The Priestap File

DataRepublican record

Connections

Relations subject stored as E. W. Priestap. Direct edges only, retrieved 2026-08-25. No officer HIT. Intergraph rows among neighbors are not redrawn. Emphasis is the compiler’s.

Fact

The DataRepublican node is E. W. Priestap — the same man this file calls Bill Priestap. The stored edges are the Australia information, the campaign investigation, Papadopoulos, Flynn, an FBI operation with Stefan Halper, and three Menschel in-law lines. That is the graph. It is not a family smear sheet beyond those stored labels.

The chart below is only the stored edges. A line is not a crime. A board seat is not an invented affiliation. Opinion is in the marked band at the bottom.

Chart

Source for each edge

  1. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Received information from Australian government about meeting with → Alexander Downer.
  2. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Opened FBI investigation into campaign's potential collusion → Donald Trump.
  3. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Oversaw FBI investigation involving → George Papadopoulos.
  4. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Investigator of former National Security Advisor → Michael Flynn.
  5. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Involved in FBI operation with → Stefan Halper.
  6. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Father-in-law → Richard Menschel.
  7. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Uncle-in-law → Robert Menschel.
  8. DataRepublican relations graph, retrieved 2026-08-25. Edge: Mother-in-law → Ronay A. Menschel.

What this is not

It is not a finding that E. W. Priestap committed a crime. A stored “opened FBI investigation” edge is a stored label. The Horowitz report still governs what the inspector general found; this page does not rewrite it.

No officer HIT. Intergraph rows (Papadopoulos–Downer, Papadopoulos–Halper, Flynn pardon, and the rest) are not redrawn as if Priestap authored them.

It is not a White House product. It is not a Method page.