Deep State Conspirators Shared Unmasked Targets With Foreign Intelligence Services

Remember the US intelligence trick? They can't spy on US citizens without a warrant sufficient to clear the probable cause evidentiary hurdle. But if they tell foreign intelligence services to do the spying and slip the results back to the US intelligence community, they get their spying done by proxy, avoiding a judge's scrutiny and any intersection with the US Constitution at all.

I think that that sort of thing maybe can be used on occasion. When there's something very serious to investigate.

But here? No one has been charged with any kind of espionage or conspiracy with Russia after two and half, maybe three years of foreign intelligence service wiretaps, US wiretaps, undercover agent infiltration, grand jury investigations, etc.

Was this really the sort of situation where you resort to the anti-constitutional back door to get your spy on?

Well, it is -- if you're determined to win an election for your successor and the intelligence community supports you in that, and no one minds that they are devolving the United States of America into the grubbiest, most venal third world junta.

"A secret memo granted broad rights to the FBI to share information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with foreign officials. Two-way exchange of information with foreign officials could allow the politicized targeting of Americans, since foreign nations aren't obligated to uphold the U.S. Constitution. The efforts by the Justice Department to gather information on Trump aides repeatedly involved figures associated with foreign agencies.

Foreign allies strongly opposed President Donald Trump declassifying information illuminating the investigation into Russian collusion."

Well, their names can be blacked out and recorded as "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES 1 and 2" as we do when we mask other actors we don't wish to embarrass.

But the story of how the Obama Administration weaponized the intelligence community to rig an election must be told.

Monica Crowley argues in favor of a theory many of us believe -- that the intelligence community, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, etc. have been attacking Trump as viciously as possible because they know that they themselves might be facing actual criminal proceedings, and they want to make the record as dirty as possible so that non prosecutor would press such a case involving accusations and counter-accusations.

"The best defense, the saying goes, is a good offense. The key orchestrators of the Big Trump-Russia Collusion Lie seem to have hewed tightly to that tactical advice.

Over the past two years, one of their biggest "tells" has been their hyper-aggressive and gratuitous attacks on the president. Given that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no collusion or obstruction of justice, their constant broadsides now look, in retrospect, like calculated pre-emptive strikes to deflect attention and culpability away from themselves.

By accusing Mr. Trump of what they themselves were guilty of, they created a masterful distraction through projection.

We now know that former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, are hip-deep in the conspiracy. Both wrote supposed "tell-all" books and carpet-bombed the media with interviews in which they regularly flung criminal accusations against the president. Whenever asked about their own roles, they reverted to denouncing Mr. Trump.

With Mr. Mueller's findings, Mr. Comey's and Mr. McCabe's media benders look increasingly suspicious.

As do those of their comrades in the Obama national security apparatus, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and his partner in possible crime, former CIA Director John Brennan, who, apart from former President Barack Obama himself, may be the biggest player of them all." ---

--- "It was clear that Gowdy, who left office this year, already suspected Brennan largely had relied on the infamous Steele dossier as the primary source for his claims about Russian election activity. Gowdy asked Brennan directly whether the CIA had relied on the dossier.

"No," Brennan answered. "It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community's assessment that was done. Uh, it was, it was not."

[T]he report was always thin gruel to fortify such a damning accusation; the substance of the document runs about 12 pages with plenty of white space, irrelevant images and a graph of the social media footprint of news outlets such as Russia Today and CNN....

Now, there are questions about Brennan’s truthfulness in that testimony. On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tweeted that "a high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report . . . Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP."

It's a widely held belief -- which can't yet be proven, because the FBI and DOJ won't tell us anything about what they did to get the FISA wiretap authorization -- that the First FISA application, which was denied by the court, relied almost entirely on the dossier.

Having had that "corpus of intelligence" rejected as bullshit, they then attempted to phony up a case against George Papadopolous and Carter Page and get a FISA warrant based mostly on bullshit about them -- while still referencing the dossier.

Again, we can't prove this, but it is interesting that the FBI and DOJ are so stridently opposed to telling the people who pay their salaries what did happen here.

Finally, Devon Nunes says he might refer up to two dozen people for possible criminal charges, largely owing to lying to Congress and investigators -- a criminal law which has previously only applied to Republicans or Republican-associates, but which it's time to begin imposing on Democrats and Obama officials.

"Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., appeared to raise exceptions for the number of people who could be the subject of a criminal referral he plans to submit to the Justice Department in the coming days that focuses on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. ...

"The American people need to have confidence in the FBI and the Department of Justice. We are working on the referrals," Nunes said. "There's going to be many of them. There are going to probably at least be a dozen if not two dozen individuals, and as we continue to get more information and build these and build them out, we want to make sure that everything is finished before we turn them in."

