Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Mifsud going back to the Senate Intel Committee



I thought this guy had disappeared.  Apparently someone found him.  You may recall this is the guy who told George Papadopolous about the existence of stolen Hillary Clinton emails.
Mifsud disappeared after he was identified as the unnamed professor alleged by FBI investigators in court documents unsealed in October 2017 to have told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, months before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer system had been hacked.

He has not been seen in public since November that year. His former girlfriend in Ukraine says he disappeared, prosecutors in Italy investigating a decade-old case couldn’t locate him, and US investigators have complained they weren’t able to interrogate the professor thoroughly when he was last in the US in Feb. 2017. Democratic National Committee lawyers even suggested he may be dead.

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Spokespeople for the Senate intelligence committee declined to comment, and BuzzFeed News has been unable to independently verify this claim [that Mifsud will testify before the Senate Intel Committee].

  Buzzfeed
Looks like Natasha Bertrand did that herself.
Mifsud’s interactions with Papadopoulos reportedly kickstarted the FBI investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election — and remain one of the great mysteries in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe.

Should the Maltese academic suddenly reappear in public after more than a year to testify before the Senate, it could be a hugely significant moment in Mueller’s investigation.

Roh claims that Mifsud has done nothing wrong, and was set up — and denies having ever told Papadopoulos the Russians had dirt on Clinton.

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Since his sentencing, Papadopoulos has repeatedly speculated on Twitter — without providing evidence — that he was targeted by British and Australian intelligence as part of a plot to sabotage the Trump campaign.

Mifsud acknowledged in the interview with the Italian newspaper in Nov. 2017 that he met Papadopoulos “three or four times,” and facilitated connections between "official and unofficial sources," but denied any wrongdoing.
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