The plot against Trump had deep roots dating back to Michael Flynn’s career
by Michael Ledeen
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It may well be that ill-willed FBI and CIA agents working against Trump evolved from a much narrower scheme that targeted Michael Flynn long before Donald Trump brought Flynn on to his team, first as a campaign adviser, and then as head of the national security council.
Life does not run in a straight line, and top officials in the intelligence community long had it in for Flynn, ever since he changed the way we did intelligence against al Qaeda in Iraq, and then against the Taliban and Iranian-supported terrorists in Afghanistan. The changes put both intelligence-gathering and anti-terrorist operations primarily under battlefield control, significantly diminishing the power of Washington-based intel officers. These high-ranking officials remained hostile thereafter, as Flynn moved to the headquarters of national intelligence, and then to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He was essentially fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who told him he should retire. This came on the heels of Flynn’s sworn congressional testimony criticizing the Obama administration’s failed Afghanistan policy. This showed, once again, that Flynn understood how badly we were doing, and would not collude with the intelligence community. Indeed, he intended to carry out an audit of covert funding since the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (none has been done in all those years).
https://canadafreepress.com/article/sessions-guide-to-burying-a-federal-investigation
Sessions Guide to burying a federal investigation
By Lee Cary
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Here are the four steps to killing the investigation of the Russian Uranium One Deal, and more.
I. Appoint an investigator who’s a hold-over from the Obama administration...
II. Appoint someone far from DC: The Out-of-Sight/Out-of-Mind Factor
Since his appointment became known, reports of Huber’s progress are…non-existent. ...
III. Assign someone a wide mission, and the liberty to ignore it all...
IV. When asked about the investigation, say “No comment”
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About a month earlier, in late March 2019, a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Karl “Bush’s Brain” Rove said essentially the same thing. It was entitled: “Move On From Robert Mueller, Mr. President, Obsessing over the investigation’s origins isn’t the way to win over swing voters.”
Coincidence? Maybe. But it may represent efforts to push a GOP Establishment meme calling Republicans to forgive-and-forget. If so, the meme died quickly.
But an unanswered question lives on: How is it that Jeff Sessions assigned responsibility to a U.S. Attorney to investigate Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation, and the alleged misleading of the F.I.S.A. Court by senior F.B.I. officials, and did not want to see anything come of it?