A few days ago, ex-President and probable treasonous
criminal Barack Hussein Obama called fans of Fox News are
people from a different planet. The thing that Obama and his cadres can’t stand
is that Planet Fox is not intimidated by the Left and share verified info
that exposes the nefarious Left.
Yes, I have had some issues with Fox News because
sometimes they report a Left-Wing meme. You know, I have concluded those
discrepancies I’ve disagreed with can probably be chalked up to Fox News
attempting to offer the Left a voice in the name of balanced reporting.
I don’t know if you have noticed that when a Conservative
appears on MSM news outlets the Leftists gang up by spewing propaganda
attempting to shame the Conservative into silence. If that doesn’t work, then
Left cuts out the mike not allowing the facts to disseminate the MSM listeners.
When a Leftie appears on Fox News (and it
happens all the time), the program host usually allows the Leftist to
spew his/her lies until they become too egregious in which case an interruption
follows to straiten out the facts. When the Leftist will have nothing to do
with the facts by trying to shout down the program host, so the facts don’t
contradict the lies, then and only then is there a cut-the-mike situation on Fox
News.
Sean Hannity has quickly risen to the top of my favorite
Conservative hosts on Fox News. Very few Leftists have the courage to
face Hannity because he is an in-your-face kind of Conservative.
Hannity has been incredible in reporting the corruption and
nefarious acts going on to end President Trump’s Presidency. He has nearly been
a lone wolf in his aggressive opinion based reporting that uses documentation
and credible sources to form those hard-hitting opinions.
Now that
documentation appears imminent to be released to the public demonstrating just
how far the Dems are willing to go to use political lying in a political coup
against President Trump, most Americans should begin to give Hannity some hero
cred. That is unless the American cannot comprehend the truth due to becoming
brainwashed by the Leftist MSM.
After the facts become public, you can measure if you’ve
been brainwashed or not.
Here is some Fox News (on in the case I’m presenting
– Fox Business News) and Hannity reporting on some of the documentation
exposing a corrupt government in the FBI and DOJ. (Which I hope leads
exposing corruption in Crooked Hillary’s State Department and Obama’s operation
of the Executive Branch.)
The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican
Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo to fellow House members
has rocked Washington, D.C.
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee Zeldin
(R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s immediate
release. According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter,
the contents of the memo are so “explosive,” that it could end special counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and for all.
A review of a classified
document outlining what is described as extensive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act abuse was made available to all House members Thursday and the
revelations could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and
Department of Justice, several sources with knowledge of the document stated.
These sources say the report is “explosive,” stating they would not be
surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel
investigation into President Trump and his associates. […]
Congressional members are
hopeful that the classified information will be declassified and released to
the public.
“We probably will get this stuff
released by the end of the month,” stated a congressional member, who asked not
to be named.
But the government official, who
viewed the document said “it will be tough for a lot of people to see this and
especially the media, which has been attempting to deemphasize the dossier.
It’s going to punch a hole in their collusion narrative.”
On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly voted
to make available to fellow House members “a memo documenting abuse of the FISA
program,” reports Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Rep Lee Zeldin
(R-NY) is demanding the secret memo be released immediately.
Just read the classified doc @HPSCI
re FISA abuse. I'm calling for its immediate public release w/relevant
sourced material. The public must have access ASAP! #Transparency
“Just read the classified doc @HPSCI re FISA abuse. I’m
calling for its immediate public release w/relevant sourced material. The
public must have access ASAP! #Transparency.”
Releasing
this classified info doesn't compromise good sources & methods.
It reveals the feds' reliance on bad sources &
methods.
“Releasing this classified info doesn’t compromise good
sources & methods. It reveals the feds’ reliance on bad sources &
methods,” added Zeldin.
As The Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft reported,
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) joined Liz Claman on FOX Business Network to
discuss the FISA abuse report.
Rep. Gaetz told Claman:
“The allegations contained in
this important intelligence document go to the very foundations of our
democracy and they require an immediate release to the public in my opinion.”
.@mattgaetz:
"The allegations contained in this important intelligence document go
to the very foundations of our democracy and they require an immediate release
to the public in my opinion." pic.twitter.com/kqjxp21GcA
Carter’s story comes amid reports former
White House Strategist Steve Bannon has reached a deal to meet with Mueller,
rather than appear before a grand jury.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer by the name of
Seth Rich was shot to death around 4:00 AM on the streets of Washington D.C. The
initial reports say Mr. Rich was murdered in a robbery.
Whoops. Nothing of value or at all was taken from the
murdered Mr. Rich.
Then enters Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Assange publicizes
that Rich was a major source of DNC emails and says an investigation should
proceed to find the actual motive behind the murder.
The Left Stream Media blows off Assange’s assertion revenge
murder for exposing the DNC and sticks with Trump colluded with Russia to hack
the DNC emails to win the election.
The murder victim’s family is not buying the police dictum
of a random murder and wants better answers for Mr. Rich’s homicide.
Thus, a private investigator is hired by the family but
financed by a third party to look into the Rich murder.
The private investigator is a former police detective by the
name of Rod Wheeler. Wheeler’s investigation is stonewalled by the D.C. Police
and the FBI but still finds a source that wants anonymity to stay out of
trouble. The anonymous tipster says he has seen Seth Rich’s laptop that has a
history of sending thousands of emails to Wikileaks. Rod Wheeler goes public
because D.C. Police and the FBI stonewalling and suspicious denials reeks of
cover-up.
Whoops. The Rich family are evidently stalwart Dems and are
upset that Wheeler let the cat out of the bag that Seth Rich sent DNC emails to
Wikileaks.
The Rich family commit an odd oxymoron by rebuking Rod
Wheeler’s public revelations by
1) Denying that Seth Rich – a Dem
staffer from a Dem family – would send incriminating emails to Wikileaks
2) Claim Rod Wheeler violated his contract by
making his findings public.
Hmm …
It appears strange to defend Seth Rich’s memory at the potential cost of tying
his murder to some form of DNC revenge and simultaneously yell at Rod Wheeler
using the weight of public opinion to expose a D.C. Police/FBI cover-up.
The anger of Seth Rich’s family suggests that they would
rather stick to the initial police story of a random killing then believe their
son or nephew or whatever was murdered out of revenge or to silence him from further
divulgement of info exposing the dark side of the Democratic Party.
What should an American’s grey matter to wonder is: Why
would the FBI be involved in a random street murder rather than the local cops?