Affirming commentary by host Sean Hannity about preventing future underhanded tactics to undermine President Trump, Nunes said, "There are people who definitely lied and misled Congress, OK? If they don't go to prison, we are going to have a two-tier Justice Department, justice system in this country and it is not going to be good for the American people."

5EYES

A JOURNAL OF CHRISTIANITY & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

What You Should Know About the “Five Eyes” Intelligence Community!

Joe Carter | May 19, 2017

Alliances | Intelligence & Espionage:

Here’s what you should know about the partnership that has been described as the “Five Eyes,” the “world’s most exclusive intelligence sharing club”:

1. The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence community consisting of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand. The FVEY group is a cooperative, complex network of linked autonomous intelligence agencies from each of these countries.

2. The FVEY partnership began with the UKUSA agreement, first called the BRUSA Agreement. This agreement, signed in March 1946 and still in effect, was the basis for cooperation in signals intelligence between the two nations. The agreement was later extended to include former British Dominions—Canada in 1948 and Australia and New Zealand in 1956.

3. For most of FVEY’s existence, the details about the existence of the arrangement have been kept strictly confidential. The partnership was so secret that Australian prime ministers were reportedly unaware of its existence—or their country’s involvement—until 1973. The program was also not acknowledged by the U.S. or UK until 2010 when both countries declassified documents relating to the partnership.

4. The group got its name from the way intelligence products are classified. For example, a Top Secret document intended only for Canadian intel officials, explains James Cox, would be stamped as, “TOP SECRET—CANADIAN EYES ONLY.” Intelligence products to be shared with the group of closest intelligence allies are marked “SECRET— AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/US EYES ONLY.” According to Cox, in conversation allied intelligence personnel adopted the term “Five Eyes” as a form of verbal shorthand because it was easier to say than “AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/US.”

5. The FVEY partnership focuses on the subset of intelligence collection known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). SIGINT is a category of intelligence comprising all communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, and foreign instrumentation signals intelligence, however transmitted.

6. The agencies within FVEY have a uniquely open and close relationship. As one senior member of Britain’s intelligence community has said:

When you get a GCHQ [UK’s SIGINT organization] pass it gives you access to the NSA too. You can walk into the NSA and find GCHQ staff holding senior management positions, and vice versa. When the NSA has a piece of intelligence, it will very often ask GCHQ for a second opinion. There have been ups and downs over the years, of course. But in general, the NSA and GCHQ are extremely close allies. They rely on each other.

And as Richard J. Aldrich says, “Sharing in this realm [SIGINT] between the United States, the UK, Australia and Canada is so complete that national product is often indistinguishable.”

7. During the Cold War, the FVEY partners reportedly developed a global communications monitoring program known as ECHELON. The program is said to have used ground-based signal stations located around the world to collect Soviet satellite communications. Since then, the program is claimed to have developed the ability to monitor emails, fax, telephone, and Internet communications. ECHELON is believed to capture all communication traffic and sift through it for keywords or other suspicious activity.

8. The original UKSUSA agreement “evolved into a common understanding that both governments will not target each other’s citizens/persons.” However, a 2005 draft of an NSA directive says the partners “reserved the right to conduct intelligence operations against each other’s citizens “when it is in the best interests of each nation.”

9. Last year Canada announced it would temporarily stop sharing metadata with FVEY partners because the Communications Security Establishment (CSE)—Canada’s equivalent of the NSA—“did not properly minimize Canadian identity information contained in certain metadata prior to being shared.”

10. In addition to the Five Eyes alliance, a number of other surveillance partnerships exist, such as: 9 Eyes: the Five Eyes, with the addition of Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Norway; 14 Eyes: the 9 Eyes, with the addition of Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Sweden; and 41 Eyes: all of the these countries, with the addition of the allied coalition in Afghanistan.

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Joe Carter is an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College, an editor for several organizations, and the author of the NIV Lifehacks Bible.

https://providencemag.com/2017/05/know-five-eyes-intelligence-community/

You are welcome.

Freepers might want to know about 5EYES and the countries who make up 5EYES.

They spy on us and we spy on their people.

Then we use FISA rulings to use the data they got on our citizens. Candidate and President Elect Trump and probably President Trump was spied on by the Brits.

Then via FISA warrants granted by liberal judges, Brennan, Clapper, Covey, Lynch and ???? were given that data.

FISA warrants info:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/02/27/sharyl_atkinson_how_comeys_fbi_spied_on_the_trump_campaign.html

“Journalist Sharyl Attkisson, the host of “Full Measure,” follows up on her interview with former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell about her allegation that the “entire Russia collusion narrative was made up” by anti-Trump political partisans in the FBI and Department of Justice. Attkisson reports how one FISA warrant against Trump staffer Carter Page could be used to legally surveil 25,000 people who were associated with him:

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