Andriy Telizhenko. Keep in mind that identify? When you do a cursory search of the web he supposedly is a discredited conspiracy theorist. However in gentle of current revelations that the FBI performed an energetic position in accusing harmless individuals of being Russian puppets or mendacity concerning the Hunter Biden laptop computer (e.g., FBI instructed Fb, per Mark Zuckerberg, that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was Russian disinformation), the FBI was busy telling members of Congress the identical lie about Andriy Telizhenko.
Why was the FBI attempting to discredit Mr. Telizhenko? Let me counsel it was as a result of he was telling the reality about Hunter Biden and the way the Ukrainian Authorities helped the DNC push the Russiagate fable. (See Gateway Pundit article from 2019).
Right here is how CNN describes Telizhenko:
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The US State Division revoked the visa of a former Ukrainian diplomat who has labored with Republicans to unfold baseless conspiracy theories concerning the Biden household and overseas meddling in 2016, American and Ukrainian officers instructed CNN on Monday.
A US official mentioned there are additionally conversations inside the US authorities about probably sanctioning that particular person – Andrii Telizhenko – and figuring out him as a Russian agent. Democrats have accused Telizhenko of deliberately spreading Russian disinformation.
Received that? Details about the Biden household’s actions in Ukraine was baseless. Simply ignore the truth that Hunter Biden had a profitable contract with Burisma and different Ukrainian companies. Simply ignore the truth that Joe Biden, whereas Vice President, used his place to pressure Ukraine to ditch an investigation that may have uncovered his son’s nefarious actions. Repeat after me—CONSPIRACY THEORY.
How may Democrats know Telizhenko was a Russian agent? Both they made it up or somebody within the U.S. Authorities, equivalent to FBI or CIA, instructed them. If Telizhenko actually was a Russian agent he ought to have been focused and investigated by FBI counter intelligence officers. Hmm, who had these duties on the FBI. Oh yeah, some man named Peter Strzok.
So in case you are Peter Strzok and also you be taught that this man, Telizhenko, is a Russian agent, what do you have to do? How about figuring out his community with out tipping him off? Possibly attempt entrap him? Or here’s a wild thought, attempt to recruit him, flip him, and put him to work spying for the USA. That’s what an expert counterintelligence agent would do. However Strzok apparently didn’t do any of that. The one factor we all know is that the FBI instructed a minimum of one member of Congress that Telizhenko couldn’t be trusted. Why?
Effectively, allow us to take one other take a look at the story he was telling. The next is an unpublished article written in 2020 that lays out a number of the important information:
Shortly earlier than Democrats started impugning his fame and the State Division revoked his visa, an ex-Ukrainian authorities official dropped a bombshell revelation on Senate investigators: his authorities had assembled a file on Carter Web page months earlier than the FBI started investigating the Trump adviser’s ties to Russia in 2016.
“Web page labored on the Pentagon, particularly, instantly within the discipline of arms management, and later was a visiting researcher on the Council on Overseas Relations in New York, the place he specialised in analysis within the discipline of vitality and financial improvement within the Caspian Sea area,” the Might 2016 profile written by Andrii Telizhenko to a senior colleague within the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC learn.
“Throughout his profession, Web page has developed his relationships with enterprise and political leaders in Russia and the nations of the previous Soviet Union. In response to the politician Bloomberg: ‘Web page is a dependable defender of Russia’s intentions, and holds American politicians as these whose minds are caught in the course of the Chilly Conflict.’”
Telizhenko, who had in depth contacts in 2014-16 with Obama-Biden administration officers, supplied to Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee investigators final spring a replica of his Might 2016 memo on Web page and provided to offer formal testimony on how he supplied the knowledge to an Obama White Home official carefully tied to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Telizhenko’s file on Web page was despatched from his private electronic mail account to each the private and embassy work accounts of his supervisor. Senate investigators discovered corroborating proof to again up elements of Telizhenko’s story, together with information confirming he had contacts with Obama administration officers on the times he claimed.
However Telizhenko’s formal interview was canceled when Democrats on the committee started a marketing campaign attacking him as a Russian sympathizer and two Republican senators on the committee refused to again a subpoena authorizing his deposition as Chairman Ron Johnson had requested.
In an interview with (media supply), Johnson mentioned the Telizhenko interview was one in all a number of investigative leads his investigators have been precluded from following by the Democrats’ antics, which initially included the creation of a doc by Democratic workers falsely claiming the FBI believed Telizhenko was tied to Russian intelligence. Johnson subsequently debunked the workers memo.
A spokeswoman for the Ukraine embassy in Washington mentioned the officers who would have labored on the Web page file not work in Washington. Natalie Solyeva mentioned if the file was created it was finished by staff on their non-public time and never of their official capability as embassy staff. “The embassy didn’t create any file,” she mentioned. “In case if Mr. Telizhenko did it on his personal and despatched it to somebody, that is his particular person duty and never the Embassy.”
Telizhenko mentioned in an interview with (media supply) that he was particularly instructed by his embassy superior to create the file, and did so by speaking with Ukrainian safety officers again residence in addition to open supply contacts in each nations.
Telizhenko, a former aide to Ukrainian prosecutors in Kiev and a former political officer in his nation’s embassy in America, emerged as a determine within the U.S. media in January 2017 when he was quoted in an article printed by Politico alleging that the Ukrainian embassy in Washington had contacts with a Democratic Nationwide Committee operative who was in search of dust on Trump and his ties to Russia. On the time, the FBI’s deal with Carter Web page as a part of the Russia collusion narrative was not but public.
