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Explaining Russiagate Exposé (Matt Taibbi)
Racket News ^ | 2/13/24 | Matti Taibbi

Posted on 02/14/2024 7:03:40 AM PST by CFW

Apologies for any inexact language, I’m dictating from the road back from Ithaca.

This afternoon a story came out on Public that I co-wrote with Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag. Like our previous collaborations, this is a breaking news story, one that we worked on for many weeks.

Without giving away the whole story, this first installment relies on a never-released classified report to describe a broad political espionage campaign that reportedly involved at least 26 Trump aides and associates. I strongly urge anyone interested in the topic to check out the article, titled “CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say” on Public.

However, this is a very complicated story with a lot of moving parts, and as material comes out today and tomorrow I wanted to create a livestream so that I could walk readers through what we actually have in this story.

For those interested in attending, I will be back home tonight by 6:30 pm and you can visit the stream at the following locations:

Click Here for Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRszPj1WKA&ab_channel=RacketNews

Click Here for Rumble

https://rumble.com/v4d6ulh-explaining-russiagate-expos.html

In the coming days, there will be articles and supplemental materials published here on Racket to make all this easier to digest. For the last eight years, this has been one of the most over-covered stories in the world and we’re hoping that some of these new revelations will help lead to the winding up of this matter. We’re not all the way there, but these exposés I think represent a significant step.

In any case, thanks, and looking forward to seeing you all tonight. If you have questions, please put them in the comments.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: binder; corruption; deripaska; fbi; igorsushchin; mcgonigal; obama; olegderipaska; russiacollusionhoax; russiagate; sushchin; taibbi
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This is part one of a three-part series on the Russia Trump collusion conspiracy.
1 posted on 02/14/2024 7:03:40 AM PST by CFW
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Here is the link to the article on Public that he refers to in the article above.

https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump

“CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say”


2 posted on 02/14/2024 7:06:00 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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BTTT


3 posted on 02/14/2024 7:07:05 AM PST by nopardons
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Folder? What folder?

The coverup has already happened.

https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1757590814719443014


4 posted on 02/14/2024 7:09:15 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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Are you telling me Russia, Russia, Russia isn’t true? Why are killing tens of thousands of Russians a year in our proxy war?


5 posted on 02/14/2024 7:11:25 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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As we follow this story, we should bear in mind the impact this treason has on diplomatic relations with Russia and the horrifying toll this damaged relationship has cost in human lives - a cost that the establiiis determined to drive yet higher, fueled by US funds, whether taxes or borrowed. I don’t think this was primarily about Trump per se; he was just a potential monkey wrench in the outworking of the Neocon agenda (which Haley has been convinced to support).


6 posted on 02/14/2024 7:12:05 AM PST by Palmetto State Conservative
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For the last eight years, this has been one of the most over-covered stories in the world


Whaaa???


7 posted on 02/14/2024 7:13:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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“Are you telling me Russia, Russia, Russia isn’t true? Why are killing tens of thousands of Russians a year in our proxy war?”


Shocking thing to learn isn’t it? In this first segment, Taibbi is going through all the stuff we have known for years. At twelve minutes in, he first mentions the secret binder containing the Russiagate evidence that the CIA is looking for.


8 posted on 02/14/2024 7:14:15 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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We need a modern day equivalent of the Church committee, but it won’t happen, because Congress let the intelligence agencies run wild enough that they have blackmail on everyone in Congress by now.


9 posted on 02/14/2024 7:15:07 AM PST by Boogieman
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10 posted on 02/14/2024 7:16:51 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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Given those most in Congress are corrupt and were in on the conspiracy against Trump, you are right in that such a thing as the Church committee can’t happen these days.

Just a note: This video is a hour and a half long and the best way to listen to it is put it on in the background and listen to it as you do other stuff. If something new and previously unknown catches your ear, you can back it up and listen to it again.


