When you know the process, you know the methods and purposes. Remember: CIA messaging is transmitted through the Washington Post; FBI messaging is transmitted through the New York Times; and State Dept. messaging is transmitted through CNN. This flow is the one constant in the narrative engineering process.
Ten days ago former CIA Director John Brennan was interviewed by the investigative unit led by John Durham.
Two days ago Brennan told the “small group” of politicians and corrupt Obama officials what his official line to those Durham investigators was.
Brennan tells his allies this through an Op-Ed published in the Washington Post.
The motive, intent and purpose is the same as Dianne Feinstein’s leak of the Glenn Simpson testimony… get all messaging on the same page.
Here’s the Brennan narrative to assist the “by the book” justification:
[Washington Post – John Brennan] – […] President Barack Obama already knew the Russians were hacking into the networks of U.S. presidential campaigns, but on the afternoon of July 28, 2016, I informed him in a hurriedly scheduled meeting that Russian President Vladimir Putin had authorized his intelligence services to carry out activities to hurt Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and boost the election prospects of Donald Trump.
“Mr. President,” I said, “it appears that the Russian effort to undermine the integrity of the November election is much more intense, determined, and insidious than any we have seen before.”
My reference to the unprecedented scale and scope of Moscow’s efforts to harm the integrity of the election quickly riveted the president’s attention. It also triggered the immediate concern of the others in the room — including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, who asked, after I was done speaking, “What are you planning to do on the congressional front?”
I thought for a brief moment and then recommended that the most sensitive intelligence be limited initially only to the “Gang of Eight” — the bipartisan leadership of both houses of Congress as well as the chairs and ranking minority-party members of the Intelligence Committees. I was concerned that briefing Congress more broadly on fragile intelligence sources and methods could lead to damaging leaks, harming our ability to learn more about Russian plans and capabilities.
Moreover, some U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign appeared to be caught up, wittingly or unwittingly, in the Russian scheme, and I knew that the politically volatile nature of such information could have been used by Democrats to harm the Trump campaign.
In my more than 30 years of government service, I had witnessed some members of both political parties engage in unethical behavior by misusing intelligence, and I wanted to avoid that happening on the eve of a closely contested presidential election. Obama understood my concerns, but he said he wanted Congress briefed as appropriate and as required.
Congress was already on summer recess at the time, but three members of the Gang of Eight — Democrats Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) and Sen. Harry M. Reid (Nev.) — made arrangements to receive the briefing in August in person or by secure phone. The other five — one Democrat and four Republicans — were briefed individually in secure congressional conference rooms on Sept. 6.
To underscore the sensitivity of the intelligence, I personally conducted all the briefings. Most of the eight immediately recognized the gravity of Russian efforts. A notable exception was Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who insinuated that the CIA was working with the Obama administration to prevent Trump from getting elected.
We conducted many subsequent briefings for members and staff in the run-up to the Nov. 8 presidential election. (more)
Smart move by Brennan to bring in President Obama; although this is the first time Brennan admits to briefing the White House on the Steele Dossier information specifically on July 28th 2016. Not accidentally three days before the official opening of FBI operation Crossfire Hurricane.
Yes, that timeline contradicts with other information provided by Lisa Page and various FBI officials in their depositions, but that can be reconciled internally, safely, based on obtuse distinctions around the actual content of the briefing itself.
Start by remembering the sworn testimony of John Brennan to congress on May 23rd, 2017. Listen carefully to the opening statement from former the former CIA director and pay close attention to the segment at 13:35 of this video [transcribed below]:
Brennan: [13:35] “Third, through the so-called Gang-of-Eight process we kept congress apprised of these issues as we identified them.”
“Again, in consultation with the White House, I PERSONALLY briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in the election to congressional leadership; specifically: Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr; and to representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff between 11th August and 6th September [2016], I provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members.”
“Given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counter-intelligence case [that means the FBI], involving an ongoing Russian effort, to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress; each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member.”…
Notice a few things from this testimony. First, where Brennan says “in consultation with the White House“. This was the first direct connection between Brennan’s activity and President Obama, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, each of whom would have held knowledge of what Brennan was briefing to the Go8; Brennan confirms this in his August 31, 2020, Op-ed.
Secondly, Brennan is describing raw intelligence (obviously gathered prior to the Carter Page FISA Application/Warrant – October 21st, 2016) that he went on to brief the Gang-of-Eight (pictured below). Notice Brennan said he did briefings “individually”.
