"Thousands of embarrassing emails about Hillary Clinton”, Owned by the Russians. This is what the Professor of Link Campus University in Rome would have said Joseph Mifsud a George Papadopoulos councilor of the electoral campaign of Donald Trump.
This revelation provided further clues to the prosecutor Robert Mueller who is investigating a possible conspiracy against Clinton by the Trump election committee and the Kremlin. Mueller, after a year of investigation, said he had not gathered enough evidence to prove the plot against Clinton.
Returning to Italy, there were two meetings between the US justice minister William Barr and the heads of the Italian secret services. Meetings that aimed to learn more about Russiagate and the role of Link Joseph Mifsud professor.
The US justice minister does not want to let go and intends to discredit Mueller's work by seeking new evidence to frame President Donald Trump. Barr looks for this evidence in Italy.
The question arises, why did Italy meet US authorities in reference to the Russiagate investigation? Who authorized contacts between Americans and Italian services?
It will now be dealt with by the Services Control Committee (Copasir) which will have to ascertain the legitimacy of the contacts authorized by Palazzo Chigi.
Minister Barr is a politician of the US administration and it will be necessary to ascertain why Gennaro Vecchione, the head of the Dis - Information and Security Department -, has complied with the request for meetings.
Also because, writes the Corriere della Sera, before the New York Times and Washington Post revealed Barr's "missions" in the capital - accompanied by the prosecutor John Durham, who had been appointed by him to "re-read" the investigation into Russiagate - no one had ever considered it necessary to disclose that Italy had played an active role in the affair.
And this despite the fact that the attention was also paid to Link, considered very close to the 5 S Movement, the former Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta is a professor at the university.
Last August, Barr, according to the Politico website, is staying at the Marriott Grand Flora Hotel, in Via Veneto in Rome.
The US minister has contacts with the premier Giuseppe Conte that gives the green light to the collaboration. Then he meets the head of Dis Gennaro Vecchione. Barr's goal is clear: to find out if our country played a role in Russiagate, if it obtained confidential documents and if the 007s actually helped Mifsud find a safe haven. Since 2017 Mifsud has disappeared and is nowhere to be found.
In August, despite being poised, the yellow-green government was still in office. Giuseppe Conte informed his ministers of contacts with Barr?
Barr together with the prosecutor Dhuram returned to Rome to meet the director of Aise Luciano Carta and that of Aisi Mario Parente. The request is to make available any documentation collected in recent years. In particular Barr asks for clarification on the end of the Mifsud professor who disappeared since 2017 and appears to have stayed in an apartment in the name of a company connected to Link Campus, until May 2018.
Who else in the Italian government has been aware of this burning "dossier"?
A dossier clearly against the US president Donald Trump with whom the Conte 2 government wants to tighten ever greater economic synergies and concrete help in the Libyan affair. Definitely a "two-faced" attitude.