It appears that D.C.’s local Fox
5 News broke the story. Here’s a segment from posted by a Youtuber
broadcasted at the Monday 10:00 PM time slot (I Found it at the BIZPAC
Review linked above):
Monday
during the 10 p.m. ET news broadcast of Fox’s Washington, D.C. affiliate WTTG,
correspondent Marina Marraco revealed an investigation by former D.C. homicide
detective Rod Wheeler found now-deceased Democratic National Committee staffer
Seth Rich had been emailing with WikiLeaks.
Rich was killed last year in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
According to local police, the incident was likely a botched robbery. However,
Rich’s death has been the subject of other speculations given the timing of his
death coincided with a WikiLeaks dump of Democratic National Committee emails.
Wheeler explained to Marraco the obstacles he has faced in dealing with both
the local police and the FBI during his investigation and argued Rich’s
computer may offer some more details.
“The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” Wheeler said. “They
haven’t been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death
lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either
at the FBI. I have been told both.”
Wheeler went on to confirm he had a source within the police department that
said that computer could link Rich to WikiLeaks. But he noted that a source
within the police department told him of a “highly unusual” instruction for
police to stand down on that murder investigation.
“Actually, I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me
straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case,
and I can’t share any information with you.’ Now, that’s highly unusual for a
murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think
it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation
between the mayor’s office and the DNC and that is the information that’s going
to come out tomorrow.”
Marraco went on to add that Wheeler’s reference to the information coming out
tomorrow would be broadcasted on the Fox News Channel.
The Fox News link
above has Rod Wheeler explaining his issues with a potential cover-up.
Fox News is now reporting,
based on multiple investigative sources, that Seth Rich -- the Democratic
National Committee staffer who was gunned down in Northwest D.C. near his home
last July -- leaked thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks in the months
beforehand.
According to Fox News' Malia
Zimmerman, these new revelations are consistent withthe findings of Rod Wheeler, a
former D.C. homicide detective and Fox News contributor. Wheeler toldFox 5 DC that there
is evidence on Rich's laptop that confirms he was emailing WikiLeaks prior to
his death. Wheeler's law enforcement sources also allegedly claimed they
were told to "stand down" on investigating the crime.
Rich's family, however, has
denounced Wheeler's claims in a statement, calling them
"unsubstantiated."
A
federal investigator who reviewed an FBI forensic report -- generated within 96
hours after DNC staffer Seth Rich's murder -- detailing the contents Rich’s
computer said he made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, a
now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and
director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.
“I
have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the federal
investigator told Fox News, confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the
emails are in possession of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of
the Washington Police Department.
The
revelation is consistent with the findings of Rod Wheeler, a former DC homicide
detective and Fox News contributor and whose private investigation firm was
hired by a third party on behalf of Rich’s family to probe the case. Rich was
shot from behind in the wee hours, but was not robbed.
“My
investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange
between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” Wheeler said. “I do believe that the answers
to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the DC police or
FBI headquarters.”
The
federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761
attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from
January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen
before May 21.
Rich left Lou’s City
Bar, a couple miles from his home, at about 1:15 a.m. on July 10. His immediate
activities after leaving the bar remain a mystery:
He
walked home, calling several people along the way. He called his father, Joel
Rich, who he missed because he had gone to sleep. He talked with a fraternity
brother and his girlfriend, Kelsey Mulka.
Around
4:17 a.m., Rich was about a block from his home when Mulka, still on the phone
with him, heard voices in the background. Rich reassured her that he was steps
away from being at his front door and hung up.
Two
minutes later, Rich was shot twice. Police were on the scene within three
minutes. Rich sustained bruising on his hands and face. He remained conscious,
but died at a nearby hospital less than two hours later.
Police
detectives will not say whether Rich provided them with any clues about the
identity of his attackers or their motivation, Wheeler said. However, Wheeler
believes Rich could have provided information prior to his death of who was
responsible for carrying out his murder.
Grainy video tape from a
security camera outside a grocery mart shows two assailants shooting Rich twice
in his back. They did not take "his wallet, cell phone, keys, watch or
necklace worth about $2,000."
On July 22, just twelve days
after Rich was murdered, WikiLeaks published emails that prompted the resignation
of Debbie Wasserman Schultz from her role as DNC chairperson on the eve of the
Democratic National Convention. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has insisted
all along that the DNC emails were not hacked by the
Russians, and he has implied that Rich was indeed the
source of the emails. On August 9,WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 rewardfor
information on the murdered DNC staffer.
Assange told a Dutch
reporter last August:
[O]ur
sources take risks, and they, they become concerned to see things occurring
like that, whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and
often very significant risks. As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in
the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking
down the street in Washington.
Fox News reports that law
enforcement sources "close to the investigation" say the police have
"no suspects and no substantial leads as to who the killer or killers may
be":
Metropolitan
Police, including the police chief, have refused to discuss the case, despite
requests from Fox News dating back 10 months.
The
department released a statement on the case saying it remains an active
investigation and that detectives are working with Rich's family.
"If
there are any individuals who feel they have information, we urge them to call
us at (202) 727-9099 or text us at 50411," read the statement. "The
department is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information on this case
that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible."
The
FBI’s national office declined to comment, but sources said the bureau provided
cyber expertise to examine Rich’s computer.
Wheeler
believes powerful forces are preventing the case from a thorough investigation.
“My
investigation shows someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National
Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going
forward,” Wheeler told Fox News. “That is unfortunate. Seth Rich’s murder is
unsolved as a result of that.”
Rich's family released a
statement blasting Rod Wheeler.
The statement says he was not authorized to speak to the press about the
investigation, and characterizes his findings as "unsubstantiated
claims":
"As
we’ve seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we
have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned
about this when contacted by the press," the spokesperson said. "Even
if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to
prove interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those
interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so.
"We
are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every
few months to fill the voice and strict law enforcement and the general public
from finding Seth’s murderers," the statement continued. "The
services of the private investigator who spoke to press was offered to the Rich
family and paid for by a third party, and contractually was barred from
speaking to press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless
explicitly authorized by the family.”
Rod Wheeler told CNNon
Tuesday afternoon that the source for his claim that there was "tangible
evidence" on Rich's laptop that proves that he was in communications with
WikiLeaks was the reporter who worked on the story forFoxNews.com(presumably
Malia Zimmerman, who based her story on multiple investigative sources).
