“Trump was right”: messages among agents confirm Obama’s role. And the FBI relied on a suspected Russian spy
Other than "peaceful transition" … Here is how in 2017 Obama tried, in part succeeding, to set a trap for his successor to delegitimize him and lay the foundations for impeachment, with the complicity of the FBI and CIA chief Brennan . The FBI knew that the main source of the Steele dossier was a suspected Russian spy but still used him to oversee the Trump campaign
While our media are putting Donald Trump on the cross, for a slightly too evasive response ("we'll see") to those who asked him to ensure a peaceful transition in the event of a defeat on November 3, we have one certainty: the 2016 transition will not it was quite peaceful. Outgoing President Barack Obama attempted, in part and succeeded, to set a trap for the president-elect to delegitimize him and lay the groundwork for the impeachment of his successor. There are many elements that have already emerged to be able to affirm it, which Atlantico Quotidiano has collected and reported to its readers , but new tiles are added to the mosaic almost daily, such as the new documents declassified a few days ago which you will read about in this article.
No, you don't really need to be a fan of Trump to recognize that President Obama and his inner circle, with the complicity of the top FBI and CIA, have conspired to push the investigation forward as much as possible. -boofala, and the narration, of Russiagate .
Let's start with the notes and text messages of the FBI agents involved in the case that were released last Thursday, and which prove that they were perfectly aware that what was happening was wrong.
"Trump was right" , Trump was right, even recognizes one of them. The message is part of a series of January 5, 2017, coincidentally on the same day as the meeting in the Oval Office – which we have already discussed extensively on the Atlantic – between President Obama, Deputy Biden, Director Comey, Deputy AG Sally Yates and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. In our articles we reported the various elements that lead to the conclusion that it was at that meeting that it was agreed to keep the investigation on General Flynn open (Obama himself would have ordered to continue it, putting in the "right people" ), despite not having emerged clues against him and the case was practically closed (to frame him, an agent will observe in a note already disclosed months ago ), and not to bring the investigation into Russia to the attention of the Trump team .
But what, according to that agent, was Trump right? Two weeks before the inauguration, on the night of January 3-4, Trump publishes a tweet , for which as usual he will be mocked by the liberal media claque , in which he suggests that the FBI was delaying his briefings as incoming president. so that we can build evidence against him.
The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!
Well, when two days later, on January 5, that agent learns from colleagues that the investigation into Flynn remains open and that after the meeting in the Oval Office the agency is in turmoil, "they are looking for information to support certain things. and it's a mess ”, then he comments:“ Trump was right… why do we do this to ourselves? What's wrong with these people? ”. I report the entire exchange of messages from January 5 without further comment.
"So Razor (the code name of the investigation on Flynn, ed ) is going to stay open ???"
“Yep
Crimes report being drafted "
"F"
"What's the word on how Obama's briefing went?"
"Don't know but people here are scrambling for info to support certain things and its a mad house"
“Jesus
Trump was right. Still not put together… Why do we do this to ourselves? What is wrong with these people? "
A week later, in another series of messages, an agent raises the suspicion that the top secret information about Flynn's phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which appeared in the Washington Post , came directly from the White House. Here too, I report without further comments.
"FYI – someone leaked the Flynn calls with Kislyak to the WSJ ".
"Published this morning by Ignatius (from the Washington Post , ed )"
“It's got to be someone on staff
Presidential Daily Briefing staff
Or WH seniors ".
Agents were so worried about the agency's potentially illegal behavior that two weeks before Trump took office, many of them rushed to purchase liability insurance. "We all went and purchased professional liability insurance," an agent texted on January 10, 2017, the same day CNN reported that President-elect Trump had been informed by FBI Director Comey of the Steele dossier. What's wrong with that, you'll think. The problem is that the FBI already knew that that dossier was unreliable, unverified and, worse, the result of oppo-research of the opposing campaign. Funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Campaign and compiled by a former foreign agent, Christopher Steele, who also worked for an already sanctioned Russian oligarch. Not only that: as we will see later, perhaps also the result of Russian disinformation . Yep, the Clinton Campaign and the FBI probably allowed the Russians to interfere in the presidential election, to the detriment of Trump…
The agents were rightly concerned, because knowing the origin, the sources and the content of that dossier, they understood that that briefing had served as a pretext to legitimize it and get it out in the press.
