The Senate has released Crossfire Hurricane transcripts. Excerpt from discussion during Joe Pientka (SSA1) testimony: The “original Woods file is missing” from the 1st Carter Page FISA application.
After Steele was closed as a witness, Pientka used Bruce Ohr as an intermediary to continue access with Steele. The introduction to Ohr came from Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Summer 2016: The FBI handling agent knew “without a doubt” that Steele’s reporting was political. “It was completely obvious that this information intended to be used by one of the parties against the other.”
The Woods Procedures require the FBI to create a “Woods File” to document in one place the basis for each factual assertion in an application.
Paul Plante says
“Justice” Department?
HAH!
Paul Plante says
17 January 2021
U.S. Congressman Antonio Delgado
1007 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman:
As this new year begins, I hope it finds you well, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your confirmation in a May 22, 2020 e-mail to me from your regional representative Madison Wellman on the record and for the record the fact that with respect to my civil and human rights being stripped from me by the Town of Poestenkill in your Congressional District in retaliation for my having given evidence of endemic corruption in Poestenkill to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there will be no aid or comfort coming my way from the federal government, which is something I was first informed of in early 1992 by an FBI agent named Tom Dauenhauer with whom I had been involved with in the Hobbs Act investigation of endemic public corruption in Poestenkill and Rensselaer County.
In that conversation with FBI agent Dauenhauer, which occurred on Broadway in Albany in front of the Post Office building where the FBI was at that time located, the FBI agent took pains to explain to me just how stupid I had been in trying to blow the whistle on public corruption in New York state, and since he was in a mood to teach, I figured I might as well stay for the whole lesson, which included a primer on how I was sold down the river by an assistant U.S. attorney named Barbara Cottrell, in exchange for her name being placed on a list of appointees to a federal judgeship, and how evidence I had provided of corruption in Rensselaer County and Poestenkill had been destroyed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
He then told me that he had been ordered to have no contact with me, and his advice to me at that point was quite explicit: I had very powerful political enemies in New York, and that as a result, I would be wisest if I would run somewhere far from here and go into hiding, because while I was still here, they would remain relentless in their efforts to do me harm in as public a manner as possible to make me an example to discourage anyone else who would think of doing as I dared to do, which was to blow the whistle on corruption in Rensselaer County and Poestenkill.
And my life has been made into a living hell ever since, because I am not a runner.
Thank you for confirming that that is not going to change for me in this lifetime if the federal government has any say in the matter.
As to your suggestion that I try working with the Town of Poestenkill for a solution, when it is the Town of Poestenkill that is engaged in retaliation against me to make my life a living hell, I would respond that that is quite impossible.
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante, NYSPE