Barr explains why he met with foreign officials on Durham probe

CNN via Clickorlando ^ | 10/29/19 | David Shortell

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General William Barr shed new light on his role at the center of an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe in an interview Monday, telling Fox News that he spoke with foreign officials about the inquiry being run by US Attorney John Durham at their countries' request, and that the conversations served to establish a "channel" through which Durham could "obtain assistance."

Durham's investigation has received remarkable assists from the attorney general since Barr initiated it earlier this year over concerns that the 2016 presidential campaign of President Donald Trump had been improperly surveilled.

Over the summer, Barr discussed the investigation with British and Italian officials on visits to the countries, and the Trump administration has made overtures to the Australians as well about cooperation with US authorities looking into the matter.

"Some of the countries that John Durham thought might have some information or be helpful to his investigation wanted preliminarily to talk to me about the scope of the investigation, the nature of the investigation, and how I intended to handle confidential information," Barr told Fox News in an interview at a policing conference in Chicago.

[Libloather]

Maybe Barr can finally find out all about that foreign interference in US elections. Has there ever been a claim of domestic interference? Uh, oh.

[SkyPilot]

The Italian government is not part of 5 Eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence."

What our Gestapo agencies (CIA, FBI, etc.) do is have one of our 5 Eyes members perform activities that would be illegal (domestically) in the U.S. All it takes is a phone call or a meeting.

The Constitution and all of our laws can be subverted with a wink.

That's what they did to Trump.

There is a plethora of solid evidence that the UK, Australia, and Canada were cooperating with the Obama Regime to frame both candidate and President Trump.

The Italians were not part of the plot, and therefore obtaining raw intelligence and information directly from them no doubt has made the other governments nervous.

Even still, this is nothing to bet the farm on.

If the criminals, from Obama on down, are not arrested, charged, and convicted, the entire confidence in our Constitution and our system of government collapses.

I have very little confidence that the criminals and coup plotters will be held accountable.

[Flaming Conservative]

Sounds like most countries are stonewalling. No doubt the John Brennan effect.

[neverevergiveup]

"I have very little confidence that the criminals and coup plotters will be held accountable."

Sounds like what we need is a private US company that spies on the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA.

[faucetman]

had been improperly surveilled....

illegally SPIED ON!

[Jacquerie]

Conviction of the conspirators can only be the first step.

Unless Congress institutes (it won’t) fundamental reforms to the Civil and Senior Executive Services, future traitors will use the lessons learned today to refine their plots.

Rats don’t accept elections they don’t win. They’ve convinced me to likewise not accept their wins. It’s a perfect stew for civil war caused once again by democrats.

[poinq]

Our Ukraine embassy staff was illegally surveiling many of the administration including Gorka and Giuliani. So, of course Trump wanted to stop them. Of course Barr wants to investigate. And of course they want Ukraine to investigate.

[lodi90]

I have very little confidence that the criminals and coup plotters will be held accountable.

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It will be November this week. Still no administrative IG report. The fix is in. No doubt in my mind. As far as the Deep State is concerned there is no crime if POTUS and/or his supporters are the victim.

[Liz]

......the 2016 Clinton campaign was given defensive briefings candidate Trump never received.....sets off new alarm bells...

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch arrives to testify on Capitol Hill. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Lynch Testimony Reveals Bias and Intent For Failing To Give Trump Defensive Briefing
saraacarter.com ^ | 3/13/2019 | Sara A. Carter / FR Posted by bitt

Pres Trump’s campaign was never given a defensive briefing by the FBI, despite mounting concerns that Russians were allegedly trying to penetrate the campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

In testimony provided by Obama's AG Loretta Lynch, along with others, it is the key finding that won’t bode well for the FBI and DOJ. It also raises significant questions regarding the treatment of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and whether she ever received ‘defensive briefings’ in detail from the bureau. Lynch’s testimony is still not public but has been reviewed by SaraACarter.com.

"I WAS CERTAINLY AWARE THAT IT WAS AN OPTION, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT, IF ANYTHING, EVER HAPPENED TO THAT OPTION," SAID LYNCH.

The "defensive briefing" is a time-honored procedure that is often given to presidential candidates, elected officials and even U.S. businesses that have either been unwittingly approached by foreign actors attempting to gain trust and befriend those in position of influence.

The briefing allows the government to protect the candidates, specifically if there is substantial information or knowledge to suggest that someone has targeted an unwitting American for information.

If the FBI or intelligence agencies suspect foreign adversaries may be trying to penetrate a presidential campaign, as those FBI and DOJ sources suggested in testimony to lawmakers, it would then be required to warn those affected, a senior former intelligence official told .........

[Liz]

Foreign diplomats brace for Trump 2020 win: ‘People don’t want to be stupid twice’
Politico ^ | August 18, 2019 | Nahal Toosi / FR Posted by 2ndDivisionVet

Foreign diplomats are still feeling burned after assuming Donald Trump would lose in 2016 — and they don’t want to be fooled again. So many of them are quietly preparing for and predicting a Trump victory in 2020. Some are even trying to game out who will be on the president’s team in a second term. The belief that Trump will win reelection — gleaned from conversations with around 20 foreign diplomats, international officials and analysts who deal with them — appears widespread.

