Obama Knew, And Now We Know, Too

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

It has grown increasingly obvious over the last few weeks that Barack Hussein Obama His Own Self was fully aware of and likely involved in the planning of Spygate from the very beginning. The drip, drip, drip of newly-declassified documents, most of them forced out into the sunlight by Acting DNI Ric Grenell and Attorney General William Barr, is providing an increasingly transparent picture of just what the former president had to know and when he must have known it.

VDO.AI Over the weekend, we talked about the fact that then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was stunned to discover during a meeting on January 5, 2017 with Obama and James Comey that Obama was fully aware of all of the details surrounding the effort to entrap and frame General Mike Flynn, including the fact that the FBI was illegally recording Flynn’s phone calls during the presidential transition. This meeting occurred more than 3 weeks before the FBI’s carefully-choreographed entrapment interview with Flynn.

So, we know that Obama was intimately involved in that piece of the growing Spygate scandal. But it is almost certain that he was much more deeply involved than that, going all the way back to the germination of the effort to spy on and entrap certain members of the Trump Campaign, which we know began in late 2015.

We know that because all of those efforts were being conducted out of FBI headquarters under the umbrella of a counterintelligence investigation. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy told Captain Tick-Tock, Sean Hannity Friday evening, counterintelligence investigations are conducted for the president, and their progress is included in the president’s periodic intelligence briefings, which Obama received on a daily basis.

Here is a clip of McCarthy’s comments, followed by a transcript:

Praying Medic @prayingmedic 18) Andrew McCarthy noted that counterintelligence investigations are done to provide information to the President about threats to national security.

The president and his staff are kept informed on investigations through the President's daily brief.#Obamagate

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Transcript:

McCarthy – What I’m saying is not that the president sits there and directs that there be counterintelligence investigations. What I’m saying is that, unlike criminal investigations, counterintelligence investigations are done for the president. The only reason to do them is to inform the president with the information he needs to protect the United States from foreign threats. They are not like criminal investigations in that regard.

So, in principle, the information from a counterintelligence investigation is for the president. And here, we know at various junctures we have actual factual information that this investigation was well-known to President Obama.

Hannity -Ok, so, if he knew, and this is all happening, he had to know about it from the get-go. Doesn’t that also imply that he would have been updated about all of this, if he’s the one that needs it for national security decision making?

McCarthy – Sean, if things were working properly, the President should’ve been alerted about it and informed about it. It was a very important investigation. If they actually believed what they were telling the court, that it was a possibility that Donald Trump was actually a plant of the Kremlin, it would have been derelict on their part not to keep the President informed.

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Now, think about the implications of what McCarthy is telling Captain Tick-Tock in this clip. Everything, every element of Spygate, was coordinated out of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, which at the time was headed up by Bill Priestap, who reported to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. This is why the demonic Peter Strzok had such a heavy role in every piece of the operation – he reported directly to Priestap at the time. So did FBI agent Joe Pientka, who conducted the Flynn entrapment meeting along with Strzok.

Comey and McCabe and Strzok have all claimed at the FBI formally kicked-off its counterintelligence operation against the Trump Campaign at the end of July, 2016, in an operation they named “Crossfire Hurricane.” But we know from a variety of documents now in the public domain that FBI and CIA operatives were in fact targeting Trump campaign people like George Papadopoulous way back as early as November, 2015.

We also now know that the FBI was engaged with and using information provided by British spy Christopher Steele throughout this entire time frame. And we also know that the FBI was fully aware that Steele’s information – which consisted mostly of salacious rumors provided by agents of Russia and other foreign governments – was highly questionable and very likely false. And finally, we also know that the FBI and DOJ were fully aware that Steele’s efforts were being funded by the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the DNC, which Clinton controlled at that time.

All of this is information that Barack Obama His Own Self almost certainly became aware of through his daily intelligence briefings.

Think about what else was going on under the rubrick of Crossfire Hurricane. That know-to-be-false information provided by Christopher Steele was being used by the FBI as its foundation for defrauding the FISA court and acquiring a series of illegally-obtained FISA warrants. The FBI used one of those illegal warrants to justify the tapping of Trump Transition Team phones, including General Flynn’s.

Obama knew. All of this. Every bit of it.

Now, think back to last Thursday and the breaking news that Acting DNI Grenell had hand-delivered a satchel filled with additional documents directly to Attorney General William Barr. What if those documents included copies of those daily intelligence briefings that were provided to then-president Obama during this time frame?

This could explain why President Trump suddenly switched from using the term “Spygate” to calling it “Obamagate” over the weekend. Obama’s sudden realization of how exposed he had left himself in all of this may have also motivated his decision to leak the tape of his carefully-scripted phone call with the “Obama alumni association” on Saturday.

Obama knew. He knew everything. Throughout the entirety of the 2016 presidential campaign, we had a sitting U.S. president fully aware of and actively participating in a spying operation on the nominee of the opposition party. He thought he was invulnerable because surely Hillary was going to beat Trump.

But then Trump won. And that victory by Trump necessitated the mounting of a coup d’etat on American soil in order to protect Obama and all of his his team, a coup effort that started with the attempt to entrap and frame General Mike Flynn.

