Posted on 03/04/2017 8:40:18 AM PST by Bratch
CTH always falls back upon timelines to see the larger motives, intents and operational objectives of participants. No matter which entrance hole you follow down into the labyrinth – eventually you end up finding yourself in the same chamber, the treasury.
Every motive seems to consistently boil down to money.
Ideology without financing is as useful as a pancake to paddle a canoe.
As such – extrapolating from, and adding to, a Breitbart Time Line:
1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.
2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clinton’s own missing emails, joking: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.” That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking.
3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.
4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.
5. January 2017: Buzzfeed/CNN dossier. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence “dossier” compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington.
6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.
The new rules, which were issued in an unclassified document, entitled Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the National Security Agency (NSA), significantly relaxed longstanding limits on what the NSA may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations.
These operations are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. Surveillances include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls, and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.
The changes initiated by the Obama Administration in its waning days empowered far more agents and officials to search through raw intelligence data.
7. January: Times report. The New York Times reports, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties.
Other news outlets also report the existence of a multi-agency working group to coordinate investigations across the government,” though it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and involved classified information.
8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — then a private citizen — and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama’s newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them.
Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.
9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York Times cites “four current and former American officials” in reporting that the Trump campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims — and the Times admits that there is “no evidence” of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.
10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington Postreports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions’s Senate office.
The Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the “dossier” of ongoing contacts.
The New York Times, in covering the story, adds that the Obama White House “rushed to preserve” intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign. By “preserve” it really means “disseminate”: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies “to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators” and perhaps the media as well.
In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.
Or as Al Pacino would say... “Wowza!”
Or as Al Pacino would say... “Wowza!”
Bump for later
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It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. http://slate.me/2dWggCd
4:32 PM - 31 Oct 2016
THANX
Excellent Time lines!
Thanks for posting.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I second that e- motion !
Not sure Hillary understood the entire Trump issue. It is pretty common knowledge that you did not tell the Queen any bad news or risk her ire in any way. She was in a bubble - most likely a drug induced one.
Jan. 11 article National Review.
Therefore, December 15. The evening of Dec. 15, to be exact. When DNC billionaire oligarchs demanded their money back: do something, or something will be done...
"When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, December 15 many of them will have one question in mind: Where’s the autopsy?The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she’d win didn’t begin immediately after the election...
But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton’s losing effort...more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?
Or, in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser who’s kept in touch with fellow donors, “A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m not putting another fucking dime in until someone tells me what just happened.’”
"On December 15, 2016, Hillary Clinton, meeting with her donors in New York City, blamed her loss on the “Russians” and James Comey’s letter eleven days before the election to re-open the email investigation.She parroted the Obama/Democratic Party/MSM talking points that the Russians “interfered” with our election to help Trump by saying:
"This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation."
Wonder if this is why Jarrett mived in with Obama. To manage damage control. Obama’s handlers don’t trust him to do it...
I take issue with all the popcorn eating complacency. Rather than apathetically sit around, we must prepare to kill our democrat neighbors when the SHTF.
None are innocent. All democrats are guilty by associatopn
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Read it carefully. He never actually makes that claim.
The closest he gets is:
"...A second, more narrow application, apparently not naming Trump, may have been granted five months later;"
Okay, I will take my popcorn away from my pet raccoon, and sic him on a family of Russians, if I can find some.
In another world, I would suggest hanging those portrayed in the painting in the bars across America. I won’t today!:)
Mark Levin on Fox this AM— his timeline goes back further-using published news reports. It goes back to before the FISA in June. It goes back to March, 2016 during the primaries. So the question becomes— far more than Trump— how many other candidates were in the dem sweep for their party’s purpose. And, what do they have on them NOW? Because that was illegal also.
Seeing the fine hand of the Bush/Clinton alliance, which intended for jebbie to lose and the coke to still flow. Proof- GW Bush has now trashed Trump’s “racism” , if the edit is to be believed.
Oh and Rick Wilson was campaign manager for CIA jock Evan McMuffin... NeverTrumpers are in this up to their bloodshot eyeballs.
BKMK
The Swamp is entrenched and it means to preserve its ideology and control at all costs.
Unfortunately for The Swamp, its opponent is President Trump, and he doesn’t believe in surrender.
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