CTH is delayed in analysis of this story because we are a stickler for source document origination. For some unknown reason the originating document source is identified as ODNI, yet the documents themselves are not officially released. That is not comforting, and points toward controlled messaging.
According to reports today, most citations returning to [Federalist and Fox News], the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has released the background documents (pertaining to an earlier declassification of documents) showing handwritten notes by CIA Director John Brennan briefing the White House and the CIA referral to the FBI -of Clinton coordinating the Trump-Russia narrative- for operation Crossfire Hurricane.
The two releases today would be connected to the earlier release (red boxes) to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Without an official originating source for the handwritten notes I am cautious to expand discussion. The Federalist and Fox News appear to have received the notes.
The notes would pertain to a July 26, 2016, discussion between CIA Director John Brennan and an advisor to Hillary Clinton. That discussion subsequently led Brennan to brief President Obama, Denis McDonough, Susan Rice and possibly James Comey on July 28, 2016, as noted by Brennan himself in a recent op-ed.
[…] on the afternoon of July 28, 2016, I informed [President Obama] 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. (link)
Candidate Hillary Clinton proposing the strategic deployment of a Russian collusion narrative on July 26, 2016, is additionally important because only one day earlier, July 25, 2016, Clinton campaign Manager Robby Mook advocated for this exact narrative on the first day of the 2016 Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia.
- April 2016 – Fusion GPS hired to dig up dirt on Trump. Fusion hires Chris Steele to write his fabricated Trump-Russia Dossier.
- June 2016 – Clinton campaign coordinates with State Dept. allies to introduce Veselnitskaya to Donald Trump Jr.
- July 2016 – Clinton campaign pushes Russian conspiracy narrative to allies in intelligence community, John Brennan. Peter Strzok begins Trump-Russia investigation; FBI, DOJ and aggregate intelligence community weaponized to assist.
- August 2016 – Clinton campaign advisor, former Acting CIA Director Mike Morell, writes op-ed in New York Times postulating Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
- September 2016 – U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.” (link)
Which brings us to the second release today. The release of the September 2016 referral.
This is the referral from Brennan to James Comey and Peter Strzok, perhaps a CYA of sorts, telling the FBI about the Clinton campaign involvement.
[fyi the font of the date on this document seems different]
Here’s the investigative referral as released:
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Here’s where we need to go back to TWE’s exceptional review of Brennan’s working group:
[…] On June 27, 2016, Director James Clapper signed the “Coordination of Clandestine Human Source and Human-Enabled Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Activities in the United States”. The same day, Director Brennan and Chief Alex Younger spoke with each other.
Two days later, on June 29, 2016, Director Brennan gave remarks at the Council On Foreign Relations.
The next month, in July 2016, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Counterintelligence Mission Center served as a conduit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by using contacts developed by the Central Intelligence Agency between Russian individuals and members of the Trump campaign.
“The unit helped trigger the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia by serving as a conduit to the FBI last year for information the CIA develooped on contacts between Russian individuals and Trump campaign associates, officials said.” — The Washington Post
“Last year, the center played an important part in detecting Russian efforts to cultivate associates of the Trump campaign. Former CIA director John Brennan testified in May that he became ‘worried by a number of contacts that the Russians had with U.S. persons’ and alerted the FBI.” — The Washington Post
On July 2, 2016, Special Agent Strzok, David Laufman, the boyfriend of Sally Moyer, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] interviewed Hillary Clinton at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters, with David Kendall, Katherine Turner, Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson and [REDACTED] attending the interview.
Strzok then listened to Hillary’s phone interview on CNN, where she denied sending classified information, as he and Page texted each other about Director Comey’s intention to announce that they were nearly complete with the Midyear Exam investigation. Director Comey also engaged in a discussion over the telephone with the Midyear Exam investigation team about Hillary’s interview.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: “You interview Hillary Clinton I guess it was July 2nd– 2016. But actually, you’re not there?”
JAMES COMEY: “No ’cause I’m the dir– at that point, the director of the F.B.I. Only on TV is the director jumping out of helicopters and conducting interviews. My job is to make the final decisions. The pros will do the interview, the agents who had actually been investigating her and crawling all around her life for a year. And that’s the way it should be.”
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: “And after the interview, what did you learn?”
JAMES COMEY: “Spent a lotta time on the phone with the team that afternoon and learned that we didn’t find anything, the team didn’t, that changed their view of the case. That this was a case that the Department of Justice would never prosecute. And, most importantly, they didn’t want to do additional investigation. There was nothing she said that they believed we could prove was false. And there was nothing else they needed to run down to see if she was testifying to us falsely. And so the view of the team was, ‘We’re done here. Our view of this case is firm. No prosecutor would prosecute this case.” — ABC News
On July 5, 2016, Director Comey announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation would be closing the Midyear Exam investigation, with zero recommendations for charges for Hillary Clinton. The next day, Attorney General Lynch released her statement that there would be no charges.
On June 13, 2016, Director Brennan — introduced by General John Allen and moderated by Bruce Riedel — hosted a discussion titled “CIA’s Strategy In the Face of Emerging Challenges” at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
A few days later, on July 19, 2016, Director Brennan attended a Leadership Dinner at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, where he discussed the modernisation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Open Source Enterprise.
