Posted on 03/29/2019 3:48:09 PM PDT by billorites
It's bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it's highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment---at least a serious attempt was made.
I don't mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities. It raises once more the question of the power of such agencies in a free society, a conundrum with no easy answers but of great significance to our lives.
For all his New York rough-and-tumble, Trump was an innocent abroad when he arrived in Washington. Way back in January 2017, he was warned by old timer Chuck Schumer that "intel officials have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."
The Senate Minority Leader--Deep Stater par excellence--knew whereof he spoke. But Trump somehow survived the storm, although sometimes it seemed as if he wouldn't. Now, some of the obvious parties --John K. Brennan and James Clapper with their apparatchik miens -- have suddenly found themselves in the crosshairs, as the Washington Times notes:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s finding that there was no Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia to steal the 2016 election has unleashed a tsunami of outrage toward Obama-era intelligence chiefs, particularly former CIA Director John O. Brennan and former FBI Director James B. Comey, who are accused of pushing the allegation during congressional hearings, in social media posts and in highly charged interviews on television over the past two years.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also leveled up highly publicized comments that President Trump could even be an “asset” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, part of a slew of remarks that critics say went far beyond the usual partisan sniping that can accompany a change of administrations.
More's afoot here, however, considerably more because the entire American intelligence system and the unique power referred to by Schumer are also now in those same crosshairs, as they should be But many of the men and women involved are less overtly Soviet in their style than Mssrs. Brennan and Clapper and slip more easily under the radar.
Notable among these, and perhaps able to reveal much of the MacGuffin to the mystery of where this all started and how, is Stefan Halper. Mr. Halper is "an American foreign policy scholar and Senior Fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is a Life Fellow at Magdalene College and directs the Department of Politics and International Studies." He is also a spook who worked for Nixon, Ford and Reagan, no less, and was a principle American connection to the UK's MI-6. Sponsored
Mr. Halper has (ahem) other connections:
A top FBI official admitted to Congressional investigators last year that the agency had contacts within the Trump campaign as part of operation "Crossfire Hurricane," which sounds a lot like FBI "informant" Stefan Halper - a former Oxford University professor who was paid over $1 million by the Obama Department of Defense between 2012 and 2018, with nearly half of it surrounding the 2016 US election.
Hmm.... The perspicacious Margot Cleveland had more to say the other day at The Federalist in Who Launched An Investigation Into Trump's Campaign Before Crossfire Hurricane
"Crossfire Hurricane," as most know, is the codename the wannabe hipsters at the FBI gave the Trump-Russia investigation. But more important is the word "before" in Ms. Cleveland's title.
The Post further noted that the academic, since identified as Stefan Halper, first met with Trump campaign advisor Carter Page “a few weeks before the opening of the investigation,” and then after Crossfire Hurricane’s July 31, 2016, start, he met again with Carter Page and “with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis,” offering the latter his “foreign-policy expertise” for the Trump team. Then in September, Halper “reached out to George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign-policy adviser for the campaign, inviting him to London to work on a research paper.”
Papadopoulos and Page are the two naifs of the most obvious sort (sorry, guys) we have all seen on television who spent the last couple of years having to defend themselves against absurd charges. Considering the timing, it's pretty obvious they were being set up (i. e. entrapped) on some level well back during the Obama Administration.
Who ordered it is the obvious question, but I'm not going to leave it there. I suggest that an attempt was being made to implant Halper in the Trump campaign, one way or another, not just for spying purposes but actually to help create this collusion of the campaign with Russia, that is to help manufacture it.
Putting it another way, someone or some group wanted to create - or, more subtly, to encourage the creation - of Trump-Russia collusion from the inside in order to destroy Trump before -- or, failing that, after -- he was elected.
How's that for a nefarious plot? Worthy of LeCarré or maybe even Graham Greene. But is it true? I wouldn't bet against it. Something close anyway.
By the way, if I am right, this won't be the first time for Halper. And unfortunately for Republicans, the shoe was then on the proverbial other foot. As Glenn Greenwald wrote last year:
Four decades ago, Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election, in which the Reagan campaign – using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush – got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration. The plot involved CIA operatives passing classified information about Carter’s foreign policy to Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering.
Republicans can console themselves their malfeasance was more benign, relatively. This new one was outright sedition involving a foreign power. It is a blow to the heart of democratic republic. We need Halper, under oath and unredacted. Whether that's possible is another question.
The FBI, CIA and various “operatives” also tried to IMPLANT “evidence” into the campaign and the President elect’s staff.
for later...
It takes time, but its worthwhile reading the Papadopolous transcript at Doug Collins’ site. Its obvious he was entrapped.
He was a striver attempting to build himself up by making contacts with foreign movers and shakers. He was trying to punch above his weight and experience. P
eople came out of the woodwork throwing money at him and trying to get him to do foolish things (like wearing a wire, repeating Trump-Russian collusion suggested to him by other contacts). He dodged some of the traps, but not all of them, and was arrested and eventually indicted.
Clapper and Brennan won’t escape.
Both are responsible for treasonous acts which have been exposed.
At least four “frame-up incidents” in this effort, so far.
Page
Papadopolous
Trump Tower meeting
Caputo
The Obama Admin had tons of Entrapment practice
Obama personally ordered the wiretapping of Trump tower.
This was an act of tyranny unparalleled since the days of Nero
Isn’t Halper missing? Arkancided, would be my guess.
You can bet that they used every CIA/NSA/FBI tool in the book to spy on Trump (all of the campaign tactics, spending, state priorities, etc.) to bring down Trump before the election and after the election. If Trump had made one off color joke, it would have been playing on an endless loop on T.V. Trump is Mister Clean and they just can’t handle that. That is why they had to resort to entrapment.
Color me late for the party. This is my first realization that the traitor were actually trying to create the collusion. Obozo knew there was interference. Rather than call it out and make a stink about it, use it as part of the larger plot. It is extraordinary to believe they went this far against a candidate few thought had a chance to win. Unless of course their domestic spying was sending the signal of a much tighter race then the common pollsters were recording.
This is something that’s probably done to foreign leaders, not to our own!
And he is POTUS.
Their failure and exposure shows that they are incompetent. (I’m glad that they were unable to stop President Trump.)
Don’t forget the last desperate attempt to manufacture collusion, the Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Mifsud is the one missing. My guess is that Russia isn't/wasn't happy that their boy was working with CIA, and he is either hiding from them or dead. Likely the latter.
Tweeted this over a year ago...
So, the swampy part of the intelligence community just ran a
standard intelligence op that they run against foreign
countries all the time — inventing stuff, disinformation, the
usual stuff...
This time they ran it against Trump.
OOPS!
The Mueller investigation itself was an entrapment scheme. They would leak information like "Trump's family will be indicted." and other things to try to make President Trump fire Mueller or Rosenstein, which would be obstruction of justice.
I also think the false "inadvertent" alarm in Hawaii of a North Korean missile attack was an entrapment scheme intended to get the President to respond, out of the chain of command for this things. They would respond with a 25th amendment impeachment that he was unfit.
“Six ways from Sunday” Indeed!
They attempted to depose the president of the united states and take control of the government. I call that a treasonous act and a firing squad
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