He
explained that the comments he made to WTTG-TV were intended to simply preview
Fox News' Tuesday story. The WTTG-TV news director did not respond to multiple
requests for comment.
"I
only got that [information] from the reporter at Fox News," Wheeler told
CNN. Asked about a quote attributed to him in the Fox News story in which he
said his "investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of
email exchange between Seth Rich and Wikileaks," Wheeler said he was
referring to information that had already been reported in the media.
In an appearance onFox News'"Hannity" on Tuesday night, however, Wheeler had a
different story.
He
said a "federal investigator that was involved on the inside of the
case" saw Rich's computer and the case file. Wheeler told host Sean
Hannity the investigator "came across [as] very credible.
When
you look at that, with the totality of everything else that I found in
this case, it’s very consistent for a person with my experience to begin to
think, 'Well, perhaps there were some email communication between Seth and
Wikileaks.'"
Brad Bauman, a spokesman
for the Rich family, said the family was "reviewing possible legal action
against Wheeler for speaking about the case publicly."
A
contract between Wheeler and the Rich family prohibited from speaking to the
media about his ongoing investigation, Bauman said.
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Newsmax has chastised me in the past for cross posting
whole articles from their website; ergo I have avoided the practice. I received
a Newsmax email in which the text was posted in entirety rather than a link. I
am taking the email as permission to post.
The Newsmax email is an update on Bill O’Reilly’s
intentions after being discharged from Fox News including the info that
the situation was due to a Leftist conspiracy to get him fired. O’Reilly cites
George Soros as the Left-Wing puppeteer pulling the Leftist strings.
Bill O'Reilly: My Firing Was 'a Hit' by the Far Left
Newsmax Email
Sent 5/12/2017 3:32 PM
Bill O'Reilly broke his silence Friday in his first
interview since being fired by Fox News, saying his dismissal was "a
hit" caused by the "destroying voices" of the "far
left."
"This was a hit and in the weeks to come we're going to be able to explain
some of it," O'Reilly told "The Glenn Beck Radio Program."
Last month, Fox News parted ways with O'Reilly after a series of sexual
harassment and inappropriate behavior claims leveled against him in recent
years. The New York Times had reported that five women received large payments
in exchange for not pursuing litigation or speaking about the accusations.
Important:
Author Says Bill O’Reilly ‘Murdered in Cold Blood,’ Trump Is Next – More Below! [This was supposed to be a
link to David Horowitz’s book, “Big Agenda”. Here is the text that leads
to the Horowitz book. The text is lengthier in the Newsmax email.]
O'Reilly said Fox was pressured by left-wing activists who came in and
threatened sponsors unless they stopped running commercials on the highly-rated
"O'Reilly Factor."
He said he and his legal team would soon be naming names of those they believe
are behind a plot to get him fired. But he named liberal billionaire
businessman George Soros as one of the chief funders against conservative
opinion.
"There's going to be an exposition soon but I can't tell you when … I was target No. 1, it's
sad for me, it's sad for my family …
From now on, when I 'm attacked I'm going to take action, mostly legal
action," he said.
O'Reilly said he was returning to the United States from a trip to Rome and the
Vatican when he learned he had been dismissed by the Fox News Channel.
"My attorneys told me and we were all shocked … I had 20 good years at FNC. We were caught by
surprise, but it's [Fox's] prerogative," he told Beck.
"People know that the left-wing media hates Fox and hates me … but they don't know the
extent of it… We're
accumulating information and someday it will all be clear."
O'Reilly also attacked the press, saying some media outlets are as "evil
as it gets.'' He chastized Beck for believing news reports that he had received
a $25 million kiss-off from Fox.
"In American journalism right now, very few are seeking the truth. What
they do ... is come up with this scenario and try to reinforce that," he
said.
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in its day-to-day management.
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"They hate him, by extension anybody who gives Trump a fair play, anybody,
is going to be attacked as well …
There's this monolithic and very powerful industry that's developed to get
Trump out of office," O'Reilly said.
“On the left you get, 'We're going to take him out.' … That's what the New York
Times wants to do …
This dishonesty in the media is harming this country.”
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On April 30, 2017 I posted some interesting
speculation about the potential creation of a Conservative news
network to rival Fox News or even replace the network that is appearing
to move Left like the rest of MSM.
I ran into a video made by the Youtube Channel calling
itself The Hill Gossip. This video
reprises much of the speculation on my post “New Conservative News Network?”
Yet since my post, the last Conservative authority figure at Fox News
was forced out – Bill Shine.
This means Rupert Murdoch’s Leftist sons - James and Lachlan
– appear to have control of the path Fox News will take. This even leads
greater credibility that a new Conservative network might be formed, nay
Conservative leader, MUST BE formed.
Below is the video I discovered and it description.
On the heels of major shakeups at the Fox News Network, an alternative
conservative network is being actively discussed amongst conservative fat
cats.
A well-placed source close to the proposal tells Mediaite that serious
discussions are underway to create an alternative conservative cable network
on the belief that the Fox News Network is moving too far to the left. The
source, who is engaged in the talks, says a meeting is planned for today
with two prominent high-powered television executives, some underperforming
conservative networks and people who have an interest and the ability to
fund a new network.
The potential aim? Putting “the old band” back together. There are certainly
plenty of (out-of-work?) conservative powerhouses to pick from that could
star on a new network, and perhaps even some executives from within Fox News
who might be lured by the new opportunity. Could the new channel include
stars like the ousted Bill O’Reilly, who didn’t waste much time hitting the
podcast waves after he was fired amid a sexual harassment scandal? Could
Tomi Lahren, the conservative mega star, who was recently sidelined at The
Blaze also take on a prominent role? The exact “who” won’t be clear until
the deal is more defined but the source says the pitch is that the network
could immediately reach at least 85 million homes.
This news comes on the heels of a long profile in last weekend’s New York Times
which paints a picture of a changing Fox News Network with Murdoch’s sons,
James and Lachlan, CEO and co-chairman of parent company 21st Century Fox, at
the helm. The piece struck fear into the minds of some Fox News’ hardcore
conservatives with talk of the sons wanting to rid the company “of the
old-guard culture on which their father built his empire” and bringing “a
warmer and fuzzier workplace” that would move away from an “anti-politically
correct environment.”
