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Big Puzzle Pieces Connecting – The CIA, FBI, and 2016 Political Surveillance is Merging…
Posted on May 2, 2019 by sundance

The admissions within the New York Times story today -outlining how President Obama’s intelligence apparatus
ran simultaneous intelligence operations against the Trump campaign- are starting to merge the FBI and CIA
operations. CTH anticipated this.

With new information about the “U.K. operation” using Stefan Halper (CIA asset and FBI informant); and the
details of the contacts by U.S. intelligence operative Azra Turk; we can overlay the timeline and see a clear picture.

On August 15th, 2016, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discussed the “insurance policy“:

Two weeks later, September 2nd, 2016, CIA operative Stefan Halper reaches out to George Papadopoulos and
introduces him to CIA/FBI asset Azra Turk.

This alignment between the CIA and FBI is not a surprise to anyone who has followed the story behind the
2015/2016 political surveillance issues. However, there’s a specific connection here many are missing.

Remember, everything AFTER March 9th, 2016, is a cover-story. Everything after March 9th, 2016, are
operations from both the CIA and FBI to hide the political surveillance that was going on before March 9th, 2016.
The surveillance was happening through exploitation of the NSA database through unauthorized FISA search
queries; and involved both the CIA and FBI.

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This is the point that has not been emphasized enough. However, FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer outlined the
connection, albeit with mandatory redactions. The connective evidence is in a footnote on page #87 of Collyer’s
report that few are paying attention to:

Read that carefully and you’ll see an agreement between the CIA and FBI to allow contractors. Note:

“[CIA] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of


understanding enter into [in ????])”

CTH believes that redacted date is 2012 as a result of another section of the report and the emphasis that Collyer
is placing on the time-frame throughout her full report. Notice also:

“Despite the existence of an interagency memorandum of understanding


(presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers) no notice of this practice was
given to the FISC until 2016.”

So there was a secret agreement between the CIA and the FBI that was kept hidden from the FISA court until 2016
when Director Mike Rogers exposed and reported it.

The agreement centered around “access to FBI systems“; and, THIS IS IMPORTANT, we know the overarching
issue was “deliberate decisionmaking” that led to “contractor access to the NSA database”, and the fact those
contractors were searching “U.S. persons”.

Can you see the process now?

Can you see the potentially layered illegality of the process now?

CIA operatives (contractors) were using FBI portal access (per the secret agreement) to exploit the NSA database
and extract search results. Remember, the CIA is not supposed to be conducting surveillance, aka “spying”, inside
the U.S. on American citizens.

In essence the secret agreement, unknown to the court, was the CIA hiding their extraction of U.S. person
information by using FBI database access. [Through the DOJ-NSD (National Security Division)] Now does it
make sense why the DOJ would not allow Inspector General oversight?

In 2015 the Office of Inspector General requested oversight and it was Deputy AG Sally Yates who responded with
a lengthy 58-page legal explanation saying, essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is
subject to oversight, except the NSD.
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The secret MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the CIA and FBI was the reason why the DOJ-NSD
could never allow inspector general oversight.

In the Obama-era political surveillance programs the lines between the CIA and FBI were blurred. They were
working together through contractors. This is why you are noticing blurred lines between the CIA and FBI in the
construct of the cover-up.

This is the parallel tracks we previously described, copied below for reference:

Everything after March 9th, 2016, is a function of two intelligence units, the CIA and FBI, operating together to
coverup prior political surveillance and spy operations.

Prior to March 9th, 2016, the surveillance and spy operation was using the NSA database to track and monitor
their political opposition. However, once the NSA compliance officer began initiating an internal review of who
was accessing the system, the CIA and FBI moved to create ex post facto justification for their endeavors. [Full
Backstory]

The evidence for this is found in the documents attached to both operations; and bolsters the original statements
by Congressman Devin Nunes as highlighted below.

♦The CIA track took place between March and July 2016, and consisted of using foreign intelligence allies in
Italy, the U.K and Australia to create a background illusion of Russian involvement with the Trump campaign.
This operation was based on earlier -more innocuous- contacts from various countries, weaponized and
redeployed in what everyone calls “spygate”. This track successfully culminated in Operation Crossfire Hurricane.

♦The FBI track was domestic-centric, albeit sub-contracted to Fusion GPS and later a former British intelligence
officer, and took place between April and October 2016; also to create the illusion of Russian involvement. This
operation is best known around the Steele Dossier and FISA warrant against U.S. person Carter Page. The FBI
track continued with the Mueller investigation into 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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In April of 2018 Devin Nunes noted:

[Transcript] “So it took us a long time to actually get this, what’s called the electronic
communication, as we know it now for your viewers, what it is it’s the original intelligence,
original reasons that the counterintelligence was started.

Now this is really important to us because the counterintelligence investigation uses the tools of
our intelligence services that are not supposed to be used on American citizens. And we’ve long
wanted to know: what intelligence did you have that actually led to this investigation? So what
we’ve found now, after the investigators have reviewed it, is that in fact there was no
intelligence.

So we have a traditional partnership with what’s called the Five Eyes Agreement. Five Eyes
Agreement involves our friends in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and of
course, us. So long time processes and procedures in place where we move intelligence across.

We are not supposed to spy on each others’ citizens. And it’s worked well. And it continues to work
well. And we know it’s working well because there was no intelligence that passed through
the Five Eyes channels to our government.

And that’s why we had to see that original communication. So now we’re trying to figure out, as
you know, we are investigating the State Department, we think there’s some major
irregularities in the State Department, and we’re trying to figure out how this information about
Mr. Papadopoulos of all people who was supposedly meeting with some folks in London, how that
made it over across into the FBI’s hands.” (video link)

The direct evidence for what Devin Nunes is describing is found in two specific documents. Each of the
documents is unique to their track. One track is the CIA the other track is the FBI. The merging point that binds
them is the U.S. State Department.

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♦ First, we review the CIA track.

The evidence for the CIA track is found in the Weissmann-Mueller report. More specifically, it is found in the
intentional way the report tries to conflate two contact points.

This track is CIA Director John Brennan’s work, with enlisted help from the FBI counterintelligence unit (Peter
Strzok and Bill Priestap) as they travel to the U.K.

After western intelligence asset Joseph Mifsud (posed as a Russian) plants a story on George Papadopoulos about
Russia having “emails of Clinton”, the operation then needs Papadopoulos to share the information. That’s where
a joint network comes in. The network is the U.S. embassy in London; the Australian embassy in London; the
Australian Ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Downer; and his top aide Erika Thompson.

Notice page #89 of the report; but read carefully and specifically notice the date Weissmann and Mueller use to
frame the Russia story extraction from Papadopoulos:

The meeting on May 6th, was NOT a meeting with Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer. That meeting did
not happen until May 10th. The recent release of documents from Australia confirm this timeline.

The meeting on May 6th was between George Papadopoulos and Downer’s aide, Erika Thompson: …”that the
Trump campaign had received information from the Russian government that it could assist the campaign
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through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.”

So, if the U.S. used the information from the May 6, 2016, meeting as conveyed on July 26th, 2016, it was the
conversation with Erika Thompson that opened Crossfire Hurricane; not the meeting with Alexander Downer on
May 10th. {Go Deep}

This subtle but important distinction in contact and communication reconciles the statement by Devin Nunes;
because Thompson is also a reported intelligence operative (spy) and information from her would not be passing
through “Five Eyes” official channels. However, for their intents and purposes, the U.S. operation needed to give
the appearance of official channels, so the *inference* between the claim and the footnote *implies* Ambassador
Downer. But you can see that’s not actually what happened.

This is an example of Weissmann/Mueller disguising the actual origin in their report. They are giving cover to the
reality that unofficial intelligence was the actual basis for the originating “EC” or two-page electronic
communication from CIA Director John Brennan to FBI Director James Comey. It was that 2-page EC, likely
written by FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, that initiated “Crossfire Hurricane”.

The page in the Weissmann/Mueller report is factually true but the inference is false. It is written in the way they
intended, to give a false impression. It is quite subtle and sneaky.

What is outlined on Page #89 is also the CIA track that ran from March to July 31st, 2016.

The operation positioned Joseph Mifsud as a Russian spy; has him plant information on George Papadopoulos;
then uses U.S. and AU operatives to withdraw the information; thereby giving the appearance that a Trump
campaign official, Papadopoulos, was receiving and passing-on Russian intelligence. This is the CIA justification
for creating the EC. This is the CIA cover story.

Now let’s review the evidence of the FBI track and how it also connects to the U.S. State Department. This one is
more brutally obvious because the document had to be less ambiguous in construct. This involves the FISA
application on U.S. Person Carter Page.

♦ The FBI Track – The Steele Dossier, FISA Warrant and Carter Page.

The second page of the FISA application used to gain a Title-1 surveillance warrant against U.S. Carter Page
identifies where the material came from. Notice the direct attribution is to the State Department; not the DOJ or
FBI, and certainly not Christopher Steele.

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Applying hindsight to the backstory of the Clinton Campaign hiring Fusion GPS, and Fusion hiring Christopher
Steele for the Dossier; and the dossier being passed on to the FBI and DOJ via various channels… Question: why
would the DOJ be citing the State Department for their claim?

