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CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report
nypost ^ | 2/13/2024 | victor nava

Posted on 02/13/2024 8:14:11 PM PST by bitt

The US Intelligence Community asked foreign spy agencies to surveil 26 associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, which triggered the allegations that the former president’s campaign had been colluding with Russia, according to a report.

Former CIA Director John Brennan identified and presented the targets to the US’s intelligence-sharing partners in the so-called “Five Eyes” agencies – the intelligence-gathering organizations in the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – according to a report published Monday on Michael Shellenberger’s Public Substack.

The report by independent journalists Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag has not been confirmed by The Post.

They cite multiple unnamed sources, including ones close to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio).

Turner’s office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The US intelligence community had “identified” the 26 Trump associates “as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate,” one source told the outlet.

In spy-speak, “bumping” is when a reason is manufactured to meet with a target of interest in order to develop a relationship that could lead to intelligence.

“They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation,” the source said.

Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters intelligence apparatus, or GCHQ, was making contacts with Trump’s associates as early as March 2016, according to the report.

“They were making contacts and bumping Trump people going back to March 2016,” a source told the outlet. “They were sending people around the UK, Australia, Italy — the Mossad in Italy. The MI6 was working at an intelligence school they had set up.”

A GCHQ spokesperson told the outlet that claims it was “asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016russia; 5eyes; cia; coup; dforeignintel; election; espionage; rigging; tampering; treason
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To: bitt

The entire concept of the 5 eyes was to skirt US law against domestic spying which was forbidden to the CIA. The 5 eyes concept that it’s not domestic spying if the Brits or Aussies discover something and inform the CIA about it.

Now it is to the point that the CIA designates American citizen targets for British spies to go after. And these are not terrorists or criminals... they are legitimate political opponents.

This is fully criminal and there needs to be prison terms, and a massive disbanding of the CIA.
It is no different than hiring a hitman to murder someone, then feigning innocence.

The CIA is criminal. The FBI is just as bad.


21 posted on 02/13/2024 9:03:19 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDIThe trial is underway right )
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To: bitt

Drone strike the lot of ‘em.


22 posted on 02/13/2024 9:06:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: ConservativeMind

“to let trusted countries get access to everything possible in the US to perform all the searches that would be illegal for the CIA and FBI to perform”

In every concept of US law, five eyes is a violation of that very law. Entering into a conspiracy to get someone else to do something forbidden to you by law is still a criminal conspiracy.


23 posted on 02/13/2024 9:08:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDIThe trial is underway right )
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To: ConservativeMind

“We have no laws against other countries spying on us.”

We sure do, and we arrest people for the very charge.


24 posted on 02/13/2024 9:09:00 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDIThe trial is underway right )
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To: Uncle Miltie

What did Obama know and when did he know it? He needs to be arrested Day 1 of Trump presidency. Trump can fire the AG and put in his person as an Acting AG that doesn’t need senate approval and arrest his commie butt along with Brennan, Rice, Biden, Hunter, Nuland and any others that had hands in this deception


25 posted on 02/13/2024 9:10:56 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: DesertRhino

Name a single US law that applies to any country outside of the US.


26 posted on 02/13/2024 9:12:26 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: freepersup

George Webb is an excellent investigator. He’s now going after Phizer and exploiting them.


27 posted on 02/13/2024 9:13:26 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: pangaea6

Honestly, it will take a Pinochet to clean out DC. And I won’t mind a bit if Trump does it. He won’t, but I wish he would.


28 posted on 02/13/2024 9:13:31 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDIThe trial is underway right )
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To: bitt
Brennen, Clapper and Comey, three lines, no waiting...


29 posted on 02/13/2024 9:15:00 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Name a single US law that applies to any country outside of the US.”

Run that by Julian Assange who we are trying to extradite. And when we get him here we intend to prosecute him.


30 posted on 02/13/2024 9:15:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDIThe trial is underway right )
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To: dragnet2; Liz
To this day, few seem to believe the U.S. government conducted multiple covert operations attempting to criminally undermine, compromise and overthrow Trump.

I suspect more will become believers soon...

31 posted on 02/13/2024 9:21:52 PM PST by GOPJ ( Ashli Babbit's killer was given a promotion after the murder.{{{ CIA: Creepy Thug Assh*les.}}}})
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To: bitt

When is treason not treason? When Democrats do it.


32 posted on 02/13/2024 9:31:11 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: GOPJ

The best example is documented in George Papadopolous’ book “Deep State Target.” A must read book. The whole operation was run out of British Office, which was led by Gina Haspell. Once Trump was elected, she was brought in to destroy the evidence. I have a strong suspicion that Josef Mifsud, who taught at the Italian Spy school, was “silenced” because he knew too much.


33 posted on 02/13/2024 9:31:29 PM PST by euclid216
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To: DesertRhino
It’s finally time for them to be completely disbanded.

It will require more than that. I want hangmans gallows.

34 posted on 02/13/2024 9:36:16 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: euclid216
I have a strong suspicion that Josef Mifsud, who taught at the Italian Spy school, was “silenced” because he knew too much.

It's odd - but freepers have been aware of bits and pieces of this information for years. Including the part about Mifsud. And we knew the part about the Brits working hand in glove with our thugs. Strange. I'm assuming some of the good guys leaked - and since it's impossible to stop all people from talking - they decieded to flood the zone with crap - and bully anyone who started seeing the truth. We really do have a big problem with a possible coup.. one by our intelligence thugs.

35 posted on 02/13/2024 9:38:45 PM PST by GOPJ (Mayorkas reeks of that 'CIA Creepy Thug Assh*le' mentality. Ashli Babbit's killer was promoted..)
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To: MileHi

Hunt them down like post-war Nazis.


36 posted on 02/13/2024 9:39:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: bitt

It would be really nice if people would start getting charged for these crimes.


37 posted on 02/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: TigersEye

Yes, and I want Brennons ugly scowling face at the front of the line.


38 posted on 02/13/2024 9:46:55 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Absolutely! A pit full of fire ants would be good for that SOB.


39 posted on 02/13/2024 9:52:53 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye
"Hunt them down like post-war Nazis."

The majority of them got away, or were given help by the U.S. government, who helped relocate them, and employed them for counter-intelligence purposes. Klaus Barbie, "TheButcher of Lyon" was one of those animals that the CIC, precursor to the CIA protected. They paid him $1,700 a month as of 1948 when he was recruited. They even lyed to the French government who wanted to arrest him for his war crimes, claiming they knew nothing of his whereabouts. Yet they were the ones who got him to South America, and helped him bring his family over from Germany. They even let him travel back and forth from South America (Bolivia) to New Orleans and San Francisco as an agent, providing him with the alias of Klaus Altmann.

40 posted on 02/13/2024 10:07:30 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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