This Maltese Professor May Hold The Key To When The FBI Really Began Surveilling The Trump Campaign

thefederalist.com ^ | 5/15/18 | Margot Cleveland

[a little elbow grease]

Did Joseph Mifsud use George Papadopoulos as a pawn to set up Donald Trump? Did he feed Papadopoulos information about Russia to see how the Trump campaign responded?

What if Donald Trump is wrong? What if the Russia collusion investigation isn’t a witch hunt? What if it was a set-up—from the get-go?

That’s one—maybe the most—logical conclusion to reach after gathering the crumbs dropped over the previous two years in light of the Washington Post’s story last week confirming the existence of a “top-secret intelligence source” involved in the 2016 presidential election.

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Full title: This Maltese Professor May Hold The Key To When The FBI Really Began Surveilling The Trump Campaign

[BenLurkin]

Democrat abuses of power. Chicago style, but at an unprecedented level.

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What did Mifsud tell the FBI? He clearly isn’t the “source” referenced in the Washington Post article because he is not a U.S. citizen. But is he a source? Did he use Papadopoulos as a pawn to set up Trump? Did he feed Papadopoulos information about Russia to see how the Trump campaign responded?

If so, those efforts began in March of 2016—but on whose behalf? And for what purpose? Simpson testified before the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he didn’t know much about Mifsud. This statement seems to separate Mifsud from the Steele and Fusion GPS inquiry. But it leaves Mifsud solidly entangled in the earliest stages of the Russian investigation.

Given the FBI and DOJ’s stonewalling of the House Oversight Committee over information on the known “top-secret intelligence source” connected to Trump, one wonders what, if anything, they have told Nunes about Mifsud and the interview he gave the FBI before he disappeared.

[a little elbow grease]

ping

[PGR88]

The CIA has graduated from overthrowing foreign governments, to overthrowing American ones

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Makes you wonder if the JFK assassination was a CIA FBI plot.

5.56mm

[pepsionice]

Just to be clear about Mifsud...no one has seen this guy for seven months. Last time was 31 Oct 2017...in Rome.

I spent two hours looking over his bio, noted work, etc. He does have various connections which go back to the Russian State Department. He has various connections which lead back to Saudi Arabia. Right around this disappearance period....the purge of ‘princes’ in Saudi Arabia occurred, and I would suspect some of his connections were taken in the ‘purge’.

Looking over everything said (including Rush making those comments)...I might suggest that Mifsud might have been used by some various international groups....as much as some GOP folks were used by Mifsud. And around September of 2017...I think he woke up to realize he was way out of bounds, with his Saudi connections basically dried up.

The fact that no one has seen this guy? He’s probably on some yacht in the Med and trying to figure out some plan ‘B’, or he’s dead (compliments of the KGB).

[old curmudgeon]

I can not keep up with the timeline because of so many criminals, all working on a different timeline.

BUT:

It would seem that Mueller’s “bull in the china shop” tactics are of value to those of us who want to know the truth and to punish the guilty.

Mueller’s tactics have caused evil to be exposed that would otherwise have gone unnoticed while the big media discussed with brilliance the style of Sarah Sander’s clothing.

And only the blind, or a stupid liberal,would fail to see that Mueller, with all of his close contacts in the DOJ and FBI would not have been aware of the FBI’s part in the conspiracy to ruin President Trump.

So in essence, we have the fox investigating who robbed the hen house.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Rand Paul asks Haspel if she knows of any CIA surveillance of Trump

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/15/gina-haspel-rand-paul-trump-surveillance-589969

[Hotlanta Mike]

John Brennan’s ‘Exceptionally Sensitive’ Issue

The revealing crumb left in the David Corn/Michael Isikoff book on the Russia investigation.

https://spectator.org/john-brennans-exceptionally-sensitive-issue/

[americas.best.days...]

The stuff that dreams are made of.

[Revolutionary]

Imagine if the head of the CIA, FBI, etc. wanted a way to spy on the whole Trump campaign to get their strategy, spending, etc., as well as dig up dirt. How would they do that. Create a series of meetings with their Russian, Australian, and British friends; add in a fake intel report and get a title 1 FISA warrent with a very friendly judge. Then spy at will.
After she lost, this was turned into a collusion investigation.

[Liz]

Prof Joseph Mifsud’s disappearance prompted scores of articles, highlighting his Russian connections, his professional work.....Mifsud is from Malta originally........

That's interesting b/c the Clintons have a connection to Malta.

