White House apparently had a full-blown conspiracy theory of murky origin about Obama officials

The Week ^ | August 24, 2018 | Peter Weber

[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.

[FreedomFtr]

black cube = SATAN

[Gene Eric]

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.

[The Sons of Liberty]

White House apparently had a full-blown conspiracy theory of murky origin about Obama officials

If the kind of crap Hussein 0bama, Madam Hillary Benghazi, the media and their minions have thrown at The President were thrown at Madam Hillary Benghazi, how many do you think would still be breathing?

[RegulatorCountry]

Ronan Farrow. Farrow Report.

Hmmm.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I think Black Rock means Jimi Hendrix, or maybe Darius Rucker before he went country.

[SaveFerris]

[The Halfrican was (and still is) a total con, a narcissist, a Manchurian candidate, a Chauncey Gardner clone, who achieved office secretly plotting to sabotage America.......]

Yep, recognized this Manchurian Candidate virtually from the get-go. Within 24 hours of looking into him, could see how dangerous he was.

Idiot Democrats are going to destroy this nation.

[SaveFerris]

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

Well-said.

[rhubarbk]

Media Matters . . . what an interesting name for a group that matters only to the left. It’s kind of like “progressive” refers to a group focused on turning this country into a 3rd world Hell-hole reminiscent of the Middle East.

[Lazamataz]

What nonsense, David Brock held a high-level meeting to coordinate opposition to Trump on the day of Trump's inauguration, with direct input from Hillary.

No, that meeting was on Inauguration day in 2017, and had Brock and Clinton in attendance. It was reported by the New York Times.

Therefore, it is clearly demonstrated that there is no coordinated campaign to undermine Trump.

[Jane Long]

All part of their CYA plan.

Do illegal/nefarious deeds, accuse the opposition of being nuts and imagining ‘conspiracies’.

Very reminiscent of HELLary’s Vast Right-Wing conspiracy mantra.

These lefties haven’t changed their sinister stripes.

[CivilWarBrewing]

"Rhodes and Kahl called the "Echo Chamber" memo absurd and denied there was any coordinated campaign to undermine Trump."

Another LIE. Mueller's WITCH HUNT, SO FAR netting Flynn, Manafort, Cohen.. Right, Ben Rhodes you LYING SACK OF SH*T!

And let's not forget the Deep State Media's CONSTANT drum beat of "Trump-Russia COLLUSION" over the past 2 years, 24/7.

[vonHarpo]

Report sounds like Q. Is that you Q?

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, they’re going to get a lot more attention than they’d like after this.

[LucyT]

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Way behind and trying to catch up PING.

Thanks, 2ndDivisionVet.

[Liz]

Feel the schadenfreud, conservatives.

All that conniving going on in secret..... the MSM, tech titans, Obama's intel apparat......
and they still couldnt drag Hillary over the finish line.

[redinIllinois]

” Report sounds like Q. Is that you Q? “

I didn’t even have a chance to try to look for anything about Q this weekend.

Not that anything else happened...

[redinIllinois]

In post 55 of this FR article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3681730/posts

is the black guy on the right, Tyrus from the Greg Gutfield show?

I hadn’t been paying attention if he had been rooting for Hillary - I don’t remember him as being a never Trumper, but I could have missed it, or just forgotten.

Sorry for the delay in asking, I meant to ask Friday, but didn’t get to finish posting.

Thanks, if you get to answer.

Thanks for all you do here :)

[Liz]

Doesnt seem to be him. I dont usually watch G/G.....saw Tyrus only once. Tyrus is lighter-skinned.

[Mears]

“is the black guy on the right, Tyrus from the Greg Gutfield show?”

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Nope,definitely not Tyrus.

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[redinIllinois]

Thanks so much for letting me know.

I’ve never been good at recognizing people, but Tyrus always seemed to be a rational person, so I was hoping someone would know for sure.

Thanks again :)