Via Zerohedge.com
The New York Times is out with a puff piece ahead of the highly anticipated DOJ Inspector General report expected any day now detailing the FBI’s (mis)conduct during the 2016 US election. The Times piece is brought to you by yet more leaks from the FBI, with their account of the operation against the Trump campaign prior to former Director Comey’s firing and the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel.
Key takeaways:
- The FBI’s codename for the operation which began 100 days before the US election was Crossfire Hurricane, in reference to a lyric in the Rolling Stones song Jumpin’ Jack Flash.
- The FBI sent counterintelligence agents, one of whom was Peter Strzok, to London in the summer of 2016 to meet with Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, to describe his meeting with Trump campaign advisor, George Papadopoulos.
- The meeting with Downer was described as “highly unusual,” and “helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation.”
- The FBI kept details of the operation secret from most of the DOJ – with “only about five Justice Department officials” aware of the full scope of the case.
Fearful of leaks, they kept details from political appointees across the street at the Justice Department. Peter Strzok, a senior F.B.I. agent, explained in a text that Justice Department officials would find it too “tasty” to resist sharing. “I’m not worried about our side,” he wrote. –NYT
It was an assignment so secretive that Peter Strzok giddily texted his side piece about it on an unsecured line. It’s also weird for NYT to characterize the meeting as “not yet reported” seeing as how Strzok’s texts about it have been out for months. https://t.co/lbvTZksLJr pic.twitter.com/QSA7TedpTM
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 16, 2018
- Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn was under investigation, along with Paul Manafort and another advisor “suspected of being a Russian agent himself.”
- Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier memos didn’t reach the FBI until mid-September 2016.
The F.B.I. bureaucracy did agents no favors. In July, a retired British spy named Christopher Steele approached a friend in the F.B.I. overseas and provided reports linking Trump campaign officials to Russia. But the documents meandered around the F.B.I. organizational chart, former officials said. Only in mid-September, congressional investigators say, did the records reach the Crossfire Hurricane team.
- Strzok texted his mistress Lisa Page with doubts over the case.
“I cannot believe we are seriously looking at these allegations and the pervasive connections,” Mr. Strzok wrote soon after returning from London.
- Donald Trump was not under investigation, “but his actions perplexed the agents.”
“A year and a half later, no public evidence has surfaced connecting Mr. Trump’s advisers to the hacking or linking Mr. Trump himself to the Russian government’s disruptive efforts.“
“It’s like the deep state all got together to try to orchestrate a palace coup,” Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, said in January on Fox Business Network.
?Matt Gaetz turns up the heat on the DOJ to appoint a second special counsel!
“These are the elements of a palace coup…It is important to note that over 20 members of the Judiciary Committee sent AG Sessions a demand for a second special counsel.” #MissingTexts #ReleaseTheMemo pic.twitter.com/kYduScOrSd— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) January 24, 2018
The Times then delves into what they call “missteps” (and others might call unprecedented collusion between an establishment candidate, the previous administration, foreign officials, and high-ranking members of the US Intelligence Community to destroy Donald Trump’s chances of winning the US election – then “salt the earth” with Russian conspiracy theories after he won).
And there were missteps. Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director, was cited by internal investigators for dishonesty about his conversations with reporters about Mrs. Clinton. That gave ammunition for Mr. Trump’s claims that the F.B.I. cannot be trusted. And Mr. Strzok and Lisa Page, an F.B.I. lawyer, exchanged texts criticizing Mr. Trump, allowing the president to point to evidence of bias when they became public. -NYT
“Missteps” indeed. The Times’ fails to mention that McCabe authorized a self-serving leak to the New York Times claiming that the FBI had not put the brakes on the Clinton Foundation investigation, during a period in which he was coming under fire over a $467,500 campaign donation his wife Jill took from Clinton pal Terry McAuliffe.
Instead, the NYT simply says McCabe was “cited by internal investigators for dishonesty about his conversations with reporters about Mrs. Clinton.”
The rest of The Times piece goes into how the FBI was super careful and by-the-book when it came to their totally legit investigation that was not launched because of the Steele dossier.
“Folks are very, very careful and serious about that process,” said Sally Yates, former Deputy AG under Obama. “I don’t know of anything that gives me any concerns.”
