Posted on 05/06/2022 5:04:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
"This is more than just political dirty tricks," says Kevin Brock. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth, but they just made stuff up."
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As the Biden administration pushes its new Disinformation Governance Board, the FBI's former intelligence chief says he is now convinced Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign used "contrived disinformation" to try to mislead Americans into believing Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
"This is more than just political dirty tricks," retired Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Wednesday. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth. But they just made stuff up."
Brock, one of the bureau's most respected former executives, said he has been impressed with the way Special Counsel John Durham has used the prosecution of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann to expose how the false Russia collusion narrative was constructed.
Sussmann, who has pleaded innocent and faces trial at the end of the month, is charged with lying to the FBI in fall 2016 when he denied he was acting on behalf of a client in bringing the bureau what turned out to be false allegations that Trump had a secret communications channel with the Kremlin.
Durham has exposed recent evidence showing the Clinton campaign's own researchers were skeptical of the allegation, which one described as a "red herring." The underlying data permitted no more than an "inference" at best, according to another. Last week, prosecutors unveiled an email showing a journalist had told the campaign research team weeks before it approached the FBI that one of the Trump-Russia allegations was "bullshit."
"This is the way disinformation is really exposed, not by some contrived government agency, but by evidence presented in court that gets at the truth of what happened," Brock said of the prosecutor's recent evidentiary filings in court. "What Durham is methodically doing, is laying out a case that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democrat Party used contrived disinformation in a conspiracy, in a conspiratorial way, to deceive the American voter ahead of the election."
Brock has been sharply critical of his former agency for allowing the Russia collusion probe to continue for two years without an adequate predicate or strong evidence.
He said Sussmann's approach to the FBI must be looked at in a larger context that the Clinton campaign and Democrat Party flooded the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and news media from multiple angles trying to sell the Russia collusion story with flawed evidence like the Steele dossier and get an investigation started.
"This is much more than an attorney for the Clinton campaign lying to the FBI," said Brock. "He is using this charge to expose a larger story, a larger narrative."
Durham "called it a joint venture of conspiratorial actions that contrived information," Brock explained, referring to Durham's recent court filings. "... Certainly the American people were defrauded."
Brock also expressed concern about the Homeland Security Department's newly created Disinformation Governance Board, saying it would be a mistake for the agency to use it to referee Americans' speech and that it is ripe for political abuse.
"I think that disinformation is in the eye of the beholder," he said. "I think most people suspect that all of this information will be information promulgated by one political party rather than the other. And so the danger of a governance board like this is that it will be be beholden to the party that's in power in government at that time to silence or mute opposition viewpoints.
"Now, DHS, the secretary has gone to great lengths to say 'No, we're just interested in countering Russian disinformation or Chinese disinformation on social media platforms," he added. "But it's something that should be treated, and I think we are looking at it as something to be wary of."
Really ?
Shocking, isn’t it.
If he knew it THEN why didn’t he say something?.............
2 Timothy 3:6
“For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts
Which explains why he’s ex-FBI.
Study and learn her filthy dirty schemes and use it to defend against this nonsense ever being effective again.
There will be some great satisfaction from knowing it was hillarys ham handed dishonesty that ruined the democratic cheat codes.
There is no lie that Rat Party Headquarters won't tell...no crime they won't commit...in order for them to gain power.
Lawsuits by the very government they served under DNC marching orders....
I “now”
I now “believe”
I “now believe” - typical leftist BS and word play. These are same people convinced of death bed conversions to following Christ.
Will the new ministry of truth get on this right away, or what?
Like I always say “ the only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes “.
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Hillary has the political skill of a two year old in a candy store...........................
He’s a “slow learner.”
He should comment how the elite, sophisticated FIB could be so stupid to fall for it. He also needs to be asked why Mueller did not uncover any of this when they were charged to follow the Russia [hoax] evidence wherever it went. If he doesn’t answer by admitting that Mueller and the FIB were both in on it as well ... then you know he is full of it. And I suspect he is full of it, because there is an unwritten code not to blow the whistle on anyone inside the agency.
is laying out a case that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democrat Party used contrived disinformation in a conspiracy, in a conspiratorial way, to deceive the American voter ahead of the election.And the DOJ, FBI and Congress took this contrived information to continue the decpetion and harassment for the next four years.
Now they see that perhaps Durham is getting close it’s CYA time
Yeah that’s really sneaky of Harry Reid to do because the one place that senators can’t be held accountable for what they say is what they say on the Senate floor
Many of the FR readers knew from the outset that there was no collusion and that the information was the handiwork of the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. Yet, those who knew and said so were labeled “conspiracy theorists.” Now that the evidence is coming out and can no longer be denied, except by the would-be Chair of the Disinformation Governance Board, we now hear from those who tell us the collusion was there but it was not by President Trump but rather by “Hillary for America!” I guess getting to the party late is better than never.
Yawn, rats have immunity…
The FIB is called the FIB for a good reason! (many actually)
Everything about the democrat party is sleazy and dangerous.
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