Two days later, on July 21, 2016, a number of White House officials attended a high-level security meeting, which featured people from the National Security Council, the United States Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security. During the meeting, they discussed the reports that the Russian Government had hacked into the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Hours later, on July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks started to publish the e-mails from the Democratic National Committee. At the same time, American intelligence started to collect conversations where Russian officials discussed contacts with Trump associates.
“The warning signs had been building throughout the summer, but were far from clear. As WikiLeaks was pushing out emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee through online publication, American intelligence began picking up conversations in which Russian officials were discussing contacts with Trump associates, and European allies were starting to pass along information about people close to Mr. Trump meeting with Russians in the Netherlands, Britain and other countries.” — The New York Times
The next day, on July 23, 2016, Alexander Downer informed Elizabeth Dibble at the United States Embassy in London of his conversation with Papadopoulos from May 10, 2016. The information was then transmitted from the United States Department of State to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Headquarters.
Four days later, on July 27, 2016, Trump hosted a press conference, where he said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you’ll be rewarded mightily by our press.” At the same time, the Aspen Security Forum started, which was attended by Director Brennan, Director Clapper, Director Comey, John P. Carlin and Representative Adam Schiff.
Towards the end of July 2016, American intelligence agencies proceeded to inform the White House that the Russian Government was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
On July 29, 2016, Strzok and Page texted each other about a new case and whether Page had discussed it with Deputy Director McCabe. The next day, on July 30, Strzok texted Page and wondered if he would be able to bring her to London with him.
On July 31, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, as Strzok texted Page about the importance of his visit to London.
Crossfire Hurricane had four targets:
- George Papadopoulos — The May 2016 Downer meeting.
- Carter Page — The 2013 Russian intelligence incident.
- Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — The Russia Today dinner.
- Paul Manafort — The Ukraine investigation.
The next month, in August 2016, Carter Page left the Trump campaign.
Now this is where we to have split it between two articles. This will focus on the Working Group. We will return the bigger half later.
At some point, Director Brennan received intelligence from an intelligence agency in the Baltic States — the Estonian Information Board — which featured a recording about money being moved from the Kremlin into an American presidential campaign.
“Last April, the CIA director was shown intelligence that worried him. It was — allegedly — a tape recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into the US presidential campaign.
It was passed to the US by an intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States. The CIA cannot act domestically against American citizens so a joint counter-intelligence taskforce was created.” — Paul Wood, BBC News
“According to the BBC, the justice department’s request came after a tipoff from an intelligence agency in one of the Baltic states. This is believed to be Estonia.” — The Guardian
As previously discussed, it should be noted that the Estonian Information Board conducted intelligence gathering on a meeting in the Czech Republic maintained by the organisation Rossotrudnichestvo, a meeting described within the Steele dossier, which allegedly featured Michael Cohen. It should also be noted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation were aware of Sergei Millian through a 2011 investigation into Yury Zaytsev, the head of Washington’s Rossotrudnichestvo.
Director Brennan would also meet with Director Robert Hannigan of GCHQ and receive intelligence at “director level”, despite the two not being counterparts.
This Working Group was either formed in April or in August.
“The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry.” — McClatchy
The McClatchy article, if taken at face value, would suggest that the Working Group was active months before mid-September 2016, which is the moment that the Crossfire Hurricane team received the Steele memos.
Alternatively, The Washington Post suggests that the Working Group was formed in August 2016, which contained several dozen analysts. For the purposes of these articles, we will be using the August 2016 start time.
After the beginning of August 2016, Director Brennan convened a secret task force — the “Working Group” — which was composed of agents from multiple agencies:
- Central Intelligence Agency — Foreign
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — Domestic
- National Security Agency — Foreign
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence — Foreign
- United States Department of Justice — Domestic
- United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — Domestic
The Working Group operated out of the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters, where it worked in secrecy away from the other members of the various intelligence agencies. Agents that participated in the Working Group had to sign non-disclosure agreements to access the shared intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. It has also been described as “informal”.
The Working Group would also report to two different sets of people:
- President Barack Obama and less than fourteen (14) senior United States Government officials.
- Operations specialists at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency
The Working Group had a number of tasks to accomplish in their investigations of Donald Trump, his campaign and Russian interests.
- The transfer of money from the Kremlin to assist the Trump campaign through the use of a system which paid thousands of Russian-American pensioners by funnelling the monies to e-mail hackers in the United States, or to funnel that money to intermediaries.
- Locate the main financier behind the e-mail hacks of both the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta.
Attorneys at the United States Department of Justice’s National Security Department then attempted to file a FISA application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to intercept electronic records for two Russian banks — SVB Bank and Alfa Bank.
The Crossfire Hurricane investigation team, in conjunction with a number of agents at the Eastern District of Virginia under United States Attorney Dana Boente, reported to the Working Group, including the Central Intelligence Agency. During this time, they investigated the four main targets of Crossfire Hurricane, and they also investigated Roger Stone as part of their expanded WikiLeaks investigation.
“The F.B.I.’s thinking crystallized by mid-August, after the C.I.A. director at the time, John O. Brennan, shared intelligence with Mr. Comey showing that the Russian government was behind an attack on the 2016 presidential election. Intelligence agencies began collaborating to investigate that operation. The Crossfire Hurricane team was part of that group but largely operated independently, three officials said.” — The New York Times
As part of the secrecy surrounding the Working Group and Crossfire Hurricane, the Crossfire Hurricane team was provided their own source of funding, and they worked in a secure area, titled the “war room”, within the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Headquarters, which required special clearance to enter.
