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Shellenberger exposes Obama's CIA
American Thinker ^ | 19 Feb, 2024 | Victoria White Berger

Posted on 02/19/2024 3:58:10 AM PST by MtnClimber

Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has broken a story on Substack this week exposing Barack Obama’s CIA both before and after the 2016 election:

1. Lying about Trump and Russia and Clinton (Hillary was actually Russia’s preference, but the CIA manipulated their own intelligence findings to stand the real conclusions on the head and point to Trump as the Russian preference; and.

2. Using international intelligence networks dominated by the U.S., to put out queries/ a.k.a. commit espionage upon 26 of Trump’s associates -- including Ben Carson.

SNIP

Remember the raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago?

“After Public and Racket {Matt Taibi’s site} 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.”

Oh, my -- is that why they broke into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home? Worried that he may have kept a copy of those documents he wanted unclassified?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5eyes; cia; ciaweaponization; espionage; obama; obamanation; rabbi; russiagate; sedition; shellenberger; spying; svr; treason; trubnikov; trump; weaponizedcia
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To: bert

Bump


61 posted on 02/19/2024 6:12:44 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: MtnClimber

Marking.


62 posted on 02/19/2024 6:16:04 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: hecticskeptic

Too Funny – CNN Begins Apoplexy Narrative Around “Missing” 10 Inch Declassified Dossier That Details Trump-Russia Conspiracy

December 15, 2023 | Sundance 

Big picture #1 – The FBI/DOJ is now seriously worried that President Trump will win the 2024 election.

Big picture #2 – CNN (Natasha Bertrand, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen) mouthpieces for the FBI Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy fraud, now begin positioning defenses against Trump’s evidence of the fabrication.  They want to proactively stop the dossier they know consists of the evidence.

FACT: The authors know all the details about the 10-inch-thick dossier that was given by Trump to the DOJ for declassification 1/20/21, but shout that it is now missing.

FACT: The raid on Mar-a-Lago came after President Trump filed a 108-page civil lawsuit [SEE HERE] in March 2022 against the coconspirators.  Including: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe.

The DOJ was given one copy of the 10″ binder to release publicly.  Now ask yourself, what documentary evidence was used to write the lawsuit?  lolol, duh!

The motive for the DOJ/FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is found in the search for the binder of evidence.  The national archives classified documents angle was the justification – the cover story.  The raid on Mar-a-Lago was the recovery effort.  Who authorized the Mar-a-Lago search warrant? The same judge from the civil action.

I have previously written about the binder {Go Deep} and all of the issues around it. The CNN article is filled with multiple tell-tale indicators of why it is written.  The emphasis is mine.

(Via CNN) – A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

As if “Russian election interference” is a real thing.  No, the information relates to the fraud of the “Russian election interference” story.

Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.

Notice the stakeholder, the SSCI.  The same SSCI that was at the legislative epicenter of the fraud.

In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.

The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.

The binder was last seen at the White House during Trump’s final days in office. The former president had ordered it brought there so he could declassify a host of documents related to the FBI’s Russia investigation. Under the care of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the binder was scoured by Republican aides working to redact the most sensitive information so it could be declassified and released publicly.

The Russian intelligence was just a small part of the collection of documents in the binder, described as being 10 inches thick and containing reams of information about the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. But the raw intelligence on Russia was among its most sensitive classified materials, and top Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to block the former president from releasing the documents.

The day before leaving office, Trump issued an order declassifying most of the binder’s contents, setting off a flurry of activity in the final 48 hours of his presidency. Multiple copies of the redacted binder were created inside the White House, with plans to distribute them across Washington to Republicans in Congress and right-wing journalists.

Instead, copies initially sent out were frantically retrieved at the direction of White House lawyers demanding additional redactions.

[…] an unredacted version of the binder containing the classified raw intelligence went missing amid the chaotic final hours of the Trump White House. The circumstances surrounding its disappearance remain shrouded in mystery.

US officials repeatedly declined to discuss any government efforts to locate the binder or confirm that any intelligence was missing.

The binder was not among the classified items found in last year’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a US official familiar with the matter, who said the FBI was not looking specifically for intelligence related to Russia when it obtained a search warrant for the former president’s residence last year. (read the entire article)

Because the FBI and “US officials” always tell the media what they are NOT looking for in a raid. [/sarc] Guilty conscience much?  Too funny.

