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:
The CIA has carried out operations against US citizens within the US for decades by working through the FBI or by giving their own people FBI credentials. The chosen approach, blaming Russia and claiming Trump was their puppet, is classic CIA and the fact that the FBI rather than the CIA handles counterintelligence is a meaningless technicality now that the Homeland Security beast has been created.
Brennan is at the heart of this and he won’t flip because he sees helping the DNC machine take over and destroy the Constitution as his duty as a Muz Lame.
JMHo
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Right........... this was on CTH two days ago. Is this powdered wig society affiliated with them?
The IG report is purely fact-finding as I understand it. I don’t know if the IG could grant any immunity or not. I would think immunity in exchange for cooperation with have to come from someone with senior prosecutorial power, such as Rosenstein, Mueller, or.... Sessions, ultimately. I don’t know how Priestap could ever be “singing like a canary” unless he has been granted immunity OR a deal for lesser sentencing.
Sundance/ConservativeTreeHouse has done great work assembling this, but I don’t know if there is any public “corroboration” yet.... I have not seen anything that could be called “corroboration” regarding Priestap cooperating. Suggestive nuggets, sure, but where is the actual evidence and corroboration?
It's a strange phenomenon.
Q lives
Most bloggers don’t plagiarize as brazenly as this one. Most make some attempt to make the information their own and add their own extra content or spin.
No doubt the argument seems solid as originally postulated by Sundance and co.
They didn't send you a daily update with all the details of the investigation? I got mine. I must be special.
Q lives
“...this will all slop up on Hitlerary and Portrait Putz.”
Hopefully during the summer when the Dems really ramp up their campaigning. With any luck, we can reach crescendo and voters will begin asking some tough, informed questions at town hall meetings when the donks go on the soapbox circuit.
“If you read the Conservative Treehouse you would have known this a long time ago.”
Of all the chatter this one gives me the most . . . dare I say . . . HOPE
The only person I can think of - that we know about - who Priestap could be cooperating with is the IG Horowitz. There have been comments regarding a number of other ongoing investigations by Sessions, mentioned almost casually, but we have no information about those - whatever they are - at all.
This piece looks very close to a lift from CTH, and has been the stuff of scuttlebutt for at least a couple of weeks now.
“That Pirro-Stewart exchange being about the best of the lot so far.”
That’s my opinion, too. And that was pretty thin gruel.
Yeah, I think it sounds like Dan Bongino’s way of talking/writing too.
This author is a plagiarist and lifted all this from Sundance, much of it verbatim.
Sundance over at CTH has had this story for months.
“The head of the snake”
U talkin bout CAR-VILE ?
Or perhaps Grassley/Graham or Nunes...he could be cooperating there, but the Democrats would then know all about it, and he’d need protective custody then.
I postulate that Priestap knows how exposed he is and that Comey tried to use him for cover and cut him loose. He's a savvy DC cat. He would seek out better protection than the IG could provide him. Only the DOJ can make him a reliable deal.
That's my theory.
Q lives
I’ve been traveling and not online for two weeks.
Has there been a single indictment yet?
I know you think you are smart, but you have very serious reading comprehension problems. It is SUNDANCE who claimed multiple points of “corroboration” not ME. I was pointing out that, so far as I have seen, Sundance has not published such “corroboration”... suggestive details, yes, but not what could be regarded as EVIDENCE that Priestap is cooperating under some kind of “deal” with prosecutors.
As for the “Q” b.s., that is just LARPing for the mentally challenged. I’m sorry that you are so taken in by that. There may be a lot of good nuggets there (because anyone can assemble some of the publicly available facts and make some plausible speculations), but not because the “Q” author is any kind of super-duper secret US govt official at the head of a group of Great Patriots buried in the DEEP STATE. He is a young anonymous blogger who sucks in the gullible.
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