As previewed earlier, on Monday afternoon president Trump met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris Wray and the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, in a discussion of the latest developments in the bombshell report that the Obama administration used a longtime FBI and CIA asset, identified as 73-year-old Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, to infiltrate and spy on Trump’s campaign.
With the meeting concluded, the White House issued a statement according to which the DOJ said it has asked the inspector general to “expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign” and adds that “White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.”
Full statement below:
“Based on the meeting with the President, the Department of Justice has asked the Inspector General to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign. It was also agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.”
Translated: a lot of dirty laundry is about to become public.
As Sean Davis points out, the statement confirms Mollie Hemingway’s reporting that contrary to claims from the Washington Post and anonymous DOJ officials made last week, “the White House was never on board with Rosenstein’s plan to obstruct a congressional subpoena.”
This confirms @MZHemingway‘s reporting last week that, contra claims from the Washington Post and anonymous DOJ officials, the White House was never on board with Rosenstein’s plan to obstruct a congressional subpoena. https://t.co/kblJVUNcoT
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 21, 2018
As Davis also adds, “it’s also noteworthy that the White House released a statement immediately following the meeting, before Rosenstein et. al. could start leaking inaccurate information about the White House’s position, which is what happened after the last meeting on the matter.”
As we discussed previously, Halper was outed as the FBI’s “informant” last Friday following weeks of speculation, after the New York Times and Washington Post published easily identifiable information about the U.S. citizen and Cambridge professor. Their reports matched a March 25 article by the Daily Caller detailing Halper’s outreach to several low-level aides to the Trump campaign, including Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and a cup of coffee with campaign co-chair Sam Clovis.
These contacts are notable, as Halper’s infiltration of the Trump campaign corresponds with the two of the four targets of the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane – in which the agency sent counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and others to a London meeting in the Summer of 2016 with former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer – who says Papadopoulos drunkenly admitted to knowing that the Russians had Hillary Clinton’s emails.
As we detailed earlier Monday, Halper – who once reportedly ran a spy-operation on the Jimmy Carter administration, received a total of $1,058,161 from the Department of Defense for four annual contracts signed under the Obama administration, and paid through the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA).
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With the spotlight shining ever brighter on the “deep state” actors behind the scenes, we expect an avalanche of NYT/WaPo/CNN “leaks” in the coming week to distract from what is shaping up as a major showdown.
“Translated: a lot of dirty laundry is about to become public.”
Unfortunately, the ability of the public mind to know what to do with dirty laundry is extremely limited. They are more interested in picking through it and passing it around to make sure they all get a whiff.
“As we detailed earlier Monday, Halper – who once reportedly ran a spy-operation on the Jimmy Carter administration, received a total of $1,058,161 from the Department of Defense for four annual contracts signed under the Obama administration, and paid through the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA).”
The Pentagon: Five sides for a four department agency. The fifth side must be where the money men sit and divide the spoils of war.
Trump has a lot of military people around him.
I can’t imagine the extent of the propaganda being force fed our young recruits these days by some of the butt-kissers in charge these days, especially if they have the kind of access Ollie had to another idealistic president with limited military experience. Hell, even I snuck a “permissive TDY” order for myself into a pile of papers to be signed by my favorite squadron commander who considered me a trustworthy aide. When I was actually gone
Absolute power corrupts. There is no qualifier except for God. And even God had to wash it all away and start over with a guy called Noah.
It has been raining here a lot, although not like in the days of Noah.
I’ve gained a lot of perspective by watching zero television except reruns and old movies. And now I am reminded I live in a country with contemptible men and women in elected office. So, our reality star billionaire president was spied upon by a former president’s wife who wanted to be president more than he did, she believed, and the first “real” black president (not her husband) aided, abetted and probably ordered and paid for that spying via covert military funding.
Those of you who know me know good and well I think maybe the Hillbitch learned a lot about covert military funding when Ollie North was visiting the Clintons about that little airfield in Mena. I think the dirty laundry in the Pentagon has been piling up since the Cold War started. Is probably why it will just need to be burned.