On Thursday, New York Magazine’s Gabe Sherman, a constant thorn in the side of
Fox News, reported that “sweeping management changes” may be coming to the
network as well. Sherman’s report cited three anonymous sources that contend
that the network’s co-President Bill Shine recently asked the Murdoch sons
to release a statement in support of him amid the roiling lawsuits and
scandals. Both Fox News and 21 Century Fox have vigorously denied that
Shine made such a request but the report by Sherman prompted a rather
mysterious tweet about the “total end of the FNC as we know it” by the
network’s biggest remaining star[…READ THE REST at Breaking News24]
I am a Fox News addict. It has not escaped my notice
that Fox News has gone through a major shake-up. The shake-up really
began with Gretchen Carlson exposing sexual harassment as an old boy culture
pervasive at Fox. The now fairly documented sexual harassment culture on
my Conservative channel was both disturbing and saddening.
Carlson’s successes have brought out into the public a slew
of Fox News employees doing some finger-pointing. The
finger-pointing has resulted in the revamping of the Fox News line-up
largely with the demise with news icon Bill O’Reilly.
other
I suspect some of the finger-pointing has devolved into
false accusations for a payday on the backs of actual victims. I wasn’t there
ergo, all I have are suspicions of actual and mythological victimhood
accusations.
With the demise of Roger Ailes as the one-time head of Fox
News, I have noticed the undesirable lurch to the Left. Many have noticed
this political spectrum shift before me, but I was unwilling to concur. It is
now obvious.
Still, Fox News is more Conservative than the other
news networks that seem more like Leftist propaganda machines than honest
reporters of the news. Nonetheless, the Fox News lurch to the Left suggests
another future outright Leftist propaganda machine coming soon to America’s
news landscape.
The blame for Fox’s deviation Left seems to upon owner
Rupert Murdoch’s sons – James
and Lachlan Murdoch.
Pamela Geller has found the insights of Cliff Kincaid on the
seeming impending death of a Conservative Fox News.
Many of us have seen this coming for a long time. The more powerful
Fox became (on the backs of the right), the more to Fox moved to the left.
Roger Ailes should never have been forced to resign, nor
Bill O’Reilly (even though I am not a fan). Rupert Murdoch’s two silver-spooned
stooges, James Murdoch (Tweedledee) and Lachlan Murdoch (Tweedledum) are
systematically dismantling the once-great network. And like all true leftists,
they are tone deaf to the cacophony of complaints.
The cringe-worthy Geraldo Rivera, Juan Williams, Martha
McCallum, Bob Beckel (!), why not Tomi Lahren? ….
I turned it off after the election. The only place for Conservatives to get our
news is online.
There is a great opportunity for a right-of-center news
channel. It seems inevitable. And so we wait the second coming of a
conservative network, where the work of my colleagues and I will have a home.
Serial plagiarists such as Fareed Zakaria are just as
powerful as ever on CNN, but a hint of indiscretion, and Fox cuts you loose. We
still have Hannity. But for how long? Only Rupert knows. Once Rupert goes, it’s
over.
THE LEFT-WING TAKEOVER OF FOX
NEWS
By Cliff Kincaid, April 28,
When Bill O’Reilly left Fox News he
declared, “I am very confident the truth will come out and when it does I don’t
know if you are going to be surprised, but I think you are going to be shaken
as I am.” Some observers think he was referring not to the sexual harassment
allegations against him, but to behind-the-scenes maneuvers by one of Rupert
Murdoch’s sons, James, and his very liberal wife, Kathryn. Her bio says,
“Between 2007-2011, Ms. Murdoch served as Director of Strategy &
Communications for the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) where she also managed
CCI ‘s partnership with Microsoft in the development of a global greenhouse gas
emissions tracking software.”
In short, she is a globalist
insider who sees the green hysteria as a viable way to control people and their
lifestyles.
We warned back in 2007 in our
column, “Rupert Murdoch Picks Liberal Son as
Successor,” that James Murdoch was maneuvering to take control of
Fox News. We also noted that James Murdoch “buys into global warming hysteria,”
and that his liberal philosophy on environmental and other matters “could
become the party line” of the Fox News Channel.
It turns out that his wife is more
of an environmental zealot than he is.
Accuracy in Media had attended the
annual meeting of the Fox News parent company, raising concern about James
Murdoch’s increasing influence in the company and his attacks on conservative
groups, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He wrote an article for the Guardian
attacking CEI for dispensing “inaccurate propaganda” about the global warming
issue.
Of course, many conservatives
regard the theory of man-made global warming as a hoax and a means by which
government at many levels hopes to control, regulate and tax the use of natural
resources.
Referring to the alleged effects of
global warming, now called climate change, James Murdoch said, “We can have an
enormous impact if we encourage our customers to make simple, effective changes
in their lifestyles.”
That’s easy for James and Kathryn
Murdoch to say; he is the heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune. “The Murdoch
fortune now stands at around $14 billion,” noted the publication
Inside Philanthropy in 2015. “Because Rupert seems to have zero interest in
harnessing this wealth to philanthropy, that challenge will fall to his kids.”
One of the “focus areas” of the
Murdochs’ Quadrivium Foundation is “natural resources.” But rather than exploit
them for the good of humanity, the foundation supports “innovation” in their
use. This is code, as James Murdoch suggested in his Guardian article, for
restricting the economic lifestyle choices of consumers.
A link from their foundation
directs people to the webpage of the
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and an advertisement denouncing President
Trump for “failing the environment.” Page 25 of the EDF annual report lists
“Kathryn Murdoch, President, Quadrivium Foundation,” as a member of the Board
of Directors. “At the end of fiscal 2016,” the report states, “EDF’s net assets
stood at $217 million, providing a strong financial foundation as we pursue our
ambitious environmental goals.”
With the Murdoch billions behind
them, those “goals,” which include what the United Nations calls a new
“economic development model” to replace global capitalism, could become a
reality.
That was the goal, at least, until
Donald Trump became president and, as AIM’s Roger Aronoff recently noted, indicated his determination
to confront the global “climate change agenda.”
The Gateway Pundit website notes that Kathryn Murdoch
regularly trashes Trump on Twitter. Indeed, her Twitter feed goes after many different conservative
personalities and policies of all kinds. A collection of her most significant Tweets includes
attacks on Trump aide Steve Bannon, and despondency over Trump’s election
victory. On the other hand, she praised Fox News personality Shepard Smith for
criticizing Trump.
Her Tweets have included messages
such as:
§A vote for Trump is a vote
for climate catastrophe.
§Can we impeach a candidate?
Seriously.