Meanwhile, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned officials and United States Congress that both American citizens’ and residents’ banking and financial data had been illegally searched and stored. Those breaches extended to other intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
This was accomplished as the Office of Intelligence and Analysis opened a back door to give access to the intelligence agencies. Another aspect was that the United States Department of the Treasury attempted to transfer the work of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, which was fought back by employees at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
At the time, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis was ran by the Assistant Secretary For Intelligence and Analysis, S. Leslie Ireland, whom also simultaneously worked as the National Intelligence Manager For Threat Finance at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She started both positions in July 2010, and left both positions in November 2016.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, in the summer of 2016, also inquired about reviewing the Office of Intelligence and Analysis’ guidelines under Executive Order 12333, but they were ultimately removed from the e-mail chain surrounding the issue.
The National Security Agency successfully collected the records of 151 million American phone calls through the use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders to collect information from 42 individuals. This involved the distribution of 3,914 reports which contained information about Americans gathered in warrantless surveillance programs. The National Security Agency also collected metadata through pen register orders for 41 targets.
For a visual aide, you can use this interactive image from The Guardian to showcase how the two hop system works.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the United States Department of the Treasury all collectively worked on the investigation into Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as they scrutinised his communications to determine the extent of his communications with Russian Government contacts.
In August 2016, Paul Wood of BBC News contacted a retired spy, where the spy mentioned that they had heard of the existence of Russian blackmail on Trump from “the head of an East European intelligence agency”. The same month, Director Brennan shared intelligence with Director Comey, which contained information showing that the Russian Government was behind the interference of the 2016 United States presidential election. Directors Brennan and Comey would engage in further conversations as summer rolled on.
On August 2, 2016, Strzok and another agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with Downer in London, where they discussed Papadopoulos. This led to concern from Deputy Director McCabe about information control, while the United Kingdom requested Strzok not to disclose any identities outside of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The next day, on August 3, 2016, the Russian Foreign Ministry transferred $30,000.00 to the Russian Embassy’s Citibank account in Washington, DC, where they left a memo line: “to finance election campaign of 2016”.
On August 19, 2016, Paul Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign, as a ramification of the actions of Ukraine.
In September 2016, Paul Ahern argued with numerous employees at the United States Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network about the Office of Intelligence and Analysis’ powers over searching American citizens’ bank accounts and financial details as there were draft guidelines which authorised it, although the guidelines were never finalised.
On September 14, 2016, Special Agent Strzok attended a briefing hosted by the National Security Agency.
On September 26, 2016, John Carlin filed a notification with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. These efforts to acquire a FISA on Carter Page were discussed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as Lisa Page learned of the plans around this time.
“According to Page’s testimony, she first learned of plans to obtain a FISA warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page approximately a month before the FISA was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.” — Jeff Carlson, The Epoch Times
By the end of September 2016, agents at both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, people at Capitol Hill, and other people at other intelligence agencies were leaking information surrounding the investigation of Trump and Russia to The New York Times, which was investigated in an effort led by Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers.
On October 21, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice — signed off by Director Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates — formally filed their Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to monitor the communications of Carter Page, in a document containing over 50 pages.
The secret surveillance order was then approved by Judge Rosemary Collyer at the Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Act Court, which granted permission to conduct electronic surveillance on Carter.
The FISA order was ultimately used by Director Brennan’s Working Group, as the information gathered gave them multiple investigative leads into the Trump campaign. This was most likely used in conjunction with Paul Manafort’s own active FISA, which was also being used for surveillance.
“The FBI and other US agencies have been combing through information obtained through that FISA as part of its ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s links to Russia.” — CNN
“A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014. It centered on work done by a group of Washington consulting firms for Ukraine’s former ruling party, the sources told CNN.
The surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of the sources.
The FBI then restarted surveillance after obtaining a new FISA warrant that extended at least into early this year.” — CNN
As a reminder:
“Here is one hypothetical scenario. The NSA requests approval from the FISA court to collect the communications of the Arab-American Civil Rights League on the grounds that it suspects some dubious characters have been using its facilities. Over a period of months (if there a restriction on the duration of electronic surveillance under FISA rules), they register 1,000 communications. Using ‘first hop’ privileges they identify 250 persons whose own communications they wish to tap. Using “second hop” privileges they next identify a total of 1,500 more people whose communications they wish to tap. That makes a total of 2,700 persons whose telephone calls they are monitoring and storing. Each year, the NSC requests warrants from the FISA courts about 500 times. Hence, we can project more than 1 million telephone numbers now under surveillance for an indefinite period of time. For we should further note that once an official investigation is begun the records acquire the status of legal documents in a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding.” — Michael Brenner, The Huffington Post
Between November 1–6, 2016, Paul Wood met with Glenn Simpson at BBC News’s Washington station to have lunch, where Simpson provided Wood with a redacted copy of the Steele memos. Shortly after this, Wood then contacted the Central Intelligence Agency in an attempt to corroborate the information, where he received an unofficial intermediary whom said they the Steele memos were credible and they had numerous outside sources to it.
