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Bombshell WSJ report suggests FBI had a mole embedded inside Trump campaign
Biz Pac Review ^ | May 11, 2018 | Frieda Powers

Posted on 05/11/2018 9:03:06 AM PDT by ethom

A new bombshell report reveals that the FBI may have had a mole embedded in the Trump campaign.

In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Kimberly Strassel unpacked some stunning developments in the battle between the Department of Justice and House Intelligence Committee members.

House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, D-Calif., and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., received a classified briefing at the DOJ on Thursday, viewing classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI probe of the Trump campaign.

According to Strassel’s Wall Street Journal piece:

The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.

House investigators nonetheless sniffed out a name, and Mr. Nunes in recent weeks issued a letter and a subpoena demanding more details. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s response was to double down—accusing the House of “extortion” and delivering a speech in which he claimed that “declining to open the FBI’s files to review” is a constitutional “duty.” Justice asked the White House to back its stonewall. And it even began spinning that daddy of all superspook arguments—that revealing any detail about this particular asset could result in “loss of human lives.”

This is desperation, and it strongly suggests that whatever is in these files is going to prove very uncomfortable to the FBI.

Nunes could not view the information because it apparently “could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

“This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough,” Strassel noted. “Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.”

“I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it,” Strassel wrote. ” It would therefore be irresponsible to publish it.”

“But what is clear is that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible,” she concluded. “It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodoj; dncstrategy; fbiplant; fbispy; kimberlystrassel; kstrassel; trump2016; trumpcampaign
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Misdirection.


21 posted on 05/11/2018 9:13:30 AM PDT by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: KC Burke

The Kenyanesian Usurper could not have done what he did without the cooperation of the GOP.

Bush League Republicans need to become extinct politically.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 9:13:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ethom
“It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.”

Just do it already

23 posted on 05/11/2018 9:14:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: blueyon

not sure about “entrapment” in re counterintel


24 posted on 05/11/2018 9:15:11 AM PDT by Principled (No one will conquer America, from within or without, until its citizenry are disarmed.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Sessions


25 posted on 05/11/2018 9:15:28 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: ethom

I know how to them flush out..
PDJT, contact me and I will implement the process. .


26 posted on 05/11/2018 9:15:56 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: ethom

Go to this link for the identity of the long time mole/power behind the Throne for several presidents!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/978269326519230465.html


27 posted on 05/11/2018 9:16:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: robroys woman

You got it. It’s Halper.


28 posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:20 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: KC Burke

And .. who received the spy’s reports?

BTW - Fire Mueller.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:23 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: ethom

This is a really big deal.

About 100 times worse than Watergate.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:26 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Add Carter Page to the possible mole list. He has been on and off as an FBI informant/useful idiot, IMHO.


31 posted on 05/11/2018 9:19:29 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The Kenyanesian Usurper could not have done what he did without the cooperation of the GOP.

Yep, and even worse it's still going on with their consent.
32 posted on 05/11/2018 9:21:52 AM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: ethom

More Info:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/994919151281102848


33 posted on 05/11/2018 9:22:17 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: House Atreides

We know that Stefan Halper met with Page and Papadolplous under false pretenses

He also met with one unnamed Trump official

That official is most likely Michael Cohen


34 posted on 05/11/2018 9:23:12 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: ethom

Obama always has the goods on his rivals. It is his MO from the beginning.

It would only be surprising if he didn’t have his rivals surveilled.

So, yes, I haven’t the slightest doubt he had Trump and his inner circle surveilled, wiretapped, followed, infiltrated, both with and without warrants, both using official assets and others not even Mueller or Brennan know about. Its the way Obama (or rather, Obama’s handlers) operate.


35 posted on 05/11/2018 9:23:34 AM PDT by marron
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To: House Atreides

“We know that Stefan Halper met with Page and Papadolplous under false pretenses

He also met with one unnamed Trump official

That official is most likely Michael Cohen”
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Sorry, this info is from the above post 33 link.


36 posted on 05/11/2018 9:24:32 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: ethom

So who was the first swamp critter to stand next to Trump?

Sessions.


37 posted on 05/11/2018 9:24:49 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Yes. For readers here, the gist of the Sundance thread was that Stefan Halper's job was to "dirty up" people like Carter Page. That means that he was to create "suspicions" around "tools."

As an example, suppose Halper contacts Page out of the blue where Page has no idea why he's being contacted by Halper. He agrees to meet out of curiosity. During that meeting, Halper incidentally remarks, "You know about that Russian hacking of DNC emails, right?" This could actually be the first time that Page hears the notion of Russian hacking of emails. Now, with the thought planted in his mind, Page may say to someone else a week or two later, "Did you hear about Russian hacking of campaign emails?"

And just like that, he's now a suspect in the conspiracy and a target of communication intercepts.

I'm not saying that's how it went down (I haven't memorized the timeline of events), but Sundance is saying that Halper was the guy (in a Kevin Costner No Way Out kind of way) whose job was to create "implications" on people.

-PJ

38 posted on 05/11/2018 9:24:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: ethom

Conservative Treehouse deduced thus a couple of months ago. I think they think it is Carter Page. Page is one of the people they tapped, so it would make sense to have him trying to get into upper level conversations.


39 posted on 05/11/2018 9:27:42 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: ethom

bump


40 posted on 05/11/2018 9:29:39 AM PDT by timestax
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