The answer is simple. Carter Page was a known person to the FBI and DOJ. Carter Page was a subject witness
from 2012 to 2016 in the Evgeny Buryakov case [DOJ March 2016]. How could the FBI claim Carter Page was “an
agent of a foreign power” to the FISA court in October 2016, when they only finished using him as a cooperating
subject witness in May of 2016? [DOJ May 2016]

The short answers are: (1) they couldn’t; (2) they were in a big hurry; there was a sense of urgency; they needed
the FISA and Steele Dossier as insurance policy; and (3) it wasn’t safe for the DOJ/FBI to make the ‘foreign agent‘
claim against their own prior witness if things went sideways.

Remember, this is all a coverup. Their efforts are about gaining position and appearances to justify a preceding
action. Their efforts are not focused on an actual investigation. So they told the FISC the information came from
the State Department and [Redacted]. Whichever source could give them the best legal justification to gain the
FISA warrant was the leading point in the thought process.

Despite everything around the Steele Dossier primarily inbound from Fusion-GPS and Chris Steele to the DOJ
and FBI, the people creating the FISA illusion needed to use the State Department as a valid reference for
fraudulent claims they were making.

From the beginning Fusion-GPS was not hired to research Donald Trump; the intelligence community was
already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a
plausible justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion created the dossier for them.

The FBI knew Carter Page. Essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the FISA warrant and
the Dossier in the system {Go Deep} as their insurance policy.

So there we see two parallel tracks; one from the CIA, and one from the FBI. Both intended to provide a cover
story for political surveillance and spy operations that preceded March 9, 2016. The CIA track created ‘crossfire
hurricane’. The FBI track created the Steele Dossier. Both had the same purpose.

Both tracks originated from ‘unofficial channels’ and then transferred into official status through the use of two
documents. The CIA generated the two-page “EC”; and the FBI generated the FISA application from the Steele
Dossier.

Both tracks held the same coverup purpose; both tracks were insurance policies; and both tracks merged for
intelligence exploitation after President Trump won the election. After the election the goal was shifted to remove
the risk Trump represented.

Once they had the legal justifications for targeting Trump, albeit fraudulently obtained, the effort could move into
phase three: by-the-book processes. The FBI track evolved into the Mueller probe; that’s why the Dossier is so
important to the validity of the special counsel.

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Everything after March 9th, 2016, through today – is covering for everything that happened before March 9th
when “contractors” were allowed by the FBI and DOJ to have weaponized access to the NSA database for political
surveillance and spy operations.

This two-track process and ultimate merging is what all of the documentary evidence supports. I suspect when
the arc of the story concludes, this is where we will be.

The most important sentence in Judge Collyer’s brief:

…”many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over
different date ranges.”..

This Page #82 sentence specifically highlights that during the 2016 presidential campaign, those who had access
to the NSA database were searching the same phone numbers, email addresses, electronic “identifiers”, or people,
repeatedly over different dates.

Specific people were being tracked/monitored.

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Electra says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:31 am

There’s one thing I would add to Sundance’s excellent analysis: It wasn’t just the CIA that was using spies to “dirty up”
Trump associates. The FBI was doing it too. There was the infamous Natalia Veselnitskaya who is known for her part in the
Trump Tower meeting. She had been banned from the country but got a special visa signed off by Preet Bahara of the FBI,
Southern District of New York. Henry Greenburg, the known FBI informant who tried to entrap Roger Stone, also got a
special visa. And I’m sure there are many more…

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beach lover says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:04 am

excellent point!

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JoAnn Leichliter says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:29 am

I thought Preet was DOJ in NY, not FBI. Prosecutor, no?

So many players, so little brain capacity left…

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Melinda Wolfe says:


May 3, 2019 at 8:31 am

Give the most powerful agencies on Earth an all access pass to discover and destroy anyone, anywhere and
then wonder in awe as they grind their way through people’s lives.
Then, cue the refrain that the rank and file of these monstrosities are good and just.
And finally, loudly exclaim that it’s the Constitution that concerns us all.

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H.R. says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:19 am

…and it’s all “by the book,” Melinda.

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Jederman says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:50 am

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And, unless called out, prosecuted and punished accordingly they will do it again in a
heartbeat.

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formerdem says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:32 pm

Endless thanks, Sundance.

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Electra says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:31 am

Whoops, you’re right. DOJ, Southern District of NY. But at any rate, he wasn’t CIA.

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jnr2d2 says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:13 am

Sundance, I would like to add the political polling “panic” dates to your analysis. The La Times daily
tracking poll was the most accurate public poll, and probably the Hillary campaign polls showed
similar results.
First, before the conventions Trump was 44% vs 40%. After Comey’s “NO action” July 5th, they
moved to a tie. However, after the Republican convention Trump rockets to 47+% by the time of the
DNC convention July 25-27th. This is the first critical “panic” demanding immediate action. So out
comes Downer on the 26th, stimulated by Wikileaks Podesta email release which they conveniently
“conflate” with Hillary’s server emails. Thus the action the next few days to start on July 31st,
Crossfire Hurricane.
Now after the DNC convention Hillary came back into a virtual tie and things bounced around till
Sept 17 when Trump “brokr” out again running up to 47+% agian and Hillary slipping almost back to
her percentage before her “exoneration” by Comey. This is the second panic and even greater since it
is the time people generally start to focus on the election, especially with the upcoming debates. (Also
note this was the discovery date on Weiner – and real motivation to hide that stuff as Trump was
accelerating!). Trump stays mostly at his high until the “pussy” tapes, then its back to tied.
But for the third time Trump accelerated back to his 47+% high by about October 26th. Thus, this last
“panic” which is seen in the hurry up panic to get the FISA on Carter Page approved!

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 2:57 pm

Thanks. It’s always important to remember the political context of how and when these
decisions were being made. The Clintons and their circle have always been obsessed with poll
watching, going back to their earliest days in politics. They don’t have a public opinion that
hasn’t been focus-tested and measured, or made a decision without consulting political
polling.

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Electra says:
May 4, 2019 at 12:59 am

I was following the LA Times poll carefully because they were using a new methodology and
were obviously getting more accurate results. It looks like the Bad Guys were following it, too.

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Fred Ward says:


May 5, 2019 at 6:17 pm

That we know of. A number of these people wore several hats.

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Rabbit266 says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:43 am

It is interesting that Nunes brings out that the State Department is also involved in communicating this
secret spy info with the Five Eyes? I think that is what he means about irregular activity in the State
Department. And Mike Pompeo moved from CIA to run the State Department, a person of trust in Trump’s
circle .

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roddrepub says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:11 pm

Excellent point!

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Will Hunt says:


May 3, 2019 at 8:00 am

The more this thread is pulled the scale and depth of the misdeeds become astounding.

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RobInPA says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:01 am

Will,
You are not following the script! Perhaps you missed a few doses of your blue pill?!
Remember. . .
“Not even a smidgen of corruption.”
O.K.?!

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Have a very Deplorable Day!!

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tularevava says:
May 3, 2019 at 12:25 pm

I’m very concerned that so many of the DC politicians are up to their eyeballs in this scandal, that we will
never see the justice we seek. Mainly because I suspect a number of republicans are involved in it also. I think
there will be a concern that, so many Americans will be so ticked when we discover the depth and breadth of
this corruption. Enough that the very fabric of our republic could be shattered. I think we need to know in
order to root out the evil. But I fear it will be politicians making that decision.

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RobInPA says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:27 pm

Good point tula, and I have the same concerns as well.

I’ve got to wonder if our VSG and POTUS has access to the list of the 450 or so ‘highly esteemed
elected and non-elected’ gubbermint officials that tapped in the $17 MILLION DOLLAR taxpayer-
funded slush fund to pay off those that they raped and/or otherwise sexually abused and/or harassed.

Having a list like in PDJT’s back pocket could become pretty useful leverage, ‘to do the right thing’ for
the greater good of the country (and The Children, of course).

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1987bear1987bear says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:22 pm

Excellent Post & will Barr have the fortitude to follow thru knowing Major Players are involved? I
Pray He does. America cannot survive without the Coup Leaders being brought to Justice.

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CountryDoc says:
May 3, 2019 at 6:31 pm

“Everyone does it!!” Which makes it not only OK, but you are not “with the program” if you don’t go
along. How in the heck do we get four generations of brainwashed Americans to restore their respect
and fidelity to the principles and importance of our Constitution. We have allowed this chipping away
for too long. The reasons for God’s instructions to the Isrealites becomes apparent. Here in America
we are trying to reflect the same purposes of God for man: How do we give people freedom of choice,
yet cause them to be internally motivated to be absolutely faithful to His universal principles?

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Fred Ward says:


May 5, 2019 at 6:20 pm

Start by disbanding the FBI. Transfer their mission to the Marshall’s Service. Screen each FBI
agent, keep the good and trash the rest.

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:01 pm

Everyone involved on their side thought Trump had no chance at winning, which is why I believe they
became so careless. If Hillary had won, none of this ever comes out.

