Posted on 07/24/2020 8:27:18 AM PDT by bitt
The new documents detail the FBI's attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
Newly declassified internal Federal Bureau of Investigation documents prove the top U.S. law enforcement agency used a so-called defensive briefing of the Trump campaign in 2016 to spy on and collect information about Donald Trump himself. The new documents, which are just the latest in a string of declassifications regarding the FBI operation to spy on the Trump campaign and later the Trump administration, detail the FBIs attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
The documents were formally declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on July 23 then provided to Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
In one of the documents declassified and released on Wednesday, FBI supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka wrote that he deliberately used the briefing to actively listen for topics or questions from Trump regarding the Russian Federation. Rather than provide the Trump campaign a specific warning that certain campaign principals were being targeted by Russian intelligence, the FBI instead gave a general, non-specific warning that foreign intelligence services might eventually target the campaign.
Pientkas written summary of the briefing noted that Trump, Michael Flynn, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were the only three Trump campaign members in attendance. Christies attendance had not previously been disclosed. The August 17, 2016 meeting came the day after the FBI opened a formal counterintelligence investigation against Flynn and just two days after FBI
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The Federal Bureau of Incrimination And Sedition (FBIAS) needs to be disbanded.
Totally corrupt.
And STILL NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THEM!!!
Everyone of the coup plotters should be hung by their feet starting with
St. Comey.
Nothing will happen to them because they were acting on orders from the Kenyan from Indonesia.
His usurpation will be protected at all costs because it would expose that our entire government is corrupt.
on the alternate Earth, they were hung after
300 million Americans, with pitchforks and
motorcycles, descended upon DC demanding
decimation for SEDITION/TREASON/MURDER/RAPE/TRAFFICKING
and its systematic coverup by the FIB.
THAT train has left the station!! WTH doesn’t know our entire govt. is CORRUPT!
Or neck...
Have NO “inside info” about this, but found it VERY INTERESTING that last night on Hannity, Greg Jarret—who has done EXCELLENT research on OBAMAGATE—expressed concern that Joe Pientka is being sequestered by the FBI, and does not appear to be under any kind of investigation.
Makes me wonder if Pientka is turning “State’s evidence”, or whatever it is called.
The problem isn’t the corruption, it’s the lack of accountability. We’ll always have corruption and crime, but it MUST be addressed and people need to be accountable.
Sincerely doubt he has turned......WRAY is DIRTY as hell, and if he is protecting him, he will NEVER turn!
WHY would they express CONCERN....if he is turning, they would be GLAD! He isn’t turning.
Yup.
This is all boob bait for the bubbas. No one care about more "evidence" reported in Conservative blogs or news outlets.
Unless Barr indicts the coup plotters and criminals, from Obama on down, all of this means absolutely nothing.
I know, but IF—and that’s a BIG if— he has turned, I doubt it would be publicised until the dirty FIBbers could be INDICTED, hopefully of COLLUSION against Trump.
The lack of coverage by the liberal media is an indictment of their bias. They will investigate Trump for the least bit of implied wrongdoing but ignore the biggest scandalmof our history because to do so would show that America’s first black President directed the political spying on of a rival candidate and a unlawful coup attempt.
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