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CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report
nypost ^ | 2/13/2024 | victor nava

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016russia; 5eyes; cia; coup; dforeignintel; election; espionage; rigging; tampering; treason
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To: bitt

hang all who committed treason....
and use American rope
#MAGA


81 posted on 02/14/2024 8:31:08 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: DesertRhino

Bingo


82 posted on 02/14/2024 9:09:15 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Vaduz

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83 posted on 02/14/2024 9:11:41 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DesertRhino
The entire concept of the 5 eyes was to skirt US law against domestic spying which was forbidden to the CIA. The 5 eyes concept that it’s not domestic spying if the Brits or Aussies discover something and inform the CIA about it.

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.

84 posted on 02/14/2024 9:50:42 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: bitt; All

How do you spell interference?


85 posted on 02/14/2024 10:29:04 AM PST by Freeleesy
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To: JonPreston

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.


86 posted on 02/14/2024 11:21:05 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Reverend Wright

All built on the 17th Amendment..

It’s well past time to repeal the 17th Amendment


87 posted on 02/15/2024 1:19:42 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: bitt

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.

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/punching-back-with-george-papa-1580583/episodes/ep-1-george-reacts-to-the-ig-r-82556751


88 posted on 02/15/2024 6:33:51 AM PST by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Robert357

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.


89 posted on 02/15/2024 6:38:42 AM PST by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: bitt

Brennan is disgusting


90 posted on 02/15/2024 12:01:16 PM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: bitt

Anonymous? Let’s wait and see.


91 posted on 02/15/2024 8:38:11 PM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: DouglasKC

And incredibly they are charging Trump with election interference.


92 posted on 02/19/2024 5:00:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: TigersEye

Except the enemies are the ones with access and control of the drones.


93 posted on 02/19/2024 7:30:36 AM PST by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

ok


94 posted on 02/19/2024 6:39:44 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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