Brennan also says in his testimony that he began the briefings on August 11th, 2016. This is a key point because former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to James Comey on August 27th, 2016, as an outcome of his briefing by John Brennan. But it is the content of Reid’s letter that really matters.
In the last paragraph of Reid’s letter to Comey he notes something that is only cited within the Christopher Steele Dossier [full letter pdf here]:
This letter is August 27th, 2016. The Trump advisor in the letter is Carter Page. The source of the information is Christopher Steele in his dossier. Two months later (October 21st, 2016) the FBI filed a FISA application against Carter Page using the Steele Dossier.
So what we are seeing here is CIA Director John Brennan briefing Harry Reid on the Steele dossier in August 2016, even before the dossier reached the FBI. However, John Brennan has denied seeing the dossier until December of 2016. A transparent lie.
It’s laughable that anyone would believe anything that comes out of the mouths of repeated liars like Brennan. Like the riots that democrats insisted didn’t exist for 3 months are now President Trump’s fault. Lie after lie. I don’t even know y they bother. The media covers and Barr fiddles.
Yep, his lips are moving so you guessed it, a Pinocchio moment for Brennan. Excuse me, a lifetime of lying by Brennan and his gang members.
/It’s laughable/
Too bad Brennan was not working for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Era:
Brennan: “Having observed the customary slowness of the US intelligence community, on our own initiative, and at great personal expense, we hired a group of patriotic guys (called the Plumbers) to break into the DNC headquarters and stop Leonid Brezhnev and the KGB from subverting our Democracy.”
Both stories hold about the same weight.
Patriotism – the last refuge for scoundrels. We all knew it was coming, but still when the moment arrives it’s like getting slapped in the face with a big slimy fish. FU Brennan. You’re a complete disgrace to the outfit.
Looks like Brennan is taking a page out of the Wolfe playbook. Set the gang of eight and WH up and if he is charged, threaten to subpoena them.
His defense will be that if what he was doing was criminal or wrong, then why didn’t anyone of those individuals call for an investigation by the House or Senate or the DOJ.
EVERYONE KNOWS the likes of Brennan, Clapper, Comey,Yates,Rosenstein, and McCabe,Strok and Page are not going to take the fall W/O taking others down.
So that leaves the Janitor.
Best and most obvious scenario with the greatest leverage.
Yep. Op ed stating Obama and Mitch knew early on. Everybody knew.
Too big to…
Brennan op-ed “SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTOR’S CUT” original version.
Items in BOLD were cut for time.
“A notable exception was Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who insinuated correctly that the CIA was working with the Obama administration to prevent Trump from getting elected.
Mitch looked up at me eagerly, and with that low sexy southern voice of his drawled: “What can I do to help?”
One thing I love about the “DEEEEEP State” is that it’s not hard to locate.
4sure-your comment is EXACTLY on point!!!
“ a page out of the Wolfe playbook.”
Insightful insight. He is relying on things playing out as they have in the past. That is not a given. He just threw himself and everyone else under the bus if things if they don’t. The Streisand effect on this will be brutal.
As SD alluded to looong ago. Barr was brought in to clean up what we already knew.
No less than being strung up by lamp posts, will make this stop.
Absolutely true and absolutely it going to be stopped.
The ‘list’ for decorating lamp posts keeps growing longer, but still nothing happens. How do we get the Augean Stables cleaned up? How do we impanel a Citizens Special Counsel and grand jury? All of Congress needs to join the deep state cabal under the microscope. We need to have everything declassified, ‘sources and methods’ be damned. They have played this game with the citizens for far too long. We ‘know’ their sources and methods and the corruption of our government is rampant.
Brennan is frantically lying to justify the spying on the Trump campaign that is now beyond denial.
The first obvious lie: Putin’s rushed meeting about interference in the election to harm Hillary. It’s obvious garbage. Putin would have prefered Hillary to win. Second, the only evidence of Russia’s interference was their standard disruption, aimed at both candidates and designed to undermine public trust in the election system.
The second obvious lie: “gave the same briefing” to each of the Gang of Eight. He didn’t give the same briefing to Nunes …
The third obvious lie: He is referring to Carter Page in his warning to Reid about a Trump adviser who was involved with Russians. But Brennan knew Page was a trusted US asset, appoved for payment, who had even been a key witness for the FBI in a case against real Russian spies in early 2016. He knew Carter Page was on of his own.