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Please says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:56 pm

I feel it is more like they knew POTUSVSG was winning and *could* win, so they *had* to cheat *at
all costs* because losing meant everyone being exposed for corruption.

That is where we are now. It has taken 2.5 years to stop their corruption and MSM gaslighting spree.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:27 am

Preet Baharah just keeps resurfacing. He is another dirty DoJ employee who is woven into the web of the Black
Widow spider or who is one more snake in the nest.
There is no way this level of corruption was totally achieved in Obama’s 8 years. The mechanism was there, there
have been dirty actors for probably 60 years or more (think Kennedy assassination) from both parties but all from
the Deep State.
The single most valuable thing that can come from all of this is the exposure of the Deep State members and what
they have gained at the expense of the American taxpayer as well as what those who have bribed them have gotten.
The message needs to be loud, clear and extremely punitive. We sit back and watch members of Congress go into
office with modest means (as compared to career politicians) and leave office as multi-millionaires or billionaires.
Sorry folks—you are just plain wrong for stealing from us. Let’s also include other government officials who accept
bribes from the Fake News Media in exchange for leaks.
It will be impossible to remove all political influence from governmental agencies but the punishment for using
politics within the agencies. That snake has left the nest. We should, however, demand that blatant political bias be
removed. This is not to say the removal of people should be merely based on party affiliation. I am constantly
reminded in the past few weeks of the double standard within the AG’s office. Dems were mute over Holder and Fast
and Furious (including a contempt of Congress citation) and Lo Lynch and Bubba’s rendezvous on the tarmac. It
simply does not happen more IN YO FACE than that. There was no justification for either of these cases to have been
overlooked. There is an ongoing investigation—excuse me, there are multiple ongoing investigations—into illegal
activities now. The Dems are demanding that AG Barr break the law and release everything unredacted. It’s a
guarantee that if he does, they will immediately DEMAND that he be arrested and charged with violating federal law.
Boy, are they that stupid or do they believe WE are that stupid?

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John Denney says:


May 3, 2019 at 1:59 pm

In his early 1950’s autobiographical book, “Witness”, Whittaker Chambers states that in the 1920s the Soviets
targeted three American institutions for infiltration: media, education, and unelected government positions.
Once an agent was in place, he helped others come in, and hindered true and honest Americans from getting
those positions. They were wildly successful, and have never been routed out.
FDR’s right hand man, Alger Hiss, was one of them. He passed government documents to Mr. Chambers,
who forwarded them to the Soviets, until the day Chambers realized there was indeed a God in heaven, and
communism was evil.
He eventually was a witness against Alger Hiss, presenting “The Pumpkin Papers”, government documents
on microfilm that Hiss had given him, that Chambers had secreted in a pumpkin on his farm, as evidence.
Hiss was only convicted of perjury, yet 50 years later, the Venona Project revealed that he was indeed spying
for the Soviets.
Senator Joe McCarthy was on to the government infiltration, but the infiltrated media destroyed him.
Soviet aligned infiltrators are the source of the leftist media, leftist education system, and the Deep State.
Even though the Soviet Union collapsed, these people carry on like zombies.

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CountryDoc says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:42 pm

Why is it still allowed? What keeps patriots from identifying them? What motivated the communists
to continue as they are — and there are many? They do not seem to be able to get secondary gain
compared to what they would get if they believed in the universal principles of goodness. What keeps
us patriots from overwhelming the infiltrators? What keeps the infiltrators from keeping us at bay?

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John Denney says:


May 4, 2019 at 12:31 am

They replicate, suppressing what is good about the U.S. and focusing on the bad. Suppressing
what is bad about socialism/communism and focusing on the good. They are true believers
who spawn more true believers.
Some wake up, like author David Mamet, who wrote a book about it:

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jeff montanye says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:35 pm

i was pleased when mueller was named special counsel and i hoped it would, eventually, point to his first big
corrupt investigation, that of 9-11, for the bush administration. donald trump, on the day of the attacks, said
bombs must have been used to destroy the wtc, still anathema to the “official story.” so he looks like the best
we truthers are likely to do for a president to bust the “new pearl harbor” in pnac’s deathless phrase.

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Larry says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:37 am

I think it is important to determine how many FBI “actors” in all of this are “sheep dipped” CIA personnel. When the
FBI is caught red-handed… don’t be surprised if the individuals are sheep dipped CIA personnel.

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Electra says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:37 am

George Papa. maintains that Azra Turk, the woman who was sent to entrap him in London, was working for
the CIA–NOT for the FBI as she was portrayed in yesterday’s NYT piece.

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mastafing says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:32 pm

One of the NYT reporters who wrote the FBI honeypot story was asked on CNN today whether
honeypot “Azra Turk” worked for the FBI. His response: “I’m just going to leave it right now as a
‘government investigator.’ I use that wording for a reason, and I’m going to leave it at that.”

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:06 pm

As they say in the Company, once CIA, always CIA. It wouldn’t be surprising if the CIA has active moles
within most Federal agencies.

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Arby says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:12 am

Samantha Powers, if I recall correctly, said that she did not authorize unmasking. Did the Special Counsel thoroughly
investigate the who, what & why somebody was illegally using her access?

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Jederman says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:58 am

The bottom line is that it was her account and she is responsible for it. The dog ate my homework thing won’t
fly. It is a childish excuse. Probably a lie.

She and whoever she MAY have shared her account privileges with need to be punished. They, like so many
in that admin abused their fed authorities and privileges to harm innocent citizens they considered political
opposition.

I loathe them to my core. We knew they couldn’t be trusted but we had to play by the rules. They got the most
votes so they were in charge. Then they use the system against political foes. Pure third world marxist abuse.

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:09 pm

It can be investigated, but I’m sure it’s a dead end unless someone from the inside of Obama’s staff confesses.
Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice and others are all primary suspects, or one of their trusted underlings.

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roddrepub says:
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I think AG Barr will look into that!

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CountryDoc says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:44 pm

I would think/pray/hope that it has been investigated and is already known

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cali says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:07 pm

@Electra: I think when all this is said and done there will be so many more players that were involved in this mass
spy operation, espionage and treason against candidate and then president Trump involving all 5RYRS countries and
others outside the quintet that its almost unbelieving that Europe’s enemies and those within all conspired to reverse
the 2016 election results – each one for their own greedy and narcissistic reason.

I find the Weissman report although credited to Robert Mueller to be misleading in the PapaD description of what
actually was stated in his court documents vs what they stated in that report. At no time did PapaD ever approached
the Trump campaign informing them about Russia having thousands of emails available to help the Trump campaign
dirtying up HRC. This is just despicable.

Scanning that report looks more like a amateurs or law student in training product and nothing even close to a
professional trained or law certified investigator. It’s a laughable piece of junk with so many untruths and twisted
words showing the hacks at work.

Since Ukraine recently also admitted having interfered in the election although we are now getting the first batch of
the Chalupa/HRC/Miranda troika collusion involving Steele paying Ukrainian reporters to write made up stories
‘from the top of their heads including salacious details’ to Chalupa’s lobbying the Ukrainian president et al – it gets
more and more serious in the scope they cooked this up – the Hussein gang and the HRC/state department gang –
wow.

I was wondering about three or four months ago why the Chalupa hack hired Michael Avenatti to represent her. I
wonder how that is going?

@Sundance : Keep it coming as you are a gem in the pool of trustworthy sources which are few in between.

What unites all these shady characters from the various countries plus all the 5EYES is the fact that they are all
members of Hakluyt in the UK – the CIA/MI6/MI5/SIS and GCHQ that also counts Fusion GPS, CrowdStrike and
Nellie Ohr among others. The 5EYES have now been unmasked as nothing more than the spy agency for the CIA and
their partners in the UK having spied for a long time on any- and everybody outside of the law of the US.
Since these 4 private contractors were using the NSA since 2012 is it any wonder how they rammed Obamacare and
their other unconstitutional agenda? Blackmail was the method used for compliance or destruction of every
opponent or anyone posing a danger to their agenda of discovery. No wonder so many people committed these
‘suicides’ and in 2016 latter part of the year were about 5 or 6 alone. Strange how that happens.

*******I think its appropriate for all of us reading here daily to dig a bit deeper to help Sundance along to bear the
cost of his daily massive research and time consumption!!!

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Electra says:
May 4, 2019 at 1:09 am

Steele paid Ukrainian reporters? Yikes! I hadn’t heard about that.

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JL says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:09 pm

Henry Greenberg is a bit of an oddity.

I can’t decide if he was acting as an FBI informant, was acting as an FBI informant and a loose cannon, or if he’s just
a loose cannon that at one time snitched for the FBI.

The reason we know he is/was an FBI informant is because he FOIA’d his records proving the relationship and then
publicly filed them with a court to try to prevent his deportation.

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Electra says:
May 4, 2019 at 1:07 am

Hmmm.

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jleonard14 says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:56 am

I believe the two biggest surprises that will go down in this are …Mark Warner and John Roberts.

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cantcforest says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:24 am

Warner – Good chance.


Roberts – not so much

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william elbel says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:34 am

Surprises about Roberts?

