“We’ll Know Our Disinformation
Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.” William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
Oh what a tangled web has been weaved. Remember when we were told “17 intelligence
agencies have agreed that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign?” It was a lie, but then when you have the
heads of the National Intelligence Agency, FBI and CIA lying under oath before
congress with zero accountability that’s what you can expect. America no longer has a free press, our major
news agencies are extensions of the intelligence apparatus whose job is to lie
to the American people.
When the lies are exposed, those scoundrels shriek “it’s a
matter of life and death secret” or “it’s classified and exposure is a threat
to national security” memes the media tosses into the echo chamber to be
repeated ad nauseam. We now know an FBI
asset that was embedded in President Trump’s campaign was a well-known spy
named Stefan Halper. Halper was part of
a sting operation to derail the Trump campaign on behalf of the Deep
State. From John Rappaport at Op-EdNews:
Excerpt:
Say hello to the FBI mole inside the Trump campaign
Well, you see, the mole wasn't a
spy, he was an informant. Aha. Let's use a microscope to tell the
difference. The mole: Stefan Halper, a
Cambridge professor. Supposedly, Halper
was gathering information for the FBI about a suspected Trump-Russia connection…
Well, what else has Halper done? At
The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald reports: "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."
Oops. That doesn't smell good. CIA
operatives, managed by Halper, infiltrated the presidential campaign, spied on
Jimmy Carter and his advisors, and relayed information about Carter's foreign
policy to Reagan's team. But we're supposed to believe, without
evidence, that in 2016 Halper was only trying to dig up information on a
Trump-Russia connection.
What more do we know about Stefan
Halper, the mole for hire? Breitbart: "Halper...served as an assistant to all three of President Gerald Ford's
Chief of Staffs -- Alexander Haig, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney..."
Quite a trio of politicians. I don't think you'd want to list them on your
resume, if you were applying for a job with an organization that showed a shred
of ethics.
The Deep State's tentacles are deeply embedded into both the
DNC and RNC. There is no discernable
difference. Both parties are attempting
a coup against President Trump in order to protect themselves from the will of
the American people. Robert Mueller is a
dirty cop who has been assigned the task of politically assassinating Donald
Trump. When there’s a dirty job to do,
you can always depend of the MI6, FBI and CIA.
But Donald Trump is a fighter and he has had enough and is demanding an
investigation into the FBI and CIA shenanigans.
From Executive Intelligence Review:
Excerpt:
Justice Department Forced To Open
Probe of FBI Sting Operation against Trump Campaign
May 21, 2018 (EIRNS)—President
Trump on Sunday finished off a string of nine tweets tearing into the fraud of
“witchhunt” against him, with the announcement,
“I
hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of
Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the
Trump Campaign for Political Purposes—and if any such demands or requests
were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
Within hours, Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein announced that the Justice Department Inspector General
(IG) had just been tasked with investigating whether the FBI surveilled
President Trump’s campaign for “inappropriate purposes,” promising to “take
appropriate action” if that had occurred. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah
Isgur Flores issued a contorted statement attempting to preserve the lie that Russians had interfered in the
presidential election, while
specifying that the investigation into
“impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its
counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the
Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election”
will be now be included in the IG’s
ongoing “review” of the legality of the FBI/DOJ Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) court application to open surveillance of the Trump
campaign, who will refer “any potential criminal activity” to a U.S. Attorney.
In other words, the higher-ups who deployed Stefan Halper,
a longtime CIA operative with extensive ties to George H.W. Bush and British
foreign intelligence MI6, to run a typical FBI sting operation to set up
the Trump campaign for the charge of “working with Russians,” could soon face
criminal charges.
No wonder Obama’s CIA Director John
Brennan went ballistic. Brennan retweeted Trump’s tweet on ordering an
investigation, accompanied by a threat to the Republican leadership to shut
down any such investigation, “or else.” Brennan wrote:
“Senator McConnell & Speaker
Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this
disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our
democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican
Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.”
President Trump took note of
Brennan’s hysteria today, retweeting a tweet from conservative commentator Dan
Bongino on how “John Brennan is
panicking.... This was a Political hit job, this was not an Intelligence
Investigation.... He’s worried about staying out of Jail.”
An hour later, Trump followed up
with his own tweet: “The Wall Street Journal asks, WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA? A very good question!”
