Posted on 06/06/2018 9:39:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
These events should anger any red-blooded American who believes in representative democracy and the importance of the rule of law.
The intelligence bureaucracies spied on the Donald Trump campaign: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants were granted because of a Hillary Clinton-funded and unverified document, national-security letters were issued to allow warrantless spying, and the unprecedented but not-illegal-per-se unmasking of Trump officials’ conversations with non-U.S. persons was shockingly routine.
Yet the news of a CIA-connected human source operating as far back as April or May of 2016 is about more than just spying. It is the latest example in what now looks to be a long line of attempted setups by the Clinton team, many times aided and abetted by our intelligence bureaucracies.
These events should anger any red blooded American who believes in representative democracy and the importance of the rule of law. Let’s review eight examples.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
PROOF POSITIVE THAT OBAMA KNEW
Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——the signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 by AG Lynch —— is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s after-the-fact ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333”:
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.
Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.
SOURCE: powerlineblog.com
WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?
If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?
Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier.
The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:
Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the
Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This is pure boilerplate.
It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)
The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”
The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President .................Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything. And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
Good read. Thanks for posting.
I keep waiting for the FBI to come out with a ridiculous explanation for the redacted word “LURES”.
“Local Undercover Resource Expert System” or some such silliness.
They missed one: George Papadopoulos
Mueller got Papadopoulos to plead to a phony set of facts in order to further Mueller’s phony narrative of Russian collusion.
Mueller got Papadop to admit in the pleading that (1) he believed Professor Mifsud was a Russian agent, that (2) he never met Professor Mifsud until a chance meeting in Rome on March 14, 2016 AFTER the decision by the Trump campaign to appoint Papadop and that Mifsud was only interested in Papadop because the latter was a Trump advisor, in other words to get to Trump.
But pesky Internet sleuths searching the wayback machine discovered that Papadop had already been hired by Mifsud’s ICILP organization at the time the two supposedly met as claimed by Mueller. There was even a photo found on the Internet from February 2106 showing Papadop representing Mifsud’s ICILP at an event.
Why did Mueller force Papadop to plead to a lie?
1. To further the Russia collusion hoax.
2. To cover up FBI and IC wrongdoing.
Almost certainly, it appears, the government illegally spied on Papadop, a US citizen and in fact they were probably illegally monitoring Trump campaign communications in real time back in February-March 2016 and knew even before Papadop knew that he would be offered a spot as a Trump advisor.
Mifsud is almost certainly not a Russian spy but an asset of Western intelligence.
The government had to lie about the Mifsud-Papadop timeline, and get Papadop to swear to this in his plea agreement, so as not to reveal they knew beforehand a lot of stuff from illegally spying on the Trump campaign.
Illegally searching the NSA database and other sources for info on Papadop probably turned up dirt like his connection to Israel and other things that Mueller and the FBI could use against him to force him to agree to their phony narrative and timeline.
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Obama's intelligence bureaucracies spied on the Donald Trump campaign. He knew about and approved their surveillance. This is HIS scandal.
Obama is the most dangerous thing to this country time to purge the FBI and get someone who will put the participants in jail.
Amen.
ping!
Was Obama clever enough to come up with all of this?
Or, was it Valerie Jarrett?
Or, was it mostly the work of Brennan?
I can see Obama OK’ing the program, which he obviously did, but I’m curious as to whether the overall scheme outline was the product of one mind, or a team brainstorming effort? If it was driven by one person, who is that masked man? He’s evil and dangerous.
A lot of collusion was going on, no question......
Sessions should be up in arms about this grotesque abuse of the Constitution.
What a cowardly fool he is! Better to die in flames than watch silently while this nation is raped by these thugs.
Some have theorized that this was why; there may have been other reasons as well:
"U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! http://truepundit.com/breaking-bombshell-nypd-blows-whistle-on-new-hillary-emails-money-laundering-sex-crimes-with-children-child-exploitation-pay-to-play-perjury/ …": General Flynn (citing this article about Anthony Weiner: BREAKING BOMBSHELL: NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes with Children, Child Exploitation, Pay to Play, Perjury (11/02/2016))
"Flynn is his father's chief of staff and top aide. The elder Flynn pushed a conspiracy theory a week before the election that Clinton was involved with sex crimes involving children.": Son of Trump's incoming national security advisor pushes conspiracy theory targeting pizza parlor (12/05/2016).
Will anyone ever get so much as a parking ticket for any of this?
I stopped reading right there.
If this writer doesn't understand/is too stupid to understand that America is a Constitutional Republic I won't waste a minute more reading anything they write.
all stage craft. all scripted.
bttt
All that info is shocking, to be sure.
However, remember Flynn was to replace the execrable Susan Rice.
Nobody but Pres Hillary was EVER supposed to see the dirt Rice and the Halfrican left.
Hillary was supposed to sweep it under the rug. The Halfrican had to be protected.
So a jihad against Flynn was launched to thoroughly discredit him.
The perfect scenario (for them) was to make sure anything he uncovered would seem unbelievable.
But this is the Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight——so Flynn got indicted, on top of it all.
Evil collusion.
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