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About that FBI ‘Source’
WSJ ^ | 5/10/18 | Kimberly A. Strassel

Posted on 05/10/2018 6:38:50 PM PDT by Brilliant

The Department of Justice lost its latest battle... when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications...

Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation...

The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the... leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source”... who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe... we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person... to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about... Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials... Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign...

When? The bureau has been doggedly sticking with its story that a tip in July 2016 about the drunken ramblings of George Papadopoulos launched its counterintelligence probe... When precisely was the Steele dossier delivered to the FBI? When precisely did the Papadopoulos information come in?

And to the point, when precisely was this human source operating? Because if it was prior to that infamous Papadopoulos tip, then the FBI isn’t being straight. It would mean the bureau was spying on the Trump campaign prior to that moment. And that in turn would mean that the FBI had been spurred to act on the basis of something other than a junior campaign aide’s loose lips...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; coup; deepstate; doj; election; fbi; fbiplant; fbisource; fbispy; fraud; georgepapadopoulos; halper; kimberlystrassel; kstrassel; mole; obamagate; papadopoulos; plant; sedition; source; steeledossier; stefanhalper; trump; trumprussia
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To: Brilliant
My speculation as of February:

FBI lovers' latest text messages: Obama 'wants to know everything' ‎ 2‎/‎7‎/‎2018‎ ‎6‎:‎28‎:‎16‎ ‎AM · 79 of 191

Uncle Miltie to smileyface

To: bmwcyle

Carter W. Page’s only political contribution ever was $2,300 to John McCain’s Presidential campaign, according to the FEC.

Page did not even CONTRIBUTE to Trump.

I smell a swamp creature planted by 0bama in the Trump camp for the purpose of opening up a wiretap on Trumps entire operation for Hillary.

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/qind/

161 posted on 05/11/2018 7:57:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: EagleUSA

Prison? No. I want to see every one of them swinging from the gallows. We need to bring back public executions. And, for this cabal of treasonous bastards, they should sell tickets to the event. The response would likely be so great that we could probably pay off the national debt!


162 posted on 05/11/2018 7:58:00 AM PDT by JME_FAN (uired to)
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To: Brilliant
On the dossier, did FBI have lower standards than the media? (What "standards?")

Uncle Miltie to shotgun

Carter Page did not donate to Trump (per the F.E.C.)

Carter Page did not show up to the only Trump Committee to which he was nominally attached.

Carter Page was a globalist, global warming true believer, according to his own writings.

Carter Page worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY).

Carter Page worked on the Bill Clinton transition team.

Was Carter Page a witting or unwitting stooge for 0bama/Clinton/Comey?

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Uncle Miltie to E. Pluribus Unum

Carter Page was a Clinton Associate. He worked on the Clinton Transition team in the ‘90s.

Carter Page was an 0bama Associate. He worked for the F.B.I. up through March of 2016, according to documentation demonstrated by Conservative Treehouse. In that capacity, he cozied up to RUSSIANS while working for the 0bama F.B.I.

Carter Page was emphatically NOT a Trump Associate. Having attempted to nuzzle up to the Trump campaign, Carter Page contributed $0.00 dollars to Trump, and managed to MISS the only scheduled meeting for the Trump committee he joined.

Indeed, Carter Page appears to be a dumb missile fired at the Trump Campaign by the F.B.I. in order to establish that SOMEONE, SOMEHOW ASSOCIATED WITH RUSSIA could be used to establish infinite FISA surveillance of the entire Trump communications chain.

I’ll bet the F.B.I. sent Page to Trump as a mole.

163 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

My posts, Feb 10th and 11th.


164 posted on 05/11/2018 8:02:02 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: mandaladon

Perhaps Carter Page now the second singing songbird along will Bill Priestap.

Hello, Jim Comey! Have a great day!


165 posted on 05/11/2018 8:04:38 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Perhaps Carter Page now the second singing songbird along will Bill Priestap

I thought someone mentioned that Page isn't playing with a full deck, so how can his spying observations be trusted?

166 posted on 05/11/2018 8:05:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Because having been duped, he can merely accurately report that he was duped, by whom, and perhaps to what end.