Sidney Powell, Flynn’s badass lawyer who has had access now to far more information than is currently in the public domain, certainly thinks this is the case:

Tammy Bruce ✔ @HeyTammyBruce ICYMI video, the full @SidneyPowell1 intv w @MariaBartiromo on @SundayFutures. Much discussed, including: "President Obama was in on plot to 'frame' Flynn, attorney says" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flynn-attorney-claims-president-obama-was-in-on-plot-to-frame-him …

President Obama was in on plot to 'frame' Flynn, attorney says Former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn's lead attorney accused top officials of orchestrating a plot to frame her client, insisting that former President Barack Obama himself was in on...

Obama knew. Everything.

This sure will be an interesting week.

That is all.

[gnickgnack2]

Maybe there was only one Paige in that Satchel.

[CodeJockey]

Obama will never be held to the same standard as DJT. Something about his race makes him untouchable. It’s really amazing.

[FLT-bird]

Unfortunately, for political reasons, Obama is indeed untouchable.

All of his corrupt minions aren’t. Comey, Sztrok, McCabe, Rosenweasel, Priestap, Ohr, Pientka, Brennan.....they are all on the hook. I sincerely hope all of them are fully prosecuted.

[Old Yeller]

The best thing to come out of Obamagate will be that Big Mike will sit the Biden VP sweepstakes out.

Hillary agrees. Saves her from arranging a Big Mike suicide.

[V_TWIN]

“President Obama was in on plot to ‘frame’ Flynn”

I go one better...it was HIS idea all along.

[Brilliant]

Obama says he does not get involved in FBI business:

https://youtu.be/2jRYXp—bKA

Actually there is a much better video of a Wallace interview that appears to have been scrubbed by YouTube. But I found the transcript:

WALLACE: Mr. President, when you say what you’ve just said, when Josh Earnest said, as he did — your spokesman — in January, the information from the Justice Department is she’s not a target, some people I think are worried whether or not — the decision whether or not, how to handle the case, will be made on political grounds, not legal grounds.

Can you guarantee to the American people, can you direct the Justice Department to say, “Hillary Clinton will be treated — as the evidence goes, she will not be in any way protected.”

OBAMA: I can guarantee that. And I can guarantee that, not because I give Attorney General Lynch a directive, that is institutionally how we have always operated.

I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line, and always have maintained it, previous president.

WALLACE: So, just to button this up —

OBAMA: I guarantee it.

WALLACE: You —

OBAMA: I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.

WALLACE: And she will be —

OBAMA: Full stop. Period.

WALLACE: And she will be treated no different —

OBAMA: Guaranteed. Full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

WALLACE: Even if she ends up as the Democratic nominee?

OBAMA: How many times do I have to say it, Chris? Guaranteed.

WALLACE: Finally, we’ve seen in this campaign, I think both on the — among some Trump voters, and among some Sanders voters — anger —

OBAMA: Yes.

[Gnome1949]

So, Richard Grenell delivered a “satchel charge” to Attorney General Bill Barr?

[1Old Pro]

Obama is nervous, thus the planned yahoo leak.

[Starboard]

If this is true, there should be an archived record of these daily briefings.

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I would think so. What if a president needed to review the events and circumstances that led up to a national crisis and wanted to trace its development? The historical view from an intel standpoint would be an invaluable resource to draw on. For that reason, it seems logical that the daily briefings would be accessible to those with a need-to-know.

[oldtech]

I remember a TV commercial ad for some off-brand picante sauce some years ago. It was a bunch of cowboys out on the open range & it was meal time. Somebody was passing around the picante sauce until they found out it was “made in NYC”. They wanted to hang the cook. The punchline for the ad which might be appropriate here was “somebody get a rope”

[JusPasenThru]

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone’s out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man’s blind in one eye
And he can’t see out of the other
And the piano-tuner’s got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

And you can’t find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can’t get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me

[Starboard]

This was always Trumps biggest ‘problem’

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Trump’s biggest problem has been his reluctance to fire people, especially in the early days of his presidency.

[dfwgator]

Trump’s biggest problem has been his reluctance to fire people, especially in the early days of his presidency.

Trump's biggest problem was that good people, in the private sector, didn't want to give up their jobs, to take the arrows which would come from working for Trump. The Deep State was prepared to make their life Hell, and they made sure they knew it.

[Starboard]

Tucker Carlson would probably like to see this info.

[moovova]

“...Big Mike will sit the Biden VP sweepstakes out.”

Hopefully, in the near future while sitting alone in her new multi-million dollar mansion, Big Mike will be humming that Eagles song “Lying Eyes”...and the line “Late at night, the big old house gets lonely.”.

[moovova]

Binders?

[Starboard]

They weren’t “mistakes”. They were clear abuses of power, and about as close to treason as you can get. Downplaying the severity of this is a disservice to the country.

Refusing to acknowledge the true nature of problems means they will never be fixed.

Mike Lee is perpetrating a lie.

[Peter W. Kessler]

I don’t believe any of them will flip. There are two things at stake: Incredible amounts of money, or certain death.

[Lurker]

Love me some Tom Waites.

L

[hinckley buzzard]

You will now we are nearing the end game when the media begins to yammer about us becoming a “Banana Republic” where the sitting regime prosecutes the remnants of the regime they just deposed.