The chickens are coming home to roost. Dirty cop Mueller’s investigation should
never have been started. Dirty cop
Mueller has too many deep conflicts of interest and should wrap up his witch
hunt that was started under false pretenses of Russian collusion that is
costing the tax payers money and is hamstringing the Trump Administration. This abomination has been going on for two
years with nothing to show for it but some trumped up charges against Russians
that are dubious at best. From Law and Crime:
Excerpt:
The Russians Try to Call Mueller’s Bluff, File Request to View Secret
Grand Jury Info
Attorneys for an alleged component
of Russian trolling efforts during the 2016 presidential election are demanding that special counsel Robert
Mueller be forced to reveal the grand jury instructions used in count one of
the government’s indictment against Concord Management and Consulting LLC.
The nine-page motion (plus
supporting documents) filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia relies upon Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(E)(ii) which
provides:
The court may authorize
disclosure—at a time, in a manner, and subject to any other conditions that it
directs—of a grand-jury matter…at the
request of a defendant who shows that a ground may exist to dismiss the
indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury.
The motion further specifies that Concord Management is requesting a private
“inspection of the legal instructions provided to the grand jury regarding
Count One of the Indictment…in order to determine whether the instructions
provided could support a motion to dismiss Count One of the Indictment.”
Concord’s argument is that Mueller
failed to include a necessary knowledge requirement in count one of the
indictment against Concord Management and other Russian entities and therefore,
may need to be dismissed… The motion
notes, “violations of the relevant
federal campaign laws and foreign agent registration requirements administered
by the DOJ and the FEC require the defendant to have acted ‘willfully,’ a
word that does not appear anywhere in Count One of the Indictment.”
The motion continues, “As such, Count One of the Indictment appears to be
facially invalid because it fails to charge an essential element of the offense
of conspiracy to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing and
defeating the functions of the FEC and the DOJ, that is, that the Defendant
acted willfully, in this case meaning that Defendant was aware of the FEC and
FARA requirements, agreed to violate those requirements, and ultimately acted
with intent to violate those requirements.”
Concord Management’s Monday motion
contains at least one reference to U.S. case law where similar indictments were
dismissed because they failed to adequately track statutory language. In other
words, Concord Management is arguing
that Mueller and his army of attorneys charged Concord Management (and other
Russian entities) with a vague-sounding “crime” that isn’t actually a
crime.
In fact, Concord Management’s
motion explicitly says as much, claiming, “[T]he DOJ never brought any case
like the instant Indictment, that is, an alleged conspiracy by a foreign
corporation to ‘interfere’ in a Presidential election by allegedly funding free speech. The obvious reason for this is that no such crime exists in the federal
criminal code…”
The motion also takes some
rhetorical license to savage Mueller’s mandate and his apparent focus on
private Russian businesses. A representative section reads, in relevant part:
[T]he Deputy Attorney General
acting for the recused Attorney General has rejected the history and integrity
of the DOJ, and instead licensed a Special Counsel who for all practical
political purposes cannot be fired, to
indict a case that has absolutely nothing to do with any links or coordination
between any candidate and the Russian Government. The reason is obvious,
and is political: to justify his own existence the Special Counsel has to
indict a Russian – any Russian.
One such footnote alleges, “Count
One of the Indictment is devoid of any specificity about what any officer or
employee of Concord actually did other than to generally allege that Concord
funded an ‘Organization’ that the Special Counsel imagined and created.”
Ouch.
Dirty cop Mueller didn’t expect the Russians to fight their
indictment in a court of law. Dirty cop
Mueller is very dirty indeed. Funny it
turns out that Mueller has the Russian ties not President Trump. From The Hill:
Excerpt:
Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian
oligarch
Special counsel Robert Mueller has
withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of
distinguished government service. But
there’s one episode even Mueller’s
former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge
raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his
overseeing the Russia election probe.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI,
the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own
dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent,
Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Yes,
that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation
and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration…
They said FBI agents courted
Deripaska in 2009 in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris… “We knew he
was paying for his team helping us, and that probably ran into the millions,” a U.S. official involved in the
operation confirmed. One agent who helped court Deripaska was
Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played a
seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple sources confirmed…
Two months before Trump was elected
president, Deripaska was in New York as part of Russia’s United Nations
delegation when three FBI agents awakened him in his home; at least one agent
had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Levinson. During an hour-long visit, the agents
posited a theory that Trump’s campaign was secretly colluding with Russia
to hijack the U.S. election.
