{"id":58842,"date":"2020-09-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mysterious-maltese-professor-denied-making-offer-to-papadopoulos-new-docs-show\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:00:00","slug":"mysterious-maltese-professor-denied-making-offer-to-papadopoulos-new-docs-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mysterious-maltese-professor-denied-making-offer-to-papadopoulos-new-docs-show\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mysterious Maltese professor denied making offer to Papadopoulos, new docs show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mysterious Maltese professor denied making offer to Papadopoulos, new docs show<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who ex-FBI Director James Comey referred to as a \u201cRussian agent\u201d in an op-ed, denied any advance knowledge that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton and told investigators he never made any offers to George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign strategist, according to newly released FBI documents.<\/p>\n<p>Mifsud, who is considered to be something of an international man of mystery, has studied law and diplomacy in London and Rome and was believed to have had contacts with key Russian officials. He met with Papadopoulos in 2016 at Link Campus University in Rome and then in London.<\/p>\n<p>Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s report on the Russia investigation stated that Mifsud was the person who told Papadopoulos in April 2016 that Russians had \u201cdirt\u201d in the form of emails on Hillary Clinton that could damage her chances of becoming president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> user Techno Fog posted the FBI\u2019s \u201c302\u201d interview summary on Mifsud and pointed out that the 59-year-old professor told investigators he had \u201cno advance knowledge Russia was in possession of emails from the Democratic National Committee and, therefore, did not make any offers or proffer any information\u201d to Papadopoulos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16232476\"><img alt=\"George Papadopoulos.\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>George Papadopoulos.<\/span><span>Natan Dvir<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The documents stated that the pair \u2014 who met for coffee in Britain in 2016 while Papadopoulos was transitioning to the Trump campaign \u2014 \u201cspoke about cybersecurity and hacking as a larger issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mifsud is not the most widely recognized name from the Mueller report, but he has been a major focal point of the probe.<\/p>\n<p>There were unproven theories that Mifsud was a Russian asset or even an asset for the CIA investigating the Trump campaign. The Washington Examiner pointed out that Mifsud was never referred to as a Russian agent in the 448-page report nor explicitly called one in the Washington Post op-ed by Comey. The Mueller report only identified him as having connections within Russia. Papadopoulos has said he believed Mifsud was acting as a Western agent to spy.<\/p>\n<p>Mifsud\u2019s attorney did not immediately respond to an email from Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News last year he wanted more details on Mifsud. Nunes said he was concerned because it seemed Mueller\u2019s report <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to be selective in the information it used regarding the professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey pick a news story and then they cherry-pick from it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, they use it partly to describe where Mifsud worked. But then they fail to say in that same story that they have given support to by using it in the Mueller dossier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters in 2019 pointed out that Mueller\u2019s report claimed Mifsud became more interested in Papadopoulos after he took a job as an adviser on the campaign. The report said that Mifsud, who has not been seen in public since 2017, told an Italian newspaper he never told Papadopoulos about the information on Clinton.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whoa \u2013 the Joseph Mifsud 302 is out.<\/p>\n<p>Mifsud said he had no advance knowledge Russia had DNC emails and did not make any offer to Papadopoulos<\/p>\n<p>And there is a post-interview email from Mifsud to FBI yet to be released ?<\/p>\n<p>A very short interview for a purported &#8220;Russian agent&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/VfdQpiLXxI<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) September 2, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sean Davis, a co-founder of The Federalist, wrote in response to the FBI\u2019s 302 release that there was no indication the \u201cfeds viewed him as a Russian spy, as was repeatedly alleged during the height of the Russian collusion hysteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Techno Fog, which posted the documents, said the interview seemed to have been short for \u201ca purported Russian agent.\u201d The user said Mueller\u2019s report \u201cplayed up\u201d the professor\u2019s alleged connections to Russia and yet the agents \u201cdidn\u2019t bother to ask many questions about\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>Papadopoulos eventually pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI when he met agents without an attorney in Chicago on Jan. 27, 2017. He had lied about whether he started on the campaign when he first met Mifsud and the Mueller team said he lied about the extent of his communications.<\/p>\n<p>At his 2018 sentencing, the prosecutor said the falsehoods hamstrung the Mueller team\u2019s chances of conducting a thorough interview with Mr. Mifsud when they encountered him a month later in a Washington hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller wanted the judge to harshly punish Papadopoulos with a six-month prison term. The judge sentenced Papadopoulos to two weeks in a minimum-security prison.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has insisted that the entire Russian collusion allegation by Democrats was nothing more than a witch hunt because they could not accept that he defeated Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Sunday he has had to coordinate with US Attorney John Durham\u2019s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign and plans to declassify \u201cadditional documents\u201d soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pledged to a bipartisan group of senators that I would look at all of the underlying intelligence surrounding the intelligence community\u2019s assessment of Russia\u2019s interference and this idea of Trump-Russia collusion,\u201d Ratcliffe told Fox Business\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d with Maria Bartiromo. \u201cBut I\u2019m not going to prejudice John Durham\u2019s work in connection with that, so we\u2019ve had to coordinate with his office about the timing of that. But I\u2019m optimistic that I\u2019ll be declassifying additional documents soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Question: Papadopoulos was mentioned in Carter Page FISA app.  Was Papadopoulos also included in the Woods file that S.Carter is reporting today to have gone missing two years ago and was reconstructed by the special counsel? If so, there&#8217;s DOJ-NSD spec.counsel motive to lose it. https:\/\/t.co\/xftZIOVWMb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) September 2, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sidney Powell, one of the attorneys representing Gen. Michael Flynn, late Tueday retweeted, \u201cQuestion: Papadopoulos was mentioned in Carter Page FISA app. Was Papadopoulos also included in the Woods file that S.Carter is reporting today to have gone missing two years ago and was reconstructed by the special counsel? If so, there\u2019s DOJ-NSD spec.counsel motive to lose it.<\/p>\n<p>Powell referred to Sara Carter\u2019s report that the Woods file on Carter Page, another Trump campaign adviser, vanished about two years ago and said she was told by sources that the \u201cdocuments had to be recreated by the FBI\u201d and Mueller\u2019s team in 2018.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/02\/mysterious-maltese-professor-denied-making-offer-to-papadopoulos-new-docs-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Mysterious Maltese professor denied making offer to Papadopoulos, new docs show&#8221; Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who ex-FBI Director James Comey referred to as a \u201cRussian agent\u201d in an op-ed, denied any advance knowledge that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton and told investigators he never made any offers to George Papadopoulos, the former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63383,63384],"class_list":["post-58842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-mysterious-maltese-professor-denied-making-offer-to-papadopoulos","tag-new-docs-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}