“In 2016, nobody believed he was going to be elected. People don’t want to be stupid twice,” said Gérard Araud, a former French ambassador to the United States. ....... none who talked to POLITICO was willing to say Trump will lose. Instead, they pointed to three key advantages for Trump: He’s the incumbent, the U.S. economy is strong and the Democrats have no definitive front-runner to challenge him. (Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...

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How's about that? .....Dems actually did Collude with foreign countries to generate propaganda to affect a Presidential Election.
They forced a bogus investigation.....and in typical Dem fashion, they accused Trump of doing what they did......

.......there are dozens of memos that make up an actual diary of moment-by-moment events, during the FBI
investigation of Donald Trump (as candidate and as president), documented by Obama's FBI Director Comey......

SOURCE: CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE | 4/9/2019 | SUNDANCE / FR Posted by bitt
A late day submission to DC Circuit Court in a FOIA case reveals the content of previously
unknown James Comey memos. Obama's entire anti-Trump operation is memorialized in writing:
<><> how Obama’s FBI Director James Comey wrote down the sources and code-names assigned;
<><> how confidential sources engaged with FISA coverage initiated by Obama's FBI;
<><> naming foreign governments assisting Obama and Hillary with their vile efforts;
<><> and the rollout plans for Obama's phony investigation....."by the book."

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During her ill-fated campaign Hillary bragged about “foreign governments” supporting her election.
Are these the same “foreign governments” Comey had assisting their efforts to frame Trump? (smirk)
Hmmmmmmmm.......that would mean Obama, Comey and Hillary were colluding with foreign governments.

[Liz]

Obama admin gave 2016 Clinton campaign given defensive briefing about foreign threat;
Candidate Trump left out in the cold; never got defensive briefings on Russia
John Solomon Reports ^ | October 24, 2019 | John Solomon / FR Posted by Cboldt

As the Trump Justice Department's review into the now-debunked Russia collusion probe becomes more public, one issue likely to dominate debate is whether the FBI treated Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump differently during the 2015-16 presidential election. Exhibit One in that debate may involve a December 2015 event that has been kept from public view for most of the last three years. A half dozen sources with direct knowledge tell me that Clinton's presidential campaign was given a defensive briefing from U.S. intelligence that month about a possible foreign threat.

Government officials have known for months about the briefing but were forbidden from talking about it because it was classified. But in recent weeks congressional investigators and others were allowed to see a document where a reference to the briefing was left in an unclassified section of the memo.

My sources say the Obama-corrupted FBI was a participant in the briefing but they cannot tell me which foreign power was raised with Clinton's team because it remains classified. Several said the threat did not involve Russia, Ukraine or China though. FBI and Justice Department officials declined comment, and former Clinton campaign chairman and longtime Clinton crony John Podesta did not respond to phone and email requests for comment.

Whatever country was raised with Clinton's campaign, the existence of the briefing itself is likely to revive concerns, at least among Republicans, that political bias caused the FBI to treat Trump and Clinton differently during the last presidential election.

While the Obama FBI provided a generic briefing to candidate Trump about foreign threats, the bureau never gave Trump a defensive briefing during the election about its concerns that Russia was trying to compromise some of his campaign aides. Instead, the bureau opened a counterintelligence investigation and secured a secret FISA warrant to spy on some of the campaign's activities, including former adviser Carter Page.

The fact that the Clinton campaign was given the sort of defensive briefing Trump never received is certain to set off new alarm bells.

Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have been pressing recently to force more transparency into the question of defensive briefings for public officials being targeted by foreign powers.

"The Department of Homeland Security has made clear that '[a] secure and resilient electoral process is a vital national interest.' An essential part of that process is ensuring that all candidates for office are treated fairly and are fully and equally prepared to address any potential security and counterintelligence concerns," the senators wrote in a letter to the FBI. "The apparent absence of any policy, procedure, or practice for conducting defensive briefings undermines that process by risking the appearance of bias or, at worst, causing actual prejudice to a candidate for office."

Expect defensive briefings to remain an issue well into the 2020 election.

[Liz]

BLACKMAIL? HUSH MONEY TO KEEP THE FRENCH QUIET?
Obama transferred $500m tax dollars to the Paris Climate Fund;
Obama surrepttitously took $500M from the State Dept, as was his first $500M transfer;
Obama cannily used executive powers; did not get the necessary congressional approval.
Michael Slezak / Tue 17 Jan 2017 / Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.06 EST

Barack Obama has transferred a second $500m instalment to the Green Climate Fund just three days before he leaves office. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Pres Obama helped secure the historic Paris agreement by transferring a second $500m installment to the Green Climate Fund, just three days before he leaves office.

