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8 signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump's campaign
The Hill ^ | 05/23/18 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 05/23/2018 8:37:23 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

SNIP

Here are eight signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump for political reasons.

Code name

Wiretap fever

National Security Letters

Unmasking

Changing the rules

Media strategy

Leaks

Friends, informants and snoops

These eight features of a counterintelligence operation are only the pieces we know. It can be assumed there’s much we don’t yet know. And it may help explain why there’s so much material that the Department of Justice hasn’t easily handed over to congressional investigators.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attkisson; fbi; spygate; trump; trumpcampaign
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1 posted on 05/23/2018 8:37:23 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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So they told the DNC and Obama and Hillary about Russian hacking and spy attempts but they did not inform Trump, instead they claim that their own spying was to protect him from Russian spies with alerting him of the threat and intrusion.

Nope. Don’t believe they had his interests at heart.


2 posted on 05/23/2018 8:41:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t know which is worse. That they did it, or they’re so inept he still won.


3 posted on 05/23/2018 8:42:56 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: BBQToadRibs

The only thing that has been keeping the USA from governmental tyranny for 70 years is the innate laziness and stupidity of government workers.


4 posted on 05/23/2018 8:44:49 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: yesthatjallen

Thank you for bulletpointing the piece, an extra piece of work that shows FRiends just how a thoughtful poster works. You are a clear thinker, an organizer, and a considerate person. We should all do as well.


5 posted on 05/23/2018 8:47:17 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: yesthatjallen
Interesting analysis here. This stikes me as a destabilization effort by US intelligence agencies for regime change here. And it's clearlty ongoing to this day.

BTW Looks like a bunch of moonbat commenters at the original article.

6 posted on 05/23/2018 8:48:57 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: yesthatjallen

OTOH one would surmise that Sharyl Atkisson knows much that she isn’t revealing, just yet. This is just for today.


7 posted on 05/23/2018 8:50:14 AM PDT by OKSooner (Don't be a Fudd.)
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To: BBQToadRibs
That they did it, or they’re so inept he still won.

With each passing day, I am getting more convinced that the scenario I presented as an outlandish theory in early 2017 is actually what happened:

The Trump campaign knew about the surveillance while it was going on, and took active steps to undermine it and use it to their advantage.

8 posted on 05/23/2018 8:50:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Such a joy reading the writings of a real journalist.


9 posted on 05/23/2018 8:52:28 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: a fool in paradise

It’s all about maintaining plausible deniability with this crowd. As the plausible possibilities are ruled out and narrow, their manufactured backstory gets inevitably more ridiculous trying to match the known with being aboveboard and legal. That is, if it’s pursued. Republicans are notoriously casual about that. Trump is different, we’ll see but garden variety GOPe are still attempting to have their collegial way.


10 posted on 05/23/2018 8:53:36 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Alberta's Child

not outlandish at all ... I had similar thoughts ...


11 posted on 05/23/2018 8:54:21 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: yesthatjallen
there’s so much material that the Department of Justice hasn’t easily handed over to congressional investigators.

The truth is in there.

12 posted on 05/23/2018 8:55:28 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: yesthatjallen

“Let me tell you: You take on the on the intelligence community - they have six ways from Sunday at getting back on you.” - Chuckie Schemer


13 posted on 05/23/2018 8:55:29 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Alberta's Child

You’re not alone in speculating along those lines. I’ve wondered if surveillance wasn’t discovered and rather than go running to a hostile media, Trump & Co said to themselves, how can we use this? And so they did, “planting” false info via illegal surveillance. When it’s all said and done, I suspect there was an epic feint regarding the Rust Belt leading to Hillary staying away while Trump courted them.


14 posted on 05/23/2018 8:57:44 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Menehune56
This stikes me as a destabilization effort by US intelligence agencies for regime change

That is one of the main reasons they exist ...

15 posted on 05/23/2018 8:57:45 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Think about it, the inept polling probably saved Trump’ s life. If the Intel agencies thought he would win plane accidents happen.


16 posted on 05/23/2018 8:58:55 AM PDT by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Day by day, as I see what our intelligence services are REALLY about, my opinon on Ed Snowden starts to change.


17 posted on 05/23/2018 9:00:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen

This should have happened to Obama ,we still know nothing about him


18 posted on 05/23/2018 9:01:18 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Alberta's Child

Yup - I agree that Trump Campaign believed something was up. Remember the story that GA & TX were “in play” and HRC might win them? The HRC campaign put resources in those states to try and win in a big blow out, feeding their egos and they ignored MI & WI.

Looks like a classic end run, misdirection play put on by the Trump Campaign.

Trump knew or had suspicion (how did they know that??) they were spying or listening in on calls, so let’s give them some misinformation


19 posted on 05/23/2018 9:01:45 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Alberta's Child

Yup - I agree that Trump Campaign believed something was up. Remember the story that GA & TX were “in play” and HRC might win them? The HRC campaign put resources in those states to try and win in a big blow out, feeding their egos and they ignored MI & WI.

Looks like a classic end run, misdirection play put on by the Trump Campaign.

Trump knew or had suspicion (how did they know that??) they were spying or listening in on calls, so let’s give them some misinformation


20 posted on 05/23/2018 9:02:45 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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