Posted on 10/04/2019 4:00:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Well, Well, Well. Look Who ICIG Michael Atkinson, Who Turned In ‘Whistleblower’ Complaint Was Working For
(Tea Party PAC) – There’s a whole lot of funny business going on with all of this Ukraine phone call business and impeachment inquiry stuff going down with President Trump, and it seems like with each passing day the plot continues to thicken.
The latest development that’s rocking this whole “scandal” involves ICIG stooge Michael Atkinson, the man who turned in the CIA whistleblower complaint. It seems he was a top operative for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Here’s more from Gateway Pundit:
The Deep State ICIG released a statement on Monday on why they found it necessary to change their rules LAST MONTH to include watercooler talk, rumors, hearsay and cafeteria conversations.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson turned in the partisan CIA operative’s ‘whistleblower’ complaint to start the latest impeachment probe against President Donald Trump.
Of course, the liberal mainstream media has ignored this crucial player in their latest impeachment quest.
They don’t want you to delve to deep into Michael Atkinson’s background.
That is because Michael Atkinson played a major role in the Trump-Russia Mueller hoax.
Julie Kelly at American Greatness exposed Atkinson’s controversial role in the just completed Trump-Russia hoax.
One critical period in Atkinson’s resume, however, has been overlooked—probably intentionally—by his boosters in the media: His work as a top deputy in the Justice Department in 2016 and 2017 during the very same time that the DOJ was investigating Trump campaign aides and, after the election, incoming administration officials. Atkinson worked directly for two figures involved in both the counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign and the set-up of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
In July 2016, the exact month that former FBI Director James Comey officially opened a case against the Trump campaign, Atkinson was named senior counsel to John Carlin, the head of the National Security Division. Carlin was Robert Mueller’s chief of staff when he ran the FBI and was appointed NSD chief by President Obama in 2013.
Carlin’s name has surfaced numerous times in the congressional inquiry into the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. According to closed-door testimony by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Carlin regularly was briefed by former deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe on the Trump-Russia collusion probe…
…Carlin’s shop was involved in handling the FISA warrant on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The original FISA warrant, signed by former FBI Director James Comey and Carlin’s colleague, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates, used the bogus Steele dossier as evidence to obtain the FISA court’s permission to spy on Page for one year. The warrant accused Page of being a foreign agent yet he has never been charged with a crime.
In September 2016, Carlin moderated an NSD event that featured speeches by Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former CIA Director John Brennan and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. Carlin abruptly resigned shortly thereafter amid controversy related to his handling of FISA material.
Carlin was replaced by Mary McCord: Atkinson stayed on as her senior counsel. A few days after Trump was sworn-in, McCord accompanied Sally Yates to a meeting with White House counsel Don McGahn. The purpose of the meeting was to warn the White House that Mike Flynn may have violated an arcane federal law and was at risk of being “blackmailed” by the Russians.
Coincidentally, both Carlin and McCord have been effusive in their praise of their former counsel. “As soon as I saw that [Atkinson] had recommended it be sent to Congress, that’s all I needed to know it was legit,” McCord told CNN last week. “The mere fact he was not on anyone’s radar is points to the fact that his sense of urgency is credible.”
Atkinson is “someone who is very deliberate, thoughtful and tries to carefully review facts … not someone who seeks attention,” Carlin said in the same article. (Carlin now is a CNBC contributor.)
Another red flag is that Atkinson sent two letters about the “whistleblower” to the House Intelligence committee instead of its Senate counterpart. During his January 2018 public testimony to the Senate Intelligence committee prior to his confirmation, Atkinson said if there was a dispute with the Director of National Intelligence about the veracity of a claim, he would “talk to this Committee if that situation arose to that level, to keep you informed about those events.”
But Atkinson instead notified the highly-partisan House Intelligence committee led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the same lawmaker who has lied to the American people for three years about evidence of Russian collusion. In a letter dated September 9 addressed to Schiff and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Atkinson alerted the committee that the acting Director of National Intelligence did not agree with Atkinson’s judgment that the claim was an “urgent concern.” (An assessment somewhat laughable now that the call’s transcript is public.)
By the time that letter reached Schiff’s office, however, the committee chairman already had made cryptic insinuations about the whistleblower. “Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent,” Schiff tweeted out of the blue on August 28, just two weeks after the “whistleblower” complaint was written. “It doesn’t take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict.”
