The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted on Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for dozens of Obama-era officials involved in ‘spygate,’ including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper — and longtime US intelligence operative Stephen Halper, who the Obama administration paid nearly half-a-million dollars to help the FBI spy on the 2016 Trump campaign.
The committee authorized chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to issue notices for taking depositions, subpoenas, records requests, and testimony related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation – along with the DOJ Inspector General’s review of said investigation, as well as the “unmasking” of individuals connected to the Trump campaign, transition team, and administration, according to Fox News.
The committee also authorized subpoenas for Sidney Blumenthal, former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough, former FBI counsel Lisa Page, former FBI agent Joe Pientka, former ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, former FBI director of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, former White House national security adviser Susan Rice, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith – who pleaded guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign – among others.
As part of the authorization, Johnson may subpoena “the production of all records” related to the FBI’s initial Russia probe, as well as unmasking requests for “James Baker, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, DOJ official Bruce Ohr, FBI case agent Steven Somma, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Teftt, former deputy assistant attorney general Tashina Gauhar.”
Halper, meanwhile, is a former government official and longtime spook for the CIA and FBI, who was outed as the FBI informant who infiltrated the Trump campaign after the Washington Post and the New York Times ran reports that corroborated a March report by the Daily Caller detailing Halper’s outreach to several low-level aides to the Trump campaign, including Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
Halper, 73, cut a colorful figure as he strolled through diplomatic, academic, and espionage circles, having served in the Reagan, Ford, and Nixon administrations. –Daily Mail
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.
The 74-year-old Halper who split his time between his Virginia farm and teaching at Cambridge, approached several Trump campaign aides during the 2016 US election for purposes of espionage – on behalf of the FBI, headed at the time by the recently very quiet James Comey. Halper continued to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page well after the election, and now we find that he was trying to infiltrate the Trump administration.
In short:
- The FBI recruited Halper to spy on the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016
- After forming relationships with two Trump campaign aides, Halper invited one of them, George Papadopoulos, to work on a policy paper in London, where the 73-year-old professor/spy brought up Russian emails
- Halper approached Trump aide Carter Page during an election-themed conference at Cambridge on July 11, 2016. The two would stay in contact for the next 14 months, frequently meeting and exchanging emails.
- Then, after the election, Halper reportedly tried to infiltrate the Trump administration, pushing for a job in the State Department, according to Axios.
All the while, Halper had been paid handsomely by the Obama administration through a Department of Defense contract, one of four going back to 2012. The most recent contract had a start date of September 26, 2016 – three days after a September 23 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff about Trump aide Carter Page, which used information fed to Isikoff by “pissgate” dossier creator Christopher Steele. The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the unverified “pissgate” dossier as supporting evidence in an FISA warrant application for Page.
It appears Johnson will have plenty of digging to do if Republicans hold onto the Senate in November.
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Subpoenas don’t mean dick unless there are prosecutions, trials, and executions. Anything else is simply a kabuki theater.
You have that right Hardnox. Let us see just how far this goes toward real time justice.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee cannot do anything except ask questions and usually, they just pontificate for their allotted time and never get around to asking a question. They do not have the authority to file charges against anyone. All they can do is refer the matter to the Dept. of Just Us. We have seen how repulsed they are at the thought of filing charges against any of their own from previous referrals.
Yes, and if Trump is not reelected then it all goes away quietly..That is why it has been slow-walked and stonewalled for nearly 4 FREEKIN years!!!!No justice, I don’t know why I even pay attention anymore…
Big deal. The Senate has no prosecutorial power. All they can do is blow hot air around and make “criminal referrals” to the DOJ, which won’t pursue any indictments.
They’ve had 2+ years to issue these subpoenas, besides. The information about what these people did in 2015-16 was out there in public and abundantly clear. Now they wait until less than 2 months before the election, when the GOP might very well lose its majority and Trump the presidency? (Not likely, but who knows?)
Give me a break.
Hours and hours of;” On the advice of counsel I’m invoking my right under the 5th Amendment to remain silent ” .
Not one of these pricks will spend time in jail .
I am Lois Lerner and I approve of your message.
Here is what is going to happen as a result of the subpoenas: NOTHING!
These slim ball crooks will ignore the subpoenas. They will not show up for hearings and will not produce any documents and nothing will happen to them.
Subpoenas for the the dirt people, not the elites.
Too little, too late. Why did they not do this 2 years ago? IF any of these folks actually show up, I expect a lot of 5th amendment statements.
Kill them all
Remember when certain Q-promoting assholes here told us Trump’s “Attack Fag” Grenell was going to kick everyone’s ass a few months back?
Remember how nothing happened?
The GOP is such an impotent group of cucks and pussies that odds are good that half of these scumbags won’t even bother to show up.
Indeed, GOP hacks are most comfortable in the submissive, bitch role.
Well, maybe Gaetz isn’t a submissive bitch, maybe he adopts them.
https://dailystormer.su/matt-gaetz-needs-to-be-investigated-for-homosexual-child-kidnapping/
That’ll be awesome. And when the senate turns up the heat, key senators will get threats of revealing their sundry misdeeds, one of them will step forward and assert there was neither criminality nor malfeasance, and the whole thing will “just go away”. ‘Merica’s kinda screwed. Again.
The senate Homeland Security Committee? Really?
Authorized is a far cry from issued and lightyears from brought to trial. They are so contemptuous of us they don’t even throw us real crumbs anymore.
This is like midsummer snow in the Rockies that disappears 1 foot from the ground.
I’ll believe it when I see the gallows.
It would have done no good to prosecute anyone when the whole justice system was infiltrated. They have to clean up the courts first.