How the FBI and CIA Restarted the Cold War to Protect Themselves

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How the FBI and CIA Restarted the Cold War to Protect Themselves

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On December 29, 2016, the Obama Administration – with three weeks remaining in its term – issued harsh sanctions against Russia over supposed election interference.  Two compounds in the United States were closed and 35 Russian diplomats were ordered to leave the country.

Russia responded by calling the actions “Cold War déjà vu.”

In the two years that have elapsed since, it has been learned that the “intelligence” that formed the basis for the sanctions was beyond dubious.

A single unverified “dossier” compiled by an ex-British spy with no discernable connections to Russia was shopped to FISA judges and the media as something real.

The dossier was opposition research by the Hillary Clinton campaign, a fact that was not disclosed and actively hidden by off-the-book transactions through the law firm Perkins Coie.

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As a dog that chases its tail, the fake dossier was being used to cause the investigation which itself lent credibility to the notion of Russian interference.

The FBI and CIA thumbed the eye of an armed nuclear state based on false intelligence.  Why?

The answer is now obvious: to cover up their own election year shenanigans they thought would remain forever hidden in the inevitable Hillary Clinton victory.

Russian collusion had first come to the electorate’s attention in July.  The DNC had lost a cache of its emails either to a phishing scheme or to a hacker.  The emails showed the Clinton campaign and the DNC conspiring to fix primaries against Bernie Sanders.  

The outcry among Sanders supporters was sufficiently loud that DNC chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned on the eve of the democratic convention.

It was a huge scandal.  To squelch it for their expected future boss Hillary Clinton, the FBI and CIA constructed a Rube Goldberg machine of “Russian collusion” to blame Trump.

The FBI never bothered to test the computers for a hack.  That task was left to CrowdStrike, a private contractor whose CTO and co-founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a Russian ex-patriot and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank with an anti-Russian agenda.

The Atlantic Council is funded by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, a $10 million donor to the Clinton Foundation.  The fix was in.  CrowdStrike dutifully reported that the Russians were behind the hack.

Lat year The Nation, a progressive publication, got a group of unaffiliated computer experts to test CrowdStrike’s hypothesis and they concluded that the email files were removed from the computer at a speed that makes an off-site download from Russia impossible.

Incredibly, Trump was placed on the defensive for email leaks that showed his opponent fixing the primaries.  His campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, resigned because of past dealings with Russia.

Trump protested by stating the obvious: the federal government has “no idea” who was behind the hacks.

The FBI and CIA called him a liar, issuing a “Joint Statement” that suggested 17 intelligence agencies agree that it was the Russians.  Hillary Clinton took advantage of this “intelligence assessment” in the October debate to portray Trump as Putin’s stooge.

She said, “We have 17, 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber-attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin.  And they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing.”

The media’s fact checkers excoriated Trump for lying.  It was the ultimate campaign dirty trick: a joint operation by the intelligence agencies and the media against a political candidate.

Trump won anyway against this level of cheating.  It has since been learned that the “17 intelligence agencies” claptrap was always false.  Powerful insiders at the FBI and CIA authored the intelligence assessment and deceptively packaged it as a consensus.

By December 2016, the FBI and CIA needed something to justify their illegal wiretaps and spying.  If not the quid, they at least needed the pro quo: an event that could be portrayed through a hard squint as collusion.

They were not without means.  They had members of Trump’s transition improperly wiretapped.  If they could catch one making a concession to the Russians, they could say “gotcha” – this proves you were always in bed with them.

That is when the CIA and FBI shopped their phony intelligence assessments to President Obama and he sanctioned Russia.  Then they listened in on the Trump transition’s conversation with the Russian ambassador the next day.

Surely General Flynn, Trump’s incoming national security advisor, would scoff at the sanctions and promise to lift them.  That would be the pro quo that proved the quid.   They would finally have anecdotal evidence that showed Trump delivering for Putin.

General Flynn, though, was uncharacteristically noncommittal.   It didn’t work.

The machinations that followed, the secret memos and special counsel, the prosecution of Flynn anyway for what happened in his conversation, the whole sordid mess, is a cover-up.

In the inverse logic of Russian collusion, the investigation itself supplies credibility to the collusion narrative.  Any attempt to end the investigation is obstruction of justice.

One person has the constitutional responsibility end this nonsense.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who himself was duped into recusing himself by since discredited intelligence, should bow to recent disclosures of impropriety and say enough is enough.

His Inspector General will be issuing a report to him sometime soon.   Maybe then he will lift his recusal and start the prosecutions.  People should go to jail for this.

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whiskey tango foxtrot

Because without an “Enemy Of America”, without a “Threat To National Security”, these fucking ticks would have to quit sucking taxpayer blood, get off their asses and find real work. BTW, anyone at this point in time that can’t see Sessions is compromised and that he’s the AGOTUS for that very reason, is in a state of denial.

IndenturedServant

“It was the ultimate campaign dirty trick: a joint operation by the intelligence agencies and the media against a political candidate.”

And that “ultimate dirty trick” will be met by the ultimate in prosecution and a punishment for treason. It’s gonna be epic!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Waiting with bated breath.

nkit
nkit

I have to admit that your optimism can be infectious. I PRAY that you are right.

JustTruth
JustTruth

Send all of these treasonous cock suckers to CIA Gina’s torture chambers.

Unravelling
Unravelling

That was a decent synopsis.

Here is another written by a former advisor to both Slick Willie and Broomhilda:

http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all

Maybe it’s a sign of the swamp finally eating it’s own?

Capn Mike
Capn Mike

Those emails weren’t “hacked”. They were LEAKED.
His name was Seth Rich.

John Coster

Hmmm, aren’t you guys being a little rough? Treason? Of course. How else can you get ahead in Washington? Do you think you’re gonna stand up and read the Constitution. Collusion? Well come on, those international bankers are after all international. The Russians ? Oh give me a break. Hillary colluded with everyone who could write a big enough check to the Clinton foundation. T Rumpus only colluded with Israel and the Rothschilds who bailed out his broke casinos. I guess we know who’s boss. Our country is completely fucked as long as we assume that the current Two Party System is somehow fundamental to our existence and defines us like the boundaries of Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. These are just two competing teams vying for the scraps their masters toss on the floor, the hungry dogs under the table at the final banquet of late stage unfettered capitalism existing in a moral vacuum and lacking any appreciation of the cultural values in which the West could once take pride. They have ensconced themselves like termites in the woodwork and embedded themselves in the very language with phrases like “both sides of the aisle.” A pox on both their houses.

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