My hope is that Brennan the lying liar keeps lying. Espessialy about Putin. Vlad the Toxinator doesn’t look favorably on that sort of behavior …
The Kevin Costner-Gene Hackmzn -Sean Young film, “no way out” is the same Russian theme.
Brennan lacks ingenuity.
He has to lift a movie script.
For a couple of years Sean Young was the bee’s knees
The only trustworthy person out that bunch is Nunes.
This “crew” should in the future be referred to as “gums, bums and scums”.
So Brennan clearly lied to Congress. We already know he spied on them, he admitted that.
Isn’t it illegal to coach witnesses?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-defense-attorneys-perjury-trial-met-20150816-story.html
When I read this part of Brennan’s piece, I laughed out loud: “such information could have been used by Democrats to harm the Trump campaign.”
That says it all.
Read between the lines, it is his way of showing his middle finger.
When I read this part of Brennan’s piece, I laughed out loud: “such information could have been used by Democrats to harm the Trump campaign.”
That says it all.
I felt like I needed a bath after reading that tripe Brennan told the post. It was like walking behind a manure spreader.
Manure is compostable. This was toxic waste, the kind that makes land barren.
This sucks.
I guess all those media people who were briefed turned out to be duds? Are we still naming names……..
Could we please get a PARLOR share button?
Parler. Devin Nunes was the first to give it a mention but since then I heard Pres. Trump say it out loud. They are probably going to close him of Twitter for good before the election. They are going insane with the cancellations now it’s you can’t show a video of the Kenosha Kid (giving medical aid) because he’s a “mass murderer”.
I figure it is about time to nationalize TWIT & FB or at least wipe their ability to alter anything on their sites for the week prior to the election.
Stinking Muslim- converted Traitor. I can’t stand him.
How is Flynn being persecuted, and this traitor walks free?
Because the information on the whole evil thing is in the hands of both sides and no one will put the facts on the table.
FEAR IS THE PROBLEM
And N O O S E is the solution !!!
MAGAKAGSlide 2020
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Brennan is preaching to aka obama/soetoro/Shabbazz, who is a nervous wreck.
after all he is his Rasputin.
In 2008, he had his employee break into then US passport office to destroy Obama’s paper trail and true identity. Then conveniently, his staffer was murdered.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/body-of-lies-from-benghazi-to-barack
I WONDER HOW MANY DRAFTS HIS GHOST WRITER MADE?
How many “conference“ calls did he make?
It took 10 days to get his ducks in a row.
He’s in deep. 10 days of sleepless nights & more to come.
Not to worry , “unwittingly“ prevaricator Clapper will screw up everything.
(When Bernie Madoff was finally incarcerated, he said it was a relief he was finally found out.)
I wonder if Spook Barr sees anything in himself in Brennan?
Only a sociopath can relate.
All about John Brennan
https://www.infowars.com/viral-shadowgate-documentary-deleted-by-facebook-and-youtube-after-film-makers-arrest/
Actually here’s a better overview of Brennan’s background and the danger he poses to Normal America:
https://www.newsmax.com/kentclizbe/john-brennan-russia-trump-security-clearance/2018/08/17/id/877496/
Web search “Lt. Quarles Harris” might try different search engines just for fun. Notable lack of items on “major media” though you can find a disinfo op going by “Barackryhphal”.
Some of U S will have to walk point.
As of now the command staff are nation wide in meetings and drafting an objection letter.
I’m curious if Brennan informed obama about the Russians infiltrating the clinton campaign via campaign contribution (Clinton Foundation) ?
Very interesting that we just learned yesterday through FOIA that FBI agents on the ground were biting at the bit to do a FISA on Clinton Campaign but was never allowed to go forward because Comey put the kibbash on it…
aka obama informed brennan only as needed.
Brennan is his compromised gopher.
2013: “ John is legendary even in the White House for working hard,” Obama said. “He is one of the hardest working public servants I have ever seen.”
James “QUEASY LEAKS” Comey’s brother Peter did work for the CLINTON FOUNDATION. Begun by a prominent member of the PROGRESSIVE PEDOPHILE ISLE AND MILE HIGH CLUB. Jeffery, THOU WHO HATH NOT EXPIRED HIMSELF, Epstein.
No one wants to go down that path. TOO MANY DEMOCRATS INVOLVED.
DEPLORABLE JEDI.
But, MADAME MAXIMUS DOOMUS (MAXWELL) is still among the living. So there is that.
