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Seven Mysterious Preludes to the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe
Real Clear Investigations ^ | June 26, 2018 | Lee Smith

Posted on 06/26/2018 12:42:36 PM PDT by Quilla

The Federal Bureau of Investigation formally opened its Trump investigation after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump campaign and tried but failed to damage it through associations with Russia, a growing body of evidence suggests.

Before the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign in an operation code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” there were at least seven different instances when campaign advisers were approached with Russia-related offers. Most of those contacts -- including Donald Trump Jr.’s much-publicized meeting with a Russian lawyer and others in June 2016 — offered the prospect of information damaging to Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Two of these approaches were made by one U.S. government informant already publicly identified as such, Stefan Halper. Another was made by a man who swore in court that he had worked as an FBI informant. Two others were made by figures associated with Western intelligence agencies. Another two approaches included political operatives, one foreign, with ties to the Clintons.

President Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has asserted that dispatching Halper to follow the Trump campaign "protected" it from the Russians.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crossfirehurricane; fbi; hillaryclinton; leesmith; rci; russia; spygate; trump; trumprussia
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Somebody set us up the bomb.
1 posted on 06/26/2018 12:42:36 PM PDT by Quilla
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I think it’s funny that they supposedly were putting spies into Trumps campaign cause of Russia, yet at the same time: “Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice told Daniel and his team to halt their efforts and to “stand down” in countering Russia’s cyberattacks.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/21/obama-cyber-chief-confirms-stand-down-order-against-russian-cyberattacks.html


2 posted on 06/26/2018 12:47:11 PM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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To: Quilla

I suspect Carter Page was also a plant.


3 posted on 06/26/2018 12:51:07 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Quilla

They tried.


4 posted on 06/26/2018 12:56:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Brilliant
I suspect Carter Page was also a plant.

Yes. He was a witness for the FBI in court cases before 2015.

5 posted on 06/26/2018 1:04:44 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Quilla

So the FBI, with the support and active participation of one major Presidential campaign, tried to entrap the other Presidential campaign. As many have pointed out, this is, by far, the worst scandal in US history.

Tell me why President Trump shouldn’t completely shut down the DOJ and fire everyone employed there. Tell me why he shouldn’t hire independent counsel and start criminal investigations into everyone involved.


6 posted on 06/26/2018 1:12:54 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: Brilliant

I wonder if Crossfire Hurricane was Strzok’s insurance policy?


7 posted on 06/26/2018 1:16:48 PM PDT by Quilla
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When the story about “crossfire hurricane” came out it made me wonder if Trump knew about it earlier and that was part of the Reason they used “can’t always get what you want” at the end of his election night victory speech. which would be some epic level trolling...

http://fortune.com/video/2016/11/09/trump-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/


8 posted on 06/26/2018 1:23:05 PM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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To: Quilla

“I wonder if Crossfire Hurricane was Strzok’s insurance policy?”

I think that’s indisputable at this point.


9 posted on 06/26/2018 1:31:20 PM PDT by suthener
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To: Quilla

The FBI “sting” operations create crimes and criminals in many cases when neither exist - it’s a mess.


10 posted on 06/26/2018 1:33:29 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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SOME of us will be surprised to learn that Natalia Veselnitskaya, WHO WAS ALLOWED INTO THE UNITED STATES BY TEAM OBAMA, WAS ACTUALLY WORKING FOR TEAM OBAMA ASSIGNED TO ENTRAP DONALD JR. (AND HOPEFULLY TRUMP HIMSELF) INTO CONSPIRING WITH THE RUSSIANS!!!

This begs the question: ARE OBAMA, BRENNAN, COMEY, LYNCH, ETC. RUSSIAN AGENTS THEMSELVES?

DID THE RUSSIANS GROOM BARACK TO BE OUR PRESIDENT AND ALSO GENERATE HIS FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, SELECTIVE SERVICE CARD, AND BOGUS FAMILY PHOTOS?

11 posted on 06/26/2018 2:01:32 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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BTW, this is why Mueller has NOT interviewed NataliA V. or shown any interest in her role in the 'Trump-Russia collusion' hoax!!!!

Mueller KNOWS Natalia was RECRUITED BY OBAMA TO ENTRAP TRUMP!!

12 posted on 06/26/2018 2:05:07 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Quilla

Bttt.

5.56mm


13 posted on 06/26/2018 2:07:32 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: CivilWarBrewing

No, no. The Chicago divisions of the CP-USA WAS the training and sponsoring organization. Davis, Michelle ‘s family, his mother, his father .
Not Russia itself.


14 posted on 06/26/2018 2:09:30 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Quilla

In other words it was a DNC coordinated attack on Trump.


15 posted on 06/26/2018 2:11:32 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Quilla

BUMP


16 posted on 06/26/2018 2:13:16 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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In other words it was a DNC coordinated attack on our Constitutional Republic, our duly elected President, and the voters thereof.

There, fixed that.

17 posted on 06/26/2018 2:20:34 PM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The Russians would have done a lot better job forging Obama items.


18 posted on 06/26/2018 2:22:05 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Quilla

First you set up a narrative, then you investigate that narrative, then you either prosecute people based on the narrative or prosecute them for perjury for denying it. Foolproof, right?


19 posted on 06/26/2018 3:20:14 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: edzo4

Of course, Trump knew all about it earlier. Are we supposed to think a man as successful as Trump has not always had his own intelligence sources? Trump knows nearly everything about the DC swamp.


20 posted on 06/26/2018 3:45:48 PM PDT by abclily
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