(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The US gives criminal relevance to the “Russiagate” dossier, therefore the heads of the American services at the time of the Obama administration will be questioned. Federal Judge Beryl Howard has ruled that the United States Department of Justice must deliver the unedited version of Special Adviser Robert Mueller's report to the House of Representatives by October 30. According to the US press, the department will also have to provide the secret grand jury material collected as part of the investigation. The judge's order represents a victory for Democrats investigating President Donald Trump and the possible crime of obstruction of justice.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and senior officials in Australia have, however, defended their involvement in US Attorney General William Barr's review of the origins of the so-called "Russiagate" after criticism from opposition parties. The Italian intelligence services - writes the "Wall Street Journal" - have made it clear that they have no connection with Professor Joseph Mifsud, whose meeting with a Trump campaign aide in 2016 helped spur the Federal counter-espionage investigation bureau of investigation (FBI) on Russian election interference, Conte said. Italian intelligence officials then told Barr that they had no role in the events that led to the Russiagate investigation, Conte said. The Italian premier also called the request for information "preliminary" and said that the refusal to cooperate would be considered unfair to a long-time ally.
The story in the last hours, after some tests taken in Italy, has undergone an acceleration and a 360 ° turn. The doubt in Italy is that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has hidden something, providing Copasir, and therefore also the Italian public opinion, a watered down reconstruction of the truth.
The letter of 17 June
According to the letter sent to Giuseppe Conte, the American request was to have more information on an FBI agent who worked in the capital in 2016. During the talks, Barr would have asked to know his contacts with Italian intelligence but also to verify any relations with Joseph Mifsud. It is no coincidence that it was the FBI that investigated the contacts between Trump and the Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. And therefore Mifsud - this is Barr's suspicion - could have been their "mole" to discredit Trump.
Belpietro writes in Libero that at this point doubts about the birth of the new government and about that unusual and sudden endorsement of the White House tenant are also credited.
The point to clarify is to understand why two high representatives of American justice, William Barr and John Durham, have had to run in full August and in full crisis of government in Rome to meet our 007.
The Roman trip of the Minister of Justice and the prosecutor was organized in a hurry to be able to acquire relevant evidence on Joseph Mifsud, the professor of Maltese origin, also linked in some way with Link Campus University. Mifsud reportedly told Trump's adviser Papadopulos that Russia had compromising emails from Senator Hillary Clinton.
Libero also writes that the two Americans have asked to meet the heads of our agencies at the US Embassy in Italy. The meeting took place in a screened and reclaimed room, immune from indiscreet "ears". "It would have been made to listen to an audio by professor Mifsud begging for help and protection: he felt threatened ". From the 2017 the professor turns out to be untraceable and foreign journalistic sources claim that it is hidden in Russia, others instead, in Great Britain.
Belpietro always writes that an American president, Barack Obama, asks an allied government (Italy, Australia and Great Britain) to help him frame his opponents is certainly not something you see every day, as it is not ordinary stuff. witnessing an executive who meddles in political wrangling from other countries, helping to organize traps to lame other candidates. In either case, however, it would be useful to know, because Italy would not make a good impression on us. However, Conte has always kept his mouth shut on this intrigue, taking care not to inform the deputy premiers of the previous government, but keeping silent about the request of Trump's men even when twice they showed up in Rome. When the travel story finally popped up in the newspapers, the premier said he would clarify in Parliament, but then, as we said, on Wednesday at Copasir he admitted the meetings and denied everything else, assuring that he had not provided any useful information to the strange investigation. 'overseas. In short, everything is fine, as he explained in a few words to the reporters, but no. because the other night Fox news, an American broadcaster very close to Trump, in a service dedicated to the case provided the stars and stripes version, claiming that in Rome the attorney general and the prosecutor would have collected new evidence that broadens the investigation, to the point that Durham now wants to question the intelligence leaders appointed by Barack Obama. And who gave you this new evidence? Conte says that the Italian 007s knew nothing of Mifsud, but Barr and the prosecutor, according to Fox, seem to say more. Indeed: the Americans would hold the memory of cell phones Mifsud and even a recording. So in this story of dossier spies and wars without exclusion of blows between democrats and republicans, someone does not tell it right.
The matter may have gotten out of hand with our Prime Minister. We are now all waiting to know the contents of the "Barr" report, which will be published next November 5, in which the elements acquired in Italy at the hands of our secret services will emerge. The director of Dis, General Vecchione, very close to Giuseppe Conte will be audited at Copasir in the coming days.
Between regional elections and Russiagate, the perfect storm for the Italian premier that could bring the red-yellow government ship down to the bottom of the abyss. It is no coincidence that Matteo Renzi, in time, started watching with his popcorn from a privileged “swivel” armchair, Italia Viva.