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You mean not as dumb as he sounds or even more corrupt than he sounds

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BobInFL says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:01 am

Hopefully Lurch gets a 4am no-nock…..lovie who is that in the doorway???/ Lovie?????

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Linus in W.PA. says:


May 3, 2019 at 11:52 am

You mean Comey or Kerry?

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MelH says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:59 pm

I never thought of Roberts as dumb or corrupt. Rather, he was desperate. When you think about his personal
situation, personally, your heart has to bleed for him. And he mentally PAYS, every day, I suspect.

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1987bear says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:28 pm

Still No Reason what so ever to screw your fellow American Citizens.

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MelH says:
May 4, 2019 at 2:18 am

He had two illegally adopted kids from ireland to protect. That’s about as good a reason as
any to screw whomsoever.

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JL says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:15 pm

I think its going to be Carter Page.

He’s had “CIA” stamped on his forehead ever since he graduated in the top of his class from the US Naval Academy
and entered the Trident Scholar Program.

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You know what you call someone who has spent more than a decade regularly debriefing his contacts and experiences
in Russia to US Intelligence agencies?

An ASSET.

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:12 pm

Senator Mark Warner has been groomed for years as a potential Democrat presidential candidate and is on the
Intelligence committee. He’s been in on this operation as long it has been around.

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Lady Sid says:


May 3, 2019 at 5:32 pm

Yah, he’s a handsome dude. Too bad he’s white. He’s not gay, is he? (snark)

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Texan says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:00 am

Sundance –

Per your comment that the FBI was desperate to gain a FISA warrant to cover the previous four years of spying and used
Page for that purpose via the State Department, didn’t the FBI already have a FISA warrant on Manafort in place and
therefore wouldn’t have needed a warrant for Page to solve their issues? Or do you believe the FBI received FISA warrants on
Page, Flynn, Manafort and Papadopoulos at the same time in Oct 2016?

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MelH says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:01 pm

It had to be a Title 1 FISA for all of them, or just one of them, to spy on everyone else?

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bluebongo says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:08 am

I’ve said several times here, a T-1 warrant utilizes the entire spectrum of intelligence assets to accomplish the mission. The
interagency includes all the 3 letters, the military, and law enforcement. Hell Trumps own Secret Service could be used
against him. Devices in the Oval Office, very sophisticated satellites, electronic monitoring of all systems of communication,

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his bedroom, Mar-a-Lago, undercover agents, and paid informants. All of this is exploitable. Everything is a potential source
of information.

All of the data is pumped into a “fusion cell” aka “the room”, where teams of analysts synthesize it into useful data points. A
pattern of life is developed. Analysts use this POL to predict behavior. It’s highly effective. The target is predictably fixed for
prosecution….in this case publicly.

It worked downrange, they didn’t do anything different here.

There is much more to come….

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stripmallgrackle says:
May 3, 2019 at 6:24 am

Nixon was excoriated for calling on the CIA to help him cover up a few Executive ‘No-no’s’. I seem to remember the
words “checks and balances” being bandied about, but it was kind of hard to tell if that’s what was being said, what
with the CACAphony of screams and howls as the entire liberal establishment kind of drowned itself out.

I’m sure the left’s moral outrage is coming to a slow boil as the details of activity inside the Obama Department of
Dirty Tricks begin dribbling out. And it’s beginning to look like Nixon’s lil Mom and Pop operation was nothing
compared to Obamaco’s fully owned, multinational subsidiary. That should be enough to put any true civil libertarian
on the warpath. Of course, I’ve been wrong before.

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Blind no longer says:


May 3, 2019 at 6:35 am

Maxine Waters told us all long ago just what Barrack Obama was doing:

“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in
life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.

“That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything
on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the
Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of
those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful
what he’s leaving in place.”

Via Free Republic:

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:15 am

Can hardly wait to hear her scream—Peach forty-four!

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wcmcgirt says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:33 am

Slayed with the jawbone of an ass!

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MelH says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:05 pm

Don’t you wonder how Mad Max, of ALL people, got that info? Was it wide-spread popular
knowledge? A scare tactic?

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The Gipper Lives says:


May 3, 2019 at 8:00 am

Secret Service chief recently fired…

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Seneca the Elder says:


May 3, 2019 at 11:31 am

Yeah, I was wondering about that, Gipper.

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Jederman says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:01 am

Meanwhile, real threats slip through the cracks and are wandering around undetected.

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JIM COMEY IS A WEASEL_DOUG says:


May 3, 2019 at 2:19 am

Just another incredible piece of work by CTH.


I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (and today’s slandering of Honey Badger Barr proves it out), the media MUST be
exposed and shamed in a very high profile way to shake the drone masses from their media imposed echo chamber.

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Dutchman says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:21 am

Weasel dog;
We have been assuming the press were all complicit, cause they are all lefties.

If you had such a set up, why not USE it, to compromise the media.

As you envision that, remember the emails to Podesta from reporters, where they included an attachment of an
article they had written, for Podesta to ‘approve’, BEFORE sending it to their editor.
They were obsequious, the waybyou would be to someonevwhobwas blackmailing you.

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TheUnknownPatriot says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:27 am

Interesting that this started the same year General Patreus stepped down as the director of the CIA. How did they find out he
told his girlfriend about classified information anyway?

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Lady Sid says:


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‘Cuz Obama knew all about Petraeus when he hired him. It’s called leverage. Also, Mrs. Petraeus received a nice gig
with the Elizabeth Warren consumer finance office, as she was concerned about the lower paid enlisted troops and
their families getting screwed over in their mortgage situations.

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william elbel says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:45 am

with regard to Patraeus email: he never did send her an email but gave her his password to look in his drafts folder!
How the heck did they stumble on that? He or she must have been wired or tapped.

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Jederman says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:04 am

I always thought she was not who she claimed to be.

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Deplorable_Vespucciland says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:07 am

Ex-CIA director David Petraeus told friends he was shocked to find that his biographer and girlfriend,
Paula Broadwell, was suspected of sending anonymous, threatening emails to one Jill Kelley, a
Petraeus friend she saw as a romantic rival.

One Natalie Khawam, is Jill Kelley’s twin. Her sister received threatening emails from General David
Petraeus’ mistress, Paula Broadwell. The CIA Director Petraeus got alarmed when he found out that
last summer that his lover was sending emails warning her to keep her distance from him.

Tampa,FL 2/27/18 – The Florida Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded Tampa lawyer Natalie K.
Khawam, the sister of Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who helped expose the 2012 sex scandal that led
to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus.
The Florida Bar said Tuesday that Khawam acknowledged charging a client excessive fees. She is the
president and founder of the Whistleblower Law Firm.

Yes, that whole hot mess was a setup, no doubt.


The Democrat Media Complex destroyed General Petraeus.

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Doppler says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:03 pm

Thanks for this update on the Patraeus foray into honeypot land, D_V. I recall some FBI
agent sending bare chest photos to one of the FL twins was part of the background, for how
the story “came out,” or was “rolled out” maybe.

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Deacon says:
May 3, 2019 at 12:52 pm

Have you heard about FISA 702 About queries?

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Countrywatch says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:55 am

“I will be declassifying everything…” DJT in this interview:

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@M2Madness

BOOM goes the dynamite...

DJT: "I'm going to be allowing declassification pretty soon...I'm


going to be doing it very soon, far more than you would have even
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snellvillebob says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:19 am

I hope whoever is setting the declassification schedule is fully aware that the left is very good at deflection and they
are going to be working overtime to confuse, obfuscate, project, delay, and preemptively attack.
Mike Tyson – “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:17 am

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They already started via NYT

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MelH says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:13 pm

And Fox interviews! Marie Harf was on a panel Shannon Breem show last night. The Talking Points
are ALL the same “Aren’t we lucky the DOJ found out the Russians were meddling in our elections?”
There is at least one person spewing the talking points EVERY hour on FOX, and the host of the show
gives them deference.

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We the people know says:


May 3, 2019 at 9:05 pm

Harf was (is) CIA.


https://www.mikeonline.com/kevin-williamson-asks-question-marie-harfs-cia-state-
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MelH says:
May 4, 2019 at 2:22 am

She WAS the CIA spokesperson, now a big wheel Fox News spokesperson. She has
been on The Five, Outnumbered, and a few panels. In any role, she is a nasty person
similar to Kamala Harris; a self-admired know-it-all.

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1987bear says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:33 pm

No, that was corrupt FBI/DOJ folks trying to get ahead of what’s about to come out

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:19 pm

The intel community and their Dem allies are already attempting to establish a counter-narrative in the
media. Will everyone buy it? Of course not, they know most Republican voters already know the deal.

It’s about throwing out enough doubt to confuse moderate voters in the middle.

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stripmallgrackle says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:12 am

There’s sure to be a collective,”We’ll see about that!” coming soon from the Tactical Diversionary Force. “We won’t
allow the President to weaponize declassification, or use it in a manner contrary to the public’s right to know…or
something like that. We broke Watergate. We know what we’re doing.”

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wcmcgirt says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:37 am

Famous last words.

