Posted on 05/30/2018 5:49:03 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Fox News's Andrew Napolitano said late Tuesday there is “no evidence” to support President Trump’s “Spygate” theory that the FBI planted spies during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Napolitano, the news network's senior judicial analyst, said on "The Story With Martha MacCallum" that Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is making a “baseless” claim.
“The allegations by Mayor Giuliani over the weekend, which would lead to us believe that the Trump people think that the FBI had an undercover agent who inveigled his way into the campaign and was there as a spy on the campaign, seem to be baseless,” Napolitano said.
There is no evidence for that whatsoever, he added.
Giuliani suggested on Sunday that former President Obama and his top intelligence officials “knew” that the FBI had used a top-secret informant to allegedly spy on Trump’s campaign.
The FBI did use an informant, identified in media reports as American professor Stefan Halper, who met with three Trump campaign advisers in 2016 — George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Sam Clovis.
No evidence has emerged, however, that the informant was used to spy on the campaign for political purposes.
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Exactly
Eddie Munster strikes again.
I hope Mark takes him to the wood shed again tonight because you know we shouldn’t be speaking like 2nd and 3rd yr law students and all.
Is the Judge a “Never-Trumper?”
I used to think the judge was rock-solid, but for the last year or so it sounds like he and Shep have been sleeping together.
a very tiny slick, smooth-talking moron.
“a very tiny slick, smooth-talking moron.”
I was on line behind him at the airport one day. He’s a fat, little midget who smells of garlic!
“The Deep State has the goods on all of them.”
It makes sense, that if the Obama Administration was abusing surveillance powers for political purposes (and how could those commies resist?), that they would have blackmail leverage over a number of Republicans.
Draining the swamp would result in those chains getting pulled.
That could be what we are seeing with Gowdy, Rubio and Napolitano, before the IG Report, and why Gowdy (among 43 other Republican Congressman) is retiring. Due to his position on the Government Oversight Committee, he would have been a priority target for them to control.
The Swamp may be being forced to play their trump cards now, and use them up. It does seem like a deeper level of defense is being triggered.
The main battle has not yet been joined (bringing them to justice), we are still maneuvering and shaping the battlefield. General Sessions has not yet advanced with an assault of arrests and prosecutions - but he does seem to have quietly assembled an Army of prosecutors over the last year.
I expect the main battle to be joined during this strategic election season. I am expecting an overwhelming Desert Storm like offensive - more of a slap down beating than a drag out fight. But the enemy always gets a vote in how things turn out. They have not had to actually fight in a long time though.
Bingo!!
What’s funny is all the fuss Andrew makes about people being spied on, thenjoy he denies people in government spy on each other.
The deep state owns this catcher for obvious reasons...
Are you kidding me? Trey Gowdy has been exposed as a RINO for several years. It’s one reason he is not seeking reelection. I had great hope that he was going to be the real deal, but he is just a haircut in search of a camera.
“That is the modus operandi of a spy, not an informant.”
Halper was a professionally trained spy, in the pay and under the orders of a world-class spy agency, conducting classic HUMINT spy operations.
What actual spies do to gather Human Intelligence, is recruit sources who have access, and then manage them. There is a large element of grooming and psychological manipulation - targets are typically assessed by teams before being approached, to determine what would be most effective at controlling them (flattery, blackmail, bribes, ideology, etc.).
The professional spy (case officer) is the handler, the people on the inside are the assets/informants.
Halper came at his targets with a typical broad array of spycraft tools, appealing to their ambition and egos, greasing them with nice trips and lucrative side jobs, buying the drinks and bringing a honeypot woman (Azra Turk, whose image seems scrubbed from Google). Professional spies typically seduce their assets.
The recruiting and manipulation power of this classic spycraft is such, that even those serving life sentences for spying, still like their handlers personally. People are seldom catered to by such broad spectrum psychological gratification, as that provided in a tailored package designed by a world class spy agency.
Thank you and my apologies to all the semi-evolved simians out there.
Remember - keep banging the rocks together.
Napolitano has been making Ex Cathedra legal statements for years. They are not nearly as informed as would have you believe.
Even less evidence for Mueller’s witch hunt and that’s been looked at from 1000 angles - most of which have nothing to do with it - so, Andy, what’s your point?
“Napolitano is probably jealous of Rudy.”
BINGO!
It’s sad that the biggest enemy to the Trump Administration is the GOP. Behind the scenes, the DNC must be ecstatic.
And let us not forget Halper's past forays into 'opposition research.'
From Wikipedia:
In 1979 he became National Policy Director for George H. W. Bush's Presidential campaign and then in 1980 he became Director of Policy Coordination for the Reagan- Bush Presidential campaign.[7] In connection with this position Halper's name came up in the 1983/4 investigations into the Debategate affair, which was a spying scandal in which Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials gave inside information on the Carter administration to the GOP campaign. Reagan Administration officials cited by The New York Times described Halper as "the person in charge" of the operation.[8][9][10] Halper called the report "just absolutely untrue".[11]
Judge’s new hairdye seems to be affecting him..
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