Posted on 02/19/2024 3:58:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has broken a story on Substack this week exposing Barack Obama’s CIA both before and after the 2016 election:
1. Lying about Trump and Russia and Clinton (Hillary was actually Russia’s preference, but the CIA manipulated their own intelligence findings to stand the real conclusions on the head and point to Trump as the Russian preference; and.
2. Using international intelligence networks dominated by the U.S., to put out queries/ a.k.a. commit espionage upon 26 of Trump’s associates -- including Ben Carson.
SNIP
Remember the raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago?
“After Public and Racket {Matt Taibi’s site} had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement -- targets for collection and misinformation.”
Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.
If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.”
Oh, my -- is that why they broke into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home? Worried that he may have kept a copy of those documents he wanted unclassified?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If I remember correctly this 10-inch binder is missing from the CIA safe where it is supposed to be secured. This document was not classified to protect national security. It was classified to protect the guilty parties in the deep state and in the 5-eyes intel community.
Come on. Go after Mayorkos if you can. He’s small potatoes. The GOP’s going after Obama? Doesn’t matter what they got on him. Too cowardly.
btt
Obama Seeks to Knock US Down a Peg
By Thomas Sowell, Monday, 01 October 2012, newsmax.com
Much puzzling behavior by Barack Obama falls into place when we go behind the image that he projects (”Obama 1”) to the factual reality of the man’s whole life and thrust (”Obama 2”). Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: “When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off.”
Many of Barack Obama’s actions as president of the United States reflect neither political expediency nor an attempt to promote the best interests of the American people. Take, for example, his bowing low from the waist to foreign leaders. No president of the United States had ever done that before. It gained Obama nothing with the voters, nor was there any reason to think that he expected it to. Why then did he do it?
What did it accomplish? It brought the United States down a peg, in the eyes of the world, something that he has sought to do in many other ways. These bows were perfectly consistent with his view of a mal-distribution of power and prestige internationally, just as his domestic agenda reflects a felt need for a redistribution of wealth and power within American society. It is not just the United States, but the Western world in general, including Israel, that needs to be brought down a peg, from the standpoint of the ideology prevalent among the people with whom Barack Obama has allied himself consistently for decades.
Against that background, it is not at all puzzling that President Obama has clamped down on offshore oil drilling by Americans in the Gulf of Mexico, but has actually encouraged and subsidized offshore oil drilling by Brazil with our tax dollars. Nor is it surprising that he imposes draconian restrictions on industrial activities in the United States, in the name of fighting “global warming,” while accepting the fact that Third World nations that are beginning to industrialize will generate far more pollution than any restrictions in America can possibly offset.
That is another example of international redistribution — and payback for perceived past oppressions or exploitation of the West against the non-West. So is replacing pro-Western governments in the Middle East with Islamic extremist governments. Some people may have gotten focused on the issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate because so much of what he has done seems foreign to American ideals, traditions, and interests. But birth tells us nothing about loyalty. One-time American Communist leader Earl Browder was descended from the Pilgrims.
Those who have questioned whether Barack Obama is really a citizen of the United States have missed the larger question: Whether he considers himself a citizen of the world. Think about this remarkable statement by Obama during the 2008 campaign: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that every other country is going to say, ‘OK.’” Are Americans supposed to let foreigners tell them how to live their lives? The implied answer is clearly “Yes!” When President Obama went to the United Nations for authority to take military action and ignored the Congress of the United States, that was all consistent with his vision of the way the world should be.
How has Obama gotten away with so many things that are foreign to American beliefs and traditions? Partly it is because of a quiescent media, sharing many of his ideological views and/or focused on the symbolism of his being “the first black president.” But part of his success must be credited — if that is the word — to his own rhetorical talents and his ability to project an image that many people accept and welcome.
