa-fbi-to-spy-on-trump-veteran-cia-officer-gary-berntsen/

40. http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama-admin-loyalists-government-insiders-sabotage-trump-white-house/

41. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266212/obamas-people-tried-change-trumps-executive-order-daniel-greenfield

42. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/22/trump-presidency-has-had-most-failed-start-ever-says-historian

43. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/14/heres-how-to-save-the-failing-trump-presidency/?utm_term=.2fc4adc2ddc0

Eight

1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/7/hillary-clinton-blames-misogyny-lost-election/

2. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-she-would-have-won-the-election-if-it-were-held-oct-27/

3. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/19/bill-clinton-bashes-trump-blames-angry-white-men-and-comey-for-wifes-loss.html

4. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-blames-comey-and-wikileaks-as-determinative-factors-behind-her-2016-loss/article/2619597

5. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/hillary-clinton-russian-election-meddling/

6. http://thehill.com/policy/defense/253963-trump-i-would-get-along-with-putin

7. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/263555-putin-praises-trump-hes-a-really-brilliant-and-talented-person

8. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/

9. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/12/20/trump-praises-putin-as-a-leader-even-after-being-told-he-kills-dissidents-and-journalists/

10. http://time.com/4153183/putin-trump-presidency/

11. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/07/russia-us-election-hacking-uk-intelligence

12. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html

13. Ibid.

14. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/fbi-says-democratic-party-wouldnt-let-agents-see-hacked-email-servers/

15. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/310234-typo-may-have-caused-podesta-email-hack

16. Ibid.

17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.657bbfcb574d

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/30/vladimir-putin-says-read-lips-no-us-claims-used-propaganda/

23. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/30/vladimir-putin-denies-us-election-interference-trump

24. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/clapper-russians-didnt-alter-vote-count-presidential-election

25. https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. http://www.kgw.com/news/politics/sen-merkley-vows-to-honor-the-peaceful-transfer-of-power/387358158

30. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?_r=0

31. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-putin-trump-20160912-snap-story.html

32. Ibid.

33. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/08/donald-trumps-answer-on-russia-and-vladimir-putin-at-the-commander-in-chief-forum-was-bananas/?utm_term=.93f99068ae31

34. Ibid.

35. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/ukraine-documents-detail-cash-payments-to-paul-manafort

36. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/aug/04/did-trump-campaign-soften-platform-language-benefi/

37. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282

38. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-community-investigating-covert-russian-influence-operations-in-the-united-states/2016/09/04/aec27fa0-7156-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?utm_term=.70e2c15bdf6a

39. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/could-russian-hackers-spoil-election-day-n619321

40. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144

41. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/spy-agency-consensus-grows-that-russia-hacked-dnc.html?_r=0

42. http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505261053/13-times-russian-hacking-came-up-in-the-presidential-campaign

43. Ibid.

44. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-government-officially-accuses-russia-of-hacking-campaign-to-influence-elections/2016/10/07/4e0b9654-8cbf-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html?utm_term=.64ee3ef97373

45. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-obama-said-putin-red-phone-about-election-hack-n697116

46. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/us-military-has-launched-more-50-than-missiles-aimed-at-syria-nbc-news.html

47. http://myfox8.com/2017/04/07/putin-slams-trumped-up-us-strike-against-syria/

48. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/despite-early-denials-growing-list-of-trump-camp-contacts-with-russians-haunts-white-house/2017/03/03/a5b196d8-002d-11e7-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.aa79d24f8233

49. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/01/sessions-did-not-disclose-contact-russian-ambassador-justice-dept-says/98618758/

50. http://billmoyers.com/story/the-jared-kushner-timeline/

51. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/us/politics/trump-russia-links-washington.html

52. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-had-contacts-with-trump-team-during-campaign-russian-diplomat-says/2016/11/10/28fb82fa-a73d-11e6-9bd6-184ab22d218e_story.html?utm_term=.527fe7a4a101

53. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/despite-early-denials-growing-list-of-trump-camp-contacts-with-russians-haunts-white-house/2017/03/03/a5b196d8-002d-11e7-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.03cad4c489c1

54. Ibid.

55. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michael-morell-russia-us-elections-232495

56. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/789961/Russia-Iran-respond-with-force-after-Donald-Trump-crossed-line-Syria-strike-Xi-Jinping

Nine

1. http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/28/attention-millenials-foreign-election-meddling-and-fake-news-are-nothing-new/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controvers

3. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/12/news/mn-36489/2

4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf021098.htm

5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-chiefs-expected-in-new-york-to-brief-trump-on-russian-hacking/2017/01/06/5f591416-d41a-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.06940ff38442

6. www.bookrags.com/research/who-lost-china-debate-aaw-04/

7. Telephone conversation between author Dick Morris and President Clinton, October 1995.

8. Ibid.

9. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/1996-09-01/why-yeltsin-won-russian-tammany-hall

10. Author conversation with Berger in spring 1996.

11. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/1996-09-01/why-yeltsin-won-russian-tammany-hall

Ten

1. erenow.com/common/legacy-of-ashes-the-history-of-the-cia/48.html

2. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/gentlemen-reading-each-others-mail-a-brief-history-of-diplomatic-spying/276940/

3. Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991), Kindle edition, location 4119. Also available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0393343502

4. Ibid.

5. Read more at ibid., Kindle loc. 4324.

6. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4383.

7. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4383.

8. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4441.

9. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4376.

10. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4410.

11. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4410.

12. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4468.

13. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4479.

14. Ibid., Kindle loc. 4479.

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

16. Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, Kindle location 4490.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid., p. 327.

19. Ibid., p. 357.

20. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/05/22/maj-gen-harry-vaughan-aide-to-president-truman-dies-at-8/e96a79b4-811a-4ca7-b8c3-560c622ec9e5/?utm_term=.a8ec1cb59d63

21. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945-50Intel/d3

22. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech

23. https://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=148&st=&st1=

24. https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195385168/resources/chapter10/nsa/nsa.pdf

25. Ibid.

26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States

27. Richard H. Blum, ed., Surveillance and Espionage in a Free Society (New York: Praeger, 1972). Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=X1m-FL7nyo8C&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=I+had+the+gravest+forebodings+about+this+organization&source=bl&ots=x72378kEga&sig=5fejL0evqiThhW78ERmklAws3ak&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizjPqQ7uXSAhVJzmMKHXmFAzkQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=I%20had%20the%20gravest%20forebodings%20about%20this%20organization&f=false

28. https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchill-and-the-cold-war.html

29. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v12/d149

30. https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

31. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20040925/index.htm; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

32. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Anchor Books, 2008), p. 355.

33. Ibid., p. 356.

34. Ibid. p. 365.

35. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v02/d218

36. research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Richard_Helms241

37. Ibid., 5548.

38. Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press), p. 23. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1558496505

39. www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27cia.html

40. Ibid.

41. www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagmb002.php

42. Alexander Bloom, ed. Long Time Gone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0198028946

43. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Kindle edition, loc. 6221

44. Ronald Kessler, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), p. 127. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1250111269

45. Kessler, The Bureau, p. 209. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1250111269

46. Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 480.

47. Davin Cunningham, There’s Something Happening Here (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), p. 114. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0520939247

48. http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/you-are-done-the-chilling-suicide-letter-sent-to-martin-luther-king-by-the-f-b-i.html

49. Kessler, The Bureau, p. 150.

50. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-mark-felt-became-deep-throat/2012/06/04/gJQAlpARIV_story.html?utm_term=.091e45147058

51. Kessler, The Bureau, Kindle loc. 5626.

52. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/james-r-schlesinger-cia-chief-and-cabinet-member-dies/2014/03/27/e4a8f01c-b5bb-11e3-8020-b2d790b3c9e1_story.html?utm_term=.2825979572eb

53. Ronald Kessler, Secrets of the FBI (New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2012), p. 54. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0307719707

54. http://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/20/archives/officials-of-fbi-will-be-summoned-on-congress-files.html

55. http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKschlesingerJ.htm

56. https://nacla.org/news/latin-america-and-cia%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98family-jewels%E2%80%9D

57. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-fenn/2014/12/10/cia-torture-report-shows-the-rogue-elephants-are-back

58. https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/inside-the-revolution-how-iran-seized-the-us-embassy-in-tehran-34-years-ago-today-we-were-just-plain-asleep-said-cia-director/

59. http://archive.millercenter.org/ridingthetiger/iran-in-oral-history

60. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-09-20/news/1991263012_1_fiers-casey-central-america

61. Robert Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), p. 213. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1439127484

62. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/rt/printerFriendly/11711/12479

63. https://archive.org/stream/nsia-FBIKelleyClarenceMarion/nsia-FBIKelleyClarenceMarion/FBI%20Kelley%20Clarence%2047_djvu.txt

64. Ibid.

65. www.nleomf.org/assets/pdfs/nlem/oral-histories/FBI_Dyson_interview.pdf

66. www.nleomf.org/assets/pdfs/nlem/oral-histories/FBI_Webster_interview.pdf

67. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/year-of-the-spy-1985

68. Ibid.

69. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/us/2-men-arrested-in-alleged-sale-of-us-secrets.html

70. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/04/17/moscows-mole-in-the-cia/a976fac3-622a-475d-8c87-46b6170b1f4e/?utm_term=.535598d3c94c

71. https://www.army.mil/article/109525/Clyde_Conrad_arrested_for_espionage_August_23_1988

72. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen

73. Jane Corbin, Al-Qaeda: In Search of the Terror Network That Threatens the World (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002), p. 50.

74. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, p. 438.

75. InfoWarCon: International Conference on Information Warfare (Darby, PA: DIANE Publishing, 1996), p. 6. Available at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0788135414

76. James D. Boys, Clinton’s Grand Strategy: US Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), p. 94.

77. http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/33690-facts.html

78. www.chicagotribune.com/news/ . . . /ct-presidents-cia-intelligence-20170111-story.html

79. http://www.today.com/news/louis-freeh-says-he-distrusted-bill-clinton-wbna9649832

80. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1429904445

81. Quote from John Ehrlichman to John Dean during Watergate scandal, https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2013/01/28/words-of-watergate-part-2/

82. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/us/threats-responses-terrorist-bombing-book-clinton-aides-says-saudi-diplomat.html

83. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/28/us/betrayer-s-tale-a-special-report-a-decade-as-a-turncoat-aldrich-ames-s-own-story.html?pagewanted=all

84. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105090777

85. Ibid.

86. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/28/us/congress-decides-to-conduct-study-of-need-for-cia.html

Conclusion

1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/11/25/sol_wachtler_the_judge_who_coined_indict_a_ham_sandwich_was_himself_indicted.html