Strange – Congressional investigators and the Inspector General apparently disagree, strongly.
“The meeting with Downer was described as “highly unusual,” and “helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation.””
One reason why Australia is involved is likely because of Five Eyes or FVEY. It’s illegal for the US to spy on it’s own citizens so we formed a cooperative with intel agencies from UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (plus USA=5) and we allow those countries to spy on US citizens so we tell them what we want, they go get it, then we just get the intel from them.
That’s a cute little loophole innit?
It’s so delicious watching the wheels fall of the deep state bus!
Which Village Idiot got newly improved during my hiatus? I just opted for the Redux option.
We are in the middle of cultural upheaval that I think will lead to a change in the US government… possibly a Constitutional rewrite. I don’t see how any of this obvious attempt by the Clintonian Dynasty with the Marxist upstart court jester, Obama, stealing Hillary’s thunder in 2008 and jumping the shark on the immigration business to get his beloved “muslim people” here faster.
It is war and if you aren’t in a good spot yet, it is probably time to look for one. A few of you are welcome here.
Dan will need to bring a truckload of those rain lily wipes. The ticks here HATE them. I know you didn’t intend them to be insect deterrents, but they work.
Interesting.
“Which Village Idiot got newly improved during my hiatus?”
That would be me, the idiot formerly known as IndenturedServant. Apparently, anyone that follows Q is an idiot. I wear it well. It even took me a week to figure out my WordPress password.
I love the new picture next to the name.
You’re quite a bit better looking than I had envisioned…….
If all of these people are not executed for their treason and sedition, not to mention the felonies, then” we the people” will have to physically retake and restore the republic or forever live as slaves to same!
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Guess who was the CIA station chief in London at the time of Strzok’s little trip? Guess who knows exactly what happened?
Gina Haspel.
Guess who will carry out Kennedy’s desire to “splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”?
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As a 27 year-old staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation, Hillary Rodham was fired by her supervisor, Democrat Jerry Zeifman. When asked why Hillary Rodham was fired, Zeifman said in an interview, “Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the Committee, and the rules of confidentiality.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4540251/hillarys-bold-lie-omission-fired-staff-position-house-judiciary-committee-impeach-president-Nixon
The clip is garbage, by the way… Hillary spewing garbage about how smart she is, I just included it for a link to the source.
Haspel is Establishment…….don’t see her as one to splinter the CIA.
Not all “Establishment” are bad.
Trust the plan.
Pray tell…what is this plan of which you speak?
We know the DOJ, FBI, State Dept., CIA etc are corrupt. The deep state has set up an intricate little fiefdom for itself with 1000 ways for the bad guys to wriggle free should they find themselves in jeopardy. Trump’s ONLY option is to follow the rule of law otherwise he is no better than the bad guys. Anyone over the age of forty can probably recall from events that happened during their own lifetimes that the rule of law and wheels of justice turn slowly. This is necessary in order to avoid kangaroo court trials that sweep up the little fish while allowing the big fish to go free. Real investigations and prosecutions, if you want them to have teeth and be successful take time.
In our system the FBI works on domestic federal crimes and arrests people. The DOJ and IG investigates, prosecutes and ultimately tries criminal bad guys.
Now, what happens if you use corrupt FBI guys, corrupt DOJ prosecutors and corrupt judges to go after the bad guys? The wriggle free on technicalities etc. just like they all have over the last 30+ years.
So, THE PLAN is exactly what you see (if you WANT to see) playing out right now. Wray is cleaning out the corrupted FBI scum and Sessions is cleaning out the DOJ. Sessions and Trump are also appointing/hiring a slew of new prosecutors and judges. This is far enough along now that we are just waiting for Horrowitz to release his IG report and refer people to Huber for prosecution. Once the bad guys are cleaned out of FBI/DOJ, arrests and prosecutions can/will begin in earnest. If Trump had attempted this day one, the corrupt FBI and DOJ would just let the bad guys wriggle free.
Haspel will begin cleaning out the CIA next and Bolton is cleaning out the NSC. Once all of these lower level scumbags are cleaned out they will have vast numbers of people who will be very eager and happy to testify against the likes of Hillary and Obama.