They were also worried that a new Attorney General might go and review the agency's actions against Trump during the investigation: "The new AG may have some questions … so yes we're all screwed."
Other messages indicate that the FBI's decision to close the Flynn investigation could be as early as November 8, 2016, the day of the vote. But then it was reopened in early January 2017, in the manner we have already spoken about . "We have some outstanding issues to resolve, and we must all meet to discuss what to do with each case (he said to shut down Razor)," writes an agent, referring to Crossfire Razor , the code name of the Flynn investigation line. “I'm glad they're shutting down Razor, ” replies another.
Over the next few weeks, agents discuss the decision to use a special procedure called the National Security Letter (NSL), which does not require a warrant from a judge, to spy on Flynn's finances, observing that they do not understand what it could lead to, if not to take time, since the research already carried out had not led to anything suspicious. “It doesn't make sense,” comments one of the agents.
Going back to the days immediately following the opening of Crossfire Hurricane , an August 11 message appears in which an agent explicitly notes that the investigation is being conducted by politically motivated agents: "Do all this election research – I think some of these guys want a Clinton presidency ”.
At this point it must be remembered that a review of the Flynn case conducted by Attorney Jeff Jensen led the Department of Justice to drop the charges against the general, having ascertained 1) that before the FBI in early 2017 decided to keep open the investigation, probably at the suggestion of the White House, the agency had already closed the case because no elements of any wrongdoing had emerged; 2) even more serious, that the January 24 interrogation of Flynn, for which he was alleged to have lied to the FBI, had no legal basis and that the agents who had questioned him did not believe that he had voluntarily lied. On the same day, in a handwritten note , an agent – perhaps counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap – wondered what the purpose of the interrogation was: "Truth / confession or make him lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"
Meanwhile, transcripts of telephone conversations between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Kislyak were also disclosed, from which it is clear that the two did not discuss sanctions against Russia, much less was any offer made by the general to lift them.
Another revelation, confirming what has already emerged in recent months , concerns the Steele dossier and is contained in the FBI documents released last Thursday by the president of the Senate Justice Commission, Lindsey Graham, and reported by Catherine Herridge of CBS News .
In December 2016 – so before the dossier was somehow "legitimized" by Comey's briefing to President-elect Trump and passed to the press – the FBI not only knew that it had been commissioned and paid for by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign, and only channeled through former agent Steele, but they also knew that the "primary sub-source" of the dossier, that is, Steele's main source, had been the subject of an agency counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011 for his contacts with Russian intelligence agents. In short, she was suspected of being a Russian spy.
"Between May 2009 and March 2011, the FBI maintained an investigation into the individual who would later be identified as Christopher Steele's primary sub-source," the FBI's two-page note read. "The FBI initiated this investigation based on information provided by the FBI indicating that the primary sub-source could be a threat to national security." In December 2016, the note continues, "the Crossfire Hurricane team (the code name of the Trump Campaign investigation, ed ) identified the primary sub-source used by Christopher Steele and, at that time, learned of the 2009 investigation. ″. The FBI closed the investigation only because the suspect had left the country, but stating that "the possibility of reopening the investigation would be considered if he returned to the United States".
The primary sub-source did indeed return to the United States and was questioned in the FBI office in Washington in January 2017, defining some of the allegations contained in the Steele dossier as "rumor and speculation" and in other cases, however, disavowing the claims.
Recall that the dossier was used for the first time two months earlier, in October 2016, to obtain a surveillance warrant from the FISA court for former campaign adviser Trump Carter Page, and then used in three successive renewals until late spring. The FBI, however, in using the Steele dossier to justify the surveillance warrant, was careful not to report to the court that Steele's source was under investigation as a suspected Russian spy, nor that the CIA had informed her that Page had been a collaborator of his for years. Details that would have made it more difficult, if not unlikely, to authorize surveillance.
