Even as the spoken and written Press propagandizes against President
Trump, there is plenty of documentation – with more to be revealed – that a frame-job
to depose a sitting President has occurred. Justin Smith does his part sharing
what can be publicly dug up by anyone searching about this coup attempt. YET in
this latest Justin submission he shared some misgivings about operation of
justice in today’s America:
I'm not overly optimistic that
William Barr is going to ever successfully prosecute the traitors to America
that were found within the Obama administration and working together across
party lines to destroy our republic, but maybe he will prove me wrong. If some
of these people are not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and
imprisoned soon, I truly believe this republic is going to be so irreparably
damaged that we will find ourselves in a continuation of battles and civil
strife years out.
Justin has good reason for some pessimism. Politicians and
crooks related to the Democratic Party have been committing crimes and getting
away with it for at least a quarter century. Even if Attorney General is an
honest representative of justice, can he buck a system that has been corrupted
for so long? I HOPE SO!
Americans are wondering how such a well-engineered republic,
with all its time tested traditions and checks and balances, could be turned
into a blazing forest fire of political misdeeds and treason by the Obama
administration and the traitors within, but as the nation moves into the summer
of 2019, many remain hopeful that U.S. Attorney General William Barr, U.S. Attorney
John Durham and the fine efforts of men such as Representatives Devin Nunes and
Trey Gowdy and others will succeed in identifying, prosecuting and imprisoning
all involved in the plot against candidate and then President Trump. The nation
cannot 'move on' until these traitors, these rats who are now jumping their
sinking ship, are held accountable for their criminal and unconstitutional
actions.
Even prior to President
Trump's declassification order last month, escalating matters in the investigation
of the investigators, most of America was already aware of most of the facts,
already documented, in the seditious, subversive plot between the Hillary
Clinton campaign and many key government figures, including former president
Barack Obama, who could not have possibly failed to understand all the action.
And now, with a paper trail as wide as Percy Priest Lake[Blog
Editor: For readers who are unaware, the significance of the lake mention
undoubtedly relates to author Justin Smith residing in Rutherford County
Tennessee] and a fouled up coup, the truth is falling down on the traitors'
shoulders like radioactive ash.
Incredulously, during the last week of May, Representative Adam Schiff, House Intelligence
Committee Chairman, accused President Trump and
Attorney General Barr of attempting to "conspire to weaponize law
enforcement and classified information against their political enemies."
This would be hilarious if it weren't so serious, and if not for the fact that
Schiff accused President Trump of the very thing the Democratic Party and then
President Obama did for several of his last years in office.
If the dossier was not reliable enough to warn Trump's
campaign about the Kremlin's plot, how could it remotely serve as the basis for
obtaining FISA warrants to spy on Donald Trump and his inner circle? America
demands a full accounting of who, what, where, when, why and how the dossier
was used four, possibly five, times to dupe the FISA Court.
On May 24th, Representative Lindsey Graham, who has emerged as one of President
Trump's most intense and loyal supporters, spoke on Trump's declassification
order and told Fox and Friends:
"You're going to find out the mentality of the people investigating the
president. You're going to find out what they did and said. You're going to
find out that Papadopoulos was not working with the Russians. There'll be some
transcripts coming out where he says, 'If you did that, that'd be treason.' So
the bottom line is, there's going to be a lot of information about they were
warned Steele was a bad guy and you can't trust him. They blew through every
stop sign".
If Donald Trump wasn't the subject of the surveillance, as
the FBI asserted, then there was no valid reason not to apprise him of the
surveillance and what was suspected, during the January 2017 briefing. Who
decided not to give the President a FULL briefing on the dossier? Who decided
to deliberately hide this from the new Commander-In-Chief?
All of a sudden America is witnessing James Comey, James
Clapper, John Brennan accusing each other of being guilty of inserting the
unreliable Steele Dossier into a presidential assessment, since its ridiculous
stories and outright lies have been exposed. If they truly believed that this
dossier was fact -- that the American people faced an existential threat from
Donald Trump's sexual perversions, hatred of Obama and ties with Moscow, a
reprobate who stole the election from Hillary -- why are they not vying
for all the credit for warning President Obama and the American people, given
that they leaked and pushed this narrative over the past three years?
Fox News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reported last month that an
email from former FBI Director James Comey in December 2016 indicates that it
was John Brennan who pushed the dossier to be included in the presidential
intelligence report. A source inside the CIA blames Comey for pressing the
dossier's inclusion.
Noting that he has seen the report, former Rep. Trey Gowdy has stated it does not look
good for John Brennan.
Protesting their innocence, Andrew McCabe and James Comey
are at odds too, even though they both swore President Trump remains a threat
to the republic and leaked classified documents to the media, supposedly to
save us, to save America. McCabe asserts that the Steele dossier was the
primary evidence presented to the FISA Court by the FBI, which Comey denies.