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Dr.Jay says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:16 am

This subtle but important distinction in contact and communication reconciles the statement by Devin Nunes;
because Thompson is also a reported intelligence operative (spy) and information from her would not be
passing through “Five Eyes” official channels. However, for their intents and purposes, the U.S. operation
needed to give the appearance of official channels, so the *inference* between the claim and the footnote
*implies* Ambassador Downer. But you can see that’s not actually what happened.

CORRECTION: Actually it WOULD have been intelligence IF she had reported it to the Australian government at the time, or
any time before July 26, 2016. But SHE DIDN’T.
Hence the importance of Nunes remarks. It was not even Five Eye intelligence.

So how did it end up at the FBI?


Again read Nunes statement: via the State Department.

So how did it end up at the State Department: well logically via the US embassy in London.

My understanding is that Erica Thompson told some staffer at the US embassy that she THOUGHT SHE HEARD
SOMETHING about Hillary’s emails from a campaign operative of Trump, several weeks earlier (on May 6th). And Eric told
her friend at the US embassy that some time late July 2016 apparently.

—–

Mind you an alternative route is possible, but IDK which one would end up being NOT official intelligence and/or NOT via
AUS government. Halper, Downer and Mifsud have several MI6 and Hakluyt connections to one another (*), so this smells
like a set-up. If so, wouldn’t they make sure that somehow word got out in a more formal way?
Or perhaps they did not succeed (the recording of Downer had nothing on PapaD, so he wasn’t going to swear to a lie)? And
then some other excuse had to be created? One that they could later disown. As they must because the truth was that PapaD
didn’t repeat that rumor from Mifsud…

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Dr.Jay says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:18 am

Typo: “And Eric told her friend at the US embassy ”


That was Erica of course, not Eric.

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Dutchman says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:24 am

Dr.Jay
These days, you don’t know gender, from one minute to the next, lol!

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Dee Paul Deje says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:06 am

You got that right. Look at the Prime Minister of Canada, for example.

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Dr.Jay says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:22 am

They are giving cover to the reality that unofficial intelligence was the actual basis for the originating
“EC” or two-page electronic communication from CIA Director John Brennan to FBI Director James
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Comey. It was that 2-page EC, likely written by FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, that
initiated “Crossfire Hurricane”.

I think the technical term would not be ‘unofficial intelligence’, but more ‘hearsay’.

We really need to see that 2-page EC, all of it.

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Chewbarkah says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:32 pm

US Embassies include CIA personnel operating undercover with State Department job titles. They also have overt
FBI attaches. Not very hard to imagine such persons channeling anti-Trump “intel” to DC: a) themselves, using their
State Dept jobs; b) via pro-Hillary “diplomats” known to them at the embassy; or, c) via unwitting embassy personnel
just doing their job “by the book” when intel magically falls over the transom. The communications channels would
likely have been planned out by the CIA/FBI operation managers before Turk, Halper, or Downer met with
Papadopoulus.

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sysconfig says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:52 am

Far be it from me to imply these outstanding pillars of the Intelligence Community were up to anything in March 2019..But I
can’t help but notice their penchant for meeting at cocktail parties and Dinners..and family cookouts like the cyber
conference at RSA in that same month to discuss business..under guise of something else….It wasn;t imo just CIA and FBI ..if
you read all the way to the bottom..in the advertisement by Atlantic Council.
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/FYY3k6nB/rsa.jpg[/img]

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Dr.Jay says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:59 am

Interesting. And I see Dimitri A. of CrowdStrike was there as well in this nice get together on March 4, 2016. But then
he is also a member of the Atlantic Council.

A bit too early form them to be colluding I would think.


Even Podesta’s emails hadn’t been hacked at that time … so … just a coincidence?

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sysconfig says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:19 am

If we know that crowdstrike was already under contract with DOJ since 2014..then brung in December 2015
to :audit the infamous Bernie breach” and within days of that Brent Budowski of hill wrote to Podesta about
hammering Russians.Then you have the events jan to March…I find it curious he didt spot Russian bears
until his software he had loaned HRC lit up in April, resulting in Michael Sussman, ex Doj. and Perkins Man

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called him in…HRC would have no problem using Russians as that very same time she was under a cloud for
Moneylaundering and her victory fund..It looks like a tad more than coincidence to me..She didnt believe it
herself actually as the book shattered claims she drummed it up post election in November..But certainly
these other folx seemed to have thought it up a lot sooner than that..just sayin

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farrier105 says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:51 am

Sussman is a key to this thing since he implied in a quote in the NYT (link below) that the alleged
Russian hackers were not purging system logs on a regular basis to eliminate forensic evidence of
their presence on the network. It seems the Russians had to be doing that in 2015, when Comey had
SA Hawkins telephoning DNC about Russian hackers from “the Dukes” inside their network and
transmitting to Moscow. Yared Tamene could not find anything in the logs that indicated any hackers
were in the network in late 2015.

“You only get one chance to raise the drawbridge,” Mr. Sussmann said. “If the adversaries know you
are aware of their presence, they will take steps to burrow in, or erase the logs that show they were
present.”

Tamene reported serious activity only on April 29, 2016 when a real time alert was triggered. My own
opinion is this was SOCIAL ENGINEERING to prompt that kind of response. Russian agents moved
at will inside that network for nearly a year suddenly gets detected? Someone wanted an Incident
Response team in there, and Crowdstrike had been in there earlier on the Bernie deal.

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Dr.Jay says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:23 am

>> Yared Tamene could not find anything in the logs that indicated any hackers were in the
network in late 2015.

Either that person is completely inapt, or that is a lie. The Dutch told them enough details to
be able to find the infection.

They (DNC) simply refused to do anything with the MONTHLY warnings from the FBI,
passing along the Dutch warning (activity from IP x to IP y, where y= C&C of the Dukes),
even when the FBI visited in PERSON, because the DNC kept using excuses (Oh was that the
FBI?, we didn’t know, etc).

No why would they do that?

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sysconfig says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:14 am

Noteworthy is that the NYT in their propaganda piece in Dec 2017 how the Russians
Did it passed him off as a low level clerk,,He was in actuality The VP of MIS going
back years for the DNC to this Day..and they still are doing business. To act like its
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first day on a job was disingenuous and for the reporter not following up…very very
telling. In June 2015 before Hawkins went to the DNC The company that manage s
their password system was breached.a real hack…this was in a post by Yared on
Facebook. Sometimes..in a racket..you leave things sloppy to give yourself plausible
deniability such as when money is missing..or records stolen..or laptops missing..or
votes missing..

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farrier105 says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:30 pm

If it was the Dutch who told them that it is likely that this was the REAL Russian
hack, which was very brief, and resulted in the Russians grabbing the “Lynch Letter.”
It was Dutch Intelligence that saw the Lynch Letter in “Moscow Center.” If true, it is
very likely we are going through all of this because of that letter which has now been
classified SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION and is the only
unverified document in the Trump-Russia-Wikileaks affair that has NOT been
leaked.

We know what it said, but we cannot see it, while the media asserts the letter is
forged. You don’t make a forgery SCI.

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farrier105 says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:32 pm

Oh, let me know where you got the stuff about Dutch Intelligence. That information
should set the Lynch Letter theft sometime about between July and November 2015.

As far as Yared Tamene is concerned, I think the Russians kept purging the logs as
they went along, eliminating all signs of their presence, and they really didn’t stay
very long after grabbing the Lynch Letter.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:28 am

Maybe the reason Hill’s crew was not concerned about hackers is that they were “given”
access to her server in exchange for extremely generous contributions to the Clinton
Foundation or Clinton Global Initiative. Question is, how was the donation laundered?

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farrier105 says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:22 pm

The emails were either stolen by Crowdstrike while they had control of the network,
or they let the FBI come in and steal the emails. That’s just a theory based on a simple

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solution that answers all the questions according to Occam’s Razor.

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sysconfig says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:03 am

https://i.postimg.cc/13HH2h0s/rsa.jpg this should work now

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Tim says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:19 am

someone needs to setup a searchable database of all the illegal contactor searches of the NSA database. Call the web site
didObamaspyonme.com. You type in your name or mobile email and it lists how much they searched. This might help get the
public interested. Similar to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ for email addresses where passwords are compromised.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:31 am

How about ObamaSpiesMakeMediaLies.org?

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Jenevive says:
May 3, 2019 at 6:03 am

since it looks like both CIA and State Dept may have been
involved I do wonder.. POTUS put Mike Pompeo in as CIA
directors First..Maybe Mike was able to get the goods , then
POTUS moves him to State Department..Maybe Mike got the goods
there too.. Notice how almost no one attacks Pompeo or bad talks
him…….

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beach lover says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:42 am

Yet! Just wait until they think he might have some information and has been giving it to the President.

They are going to be so busy shooting the messenger, they won’t have time to know who to target!

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Blind no longer says:


May 3, 2019 at 6:21 am

Sally, Sally. Sally…the proof is all there, YOU knew what you were doing…covering up for illegal CIA/FBI/IC spying in the
USA by your boss Barrack Hussein Obama…YOU’RE BOTH GOING DOWN!!! Along with many others. I believe it’s going to
happen now. The Declass is going to be fabulous. Make it rain Mr. President!!!

