Posted on 02/22/2024 7:20:35 AM PST by Heartlander
The Intelligence Community of the United States of America has been weaponized against the incumbent leader’s political opposition, having even turned the spy agencies of our closest allies against the leading Republican candidate.
This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn if a bombshell report released last week is accurate.
Relying on “multiple credible witnesses,” independent journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag revealed that in the lead-up to the 2016 election, the CIA enlisted the help of foreign nations to surveil associates of Donald Trump in a plot to frame him as a Russian asset.
Released by Public, the report alleges that, before Trump took office, Obama-appointed CIA Director John Brennan identified 26 of Trump’s contacts and misleadingly presented them as espionage targets to the spy agencies of the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (also known as the “Five Eyes” alliance).
According to the report, the CIA then used the intelligence gathered by its Five Eyes allies to convince the FBI to open its infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Donald Trump.
Though since discredited by the Mueller Report and the subsequent Durham Report, Crossfire Hurricane was a thorn in Trump’s side throughout his time in the Oval Office.
Agents working on the investigation leaked key details to a Trump-hostile press, prompting wall-to-wall accusations from the media that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the White House.
When Trump denied these accusations and voiced suspicions that his campaign had been spied on, the corporate press doubled down, framing him as paranoid and dishonest.
But he was right all along.
According to CNN, one of the biggest "lies" that Trump told was that his campaign was spied on.
Imagine how many times they added this to their official "Trump Lie Count." pic.twitter.com/H8cXxeLYLY
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 14, 2024
That Trump’s campaign was spied on was already well known. What Shellenberger, Taibbi and Gutenberg uncovered was the trickery allegedly employed by the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to circumvent United States law.
“US law prohibits such intelligence gathering unless authorized by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant,” the authors explain. Moreover, “the weaponization of the IC for political purposes constitutes election interference.”
But if foreign spies could gather dirt on Trump on behalf of the IC, the problem would be solved—and that is apparently just what they did.
“They were making contacts and bumping Trump people going back to March 2016,” one of the sources cited in the report explains.
(In spy talk, “bumping” means to make contact with a target in a way that appears casual or coincidental when the real purpose is to gather intelligence without raising the target’s suspicion).
These revelations stand in stark contrast to persistent claims by the U.S. government that Crossfire Hurricane was triggered by unsolicited intel from an Australian diplomat.
According to the report, the reverse is the case: The Australian diplomat’s allegations were only made possible by the CIA first enlisting help from Australian spy agencies to “bump” Trump’s associates ahead of 2016.
In a subsequent Fox News interview, Michael Shellenberger even suggested that the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 was executed in an effort to recover a binder that contained details of the IC’s illegal espionage against Trump from the American pubic.
“There has been widespread speculation that this binder was the reason or a reason for the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago,” he explained.
Report: Deep state is scrambling to find a missing top-secret binder that shows how Obama's CIA set up the Russia hoax @shellenberger @mtaibbi pic.twitter.com/oBvKRrqkkp
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 14, 2024
For anyone following these events, it is clear that the scandal unravelling this week towers over Watergate—and may in fact represent the single greatest abuse of power by American intelligence in the history of the Union.
Events unfolding in Washington, D.C. can feel very distant and intangible, but their implications must not be lost on everyday Americans.
If the U.S. government can weaponize its spy apparatus and manipulate foreign allies against a man as powerful and popular as Donald Trump, what can it do to regular citizens who disapprove of the incumbent leader?
What is it already doing?
The voices of ordinary people have never been more important in ensuring that this republic remains one of the people, by the people and for the people.
If they are aware that we know what they are doing, and they know we know, but continue, there is only one solution.
The military is the only way.
After the Berlin Wall fell, the Stasi underwent an effort to destroy their files. One could make a pretty good guess why.
May we see the day the same happens in the US.
The CIA, FBI and NSA are ENEMIES of the American people. They are NOT protecting America. They are destroying it as traitors from within.
They have become a law unto themselves hiding their crimes under the guise of “national security.” It is really “self preservation” driving their primary efforts.
These agencies will do ANYTHING necessary to prevent being held accountable for their crimes.
These agencies must be defunded, ripped apart and their facilities and networks completely demolished.
Who needs such traitors? They do not believe in the structure of the U.S. government as set forth in the U.S. Constitution.
Those within these criminal enterprises who committed treason against the American people should be prosecuted and hanged.
Burn it to the ground.
Well, one step that definitely needs to be done is to find out every intelligence agency employee who participated in this (not just ordered, but every single one who had any knowledge) and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law for seditious conspiracy.
After that is done, we should think very carefully about how to reconstitute our intelligence apparatus so it will be fully and ruthlessly subject to public oversight and oversight by the ordinary courts, not special secret courts.
The author never answers his own question. Whatever...
Only one way to fix it, get someone like General Flynn in there and fire the leadership. Then hire a few hundred department heads that focus on weeding out anyone who was political.
Yes, the author does answer his own question. In his last sentence.
It was more than political, much more. It was malignant, murderous and genocidal.
That's run of the mill politics from the Left, they play dirty.
Dox them.
But then they sugar-coat it by calling “political.” It’s part of the coverup. It’s a very ugly thing they’re covering up.
“ What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?”
Destroy it utterly and completely, so that even the rubble can’t bounce.
“The CIA, FBI and NSA are ENEMIES of the American people. They are NOT protecting America. They are destroying it as traitors from within.”
Don’t forget DOJ, EPA, IRS have all been radicalized. The Federal government has gotten to large and has corrupted everything.
What’s America to do with a weaponized intelligence community?
Start by being honest and renaming it the Gestapo.
Cease and decist. If they do not, initiate constitutionally defined measures. The American public should not be subject to “counterintelligence shenanigans” from a DOJ that thinks they are the CIA.
Reduce funding by 50%. As a shot across their bow.
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