Look, the binder itself is mostly information that has already been made public; the FBI issue is the unredacted aspect.   Which is exactly what we discussed here two years ago.  Here’s the refresher.

Last year, CTH outlined a four-part series of articles going deep into the background of the DOJ-FBI raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, along with the outline into why it was important to them.  It doesn’t matter how many different legal angles and Deep State justifications the DOJ attempts to deploy in order to divert away from what took place; the background of who, what, when and why they raided Mar-a-Lago will not change.

It is important to remember, the Presidential Records Act –the presented pretext for the document conflict– is not a criminal statute.  An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.

The DOJ-NSD warrant, and the subsequent raid on Mar-a-Lago, can only be related to records the U.S. government deems “classified” and material vital to national security interests.  Hence, DOJ National Security Division involvement.

In prior outlines, we have exhaustively covered the details of President Trump’s desire to publicly release information about DOJ and FBI conduct in their targeting of him during the fabricated Trump-Russia claims.  However, to understand the nature of the documents he may hold, we first review the declassification memo provided by President Trump to the DOJ upon his departure from office.

In broad terms, there are two sets of documents that intermingle and are directly related. First, documents that highlight the activity of Hillary Clinton’s team in creating the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory (2015/2016).  Second, documents that highlight the activity of government officials targeting Donald Trump within the same time frame (Crossfire Hurricane), that continued into 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Robert Mueller).

Think of the two sets of documents as evidence against two teams working in synergy.  Team one (Clinton) was outside government. Team two (DOJ/FBI) was inside government.  The documents pertain to both groups but are also divided.  That helps to explain the wording of the memo above.

The documentary evidence against the outside group (Clinton et al) would also involve government documented evidence as the DOJ/FBI inside group interacted with them.  Notes from interviews, materials provided, FBI 302 summaries of interviews, etc.

We can extract a lot of information on the first sets of evidence from the lawsuit filed by President Trump in March of 2022 – mostly against the outside actors. [LINK HERE]

The lawsuit was filed against specific persons, and most of those persons were interviewed by the FBI as part of the originating investigation.  Within the subjects of the lawsuit, we find names and groups including:

In addition to being named in the lawsuit, many of those names were interviewed by the FBI as part of the origination of the Trump-Russia investigation, and/or part of the ongoing investigation of the Trump-Russia fabrication. Each of those interviews would carry an FD-302 report summarizing the content of the interview, the questions and answers given.

The totality of those 302 documents is a lot of evidence likely consisting of hundreds of pages.

For the government officials on the inside, in addition to 302s (ex Bruce Ohr), there would be documents of communication between them.

Think about the full unredacted text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok as an example.  The DOJ publicly released over 600 pages of those text messages, and that wasn’t all of them.  The text messages were also redacted under claims of privacy and national security.  We can assume any version of these text messages declassified by President Trump would not be redacted.  Hence, you go back to the January 20th memo and see the notes about “privacy.”

We also know there are many pages of communication between DOJ lawyer Lisa Page and her boss in the FBI, Andrew McCabe.  Almost none of them were ever made public, but they exist.  This internal communication is likely the type of material contained in both the “binder,” left for the DOJ to release, and the boxes at Mar-a-Lago to be used as evidence against the named defendants in the Clinton lawsuit.

Bruce Ohr has 302s and emails relating to his involvement as a conduit between Fusion GPS and the FBI.  Some of those were released in redacted form, and some of them were never released.  Additionally, Nellie Ohr, Bruce’s wife, who worked at Fusion GPS invoked spousal privilege when called to testify before the House committee investigating the issues.  However, it is almost certain the FBI interviewed her, so there are likely 302s on Nellie Ohr.

Chris Steele, Igor Danchenko and Rodney Joffe were also interviewed by the FBI.  Those 302s were never released.  Presumably John Durham held stakeholder equity in that part of the Trump-Russia hoax, but the documentary evidence prior to January 20, 2021, that exists outside the special counsel, could also be in records at Mar-a-Lago.

Then we get to the big stuff…. The records and evidence, in unredacted and declassified state, that would drive the DOJ-NSD to claim vital national security interests.