“Mr Wood said he had asked the CIA about the allegations made in the dossier, which is said to have circulated for months among major media outlets, who were not able to corroborate its contents, before it was published by BuzzFeed.
‘I sent a message to the CIA at the beginning of November to ask them about these allegations,’ said Mr Wood.
‘It was illegal for any official to talk to me about them, but I got a message back through an intermediary that said the allegations were regarded as credible. And more than that, there was more than a single source for them, not just this MI6 man.’” — The Independent
On December 9, 2016, President Obama ordered a review to be carried out by American intelligence agencies to research Russian interference in United States elections going back to 2008. The same day, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller — with assistance from Julie Tate — published the article “Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House” in The Washington Post, while David E. Sanger and Scott Shane published “Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says” in The New York Times.
As part of the development of the Intelligence Community Assessment, Director Brennan hand-picked a number of agents from both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of whom was Special Agent Peter Strzok, whom worked as an intermediary between Director Comey and Director Brennan.
The next day, on December 10, 2016, Nakashima and Entous — again with Tate’s assistance — published the article “FBI and CIA give differing accounts to lawmakers on Russia’s motives in 2016 hacks” in The Washington Post. A reporter, meanwhile, sent an inquiry to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where they asked whether they agreed with the conclusion that Russia assisted President-elect Trump with his election victorr, which was responded to by Special Agent Strzok.
Three days later, on December 13, 2016, Eric Lipton, Sanger and Shane, with contributions from Kitty Bennett, published the article “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.” in The New York Times. On the same day, Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Lindsay published the article “Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking — sources” in Reuters, which was about the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
This resulted in Director Clapper, Director Brennan, Director Comey and Director Vincent Stewart all collectively declining to brief the House Intelligence Committee on the issues surrounding their conflicting assessments on the Russian cyber attacks. At the same time, Strzok and Page’s texts allegedly stopped being stored internally, as the initial batch of texts messages end on December 13.
Two days later, on December 15, Strzok and Page texted each other about a sister organisation leaking to the mainstream media. The next day, December 16, Strzok texted Page again, this time to discuss an article in The Washington Post: “FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House”, where Strzok argued that the Central Intelligence Agency is more capable of manipulating the press and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had the initial position, not the Central Intelligence Agency.
Two days later again, on December 18, 2016, Strzok and Page discussed his intelligence submissions to the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference. Strzok expressed concern that the White House would scapegoat the Federal Bureau of Investigation using the classified portion of the report. One day later, on December 19, Page texted Strzok about the number of mainstream media stories where they actively played a personal role in, as Strzok questioned whether he should have done anything differently to prevent the rise of Donald Trump.
On January 5, 2017, Director Comey, Director Brennan, Director Michael Rogers and Director Clapper briefed President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on the Intelligence Community Assessment and a 2-page synopsis of the Steele dossier. But we’ll talk more about this later.
On January 18, 2017, Peter Stone and Greg Gordon published the article “FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump” in McClatchy.
On January 21, 2017, Zeeshan Aleem published the article “6 different agencies have come together to investigate Trump’s possible Russia ties” in Vox.
On January 22, 2017, Carol E. Lee, Devlin Barrett and Shane Harris published the article “U.S. Eyes Michael Flynn’s Links to Russia” in The Wall Street Journal.
On June 9, 2017, Special Agent Strzok received an agency coin with the signature of Director Brennan. Agency coins are handed out to “exceptional employees” recognised by the Agency.
On September 20, 2017, John Brennan created his Twitter account.
And he’s been tweeting threats towards President Trump ever since, to the point that his national security clearance was revoked.
Why were these docs REDACTED?
45 wants FULL TRANSPARENCY!
think whoever released DOCS REDACTED THE DOCS…Where is AG Barr now that 45 has AUTHORIZED FULL TRANSPARENCY?
45: UNREDACT ALL PRIOR RELEASES!!!
I don’t remember where I saw this and I could be totally wrong here, but I thought somebody said he was on medical leave(quarantine) because of his exposure to Covid.
AG Barr is in quarantine but where are the UNREDACTED DOCS?
the key is to UNREDACT THE ALREADY RELEASED DOCs!!!
I’ve seen him tweet declassification before. I wonder why he announces it? I would like to see a tweet saying it’s done with a link. At least don’t give the slimes time to call a morning meeting to cover themselves and get out in front…. JMHO.
Perhaps tomorrow will be a mass resignation and a plea to remove potus from office. CNN has not leaked anything tonight so maybe its a nothing burger.
Good point, Bar Wind
I actually think a lot of the excited people here need to take a breath and realize that often what happens the day after one of these stunning PDJT moves is…
…nothing visible.
And I would not take that as a disappointment, though I suspect there will be many saying that if it is quiet for a day or two.
A fuse has been lit.
(Then again, if the substance does hit the oscillating device, it will indeed be exciting – and nerve-wracking – as all get out. Please don’t forget to keep focused on the election at all costs!)
The first question that needs to be asked at this co-conspirator press release….prior to any comments.
Why should any US Citizen believe anything you espouse from your lying mouth, given the public documented errors and omissions of your respective agency?
Turn off the mic…….
They lost their right to continue distracting in the USA. through their treasonous acts.
