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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And Democrats and liberals all over the country turn their head.
Morons.
“THis is an incredible story. Trump likely has the proof document on this which is why the deep state is going after him so hard.”
What do you think the chances are that the reason they raided Trump’s home was to locate that proof so they could destroy it?
Thank you. I’ll look further into your recomendation. And we can’t forget it was Mark Felt (FBI) who was Deep Throat.
Close to a hundred.
bttt
“I believe Matt Taibbi. He was a darling of the Left until he started exposing the shady stuff going on at Twitter.”
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Yeah, I took a quick look at these three guys and Shellenberger is the only one I could see actually supporting Trump in any positive way.. Taibbi appeared to be the real slime ball of the three, Rolling Stone mag and all.. And I don’t know what this is all about, but all three are there..
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-411/300197/20240208220958234_44722%20Candeub%20Certificate%20of%20Compliance.pdf
This is a sobering story for those who like to lecture us on how “free” we are in the US and how “unfree” our “enemies” are.
Not a dime’s worth of difference anymore.
>The corruption is so putrid it wreaks to high heaven.
Yet, the Stupid Party is pushing $BB in illegal foreign aide above all else.
How’s that ‘lesser of 2 evils’ doing for us these days?
A journalist on Fox last evening said that the entire Mara-Lago raid was nothing more than a pretext for locating and confiscating the “10-inch binder” allegedly implicating the FBI in illegal activities.
Enemies foreign and domestic have been declaring and fighting a war on Trump and MAGA since he announced.
When do we start to see dirt naps pile up on the enemy side?
Ah, the Mar-A-Lago “hidden room” was just reported on two weeks ago.
If Trump can overcome the government fraud and win re-election he needs to shut the CIA/FBI down on day one for a massive purging of these leftist activists running the agencies.
This is one of my frustrations with Trump. Why did he declassify the binder AT THE END of his presidency? That allows the CIA to get rid of it and Biden to cover it up. He should have declassified it immediately and then released it.
MSM, “Do not talk about this stuff. Trump bad. That has to be emphasized, over and over and over.”
The nutty comments from the British government hostile to Trump and pushing war with Russia give credence to the notion that the CIA used British intelligence against Trump.
Shut down the FBI, DHS and CIA because they are all threatening democracy not Vladimir Putin sitting in the Kremlin.
Gee… only took our “Journalists” EIGHT freaking years to figure this one out…
It would be really nice if people would start getting charged, arrested, convicted, and made to pay their debt to society for these crimes.
I guess this explains why the extreme far-left national “media” kept reporting O’Bama’s “seventeen intelligence communities” were standing around crying, hugging and consoling each other on the night President Trump was elected president.
Espionage game comes with a price justice.
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