Intro by John R. Houk
Intro © July 28,
2019
One of my favorite WordPress blogs is Ares and Athena (let’s
abbreviate that as A & A). A & A often does the same thing I do in
cross posting from others subject matter that I find interesting.
A & A picked up a fascinating perspective from RedState blogger streiff.
To be honest I’m not exactly a frequent flyer at RedState, so I’m unfamiliar
about streiff writing. So I attempted to find something about the person.
I quickly realized that streiff is a pseudonym. I have no
idea if streiff is male or female. I discovered that streiff is a pro-Trump
blogger of some notoriety at RedState
and seems to have been a part of the controversy of a RedState purge of pro-Trump bloggers but has managed to find his/her
way back to RedState. If you are
unaware of the RedState firing of
bloggers, I’ll let you research the controversy because I really don’t care. As
I said, I’m not a RedState frequent flyer.
HOWEVER, this streiff post picked up by A & A does
disseminate a perspective on the Deep State coup attempt against President
Trump that more people should be aware of to note the tactics probably will
continue by other means.
Streiff builds his narrative by sharing some facts that I’ll
let you read in the cross post, but here is an excerpt of the streiff wants you
to grasp:
One could speculate that it was
more than a soft coup against Trump. If all the reports we’ve received are
correct, this resembles more of a decapitation strike aimed at taking out all
resistance to the Democrat party. If the Republican President, the NRA, and
other conservative groups can be alleged to have all been under the influence
of a foreign power, albeit a Third World kleptocracy with an GDP smaller than
New York State, then the entire opposition to the Democrats is discredited for
years to come. The reason I don’t find this far fetched is that four years ago
I would never have believed that the FBI and CIA would have interjected
themselves into a presidential election on the side of one of the candidates
and I never would have believed the UN Ambassador would be unmasking the
personal communications of American citizens at the rate of one per work day.
If that is the case, then a lot
of very powerful people need to be sharing a cell with … BE TANTALIZED AND READ THE CROSS POST.
Ares and Athena introduced the
streiff post with this (posted today 7/28/19):
Trump’s election threw
a huge roadblock on the highway to dystopia. Thus, a desperate
elitist/leftist attempt ensued to paint all opposition, especially Trump, as
Russian lackeys via false accusations and naked propaganda.
If they were successful, his
election would be invalidated. Thus, the festivities of the politically and
morally corrupt DC machine and their selling out of America for their own
gain could continue.
The following article reveals
some interesting information regarding one aspect of the plan and its
implication.
And now the cross post below.
JRH 7/28/19
Your generosity is always appreciated:
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Secret FBI Informant In The Maria
Butina Case Says He Was Part Of A “Soft Coup”
Against President Trump
By streiff
July 27, 2019
One of the saddest episodes to emerge from the anti-Russia
hysteria the Democrats and NeverTrump weenies managed to generate after the
2016 election is the case of Maria Butina. (You can chant “Russia is not our
friend” under your breath to create the correct ambiance.) Butina, a member of
a nascent Russian gun rights movement, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for
failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. She was never
accused of being an intelligence agent. She is in prison for doing what Tony
Podesta did for years and got White House invitations. Butina’s misfortune was
to be Russian and to be interested in working with the NRA. Because the NRA
supports Republicans, this became a convenient tool to claim the NRA was a
Russian influenced organization…a charge that was actually made on this very
site…and therefore illegitimate.
Yesterday, a pretty amazing thing happened. According to an exclusive
report by Sara Carter (who seems to be one of the very few
political journalists, liberal or conservative, not using Jake Tapper’s Twitter
timeline for story ideas) the FBI aimed an informant at Butina with orders to
begin a sexual relationship with her and then lied to Butina’s defense team
about the informant and what the informant said about her intent because his
reports undermined the government’s case.
This is the set up:
[Overstock.com CEO Patrick] Byrne
was a keynote speaker on July, 8, 2015 at Freedom Fest, a yearly Libertarian
gathering that hosts top speakers in Las Vegas. Shortly after his address,
Butina approached him. She was flattering and repeatedly told him she was a fan
of his, saying she was a graduate student that had studied the famous
libertarian Militon [sic] Friedman.
He spoke to her shortly and
“brushed her off.”
The young redheaded Russian
graduate student then approached him again over the course of the conference
and explained that she worked for the Vice Chairman of the Central Bank of
Russia and sent by them to make contact with Byrne.
She also said “did you know you’re
a famous man in Russia, we watch videos about you and your relationship with
Milton Freeman.”
She said she was appointed to lead
Russia’s gun right’s group by Lieutenant-General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who was a
Russian general, most notably known for his AK-47 machine gun design. The
designation by Kalashnikov is considered a huge honor and Byrne then had an
“extensive conversation about Russian history and I understood her designation
about Kalishnikov was significant.”
She wanted to invite Byrne to
Russia to speak at the Central Bank before dignitaries. The speaking engagement
would be at a major resort for three days. Butina told Byrne the event would
offer him the opportunity to meet senior Russian officials and oligarchs. He
didn’t accept the offer because of his security clearance. He then reported
Butina and her offer to the FBI.
Byrne was a little suspicious of everything because Butina
confided that she was afraid she was being monitored and thought it would be
best if they disguised their meetings as a romantic relationship. He also
reported it because Byrne was a part-time FBI informant.
When he contacted the FBI and then
subsequently for the next few months “instead what I got was vague instructions
that it would be ok to get to know her better.”
