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Joseph Mifsud: The name of the generally unknown character in the Russia investigation came up, over and over, in the long-awaited House committee hearings with former special counsel Robert Mueller. Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio invoked the name as if it legally required the accompaniment of horror movie theme music; Mueller immediately snapped back that he would not discuss that man. Yet that did not deter Republicans. “Joseph Mifsud,†“Joseph Mifsud†— the mantra continued until the shadowy professor had emerged as the Keyser Söze of the Mueller hearings.Söze was the mysterious figure in the film “The Usual Suspects.†Another of the film’s characters, “Verbal†Kint, explained to an FBI agent that Söze was a criminal mastermind who committed horrible acts and then disappeared: “Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. Rat on your pop, and Keyser Söze will get you.â€Mifsud appears to be the story that Republicans tell their kids at night. However, it is a new story for most of us. ...While Democrats have been highly emotive in demanding answers to the “full†story about Russian efforts, they have consistently opposed any effort to investigate such contacts within their own party or associates, dismissing that as a distraction. Likewise, documented anti-Trump bias by key players in the Russia investigation is treated as “unfortunate†or “not relevant.†There is every reason to be concerned that these same key players used people such as Mifsud to launch an investigation during the Obama administration against figures in the opposing party. If the Bush administration had launched secret surveillance of Clinton’s campaign staff, the media would hardly have been so cavalier.That is how we end up with the mysterious Mr. Mifsud. He is unknown precisely because he is unwelcome in mainstream stories.... https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/455002-the-mysterious-mister-mifsud-and-why-no-one-wants-to-discuss-him
The reason nobody wants to talk about him may be linked to the two most important events of 2016 - the US presidential election and Brexit. They may have ended up being central in two massive Russian intelligence operations. That would be particularly embarrassing for western intel. https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-pictured-with-london-professor-from-fbi-russia-probe/amp/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/boris-johnson-brexit-russia-trump
Mifsud appears to be western intelligence; not Russian.