§Happy to see this on Fox
News. The final argument for Hillary Clinton, based on 3 indisputable facts.
When her husband and his brother
Lachlan move to the left, she is quick to retweet those comments, such as when
they sent a letter declaring, “We deeply value diversity and believe
immigration an essential part of America’s strength.” The letter was intended
as a rebuff to President Trump’s effort to restrict the entry into the U.S. of
illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists.
Despite the Murdochs’ disdain for
the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the likelihood that the group
will receive less and less coverage from Fox News, its staffers are
demonstrating significant clout with the new Trump administration. In regard to
Trump’s promise during the campaign to withdraw from the Paris climate
agreement, The Washington Times reports that Trump’s top
advisers have received a unique proposal from CEI, arguing that the agreement
be declared a treaty and sent to the Senate to be killed.
CEI’s interesting proposal would
rectify former President Obama’s unconstitutional decision to make the Paris
accord into an executive agreement, without the need for Congressional input or
approval. By declaring it to be a treaty and sending it to the Senate, where it
is not likely to get the necessary two-thirds vote for ratification, Trump
could force lawmakers to take a stand on what CEI calls its demands for “regulations that will force
Americans to pay more and more for energy.”
CEI’s message to Trump is, “Don’t
listen to the Swamp. Please keep your campaign promise to withdraw the United
States from the U.N. Paris Climate Treaty and send it to the Senate for a
vote.”
The Fox News coverage of this
showdown will be another indication of the pull that James and Kathryn Murdoch
are starting to exert over the once “conservative” news channel.
Pamela Gelleris the President of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop
the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
Judge Andrew Napolitano has caused quite a stir amongst the
Media, the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ), and officials in the U.S. government when the Judge stipulated that
GCHQ surveilled the Trump campaign for the treasonous President Barack Hussein
Obama. Here is the segment on Fox & Friends Tuesday March 14
morning:
[Blog Editor 4/27/18: I just discovered the HX Video was not only removed by Youtube but apparently the entire Youtube Account was removed which I chalk up censoring Conservatives. The video that was above was Judge Nap's appearance on Fox & Friends making the GCHQ connection. Here is Youtube's fake reasoning that I discovered by click the above HX Video Youtube Channel link: "This account has been terminated due to multiple or
severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and
misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."]
Very shortly after the Judge
said he had three sources, the Judge mysteriously - without comment – was
removed from Fox News air time. Incidentally, if you listened to the
segment, the Judge remarked that the GCHQ person who complied with Obama
resigned after Trump was inaugurated. Fox’s censorship means Napolitano
can neither name the three intelligence sources nor the name of the person who
resigned from GCHQ. ALSO, Fox News used later-in-the-day news anchors to
walk back Napolitano’s GCHQ/Obama assertion.
Fox censorship, Napolitano
silence on suspension, GCHQ public denial and an U.S. apology is a set-up the
typically credible Napolitano to look like a tinfoil conspiracist.
AND YET, is Judge Andrew Napolitano a discredited source on
Obama surveillance of President Trump’s campaign? Since I have contended that
Barack Hussein Obama was a crooked President from day one of his
Administration, I am not prepared to throw the Judge under the bus as all
others have seeming done.
Below are two articles that
should give you pause before you consider throwing Napolitano under the bus.
The first article is from today (3/22/17) from Bob Unruh and the second is from
Cliff Kinkaid of AIM posted on 3/21/17.
The first is close to
breaking news corroborated by Fox News. The second article pretty much
elaborates the details that Judge Andrew Napolitano alluded to in his 2-minute
50-second Fox & Friends segment. In fact, there is so much detail in
the second article it is a bit lengthy. You may want to come back a few times
to complete and digest the information that demonstrates a Crooked Obama and a
nefarious Intel community, not to mention an extremely untrustworthy Director
James Comey of the FBI.
The lawyer who founded
Judicial Watch and later Freedom Watch, Larry
Klayman, has sent a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, asking him to look at a
whistleblower’s evidence of “systematic illegal surveillance on prominent
Americans, again including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other
justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen such as Donald Trump, and even
yours truly.”
That spying was done,
Klayman’s letter contends, by the FBI.
It’s become a major issue
following President Trump’s assertion that he and Trump Tower were spied upon
by the federal government, and the subsequent denials by intelligence and
law-enforcement officials, including FBI Director James Comey, who famously
cleared Hillary Clinton on accusations she mishandled classified information as
secretary of state.
Klayman has been working with
Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA and Central Intelligence Agency contractor who
“left the NSA and CIA with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of
information, much of which is classified.”
Montgomery then “sought to
come forward legally as a whistleblower to appropriate government entities,
including congressional intelligence committees, to expose that the spy
agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal surveillance on prominent
Americans.”
Explained Klayman: “Working
side by side with former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,
who lied in congressional testimony, and former Obama Director of the CIA, the
equally ethically challenged John Brennan, Montgomery witnessed ‘up close and
personal’ this “Orwellian Big Brother’ intrusion on privacy, likely for
potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes.”
But he said the testimony has
been essentially ignored.
Now, however, with the issue
pending before Congress, there even are media reports that appear to
substantiate the general claims that the government has been spying. The New
York Times in January referenced wiretapping at Trump Tower, and just this
week ABC News documented that
the FBI monitored Trump Tower.
The report claimed, “But it
was not placed at the behest of Barack Obama, and the target was not the Trump
campaign of 2016. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved
warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime
money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New
York.”
It resulted in the
indictments of more than 30 people, ABC said.
Explained the report: “The
FBI investigation did not implicate Trump. But Trump Tower was under close
watch. Some of the Russian mafia figures worked out of unit 63A in the iconic
skyscraper – just three floors below Trump’s penthouse residence – running what
prosecutors called an ‘international money-laundering, sports gambling and
extortion ring.'”
Klayman, a Washington
watchdog who repeatedly took on the Clinton political machine to investigate
suspicion of wrongdoing, explained in his letter to Nunes, which was copied to
other members of Congress, that he previously won a judgment from U.S. District
Judge Richard Leon preliminarily halting the “illegal, warrantless, and
massive surveillance of U.S. citiznes [sic] and lawful residents” in 2015.
As part of Nunes’ hearing on
claims of government spying, he invited “anyone who has information about these
topics to come forward.”
Klayman said that is exactly
what Montgomery has done.
