Posted on 05/16/2018 11:26:17 AM PDT by detective
Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.
Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.
The agents summarized their highly unusual interview and sent word to Washington on Aug. 2, 2016, two days after the investigation was opened. Their report helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation. But at the time, a small group of F.B.I. officials knew it by its code name: Crossfire Hurricane.
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Brits don’t look much like our friends either. To say I’m disappointed with the Aussies is to put it .......mildly.
It’s a total fraud. Imagine the worst. Say it’s all true. Everything Hillary said is correct. Trump conspired with the Russians, the Macedonians, the Carthaginians, the Boy Scouts, the misogynists, the uneducated white women, all of them in it together. What did they do? Did they pull guns on people to make them change their vote? No. Did they stuff ballot boxes or electronically alter voting machines? No. At the most they took out a ridiculously small amount of ads on Facebook and maybe wrote some very funny reviews of her horrible books on Amazon. That’s it That’s the crime. Even if they did give wiki leaks the DNC emails, they are all true. Hillary and her co conspirators really did all those things. This is nothing less than a coup attempt.
But, but, but they spent a whole $100,000 and Hillary could only spend a lousy billion. It’s obvious the Russians influence all Americans to switch votes.
The thing that comes out of all this is nobody needs to donate to ANY campaign once the $100,000 threshold has been met.
MOCKINGBIRD
“There is always a high degree of caution before taking overt steps in a counterintelligence investigation,” said Ms. McCord, who would not discuss details of the case. “And that could have worked to the president’s benefit here.”
If there was any caution at all in this case, it was not because they were naturally careful. It was because they knew they did not have enough information to justify an investigation of the Trump Campaign, yet they’d been ordered to conduct that investigation. They were playing with fire, and they knew it.
This is a desperate and emergency cover story to what the FBI and CIA deep state did to Trump in cahoots with the UK and Aussie governments. Treason making what Benedict Arnold rid seem like child’s play. Hanging is too damned good for these people, and the governments that have attacked us should pay quite dearly.
“This month, the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release the findings of its lengthy review of the F.B.I.’s conduct in the Clinton case. The results are certain to renew debate over decisions by the F.B.I. director at the time, James B. Comey, to publicly chastise Mrs. Clinton in a news conference, and then announce the reopening of the investigation days before Election Day. Mrs. Clinton has said those actions buried her presidential hopes.
“Those decisions stand in contrast to the F.B.I.’s handling of Crossfire Hurricane. Not only did agents in that case fall back to their typical policy of silence, but interviews with a dozen current and former government officials and a review of documents show that the F.B.I. was even more circumspect in that case than has been previously known.”
And the FBI should have been circumspect because they knew very well that there was no information sufficient to support opening an investigation of the Trump campaign in the first place. Contrast that to the way they handled Hillary Clinton. They whitewashed completely crimes by Hillary that would have resulted in lengthy jail terms by anyone else. They destroyed the hard drives so that no one could dispute their conclusions. The idea that Comey was tough on her because he talked about it is ludicrous. He let her off easy by whitewashing her crimes, and he had to talk about her in order to do so.
Wow! A special access program to deny knowledge of a conspiracy to take down Trump. First, Page and Deep Stroke are in trouble just for talking about it in an open foru. More to the point, using a SAP to cover up an illegal conspiracy is illegal.
FTA: who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling
Actually, that's not accurate. Papadopoulos was told by Professor Mifsud in April 2016 that the Russians had Hillary emails. Past tense. Not that Russia would in the future be hacking the DNC or John Podesta.
The obvious implication of what Mifsud actually said in April 2016 would be that Russia must have hacked Hillary's unsecure bathroom server. Hence the misdirection.
Remember, the Australian diplomat learned about this in May. Why did they wait until July to tell the US government? Wouldn't we want to know in April/May that Russia may have hacked Hillary's bathroom server?
Truth be told, Brennan, MI6 and GCHQ probably did know in April and May all about what was going on with Mifsud, Downer and Papadopoulos.
But after Wikileaks revealed that they had DNC emails in July, then the plotters realized they could push this info into the FBI, misleading the FBI into opening an investigation into the Trump campaign, perhaps get a FISA warrant and start flowing political dirt into Susan Rice and the entire Obama/Hillary superstructure.
This is one of numerous dishonest sleights-of-hand we have seen in this plot.
Another sleight-of-hand used by Brennan and Comey was that they used Hillary's Steele dossier because of the credibility of Steele.
But in sworn testimony to defend himself from defamation charges in a London court, Steele asserted that he never vouched for the dossier. He had no idea if the contents were true or not.
Yet the dossier was used to obtain a FISA Title 1 warrant on a Trump campaign advisor and was used to support an official US government intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the US election to get Trump elected.
“Crosswise Hurricane?” I love that Rolling Stones song!
NY Times (Democratic Party) is just scrambling to jump another step in front of their collapsing alibis for the origination of their illegal spying on the Trump campaign.
Sympathy for the Devil would have been too obvious.
George Papadopoulos was a nothing to Trump’s campaign, and the NYSlimes knows it.
Legalized Sedition.
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a disgrace of an article by the usual multiple writers, trying to get ahead of the coup plot being exposed on an almost daily basis.
biggest political scandal in US history. some people need to be locked up.
>> FBI insiders leak details of the Trump investigation to the New York Times.
Would be good if the insiders stepped it up a notch or 5... too silent for too long doesn’t help the good-guy credibility.
Interesting is any twitter thread on Putin, Russia , Vladimir Putin and the like is fully loaded with US media journalists, activists, media lawyers, anti-tumpers just feeding those threads with Trump accusations now......never saw anything like it!
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