Posted on 06/03/2019 8:48:57 AM PDT by billorites
"Crossfire Hurricane” — the melodramatic code name for the FBI/CIA spy operation on candidate Trump and his early presidency — was run for the FBI by then-FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, and others.
Then-CIA director John Brennan ran it for the CIA. Brennan had to have help, but who was it? A lot of evidence points to the CIA’s then-chief of station in London in 2016-2017, and now the Director of Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel.
President Trump claimed that the FBI and CIA’s spying on his campaign and early presidency was treason. Attorney General William Barr said that, legally, it wasn’t.
Barr is correct. But note well that he didn’t say that crimes other than treason weren’t committed. On Friday, Barr said that since he became attorney general he had been asking why the counter-intelligence investigation was begun and hasn’t yet gotten a satisfactory answer.
The criminal investigation being conducted for Barr by U.S. Attorney John Durham is aimed at the intelligence community. As I wrote last week Trump’s recent executive order, which requires the intelligence agencies to cooperate with Barr and gives Barr the power to declassify anything he chooses, was probably necessitated by stonewalling by the CIA and the NSA that Durham had already encountered.
There is every reason for the CIA to stonewall. Its current director Haspel must have played a major role in conducting the CIA/FBI spy op on Trump.
One result of last week’s column was that one of my intelligence sources, a longtime veteran of the U.S. intelligence community, reappeared after about a year of silence. This person reminded me that he/she tried unsuccessfully to warn the White House against Haspel’s nomination to be DCI because of her longstanding close ties to Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan.
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All these agencies need to be removed completely. They are horribly corrupted.
I think they are right to be suspicious, but I also think that Brennan kept this operation almost entirely at the top level. Otherwise, it would leak.
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
““a wiretap on any citizen is illegal without “probable cause”?”
And that probable cause has to lead to a search warrant, issued by a judge.
The intelligence community is in a state of rebellion and does not recognize any Presidential authority. The IC believes (correctly) that it SETS policy, rather than executing it.
This includes the NSA, CIA, elements of DOD,the FBI and others. Anyone who disagrees is removed or attacked from within such as Mike Flynn and Michael Rogers.
There is a term for societies governed by their security forces and subjected to rampant internal spying, including on political opposition. “Police State” and “Authoritarian government” are terms that describe this.
If you admire Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Adams, Franklin, etc... you should know that world is long gone in the mind of our leaders. They only respect them in a ceremonial sense so we do not realize an entirely different form of government has overtaken us.
They are about as constitution loving as 1939 nazis holding a rally in Madison Square Garden with a giant portrait of George Washington behind the stage.
Look after yourselves. The dictatorship won’t go easy.
Well said.
I say there are no White Hats - only a few Gray Hats in a sea of Black Hats.
Bttt.
5.56mm
She’s insane, clearly.
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