Why would they be at odds if their leaks were nobly motivated and their cause a
righteous one?
The fact that President Trump's declassification order
includes the Department of Treasury and the Department of Energy makes the
matter even darker, more intriguing, and, in fact, a critical point that
suggests pressure applied on President Trump not to release classified
documents was more subversion, and the focus was on using Russian collusion as
a way to conceal the FBI's spying and abuse of power; this was also part of a
broader attempt to cover up other massive Democrat corruption, especially the Uranium One Deal and real Russian collusion
by Democrats and the true depth of Clinton's pay-for-play operation
within the U.S. State Department, with many people aware of its
existence.
The salary men of the FBI dream of getting the top job, so
they play along, which explains Mueller's motivation as a one-time bag man
for Clinton in the Uranium One scheme.
And that makes for an extremely vile and dangerous partner when one considers
Hillary Clinton's vermin-like rapacity and her shrewd, corrupt, clever
ruthlessness. It's like selling one's soul to the devil and realizing too late
what a terrible deal one has made.
Abuse of power is to the Democrats what drugs are to the
addict, as exhibited by Susan Rice, National Security Advisor under Obama, who regularly unmasked American citizens
picked up on NSA surveillance sweeps. Also important to note, Samantha Power,
U.N. Ambassador, averaged unmasking someone every working day of 2016,
unmasking almost three-hundred; in comparison, John Bolton only unmasked three
during his tenure as U.N Ambassador, according to PJ Media.
And by now, it is pretty well acknowledged that elements
within the FBI and most likely the CIA conducted an illegal surveillance operation
against President Trump. Attorney General Barr has said as much,
stating the only remaining thing is to determine if the surveillance was
predicated upon the law and through a substantial evidentiary basis. The only
decision left is whether or not these people face charges or the whole thing
gets swept under the rug.
Some details remain to be confirmed, for instance:
Was the entrapment conman Josef Mifsud working for the
CIA and/or Britain's MI6 and/or Hillary Clinton's Fusion GPS contractor, or Orbis
Business Intelligence? I believe America is going to discover very few Russians
involved in all of this, but rather, they will see the FBI attempted to
infiltrate the Trump campaign and coordinated with Australia and the United Kingdom
to frame Donald Trump for collusion, so he could be prevented from taking
office or removed from office after the inauguration. The remaining questions
aren't going to be asked by the New York Times.
On May 15th, former U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia. Joe DiGenova explained to Breitbart News Daily:
"There was a brazen plot that started before the election, and the plot
was to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton so that she could become president,
and then if she lost, there was an insurance policy to frame Donald Trump so he
could be prevented from taking office or removed from office after the
inauguration. ... John Brennan is at the core of this conspiracy. His handymen
and acolytes were Clapper and Comey and the senior FBI officials who worked
with Comey. Let's not forget that all of the people in senior levels of the
Department of Justice under Obama were involved in this plot. ... Loretta Lynch
was too dumb to be allowed to lead it," DiGenova speculated. "This is
Brennan Inc."
No longer standing unified, the drama between Brennan, Comey
and Clapper is just the surface. The Durham investigation could reach out of
the FBI and CIA up through the Obama administration, including Attorney General
Lynch and the White House itself.
We are in the midst of a morality play, where some of the
most unlikely villains have aligned themselves with the cause of tyranny and
Evil. And standing against them is the one time billionaire Playboy, President
Donald Trump, an unlikely hero. Yet here we are, with the tide turning our way
once more.
All of America's true patriots must raise their voice today
and tomorrow and for as long as it takes to arrive at a day of reckoning for
these traitors to the republic and our beloved America, otherwise and to our
chagrin, we may eventually see the administrative state simply bury this sorry
episode of American history. However, make no mistake, the weaponization of
federal agencies will happen again, and the next time, America may not be so
fortunate to have a president who is strong enough to withstand the onslaught
on behalf of the people and the nation.
When due process is ignored and justice is measured by
compulsion and our Fourth Amendment Rights against improper searches and
seizures seemingly no longer exist, freedom and liberty is endangered. When we
see men, who rebuke the Constitution, leverage the law through politics,
violating other men's 6th Amendment right to due process and acquiring power
over individual liberty by graft and scheme; and our representatives don't
protect us against them, but rather protects them against the people, our
republic is endangered. And when America sees corruption wielding heavy
influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and suppressed, We the
People have realized that our freedom too is endangered and soon to perish.
It is no small thing to restore a republic once it has
fallen into corruption. It may be that the task is impossible, but it lies
before us to do. The alternative offers only a dark future, and thus, it is no
option at all. And if we do not try, the Founders' Republic and the larger war
for Western Civilization will be lost.
By Justin O. Smith
___________________________
Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and source links are by the
Editor.