167 posted on 05/11/2018 8:08:33 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: kabar
Was Page willing to sacrifice his reputation and future economic welfare to be branded as a spy/agent for the Russians? His life has been ruined and he has become something of a laughingstock. He was a useful idiot to establish the pretext for monitoring the Trump campaign and transition teams along with a sitting President.

None of this was ever going to come out. Hillary was going to win and Trump would be painted as a traitor. And if anything about Page's role did come out, he'd be the hero who brought down Trump.

168 posted on 05/11/2018 8:25:03 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

So why isn’t Page singing now about how he was acting as a mole for the FBI?


169 posted on 05/11/2018 8:36:06 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
So why isn’t Page singing now about how he was acting as a mole for the FBI?

Are any other members of this attempted coup d'etat singing?

170 posted on 05/11/2018 8:43:31 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan
The money quote from the article:

Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

The Obama/Brennan, CIA, FBI and DOJ placed a spy within the opposing party's presidential campaign and then Hillary paid for info to be fabricated for further espionage use.

People need to hang.

171 posted on 05/11/2018 8:51:18 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: pgkdan

Papadopolous has been indicted and charged with lying to the FBI. Is he singing or composing? Inquiring minds want to know.


172 posted on 05/11/2018 8:52:09 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Brilliant

It’ll be a big disappointment if it is Halper. He wasn’t part of the Trump campaign. So he’s not a plant. Revelation that it was a plant would be much more damaging to the Deep State.

But Kimberley never says it was a plant; she speculates it was a person who “interact[ed] in some capacity with the Trump campaign.”


173 posted on 05/11/2018 8:55:35 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
One thing we can be sure of: Obama Knew.

I believe this is key to the explanation on how president Trump is handling this situation. To me it seems as though president Trump is slowly moving the ball forward in advancing the notion in the zeitgeist that Obama was behind this and much more.

Obama is slowly being roped into this as the pervasiveness of the corruption by all levels of the Obama administration is being exposed and known.

Some things to remember and man a time line would help here:

These wandering points among other info in the ether makes me believe this was common practice - these types of abuses. Obama was spying on everyone he could.

Transforming the public perception of Obama as this hip cool first black president into a creepy corrupt chicago scam spying on all his political opponents needs to happen over a period of time. This is what president Trump seems to be doing or what is just playing out.

Getting the perception into the common sense that Obama did this skulduggery then starting to have prosecutions move forward against lower level lieutenants - unpeeling the onion of corruption and deceit that is Obama.

With president Trump at the helm eventually the public is going to see chapter and verse what crooked people these Obama administration types were and what they did. He was saying this in the campaign.

174 posted on 05/11/2018 8:55:46 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Brilliant

Talk about ripping a scab off of the wound that the DeepStaters have inflicted and covered up.... a self induced ‘we know best’ one, a big one. a fatal one as it turns out for many in the legal community who claim to only have been serving their country’s best interests. HAAA!!!

Que the Congre$$ional Kabuki Troupe .. looks like this play is almost ready for Broadway.. somebody notify the media. They’re busy chasing pee stains on russian sheets McCain says he spootted.. or three sheets to the wind at the old talking points saloon.


175 posted on 05/11/2018 9:02:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Brilliant
"And to the point, when precisely was this human source operating?"

In trying to save their arsses, a better question would be "who is blackmailing Sessions"....

176 posted on 05/11/2018 9:07:02 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Brilliant

Just did a little snooping on this Halper fellow.

He is connected to EVERYTHING. Past presidents, DOJ, FBI, CIA through work and family connections. He is a busy little person.


177 posted on 05/11/2018 9:59:14 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Brilliant

“They had the Papadopoulos info . . . “

I still have not heard what Papadopoulos, sotted out of his mind. said in that Australian bar . What was supposedly incriminating ?


178 posted on 05/11/2018 10:08:27 AM PDT by Auslander154 ("Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: Brilliant

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/the-insurance-policy-the-ec-the-2016-fbi-counterintel-operation-and-the-mysterious-informant-who-originated-brennans-ec/


179 posted on 05/11/2018 10:11:52 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Brilliant

Page’s presence in the campaign facilitated the FISA Title 1 Surveillance-wiretapping- and e-mail grabs, Halper achieved nothing.


180 posted on 05/11/2018 10:13:32 AM PDT by heights
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