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.

[hinckley buzzard]

Flynn served under Obama and tried vigorously to dissuade him from the Iran sellout. Obama took that as disloyal and an attempt to upset his moslem loving apple cart.

[eyedigress]

There is no doubt this is some kind of revenge factor for something.

Flynn must have stood up to Obama and he didn’t take it well.

[Starboard]

Yes, finding good people to serve was problematic but it was up to Trump to thin the ranks of the Deep State and get rid of Obama’s holdovers. After all, he’s the one who ran on “Draining the Swamp”.

Management 101 says never leave disloyal people in positions where they can undermine you and your agenda. Because if you do, they will.

[newfreep]

Tom Waits is my favorite singer/songwriter...at least based on his 70s albums. "Small Change" is an absolute masterpiece and the album cover featured a young actress (Cassandra Peterson) who later created the iconic character, "Elvira".

His previous album "Blue Valentine" featured his then live-in girlfriend (Rickie Lee Jones) on the back cover.

[hinckley buzzard]

Recall a cartoon from the Nixon era. A cabinet room table with each name plate and the stamped word “indicted” except for the seat at the head of the table, labeled “un-indicted co-conspirator.”

Since Obama is suddenly so interested in “precedent,” there’s one for him to chew on.

[Verginius Rufus]

Didn't Richard Nixon tell David Frost, "If the President does it, it's not illegal"?

Sort of like the maxim from the Corpus Juris Civilis: Quod placet principi legis vigorem habet.

Obama and his henchmen have a lot riding on the November 2020 election. If the Democrats win, they're all home free and the DNC talking points will be what future generations learn in their history books. (That is, if there are history books in the future.)

[AlexisHeavyMetal1981]

Trump Increases Attack Against Obama With ‘Obamagate’ Tweet

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How interesting would it be for PDJT to suddenly tweet out “SoteroGate” instead of “Obamagate”.

[gloryblaze]

Encasing a dossier...

[Miss Didi]

Now, think about the implications of what McCarthy is telling Captain Tick-Tock in this clip.

Captain Tick-Tock--LOL!

[gloryblaze]

Oh, that Obama... he’s just so ... definitive. What a guy!

[southernindymom]

That is what I am afraid of, of depressed to know that that is what will happen or NOT happen

[DownInFlames]

But Hillary was suppose to win!

[Beth2034]

So when is he and the rest of his cronies going to jail? I would say never....we will see.

[Beth2034]

So when is he and the rest of his cronies going to jail? I would say never....we will see.

[rockrr]

Thoughtful people *knew* that Øbama was aware of the plot against Trump - even if they couldn’t prove it. What will be interesting to discover is if he took an active role in the plot or merely looked the other way.

[mowowie]

Good Point

[Vaduz]

Barack Hussein Obama His Own Self was fully aware of and likely involved in the planning of Spygate.

One could wager his handlers had the plan in the works as they prepped him he came out of nowhere 90 days in the senate and gets elected.
Remember Hillary’s FBI file that were missing or 2 years,the democrat party has had a plan in the works for years and Trump ended it they will do ANYTHING to get the plan back on the table.
Going to look like the Clinton accidents on a grand scale.

[Right Wing Assault]

Actually there is a much better video of a Wallace interview that appears to have been scrubbed by YouTube.

It would be nice for it to pop up somewhere. Someone has to have a copy.

[43north]

“Obama was trying to sabotage the 2016 presidential election and when that didn’t go well, Obama orchestrated a coup against the incoming president.”

Personally I think owebama is too dumb and too lazy to do anything like this. Valerie Jarrett on the other hand...

[ClearCase_guy]

Understood. I definitely see Jarrett as playing an important role.

But in terms of CYA, if you’re Comey or Brennan and this woman shows up and suggests that you break the law in multiple ways, it has to set off alarm bells. No one would just do that. I think it’s likely that, in some fashion, there were meting with Obama, and Jarret and these other principals. And maybe Jarrett suggests that Brennan might look into certain activities. And Brennan says, “Mr. President, is that what you want me to do?” And Obama says, “Whatever Valerie wants, I’m good with it.”

I really think there must have been some presidential “approval” or else no one would take the risk of going rogue and just go off and “do stuff”. Saying “Valerie told me to” isn’t good enough. Career politicians don’t take that kind of risk.