You won’t read or hear this Crooked Hillary/Deep State/FBI
collusion on the Leftist Mainstream Media (MSM) devoted to shoot President Trump
in the foot at all costs.
A close friend, advisor and
confidant of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was allegedly interviewed
by the FBI in connection with the controversial dossier that was used ‘in part’
as evidence by the bureau to obtain a warrant to investigate members of
President Trump’s campaign team, according to several sources who spoke to this
reporter.
Sidney Blumenthal, a former
journalist and a close friend of Clinton, was interviewed by the FBI in
2016 regarding the dossier that alleged Trump colluded with Russia, the sources
stated. Department of Justice officials, however, declined to comment on
Blumenthal or the dossier.
FBI officials declined to
comment.
Blumenthal did not return a
phone call seeking comment.
Blumenthal worked as a White
House aide for Bill Clinton, and later worked with the Clinton Foundation after
being denied a role by Obama Administration officials with then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, according to reports.
According to Politico he
was being paid $10,000 a month by the Clinton Foundation.
In 2015, emails released by
the State Department showed the extensive and ongoing working relationship
between Clinton and Blumenthal. The emails revealed that then Secretary of
State Clinton would seek Blumenthal’s advice on foreign policy issues and his
role appeared to be more of an advisor than friend, according to
the emails. Blumenthal regularly sent Hillary Clinton “vaguely sourced” “intelligence cable style”
briefings while she was Secretary of State.
Earlier this month, members
of the House Intelligence Committee went to the Justice Department to review
the FBI and DOJ documents requested last August by Chairman Devin Nunes, as
reported earlier.
The Washington Post revealed in October that the Democratic National
Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign the research firm Fusion GPS for the
dossier that was put together by former British spy Christopher Steele.
In April, CNN reported that
the dossier was used to monitor communications of Carter Page, who volunteered
as a national security advisor with the Trump campaign for a short period of
time. But by December, another story by the New York Times suggested that the
inquiry into the Trump campaign and its alleged ties to Russia began
with George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy advisor to Trump
campaign.
After the 2016 presidential
election, Blumenthal told Dutch TV Nieuwsuur that Clinton’s loss to Trump
“was the result of a cabal of right-wing agents of the FBI in the New York
office attached to Rudy Giuliani, who was a member of Trump’s campaign.”
“I think it’s not unfair to
call it a coup,” said Blumenthal.
Sidney
Blumenthal, Clinton confidant and insider, made a visit to the Netherlands.
Blumenthal was interviewed by NOS Nieuwsuur, a Dutch Evening News Magazine. The
fatal impact on the elections of the DNC, Hillary Clinton and Podesta email
publications by WikiLeaks, which were never contested by exposed parties, was
of course never mentioned.
(Blog Editor: When
Blumenthal says Trump will undo everything that Obama accomplished, you should
laugh hysterically. Obama has ruined America more than any Left-Wing President –
EVER!]
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SARA
CARTER: Clinton Foundation “Hatchet Man” Grilled By FBI In Connection To Steele
Dossier
Sara
Carter[Blog Editor: Link removed
or changed] reports:
A
close friend, advisor and confidant of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
was allegedly interviewed by the FBI in connection with the controversial
dossier that was used ‘in part’ as evidence by the bureau to obtain a warrant
to investigate members of President Trump’s campaign team, according to several
sources who spoke to this reporter.
Sidney
Blumenthal, a former journalist and a close friend of Clinton, was
interviewed by the FBI in 2016 regarding the dossier that alleged Trump
colluded with Russia, the sources stated. Department of Justice officials,
however, declined to comment on Blumenthal or the dossier.
[…]
Blumenthal
worked as a White House aide for Bill Clinton, and later worked with the
Clinton Foundation after being denied a role by Obama Administration officials
with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to reports. According to Politico he was being paid $10,000 a month
by the Clinton Foundation.
Commenting on Carter’s story,
Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton called Blumenthal a Clinton Foundation “hatchet
man.”
The Steele dossier saga may
take yet another interesting turn tomorrow, as the House Intelligence Committee
readies a vote to release the transcriptions of Fusion GPS founder Glenn
Simpson’s interview.
“If vote to release, will add
to record already released by Senate Judiciary. The more, the better,” tweeted
York.
House Intel set to vote tomorrow on
releasing transcript of Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson interview. If vote to release,
will add to record already released by Senate Judiciary. The more, the
better.
Fusion GPS, the opposition
research firm behind the discredited Steele dossier, is still investigating
alleged ties between President Trump and Russia,reportedFox
News contributor Sara A. Carter this week.
_________________
Hillary Clinton confidant was interviewed by FBI in connection to
the salacious dossier
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SARA CARTER: Clinton Foundation “Hatchet Man” Grilled By FBI In
Connection To Steele Dossier
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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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