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Ex-CIA Chief Brennan Told by Durham He Is Not Target of Criminal Probe: Spokesperson
The Epoch Times ^ | August 22, 2020 | TOM OZIMEK

Posted on 08/22/2020 8:40:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Captain Walker; JoSixChip
I have to agree with J6C. Barr's tenure has been less than productive and if you read DOJ's mission statement one could easily conclude that Barr is a foot dragging zero, if not worse. To save you the trouble of looking it up the DOJ's mission is as follows:

"To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans."

During his disappointing tenure as the AG violence, looting, lawlessness, and domestic terrorism have blossomed in this country. I don't thin many would argue with that. And what has Barr done other than make some token arrests?

He could, and should, have done far more to uphold justice and to "ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic" as he is obligated to do according the the department's own mission statement.

Barr's behavior thus far has been more like that of a bureaucrat in an unstable and corrupt banana republic rather than the Attorney General of the United States.

He's been in office a year and a half and has made just one Spygate related charge against a single DOJ attorney. Consider that this scandal is THE worst political scandal in the history of this country. Simply pathetic.

61 posted on 08/22/2020 11:47:19 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: glasseye
Dems Colluded with foreign countries to generate propaganda to affect a Presidential Election.
They forced a bogus investigation, and in typical Dem fashion, they accused Trump of doing what they did......

.......there are dozens of memos that make up an actual diary of moment-by-moment events, during the FBI
investigation of Donald Trump (as candidate and as president), documented by Obama's FBI Director Comey......

SOURCE: CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE | 4/9/2019 | SUNDANCE / FR Posted by bitt
A late day submission to DC Circuit Court in a FOIA case reveals the content of previously
unknown James Comey memos
. Obama's entire anti-Trump operation is memorialized in writing:
<><> how Obama’s FBI Director James Comey wrote down the sources and code-names assigned;
<><> how confidential sources engaged with FISA coverage initiated by Obama's FBI;
<><> naming foreign governments assisting Obama and Hillary with their vile efforts;
<><> and the rollout plans for Obama's phony investigation....."by the book."

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During her ill-fated campaign Hillary bragged about “foreign governments” supporting her election.

Are these the same “foreign governments” Comey had assisting their efforts to frame Trump? (smirk)

That would mean Obama, Comey and Hillary were colluding with
foreign governments to meddle in our elections, wouldnt it Donald?

62 posted on 08/22/2020 11:49:50 AM PDT by Liz
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To: milagro
My point was not that they discussed his companies.

My point was that his companies as well as many other things could be under investigations not related to Friday's discussion....Therefore Friday's discussion could have been about a matter in which Brennan was not a target, but just a knowledgeable witness.

For instance he could have been questioned about FBI activities, the Halper mystery or any number of things.

If so, advising him that he is not under investigation in Friday's meeting does not alter the fact that he is under investigation on other matters.

In short, talking to the FBI thinking you are smarter than they and have nothing to worry about has its hazards.

Ask General Flynn or Marth Stewart how they feel about it.

63 posted on 08/22/2020 11:53:02 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Durham said nothing nor will he. No leaks means no leaks.


64 posted on 08/22/2020 11:53:36 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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CIRCA 2016---Brennan Created Obama-era "CIA Trump Task Force"
Ordered to spy on; carry out covert actions to destroy 2016 candidate Donald Trump
Brennan admits he may have relied on “bad information” for his relentless attacks on Pres Trump
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GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 11/3/2019 | Larry C. Johnson / FR Posted by bitt

This is alarming news that Obama's CIA Director John Brennan reportedly created and staffed a CIA Task Force in early 2016 that was named, Trump Task Force, and given the mission intel community structure?

https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/ex-cia-head-brennan-on-trump-attacks-i-may-have-relied-on-bad-information/ …

John Brennan Ex-CIA head Brennan on Trump attacks: I may have relied on ‘bad information’ Former head of the CIA John Brennan admitted on Monday that he may have relied on “bad information” for his relentless attacks on President Trump.

From The New York Post: Former head of the CIA John Brennan admitted on Monday that he may have relied on “bad information” for his relentless attacks on President Trump. Brennan — who once warned that “our Nation’s future is at stake” — told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he may have been misled on the extent of Trump’s connections to Russia. “Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Brennan said. “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.” He’s relieved. Sure he is. Wonder if this has anything to do with Durham interviewing him here soon. Hrm. (Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...

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Brennan’s not smart enough to have created this coup... but there IS intelligence involved. That’s where it gets interesting... The handlers seem much more like old style KGB style stuff - or old American Communism: red diaper babies (grown-up), University of Chicago Hyde Park commies, Columbia University commie thugs... etc “stuff”. I’d look for black converts too - people others are afraid to criticize...

65 posted on 08/22/2020 12:04:05 PM PDT by Liz
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BRENNAN FOOLED?———If one of our top ex-intel officials says he got fooled by “bad info”... what does that say about the Much of this revolves around how the United States government eventually reached its January 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian meddling and whether Brennan was pushing for a biased result.

One major battle was about the identity and credibility of a CIA source allegedly close to the Kremlin. The NSA wanted more details about him, which the CIA resisted before providing them. The NSA then disagreed with the CIA and FBI about how much confidence to place in the source.

At least some intelligence officials were disturbed by a law enforcement officer such as Durham inquiring into the assessments made by intelligence agencies, though Durham played a similar role in confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton by contrasting her unfavorably.

“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy, I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations and, in the end, I made that call,” Rogers told the Senate in May 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”

It was Brennan’s still-classified “wake-up call” intelligence that prompted the Obama administration to reconsider how it viewed Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed last week. The specifics of the intelligence which jolted Obama’s national security team into action is detailed in a blacked-out section titled, “[Redacted] Intelligence Was The ‘Wake Up’ Call.”