Telizhenko subsequently grew to become a fixture in U.S. and Ukraine information media over the following years, together with helping Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to research Joe and Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings in Ukraine. Johnson’s workers started informally interviewing him in 2019 and 2020, earlier than Democrats angered by Telizhenko’s options of Biden wrongdoing in Ukraine, turned on the previous authorities official who had supplied in depth help to the Obama-Biden White Home.
Over the summer time, the Democrats accused Telizhenko of parroting a number of the identical storylines as Russian-friendly figures accused of attempting to affect the 2020 U.S. election, together with Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Division for spreading allegations about Joe Biden.
Whereas Telizhenko had some restricted contact with Derkach, together with a late 2019 assembly with Giuliani, he was principally thought of a rival to the Ukrainian lawmaker competing for media consideration on main U.S. tales just like the election, the Russia collusion scandal and the Bidens. Regardless of his in depth help to the Obama administration, the State Division revoked Telizhenko’s U.S. visa in September, ending his capacity to journey to America, after the Derkach sanctions.
A number of U.S. intelligence officers instructed (media supply) that whereas Derkach is assessed to have ties to Russia and its intelligence companies, Telizhenko shouldn’t be believed to be affiliated with Moscow or a part of any Russian disinformation effort. “He has the outstanding drawback of merely having a number of the identical story traces as Derkach,” one official defined.
Lengthy earlier than the Derkach brouhaha, nevertheless, Telizhenko produced a replica of the Carter Web page file he created on the directions of his bosses within the Ukrainian embassy. He instructed Senate investigators he was requested by a high rating official within the embassy to provide the file in March 2016 after an American official wrote the embassy’s deputy chief of mission with an inventory of tales criticizing the then-Trump marketing campaign’s overseas coverage staff.
Telizhenko instructed (media supply) in an interview he was first requested to deal with George Papadopolous, one other Trump adviser who ended up figuring prominently within the disproven Russia collusion probe, and delivered a memo to his bosses on Papadopoulos in April 2016. He mentioned he completed the Carter Web page file in Might and was instructed to offer it to an official on the Obama White Home’s Nationwide Safety Council who was near Vice President Joe Biden.
Telizshenko’s supervisor contained in the Ukraine embassy “pointed on the display of her laptop to the identify of George Papadopoulos and mentioned we’ve to look into him and that I ought to put together by my contacts in US and Ukraine a brief report. Afterward she instructed me to look into Carter Web page and his Russia background,” Telizhenko mentioned.
“At the moment, I understood that there was one thing happening however when the result occurred that Mr. Papadopoulos and Mr. Web page have been focused within the FBI probe I couldn’t consider that it was finished additionally with the assistance of Ukrainian Embassy,” he added.
When Senate investigators first realized of Telizhenko’s account, they have been doubtful. However by information request from the Obama presidential archives and different witnesses, they have been capable of finding proof that Telizhenko had met with the Obama NSC official on the times he claimed he delivered the dossiers and in addition positioned an electronic mail from an American official to the Ukraine embassy in March 2016 that forwarded the important articles concerning the Trump overseas coverage advisers, together with Web page and Papadopolous.
However Johnson’s investigators have been finally blocked from formally interviewing Telizhenko by Democrats on the committee, ending the road of inquiry in the intervening time.
Telizhenko’s testimony provides to a rising physique of proof that particular person Ukrainian authorities officers took steps in 2016 to affect the U.S. election towards Trump, together with Telizhenko’s former boss, Ambassador to the USA Valeriy Chaly, who wrote an OpEd in The Hill newspaper in August 2016 slamming Trump’s insurance policies on Russia. Likewise, a Ukrainian court docket dominated in December 2018 {that a} senior regulation enforcement and a Parliamentary member in Ukraine wrongly took steps to affect the U.S. election by leaking proof in summer time 2016 towards Trump’s former marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
U.S. intelligence officers instructed (media supply) there isn’t any proof the Ukrainian authorities ordered a top-down intrusion on the 2016 election however that some particular person officers who supported Hillary Clinton appeared to have taken motion they hoped would possibly affect the election, or outright criticize Trump.
Their evaluation mirrors that of former Nationwide Safety Council Russia skilled Fiona Hill, who testified throughout impeachment proceedings in November 2019 that some Ukrainian officers “wager on Hillary Clinton profitable the election. And they also have been attempting to hold favor with the Clinton marketing campaign” however there wasn’t a top-down effort by Ukraine’s authorities.
“What I’ve seen is ill-advised Ukrainian officers, Ambassador Chaly’s been eliminated as being the ambassador from right here, made some fairly, you recognize, disagreeable statements or ill-advised op-eds,” she testified.
Contacted by (media supply), Web page mentioned he didn’t know concerning the Ukrainian file and located it “disappointing however not suprising.” He mentioned he had interactions with Ambassador on the Republican Nationwide Conference in 2016 and located the Ukrainian diplomat to be dismissive of his experience and Trump basically/
“We spent a while chatting. We talked just a few instances. I believe what I defined was what an ideal perspective candidate Trump had by way of U.S. relations with former Soviet republicans and countering Russia. And I may inform he was skeptical,” Web page mentioned.
To make issues extra fascinating, Telizhenko instructed a buddy that he frequently met with Alexandra Chalupa, a DNC operator of Ukrainian heritage. Yaacov Apelbaum has supplied a wonderful visible picture of Ukrainian Embassy officers mingling with Chalupa and different DC political luminaries:
Observe that Okasan Shulyar is recognized because the handler of Chalupa and Telizhenko reported to Shulyar. Shulyar is alleged to be an officer in Ukraine’s intelligence service.
