The
FBI - Pushed By John Brennan - Lied To The
Court Seven Times To Spy On The Trump
Campaign
By
Moon Of Alabama
December 12, 20D19 "Information
Clearing House"
- On
January 6 2017
this author concluded:
When Hillary Clinton was defeated in the
U.S. presidential election the relevant
powers launched a campaign to
delegitimize the President elect Donald
Trump.
The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick
him out of office and have a reliable
replacement, like the Vice-President
elect Pence, take over. Should that not
be possible
it is hoped
that the delegitimization will make it
impossible for Trump to change major
policy trajectories especially in
foreign policy. A main issue here is the
reorientation of the U.S. military
complex and its NATO proxies from the
war of terror towards a direct
confrontation with main powers like
Russia and China.
...
A major role in directing the plot has
fallen to Obama's consigliere John
Brennan, the current director of the
CIA.
One
part of the still ongoing deligitimization
campaign was the FBI investigation of
alleged Russian connections of four members
of the Trump election campaign.
The
Inspector General of the U.S. Justice
Department Michael Horowitz has investigated
the FBI operation against the election
campaign of Donald Trump. Yesterday he
published his report,
Review of Four FISA Applications and Other
Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane
Investigation
(pdf). It is 480 pages long and quite
thorough but unfortunately very limited in
its scope.
Horowitz finds that the FBI was within the
law when it opened the investigation but
that the FBI's applications to the FISA
court, which decides if the FBI can spy on
someone's communications, were based on lies
and utterly flawed.
Your host unfortunately lacked the time so
far to read more than the executive summary.
But others have pointed out some essential
findings.
Matt Taibbi
remarks:
The Guardian headline reads: “DOJ
Internal watchdog report clears FBI of
illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.”
If
the report released Monday by Justice
Department Inspector General Michael
Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the
FBI, never clear me of anything. ...
Much of the press is concentrating on
Horowitz’s conclusion that there was no
evidence of “political bias or improper
motivation” in the FBI’s probe of Donald
Trump’s Russia contacts, an
investigation Horowitz says the bureau
had “authorized purpose” to conduct.
...
However, Horowitz describes at
great length an FBI whose “serious”
procedural problems and omissions of
“significant information” in pursuit of
surveillance authority all fell in the
direction of expanding the unprecedented
investigation of a presidential
candidate (later, a president).
...
There are too many to list in one
column, but the Horowitz report show
years of breathless headlines were
wrong. Some key points:
The so-called “Steele dossier”
was, actually, crucial to the FBI’s
decision to seek secret surveillance of
Page. ...
...
The “Steele dossier” was
“Internet rumor,” and corroboration for
the pee tape story was “zero.” ...
John Solomon
finds:
Appendix 1 identifies the total
violations by the FBI of the so-called
Woods Procedures, the process by which
the bureau verifies information and
assures the FISA court its evidence is
true.
The Appendix identifies a total of 51
Woods procedure violations from the FISA
application the FBI submitted to the
court authorizing surveillance of former
Trump campaign aide Carter Page starting
in October 2016.
A
whopping nine of those violations fell
into the category called: “Supporting
document shows that the factual
assertion is inaccurate.”
For those who don’t speak IG parlance,
it means the FBI made nine false
assertions to the FISA court.
In short, what the bureau said was
contradicted by the evidence in its
official file.
The
FBI agents and lawyers intentionally lied to
the court. Their violations were not
mistakes. All 51 of them were in favor of
further spying on members of the Trump
campaign and on everyone they communicated
with.
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The
FBI has used the Steele dossier to gain
further FISA application even after it had
talked with Steele's 'primary source' (who
probably was the later
'buzzed' Sergei Skripal)
and after it had learned that the
allegations in the dossier were no more than
unconfirmed rumors.
That the dossier was mere dreck was quite
obvious to any sober person who read it when
it was first published.
Here is what
we wrote about it
at that time:
The anonymous former British operator
hears from an anonymous compatriot that
two anonymous sources, asserted to have
access to inner Russian circles, claimed
to have heard somewhere that something
happened in the Kremlin.
They assert that Trump was supported and
directed by Putin himself five years ago
while even a year ago no one would have
bet a penny on Trump gaining any
political significant position or even
the presidency.
There is
a lot more of such nonsense
in these new Hitler diaries.
It is bonkers
from a to z.
Those who thought otherwise
should question their judgment.
It
is now claimed that the FBI is exculpated
because the Horowitz report did not find
"political bias or improper motivation". But
that omits the fact that at least four high
ranking people in the FBI and Justice
Department who were involved in the case
were found to be
politically biased
and were removed from their positions.
It
also omits that the scope of Horowitz's
investigation was limited to the Justice
Department. He was not able to investigate
the CIA and its former director John Brennan
who was
alleging Russia-Trump connections
months before the FBI investigation started:
Contrary to a general impression that
the FBI launched the Trump-Russia
conspiracy probe, Brennan pushed it to
the bureau – breaking with CIA tradition
by intruding into domestic politics: the
2016 presidential election. He also
supplied suggestive but ultimately false
information to counterintelligence
investigators and other U.S. officials.
The
current CIA director Gina Haspel was CIA
station chief in London during that time and
while several of the entrapment attempts of
Trump campaign staff by the FBI
investigation happened. Horowitz spoke with
neither of them.
Peter Van Buren
concludes:
The current Horowitz Report, read
alongside his previous report on how the
FBI played inside the 2016 election
vis-a-vis Clinton, should leave no doubt
that the Bureau tried to influence the
election of a president and then
delegitimize him when he won. It wasn’t
the Russians; it was us.
That is correct, but the whole conspiracy
was even deeper. It was not the FBI which
initiated the case.
My
hunch is still that the FBI investigation
was a case of
parallel construction
which is often used to build a legitimate
case after a suspicion was found by
illegitimate means. In this case
it was John Brennan
who in early 2016 contacted the head of the
British GCHQ electronic interception service
and asked him to spy on the Trump campaign.
GHCQ then claimed that something was found
that was
deemed suspicious:
That summer, GCHQ’s then head, Robert
Hannigan, flew to the US to personally
brief CIA chief John Brennan. The matter
was deemed so important that it was
handled at “director level”,
face-to-face between the two agency
chiefs.
The
FBI was tipped off on the issue and on July
31 2016 started an investigation to
construct a parallel legal case. It send out
British and U.S. agents to entrap Trump
campaign members. It used the obviously fake
Steele dossier to gain FISA court judgments
that allowed it to spy on the campaign.
Downing Street
was informed
throughout the whole affair. A day after
Trump's inauguration the UK's then Prime
Minister Theresa May
fired GHCQ chief
Robert Hannigan.
One
still open question is to what extend then
President Barack Obama was involved in the
affair.
There is another ongoing investigation by
U.S. Prosecutor John Durham. That
investigation is not limited to the Justice
Department but will involve all agencies and
domestic as well as foreign sources. Durham
has the legal rights to declassify whatever
is needed and he can indict persons should
he find that they committed a crime. His
report will hopefully go much deeper than
the already horrendous stuff Horowitz
delivered.
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