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White House apparently had a full-blown conspiracy theory of murky origin about Obama officials
The Week ^ | August 24, 2018 | Peter Weber

Posted on 08/24/2018 1:25:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In the early days of the Trump administration, a memo of uncertain origin circulated at the highest levels of the White House laying out a conspiracy theory about "coordinated attacks" on President Trump's foreign policy agenda from a group of former Obama administration officials, according to a memo obtained by The New Yorker's Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow. The memo, which "reads like a U.S. military-intelligence officer's analysis of a foreign-insurgent network," they wrote, posited that "the communications infrastructure ... used to sell ObamaCare and the Iran Deal to the public ('Echo Chamber') has been shifted from the White House into the private sector."

The unsigned, undated memo dubbed the alleged cabal the Echo Chamber, and while "Trump Administration officials familiar with it offered conflicting accounts of who authored it and whether it originated inside or outside the White House," its content, language, and themes bear remarkable resemblance to internal documents from the Israeli private-intelligence firm Black Cube, Entous and Farrow report.

In May, Farrow and Britain's The Observer uncovered a Black Cube campaign targeting the alleged ring leaders of the "Echo Chamber," Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl, plus their families. Black Rock told The New Yorker it "does not get involved in politics" and "is not aware of the documents mentioned in this article, neither their contents."

Rhodes and Kahl called the "Echo Chamber" memo absurd and denied there was any coordinated campaign to undermine Trump. It's "a bizarre effort to validate 'deep state' conspiracy theories," Rhodes told The New Yorker. Entous and Farrow suggest the memo was pushed by Stephen Bannon's White House faction. Incidentally, Iranian-born British entrepreneur Vincent Tchenguiz, one of Black Rock's early driving forces — according to a 2013 Israeli lawsuit uncovered by The Times of Israel — was the largest shareholder in SCL Group, the parent company of Bannon's defunct Cambridge Analytica, from 2005 to 2015. And that, honestly, would make for a much more interesting conspiracy theory.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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So there's a whole cottage industry trying to deny that the deep state exists and that Mr. Obama, the media and the Democrats are in cahoots with it?
1 posted on 08/24/2018 1:25:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“a memo of uncertain origin circulated at the highest levels of the White House”

You mean like the Steele dossier?


2 posted on 08/24/2018 1:45:34 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t it grand, to plot nefarious schemes, then mock the White House for recognizing them?


3 posted on 08/24/2018 1:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

Isn’t it grand, to plot nefarious schemes, then mock the White House for recognizing them?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It is indeed grand. Right out of the Alinsky play book:

https://www.steelonsteel.com/saul-alinsky-rules-for-radicals/

By any other name it could be : “ How government is weaponized against the people.”

In many ways, Dinesh D’Souza’s historical analysis is correct in his film “ Death of a Nation”

https://www.dineshdsouza.com/


4 posted on 08/24/2018 2:07:58 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When else has a former president and his people gone to foreign countries either before or after the current president, either a week before or after?


5 posted on 08/24/2018 2:30:05 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Black Rock related to Black Cube?


6 posted on 08/24/2018 2:37:09 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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David Brock's 2018-2020 Playbook to Take Down Trump


7 posted on 08/24/2018 2:51:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; bagster; ransomnote; No_Doll_i; JockoManning; Swordmaker; grey_whiskers; MNDude; ...
Just a crazy "conspiracy."


But the conspiracy that Russians really got Trump elected, and Russians really "hacked" the DNC and caused them to steal the nomimination from Senator Sanders, is 100% fact!


8 posted on 08/24/2018 2:57:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow - I’ve never seen that. Exhibit A for Deep State Deniers...


9 posted on 08/24/2018 2:59:25 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Hollie - Remember in November)
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To: Lazamataz

“Isn’t it grand, to plot nefarious schemes, then mock the White House for recognizing them?”

“Accuse your enemy of what it is you’re doing.” Alinsky 101.

L


10 posted on 08/24/2018 3:00:04 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: 11th_VA

The media narrative has shifted now, they’re in terminal mode, the last stand, all shields and swords facing outward from a circle.


11 posted on 08/24/2018 3:02:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Lazamataz
Peter Weber.

Check out his Twitter page. No "bias" here.

https://twitter.com/pjweber

12 posted on 08/24/2018 3:03:39 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Moltke
This black cube?


13 posted on 08/24/2018 3:11:28 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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To: Candor7

God help us if the Rats get control of the House. It will be non stop accusations and investigations into how dare we question their “ honor and patriotism”. Get to the polls this fall and vote as many times as it takes. He he.


14 posted on 08/24/2018 3:19:31 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The enemy is still within the gates. Trump needs to sweep


15 posted on 08/24/2018 3:30:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama paid to have Obamacare messaging put into fictional programming.

Bigger would be to show how the Obama administration coordinated with the media to sell Hillary’s lie that the 9-11-2012 Benghazi terrorist attack was something else (even though Hillary immediately told her daughter the truth, so it wasn’t taken to be a national security secret).

They sought to control media spin the final stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign. 9-11 anniversary terrorist attack and we gave a stand down order to save our diplomat and our embassy was used to stage the coup that brought down Gaddaffi and we’d re-established diplomatic relations with Libya?

We came, We saw, HE DIED - sec of state Hillary Clinton


16 posted on 08/24/2018 3:32:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39788317
Hillary Clinton officially launches ‘resistance’ outside group
CNN Digital Expansion 2017
By Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 11:04 PM ET, Mon May 15, 2017
Clinton tweeted that she was launching “Onward Together to encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office.”

...In an email to supporters and donors, Clinton said Monday that those groups include Swing Left, a grassroots network supporting Democratic House candidates in swing districts; Emerge America, a group urging Democratic women to run for office; Color of Change, a criminal justice reform focused organization; Indivisible, the effort that has spearheaded the protests at congressional town halls across the country; and Run for Something, a group formed by former Clinton campaigns staffers that looks to urge young people to run for local office.
The group, according to an aide, will be a 501(c)(4) with a connected PAC, meaning all money raised through the political nonprofit will not have to disclose donors. A Clinton aide said the group will “follow the guidelines,” meaning they will not release their list of donors...


How queer, the Prop 8 donors’ names were illegally leaked by the FBI and it ousted the founder and CEO of Mozilla-Firefox


17 posted on 08/24/2018 3:36:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: SkyPilot

I think at this point we can now declare the word “journalist” to be a political party, who’s orientation is to the left of Democrats.


18 posted on 08/24/2018 3:36:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/24/keep-fighting-hillary-urges-resistance-and-persistence-message-dnc

‘Keep Fighting’: Hillary Urges ‘Resistance and Persistence’ in Message to DNC
feb 24, 2017

Hillary Clinton called for “resistance and persistence” and for Democrats to “keep fighting” in a new video message to the party.


19 posted on 08/24/2018 3:42:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Candor7

We hear about how Trump is evil and a threat to artists and journalists but it was Obama-Hillary who had the “youtube” filmmaker jailed who was blamed unjustly for the 9-11-2012 Benghazi attack.

It was Obama-Hillary who had Dinesh D’Souza put in jail.


20 posted on 08/24/2018 3:46:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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