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Micheal Jones says:


May 3, 2019 at 10:14 am

MAKE IT RAIN RAIN RAIN!!! E.C.

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CountryDoc says:
May 3, 2019 at 6:50 am

We must keep these rats stirred up. They are all cornered. Poke sticks in all the hidey holes, set traps, set smoke fires, shine
bright lights in all the dark corners. Their stories will all start going different directions now, confirming motives, forcing
them to betray one another or themselves, perjure themselves, or reveal the treason, sedition, selfish motives, greed, and
absolute disregard of the U.S Constitution of the American People.

They can no longer claim to be working for the good of the people. All they can do is point fingers at our very stable
President, and the growing number of emboldened citizens. Notice there are only a few visible white hats, but, we are legion,
and we are all watching them like hawks — no like Eagles. Noticing every blade of grass moved by their slithering activities.

There is a swelling army of Patriots leaving our fields, commenting to each other, preparing to do what it takes to address the
cold anger that has been rising for years. The day is coming, for us to confront them, and we will not shirk, or be ignored. We
will not return to our fields without the peace of knowing our Divine freedoms to reflect the glory of our Creator are again
being protected.

Our great Lion has changed his walk into a gentle lope, calmly calling out what he sees. We see you more clearly by every
passing day, we see your tracks, your wake of destruction, enslavement, and extortion of We the People and fruits of our hard
labor; the abuse of our trust. We smell the stench of your greed and rottenness. Even those you thought you had thoroughly
deceived are waking up, and they will be the angriest. If there is grace and mercy, it will have to come from God, because
there will be none here on earth for you when we restore the function to our neglected Constitution, remove the cobwebs and
entanglements of Lady Liberty’s scales of Justice removed.

We are a people who paid for this sacred home with blood and built our bulwarks on the principles of the Truth of our
Creator. Despite your most conniving efforts, His Spirit still flows deep in our hearts and our veins. In contrast to the love
and benevolence of our God, the vile and putrid purpose visible in the words you say and the results of your work are toxic to
us and we must be rid of you. All of you — the leaders, and those of you who just went along with complicity, because you
thought “that’s just the way it is” — must be taken down, neutralized, and their means of operation permanently destroyed.

When you are defeated, we will be stronger and wiser and more benevolent to the world as a nation than we have ever been.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:35 am

NoNo Pelosi is scared to death. I can’t decide if NoNads is scared or if his years of hating Trump are just an
opportunity he cannot ignore, Comey is out again hoping to avoid the firing squad, Obama fears the circular firing
squad, Rosenstain looked terrified when Barr read the statement they created, Brennan and Clapper keep making
wilder accusation on the flagship Fake News stations, and on and on…

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Bobster says:
May 3, 2019 at 6:53 am

I have read here that FISA warrents are retroacive. Does that mean law enforcement is allowed to look at stored data or that
it covers previous access carried out without a FISA warrent?

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Doppler says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:36 pm

I believe NSA’s PRISM and related programs collect every bit of digital information going over the internet globally.
Then you can query it, and get everything related to a particular device, phone number, person, etc. I believe you
select the timeframe as part of the query, but certainly retroactive access would be possible.

I’ve wondered about how the FBI runs court-ordered surveillance in this era. Do they set up new “wiretaps,” or do
they just get access to everything already stored at NSA, which would be much more efficient, and potentially yield
retroactive data, as well. If so, FBI would be conducting large-scale access to these data-bases for domestic
surveillance as part of routine law enforcement. An interagency memorandum between FBI and CIA could then seek
to “hide” illegal CIA domestic surveillance beneath FBI’s high-volume, routine law enforcement domestic searches.
Contractors, and dual-report CIA-FBI personnel, could manage the coordination. The Bruce & Nellie Ohr pair, in the
2015 email exchanges previously released, look like an ongoing intelligence sharing operation between the two
agencies, including for various legitimate purposes.

Another possibility that has bothered me is that, once FBI has access to NSA’s PRISM database, and mechanisms to
“hide” that access, they’d be tempted in routine law enforcement to “pre-look,” before dedicating scarce resources to
obtain search warrants, to confirm that a particular suspect is worth investigating. Any such activity, of course, would
violate the 4th Amendment, and jeopardize any convictions obtained. It would be “pre-tasting” the fruit of the
poisonous tree. If that is part of what has been going on, thousands of federal prisoners might have grounds to nullify
their convictions. Since most of them are well-deserving of their sentences, the “institution” would have reason to
keep it hidden. Most of those not involved in managing it wouldn’t even know about it, and would be very bitter if
years of their legitimate work were undermined by corrupt management.

I think President Trump himself has said that maybe not everything will get disclosed. To me, it’s a cancer, and needs
to be completely removed.

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I think that is partially what has happened. Constitutional issues would arise in criminal convictions if what
you suppose is true.

Completely revealing the entire operation against Trump and every government tool used would have
massive consequences on how the FBI, CIA and other intel agencies currently operate. They are not going to
give up those powers without a fight.

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Timothy Schwartz says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:24 am

I love CTH!

But, to try and read this article, one has to be bombarded with the same ad for a gut doctor THIRTEEN TIMES! Absurd. Can
even read a single paragraph without this reoccurring nonsense popping up and interfering. PLEASE TAKE ACTION AND
CORRECT THIS. You need advertising, and I’m sure your readers understand. But try to go back and read your own article
and see if you don’t think there might be a problem here.

Freedom First! ~ Timothy Schwartz

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stella says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:44 am

Ads are controlled by WordPress. If you are annoyed, I would suggest getting an ad blocker.

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Cheesehead54016 says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:27 am

Thanks SD. These summaries and thorough timeline descriptions really do help and allow non-investigators the ability to
know how events unfolded. The Cover Up is usually worse than the original crime but in this case both the crimes before
March 9 2016 and after March 9 2016 are a terrible abuse of power and assault on our legal system and election system. The
BHObama State Dept, CIA, FBI and probably several other agencies are looking worse every day to anybody starting to pay
more attention. To those that have been paying attention the unknowns are starting to make sense and reinforces our
support for the process of Draining the Swamp and prosecuting the folks that made very poor decisions.

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Bulldog84 says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:51 am

Didn’t Priestap go to London in the summer of 2016? Regardless, I suspect he is up to his eyeballs in this mess.

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Chewbarkah says:
May 3, 2019 at 5:45 pm

This needs verification, but IIRC Priestap was in London at the exact time Crossfire Hurricane spies were having a
run at Papadopoulus. Was yesterday’s NYT article designed to put the hounds onto a Priestap scent trail? (If so, who
wanted to divert attention from themselves?)

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beach lover says:


May 3, 2019 at 7:58 am

I have a question that may be obvious to all of you, but what started the O administration’s unmaskings in 2012? Was it
because he won reelection and thought he had no one to tell him he couldn’t?

Was it maybe to see what was being said about Benghazi? IRS scandal? Did this start because of the IRS scandal? This is an
Obama led scandal. He did it to help Hillary, but he did it (and those around him) because 1. they could. and 2. they thought
they would get away with it.

Then they tried to cover it up but justifying it. I hope they get them all under indictments.. every single one of them.

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Spectre says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:14 am

It was in O’s nature. He’s a thug. Remember how he won his senate seat? unsealing divorce file on his opponent.

There were cookies in the cookie jar. Was as simple as that.

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jx says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:31 am

Unsealing his opponent’s divorce was “in the public interest” but his identity is not, it must remain secret.
I’ve always wanted to know who got to that judge in California. Then later, Malihi and Kemp are fishy as well.

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Jederman says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:12 am

A thug who hid behind a presidential podium.

Most people who were in the service will agree, it would have taken about ten minutes for all to realize he’s
about as heavy as a feather.

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littleanniefannie says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:39 am

When he saw he could swat the Tea Party via IRS he felt there was no stopping him. He knew that he had many
Communist sympathizers in and on his team that he could manipulate. He already had “his boy” as AG and knew that
he would never be touched. I only hope I get to see that hubris slapped down.

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jkash (@USjkash2) says:


May 3, 2019 at 10:00 am

I dated one of the globalist cronies. Quite by accident I learned the assumption that accompanied the Hildebeast’s
campaign and presumption of triumph. He told me because like most of the vainglorious globalists he believed that
the globalist cause was righteous and I could not help but be allied with him in thought.

They ARE that arrogant and insulated.

Apparently all during the Obama years (when coincidentally nearly every one of the hundreds of small, uncharted
islands were bought by millionaires. I know this because I was looking into buying one or two with a group of 40 or
so people), there was the expectation that each of the millionaires – ‘humble’ enough to admit that no one person
could save the world – would focus on a region of the world that they could invest in and train the people to become
financially successful.

There would be NO effort to defend or resolve any areas where strife or violence, or anything that proved too
obstructive to positive response to money invested in the region, existed.

PUt bluntly, when I asked about places like hte Sudan and war targeted areas, the response was a pragmatic ‘shrug’.
There would be NO shedding blood for any cause, theirs is a bloodthirsty, cold and calculating war. No courage of
conviction, pure and unadulterated greed and arrogant elitism, rationalizing the death of BILLIONS of people with
their disingenuous OR genuine belief in the debunked overpopulation myth that the planet can really only sustain
500 million people.

this is why you see no outrage against genocide by Islam, by gangs, by abortion and by exposing whole populations to
long cured disease.