I hope Brennan is digging himself a hole he can’t get out of.
Also, I hope Barr’s team has interviewed every Congressional member who was briefed to compare notes to see if Repubs and Dems received the same info in their separate briefings.
It still doesn’t answer why Trump was not given a defensive briefing to protect his campaign from any Intel concerns re Russia.
And, I hope they asked him if they were investigating Hillary/Russia concerns because her campaign had deep, deep contacts with Russia (Trump’s did not).
Do they think we are stupid?
Why is Brennan protecting Mitch????
What do you call a person who helps to hide the crimes of another.
Is the person who hides the crime of another, guilty of a felony for each crime, they help to hide.
Then, as we all know, by now. AG Barr has helped to hide the crimes of a number of participants in the coup against President Trump.
Complicit co-conspirator accessory after-the-fact
Obstruction of justice
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory_after_the_fact
Brennan knows he is in trouble. His effort above is to highlight the transgressions that carry the lightest potential penalty.
In choosing his crime he is also sending a warning to his conspirators to walk the same line or risk exposing higher crimes.
This that and the other but WHERE’S THE BEEF. A couple hundred thousand thousand dollars in Facebook ads.
Look at the names: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel
Sundance writes:
“So what we are seeing here is CIA Director John Brennan briefing Harry Reid on the Steele dossier in August 2016, even before the dossier reached the FBI. However, John Brennan has denied seeing the dossier until December of 2016. A transparent lie.”
At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump
Karl Rove shared focus group findings that give hope to the GOP establishment.
By Ryan Grim, Nick Baumann, and Matt Fuller
**POLITICS 03/07/2016 Updated Mar 20, 2016**?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”
Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.
n 2015, AEI’s Sea Island gala drew most of the men who would become the Republican party’s presidential candidates, according to an agenda Bloomberg obtained at the time. Scheduled speakers included former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. (Some scheduled speakers may not have attended; a snowstorm snarled transportation up and down the East Coast that weekend.)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_n_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
Now, look at the members of the Gang-Of-Eight again. This briefing was not limited to the Democrats.
At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump
Karl Rove shared focus group findings that give hope to the GOP establishment.
By Ryan Grim, Nick Baumann, and Matt Fuller
**POLITICS 03/07/2016 Updated Mar 20, 2016**?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_n_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
Unfortunately, only 0.0000001% of Americans will ever hear of this. And of those who do, even less will understand it or will care to understand it. Therefore, it’s just as if it never happened.
So here was a significant part of Clinesmith’s charging document on Papadopoulos:
The house-of-mirrors nature of the claim that Mifsud is a spy is reflected in the guilty plea Papadopoulos signed on Oct. 5, 2017 for making several material false statements to the FBI. It reads, in part: “Defendant PAPADOPOULOS further told the investigating agents that the professor was ‘a nothing’ and ‘just a guy talk[ing] up connections or something.’ In truth and in fact, however, defendant PAPADOPOULOS understood that the professor had substantial connections to Russian government officials (and had met with some of those officials in Moscow immediately prior to telling defendant PAPADOPOULOS about the ‘thousands of emails’) and, over a period of months, defendant PAPADOPOULOS repeatedly sought to use the professor’s Russian connections in an effort to arrange a meeting between the Campaign and Russian government officials.”
Thank God Clinesmith refrained from any political bias. That would have been troublesome.
Carter Page had only one meeting in March of 2016 for the Trump campaign, that’s it. Carter Page was not representing the Trump campaign when he when to Russia. And, was not being paid by the Trump campaign , when he when to Russia.
So who was picking up the bills for Carter Page.
How did the press, know Carter Page when to Russia.
Why did Carter Page keep saying he was part of the Trump campaign, even when asked to stop.
Did the two hop rule of FISA get Carter Page close enough to spy on the Trump campaign. No, because Carter Page met once in March of 2016.
So, how to get Carter Page closer to the Trump campaign?
Strok & Page allegedly were Carter’s handlers for 3 years at the FBI. Prior he was an asset for 20 yeas with the CIA,
What??? I was aware phareet Baharra and !!!!!!!John Carlin!!!!!!! They won a court case in witch Carter Page risking his life numerous times in hostile parts of the world, by infiltrating and planting recording devices. uncovered evidence critical in getting a conviction. Unlike Valerie Phlame , Page’s life is at risk by retaliation by Russian operators for who knows how long. It’s difficult in fact I don’t understand John carlin
I can’t even look at these disgusting people. They are traitors and yet go on TV it seems daily.
