Posted on 05/25/2018 11:33:24 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
The New York Times’ 4,000-word report last week on the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign’s possible ties to Russia revealed for the first time that the investigation was called “Crossfire Hurricane.”
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The answer may be found in the 1986 Penny Marshall film named after the song, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” In the Cold War-era comedy, a quirky bank officer played by Whoopi Goldberg comes to the aid of Jonathan Pryce, who plays a British spy being chased by the KGB.
The code name “Crossfire Hurricane” is therefore most likely a reference to the former British spy whose allegedly Russian-sourced reports on the Trump team’s alleged ties to Russia were used as evidence to secure a Foreign Intelligence Service Act secret warrant on Trump adviser Carter Page in October 2016: ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
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In December, The New York Times published a “scoop” on the new origin story. In the revised narrative, the probe didn’t start with the Steele dossier at all. Rather, it began with an April 2016 meeting between Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and a Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud. The professor informed him that “he had just learned from high-level Russian officials in Moscow that the Russians had ‘dirt’ on Mrs. Clinton in the form of ‘thousands of emails.’”
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The code name “Crossfire Hurricane” is further evidence that the FBI’s cover story is absurd. A reference to a movie about a British spy evading Russian spies behind enemy lines suggests the Steele dossier was always the core of the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Knowing the actual lyrics ruins a lot of songs imo.
Great link. Thank you!
It tells me how amateur our intelligence agencies are that they choose names related to the task or target.
Code names are somewhat random but if operations are related the code names will also have a relationship. In a program I was in, we had programs with code names related to high school themes. So it was easy to tell if the programs had some relationship to one another.
I don’t think it is unreasonable to use code names related to a movie but it is unreasonable to expect any relationship between something in the movie and the actual operation.
I will make up an example: Take the movie Wizard of Oz. One program could be called “Wickied Witch” and a related program could be called “Toto” but these would not tell anyone something about the programs except for the fact that the code words put them under perhaps the same branch office of the government.
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If the operation was legit, there would be no reason to stonewall and redact information from congress. The FBI got caught and is engaging in damage control. That's all there is to it.
The only mystery to me is why Trump hasn't cleaned out the entire 7th floor of the FBI and their corrupt "handlers" in DOJ? I don't see the utility of allowing the evil cabal to remain in place where they can conceal, undermine, and otherwise thwart the will of a president.
I suspect that the real inspiration was a different song from the same album, but as that would have been too obvious they chose this one. The song in question is Sympathy for the Devil.
Not buying Lee Smith’s theory. I think “Crossfire Hurricane”, besides being the only redeeming thing about this whole sordid episode, refers to the Stone’s song, without any Whoopie film. Extremely serious possibilities:
1. British: Operation was in Britain to evade US limits on domestic spying on American citizens, using CIA contacts. MI6; GCHQ; Halper; Mifsud; Steele; others.
2. Crossfire: Targets were trapped in a crossfire of coordinated operations. Agents provocateur retailed fake narratives about Clinton emails to “Trump”-related targets; other agents tried to get targets to echo these fake narratives; FISA surveillance was in place to catch targets if they mentioned the fake narrative in communications; foreign diplomats were enlisted to “report” on ginned up (literally) conversations. All this so they could claim to have redundant sources.
3. Hurricane: They were raining down on the targets and flooding the media with leaks.
4. “Raised by a Toothless, Bearded Hag”: We know who put them up to the whole thing.
What an arrogant piece. So did the FBI get their name from the article or had they already started the leaks?
Trump used the song at his events.
That theory is pretty far fetched. A 20 year old movie nobody remembers? More likely someone thought it sounded badass.
the left, they can’t get no... no satisfaction... no no no no......... hey hey hey.
Well done. Excellent parody. (Except it’s too close to the truth, isn’t it?)
“British: Operation was in Britain to evade US limits on domestic spying on American citizens, using CIA contacts. “
That’s literally the entire purpose of the 5 eyes.
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