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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

Posted on 12/18/2020 4:58:25 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: RummyChick

Peter Strzok was both CIA and FBI.

Fact: JTTF formed in response to 911. JTTF made a separate command control structure of federal, state and local law enforcement to track terrorists and their tracking inside the US.

Of course, CIA came into JTTF and ended up taking over command of FBI leading role in FBI.

JTTF was the entity that led to domestic spying abuses. The CIA assigned to JTTF were thought to know better.

A revolving door was established between CIA and JTTF. This led to international IC coordinating to entrap Trump starting with his lower level campaign aides.


81 posted on 12/18/2020 5:47:30 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: RummyChick
I am so disgusted I dont care if Mcconnell loses the Senate. let them do their worst....

No time for pouting - it will be drastically worse if Democrats win the senate. Think of the first two years of Obama when he destroyed healthcare and started wars in Libya and Syria vs the last two where not much happened.

82 posted on 12/18/2020 5:48:01 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Chewbarkah

He sure did.

If I was Trump I would say F all of you.

Pardon everyone.

Declassify things

And get the heck out of Dodge and go live my remaining years away from the snake pit.


83 posted on 12/18/2020 5:48:08 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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To: RummyChick

AG Barr, like so many RINO’s, does not look at, nor where, there is evidence of corruption and fraud that fails to be in the way of a RINO ambition.

Hillary Clinton is immune from prosecution.

And so many of the corrupt who are dedicated members of the Club for Socialism.


84 posted on 12/18/2020 5:48:34 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

Conservapedia: Joseph Mifsud
Joseph Mifsud works for the UK Cabinet Office Security Vetting Appeals Panel and trains NATO intelligence personal and diplomats at Link Campus University in Rome, described as a finishing school for UK spies...
Mifsud was posed, according (to) mainstream fake news media, as a Russian intelligence operative. John Brennan, James Comey and Peter Strzok used this false allegation as a pretext to justify investigating Donald Trump...

The CIA has held widely publicized events at Link. In 2004, for instance, the CIA arranged a conference on terrorism there. “‘New Frontiers of Intelligence Analysis,’” wrote David Ignatius in the Washington Post, “brought together officials from intelligence and police agencies of nearly 30 countries.” A 24-year veteran of the CIA named Carol Dumaine, wrote Ignatius, “spent two years arranging the conference with the Link Campus of the University of Malta in Rome.”American intelligence and law enforcement officials are also involved with Link.[16] Former National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency officers and analysts regularly teach there...

CrowdStrike, the DNC cyber-security team, employ senior leaders who are former FBI trainers and researchers that are alumni of LINK Campus in Rome.
Before the story broke in August 2017, Mifsud had been working with CNN’s Freedom Project to host a televised debate, “Solutions to End Human Trafficking”, at Link University...

Mifsud went into hiding after the Washington Post publicized his meetings with Trump volunteer George Papadopoulos.
Mifsud may have unwittingly been manipulated by John Brennan and Stefan Halper to make contact with George Papadopoulos, given Papadopoulos and Mifsud’s interest in the energy sector...
Mifsud vanished in early November 2017, shortly after Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His whereabouts are still unknown.

Mifsud is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) whose top donor is the Soros Open Society Foundation...
https://www.conservapedia.com/Joseph_Mifsud

Wikipedia: George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos has also pointed to another 2016 meeting, with Stefan Halper, a Cambridge University professor with ties to the FBI and CIA, that he believes was designed to elicit incriminating statements from him. Papadopoulos has noted that Halper brought with him an attractive, flirtatious woman, who introduced herself as “Azra Turk”, who Papadopoulos believes was meant to serve as a honeypot to elicit information. A 2019 article in The New York Times seemed to confirm Papadopoulos’s view of the meeting with Halper and Turk, describing Turk as an FBI informant...

In September 2018, a court filing said that Mifsud was missing, had not been heard from in months, and “may be deceased”. He officially remains missing, although in April 2019 the Italian newspaper ***Il Foglio stated that he was still alive and hiding out in an apartment in Rome.
Stephan Roh, Mifsud’s lawyer, has repeatedly stated that Mifsud was working for Western intelligence, and that he is hiding out for his own protection as a result...

A December 2019 report on the FBI’s Russia investigation, headed by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, found no evidence that Mifsud had ever worked for the FBI. In response, Papadopoulos wrote on Twitter that this finding “Leaves only one other option: CIA”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papadopoulos

***Il Foglio articles on Mifsud refuse to open for me - security concerns!

3 Jul 2019: Epoch Times: ‘Intelligence Sources’ Appear to Run Damage Control on Joseph Mifsud
By Petr Svab
The Post article dismisses Link’s ties to Western intelligence as merely represented by a single CIA-sponsored conference co-hosted by Link in 2004.