In short, the FBI knew it was relying on information from a suspected Russian spy to get the warrant to oversee the Trump Campaign! As Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal noted, “The same FBI that said it was concerned about Russian interference in the election was using the information of a suspected Russian spy to investigate a presidential campaign. The same FBI that claimed Carter Page was a Russian agent was pursuing that case on the basis of information from a suspected Russian agent. And again, Strassel wonders: “Wasn't it Mueller's job to find sources of Russian disinformation? How did you miss the guy who potentially provided it directly to the FBI? "
Not only that, in January 2017 the director Comey and the deputy McCabe insisted that the dossier be included in the final assessment of the Intelligence Community on Russian interference, although they were aware at least since December 2016 that the main source of the dossier was a suspected Russian spy. (!).
But thanks to Paul Sperry, we know that this source responds to the name of Igor Danchenko, a researcher at the Brookings Institution from 2005 to 2010, a think tank close to the Democrats … Which only feeds another suspicion, advanced by Lee Smith: that a Russian name was used to substantiate the dossier against Trump, but that in reality the information was all packaged in the United States, by Americans, by Democrats, and subsequently conveyed to the FBI through a former British agent as if they were of Russian origin, and for this is true of the Kremlin's material on Trump.
That the Steele dossier could be not only the result of a Democratic operation to discredit Trump, but also of Russian disinformation, had already emerged from the declassified notes to the report by Inspector General Horowitz, on which we have already focused on the Atlantic . In fact, the report shows that despite the multiple signs of potential disinformation, the FISA requests by the FBI were based in an "essential" way on the controversial dossier. Among the reports, an Intelligence Community report indicated that two individuals "affiliated" with Russian intelligence were aware of Steele's "election investigation" on behalf of the Clinton Campaign as early as in early July 2016, that is, just when the dossier arrives at the attention of the FBI.
Thus, the Obama administration used a dossier commissioned and paid for by the Clinton Campaign – while knowing highly likely that it was largely the work of Russian disinformation – to open a counterintelligence investigation, with the use of surveillance tools, on the campaign. of the presidential candidate of the opposing party, accusing him of being a Russian agent. Stuff compared to which Watergate was a bitch.
Among other things, it is worth remembering that in recent months it has also emerged that former CIA chief John Brennan allegedly falsified the final assessment of the Intelligence Community (ICA) regarding Russia's interference in an anti-Trump key. 2016 presidential elections, resulting in the exclusion of analyzes that Putin actually preferred Hillary Clinton to win, contradicting the report's conclusions that, instead, Russia had interfered in the electoral process to help Trump and harm the former secretary of state . Conclusions that were used to justify the continuation of the investigation into the alleged Trump-Russia collusion and that still today Democrats and liberal media cite to insinuate the suspicion that Putin wants to help Trump get re-elected.
Last Thursday, further confirmation of the former CIA chief's role in drafting that January 6, 2017 document came from Paul Sperry, on RealClearInvestigations , citing two senior intelligence officials who viewed classified materials: Brennan "edited personally a crucial section of the report "and" assigned a political ally a lead role in writing it after career analysts challenged Brennan's opinion that the Russian leader intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump. "
The ICA is at the center of Attorney Durham's ongoing investigation into Russiagate's origins to see if the intelligence findings have been manipulated for political purposes.
RealClearInvestigations has learned that one of the CIA agents who helped Brennan draft the ICA, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, financially supported Hillary Clinton during the campaign and is a close colleague of Eric Ciaramella, identified last year by RCI as the "whistleblower ” Whose denunciation led to Trump's impeachment, which ended with the Senate acquittal last January.
According to the dissenting analyzes, "Moscow preferred Clinton because she thought she would work with her leaders, while she feared that Trump would be too unpredictable." Ultimately, as secretary of state, Clinton sought a "reset" in relations with Russia, while Trump campaigned on the expansion of the US military, which Moscow perceived as a threat. These same analysts claimed that "the Kremlin was in general trying to sow discord and disrupt the American democratic process of 2016" and that "Russia had tried to interfere in the campaigns of 2008 and 2012, many years before Trump entered the field" .
Of course, you won't find any trace of this in the mainstream media concerned about Russian interference …
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