Natalieâs Commentary: It is time to revisit and review all the articles pertaining to those involved in the corruption in Ukraine.
How many of them wanted this infamous information in Ukraineâs computer systems to be erased. A war would certainly destroy this evidence.
There were many from Congress and the Deep State, a shadow government run by Obama and Soros involved in multiple companies, in multiple international crimes in Ukraine. Obviously and unfortunately these people were never held accountable. Thereâs more than enough evidence to convict many involved in international crimes. Natalie Keshing has updated this article for March 8, 2022. Â ~ Natalie
Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Sorosâs Open Society Foundations. | Breitbart News  Politics PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty
The emails informed Ciaramella and a handful of other Obama administration foreign policy officials about Sorosâs whereabouts, the contents of Sorosâs private meetings about Ukraine and a future meeting the billionaire activist was holding with the prime minister of Ukraine.
A primary recipient of the Open Society emails along with Ciaramella was then-Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Victoria Nuland, who testified this week to Congress acknowledging that Ukraine has biological research facilities and was concerned about the Russians getting a hold of those facilities and if there was a biological attack in Ukraine it would be Russiaâs fault. Is Nuland conjuring up a great white lie perhaps to cover corruption  from the past. Please play the following video to watch Nuland testify under oath. ~ Natalie.
Nuland played a central role in the anti-Trump dossier affair. Nuland, with whom Ciaramella worked closely, received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Christopher Steele in addition to her direct role in facilitating the dossier within the Obama administration.
The emails spotlight Sorosâs access to national security officials under the Obama administration on the matter of Ukraine.
In one instance, Jeff Goldstein, senior policy analyst for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, sent a June 9, 2016 email to Nuland and Ciaramella, who were the missiveâs primary recipients.
CCâd were three other State Department officials involved in European affairs, including Alexander Kasanof who worked at the U.S. embassy in Kiev.
The message read:
I wanted to let you know that Mr. Soros met with Johannes Hahn in Brussels earlier today. One of the issues he raised was concern over the decision to delay the visa liberalization for Georgia and the implications for Ukraine.
The email revealed that âGSâ â meaning Soros â âis also meeting [Georgian] President [Giorgi] Margvelashvili today and speaking with PM Groyman,â referring to Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
The email stated that Soros told Hahn âthat Ukrainian civil society is concerned that without reciprocity from the EU for steps Ukraine has taken to put in place sensitive anti-corruption and anti-discrimination legislation and institutions it will not be possible to continue to use the leverage of EU instruments and policies to maintain pressure for reforms in the future.â
Soros also âurged Hahn to advocate with member states to move ahead with visa liberalization for Ukraine,â the email related.
âIâm sure youâve been working this issue hard; if you have any thoughts on how this is likely to play out or where particular problems lie Iâd appreciate if you could let us know,â the email concluded.
Goldsteinâs email text sent to Nuland and Ciaramella was not addressed to any one individual.
Nuland replied that she would be happy to discuss the issues by phone. Goldstein set up a phone call and wrote that Soros specifically asked that an employee from the billionaireâs âpersonal officeâ join the call with Nuland.
The email was released last August as part of a separate Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative group Citizens United. The FOIA request was unrelated to Ciaramella.
Johannes Hahn, referenced in the emails as meeting with Soros about Ukraine, is the European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.
In 2015, Hahn participated with Nuland in the YES Summit, which bills itself as âthe leading public diplomacy platform in Eastern Europe.â
Another summit participant was Vadym Pozharskyi, a board advisor to Burisma, the Ukranian natural gas company at the center of the impeachment trial and the allegations related to Hunter and Joe Biden.
On scores of occasions, Hahn was a featured speaker at roundtables and other events produced by the Atlantic Council think tank, which is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma.
The Atlantic Council is also financed by Sorosâs Open Society Foundations and has been in the news for ties to various actors associated with the impeachment issue.