I am proud that Our President is forcing us not to be dominated by the Chyna virus And the CCP revolution here on our own soil.
Regarding that CIA memo – That’s not a change in font size, that’s the result of scanning or copying the document with autofit scaling turned on.
The original appears to have been typed on a typewriter. At some time after it was typed, it was likely copied or scanned, with about 97% scaling. 97% – 98% scaling is usually the default, to prevent this loss of anything printed or written very near the edge of the paper, like notes in the margins.
Then (it appears), someone with access to the same typewriter (or its twin) typed up a new date line and stuck it, not to the unscaled original, but to the scaled copy of the original, and then copied the whole thing again.
The typist may have typed the wrong date to begin with and innocently corrected the error this way. Or, anyone with access to the typewriter, or to a document typed on it and actually dated as needed, could have altered the date to what we now see.
That’s my hunch.
Forcing is the wrong term but showing the way… I get so pssd at this delay of truths.
I see the late night gloom crew is hard at work around here.
PDJT is in a very strong position politically. He’s running away from Biden. And he has had enough of the foot-dragging and of three letter agency heads counting on a Biden win to make this criminal scandal go away.
Barr and Durham had their chance (“let’s see what happens”). They fumbled it. Now the President is getting around to it himself … in his spare time, when he is not busy correcting fundamental trade and geopolitical imbalances involving tens of trillions of dollars and the fates of nations and economies.
Any ‘mutiny’ among the underlings will not be hurting this President; it will be confirming everyone’s suspicions.
And just him and those closest to him all getting China Flu, but not a single nearby Democrat, may have raised his suspicions, too.
Folks wake up
This is Coup #4 underway.
1) The heads of the DOJ and FBI holding a hurried meeting about National Security with CNN acting as host?
2) We have reports today that many if not most of PT generals are home quarantine for COVID concerns?
3) PT orders full declassification with no redactions
4) PT retweets a meme dogging Barr to arrest somebody and Barr is now reportedly under home quarantine as well. (Note PT would never IMO retweeted that meme if he did learn that either no indictments are coming or the FIB/DOJ leadership is going public tomorrow against PT)
I just hope PT has a strong team behind him as well because there are way too many coincidences going on at once right now.
45 gave AG Barr authority to release docs…
Tonight 45 announced FULL TRANSPARENCY ON RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA AND CROOKED EMAIL SCANDAL.
In the morning, will the docs be released UNREDACTED???
prosecutions mean nothing without VICTORY!
Number 4 is damn right outrageous………
DOJ/FBI going public against PDJT will result in an immediate bloodbath (firings) by PDJT.
It could affect the election in either direction.
Too bad there is not an honest media to report it.
America could be screwed.
You are right about too many coincidences.
Holy crap, Bogeyfree. Now you have me worried, and righrfully so.
When did #1 happen??? With CNN of all news media?
Found the tweet.
And Bash is leaving….. so the unmasking is near or it is smashed.
I know everyone likes to dismiss QAnon but they told you over the summer that #1 was coming around September. It was supposed to be a CNN type-townhall.
Correct. I’d forgotten that little morsel with everything that’s been hurled at us.
Our VSG President Donald J. Trump has anticipated and planned for all of this. Justice is coming and the rats are scrambling. The swamp is being drained. We have not come this far to turn back now. Have faith. Pray for our Lion President and fellow patriots. MAGA Forevermore.
Quick question.
If that is the case, where is Barr?
And why would he allow his underlings to hold this National Security Meeting without him?
Also do you find it interesting that so many of PT generals are reportedly in self quarantine?
Oh, my Bogeyfree, this is getting worrisome. A National Security meeting with CNN????!!! Barr ducks out with the precautionary quarantine as an excuse.
CNN is the POOL Network. This is common for only one network to have access. For a variety of reasons. Can’t have all those crews setting up etc. So they allow one in to feed the others with images and audio.
It is the AUDIO and CAMERA operators from CNN in the room. They provide the feed to the other networks.
I have done this long ago.
The only guy in the room providing the camera feed and the audio feed. I don’t see anything really sinister because the pool photographer is just there to shoot. and feed the other news truck, or uplink to a satellite or a fiber link and feed that way.
Audio will be from the mics that go to a break out box or something similar. That location is set up for this most likely.
If CNN controls everything and locks out the others, it would be highly unusual.
The reason for the Press Conference is what is troubling, not the pool network.
How ATT CNN bought the recusal of Bill Barr
Big ATT has been cheating to win Billion $ Federal Government Contracts. In defiance of the NDAA of 2012, ATT has been hiring Government Agency CIO’s, AGs and IGs to influence the awarding of Billion $ Government Contracts. The NDAA of 2012 makes this a felony, but if you hire the AGs and IGs… who is going to investigate and prosecute?