He said there was very little
response from the FBI after his initial contact, until Butina asked him to come
meet her in New York City. He told the FBI he didn’t want any vague
instructions on whether to meet Butina or not because “I didn’t want my
security clearance to get pulled.”
At that point the FBI gave him an
explicit “green light” to meet with her. He rented a hotel room with two
bedrooms because he was under the impression that the romantic texts were
simply her way to cover for communicating with him. However, she arrived at the
hotel beforehand, occupied the room before Byrne’s arrival, and when he
arrived, she made clear that her flirtatious texts were not simply a disguise.
Byrne said that the FBI agents made
clear they were skeptical that Butina might be of interest, dismissing her as
simply a normal 26 year old Russian graduate student. Over time, Byrne and
Butina developed an intimate relationship but at the same time he alleges he
was continuously reporting on Butina to the FBI in an effort to convince them
that it might be worthwhile to introduce her to some of his contacts at the
Council on Foreign Relations. He also noted he reported to the FBI his
interactions more frequently with Butina starting in December, 2015, both out
of a desire not to lose the possibility of something good coming from this
encounter, but also, because Butina was starting to speak more frequently of
meeting with big shots in Republican circles.
Ultimately, Byrne became convinced that Butina was basically
a very enthusiastic person doing exactly what she claimed to be doing: trying
to build linkages between this Russian gun rights group and the NRA and
conservative groups in the US and that she was not acting on behalf of the
Russian government.
After her arrest, her lawyer made a demand for so-called
“Brady” material and the FBI told them there was none. The FBI lying to sandbag
a defense attorney…can you see my shocked face?
But this is the interesting part:
Oddly, Byrne’s name was not
disclosed by prosecutors in the case or by the FBI. And despite the
government’s earlier efforts to paint Butina as a Russian spy attempting to
infiltrate Republican circles she was never investigated by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s probe, which charged 25 Russian agents with interfering in the
U.S. election. Further, the FBI, unlike convicted Russian bombshell spy
Anna Chapman, did nothing to stop Butina from meeting with high
level Republican and conservative figures. The bureau also didn’t warn those
conservative figures she had made contact with, even though they had her
under surveillance and allegedly Byrne had been reporting on her during that
time. As noted in a column by
The Hill’s John Solomon Chapman’s actions were handled differently than Butina.
When one of Chapman’s associates, who went by the name of Cynthia Murphy,
made contact with Alan Patricof, a major Democratic donor close to Hillary Clinton, the FBI acted swiftly to
arrest the entire cell.
[Butina attorney Robert] Driscoll
said there was suspicion that the FBI did not disclose all the information it
had on Butina and he stated that he believed “Patrick is not the only one” who
was giving information to the FBI.
Why does this matter?
We’re seeing a pattern. When the FBI suspected that Carter
Page was possibly compromised by the Russians, instead of following normal
procedure and giving then-candidate Trump a defensive briefing and the
opportunity to remove Page from the campaign, what did the FBI do? Nothing. We
know they did that service for John McCain in 2008 and why they elected not to
in 2015-16 is a question that needs to be answered. If Page had been fired from
the Trump campaign in 2015 much of what happened since then would not have
taken place.
Earlier this week the attorney for Joseph Mifsud intimated
that his client, the guy who allegedly kicked off “Crossfire Hurricane” by
telling George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton, worked for
western intelligence agencies. Bolstering this is the fact that Robert Mueller
never claims that Mifsud was working for the Russian government and Mueller
never charged Mifsud with lying to the FBI in interviews despite the fact that
he did (see Jim Jordan Fillets
Mueller On Joseph Mifsud Not Being Charged, Exposes Serious Credibility Issues
With The Probe).
Recall that the New York Times confirmed that a woman
dangled in front of Papadopoulos as a possible romantic liaison was, in fact,
working for some US agency. We hope it was the FBI because if it was the CIA a
boatload of laws were broken (see FBI Does Preemptive
Damage Control By Confirming The Trump Campaign Was The Target Of A Spying
Operation).
And so the push by John Durham to interview Joseph Mifsud
and rumors that extensive exculpatory information existed on Page and
Papadopoulos that would have put their activities in a different light brings
new significance.
Back to Byrne. Why did he come forward?
Byrne’s decision to come forward
didn’t come lightly. However, he said it was necessary after watching what had
transpired between the FBI, the intelligence community and the probe into
President Trump’s campaign over the past several years.
“It was something I knew I had to
do,” he told this reporter. “Those running the operation were not honest and in
the end I realized I was being used in some sort of soft coup.”
One could speculate that it was more than a soft coup
against Trump. If all the reports we’ve received are correct, this resembles
more of a decapitation strike aimed at taking out all resistance to the
Democrat party. If the Republican President, the NRA, and other conservative
groups can be alleged to have all been under the influence of a foreign power,
albeit a Third World kleptocracy with an GDP smaller than New York State, then
the entire opposition to the Democrats is discredited for years to come. The
reason I don’t find this far fetched is that four years ago I would never have
believed that the FBI and CIA would have interjected themselves into a
presidential election on the side of one of the candidates and I never would
have believed the UN Ambassador would be unmasking the personal communications
of American citizens at the rate of one per work day.
If that is the case, then a lot of very powerful people need
to be sharing a cell with Tiny the White Supremacist Biker and their
organizations need to be burned to the ground. If it isn’t a global conspiracy
and just a series of events carried out by politically motivated law
enforcement and intelligence agents, they need to do hard time and everyone
associated with them reduced to penury.
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