Haiti, Malta, the Clintons and Digicel

BFF--Clinton and Malta billionaire Denis O'Brien---Digicel CEO/billionaire. O'Brien chairs the Clinton Global Initiative’s Haiti Action Network.

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Billions of US tax dollars poured into Haiti; O'Brien and the Clintons got even richer.

EXCERPT Free Beacon May 2015--- The Clintons have been working with Digicel CEO Denis O’Brien in Haiti since 2010, in the wake of the disastrous earthquake. Bill Clinton and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been active players in the country before the quake, but would assume almost total managerial control over the recovery effort via the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

As Peter Schweizer documents in his book, "Clinton Cash," Digicel received millions in U.S. tax dollars from USAID, an agency overseen by the State Department, as part of the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative. The program was designed to establish a mobile money-transfer system that would allow individuals to send donations directly to friends and relatives in Haiti.

The State Department's "USAID Food for Peace" program, which was under the direct control of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills, benefited Digicel.....to administer money transfers over its mobile network. Haitians received cell phones and a free Digicel account.

Digicel received grants courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, and collected millions in fees from Haitians every time they used the system, and significantly expanded its user base.

By 2012, Digicel had captured nearly 80 percent of the Haitian mobile phone market, and Haiti had surpassed Jamaica as the company’s most profitable market. Revenues were up 14 percent compared to 2011, and Digicel’s subscriber base increased by almost 30 percent during that period. O’Brien, who holds a 94 percent stake in the privately owned firm, continued to rake in cash. In 2014 alone, O’Brien awarded himself $650 million worth of dividends.

MORE AT http://freebeacon.com/blog/oh-denny-boy-how-the-clintons-helped-an-irish-telecom-tycoon-makes-millions-in-earthquake-ravaged-haiti/

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Time to look at Malta to find more dirt on the Clintons.

BACKSTORY Secy Hillary poured billions of our tax dollars into dirt-poor, earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Bill put on his "do-good" act. But Haitian Americans protested the Clinton Foundation offices say dirt-poor Haitians never got a dime...all of the tax dollars have been laundered into the foundation.

REALITY CHECK In some Haitian mountain villages there's no electricity (maybe generators for a few hours), no water, no septic, etc. - but dirt-poor Haiti does have cell-phone coverage. Reading the many stories of Clinton "do-goodism" in Haiti....he is invariably standing before a Digicel sign. You can bet your bottom dollar the Clintons get a cut of that action. Maybe stashed away in Malta to evade taxes?

Malta billionaire, Denis O'Brien, pushing Digicel in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The Digicel Group is a telecom empire run by Denis O’Brien, an Irish billionaire who officially resides in Malta, a tax-free haven.

O'Brien serves as chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Haiti Action Network, and has donated mega-bucks to the Clintons.

[a little elbow grease]

.......... well said.

Will it all be exposed, or is this country OVER?

[semantic]

Too many words. One is better: treason. And we all know the penalty.

There is simply nothing more that needs to be "revealed". I'm positive Trump has had the entire scheme unwrapped since his inauguration.

The question isn't what happened, why it happened, or how it happened. The only thing that matters at this point is what Trump is going to do about it.

[gandalftb]

Mifsud is a Clinton Foundation donor:

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=Less%20than%20%24250&page=3559

9th and 10th entries down

[Verginius Rufus]

Denis O'Brien is a Maltese billionaire?

I had a great-great-grandmother whose maiden name was O'Brien. All this time I thought she was Irish. Never suspected that she was Maltese.

[Liz]

Reread carefully. O’brien is Irish-—
but he lives in Malta to avoid paying income taxes.

[Verginius Rufus]

Next you're going to expect me to believe that Brian Boru wasn't Maltese either, and the Maltese didn't save Ireland in the battle of Clontarf.

I knew several Maltese kids in high school--none of them had a name starting with O'.

Denis O'Brien sounds like a typical billionaire--taxes are for the little people to pay.

[logi_cal869]

Not even close, from my perspective. Stefan Halper checks off every single box: √Currently overseas. √Current/Former CIA operative. √Current/Former source for FBI. √Anti-Trump motive. √Formerly put together this exact type of operation. √Connections to UK spies/intel community/politicians. √Connection to Australian spies/intel community. √Connection to Alexander Downer. √Political operative. √Wanted Clinton to win 2016 election. √Connects to Carter Page. √Connects to George Papadopoulos. √Connects to John Brennan.