Stories such as this are B-O-R-I-N-G until and unless they’re accompanied by photos of Coup Leaders being hauled away in handcuffs.
This is why I've said before that I don't see how the FBI and CIA can survive in their current form if people are serious about draining the swamp. The cretins will wriggle out of their hiding places once they think it's safe and continue to damage the US. Domestic enemies indeed.
I said a long time ago that if they coup unraveled, they guy they would sacrifice to save Obama and his inner circle would be Brennan. He looks and acts like an arrogant Bond villain plus his role in CIA give them a chance to undermine them too by association. Easy sell to thrown him under the bus and claim he bamboozled all of the rest of them, who had only the most honorable of intentions if not misled by a treacherous spy master.
SCANDAL, S C A N D A L? Like hell its a scandal. It is pure and simple TREASON and every LD SOB involved should be fearing for their lives at this very moment.
Don’t think I’ve yet witnessed any fear.
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My belief is that the White House was using information from the NSA from the beginning of the 2016 campaign, and began to use it more actively when Trump became the front-runner.
The Democrats never believed that Trump would win, so they were just a little sloppy in compliance. They were able to run this whole operation almost unfettered because they were certain their tracks were covered. I think the reason they went about using surveillance, live assets, and the Steele dossier is that it has been standard practice to restrict and hide just about everything that has anything to do with sources and methods. They knew they could work under cover, and never have to reveal anything through FOIA. The group inside the FBI and CIA thought all they had to worry about was media groups like Judicial Watch, and they have no way of getting past the National Security firewall.
And I believe the main objective of this entire operation was to ruin Trump in the final days of the campaign, and ultimately keep him out of politics for good. The public rollout of the dossier was sort of clumsy, as media outlets were hesitant to report explosive allegations that had almost no verification. Only Mother Jones published it before the election, but it didn't have the impact they had hoped. Probably because Comey had dropped his Hillary letter just a couple days before.
This is still going to be a tough one to sort through. Brennan has been around a long time, and he knows the tricks needed to hide things. The only positive aspect is their arrogance made them careless.
> That none of the career officials tasked with implementing the hoax spoke up at the time bespeaks a rot in the organizational culture that will not be corrected by mere changes in top level personnel.
Maybe I’m too forgiving, or too naiive, but I can easily imagine that a relatively few people were able to manipulate others. For example, if I were a peon shown a court-ordered FISA warrant, it would not occur to me to ask “Say, this warrant wasn’t obtained via perjury, was it?”. Likewise, given the order “Hey, can you talk to so-and-so to see whether the Russians are helping him” I would be completely unaware that my boss had already seeded “Tell so-and-so the Russians will help him” through someone else.
Can’t wait till this all explodes