For example:
Jill Singer, Former CIO of the NRO, now ATT VP, helps win the $2.5 Billion NRO BROADSIDE Telecommunications contract for ATT.
https://washingtontechnology.com/blogs/editors-notebook/2019/06/att-nro-protest-win.aspx
Greg Witschey, Former CIO of NSA, now ATT Director, helps win the $3 Billion NSA GREENWAY Telecommunications contract for ATT.
https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/03/t-won-secret-33-billion-nsa-contract-despite-more-expensive-bid/146853/
Bill Barr, Former AG of USA, was retained by ATT through Kirkland & Ellis to promote and support ATT in its appeals fight to win Time Warner CNN. That $1.73 Million retainer means that current AG William Barr is Recused from all things ATT and CNN.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kirkland-ellis-bill-barr-confirmed-020307390.html?guccounter=1
https://www.barrons.com/articles/attorney-general-nominee-william-barr-made-1-73-million-from-at-t-time-warner-deal-51547493385
Coincidentally, about 6 month after William Barr became Attorney General for the 2nd time, ATT was awarded the $1 Billion Department of Justice Telecommunications contract.
https://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-scores-984-million-contract-with-justice-department/
Also coincidentally, all 31 Wiped and Deleted Special Counsel Cell Phones were supplied and managed by ATT. It is highly probable that the ATT metadata and text collection servers have all been wiped as well.
I don’t believe we are that far gone yet.
Really? If someone told you last October that a flu virus would crash the entire US economy and put mill out of work, that state governments would lock down their citizens while allowing tens of thousands to riot in the streets for 5 months and literally burn down and destroy billions of dollars of real estate and business property, while murdering Trump supporters in cold blood with little pushback by city governments…..would you have accepted that as very possible? I think not.
I wouldn’t ignore an attempted open coup as a very real possibility. We ARE there and have been all year as soon as the shampeachment then the COVID attack failed to damage Trump’s real poll numbers.
interesting
Great movie.
The Kirk Douglas character, “Jiggs”, is the guy who blows the plotters’ scheme to smithereens.
Admiral Mike Rogers is the real character who began the process of blowing these plotters’ scheme to …
Will anyone be arrested tomorrow?
I wonder if PT got wind of this suspected coup yesterday and forced his release last night so he could get back to the WH, with better Security?
Something tipped him off as it was reported he ordered the declassification we saw today from Walter Reed yesterday and then many in his leadership team suddenly went into quarantine.
Something clearly doesn’t smell right IMO.
The generals all disappearing at the same time as Barr was very telling. There are no coincidences.
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. Without standing armies liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe
-James Madison
there are more than 500 in US Military…not even close…
When he took the mask off at the White House, I think it was a symbolic warning he was going to unmask everything (and entirely unrelated to COVID). Plus, he looked rather stern. Remember the opera music at the end of the RNC…..
I believe the virus was an attempt on his life and Melania’s (to make sure she couldn’t tell anything). I truly hope all of his children are protected right now.
Stephen Miller, the president’s speech writer, just tested positive:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/oct/07/coronavirus-live-news-six-us-states-see-record-hospital-patients-facebook-deletes-trump-post?page=with:block-5f7cf9728f0875963515a817
Interesting observation/connection about taking off the mask.
I, too, believe The Trump’s and company were targeted. Our CIA has long been involved in such nefarious activities since their inception. I have a number of books on the CIA. Even have a book titled, “The CIA Doctors.” They are quite disturbing to read.
I believe PDJT’s inherent strength may just be a wee bit further amplified by the steroids he received. Nothing wrong with that! The few times I have been on short courses of low dose steroids to counter inflammation, I got things done I’d been putting off for years. My house was CLEAN!
Hopefully, now, OUR House will be cleaned! God speed y’all.
They tried the covid coup and that failed. This is their plan B. Wray is going to lead this coup tomorrow. That SOB should have been canned long ago. You never delay firing someone as it will always bite you in the rear.
Wray can’t lead his way out of a paper bag…
Many G Men are now lost in a maze of confusion and waiting on pensions…
Excuse me, but Donald Trump is the Commander in Chief. Wray gets fired tomorrow before the 11 am virtual meeting.
It’s so sad what this country has become, a bunch of sell-out commie b-stards. Sometimes it’s really hard to believe.
Amen Kaco…I really feel like I’m living in a Vince Flynn novel.
How about tomorrow just a leeetle bit of action like in the first Vince Flynn novel?
Yep. Wouldn’t lose a wink of sleep either. The whirlwind is upon us. Many a sliding glass door moving ever so quiet this evening in to the early hours of tomorrow.
The day is nearer when Good Men are tired of doing nothing.
It’s certainly a free country where any person is free to voice their opinion.
However, at best his is the second most useless post I have ever read on this site …
Frankly, and I hope to not upset you, because I just finished reading yours and no way his is the worst. You trackIng what I’m laying down there lackawaxen123?
Peace. Out.
RIGHT ON !
This just gets worse and worse but I continue to wonder just how much of this “truth” will get through to the average American (especially those in the “undecided” category—which I cannot even fathom how anyone not intellectually challenged by some organic disease or deficit can still be “undecided”), much less be studied and understood by such a person.
It seems to me that pitifully few Americans can be bothered by such “details.”
Can’t POTUS commandeer the networks and address the nation and lay out the entire evidence since this is a matter of national security. I don’t believe the networks can stop him.
I suppose he could but even then I still wonder how many Americans are even able anymore to hear such information and think critically to then assess and understand it.
Would be even more understandable if Barr would get off his ass and announce indictments at the same time.