In one of several instances, Breitbart News reported, itinerary for a trip to Ukraine in August organized by the Atlantic Council reveals that a staffer on Rep. Adam Schiffâs House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a meeting during the trip with Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, now a key witness for Democrats pursuing impeachment. The Schiff staffer is also an Atlantic Council fellow, while Taylor has evidenced a close relationship with the Atlantic Council.
Breitbart News previously reported on other emails that show Ciaramella worked closely with Nuland.
Nuland has come under repeated fire for her various roles in the anti-Trump dossier controversy.
In their book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putinâs War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, authors and reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn write that Nuland gave the green light for the FBI to first meet with Steele regarding his dossierâs claims. It was at that meeting that Steele initially reported his dossier charges to the FBI, the book relates.
FBI notes cite career Justice Department official Bruce Ohr as saying that Nuland was in touch with Fusion GPS co-founder and dossier producer Glenn Simpson.
Sen. John McCain, who infamously delivered the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey, reportedly first dispatched an aide, David J. Kramer, to inquire with Nuland about the dossier claims.
Meanwhile, looped into some other email chains with Ciaramella was then-Secretary of State John Kerryâs chief of staff at the State Department, John Finer.
An extensive New Yorker profile of Steele named Finer as obtaining the contents of a two-page summary of the dossier and eventually deciding to share the questionable document with Kerry.
Finer reportedly received the dossier summary from Jonathan M. Winer, the Obama State Department official who acknowledged regularly interfacing and exchanging information with Steele, according to the report. Winer previously conceded that he shared the dossier summary with Nuland.
After his name surfaced in news media reports related to probes by House Republicans into the dossier, Winer authored a Washington Post oped in which he conceded that while he was working at the State Department he exchanged documents and information with Steele.
Winer further acknowledged that while at the State Department, he shared anti-Trump material with Steele passed to him by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, whom Winer described as an âold friend.â Winer wrote that the material from Blumenthal â which Winer in turn gave to Steele â originated with Cody Shearer, who is a controversial figure long tied to various Clinton scandals.
In testimony last year, Nuland made statements about a meeting at the State Department in October 2016 between State officials and Steele, but said that she didnât participate.
At a June 2018 hearing, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) revealed contents of the State Departmentâs visitor logs while he was grilling Nuland.
At the hearing, Burr asked: âI know you talked extensively with our staff relative to Mr. Steele. Based upon our review of the visitor logs of the State Department, Mr. Steele visited the State Department briefing officials on the dossier in October of 2016. Did you have any role in that briefing?â
âI did not,â Nuland replied. âI actively chose not to be part of that briefing.â
âBut were you aware of that briefing?â Burr asked.
âI was not aware of it until afterwards,â Nuland retorted.
Nuland did not explain how she can actively chose not to be part of Steeleâs briefing, as she claimed, yet say she was unaware of the briefing until after it occurred. Nuland was not asked about the discrepancy during the public section of the testimony, which was reviewed in full by Breitbart News.
Nuland previously served as chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott under Bill Clintonâs administration, and then served as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.
Nuland faced confirmation questions prior to her most recent appointment as assistant secretary of state over her reported role in revising controversial Obama administration talking points about the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks. Her reported changes sought to protect Hillary Clintonâs State Department from accusations that it failed to adequately secure the woefully unprotected U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi.
Likely âwhistleblowerâ
A RealClearInvestigations report by investigative journalist and author Paul Sperry named Ciaramella as best fitting the description of the so-called whistleblower.
Officials with direct knowledge of the proceedings say Ciaramellaâs name has been raised in private in impeachment depositions and during at least one House open hearing that was not part of the formal impeachment proceedings.
Federal documents show Ciaramella also worked closely with Joe Biden and worked under Susan Rice, President Obamaâs national security adviser. He also worked with former CIA Director John Brennan, an anti-Trump advocate who has faced controversy for his role in fueling the questionable Russia collusion investigation. Rice participated in Russia collusion probe meetings and reportedly unmasked senior members of Trumpâs presidential campaign.