“There is a myriad of
evidence, direct and circumstantial, of the illegal and unconstitutional
surveillance disclosed to the FBI by Montgomery,” said Klayman, describing
how his client made an on-camera interview with the agency about the misdeeds
some time ago.
He said Montgomery “holds
much of the roadmap to ‘draining the swamp’ of this corruption of our
democracy.”
Montgomery, Klayman said, has
information “that the spy agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal
surveillance on prominent Americans.”
During Montgomery’s interview
with FBI General Counsel James Baker, under grants of immunity, he “laid out
how persons like then businessman Donald Trump were illegally spied upon by
Clapper, Brennan, and the spy agencies of the Obama administration.”
“He even claimed that these
spy agencies had manipulated voting in Florida during the 2008 presidential
election, where illegal tampering resulted in helping Obama to win the White
House.”
But that interview,
“conducted and videotaped by Special FBI Agents Walter Giardina and William
Barnett, occurred almost two years ago, and nothing that I know of has happened
since.”
Klayman wrote that it appears
to have been “buried” by Comey, possibly because “the FBI itself
collaborates with the spy agencies to conduct illegal surveillance.”
He said he previously
visited with a staff lawyer, Allen Souza, to inform Nunes of questions that
needed to be put to Comey while under oath.
“My expressed purpose: to
have Chairman Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee ask Comey, under oath,
why he and his FBI have seemingly not moved forward with the Montgomery
investigation while, on the other hand, the FBI director recently claimed
publicly, I believe falsely, that there is ‘no evidence’ of surveillance on
President Trump and those around him by the Obama administration.
“Indeed, there is,” he wrote.
He tells members of Congress
that Comey needs to be grilled during a subsequent hearing, now set for March
28. He asks Nunes to respond by March 24 to let “the American people, and Mr.
Montgomery … know where you and the other members of your
committee stand.”
“Do you intend to get at and
investigate the full truth, or as has regrettably been the case for many years
in government, sweep the truth under the carpet?”
Other recipients of the
letter were Reps. Adam Schiff, Mike Conaway, Peter King, Frank LoBiondo, Tom
Rooney, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Michael Turner, Brad Wenstrup, Chris Stewart, Rich
Crawford, Trey Gowdy, Elise Stefanik, Will Hurd, Jim Hines, Terri Sewell, Andre
Carson, Jackie Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell, Joaquin Castro and Denny
Heck.
A special report from
the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism; Cliff Kincaid,
Director.
[AIM CIJ Director's Note:
UPDATE: Former NSA/CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery has told
Accuracy in Media through his attorney Larry Klayman that it is entirely
possible that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was
used as a back channel to collect and pass information-based on electronic
surveillance of Trump associates and Donald J. Trump personally-to officials in
the Obama administration. Montgomery said the procedure known as shell-game
eavesdropping, in which the NSA can deny they are wiretapping, and the GCHQ can
also deny that they are wiretapping, could have been used in this case. In
other words, the NSA, CIA or FBI would ask the British to conduct the
surveillance on behalf of the U.S. government so that U.S. officials could deny
their own involvement.
Montgomery said that he has
provided extensive evidence of illegal wiretapping by U.S. intelligence
agencies to the FBI, but that the Bureau has failed to act on the evidence
since he provided it almost two years ago.
Judge Andrew Napolitano of
Fox News had said, "The NSA has given GCHQ full 24/7 access to its
computers, so GCHQ - a foreign intelligence agency that, like the NSA, operates
outside our constitutional norms - has the digital versions of all electronic
communications made in America in 2016, including Trump's." [Bold Text
Editor JRH] However, it may be
difficult to find Obama's personal "fingerprints" on what happened,
Napolitano warned. Under these circumstances, the House Intelligence Committee
should ask FBI Director James Comey about Montgomery's evidence of illegal
wiretapping and then call in Montgomery for his own personal testimony. Klayman
says Montgomery can shed important light on how Trump and many other innocent
people can be targeted.
ØPlease call the office of
Rep. Devin Nunes at 202-225-4121 and urge that Congress question FBI Director
Comey about the Dennis Montgomery case.]
(Editor's Note: Public
hearings on this controversy are scheduled for March 20 and 28 by the House
Intelligence Committee.)
Senate Intelligence Committee
leaders from both parties, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA),
have issued a disingenuous statement[1] that
"no element of the United States government" surveilled "Trump
Tower." They dishonestly evade the fact that media reporting[2] two
days earlier had said that British intelligence operating at U.S. behest had
likely been implicated in wiretapping Trump and Trump associates, all at the
instigation of the U.S. government.
White House Press Secretary
Sean Spicer said on March 16 that Fox News[2] sources
have reported[3] through
retired Judge Andrew Napolitano that then-President Obama had used two
officials to arrange with the British NSA, called GCHQ or Government
Communications Headquarters, to carry out the wiretapping of both Trump and
Trump associates. (See this AIM[4]guest
column.) The British now dispute this claim.
This evasive use of British
spying is done in order to leave no American "fingerprints[5]"
on the highly illegal operation, as the White House quoted Judge Napolitano. It
is a long-standing practice under treaty-like intelligence agreements that
British intelligence can use NSA facilities, and vice versa, for
shell-game eavesdropping.
The trick is for the two
agencies to swap places so that the NSA can deny they are wiretapping, and the
GCHQ can deny that they are wiretapping. The Brits are trying to escape in
between these moves of what a key expert has called the US-UK "wiretapping
shell game."
This is the first time
that news sources[2] have
explicitly stated that Obama personally ordered the wiretapping of Trump
himself, through Obama officials going to the British, though it has been
implied in the past by the suspicious lack of any circumspect denials, even
when The New York Times said on January 19 and 20 that "wiretapped
communications" went to the Obama White House. No one in the article said
"Obama White House-but not Obama personally."
Consider how one important
person-President Trump-got the clear media message that he was indeed the
target of the spying: President Trump told Fox News's Tucker Carlson that he
read this New York Times story of January 20 before he tweeted about Obama
"wiretapping" him. White House spokesman Spicer quoted from this
article.
President Trump told Carlson
on Fox[6] on
March 15 why he tweeted what he did: "Well, I've been reading...I think it
was January 20...New York Times article where they were talking about
wiretapping....I think they used that exact term."
NEW
YORK TIMES (print edition) Jan. 20, 2017, Headline:
"Wiretapped Data
Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides"
"found no
conclusive evidence of wrongdoing ... [but]
"... Wiretapped communications had
been provided to the [Obama] White House." [Emphasis added;
bracketed [ ] text added.]