The NSA compliance officer notified NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers of unauthorized use of the NSA database by FBI contractors searching U.S. citizens during the 2015/2016 presidential primary.  That 2016 notification is a classified record.

The response from Mike Rogers, and the subsequent documentary evidence of what names were being searched, is again a classified record.  The audit logs showing who was doing the searches (which contractors, which agencies and from what offices), as noted by Director Rogers, were preserved.  That is another big-time classified record.

In addition, we would have Admiral Rogers writing a mandatory oversight notification to the FISA court detailing what happened.  That’s a big and comprehensive classified record, likely contained in the documents in Mar-a-Lago… and then the goldmine, the fully unredacted 99-page FISA court opinion detailing the substance of the NSA compromise by FBI officials and contractors, including the names, frequency and dates of the illegal surveillance.  That is a major classified document the Deepest Deep State would want to keep hidden.

These are the types of documents within what former ODNI John Ratcliffe called, “thousands of pages that were declassified by President Trump,” and given to both John Durham and Main Justice with an expectation of public release when the Durham special counsel probe concluded.  That is why the DOJ has to make their moves now.  The Durham probe has concluded.

In short, President Trump declassified documents that show how the institutions within the U.S. government targeted him.  However, the institutions that illegally targeted President Trump are the same institutions who control the specific evidence of their unlawful targeting.

These examples of evidence held by President Donald Trump reveal the background of how the DC surveillance state exists.  THAT was/is the national security threat behind the DOJ-NSD search warrant and affidavit.

The risk to the fabric of the U.S. government is why we see lawyers and pundits so confused as they try to figure out the disproportionate response from the DOJ and FBI, toward “simple records” held by President Trump in Mar-a-Lago.  Very few people can comprehend what has been done since January 2009, and the current state of corruption, as it now exists, amid all of the agencies and institutions of government.

Barack Obama spent 8 years building out and refining the political surveillance state.  The operators of the institutions have spent the last six years hiding the construct.

President Donald Trump declassified the material then likely took the evidence to Mar-a-Lago, leaving the DOJ to make it public.  The people currently in charge of managing the corrupt system, like Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray and the Senate allies, are going bananas.  From their DC perspective, Donald Trump is an existential threat.

Given the nature of their opposition, and the underlying motives for their conduct, there is almost nothing they will not do to protect themselves.  However, if you peel away all the layers of lies, manipulations and corruption, what you find at the heart of their conduct is fear.  The need for control is a reaction to fear.

What do they fear most?…

…..THIS!

People forget, and that’s ok, but prior to the 2015 MAGA movement driven by President Donald J. Trump, political rallies filled with tens-of-thousands of people were extremely rare – almost nonexistent.  However, in the era of Donald J. Trump, the scale of the people paying attention has grown exponentially.  Every speech, every event, every rally is now filled with thousands and thousands of people.

The frequency of it has made us numb to realizing just how extraordinary this is.  But the people in Washington DC are well aware, and that makes President Trump even more dangerous.  Combine that level of support with what they attempted in order to destroy him, and, well, now you start to put context on their effort.

The existence of Trump is a threat, but the existence of a Trump that could expose their corruption…. well, that makes him a level of threat that leads to a raid on his home in Mar-a-Lago.


63 posted on 02/19/2024 6:19:16 AM PST by Bratch
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To: MtnClimber
The CIA is an independent government ruling America.

It was much the same in the USSR, where the KGB was the shot-caller.

64 posted on 02/19/2024 6:23:09 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: MtnClimber

Once again, wake me up when someone goes to jail


65 posted on 02/19/2024 6:27:19 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: Liz; FRiends

“But part of [0bama’s] success must be credited — if that is the word — to his own rhetorical talents and his ability to project an image that many people accept and welcome.”

*Satan Smiles*

Thomas Sowell is an amazing human being. If you don’t own his book of essays, get it. Recommended reading!

https://sowell.org/books/the-thomas-sowell-reader


66 posted on 02/19/2024 6:34:58 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: hecticskeptic; MtnClimber

“What parts of the story did Shellberger break that weren’t already out there 4 years ago?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/18/because-people-keep-asking/

____________________________________________

Exactly.

“TheConservativeTreehouse” has also been one of my go-to sites for truth since the Trevon days.