The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don’t know the facts — and often sounds like sheer nonsense if you do. But he is not trying to convince skeptics, nor worried about looking ridiculous to informed people who won’t vote for him anyway. This is a source of much polarization between those who see and accept Obama 1 and those who see through that facade to Obama 2.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U.
BUMP
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The “clean,” ghetto-nurtured boy in the WH “did not know” tax-financed
US intel exists to protect the safety and security of American families.
So Obama had a ball with US intel——he put all 17 tax-rich intel
agencies at 2016 candidate Hillary’s campaign disposal to get
something she could pin on Trump.......
Obama also ordered tax-enriched US Intel to tap foreign spy ops
to surveil 26 innocent Trump associates in the 2016 election runup.
Americans were specifically targeted by tax-paid agents:
<><>they were targets of US Intel and Obama’s law enforcement
<><>targets for shady intel collection and misinformation,
<><>targeted to covertly initiate contact
<><>to slyly manipulate
<><>to covertly develop useful intel harmful to Trump.
By March 2016, fun-loving Obama was sending tax-paid agents agents to the UK,
Australia, Italy —the Israeli Mossad in Italy at a Brits MI6 intel school there.
Then... whoppee......Obama and Hillary “found” Trump had “colluded with Russia.”
On this FR thread, pepsionice posted a very astute credible analysis of the elusive binder.....
noting it was very possibly the result of internal audits to
explain where pieces and parts of a sensitive covert operation existed.
So maybe 40 or-so different reports are bundled into one binder
for easy reading and is lying about somewhere waiting to be found.
I would venture to say the exact nature of the Trump
prosecutions tell the tale as to who would be culpable.
So any unanswered questions about the “clean,”
ghetto-nurtured “community organizer.”
Would you post the link to the thread pls? Thnks!
That’s what I keep hoping for - I tried to go back but was on my cellphone so I wasn’t too successful
Much puzzling behavior by Barack Obama falls into place when we go behind the image that he projects (”Obama 1”) to the factual reality of the man’s whole life and thrust (”Obama 2”).
Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words,
“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”
An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: “When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off.”
The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don’t know the facts.
Given that Obama is a Marxist, it is safe to assume that his groomers are Marxists too and that he is part of a Marxist plan.
As an aside, all this Woke crap invading the U.S. and the world isn't just a coincidence. Students with pink hair and liberal ideas, members of the LGBTQ, BLM, Antifa, blacks demanding reparations, politicians encouraging millions of illegals to pour over our border, et al. are useful idiots. They are not the leaders of the movement.
If we are going to fight this movement, we first need to be able to clearly identify the head of the snake. In fact, one of the most brilliant moves of this enemy is how they have completely hidden their command and control system and leadership from peering eyes.
You can't fight an enemy you can't see.
nevermind, I went to the actual article and found it!
Good catch; tx.
Quite an act. He comes on the scene, basically out of nowhere - all hatin’ on da George W. Bush.*
Then, one day, he and George W. Bush are besties - the only candidate they disliked was pro-America, pro-American worker, pro-border-control Donald Trump.
Oh yeah, and they both loved them some Hillary.
*Reason #493,872 why I just don’t trust much of anything that an Establishment politician says, anymore (as defined: “to any further extent; any longer.”)
Obama - the real Manchurian candidate.
[The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don’t know the facts]
Now THAT sums it up perfectly. Thank you.
Occurs to me that the CIA has reached the end stage of Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy, i.e. they are far more concerned with protecting the organization than with accomplishing the mission. So OF COURSE they’ll do anything the pResident asks them to do. There are BUDGETS at stake!
Was just reading last night that this was the state of Britain’s MI6 before WW2. If it hadn’t been for the Czechs and the Poles they would have accomplished nothing right through to the end of the war, and even in it’s aftermath.
Solution obviously is to do a cold reboot - eliminate the top layers of management entirely, replace with people who believe in meritocracy. (’course that begs the question: where in America today do you find ANYBODY who still believes in meritocracy....)
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