Subsequently, Atkinson sent another letter to Schiff and Nunes on September 17 which is best described as the IG tattling on the acting director for not responding the way Atkinson wanted him to respond.
Republicans should be raising several questions about Atkinson: Was he aware of or in any way involved in the Justice Department’s investigation into the Trump campaign? Did he handle the FISA warrant against Carter Page? Did he know about the FISA on Page prior to April 2017? Did he meet with Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or any of the collusion conspirators in 2016 or 2017? Was he aware of or involved in McCord’s dealings with the White House regarding Michael Flynn?
This just goes to show how far the left is willing to go in order to take down President Trump and to set themselves up for a victory in the 2020 election. It’s sad and pathetic to see so many individuals working within the government to silence the voices and the will of the American people for the sake of shoving their own political agenda down on everyone else, whether they like it or not.
Radical progressivism is slowly ripping this nation apart. What’s even worse is that so many folks in the country seem to be totally unaware of what’s happening, playing right into the strategy being employed by liberals to divide and conquer.
Let’s hope President Trump is able to weather the storm and defeat those who oppose him once and for all so he can get back to his real job, which is to make America great again.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/revealed-icig-michael-atkinson-who-turned-in-the-partisan-cia-whistleblower-complaint-is-top-mueller-hoax-operative/
DIRRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY!!! PART OF THE SWAMP!
What happened to the article by Howell Woltz DEAD MEN DON’T NEED IMPEACHMENT. Did it get pulled. Luckily I managed to save it. It certainly was an eye opening article, and I do hope that justice for a change will prevail.
"You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you".So, I'm losing count. How many ways do we have remaining? Seems we are already beyond six. Or maybe the count resets every Sunday.-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
The ‘db’ level of the crickets at the super secret underground lair HQ of the DOH-j is nearing 150db. Show of hands for those that think this will cause a delay in the impeachment push. Hopefully, they will be sorry. NOT holding my breath.
Bttt.
5.56mm
What a web.
Make the movie!
They are sloppy at it because they have been this kind of illegal activity for so long and so often than it has become routine to them and they have forgot to cover their tracks. Thieving and lying is their privilege.
The communist are having a party with our money and we are not invited.
Sloppiness runs part and parcel with arrogance. And the one commodity deep state maintains no shortage of is arrogance.
is FakeNewsMSM reporting all this? apparently not, given the opening line of Julie Kelly’s brilliant piece:
30 Sept: AmericanGreatness: Inspector General’s Ties Suggest Ukraine ‘Scandal’ is Just More Collusion Hoax
Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community’s inspector general at the center of the so-called “whistleblower” report, is earning Robert Mueller-level adoration by the press...
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/30/inspector-generals-ties-suggest-ukraine-scandal-is-just-more-collusion-hoax/
Why don’t our guys just leak the whistleleaker’s name. They would. I hate it when our guys play fair in a street fight. Idiots. Just leak the Aholes name already. Just leak it and apologize later.
Seriously, who vets these people to President Trump? Who nominated Atkinson to the President? How do they not do the research to connect the dots back to Mueller, DOJ involved with 2016/2017 Russia gate?
So tired of these snakes getting approved by President.
True. This often happens with serial killers. They get arrogant, they get sloppy, and then they get caught.
“”Atkinson became Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) in May 2018. He was nominated to the position in November 2017 by President Donald Trump, and was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote on May 14, 2018.””
I left this thread to go find when he became ICIG and couldn’t find the thread again so I must have posted this on a like thread but this is the one I wanted that to go on.
I can’t imagine that someone who has been appointed to a job like the IG would be free to work willy-nilly wherever else he chose to help bring down a duly elected president. It doesn’t make sense to me. So he was working/helping Mueller as a freelancer? Sure looks that way.
See my #15 - it took me awhile to get to the right thread..
I have the same questions you have.
“”Why don’t our guys just leak the whistleleaker’s name””
I like that suggestion - very much so! It’s time to throw OUR rule book out also..they already have!
Why are they arrogant and sloppy? Because they don’t have to worry about being caught. Who is going to investigate them? The FBI? Who is going to prosecute them? The DOJ? Who will reveal their crimes to the American people? The Democrat-communist media entertainment propaganda complex?
They have nothing to worry about.
They are forgetting about vigilante justice. I am not advocating that, but in some quarters, it is being seriously discussed.
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