Remember, this is the same
New York Times, along with other hostile media, that is attacking President
Trump for making what it calls "baseless" and
"unsubstantiated" claims of Obama administration wiretapping of
Trump. It is its own reporting that President Trump was referring to.
The Times hypocritically
suppresses its own front-page headline stories about "Wiretapped Data Used
in Inquiry of Trump Aides" which claimed that these "wiretapped
communications" reports went to the Obama White House (New York Times[7],
Jan. 20, 2017).
White House spokesman Spicer
forcefully made this point to the press, which viciously dodged his points to
continue insisting[8] that
"there's no evidence of this" at all, repeatedly and rudely
interrupting Spicer in an acrimonious confrontation.
Again, the question is: What
did Obama know and when did he know it?
How the "Wiretap
Shell Game" Works
Some reports claim that the
Obama administration sought and/or obtained FISA Court warrants to tap phone
calls and hack emails in Trump Tower.
But FISA warrants are
routinely avoided by a little-known intelligence trick of using U.S.-British
intelligence "reciprocity agreements" to dodge U.S. laws and vice
versa. There are now direct reports[5] of
this Obama-orchestrated British wiretapping of Trump, cited by the White House
to back up President Trump's statements and tweets.
The British are issuing denials[9].
But it is well-known that U.S. intelligence agencies can routinely arrange
for British intelligence officers to use NSA facilities to spy on Americans, so
that the U.S. agencies can claim that "they" (the U.S.) did no
wiretapping or surveillance of Americans. It is a type of "plausible
denial" government lie (see more on this in the appendix to this
article). [Bold Text Editor JRH]
The strange involvement of an
"ex" British MI6 agent, Christopher Steele, in conducting
"opposition research" during a U.S. election has raised no questions
in the left-wing media. It bears consideration, as it could represent in
reality a British "reciprocity" covert operation on behalf of Obama's
CIA, one to fabricate discrediting disinformation about Trump, not a mere intelligence-gathering
or wiretapping operation.
The exact means and exact
agency by which this wiretapping, or much of it, has been done had been left
unclear until now, when the claimed British connection surfaced. These types of
British surveillance wiretaps are known as operations under "UKUSA"
and "BRUSA" intelligence "reciprocity" agreements, which
are the functional equivalent of formal treaties in the spy world.
Such
"reciprocity" operations are designed to evade the laws of each
country, the U.S. and the UK, by having the British spy on Americans who the
Americans want spied on, and having the Americans spy on the British who the
Brits want spied on. [Bold Text
Editor JRH] Each side then exchanges the wiretap and other data the other
side wants, thus without directly incriminating themselves. UKUSA reciprocity
treaty "requests" have the force of direct orders to the other
country's intelligence agencies.
The wiretap data is exchanged
under bogus traditional claims of the "extreme sensitivity" of
"foreign liaison" intelligence, in order to obstruct outside
oversight and thus in reality conceal surveillance of questionable legality.
The UKUSA arrangements go beyond mere data searches and exchanges, by having,
for example, British agents use NSA equipment and facilities on a rental lease
basis to spy on the Americans that U.S. agencies want surveilled (and vice
versa) so that the best equipment in the best position of access is used.
Former Justice Department
Nazi-hunter John Loftus has documented how this British-U.S. "wiretap
shell game" works, and pointed out how it is used to spy on political
candidates in elections, and is covered up from Congress. Loftus reported:
"Over
the years the British back-channel inside the NSA was used for a variety of
political dirty tricks. A large number of American candidates for public office
have been placed under electronic surveillance by British intelligence officers
sitting at their ‘temporary listening post' at [NSA] Fort Meade." [Loftus[10], Secret War Against the Jews[11], 1997,
p. 195]
The media have been saying
that their government sources report that the CIA-NSA-FBI intercept targeting
of Russians shifted to the targeting of the Trump team by September,
2016-possibly as early as June, 2016. There are reports of rejected FISA court
applications in June[12] and July[13] of 2016 which would indicate
that change of focus. (Incidentally, rejections by the FISA court are normally
almost unheard-of.)
The BBC's twist on the third
alleged try at a FISA warrant, allegedly granted on October 15, was that it was
narrowly drawn against only two Russian banks. But the BBC was at pains to
assure us that they had an unnamed source who said that "three of Mr. Trump's
associates were the subject of the inquiry."
"But it's clear this is
about Trump," the source told the BBC[13].
New York Times Lies About
Its Own Reporting
Meanwhile The New York Times[14] is
doubling down on its lies, pretending it never reported that Trump or his aides
had been wiretapped[7],
and with supreme chutzpah claims, "It is not clear why Mr. Trump thought
he was wiretapped or what led him to make the claim." Again, look at the
front-page New York Times headline.
The New York Times has been
forced by confused readers to grudgingly admit[15] that
President Trump's tweets on Obama's wiretapping actually do "echo certain
aspects of The New York Times's reporting from recent weeks." But they try
to offer up sorry excuses to explain away the glaring contradiction in their
own reporting of Obama administration wiretapping of Trump and/or Trump people-and
then their denials of it. The New York Times claims[16] that
what they originally said was that Obama officials merely investigated past
wiretap data in archives of "routine" surveillance already done, but
did not wiretap into future data.
But the New York Times stated
in January[7] that
after past recordings of phone calls of Trump people had been checked, that the
FBI "asked" the NSA to continue to "collect as much information
as possible"-evidently without restraint or limitations-in what were
clearly all future wiretapped calls between Russians and Trump people. It's
known as an intelligence "collection requirement." (New York Times
on January 20[7] and February 14[17];
see also the BBC[13] on
January 12.)
White House spokesman Spicer,
days before the Times' excuse-making, clearly explained[16] that
President Trump's tweets on March 4 were based on open-source news media
reporting of the wiretaps-thus including The New York Times-over the last few
months.
In fact, the news media have
been reporting[18] since
at least September 23, 2016, that U.S. intelligence has been "actively
monitoring" the "talks" (conversations), "wiretapping"
the phone "calls," and intercepting other communications of Trump
aides or Trump himself-communications allegedly made with the Russians.
"Active monitoring"
means wiretapping and surveillance of future phone calls, emails, texts, and
other communications on an ongoing basis.
