...Brennan needed Reid to dirty up Trump, a task Reid was happy to perform, but not without first noticing Brennan’s weirdness about it. Reid was struck by Brennan’s “ulterior motive,” as he explained to David Corn and Michael Isikoff in Russian Roulette. Reid, they write, “had concluded the CIA chief believed the public needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the possible links to the Trump campaign.”
Brennan has, of course, denied that he used Reid to publicize his spying on the Trump campaign, but even that denial through a spokesman is revealing. Nick Shapiro, one of Brennan’s retinue of radicals at the CIA, told the Washington Times that Brennan’s call to Reid revolved primarily around what Reid knew about alleged Trump-Russia ties: “In fact, most of the conversation was spent with Senator Reid telling Brennan what he had heard about Russians and the Trump campaign.”But anything that Reid claimed to know came from the Hillary-financed Christopher Steele dossier. It appears that Shapiro didn’t even bother to coordinate his denial with Brennan’s previous testimony before Congress in which Brennan claimed ignorance of the Steele dossier. If Reid was talking Brennan’s ear off about the Steele dossier, then that is more proof of Brennan’s perjury before Congress.
Brennan had also obviously heard about the Steele dossier through Steele’s old colleagues in British intelligence, through whom Steele was laundering his smears while waiting to see if his Hillary-supporting friend Jonathan Winer could disseminate them to others in John Kerry’s State Department. A sucker for left-wing conspiracy theories, Winer, who once did a film treatment for Oliver Stone, was happy to serve as a link in the chain of espionage across the Obama administration. Every name that pops up in this partisan farce is that of a determined Hillary supporter. The latest figure is one of Hillary’s old colleagues from the State Department, Elizabeth Dibble, to whom the Australian diplomat Alexander Downer handed off his Papadopoulos pub yarn, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel. After Trump won, Dibble left the State Department for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Every single link in the chain of espionage has partisan fingerprints on it, sometimes multiple smudges. Take the case of Winer, who served as an Obama administration middleman between two of Hillary’s opposition researchers, Christopher Steele and Cody Shearer. Winer was simultaneously passing Steele’s slop to others at the State Department (with an eye to passing it through them to the FBI) and passing Shearer’s slop to Steele, who then gave it back to the FBI as supposed corroboration of his own paid opposition research. The impropriety of it all is staggering. How much can you get for $150,000 or so in opposition research? It turns out a bogus dossier, FISA warrants on members of your opponent’s campaign, and a counterintelligence probe of it. That is, provided you have friends in high places, and Hillary did, with a vengeance — from Brennan’s CIA to John Kerry’s State Department to Jim Comey’s FBI, who made sure to keep this preposterously partisan probe close to headquarters, using the same team that exonerated Hillary to spy on Trump..."
Brennan knew and was behind the dissemination of this crap, in conjunction with British Intelligence.
Great post. and I agree. Thanks
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