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“Bruce Ohr is Creating a Link for Us”

August 28, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

The testimony of Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr has provided Congressional investigators with a unique insight into the activity at the FBI and DOJ that led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“Bruce Ohr is creating a link for us between people who had animus, who were in fact desperate to stop candidate Trump from being President Trump, both before and after he became the President-Elect,”Continue Reading

The Strange Case of Adam Lovinger: How Security Clearances of Trump Officials Are Politicized

August 27, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Adam Lovinger was a Strategic Affairs analyst with the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Since January 2017 he had been working on loan as a White House National Security Council analyst after being selected for the position by General Michael Flynn.

On May 1, 2017, Lovinger was notified that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended. He was to return to the Pentagon immediately.Continue Reading

Obama’s Echo Chamber

August 25, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

A story in the New Yorker from two days ago recently caught my eye.Continue Reading

The Missing Papadopoulos Meetings

August 23, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Two key meetings involving Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos appear to have been intentionally obscured in legal documents unsealed by the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller.

The documents also shed light on the unusual timing of Papadopoulos’s agreement with Mueller’s team, which was reached within hours after he was arrested—without a lawyer present.Continue Reading

The Cohen Plea Agreement, Obama’s Facebook Database & Mark Levin

August 22, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Just because a prosecutor says that somebody violated a campaign law doesn’t make it so. He is not the judge. He is not the jury. We didn’t adjudicate anything. It never went to court. – Mark Levin

The Michael Cohen Plea contains a total of Eight Counts. You can find the Plea Agreement here.Continue Reading

The Alexander Downer Conversation

August 21, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

For over a year now, a seemingly chance encounter between George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, and Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, has been cited as the sole reason the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016.Continue Reading

The John Brennan Interview

August 19, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Former CIA Director John Brennan gave an interview on The Maddow Show. It turned out to be more interesting than one might have thought – and didn’t go as Maddow so clearly hoped.Continue Reading

The Bruce Ohr 302’s

August 18, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Bruce Ohr is going to become more and more important in this investigation. I think people should pay close attention to it. – Devin Nunes

Newly released texts, emails and handwritten notes have thrust former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr back into the spotlight.Continue Reading

A Compilation of DNC Media Collusion & Complicity

August 15, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. We identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events. We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review. – Inspector General Michael HorowitzContinue Reading

George Papadopoulos, Alexander Downer & the Opening of the FBI Investigation

August 14, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

This is a related version of an article recently published at The Epoch Times.

The New York Times provided us an introduction to FBI reasoning in launching the Trump-Russia Inquiry – drunken comments from George Papadopoulos:Continue Reading

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Jeff Carlson is a CFA® charterholder.

He worked for 20 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the High Yield Bond Market. He holds degrees in finance and economics.

He can be found on X (Twitter) at @themarketswork or on Substack at Truth Over News

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