11 posted on 02/14/2024 7:29:29 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Explaining Russiagate Exposé:

The CIA, FBI, NSA, Prog Socialist Democrats and Deep Swamp Committed TREASON against Sitting President Donald J. Trump, The Constitution Of The United States and the American People, further they enlisted the aid of several Willing Western Nations and Western Mainstream Media Disinformationists.

12 posted on 02/14/2024 7:30:41 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say

United States Intelligence Community targeted 26 Trump advisors for foreign spy agencies to “reverse target” and “bump”

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, MATT TAIBBI, AND ALEX GUTENTAG, FEB 13, 2024

Last year, John Durham, a special prosecutor for the Department of Justice (DOJ), concluded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should never have opened its investigation of alleged collusion by then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and Russia in late July of 2016.

Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.

The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.

If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.

https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump


13 posted on 02/14/2024 7:32:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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Please note the date this article was published: November 08, 2021 04:21 PM.

Five Eyes? Nine Eyes? Try Four Eyes!
by Tom Rogan, National Security Writer & Online Editor | November 08, 2021 04:21 PM.

Excerpted:

The “Five Eyes” intelligence partnership should be shrunk to four members, not grown to nine.

Note that Rogan leaves New Zealand out of that list.

That cuts to the heart of why Gallego’s proposal is problematic. Because while New Zealand is a Five Eyes member, it cannot credibly be described as a true Five Eyes ally. Ultimately, the Five Eyes arrangement centers on two powers and one principle: Britain and the U.S., and trust. In particular, the alliance thrives thanks to the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain’s GCHQ sister service. Australia provides the alliance with a useful boosting effort in the Asia-Pacific and supports related military activity. Canada provides a capable but limited contribution (albeit one that will grow in utility with increasing Russian military activity in the Arctic).

New Zealand, however, offers more harm to the Five Eyes than it brings benefit.

Eviscerating Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s claims of moral leadership, her government has broken with the other Four Eyes and is openly beholden to China. Indeed, the penetration of Chinese People’s Liberation Army and Ministry of State Security espionage is so pronounced, its agents (yes, plural) have even served in New Zealand’s Parliament. To his credit, Gallego appears to recognize at least some of this problem. He rightly noted to Copp that Singapore offers greater naval access to the U.S. Navy than New Zealand.

Regardless, the lesson of New Zealand is not to expand the Five Eyes but to limit it. Where intelligence material can be shared with others to mutual benefit, it should be. But the sometimes separate, sometimes conjoined Sino-Russian challenge to the U.S.-led international order is immense. In that regard, expanding the Five Eyes would risk far more than it would gain.

Gallego should instead push for Four Eyes. Were he to do so, he would be deserving of bipartisan support:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/five-eyes-nine-eyes-try-four-eyes


14 posted on 02/14/2024 7:37:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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What is Five Eyes?

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/what-is-five-eyes/#:~:text=The%20Five%20Eyes%20alliance%20is,sharing%20signals%20intelligence%20(SIGINT).


15 posted on 02/14/2024 7:53:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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Five eyes is a criminal conspiracy construct designed to evade US laws prohibiting the CIA from spying on American citizens.

US law prohibits this activity. So the CIA hires foreign governments to spy on American citizens. Then they claim they were handed the information by another government so they did not violate US law.

But they set up the entire arrangement for that end. Now they even provide the targets.

It’s like murder for hire and the person who set it in motion claiming innocence.

16 posted on 02/14/2024 8:00:02 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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This story is ultimately going to require a synthesizer of the highest caliber. There is a huge mass of very detailed, very complex material, and this will continue to grow. That’s what we have to deal with in real time. But eventually, someone will need to pull it together in the way that Allen Weinstein did for the Hiss-Chambers case and Ron Radosh did on the Rosenberg case.


17 posted on 02/14/2024 8:12:42 AM PST by sphinx
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18 posted on 02/14/2024 8:33:51 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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This is the real deal...written and researched by leftists who refused to back down when confronted with facts.


19 posted on 02/14/2024 11:01:10 AM PST by DouglasKC
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Bkmrk


20 posted on 02/14/2024 12:26:35 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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