Not a shred of any New York
Times or other reporting since September, 2016 on the "wiretapping"
of Trump and/or his aides has demonstrated any concern whatsoever for Trump's
civil rights or the sanctity of the election process. No concern was expressed
by the CIA, FBI, NSA or other agencies, or by the Obama White House-or by the
media doing the reporting. In fact, they have been quite excited and eager
about the prospect of illegal snooping on Trump.
As White House spokesman
Spicer pointed out, efforts were made by Obama officials during their last days
in office to lessen the protections of wiretap data in order to spread more widely
any highly-sensitive wiretap data on Trump. The New York Times reported[19] on
March 1 that the Obama administration's lowering of "classification
levels" of NSA data was done to "spread" the Trump wiretaps
around various agencies and even foreign governments (see Obama DNI James
Clapper's orders lowering security protections of raw NSA intercept data,
December. 15, 2016).
The New York Times had originally reported[20] on
January 12 that this massive lowering of NSA wiretap data security was in
contrast to Obama's previous tightening of regulations in 2014, after the
Snowden mass leak, to give "privacy protections to foreigners," like
they were Americans. But not for Trump.
The New York Times
headline story[19] on
March 1 that said Obama officials had "Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of
Russian Election Hacking" also admitted that officials say that alleged
Trump collusion with Russia "has not been confirmed" in any of that
intelligence wiretap data.
So what were they
"rushing" to "preserve?" It is the purported Trump
"conspiracy" with Russia that is utterly unsubstantiated and
baseless. Wiretapping one's political opponents in an election, as Obama or his
minions have done, is a classic Watergate-style threat to the democratic
process.
The Fake "Trump
Dossier"
"As part of the
inquiry," wrote The New York Times, this "wiretapping" was done
by the CIA, FBI and/or NSA to try to "investigate" the alleged
Trump-Russian connections claimed in what is known as the (fake) "Trump
dossier"-within a broader investigation of alleged Russian hacking and
other supposed election interference (NY Times, January 20[7], February 14[17],
2017).
This "Trump
dossier" is the controversial document composed by ex-British agent Christopher
Steele, who had been paid by Hillary Clinton's still unidentified backers to do
election "opposition research" against then-candidate Trump. It is
riddled with absurd self-contradictions and vile allegations against President
Trump.
The "dossier[21]"
cannot even make up its mind, so to speak, as to whether the Russians did spend
"years" passing political dirt on Hillary Clinton to Trump to help
"cultivate" relationship with him-or did not in fact ever pass such
info to Trump (Steele report[21],
June 20, 2016). There are at least eight different origins of the hacked or
leaked DNC emails claimed in the "dossier," including that Trump
hacked them, not the Russians, or that they were all just "created"
or "made up."
The one-party opposition
media have managed to ignore the ridiculous contents of the bogus "Trump
dossier" with its raving lunatic absurdities.
For example, thousands of
Russian retirement "pensioners," according to the
"dossier," did the hacking of the DNC emails and passed them on to
Russian officials, apparently in secret meetings at (we infer) park benches and
shuffleboard affairs in Miami and elsewhere (Steele reports 095 and 111[21] and Newsweek[22], November
4, 2016).
These Russian retirement
pensioners living in the U.S. are "hacking...cyberoperatives"
according to Newsweek, in its pre-election article[22] heavily
based on Steele's "Trump dossier," oblivious to the patent absurdity
of the claim.
You will not hear about that
from the anti-Trump media, which so desperately wants the "Trump
dossier" to be believed, regardless of whether any of it is true.
Appendix:
Former Justice Department
Nazi-hunter, John Loftus, has explained how this US-British reciprocity
scheme-or "wiretap shell game," as he calls it-works. Loftus'
evidence of the top secret trick of US-British, NSA-GCHQ wiretapping of
Americans is based on numerous NSA sources and others from many agencies
stretching back decades, including censorship of this information from his and
another expert's early book manuscripts because of "classification" (Loftus[10], Secret War Against the Jews[11], 1997,
pp. 188-195, 548-9).
According to Loftus this is
how the illegal wiretapping "game" is played:
"...
the NSA headquarters [at Fort Meade, Md.] is also the chief British espionage
base in the United States. The presence of British wiretappers at the keyboards
of American eavesdropping computers is a closely guarded secret...."
"The
NSA is a giant vacuum cleaner. It sucks in every form of electronic
information, from telephone calls to telegrams, across the United States. The
presence of British personnel is essential for the American wiretappers to
claim plausible deniability.
"Here's
how the game is played. The British liaison officer at [NSA Hq] Fort Meade
types the [NSA-supplied] target list of ‘suspects' into the American computer.
The NSA computer sorts through its wiretaps and gives the British officer the
recording of any American citizen he wants.
"Since
it is technically a British target of surveillance, no American search
warrant is necessary. [Loftus' italics] The British officer then simply hands
the results over to his American liaison officer. Of course, the Americans
provide the same service to the British in return...."
"According
to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement disguises the most
massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus in the world....
"Through
this charade, the intelligence services of each country can claim that they are
not targeting their own citizens. The targeting is done by an
authorized foreign agent, the intelligence liaison resident in Britain or the
United States" [Loftus, pp. 189-190; endnotes omitted].
Loftus describes how the
courts tried to shut down some of the domestic wiretapping abuses, and how the
FBI succeeded in evading the judiciary. Then the Bureau got its dream come true
with the FISA law, which only applied to U.S. agencies, not the British:
"In
1978 Congress finally passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FIS) Act
[or FISA], a feeble attempt to stamp out some of the worst excesses of domestic
espionage.... [But FISA] was restricted only to targeting by American agencies,
leaving the British liaison officer with a major loophole. The restrictive
language added to the FIS Act [FISA] left unchanged the arrangement under which
the British wiretapped American suspects and then passed on the information to
the NSA."
"To
this day Congress does not realize that the British liaison officers at the NSA
are still free to use American equipment to spy on American citizens. And, in
fact, they are doing just that. Congress has been kept in the dark
deliberately" [Loftus, pp. 191-2].
Naturally, such dirty-trick
U.S.-British spying schemes have led to political abuses. In a comment of eerie
timeliness today, with the claims of Obama directing the wiretapping of candidate
Trump through British intelligence, Loftus states that:
"Over
the years the British back-channel inside the NSA was used for a variety of
political dirty tricks. A large number of American candidates for public office
have been placed under electronic surveillance by British intelligence officers
sitting at their ‘temporary listening post' at [NSA] Fort Meade." [Loftus,
p. 195]
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