And not washed, as in the days of Noah.
How’s that for a circle.
As former military, how do you respond to the Fact Obama’s DOJ and the English “Financial Stability Board” concealed the funding of “sanctioned entities” that murder American and British Soldiers?
I wonder if you are aware James Comey joined them 6 months after it was known?
A dozen American Prosecutors also colluded. I post often people should watch “All the Plenary’s Men”, by John Titus.
I also post the remedy is to strip the “money men” of their “spoils” by exposing the foreign English and Swiss presence in our Treasury. Their presence and their counterfeiting are contrary to the Law.
Hey, Ms. M, Thx. for the tip about the tick repellent bonus benefit of the wipes.
I wanted to acknowledge in more detail on the heels of that post of yours last week,
but was fast approaching an area where there was no cell coverage, and I didn’t have access to the www.
{It was a nice getaway for a few days to a hideaway far removed from the rat race. Out in woods, where fun things can be done that just aren’t possible in a city environment. You know, things like deep breaths of clean fresh air, surrounded by trees, with a river close by, where one can drop a line in the water and land large steelhead salmon, rainbows or small brookies, then filet and bake them on foil w/ just a little butter, salt, n peppa. Nights centered around a small fire, to jawjack w/ friends, enjoy a smoke, a libation if desired, and an occasional gaze at a vast expanse of stars in the cool, crisp nighttime sky, with a playlist of good music in the background. True heaven on earth.}
Anyway, t/y for the hat tip, too.
I realize he wasn’t a career military man but Reagan was an Officer of Horse Cavalry in the Iowa National Guard in the 30’s and was also on active duty in WW2 doing propaganda film work. He had some idea what it was all about.
An Executive Order would sure cut through the bullshit wouldn’t it?
If the Courts allow it.
They’ve declared themselves the authority to overrule them recently, and an Executive order by Trump has become more of an asking Court permission than an actual order to be followed.
Obama’s DOJ and courts concocted the notion an examination of the counterfeiting was a “National Security Issue” because the amounts are so enormous… exceeding 1200 Trillions.
These counterfeit 1200 Trillions in intentionally-mislabeled, Federal Reserve Notes are owed to equally-fraudulent, as counterfeit, “Pools of mortgage loans”. These “pools” are aka, REMICs and are also called “Mortgage-Backed Securities-MBS”.
In each instance, counterfeit Currency and counterfeit Securities, the remedy is found in the Constitution, 1 8 6.
In the end, the Corruption will prove out in every of 3142 municipal courthouses- those county courthouse recording agencies: judges, clerks, lawyers, sheriffs, have all colluded in availing themselves of defrauded real estate for pennies-on-the-dollar.
Someone should have overturned Marbury v Madison when they had the chance.
“An Executive Order would sure cut through the bullshit wouldn’t it?”
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trump related but off topic–you guys will like this–
this is a link to the radio show,”fresh air”.which is a left of center in depth interview show hosted by terry gross–
this is a show from last week where she is interviewing a writer from the new yorker magazine-
the show/article are about how trump’s people are reshaping govt by moving career govt employees who they believe are obstructing trump’s agenda but can’t be fired into out of the way,unimportant jobs–
this will link you both to the show & the transcript–
http://wwno.org/post/how-trumps-war-deep-state-leading-dismantling-government
Does any of this matter? Our country is $21Trillion in debt. We have politicians on both side who sit on their thumbs favoring political party over the continuity of the country. As a nation, we can play the music of “he said…she said” but when the music stops we’re going to be faced with a calamity that will not respond to changes in FED policies, tax cuts and the musings of politicians. My points is…we are wasting time on emotional issues that satisfy the egos of a few rather than addressing issues that are relevant to the masses. yup…..go ahead with your “yes…but” comments.
As the lies become ever more brazen and un-believable, the liars up the stakes and defy us to call them out. Oh really? Here are a few:
Obama
Both Clintons
Schumer
Pelosi
Waters
Comey
McCabe
Rosenstein
Mueller
Strzok
Page
Lynch
…. too many more, there’s only so much webspace –