I shall not hold my breath for any actual “justice” to be done. At a minimum, “justice” must include aggressive charging and prosecution of ALL coup participants from Barack Hussein Obama “down” to the lowliest clerk or intern with actual knowledge but failed to report the criminality. “All” also includes anyone involved in the coup and cover-up conspiracies and funding such as globalists like Soros and tech oligarchs.
https://reason.com/2019/02/15/in-a-state-of-emergency-the-president-ca/
In a State of Emergency, the President Can Control Your Phone, Your TV, and Even Your Light Switches
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
The only actual indictments and trials etc have been against the Trump team. So far there have been zero actual official indictments of Anything against the Dems. All we have is chat site gossip – as compelling as we find it – its just gossip.
So – I dont despair over “how few Americans” are paying attention. Attention to what?
No – its time, assuming any of this stuff is actually true – for the Justice Dept to do its thing. I am confident people will pay attention to that, and if they dont, thats fine too right? As long as justice is done.
“To what?”
To the steady drip drip drip of factual information when taken together as a mosaic confirms the reality of the coup that started with Barack Hussein Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton.
As to the idea that our “justice system” will actually “do justice” as to the coup participants (including Barack Hussein Obama, Biden and Hillary AND the aides and abetters among the globalists and tech oligarchs), As I have said before, I will believe it when I see it. I will not be holding my breath either.
Our doctrine of the “rule of law being paramount and no respecter of persons” is now honored only in the breach.
I do agree that its stunning – the biggest thing I’ve learned over the past 4 years – is the massive influence that media has on people you would otherwise think are pretty smart, well educated etc. The military-grade brainwashing , unfortunately, has been pretty successful , except on a few misfits ( like yours truly!).
Welcome to the misfit club. See you on the barricades.
9.9 out of 10 average Americans couldn’t even tell you the significance of the July ’16 dates, much less who Wray is. When the media is determined to hide the truth, it generally stays hidden from most. Unless you’re a regular CTH visitor, of course.
The woeful ignorance of so many Americans about “important things” (beyond their prime time TV fare of “reality shows, sports, hunting/fishing, (anti)social media of who went where and what they are eating, who “likes” them etc.) is largely a result of several factors.
These have been at work for decades, working in concert to gradually “dumb down” our citizens especially as to how their largely taken-for-granted freedoms are being eroded or “redefined” out of existence.
These factors include our “educational/indoctrination system,” our increasingly “depraved culture” (not just in terms of “morality” but also in the sense of near-total self absorption) and an ever-decreasing attention span that renders most simply unable to either absorb anything but the simplest information or to critically assess such information as they are able to absorb.
I know we are not supposed to judge, but John Brennan is definitely an agent of Satan. So. enjoy it while it lasts John.
Unfortunately I’d lay 100 to 1 that he’ll never see a court date past indictment.
He’s destined for a lead / copper sandwich by his own hand.
Do I recall correctly that the first version of what eventually became known as the “Steele Dossier” was written early in (or prior to) this operation by a long-time confidante of Mrs Clinton?
Big: Yes, there was supposedly an early ‘draft’ of the big deception done by Cody Shearer with, I believe, significant drama added by Sid Blumenthal. This then got massaged by Fusion GPS to additional backstory (from Glenn Simpson’s earlier WSJ work) and add some factual datapoints gleaned from unauthorized NSA database searches to add “credibility” to the Dossier. (this is where the wrong Michael Cohen in Prague element was erroneously added). Other than a few juicy inputs from Dashenko, Chris Steele was primarily the mule to deliver the final product to the FBI as coming from a highly-regarded former British intelligence operative.
“significant drama added by Sid Blumenthal.”
Is he the one that added the urination episode?
Alinsky 101
Accuse your opponent of what ypu actually do.
Makes one wonder if Sid was ever given the perk of a night in the Lincoln bedroom.
Wasn’t it also revealed that O’l Sid was the one who helped Ms. Hillbilly concoct the lie about Benghazi? From all that I’ve read, he was her “go to” guy.
Cody Shearer was the one who killed a pet of one of the Bill Clinton accusers, Juanita Broderick.
She posted here a couple of years ago to confirm it. I will never forget that. CTH is very close to some key people in this drama.
Information is Lil’ Marco was the first purveyor of Fusion GPS “dirty work” which was taken up by the Hag after he dropped out of the race. Remember early the plotters kept saying through their media allies the Russia Hoax originated with the GOP? The Hag is the one who contracted Steele for the dossier that was used as a pretense for all the following FISA spying and accusations, however.
My recollection is that bubble bath boy hired Fusion to do standard opposition lies and that they had nothing to do with Russia.
SEDITION
The federal law against seditious conspiracy can be found in Title 18 of the U.S. Code (which includes treason, rebellion, and similar offenses), specifically 18 U.S.C. § 2384. According to the statutory definition of sedition, it is a crime for two or more people within the jurisdiction of the United States:
To conspire to overthrow or destroy by force the government of the United States or to level war against them;
To oppose by force the authority of the United States government; to prevent, hinder, or delay by force the execution of any law of the United States; or
To take, seize, or possess by force any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof.
The only issue I see (IANAL) is the requirement that seditious actions be “by force”. Not sure we’re there yet, but a talented lawyer could probably make a case against the current crop of miscreants…
18 U.S. Code § 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
I had Fox on in the background…Reporting on Eric Trump having to testify and SDNY saying they found “concerning” problems with devaluing of real estate property in Trump Org.