Sperry cites former White House officials saying Ciaramella worked for Biden on Ukrainian policy issues in 2015 and 2016, encompassing the time period for which Biden has been facing possible conflict questions for leading Ukraine policy in light of Hunter Bidenâs work for Burisma.
Mark Zaid and Andrew Bakaj, the activist attorneys representing the so-called whistleblower, refused to confirm on deny that their secretive client is indeed Ciaramella.
âWe neither confirm nor deny the identity of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower,â the lawyers told the Washington Examiner in response to an inquiry about Ciaramella.
Zaid and Bakaj added, âOur client is legally entitled to anonymity. Disclosure of the name of any person who may be suspected to be the whistleblower places that individual and their family in great physical danger. Any physical harm the individual and/or their family suffers as a result of disclosure means that the individuals and publications reporting such names will be personally liable for that harm. Such behavior is at the pinnacle of irresponsibility and is intentionally reckless.â
Soros funding and âwhistleblowerâ complaint
Besides Burisma funding, the Atlantic Council is also financed by Sorosâs Open Society Foundations, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., and the U.S. State Department.
Google, Sorosâs Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Fund, and an agency of the State Department each also finance a self-described investigative journalism organization repeatedly referenced as a source of information in the so-called whistleblowerâs complaint alleging Trump was âusing the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign countryâ in the 2020 presidential race.
The charges in the July 22 report referenced in the so-called whistleblowerâs document and released by the Google and Soros-funded organization, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), seem to be the public precursors for a lot of the so-called whistleblowerâs own claims, as Breitbart News documented.
One key section of the so-called whistleblowerâs document claims that âmultiple U.S. officials told me that Mr. Giuliani had reportedly privately reached out to a variety of other Zelensky advisers, including Chief of Staff Andriy Bohdan and Acting Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov.â
This was allegedly to follow up on Trumpâs call with Zelensky in order to discuss the âcasesâ mentioned in that call, according to the so-called whistleblowerâs narrative. The complainer was clearly referencing Trumpâs request for Ukraine to investigate the Biden corruption allegations.
Even though the statement was written in first person â âmultiple U.S. officials told meâ â it contains a footnote referencing a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
That footnote reads:
In a report published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on 22 July, two associates of Mr. Giuliani reportedly traveled to Kyiv in May 2019 and met with Mr. Bakanov and another close Zelensky adviser, Mr. Serhiy Shefir.
The so-called whistleblowerâs account goes on to rely upon that same OCCRP report on three more occasions. It does so to:
- Write that Ukraineâs Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko âalso stated that he wished to communicate directly with Attorney General Barr on these matters.â
- Document that Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani âhad spoken in late 2018 to former Prosecutor General Shokin, in a Skype call arranged by two associates of Mr. Giuliani.â
- Bolster the charge that, âI also learned from a U.S. official that âassociatesâ of Mr. Giuliani were trying to make contact with the incoming Zelenskyy team.â The so-called whistleblower then relates in another footnote, âI do not know whether these associates of Mr. Giuliani were the same individuals named in the 22 July report by OCCRP, referenced above.â
The OCCRP report repeatedly referenced is actually a âjoint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and BuzzFeed News, based on interviews and court and business records in the United States and Ukraine.â
BuzzFeed infamously also first publishedthe full anti-Trump dossier alleging unsubstantiated collusion between Trumpâs presidential campaign and Russia. The dossier was paid for by Hillary Clintonâs campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and was produced by the Fusion GPS opposition dirt outfit.
The OCCRP and BuzzFeed âjoint investigationâ resulted in both OCCRP and BuzzFeed publishing similar lengthy pieces on July 22 claiming that Giuliani was attempting to use connections to have Ukraine investigate Trumpâs political rivals.
The so-called whistleblowerâs document, however, only mentions the largely unknown OCCRP and does not reference BuzzFeed, which has faced scrutiny over its reporting on the Russia collusion claims.
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Joshua Klein contributed research to this article.
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