67 posted on 02/19/2024 6:48:29 AM PST by John Galt's cousin (Hey DeepState, "You are NOT the Boss of me, or US.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thx for the link.

Sowell made an appearance on Levin one night.

Lucky i saw it.


68 posted on 02/19/2024 6:55:48 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come tome, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: SaveFerris

“Reason #493,872 why I just don’t trust much of anything that an Establishment politician says”

***********

The Establishment only tell us what they want us to know. All inconvenient information is ignored, suppressed or carefully timed for release so as to manipulate public opinion. The manipulation never ends because their lust for power and control is boundless.


69 posted on 02/19/2024 6:59:57 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SaveFerris
"...I just couldn’t stand to listen to this guy; so I deliberately avoided him..."

Heh, if you are talking about Obama...I completely understand. I feel exactly the same way.

70 posted on 02/19/2024 7:00:49 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: John Galt's cousin
“What parts of the story did Shellberger break that weren’t already out there 4 years ago?

That's a good point, but the Mar-a-Lago raid and other lawfare have demonstrated to more voters how evil the Obama-Biden regime is. You knew it 4 years ago but now more people know how dangerous they are.

71 posted on 02/19/2024 7:03:44 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: MtnClimber

What happens next……nothing.


72 posted on 02/19/2024 7:06:15 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: RoosterRedux

Astute post.

Despite the risks inherent in such expansive agency powers the bureaucracies just keep growing ever larger, regardless of which party is in power. This relentless expansion gives them even greater power, and opens up even more opportunities for abusing it. Its past time to rein in these federal behemoths, but that’s not likely to happen. And so the abuses will continue.


73 posted on 02/19/2024 7:09:15 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Bratch

BTTT!!!!


74 posted on 02/19/2024 7:11:46 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: MtnClimber

“this 10-inch binder is missing from the CIA safe where it is supposed to be secured. “

Nope.

Trump had a couple people assemble the binders (I believe it took 3, together) a few months before he left office. With the intention of declassifying them en-masse right before the end of his term.

Because Congressional leaders and some quislings advicing Trump went bonkers over it (”Sources and Methods!!! Aaargh! Privacy! Aargh!!!”), he tasked Mark Meadows with walking through the DOJ to get minimal redactions.

Mark Meadows did, and Trump wrote a memo declassifying them all. Trump’s orders were to have them all published in the Federal Register.

Then some panic stricken DOJ people convinced Meadows to make one last pass to remove more PII even though it’s settled law it didn’t apply to the Executive Branch. Meadows caved, 1 day before Trump left.

But the memo is in effect, and they are declassified, period.

Apparently the binder went to the National Archives, and sits in a box. There is a quiet, good effort ongoing to retrieve them and publish. Largely via FOIA lawyers and journalists.

Whoever says the CIA has them in a safe sounds like another idiot Qook thing.

The strong rumor does exist that Trump had a copy made, and possibly took it with him. That came out right when the Mira Lago raid happened.

I hope he did, and still has it. Perfectly legal for him to have done so.


75 posted on 02/19/2024 7:16:04 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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To: Starboard
This relentless expansion gives them even greater power

That's why our country is now controlled by the Deep State.

The problem isn't (just) the Swamp. The Deep State runs the Swamp and together the Swamp and Deep State run the country.

There is no Republic...that's just window dressing.

As Clausewitz said (paraphrased), "War is politics by other means." When the Deep State and the Swamp cannot stop Trump using politics, they will move to the "other means."

76 posted on 02/19/2024 7:18:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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BKMRK — Russian Collusion.


77 posted on 02/19/2024 7:22:00 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: John Galt's cousin

I said “.... 4 years ago?’ in my post 37 but for many Freepers paying attention, it might have been more appropriate to say 7 years.... just sayin’ since much of this was all obvious in 2017.


78 posted on 02/19/2024 7:23:44 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Bratch

Thanks for your post 63.... I think you made my point!


79 posted on 02/19/2024 7:25:10 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; John Galt's cousin

“What parts of the story did Shellberger break that weren’t already out there 4 years ago?”

America has a very short memory, if not reminded periodically. The entire *Russia Collusion Hoax* needs to be repeated yearly, with added updates. Otherwise, it’ll be ‘sanitized’.


80 posted on 02/19/2024 7:40:43 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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