Could it be the FBI will use this as a reason to say National Security Matter? Another reason to say Trump and his business dealings puts us at risk?
Here we go again.
But there’s nothing to see with the VP’s son traveling on AF2 to make multi-million dollar deals with companies run by the military of hostile nations. Nope, nothing to see here at all.
Joe Biden belongs in a cell not on a ballot.
“[…] on the afternoon of July 28, 2016, I informed [President Obama] 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.”
I’m curious about this. Did Brennan receive the plan from Hillary, then brief Obama as if it was an actual Russian operation leaving out that it was a plan from Hillary? Or did Brennan brief Obama that is WAS a Hillary plan, and Obama played right along?
“Candidate Hillary Clinton proposing the strategic deployment of a Russian collusion narrative on July 26, 2016”
July 2016. Comey certainly picked up the Russian collusion ball quickly once this was set in motion. Didn’t the FBI side of the coup start in late July 2016?
He picked it up quickly as opposed to his action on Weiners laptop.
Or did Brennan simply brief Obama that the Russians were aware of Hillary’s plan?
Thanks. There is one comforting thought. If this massive systemic corruption does’nt get tackled , we are well on the way to systemic collapse, including a collapse of the US Dollar as a reserve currency for the world. Obviously everyone gets hurt, but all these people who have skimmed their way to wealth, multi-millions – and I do think a lot of this corruption is simply about money – well, they will fall from much greater heights. People who work everyday to pay for food – will continue tyo do that , but for people who have wealth – and never expected to have to work for food – it will come as a shock. But hey, on the bright side, its good character building stuff.
Is Pence in on a coup?
Where is Pence?
PDJT should ask the DC Police for an outer layer of perimeter protection (in addition to the Secret Service around the WH, for tonight and tomorrow.
Pence is supposed to debate Kamala tonight. I guess he’s busy prepping.
so if a tree falls in the forest witnessed by people who weren’t on drugs but didn’t care or believe it, did it really happen?
so if a felony happens in the FBI, known by (and/or carried out by) many FBI occupants, did it really happen?
no….
so, if a tree did not fall, and no FBI agent saw it, and wrote original ‘302’ statements that it did not happen, but a lawyer later revised the evidence to say General Flynn chopped it down, did the tree actually fall?
yes, according to ‘judge’ sullivan….
It is time for deep-staters to face the music. Prison . . . Or worse.
Not to crush the Declass Hope Porn taking place but…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/07/the-declassification-conundrum/
See…..such an easy case to put together.
And this is mainly just a summary of CIA’s role
and everyone seems to have some form of CYA to sow reasonable doubt.
Bill Barr is the “honorable man” stuck in a house of corruption.
He is labeled as the one “trying to save his institution.”
Between PT’s tweet, stories about Gina’s insubordination, and de-class of docs, his own statements about “looking at those violating liberties during” this scamdemic;
what exactly will he do today about any of these barn fires?
The information given is overwhelming and difficult to follow. Most of the commenters have not bothered to read the article or simply not commenting on it.
Suggest that an outline is given and the back up info available. I realize there are more information links given, but this is simply to much information for the average treeper including me.
Allan, I sympathize. I’ve followed Sundance’s investigation for several years and it has been very impressive in its thoroughness. This post is a notable addition to that work. If you have just started following the whole spygate affair, may I suggest https://spygatetruths.com/
as a background. It is 13 episodes summarizing the evidence which Sundance revealed to the DOJ about a month ago. (Don’t hold me to the timeline.)
Hillary Clinton as told by CIA Director DIRECTLY, was agreeing to a foreign policy advisor recommendation of concocting a Trump Russia hoax to take away from her private email server.
What actions did this group take?
Any FISA’s issued?
Any NSL’s?
Where are Comey’s notes?
Susan Rice notes?
And how does the Steele Dossier get any credibility with this backdrop?
They knew Hillary paid for it?
I’m curious about the context of the notes used for the “briefing” to the FBI, Obama, etc. Was that a notification about the clever plan Hillary had come up with? Was it notification about a “plan” we can all get behind? I’m sure it wasn’t a warning about some nefarious wrong-doing that needed to be acted on by FBI or DOJ.
I do not have time to wade through the comments today, so if this point was made previously, apologies.
The timing of this is too serendipitous to be an accident.
My opinion; this is the work of one person. I do not know this person but you have my complete respect, not only for putting all this together, albeit with several other folks, but you put everything personally dear to you at risk, a few weeks ago. That tour where you enlightened several thick headed, unaware, pols and bureaucrats, to include Durham’s lead investigator, took balls.
Giant Clanging Balls.
With all the respect I have to give, Thank you Sundance.
Take care Treepers, and remember, you have a front row seat to history – right now!
Sundance got the Robby Mook July 25 2016 date wrong. It was actually on July 24 2016 :
I havent read SD post but am so looking forward to it tonight. Why did John Brennan send a referral to James Comey and copy Peter Strzok? Shouldn’t that have gone to William Priestap the person Strzok works for?.
This was eyes only stuff, being presented to the President of the United States. The reason is Strzok was Brennan’s spy.
Also if PDJT had gotten the Brennan briefing in the same position as Obama (Sitting President), how long would it have taken him to Tweet something out about Putin and HRC? Not 4 frigging years I promise