Within an hour or two of being briefed on the intelligence, then-national security adviser Susan Rice said Obama needed to know.

Rice said “the president’s reaction was of grave concern” which “prompted her to call the first of a series of restricted small-group Principals Committee meetings on the topic.”

“During the meeting with the President, Director Brennan also advised the President of a plan to brief key individuals, including congressional leadership, but not to disseminate the intelligence via routine reporting channels,” the Senate report stated.

The committee noted “the receipt of the sensitive intelligence prompted the National Security Council to begin a series of restricted Principals Committee meetings to craft the administration’s response” and said the discussions “were atypically restricted” and “excluded” key officials who were normally clued in.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that “the extraordinarily restricted nature of the meetings and departure from routine methods of disseminating intelligence were reminiscent” of how they handled preparations for the Osama bin Laden raid. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates called it “very cloak and dagger.”

The list even initially excluded the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Treasury secretary.

“Several NSC officials who would normally be included in discussions of importance, such as the NSC Senior Director for Russia, the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, and the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator were neither included in the discussions nor exposed to the sensitive intelligence until after the election,” the report said.
The Brennan-relayed intelligence was likely detailed in a June 2017 Washington Post article, which stated that in early August 2016 the CIA sent an “eyes only” envelope addressed to Obama which contained an “intelligence bombshell … from sourcing deep inside the Russian government” which detailed Putin’s “specific instructions” to help Trump and hurt Clinton in 2016. The material was said to be so sensitive it was kept out of the President’s Daily Brief.

One day after Trump gave Barr “full and complete” declassification authority to examine the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation in May 2019, the New York Times published a piece on this source “long-nurtured by the CIA” whom the outlet hinted was now in danger of being exposed in Russia — but he had already left the country. The source’s initial resistance to being pulled out reportedly led some to question whether he might be a double agent.

Hotly disputed reporting by CNN and others in September 2019 about the reasons for the alleged source’s apparent 2017 exfiltration from Russia eventually exposed his identity and revealed he was living in the D.C. area.


66 posted on 08/22/2020 12:07:04 PM PDT by Liz
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WATCH Former CIA Brad Johnson on the resignation of Italian Intel Leaders https://youtu.be/myx7tm5cw1s

SpyGate Shake-Up: Prime Minister of Italy Fires Top Officials from Italian Intel Agencies
By Debra Heine May 17, 2019 3:14 AM EST

In a surprise move Wednesday, Giuseppe Conte, the prime minister of Italy, fired the top management of three Italian intelligence agencies.

The move is being seen as the Conte government’s response to the previous government’s coordinated surveillance activity with U.S. intelligence officials during the 2016 U.S. election.

Il Giornale reported: As revealed by La Repubblica , the Conte government has requested that four deputy directors – two from the Information Security Department (Dis), one from the External Security Information Agency (AISE) and the other from the Internal Security Information Agency (Aisi) – voluntarily resign.

In fact, underlines La Repubblica , a complete reset, excluding the directors – two of whom have already been appointed by this government – of the entire top-level framework of our Services.

There are six, in total, free seats at the top of the Services that the majority must have been parting for some time: in fact, in addition to the four who resigned, there is the vacant one in Aise after the appointment of Luciano Carta at the top of the Agency and that of Vincenzo Delle Femmine, deputy director of the Aisi retired from June.

The shake-up comes as “SpyGate” (known in Italy as “ItalyGate”) heats up with new developments breaking almost every day.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/debra-heine/2019/05/17/spygate-shake-up-prime-minister-of-italy-fires-top-officials-from-italian-intel-agencies-n65903


SOURCE-—CITIZEN FREE PRESS: Italy flips on Brennan, fires 6 Intelligence directors

Members of Italian intelligence were approached by Hillary Clinton, the Obama Administration, and the Deep State to frame trump by PLANTING EVIDENCE on American servers to force Trump to step down from office.

(hat tip bagster-— Neon Revolt article)..... members of Italian intelligence found a target in a Rome-based
Republican-sympathizer who had two servers for his company, Westland Securities, located in America.
One was in Washington State, and the other in West Virginia.

The plan was for Italian Intelligence to hack into these servers, plant classified emails from Hillary’s servers
inside these servers on American soil, and then alert the FBI.

The FBI would then raid these locations, “discover” these e-mails, investigate, link these servers to Trump…

And then force Trump to resign.

<><>And if the Italian Intelligence actually has ACTUAL classified e-mails from Hillary Clinton, that’s another crime in-and-of itself.

<><>This is like a bad cop planting evidence to fabricate a crime.


67 posted on 08/22/2020 12:14:55 PM PDT by Liz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Not a target....” (at this time)


68 posted on 08/22/2020 12:19:08 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cops are permitted to lie.


69 posted on 08/22/2020 12:56:43 PM PDT by myerson
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To: MortMan

70 posted on 08/22/2020 2:00:23 PM PDT by bitt (IF YOU CAN PROTEST IN PERSON, YOU CAN VOTE IN PERSON Donald J. Trump)
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To: proust
Roger Stone was briefly campaign manager.

Learn to read, Stone had NOTHING to do with the 2016 campaign.

71 posted on 08/22/2020 2:01:44 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

don't worry...

we know someone...

who is all over this ..

. ...and will inevitably

'wear it better' than Brennan...









WRWY



72 posted on 08/22/2020 2:04:34 PM PDT by foldspace (Hillary is still not a >convicted< criminal...)
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To: corlorde

bookmark


73 posted on 08/22/2020 2:07:27 PM PDT by corlorde
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To: Col Frank Slade

Comey told Trump he wasn’t a target .........


In a very few words, you hit reality right between the eyes.


74 posted on 08/29/2020 12:02:24 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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