We may not like Haspel and Bolton and we may even think they are bad actors but they happen to know where the dirt is. They could actually be good guys or they could have been turned to avoid prosecution and jail in return for their help in rooting out the bad guys.
Enjoy the show!
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May 17 2018 13:30:25 (EST)
>>1444934
What had to happen first?
Think logically.
Think DOJ & FBI.
Think cleaning.
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Puzzle coming together?
We have reached our cruising altitude of 40,000 ft. long ago.
As we prepare to land, please fasten your seatbelt and make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their full upright position.
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I’m not sure what the motivation is behind this pick for head of CIA.
Have you seen Snowden’s tweet about her?
Wondering how the two of them fit into this drama??
What I’ve concluded is we plebs have just enough information to ask “WTF”? But not quite enough to see the whole picture. In this drama, we constantly have to wait and see how it plays out.
When the time comes put this woman in front of a firing squad.
Slappingtons.com
May 15 at 11:46am ·
In 1942, through the Bretton Woods Accord, the intentionally-mislabeled, “Federal Reserve Note” was intentionally-misrepresented as “The American Dollar”.
It is Not an American possession- it is being co-opted by criminal counterfeiters. The damage wrought, thus far, is in excess of 1200 Trillion = IMPOSSIBLE.
1200 Trillion is 2o X the combined GDP of every country on the planet- stated differently = the criminal Swiss and English Counterfeiters are claiming the next 20 years worth of combined GDP as their personal slush fund.
It is antithetical to the American Constitution, specifically, Article One, Section Eight, paragraph six – 186.
The Bretton Woods Accord intentionally created the “Debt Rug” the counterfeiters are fixin’ to pull and then withdraw behind the new BRICS clearinghouse platform.
The “Debt Rug” = Intentionally creating the phony, now-wholly-discredited, narrative which says : “The intentionally-mislabeled, ‘Federal Reserve’ Note IS THE SOVEREIGN CURRENCY”.
As “Sovereign”, the imposter mechanism (privately-owned and privately-operated English and Swiss owned Monopoly Money) “Federal Reserve Note, neither federal, nor possessing ANY reserves” dictated the price per ounce of Gold (this is the beginning of an artificial, absolutely disgraceful false narrative of “Commodity v FIAT”; what difference gold or paper in the complete absence of “Accountability” under the “Rule of Law??????????????)
The US is under assault. British Accredited Registry “BAR” attorneys have infiltrated every strata of American government. The expectation was: THAT GODDAMNED THING CLINTON WOULD WIN.
In winning, that GODDAMNED THING AND HER CREATURES, HOLDER AND OBAMA WOULD ENJOY CONTINUING TO PLUNDER AMERICAN PROPERTY- NOT LEAST OUR CURRENCY AND SECURITIES.
There are presently 24,000 sealed indictments- the large preponderance of which are aimed directly at STATE COURT JUDGES AND BAR ATTORNEY OUTFITS THAT ARE ILLEGAL DEBT COLLECTORS.
~ Michael Keane 5/15/18
Where does one get the data that there are 24,000 sealed indictments?
T4C posted, below. The number is misleading, although these can be found on “Pacer”, they don’t necessarily apply to 24,000 individuals. There could be a multiple of individuals attached to a single indictment, for example, or different legal strings attached to a single indictment.
As an optimist, I may be inclined to think: Hey, wouldn’t it be delightful if even a quarter, or better, half of them were directed at individuals… that oughta’ start the ball rolling.
This article is good for the graphics:https://squawker.org/politics/doj-releases-list-of-24500-sealed-indictments/
If you want to access “Pacer” you gotta pay for it.
When they leak it in the NY Times, the story is as good as dead, there will be no follow up, because the prosecuting team does not work in the light of day.
no one gets arrested by a story, unless that story is about a financial crime against the masses, and said crime was not detected by the financial gate keepers.
For anyone who read the recent 4,000+ word New York Times piece that’s fun the government corruption in the DOJ and FBI as “misteps” and Congressional and presidential allegations of “conspiracy”- it was shameful.
Now this takedown of the NYT (below) in the National Review. I don’t see, in any way possible, how this (current reporting of domestic spying in the mainstream media) is not a big f*****g deal. On the contrary, it’s YUUUUGGE!
that SPUN the government corruption in the DOJ…., and “missteps”, that is