The FBI spied on the inner circle of candidate Donald Trump’s campaign staff in 2016 and during the first 8 months of his administration. Even though Carter Page was the named target of the search warrant, 2-hop spying allowed the FBI to spy on all the people he contacted. John Spiropoulos explains how:
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The Steele Dossier, an outcome of the Fusion contract, contained two purposes: (1) the cover-story and justification for the pre-existing surveillance operation (protect Obama); and (2) facilitate the FBI counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign (assist Clinton).
An insurance policy would be needed. The Steele Dossier becomes the investigative virus the FBI wanted inside the system. To get the virus into official status, they used the FISA application as the delivery method and injected it into Carter Page.
The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the FISA warrant and the Dossier in the system {Go Deep}. This also explains all of the issues with the FISA application “Woods File” being created ex post facto.
Senator Johnson’s FISA timeline, citing page 62 of the IG report, states categorically that FBI HQ ordered the New York Field Office to open a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) investigation of Carter Page on April 1, 2016, and that the NYFO did so on April 6, 2016.
Since Carter Page’s alleged Russian agent status (“an agent of a foreign government”) is the critical predicate for the original and three renewal FISA applications [core of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation], how can Crossfire Hurricane team maintain they did not open investigation until July 31, 2016?
Carter Page joined the Trump campaign March 21, 2016, eleven days before the order, and ten days after the Buryakov press release identified him to the Russians as the (undercover employee) UCE responsible for burning three of their SVR agents.
Not only is it incredibly unlikely that Page — who was still on the witness list for Buryakov’s prosecution until his sentencing on May 25, 2016 — was thought an appropriate subject for recruitment by the Russians, even after associating with the Trump campaign… but even if he was, the opening of the April 6, 2016, FARA investigation by the NYFO almost four months before Crossfire Hurricane “officially” opened meant the FBI’s investigation into a Trump campaign associate began long before they say it did.
Add to that reality the fact the FARA order likely came from FBI HQ via Bill Priestap, and there is no way the FBI could credibly believe a UCE they knew responsible for burning three SVR agents had been recruited by the same SVR due to his recent association with the Trump campaign. It was all smoke and mirrors.
The Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing Trump surveillance and spy operations. Fusion-GPS gave them that justification and evidence for a FISA warrant with the Steele Dossier. The Dossier was used to create the FISA application. The Dossier was used as a replacement for a valid Woods File.
Ultimately that’s why the Steele Dossier was so important; without it, the FBI would not have a tool that Mueller needed to continue the investigation of President Trump.
In essence by renewing the FISA application, despite them knowing the underlying dossier was junk, the 2017 FBI was keeping the surveillance gateway open for Team Mueller to exploit later on.
John is going to do a series of these videos to try to give people who have not been following it as closely as people like CTH readers. Please disseminate the youtube video as much as possible. When you do, provide a brief explanation of your own to help spur your friends’ interest in the subject.
“the 2017 FBI was keeping the surveillance gateway open for Team Mueller to exploit later on”
Is it possible that fruits of that later surveillance may be dumped / leaked as a batch of October Surprises?
In other words, if the Weissman gang was still surveilling deep into the Trump administration into 2017, 2018, 2019 …. might Dems leak and dump some of that surveillance as a new series of bombshell headlines here in Sep, Oct, Nov leading into the election?
Apologies if this gets the subject off track but for those who have studied the information closely, It sounds like Trump family members and some members of Congress were also spied upon. What are the chances that this spying will be confirmed (if true)?
Yeah, Devin Nunes in that first press conference he called in front of the White House after coming our of the SCIF said in so many words that he was flabbergasted at what he saw in the surveillance products
We still don’t know what he saw
He’s never explained explicitly what he saw that left him so unnerved
I’d like him to explain
If it’s classified, Nunes should seek declassification from President Trump to a degree that allows Nunes to explain to the American public
One of the frustrating things is that we don’t know what or who they spied on. That would make this more real for casual observers.
Why is no one asking this?
Harvey . . . please go back to the first page of this thread. About halfway down you’ll see that I asked this question. (And I asked it several times before.) Good luck finding my post and the subsequent replies to it.
Yes . . . it’s very frustrating that after all this time we’ve learned NONE of those details. We keep learning, endlessly, that warrants were granted, but we learn nothing about what the traitors actually did with them.
Mr. Spiropoulos’s videos are well produced and useful for spreading the facts.