The fund was a key aspect of the Paris agreement signed in 2015, which aims to keep global warming “well below” 2C and aspires to keep warming to 1.5C. Established in 2010, it is financed by wealthy countries and used to assist developing countries with adaptation and mitigation. It was widely seen as a key measure to bring both rich and poor countries to the negotiating table.

The US committed to transferring $3bn tax dollars to the fund. The new instalment leaves $2bn owing, with the incoming president, Donald Trump, expected to cease any further payments. The move followed a large campaign, with more than 100 organisations and nearly 100,000 people calling for Obama to transfer the full $2.5bn owed to the fund.

“The Obama administration is refusing to let president-elect Trump’s posse of oil barons and climate deniers dictate how the world responds to the climate crisis,” said Tamar Lawrence-Samuel, of Corporate Accountability International, which led the campaign. “Tens of thousands of people around the world called on President Obama to step up before Trump takes the keys of our government and tries to reverse decades of climate progress,” she said. “This victory is the climate justice movement’s opening salvo to the Trump presidency. And we’re not going away.”

SOURCE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/barack-obama-transfers-500m-to-green-climate-fund-in-attempt-to-protect-paris-deal

[Shethink13]

Government officials have known for months about the briefing but were forbidden from talking about it because it was classified. But in recent weeks congressional investigators and others were allowed to see a document where a reference to the briefing was left in an unclassified section of the memo.

Riiiiggght!!! Just happened to be left in an unclassified section. What a crock! This is what they’re using to justify the FISA abuse. Is this some kind of trial balloon by the DOJ to see if it will fly?

[jazminerose]

Just settle down, everyone. Durham & co will not ask the bad actors any questions until he knows for a certainty what the answers are.

He will have the evidence he needs *before* he starts taking depositions. That’s how he gets them on the record and demolishes their credibility at trial.

He is also putting the squeeze on the Little Fish. James Baker has already flipped. Don’t doubt that there are plenty of unknown small fry begging for a chance to save themselves.

The longer this drags out and Barr/Durham saber rattle the better. It makes the criminals nervous. And the more nervous they get, the stupider they become.

[Liz]

Dems are like dead men walking. What's become apparent is that Democrats are so desperate for power AND control,
they have no idea that voting America, waiting for the next Trump rally, can smell them miles away.

In the Democrats rancid world, they keep saying “words”, that they hope will wound a president they despise.

The Dems will savagely strip innocent patriots of their rights in order to feel the thrill of controlling people.

For the Dem left, a little crotch action will always supersede the Constitution.

Patriots know these sub-human morons will stoop to any lengths and will regurgitate the most preposterous lies to advance their pathetic political ambitions.

The left fights hard for “rights” not even mentioned in the Constitution – abortion, health care, a “free” college education – than those intrinsic rights specifically singled out for protection from government infringement in the Bill of Rights.

Lefties are desperate for power. Desperate Democrats badly crave power AND control, and they’re willing to do anything to get it.

[bert]

Regarding the quest for power, the Speaker has effectively lost personal power. She seems to have capitulated to those demanding impeachment in attempt to project party power. She seems to know the impeachment process is political suicide but is powerless and can not effectively resist.

Meanwhile it was stated yesterday conviction by the Senate “does not stand a chance in hell”

Meanwhile the real threat of revelation that it was President Obama who ordered the FBI and CIA etc to actively destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency. All hell is going to break loose as the implications reverberate through the Democrat party.

[outofsalt]

"CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Clinton who the foreign leaders were who had been reaching and asking if they could endorse her to stop Trump.
"Some have done it publicly, actually," Clinton replied, singling out Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi."

[lodi90]

Regarding the quest for power, the Speaker has effectively lost personal power. She seems to have capitulated to those demanding impeachment in attempt to project party power. She seems to know the impeachment process is political suicide but is powerless and can not effectively resist.

Meanwhile it was stated yesterday conviction by the Senate “does not stand a chance in hell”

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The Dems want to stain Trump’s Presidency with impeachment, give Never Trump Republicans a forum and shut down the beltway for MAGA business. They don’t need a conviction in the Senate to get any of that. President Trump will be impeached by the House soon. There is little we can do about it at this point since the GOP Senate has no interest in substantively trying to stop it.

[bert]

OK, I’ll accept that explanation as plausible but seriously desperate

[Always A Marine]

Just settle down, everyone. Durham & co will not ask the bad actors any questions until he knows for a certainty what the answers are.

He will have the evidence he needs *before* he starts taking depositions. That’s how he gets them on the record and demolishes their credibility at trial.

He is also putting the squeeze on the Little Fish. James Baker has already flipped. Don’t doubt that there are plenty of unknown small fry begging for a chance to save themselves.

The longer this drags out and Barr/Durham saber rattle the better. It makes the criminals nervous. And the more nervous they get, the stupider they become.

Well said, Jasmine Rose. You wasted no words for me to excerpt, so I had to quote your entire post. The defeatists among us are so accustomed to losing that they can’t see what has been happening below the surface for the past three years. President Trump is no fool, and his people are not playing games.