Table of Contents
Foreword Roger Stone xi
Introduction xxiii
Part I Origin Stories: The Makings of Red November June 2016-November 8, 2016 1
1 Stranger Than Fiction 3
2 Steele, Christopher Steele 5
3 The Waters Run Deep 7
4 Old Dirty Tricks 10
5 The Dossier: A Failsafe Insurance Policy 13
6 Fusion GPS: Propagating Propaganda 16
7 Perkins Cote: The Intermediary 20
8 Meet the Ohrs: Bruce & Nellie 22
9 Digital Wars 24
10 Smoke But No Fire 28
11 The Hunt for Red November 30
12 Pay-to-Play: The Uranium One Deal 33
13 The Clinton Foundation 36
14 Cash for Trash 38
15 Clash of Cultures: Globalism versus Nationalism 40
16 Trump Tower Meeting 42
17 The Professor, the Diplomat, and the Eager Beaver 45
18 Carter Page: Russian Plant? 47
19 Cyber Warfare 49
20 The Crowd Mentality 52
21 Faux Russian: A Hoax Email Leak 54
22 William Binney Weighs In 57
23 Spy Games 59
24 James "Dirty Hands" Baker 63
25 Paramours: Peter Strzok & Lisa Page 65
26 Sources and Methods 67
27 Disinformation 69
28 The Finished, Filthy Product 70
29 The Hail Mary from Mother Jones 72
30 The British Connection 74
31 The Trump Card 76
Part II Election Aftermath: The Fallout November 9, 2016-February 2018 79
32 Hillary in Hiding 81
33 House of Cards: The Collapse of the Clinton Foundation 83
34 The Peculiar Death of Oleg Erovinkin 85
35 Déjà vu: Iraq and the Missing Weapons of Mass Destruction 87
36 Groupthink: The Hive Mentality of the Intel Community 90
37 Blind Faith 95
38 Refuting the Dossier 101
39 The Faultiness of Steele's Logic 108
40 The False Dogma of the FBI 110
41 Widening the Net: Paul Manafort and Rick Gates 112
42 Rod Rosenstein: Friend or Foe? 114
43 Retracing Steele's Steps 116
44 FISA Warrant 118
45 FISA-gate 120
46 The Decline of the Fourth Estate 122
47 Deep State 2.0 124
48 The Strzok-Page Text Messages 126
49 The Untouchables: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama 127
50 Cabal at the FBI 129
51 Bruce & Nellie Ohr: Take 2 132
52 Media Distraction 133
53 US Meddling in Elections 135
54 Perpetuating Myths and "Fake News" 137
55 Congressional Witch Hunt 139
56 The Evolution of Fake News 141
57 Sleeper Agents: Russian Trolls 144
58 The Second Dossier 148
59 Memo Wars: A Political Pissing Contest 151
60 Guilty by Osmosis 159
61 Loose Connections 161
Conclusion 164
Postscript 168
Afterword 171
Appendices 175
Appendix A Intelligence Community Assessment into Russian Activities and Intentions in US Elections 177
Appendix B Steele Dossier 202
Appendix C Memo from Grassley to Comey regarding FBI Investigation into Steele 237
Appendix D Letters from Trump, Sessions, and Rosenstein on firing Comey 240
Appendix E Appointment of Special Counsel from the Office of the Deputy Attorney General 246
Appendix F Memo from Grassley and Graham to Rosenstein and Wray, regarding Steele communication with US media 247
Appendix G Nunes memo 257
Appendix H Schiff memo 263
Appendix I Statement of the Offense, filed against Flynn by the Special Counsel's office 273
Appendix J House Committee Findings 279
About the Author 280
