Posted on 08/15/2020 2:06:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Spygate and The Steele Dossier Were The Cover Story – The Real Issue is Years of Obama-era Surveillance
CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 4/22/2019 | SUNDANCE
FR Posted on 4/23/2019, 2:14:58 AM by bitt
If you read the Weissmann/Mueller report carefully one aspect stands out strongly; the Mueller investigation was fully committed to The Steele Dossier. An inordinate amount of the report is focused on justifying their investigative validity and purpose in looking at the claims within the Steele Dossier.
Repeatedly, the investigative unit references their mandate based around the Steele Dossier, and the mid-summer 2016 origin of the FBI counterintelligence operation.
Why? Why was/is Crossfire Hurricane (July ’16) and the Steele Dossier (Oct. ’16) so important to the principle intelligence apparatus, and the Mueller team (’17, ’18, ’19)?
I believe former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers has told us the answer. In early 2016 Rogers caught on to a massive and pre-existing weaponization of government surveillance and the use of collected NSA metadata for political spy operations. Everything, that comes AFTER March 2016 is one big blanket cover-up operation….. ALL OF IT.
The Russian election interference narrative; the use of Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper, the London and Australian embassy personnel; Erika Thompson, Alexander Downer, U.S. DIA officials; everything around Crossfire Hurricane; and everything after to include the construct of the Steele Dossier; all of it was needed for the creation of an ‘after-the-fact‘ plausible justification to cover-up what Mike Rogers discovered in early 2016, AND the downstream unmasked records that existed in the Obama White House SCIF.
Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. The intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. They already knew everything about the Trump campaign.
The Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a justification for pre-existing surveillance and spy operations.(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
"Many astute Freepers have conjectured that Trump won DESPITE Obama tapping his Trump Tower phones, ordering an array US intel agencies to stop Trump. Trump had to know ...... b/c knowing allowed Trump to successfully sidetrack the cabal." Remember that blurb about Mike Rogers meeting with Trump in November 2016 right after the election?
roughlyexplained.com
To some of President Donald Trump’s defenders, Admiral Mike Rogers, the recently retired NSA Director, is poised to blow the whistle on a purported deep state conspiracy against Mr. Trump. Mr. Rogers’ elevation as a folk hero among the pro-Trump conspiracy community has its roots in a visit he made to Trump Tower in November 2016, as then President-elect Trump was preparing to take office.
According to a Washington Post report, the incident rankled his superiors in the Obama Administration, several of whom were already seeking his removal as NSA Director. “In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower,” the Post reported.”That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.”
Just a month earlier, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., had recommended to President Barack Obama that Mr. Rogers be relieved of his post. Mr. Carter, according to the report was frustrated with Admiral Rogers’ performance leading the agency, while Mr. Clapper sought to restructure the NSA under civilian leadership. Ultimately, Mr. Obama elected to keep Mr. Rogers in his post. Still, his rocky relationship with Mr. Carter and especially Mr. Clapper are a mark of credibility with those who believe Mr. Trump is the victim of a “deep state” plot.
At the time, Mr. Rogers was being considered by President-elect Trump to replace Mr. Clapper as director of national intelligence, which seems a plausible-enough reason to call on Mr. Trump without telling his bosses in the outgoing administration.
But, some of Mr. Trump’s defenders see a more exotic explanation. They believe that Mr. Rogers was there to warn Mr. Trump that Mr. Obama and his lieutenants were spying on him — a claim that every U.S. intelligence official, including Mr. Rogers, has refuted.--snip---
* * SNIP * * From the end of 2015 to the end of 2018, Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI’s global counterintelligence efforts.
In that role, he managed both of the bureau’s most politically sensitive investigations: the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information and the probe into whether Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
His testimony provides rare insight into the attitudes and thoughts of officials who launched the Russia probe and the probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose final report is expected to be released very soon.
More important, his testimony contains extensive indications of wrongdoing, including that the FBI and DoJ targeted Trump and did so with information it made no effort to verify.
