Posted on 02/13/2018 1:40:57 PM PST by Signalman
A new name in the greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of American politics, namely the conspiracy by liberal Democrats to frame and destroy President Trump with the 35-page lie we now know as the Trump dossier, is now being mentioned, but investigators want to keep his name as hush-hush as possible, obviously for his own protection and to maintain as much secrecy as possible in the investigation of the Obamagate scandal.
Bill Preistap is the Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division and Peter Strzok’s boss. Multiple sources are now corroborating that Preistap has flipped and is fully cooperating with investigators in the Obamagate scandal.
Preistap was certainly a central figure in the acquisition of the Trump dossier, using it to obtain a FISA warrant to wiretap the Trump campaign even though the document and its source (Sidney Blumenthal) had no credibility whatsoever. Clearly, Preistap knows every detail of the conspiracy to frame President Trump.
Comey threw Preistap under the bus in his testimony before Congress. When asked why he didn’t notify Congress of the surveillance of candidate Trump as required by law, Comey said that he kept the Trump investigation secret because Priestap advised him to.
No wonder Preistap flipped!
1. Get to know this name: Bill Priestap
2. Bill Priestap is the FBI Director of Counterintelligence.
3. Bill Priestap was the immediate supervisor of FBI Counterintelligence Deputy Peter Strzok . Priestap is #1, Strzok was #2.
4. The investigation into candidate Donald Trump was a counterintelligence operation. That operation began in July 2016. Bill Priestap would have been in charge of that, along with all other, FBI counterintelligence operations.
5. FBI Deputy Peter Strzok was specifically in charge of the Trump counterintel op. However, Strzok would be reporting to Bill Priestap on every detail and couldn’t (according to structure anyway) make a move without Priestap approval.
6. On March 20th 2017 congressional testimony, James Comey was asked why the FBI Director did not inform congressional oversight about the counterintelligence operation that began July 2016.
7. Director Comey said he did not tell congressional oversight he was investigating presidential candidate Donald Trump because the Director of Counterintelligence suggested he not do so. *Very important detail.*
8. I cannot emphasize this enough. *VERY* important detail. Again, notice how Comey doesn’t use Priestap’s actual name, but refers to his position and title. Again, watch [Prompted]
9. FBI Director James Comey was caught entirely off guard by that first three minutes of questioning. He simply didn’t anticipate it.
10. Oversight protocol requires the FBI Director to tell the congressional intelligence “Gang of Eight” of any counterintelligence operations. The Go8 has oversight into these ops at the highest level of classification. At the time this was the group:
11. Based on what we know, and what has surfaced recently, we can all see why the FBI would want to keep it hidden that they were running a counterintelligence operation against a presidential candidate. As FBI Agent Peter Strzok said it was an “insurance policy”.
12: FBI Agent Strzok to FBI Attorney Page: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office that there’s no way he gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
12 (b). “Insurance Policy” text link
13. So James Comey is telling congress that the reason he didn’t inform the statutory oversight “Gang of Eight” was because Bill Priestap (Director of Counterintelligence) recommended he didn’t do it.
14. That’s called creating a “fall guy”. FBI Director James Comey is ducking responsibility in March 2017 by blaming FBI Director of Counterintelligence Bill Priestap for not informing congress of the operation that began in July 2016. (9 months prior).
15. At that moment, that very specific moment during that hearing, anyone who knows how these things roll could see Comey was creating his own exit from getting ensnared in the consequences from the wiretapping and surveillance operation of President Donald Trump.
16. Bill Priestap is James Comey’s shield from liability.
17. There has been NO MENTION of Bill Priestap in any of the recent revelations, despite his centrality to all of it.
18. Bill Priestap would have needed to authorize Peter Strzok to engage with Christopher Steele over the “Russian Dosssier”.
19. Bill Priestap would have needed to approve of the underlying documents that were used for both FISA applications (June/July and Sept/Oct).
20. Bill Priestap would be the person to approve of paying, or reimbursing, Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier used in their counterintelligence operation and subsequent FISA application.
21. Without Bill Priestap involved, approvals, etc. the entire Russian/Trump Counterintelligence operation doesn’t happen. Comey’s testimony is also evidence of Priestap’s importance.
22. In addition, when Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified (w/ James Clapper), she too spoke of the important of Priestap as her liaison and contact within the FBI on the counterintelligence operation. [Yates never mentioned Peter Strzok – not once.]
