AG Bill Barr says CIA did NOT 'spy' on Donald Trump's campaign, slapping down president's claims - and says John Durham's probe is focusing on a 'small group' at the FBI

dm ^ | 12/18/2020 | earles

[RummyChick]

attorney general Barr is reflecting on the calls he made that benefitted President Trump and a few that didn't in his final days in office – as he said the CIA didn't stray beyond its international spy brief in 2016.

Barr told the Wall Street Journal he was suspicious that CIA agents – who are barred from spying on Americans – had spied on President Trump's campaign. The president repeatedly alleged publicly he was spied on.

But according to Barr, it didn't happen. 'The CIA stayed in its lane,' he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.

[Jeepers43]

Right.

That's why FBI/DoJ personnel collaborated with Brit MI5 on the Steele "dossier."

That's why Page and (Strozk? Comey?) were photographed together in the vicinity of CIA field office in London.

That's why Strozk was texting about Brennan.

That's why spook contractor Nellie Ohr was providing Steele "dossier" to her DoJ husband for backdoor transmittal to FBI.

These people are inveterate liars and now we see that Barr is included in that category.

I will add that it's readily apparent that many of these "FBI" and "DoJ" staffers are actually spooks who've been inserted into domestic roles to enable domestic tradecraft. Barr might be one of them.

Wonder why we don't see ANY prosecutions? Because most of these actors are actually trained spooks working in domestic roles. Strozk, Nellie Ohr for sure, but many others.

This was an op.

Does the lying, dissembling, coverups, false leads remind you of anything where spooks have been involved? It sure does me.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Then where did the *#&$^%%@ transcript of the Flynn-Kisliak phone call come from?

[Liz]

Obama’s CIA Director Brennan: ‘There Was No Spying’ on Trump — ‘No Problems’ with Durham Probe Continuing
Breitbart ^ | December 06 2020 | PAM KEY
FR Posted on 12/7/2020, 3:36:45 AM by knighthawk
Obama’s former CIA Director John Brennan declared on Dec 6 “Fox News Sunday” that there was no spying on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. In a video clip, Trump said, “You can look at Brennan and Comey and Clapper, we caught them spying on our campaign. This was an illegal act like no other illegal act. This was treason. This was at the highest level of treason.” (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

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OBAMA’s CIA Director Brennan’s Perjury Peril.
In his May 2017 testimony before the Congressional intel panel:
<><> CIA’s Brennan emphatically denied the dossier factored into the Obama intel apparat’s conclusion.
<><> Obama concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances of victory.”
<><> CIA’s Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document,
<><> even though DOJ/FBI senior natl security and counter-intel officials knew that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
<><> One official said: “CIA’s John Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the dirty dossier. “
<><> “CIA’s Brennan politicized and effectively weaponized what was patently false intelligence against Trump.”

[mrsmith]

The CIA could “stay in it’s lane” and still produce info that could be misused by Obama officials.
Which makes it ‘spying’.

[mass55th]

Stefan Halper worked for the CIA for years.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The only reason he would gratuitously say that at this point is because the CIA did spy on Trump.

And because of Edward Snowden we KNOW they did because they illegally spy on EVERYONE.

[Mr. K]

I’m sorry, my statement sounded way more sarcastic in my head...

I was trying to find other euphemisms for ‘spy’

[iontheball]

The guy is a steaming, smelly pile of dung. So Brennan now is totally innocent? What a crock. Good grief we have his notes colluding with Comey and Obozo in the WH. How stupid does he think we are? This is the most disgusting lie imaginable.

[piasa]

It was the FBI that did the spying. What’s more, the FBI ignored the CIA when the CIA informed them that one of the people the FBI was interested in snooping on was a CIA asset. The FBI hid that information from the FISA court because they wanted to deceive the judge into permitting the spying.

[bramps]

40 posts and it looks like I’m in before the faux conservative Barr defenders here at Free Republic.

[Skywise]

Oh BS - They HIRED AN INFORMANT IN THE CAMPAIGN.

They were actively monitoring and tracking his campaign from backchannels!

It’s obvious Barr is weasel wording this.

[Paladin2]

When was he fired?

I think I missed that moment.

[Honest Nigerian]

Did he say this under penalty of perjury?
Does he have proof?

[RummyChick]

George P must of had some post up on twitter about martial law today. It has since been deleted. I wonder what he is up to.

[RummyChick]

I dont think there are many defenders of Barr at this point

[Menehune56]

First rule of Deep State: we don’t talk about Deep State.

[Criqket]

...HE NEVER SAID CIA ..... EVER. President Donald Trump is mounting an increasingly aggressive attack on investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, charging that the Obama Administration actively spied on his campaign.

The attacks, which began last week and have continued on a steady drumbeat in the days since, reference recent reporting that an FBI informant sought to learn more about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia in 2016.

In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, Trump argued that this could be “one of the biggest political scandals in history.” He has urged the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI actually penetrated the campaign, and asked his Chief of Staff John Kelly to invited top Justice Department, FBI officials and Republican lawmakers to the White House to review classified documents relating to the matter.

[mass55th]

I should have said HAS worked. I’m sure he’s still on the payroll of the CIA and FBI, and God knows what other agencies.

[mrsmith]

I thought it was ‘mot juste’!

[aces]

Yea, we don’t run it, say hello to brutality..