Obama, from day one, was backed by Soros and Schmidt and Zuckerberg and Bezos and most of the tech billionaires
(not Jobs and I don’t think by Ellison), all of whom were in league with him to create that ‘private militia’ to which
Obama first alluded during his first campaign, when he mentioned a power greater than military, police and armed
citizenry combined; the same to which Maxine Waters so arrogantly alluded.

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Your Tour Guide says:


May 3, 2019 at 11:31 am

JKash:

Around 10 years ago a lot of the people who had helped


ruin metro Atlanta were buying property in Costa Rico.
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They were even advertising in local publications that


THOSE WHO MATTER were sure to read. Thought
at the time that
1. They were getting out while the getting was good.
2. They’d never, ever, ever, claim any guilt for being
the ones that had created the crisis they were
fleeing from.

What you’re outlining sounds very similar, only


higher up the chain. Was this the type of incidences
you were hearing about?

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:32 pm

I’ve heard New Zealand repeatedly mentioned in the scenario you laid out as an escape outlet for the
globalists. The globalist rich think living on an island cut off from everything is the best option in case urban
civilization collapses.

Notice how Obama set up a palatial estate in Hawaii.

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Linda K. says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:28 am

I wonder if it started even earlier. Look how John Roberts contorted the law to approve Obamacare. Did they spy on
the Judges and other political opponents? Was Roberts blackmailed? He oversees the FISA court.

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RobInPA says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:53 pm

Maybe you can ask that question of the Clinton Crime Syndicate, as they and their minions have been
slithering and flopping around in the turgid ooze of The Swamp for a very long time.

In fact, to the questions that beach lover asks above, it would not surprise me in the least if CROOKED hilz
‘mentored’ the Crimson Kenyan, in the sunset years of her mission as SOS to “put to good use” the tools at his
disposal to control and destroy their political enemies.

“Heyyyy there Braaaack, you could easily have anyone in the world bent over a barrel if you just abuse your
power a little weencie bit. I’m a seasoned pro at this and would be happy to show you some really dirty tricks
that we can both benefit from. I won’t tell if you won’t tell. O.K. Barry? Deal?!”

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May 3, 2019 at 8:19 am

Warner – Good chance.


Roberts – not so much

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Bogeyfree says:
May 3, 2019 at 8:38 am

So why can’t Tom Fitton request or sue for a FOIA listing all FBI contractors who accessed the NSA database from 2012-
2015?

IMO the best part of focusing and exposing 2009-2015 spying now is, it’s not contaminated with any of the Russia/Trump
cover up/distraction, meaning once this exposure begins they can’t stop it or defend it.

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beach lover says:


May 3, 2019 at 8:45 am

If he could get them, I’m sure he will! Most of this stuff has been held back for years from him because of the
“ongoing investigation” bullSchiff.

Mueller/Weismann drug this out as long as they could. I think they heard the heavy breathing of Barr down the back
of their necks. Weismann is a thug of the first order. When the indictments are handed down.. I sure hope there is
one with his name on it!

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Blind no longer says:


May 3, 2019 at 8:57 am

Me too Beach! Weissman first, then the rest of the corrupt POS!!

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MILupper says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:13 am

The 2012 estimated start date of the CIA-FBI MOU is very curious.

Robert Mueller was FBI director from 9-2001 through 9-2013.

CIA directors around this time are:

Leon E. Panetta (February 13, 2009–June 30, 2011)


Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. Army (September 6, 2011–November 9, 2012)
John Brennan (March 8, 2013–January 20, 2017)

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I believe the MOU happened during Panetta’s time at CIA. Him and Mueller were old Clinton Cronies. Also Mueller was term
limited out in 2011 except for a congressional extension of 2 years.
Would have been difficult to hide the start of this program from a new CIA director for too long. At the time Obama wanted
Mueller to stay longer than 2 years.

Gen. Petraeus was appointed to get Obama through the 2012 election and then driven out before he could find all that was
going on.

Brennan took over and the program went into overdrive with Comey’s assistance.

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The Phantom Stranger says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:35 pm

Thinking about it now, Panetta may have been the man to bring this plan to the Obama team in the first place at the
suggestion of the Clintons.

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Lady Sid says:


May 3, 2019 at 5:47 pm

Didn’t Pannetta also serve as an Obama Sec’y of Defense?

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Robert W Van Brunt says:


May 3, 2019 at 9:44 am

The name’s Obama, Barry Obama double naught zero spy

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Linda K. says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:50 am

It is interesting that Nunes brings out that the State Department is also involved in communicating this secret spy info with
the Five Eyes? I think that is what he means about irregular activity in the State Department. And Mike Pompeo moved from
CIA to run the State Department, a person of trust in Trump’s circle .

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TomA says:
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It wasn’t just a coverup operation that began after the March 9, 2016 exposure by Mike Rogers’ NSA investigation.
Contingency plans for a Republican Campaign take-down were prepared in the Fall of 2015 (which covered most Republican
candidates including Trump). It was only during early 2016 when Trump emerged as the leading candidate that he became
the main focus of their attention. It was at a meeting in the Whitehouse in February 2016 that the issue came to head and the
take-down operation was green-lighted. Brennan was tasked with fleshing out the details and orchestrating the operation
primarily using CIA assets and contractors. He also recruited the Brits and Ausies during this time frame. Comey’s FBI was
slower to spin up, but eventually took the lead and spearheaded the transition from coverup to coup after the election.

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Judy says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:37 am

Can anyone intelligently speculate why it was revealed that Nellie Ohr has been referred to DOJ for prosecution & why now?
Also, why haven’t named individuals referred by Rep Nunes been revealed? Thanks!

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Vipereatr says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:39 am

Is Azra Turk a pseudonym for Astro Turf?

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Deplorable_Vespucciland says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:54 am

More recently the honorable William P. Barr was sworn in as US Attorney general. Soon thereafter perhaps he had a sit down
with Rod Rosenstein regarding the overall scope and the current status of the Mueller Investigation. He then requested a
meeting with the Special Counsel in Barr’s new corner office.

An imaginary meeting.

Barr ~ “OK now Bob; what was the basis for your investigation?”
Mueller ~ “Oh, there were indications that Moscow had conspired with the Trump campaign.”
Barr ~ “OK Bob, did you find any evidence whatsoever of that alleged Russian conspiracy?”
Mueller ~ “Um, no sir we did not.”
Barr ~ ” OK Bob, you may leave now and have your report on my desk in 30 days.”
Mueller ~ “But, but that could take time and we have secured funding through the Summer.”
Barr ~ ” No. Shut it down NOW! Not 6 months. Not 3 months.”
Mueller ~ “Uh, I will do what I can and get the team right on it.”
Barr ~ “GTHO of my office!”

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Pokey says:
May 3, 2019 at 10:55 am

I wish all the despicable Commies would get exposed and then prosecuted. If that were imminent, I think more of them
would be squacking by now. For now, I stick with my opinion that no Democrat will ever be prosecuted for their participation
in this fiasco. The whole effort is to protect Barack Obama from any culpability on any level. Even though all the trails lead
directly to Obama, our first half black President will never even get implicated. I say he has his sculpture on Mt. Rushmore
before anything he ever did will ever be examined.

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RobInPA says:
May 3, 2019 at 2:19 pm

You are probably correct that president stompy-foot, aka choom-boy, aka the teleprompter-in-chief, aka barry
hussein sotero, aka the crimson kenyan, aka the little hadji that could, will not be cited for jay walking let alone being
brought up on the serious charges that he ought to be charged with, but when after the swamp is carpet bombed with
500 Cluster-MOAB’s, I will be satisified to see his entire eight-long year presidency and his so-called ‘legacy’ and that
of all of his minions, reduced to nothing more than a smoldering steaming lifeless hole in the ground, devoid of
anything and everything of substance

Yeah, he’ll ‘untouched’ as it were, but he will forever be throughout the annals (because barry would like that! LOL!!)
a stand-alone Pariah!

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OldParatrooper says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:01 am

There is another thread that needs to be pulled. Two DIA employees at the London Embassy met four times with Papadop.
They claim it was because of personal curiosity about the Trump Campaign. I’m not convinced. If they were directed by DIA
to be curious, there will be emails on JWICs or SIPRNET conveying their conclusions back to DC. If they were encouraged by
the London CoS, the messages would be on the CIA system.

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dwpender says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:06 am

A few weeks ago John Solomon was talking about a bombshell report “next week” about a January, 2016 that was the real
kickoff for Spygate. Have I missed this report, or is it another in a long list of (seemingly endless) “upcoming attractions”?

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Sherri Young says:


May 3, 2019 at 11:58 am

Alexandra Chalupa might have provided the pretext.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446

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Mike Maddox says:


May 4, 2019 at 5:13 am

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-
collusion

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Deplorable_Vespucciland says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:23 am

Expect the crooks may try to get out of this


by claiming that the whole Russian collusion thing
was all just a big misunderstanding; so never mind.

