The Week that We Learned that Democrats Are Horrible People Who Hate America
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.
Although not yet a common topic of discussion, I believe there is solid evidence that Obama/Hillary were also having similar surveillance against Cruz who was initially seen as a far more viable candidate.
And who knows? Maybe all 17 of the Republicans in 2016 were being spied on to some extent. The Democrats were making darn sure that Hillary couldn't lose.
Trump and his AG must clean out the DNC organizations in each branch of the government and somehow cleanse the same operatives in the MSM and other social media outlets.
I'm really worried that our side will go soft and not save the country from a complete Socialist overthrow of the US government.
Trump is our only and last hope, I'm afraid.
How about Podesta sending the Soviet floozy to meet with Don Jr & Jered Kushner with the bait that she had dirt on Hillary. It turned out she didn’t and wanted to talk about reducing Russian adoptions, so the Trump people left. However, now the Democrats could say the Trump campaign “met with the Russians,” thus giving a reason for the FBI to continue their surveillance of the Trump campaign at Trump Tower.
Someone should go to jail for this plot to remove our president.
How long do you think this Halper guy is going to live?
That Trump has survived this all-out attempt to take him out at all sort of undermines the contention that he walked in blind to what was coming. The campaign and now administration hasn’t gone without some wild missteps, but painting him as a naif is likely dead wrong. He had his own counterintelligence, no escaping that conclusion. Private? Israeli? No idea but I can’t see how it was possible to negotiate such a gigantic house of smoke and mirrors without it.
“How long do you think this Halper guy is going to live?”
A better question might be:
Is Stefan Halper still alive? See the Google cumulative search hits below:
Google Search: About 271,000 results (0.39 seconds)
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAMWDF_enUS770US770&ei=aL-eXKifBvyx0PEP-72hmAk&q=Is+Stefan+Halper+still+alive&oq=Is+Stefan+Halper+still+alive&gs_l=psy-ab.12...12191.52385..5498
A year plus ago, many of us felt if Halper wasn’t feeding the fishes, he would be soon.
Now, his welfare, if he still has any, is even more fragile.
What country/individual would give him sanctuary at this time?
If he is still alive, NSA, knows where he is and who is keeping him alive. That is not a healthy thing to do post Frau Mueller’s “I give up!”.
No country nor individual wants to be associated with Halper now and in the future, if he is still alive?
Add the NSA to allies for our president that you posted.
The new CIA director is 180 degrees from the maggot infected, Muslim, and America hating Brennan.
Brennan is the a$$hole liability without a security clearance and is a huge liability to the Deep State.
When will a former CIA Spec op decide on his own or get the order to take out Brennan and his close former CIA thugs?
Brennan knows that he is probably a Dead Maggot walking/crawling/slivering.
Fear not. You are certainly not alone. I was reading another thread yesterday and it finally hit home. It made me wonder was this more than just an effort to win an election or cover up the Fusion GPS scandal? Is there other stuff that might get them hung that might have involved Obama and Hillary? I have my suspicions but they are a bit wild so so will keep them to myself at present.
Oh, you’re right. I don’t imagine it’s very easy to hide from the Russians. Anyone who thinks the end of the Soviet Union was an end to the kgb, is not thinking straight. I don’t know what it’s called now, but I can imagine that it is still a powerful and ruthless organization.
I think Trump was somewhat naive politically in the beginning as to just how corrupt and evil these people are, but his eyes were opened quickly. I also think God choose Trump because we needed someone who speaks truth to evil and is not afraid to go against the powerful. The left doesn’t know that Trump is their punishment for all their evil deeds....and they just continue to dig deeper into hell. They are the blind leading the blind that Jesus talked about.
Add Sam Clovis to the list. He’s named in the OP.
At least three targets were approached by Halper: Carter, Papadopolous and Clovis.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/trump-was-not-just-spied-upon-but-entrapped/
I was still active duty and working in DC when the Clintons took over.
When they loudly proclaimed they were going to downsize the Federal Government they first gutted the DOD agencies then back-filled the positions with the liberal dregs of society from civilian agencies.
At my specific agency the newly arrived civilians actually admitted to hating the military and said they would not do anything to help the DOD. They were there to get a paycheck while doing nothing, and I watched most of them do just that.....nothing.
That was the Democrat takeover of the DOD and it still goes on today. My wife, prior military, works for the DOD and tells me horror stories of the laziness and gross incompetence of a majority of the civilian workers in her agency. The people who care and do well are forced to do the jobs of three or four people so they can get things done. Three civilian deadbeats in my wife's division finally retired and her boss took her aside and told her she needed to pick up most of their duties as my wife was the only person trustworthy enough to get things done. He told her that the list of people that were available to fill the empty jobs were worthless so instead they terminated those positions and my wife picked up the slack.
At least they gave her a promotion for all the added work.
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John K. Brennan and James Clapper and many, many others need to be tried for treason, possibly by military tribunal, and then executed.
Bracken: Communist Influence of Deep State Coup / Interview with Diana West
28 March 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g-72mczdfM
I agree. See 37.
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