Then there’s Lisa – it used to be an adulteress would hide in shame, but she is all over TV and social media with no sense of shame or concern for the embarrassment her children and husband must feel with such a mother and wife.
Her husband should have dumped her.
Interesting post and comments.
The only thing I’ve gathered from it is Brennan is in a CYA mode and Sundance’s comment is correct in that Brennan is telling his “crew” exactly what he said to Durham.
I doubt much will come of it.
“Congress was already on summer recess at the time, but three members of the Gang of Eight — Democrats Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) and Sen. Harry M. Reid (Nev.) — made arrangements to receive the briefing in August in person or by secure phone. The other five — one Democrat and four Republicans — were briefed individually in secure congressional conference rooms on Sept. 6.”
Funny how Brennan just could not lift a phone for the others…this wasn’t a briefing, it was a strategy session.
Brennan is the modern day equivalent of Natzi war criminal. complete with not using a bible to swear in.
I thought Devin Nunes said he was NEVER briefed by The Communist Version of The Thing. Yet another lie. Maybe that one sticks a bit harder?
If the Steele dossier played no role in the ICA, why did Brennan insist upon its inclusion in the report as an appendix?
One wonders if any of the Gangster Eightballs asked Brennan during his briefing, “So, you’re saying Putin wants Trump to win and Putin is going to help him by telling the world that Trump hired some hookers to pee on a bed? Tell me again how that helps Trump’s chances?”
We see it, we know it, but the people who can bring charges have their eyes shut tightly, their fingers in their ears, and are saying as loud as possible la, la, la, la, la.
Smart move by Brennan to bring in Mitch McConnell.
“A notable exception was Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who insinuated that the CIA was working with the Obama administration to prevent Trump from getting elected.”
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Cover for McConnell?
Yes.
The fact that he openly communicated the information to the 2 senior Republicans and knew it would not get back to Trump is mind shattering.
I would wager that Nunnes did not get the same briefing as the others.
I am not big on guilt by association or making assumptions of guilt. But it comes from multiple sources that Eric Ciaramella worked for John Brennan and was considered a protege. Brennan called his Trump investigation group an Inter-Agency Task Force. The National Security Council’s organization structure is full of inter agency working groups.
If Eric Ciaramella was on the Brennan’s task force there will be hell to pay. I do wonder why congress members don’t ask questions like this during hearings
So let me guess, just to make it more entertaining, “COMMIE JOHN” transmitted it via “HAM RADIO”?
“OHR….OHR”….am I simply mistaken?
LET’S MAKE A DEAL…..LIVE FROM SWAMPLAND.
DEPLORABLE JEDI.
Geez…J.R.R. Brennan……
you left out all your other adventures:
your dragon-slaying…
fighting wraiths…
and the story about how you took that cursed ring and dropped it into that volcano saving all of Middle Earth
You had FOUR YEARS to write this tale…..
After all the anticipation…..I feel unfulfilled
Brennan is a huge piece of poop he is a muslime and hates America he needs to swing from a ttee with jelly all over his body in the middle of Yellowstone national park
Take him to some Mooslem country, handcuff him, tie a placard around his neck saying I’M GAY shove him out the car door.
Abu bin Brennan’s claims touching when he first saw ‘The Dossier’ isso much parsimonious misdirection: He’s engaged in evasion through ‘mental reservation’ specifying ‘The Dossier’ AS A UNITARY DOCUMENT. The question he should be asked under Oath is,”When did you become aware of the information included in Steele’s work-product later known as ‘The Dossier’?”
Yea, but will Barr or Durham do anything about it? Since no grand jury indictments have been released by now, it is already too late due to the election season, so nothing will occur until after the election, if ever. The cover up continues.
The priority has always been to protect the institutions over meting out justice.
The institutions are rotten to the core and deserving of no protection. I knew this after ABC showed video of the ATF looking for the bomb on the AM of the OKC attack. The “A Noble Lie” video says the FBI paid them a visit and quashed any further inquiry. Bob Mueller the DOJ hit man supervising, as with the suppression of the “John Doe #2” evidence.
Did you know the FBI said they could not find the bullet in the Vince Foster case? Dug a foot and a half down and said, “Miller time”.
knowing all of this means?
This will be very difficult to prosecute as it all boils down to ‘intent’, and Brennan et all have this covered. Quite frankly, this will go nowhere.