It paints a portrait of the Obama-era bureau as one that was unconcerned with political interference in investigations and was willing to enlist the help of close foreign allies to bring down its target. And, perhaps presaging a defense to Barr’s claim that American officials had spied on the Trump campaign, it showcases the euphemisms that can be used to disguise “spying.”
* * S N I P * *
So there we have it with all the decisive logic of a Socratic dialogue: The FBI could not possibly have spied on the Trump campaign because bureau lingo includes neither the noun “spy” nor the verb “to spy.” Whatever informants may have been employed, whatever tools of surveillance may have been utilized, the FBI did not spy on the Trump campaign – didn’t spy by definition, as the bureau doesn’t use the term (except, of course, to describe the very same activities when undertaken by foreigners). (Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ... //////The sworn testimony of Bill Priestap, asst director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, contains extensive indications of wrongdoing:
<><> that the Obama-era FBI and DoJ directly targeted Trump,
<><> they did so with information it made no effort to verify.
<><> the Obama-era bureau is depicted as one that was unconcerned with political interference in investigations
<><> the Obama-era bureau was willing to enlist the help of close foreign allies to bring down its target.
Mmmmmmmm......during the campaign Hillary bragged about "foreign governments" supporting her election.
Are these the same "foreign governments" Obama had assisting the effort to frame Trump? (smirk)
That would mean Obama, Hillary and the lot of them were "colluding" with foreign powers to interfere in a US election.
Wouldnt it?
Pres Trump’s campaign was never given a defensive briefing by the FBI, despite mounting concerns that Russians were allegedly trying to penetrate the campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
In testimony provided by Obama's AG Loretta Lynch, along with others, it is the key finding that won’t bode well for the FBI and DOJ. It also raises significant questions regarding the treatment of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and whether she ever received ‘defensive briefings’ in detail from the bureau. Lynch’s testimony is still not public but has been reviewed by SaraACarter.com.
"I WAS CERTAINLY AWARE THAT IT WAS AN OPTION, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT, IF ANYTHING, EVER HAPPENED TO THAT OPTION," SAID LYNCH.
The "defensive briefing" is a time-honored procedure that is often given to presidential candidates, elected officials and even U.S. businesses that have either been unwittingly approached by foreign actors attempting to gain trust and befriend those in position of influence.
The briefing allows the government to protect the candidates, specifically if there is substantial information or knowledge to suggest that someone has targeted an unwitting American for information.
If the FBI or intelligence agencies suspect foreign adversaries may be trying to penetrate a presidential campaign, as those FBI and DOJ sources suggested in testimony to lawmakers, it would then be required to warn those affected, said a senior former intelligence official .... .. (Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
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Frickin' liars the whole lot of them.
The rest of the clan fled the US easily.
Some say they had high-level help with their disappearing act.
Some say they were given WH visas.......in appeciation?
What if he says he doesn’t remember like all rats do when put under oath. Can they revoke his plea deal?
They don’t need to know who blabbed, they already know because the mental-midgets wrote it down.
Most of them documented their own crimes in writing. The hubris of these people is as mind-boggling as their stupidity!
“For some reason, Clinesmith reminds me of the chickenhawk in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons.”
Did Chickenhawk say “Viva La Resistance”?
Go ahead Clinesmith, let us see your resistance!
What’s that Moochelle Obama says.... Oh yes, Bye Felicia!
“Andrew Weissmann is acting worried right now.”
Weissmann.
When I think of names that truly turn my stomach, Weissmann is among them.
Clinton, Weissmann, Abedin, Fauci, Podesta, Alefantis, Obama, Jarrett, Romney — the list tends to focus on a singular cabal that appears truly evil.
Ok, thank you for posting CH’s article. I read it yesterday, but forgot the part about the request from Clinesmith’s lawyer.
OK, Kamala.
Finally catching up to this thread. Thanks, Liz. You’ve done a remarkable job piecing this together for others, like me, who don’t even know where to start.
Y/V/W
Then Durham would go back to charging him with everything he has on him, which is a lot, plus the additional felony charge of violating the plea deal.
Very standard prosecutorial stuff.
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