“Deripaska laughed but realized,
despite the joviality, that they were serious,” the lawyer said. “So he told them in his informed opinion
the idea they were proposing was false. ‘You are trying to create something out
of nothing,’ he told them.” The agents left though the FBI sought more
information in 2017 from the Russian, sources tell me…
So why care about some banished
Russian oligarch’s account now?
Two reasons.
First, as the FBI prepared to get
authority to surveil figures on Trump’s campaign team, did it disclose to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that
one of its past Russian sources waived them off the notion of Trump-Russia
collusion?
Second, the U.S. government in April imposed sanctions on Deripaska, one of
several prominent Russians targeted to punish Vladimir Putin — using the
same sort of allegations that State used from 2006 to 2009. Yet, between those
two episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to ask him to fund that
multimillion-dollar rescue mission. And to seek his help on a sensitive
political investigation. And to allow him into the country eight times…
Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton
Justice Department lawyer and longtime ethics watchdog, told me a “far more significant issue” is whether the earlier FBI operation was
even legal: “It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska
violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting
voluntary services.”
George Washington University
constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley agreed: “If the operation with
Deripaska contravened federal law, this figure could be viewed as a potential
embarrassment for Mueller. The question is whether he could implicate
Mueller in an impropriety.”
My, my, my. Dirty,
dirty, dirty. The intelligence agencies
seem to believe they are above the law.
Everyone knows they interfere globally with elections in other countries
but to have proof positive that they are conducting sting operations against
candidates they don’t like in America is outrageous. Attorney General Jeff Session is responsible
for this, he must resign. The corrupt
and conflicted Mueller investigation must be shut down. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. From Jonathan Turley:
Excerpt:
With New Referral To The Inspector General: The FBI Finds Itself Caught
In A Crossfire Hurricane
It was called “Crossfire
Hurricane,” the FBI counterintelligence
operation that targeted Trump figures as part of the investigation into
possible campaign ties to Russia. It was a poignant choice of a Rolling Stones
song, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” that describes a man “born in a crossfire
hurricane” who “howled at the morning driving rain.”
It could be an apt description of
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
After a year of media denials of his claims of surveillance targeting his
campaign, Trump can legitimately claim some vindication. Indeed, with his
rising poll numbers, the president must feel, in the words of the song, like
“it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas.”
The New York Times this week
disclosed that the FBI made a conscious
effort to use secret counterintelligence powers to investigate Trump officials and
may have had a confidential informant who was used in connection with key Trump
figures long before the November 2016 election…
In early 2017, President Trump was
widely ridiculed for alleging that the Obama administration placed his campaign
under surveillance. The response from experts on CNN and other sites was open
mockery. Former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper came forward to assure the media that he could
categorically deny the allegation and stated, “There was no such wiretap
activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as
a candidate, or against his campaign…”
We now know there was, indeed, surveillance ordered repeatedly on Trump
campaign figures before and after the election. Rather than acknowledge the
troubling implications of an administration investigating the opposing party’s
leading candidate for president, the media shifted to saying that there was
ample reason to order the surveillance…
Now the plot has thickened even
further with the added disclosure of not just national security letters to
gather documents related to Trump figures
but also at least one confidential informant who met with campaign figures like
Page and George Papadopoulos to gather information…
It should be a serious concern that
the Obama administration used secret
counterintelligence powers to target officials in the campaign of the opposing
party. That is a practice we have widely criticized in other countries from
Turkey to Russia to Iran.
Worse yet, the New York Times wrote
that the decision was made to use the
secret FISA court and counterintelligence personnel to conceal the operation
for political purposes… FISA was not designed as a convenient alternative
for the FBI and the Justice Department to avoid political costs or scrutiny…
The FISA investigation was based
on loose claims of foreign influence and a little cognizable evidence of actual
crimes.
As a nation committed to the rule
of law, we need a full and transparent investigation of these allegations. All
of the allegations. That includes both
the investigation of special counsel Mueller and the investigation of these
latest allegations involving the FBI.
Until then, many Americans across
the country will continue to believe that, like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Trump was greeted after his election by
being “crowned with a spike” right through his head.
Oh what a tangled web has been weaved. Professor Turley is correct, Trump was greeted
after his election by being “crowed with a spike” right through his head. That spike was wielded by the Obama/Bush corrupt
MI6, DOJ, CIA and FBI who conducted an illegal sting operation against Trump
campaign. Attorney General Sessions must
resign so Trump can name a replacement who will show up for work. Bring on the investigations.
By Patricia Baeten