But that’s far from the full picture.

Former CIA analyst Stephen Marrin was a guest lecturer at Link.

FBI Special Agent Preston Ackerman apparently gave a presentation at Link in September 2016.

Andrew Bagley, former FBI adviser and, since 2015, privacy counsel to CrowdStrike, was a visiting researcher at Link in 2010, according to his 2015 resumé.

Italian Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta has been the director of “Special Projects” at Link since 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Claire Smith, a career UK diplomat and former member of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee, gave a training to high-ranking Italian military officials in Rome in 2012, which was co-organized by Link. Smith was photographed there, standing next to Mifsud.

General Carmine Masiello and Roberto Baldoni, both deputy directors of the Italian Department of Security Intelligence, lectured or gave talks at Link...
Link’s director himself, Vincenzo Scotti, was the Italian interior minister in the early 1990s.
The list goes on...

Link Campus supposedly cut ties with Mifsud after his conversations with Papadopoulos came out in late 2017...
But Mifsud was still living in Rome until May 2018 in an apartment apparently provided by Link Campus, according to an April 18 report by Italian list Il Foglio (CAN’T CONNECT TO LINK).
https://www.theepochtimes.com/intelligence-sources-run-damage-control-on-joseph-mifsuds-ties-to-western-intelligence_2988664.html

Tweet: George Papadopoulos - 10 Dec 2019
Remember: the Durham probe became a CRIMINAL investigation as soon as he left Rome with information on Mifsud. IG said he wasn’t working for the FBI. Leaves only one other option: CIA, and why Brennan and his team have all lawyered up. Bye bye, Brennan.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1204172854369013760


85 posted on 12/18/2020 5:50:10 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: RummyChick

So Mr. Barr for the entire jackpot, who did Eric Ciamerilla (sic) work for in 2017 and 2018 and who does he work for now?


86 posted on 12/18/2020 5:51:38 PM PST by Colo9250
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To: Paladin2
"I’m appalled that Trump never took away a great number of Security Clearances."

That is unfortunate, because if Biden gets into The White House, he'll be sure to take away the clearances of anyone his people deem a danger to his Administration.

87 posted on 12/18/2020 5:51:55 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Wayne07

That video of Mitch’s wife talking with Wang Qishan like some secret agent communique with body guards to keep people away really has got to me.

I don’t really want him to have power.


88 posted on 12/18/2020 5:52:08 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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To: RummyChick

As Barr well knows, Brennan fed information to the FBI in ways he knew would trigger the “investigations” he, Hillary, and Obama wanted. Brennan planned his operation to cover his own tracks by using others, and hiding behind legitimate endeavors for plausible deniability and frustrate prosecution. Durham’s team had no intention of seeing any evil because they knew their boss, Barr, did not want them to. What a mess Barr has left the country in.


89 posted on 12/18/2020 5:52:12 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Criqket

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/election-crimes-and-security


90 posted on 12/18/2020 5:52:30 PM PST by rolling_stone ( its time)
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To: bramps

Maybe Barr’s checks stopped clearing?


91 posted on 12/18/2020 5:53:49 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: RummyChick

A technicality. It was the NSA not the CIA that did the wire taps on Trump’s campaign.


92 posted on 12/18/2020 5:55:38 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: RummyChick

I don’t care either. As long as my kids and grandkids are good I don’t give a crap about anyone else. It’s all about family and survival. Going Galt. The less the government gets from me, the better. I’m so done with the corruption and theft of taxpayers.


93 posted on 12/18/2020 5:56:38 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Lisbon1940
He famously said, “I believe there was spying.” Now he is retracting that?

No. The FBI is not the CIA.

94 posted on 12/18/2020 5:56:40 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: RummyChick

Exactly. Why should he have to put up with this crap another four years. They treat him and his family like garbage.


95 posted on 12/18/2020 5:58:38 PM PST by jersey117
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To: RummyChick

It is either McConnell or Schumer & Pelosi.


96 posted on 12/18/2020 5:59:33 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Hostage
Here is Mr. Barr at work!

sweep-under

97 posted on 12/18/2020 6:05:27 PM PST by timestax
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To: RummyChick
But according to Barr, it didn't happen.

According to Barr nothing happened and his proof is he indicted no one, because of course no one did anything wrong.

98 posted on 12/18/2020 6:05:45 PM PST by itsahoot (The ability to read auto correct is necessary to read my posts understanding them is another matter.)
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To: timestax
FBImwith-Her-edited-1
99 posted on 12/18/2020 6:09:17 PM PST by timestax
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To: RummyChick

I do not think it was “Larry the Cable Guy” that tapped the phones in Trump Tower.

Barr is deep state and to be considered a blatant liar and worse. He was integral to the Hunter Biden cover up.


100 posted on 12/18/2020 6:09:58 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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