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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hang all who committed treason....
and use American rope
#MAGA
Bingo
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If the CIA "asked" the 5 eyes to spy on US targets, then it's against the law.
They may claim that they are "skirting" the law, but they aren't.
How do you spell interference?
In the book they have some good evidence that Haig himself was Deep Throat. Well - one of the people that made up what Woodward termed Deep Throat. That comes off a lot easier when telling a story than Informant One, two and three.
All built on the 17th Amendment..
It’s well past time to repeal the 17th Amendment
George Papadopolis started doing a podcast in 2020. He only ended up doing 15-20 episodes and most of the later ones weren’t very good. But in episodes 1-3, he lays out in great detail how the Italian, Australian and Israeli intelligence tried to trap him. It was very eye opening and his story is now completely confirmed by these reports.
Shellenberger, Taibbi and Gutentag are not main stream media.
NYPost also ran the Hunter Biden laptop story when it was banned everywhere else.
If CNN and MSNBC starts pushing this story, then you might have a point.
Brennan is disgusting
Anonymous? Let’s wait and see.
And incredibly they are charging Trump with election interference.
Except the enemies are the ones with access and control of the drones.
ok
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