23. Even though it was FBI agent Peter Strzok who interviewed Michael Flynn on January 24th, [link below] Sally Yates never mentioned him. EVER. saraacarter.com/2017/12/04/fbi…
24. However Deputy AG Sally Yates did talk about Bill Priestap during her testimony.
25. Yates said she and Bill Priestap traveled together, Jan 26th, to the White House to inform Don McGhan (WH Counsel) of Michael Flynn “misleading statements” (based on Pence media reports and Flynn prior ambush interview Jan 24th).
26. According to Sally Yates testimony, she and Bill Priestap reportedly presented all the information to McGahn so the White House could take action that they deemed appropriate.
27. So you can see that Bill Priestap is a central figure. Comey defers to him; Yates relied on him; Strzok reports to him; etc.
28. Yet there’s no mention of Bill Priestap in any of the explosive investigative story-lines in the past two weeks. Why?
29. Bill Priestap is FBI Director of Counterintelligence. There’s no way he hasn’t been caught inside the investigative net.
30. Priestap’s boss, Andrew McCabe has been caught. His subordinate, Peter Strzok, has most certainly been caught. And previously FBI Director Comey pushed him in front of the bus.
31. Either Priestap is going to be the attempted fall-guy for the entire scheme.
-OR-
Bill Priestap saw the bus coming and is assisting the scheme investigators:
I will take my information from wherever can get it. I’m not racist.
I am very hopeful that big things are happening behind the scenes! Let’s see the traitorous scumbags taken down. I can hardly wait for the IG report and what follows. They must not disappoint.
He can always claim that he vas just following orders. Hehehe.
Both AG Sessions and FBI Director Wray are very bland in public, making it seem like nothing at all is happening. I share the hopes of all of us that a political/legal earthquake is imminent, but we have been disappointed plenty of times before. Let’s hope that the IG really has all the goods, that Priestap (and others) are singing, and that all the traitors big and small will be going down. Is that too much to ask????
This is the reason that in criminal conspiracies and RICO enterprises, that the first person to go to the feds gets pretty much a free pass on indictments and prison.
My only question is who is doing the investigation of the corruption.
This will implicate major players outside of the FBI so it will surely be something beyond what the OPR can prosecute. From what we can see already in open sources this should dwarf Watergate. It already looks like Obama was directly involved.
NO.
CINC added to his EO that retired .mil can be called back, and turns out you DON’T have to be a flag officer to serve on a USMC Tribunal.
Let the games begin.
Exactly. It sure isn't the copy room intern.
Something like that could only happen with the approval of the top guy.
If this article is right, then Priestap is cooperating. If I am right, Priestap cooperating is proof of DOJ involvement in the investigation. If DOJ is running the investigation or even just approving of it and providing immunity, then Sessions is on his J O B. And if all that is right, then Q was right to tell us to "Trust Session."
Q lives
You and me both, goodman. :)
Nothing like an opening paragraph that says the source’s name is being kept confidential for his protection, then paragraph after paragraph after paragraph identifying him. Sheer genius.
Mueller's job is to keep his investigation going forever, because when he ends it, he's going to be indicted.
That'll never happen. Gut it of all authority other than to provide analysis of classified material others collect and call it something else for good measure. I suggest something that makes the new role clear like, WRS, for Wimps Reading Stuff.
An uncompromised AG would have at least drawn a red line in the sand...’These kinds of activities are UN-AMERICAN. All those involved in this conspiracy will be brought to justice.’
But Sessions sent out a message LOUD AND CLEAR to the corrupt state...He bent over, lubed up and turned the other cheek.
Sessions is not recused from whatever Horowitz is doing. This is entirely separate from Mueller, no connection there at all. Horowitz’s team began their investigation eight days before Trump took office. It went entirely unnoticed until last fall when we first heard the names Strzok and Page and Ohr.
None of the memos coming out of Congress make mention of Preistap even thought his boss and immediate subordinate are mentioned everywhere. Those same Congressmen and Senators appearing on news show never mention Preistap other than maybe in passing.
The only reasonable thing to conclude it that Preistap is talking to investigators. Based on his position, he knows who are the honest investigators.
One thing is certain in this sea of uncertainty, if it is true that Priestap is singing and thus got some kind of deal from someone, then there is a lot more going on than even the informed public has any clue about.
Of course this could be just poor deduction on the part of CTH and not even in the ballpark. However, there is so much smoke being created that somewhere under it all must be a pretty good fire.
Andrew McCarthy has written extensively (from a federal prosecutor’s point of view) about how important it is to get that first rat to sing. The rest fall in line after that.
Concur most strongly.
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