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Paul McCartney - Spies Like Us 1985

On to the next street theatre distraction event.

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Sherri Young says:


May 3, 2019 at 11:38 am

Here is the unclassified version of the Report on the President’s Surveillance Program dated 10 July 2009 and produced by
the IG’s for DoD, DOJ, NSA, CIA, and ODNI.

Probably contains a lot of answers on domestic spying prior to 2009.

https://info.publicintelligence.net/Joint-IGs-PresidentsSurveillanceProgram.pdf

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Palmettoman says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:38 am

The thing that intrigues me is that once Adm. Rogers informed POTUS-elect he was being illegally spied on, Trump, once
inaugurated, could then use the same apparatus LEGALLY to track down the ones doing the illegal spying.

Imagine all that POTUS has on the conspirators that hasn’t yet been made public…

Now that he’s past the Mueller fiasco, he can begin to use all of this info to prosecute the ones who participated in the coup.

The dems’ attacks on Barr are meant to diminish and disqualify the person who will be leading the prosecutions.

Fun times are coming!!!

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May 3, 2019 at 1:31 pm

O’yes, if the POTUS wants too.

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Rose says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:44 am

Anyone else petrified that the same clowns entrusted with national security ran a spy ring made up of morons and liberal
idiots? No wonder they did nothing about their fore knowledge of 911, to busy recruiting dimwits to role play at being
Russian spies. These people sicken me, has the CIA really become that kind of sick clown show?

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concerned3 says:
May 3, 2019 at 11:54 am

It’s been said that felons repeat their behavior. So I would like to remind us of this recent headline.

“NEW: Dem Reps. Cummings, Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff Sign Secret “Memos of Understanding” to “Target” Trump
with Investigations”

If the CIA and FBI signed this “inter-agency memorandum of understanding” did Cummings, Maxine Waters and Adam
Schiff know about it?

So how would Maxine Waters, know about the “inter-agency memorandum of understanding”. Say, from her work on the
Gang-Of-Eight. Remember that Sundance has told us that the Gang-Of-Eight has responsibility for IC oversight.

I would also remind us of the recent statement from Maxine Waters, calling AG Barr a lier. Is it because she has allot to lose,
if AG Barr does investigate?

Did Paul Ryan hand the speakership over to Maxine Waters in order to keep the illegal actions of the Gang-Of-Eight from
2012, covered-up?

Every-time Sundance reveals more, I am left with more questions.

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zephyrbreeze says:
May 3, 2019 at 12:34 pm

The first link doesn’t go to the article in the New York Times, and I can’t find it at the NYT’s.
Help.

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unfolder says:
May 3, 2019 at 12:41 pm

Do we have confidence that the AG and the IG are as up to speed on the intricacies of this plot as Sundance is?

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concerned3 says:
May 3, 2019 at 1:27 pm

No, but the AG is getting their. The IG is a different problem.

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Rick says:
May 3, 2019 at 12:53 pm

Thanks Sundance, well done as always! One pattern emerged from the CIA operation that should come back to haunt them.
Not one time did a Trump campaign member reach out to a Russian, looking for Hillary’s emails.

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6x47 says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:09 pm

“Remember, everything AFTER March 9th, 2016, is a cover-story. Everything after March 9th, 2016, are operations from
both the CIA and FBI to hide the political surveillance that was going on before March 9th, 2016. The surveillance was
happening through exploitation of the NSA database through unauthorized FISA search queries; and involved both the CIA
and FBI.”

Obama was running his own secret police force, spying on American citizens, journalists, AND political opponents (and likely
allies as well). If he was spying on the Trump campaign in 2015 when Trump was the darkest of dark horses, he was spying
on EVERYONE. And it had been going on for YEARS before the 2016 election.

THAT’S the real scandal. And when THAT finally breaks … stand by. It will be glorious.

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chuckyschmucky says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:19 pm

We know for a fact that they had been spying on reporters, citizens and members of Congress. And used the same
kind of legal chicanery to justify it (accusing reporters of being foreign agents under espionage laws) and then issuing
abject denials until those denials became untenable. Not to mention using all government agencies to attack political
opponents (IRS, EPA, etc).

This is a well-established pattern with these totalitarian creeps. And they were never held to account, either by
Congress or the corrupt leftwing media, which would yawn at the corruption. So naturally they felt emboldened and

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untouchable. And they got so comfortable and adept at using government to attack their political enemies that they
got careless. But that didn’t matter, because SHE would be there to clean up the mess.

OOPS!

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Tom Savage says:


May 3, 2019 at 3:12 pm

Sundance is a genius, thank you. But the question I struggle with is: What was/is driving these players in such a high risk
activity? “Blind no longer” gave us a clue by reminding us of what Maxine Waters said about an Obama data base: “The
President has put in place an organization with the kind of data base that no one has ever seen before in life.” We can surmise
that this is a clandestine organization, and that the data was gathered through legal (google, FB, TWT) and illegal (NSA)
surveillance, and was used in the 2018 election. What if this is the hidden treasure that must be protected at all cost?

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chucknorrisrules says:
May 3, 2019 at 3:31 pm

Now ask yourself: Who was the Director of the FBI in 2012 when the CIA and FBI entered into this Memorandum of
Understanding to illegally spy on Americans? Trump is just the tip of the iceberg.

That’s right, one Robert Mueller.

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nimrodman says:
May 3, 2019 at 4:21 pm

Just a small point, but this statement from the Weissman-Mueller report about the May 6th meeting between George
Papadopoulos and Erika Thompson:is an outright lie:

…”that the Trump campaign had received information from the Russian government that it could assist the
campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.”

The information wasn’t received from the Russian government, the information was received from US CIA operative
Joseph Mifsud !!!

… creating a “Russian government could assist the [Trump] campaign” fable out of whole cloth, out of the ether.

Time to call Mueller and Weissman on the carpet to explain that deliberate misrepresentation in their vaunted “report”.

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Tom Savage says:


May 3, 2019 at 6:12 pm

Follow up on my previous post. Maybe the Obama database could be more accurately described as the DNC database of the
DNC Cybercrime operation. Obama was critical to the setup of this operation because he was In control of the FBI, DOJ, CIA,
DNI, and NSA (indirectly). If surveillance began in 2012 and ended in 2016, four years of information on persons of interest
would produce a goldmine of useful material.
More importantly, several other cases of interest would begin to make more sense. 1, Seth Rich. What if the Podesta emails
were not the only files copied from the DNC server? If he also took files pertaining to the Cybercrime operation, that would
be critical. 2. Washerman-Schulz. The Awan brothers must have inadvertently collected communications related to the
Cybercrime Operation between Democrats in Congress and party officials, and information on persons in the database. 3.
Wiener laptop. This was used by Huma Abedin as a backup for communications between Hillary Clinton and many others. It
would not be a stretch to think that traffic to/from the Cybercrime Operation is on the laptop. 4. Hillary Clinton’s private
server. We can imagine what communications between HRC and other Democrats, and foreign and domestic contacts, and
the Cybercrime Operation reside there.
In all these cases, the related hardware has never been accounted for, but now is the time.

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zombietimeshare says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:40 pm

And to think, if Her Thighness Queen Hillary had been elected all this would have been buried forever.

“Remember, the CIA is not supposed to be conducting surveillance, aka “spying”, inside the U.S. on American citizens.”

This was more than surveillance, in addition to spying was the introduction of agent provocateurs in the persons of Stefan
Halper and Azra Turk. If no illegality was found it was their job to create the illusion of one.

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Rocket says:
May 3, 2019 at 7:55 pm

I think firing squads are more appropriate than lethal injection.

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Pokey says:
May 3, 2019 at 9:56 pm

Don’t forget Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice. They represent the number 2 and 3 card carrying Communists in the Obama
Regime, respectively. Number 1 is Eric Holder and number 4 is the idiot, John Brennan. These clowns will pop up in odd
places for the next 20 years, along with Larry the Cable guy’s adopted African child, Boobily Boobily! Oops. Almost forgot
about Moochelle, the school cafeteria monitor.

The joke has been on us, folks. Don’t laugh now.

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Abe Pecota says:


May 4, 2019 at 10:21 am

It seems there may be an even easier way to prove illegal spying without looking at redacted documents if this operation into
Trump collusion began in or before March 2016. In March of 2016, it was unclear whether Trump would win the nomination.
Cruz and Trump were running fairly close in delegate counts at that point. If Cruz’s campaign had also been targeted by
operatives then there would be no doubt possible of the utilization by the BHO admin to weaponize the IC against possible
GOP opponents. I noticed Cruz asked Barr a couple of days ago something close to “do we know if the Obama administration
investigated any other candidates running for President” or something to that effect. https://youtu.be/Rhjdd_NwlU8?t=395
I think THIS might be more revealing as to any motives related to Trump because as to Trump, there’s been a lot of work to
create plausible reasons to investigate. What reasons would there be to investigate Cruz? Would LOVE for Nunez to get this
question asked/answered.

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Bernard Vanasse says:


May 4, 2019 at 4:34 pm

Maxine letting cat out of back http://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2017/03/24/2013-maxine-waters-warned-powerful-


obama-database/

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