According to reports in November of 2019, U.S Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr were spending time on a narrowed focus looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. One quote from a media-voice increasingly sympathetic to a political deep-state noted:
“One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services””. (Link)
It is interesting that quote came from a British intelligence official, as there appears to be evidence of an extensive FBI/CIA operation that likely involved U.K. intelligence services. In addition, and as a direct outcome, there is an aspect to the FBI/CIA operation that overlaps with both a U.S. and U.K. need to keep Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under tight control. In this outline we will explain where corrupt U.S. and U.K. interests merge.
To understand the risk that Julian Assange represented to FBI/CIA interests, it is important to understand just how extensive the operations of the FBI/CIA were in 2016. It is within this network of foreign and domestic operations where FBI Agent Peter Strzok is clearly working as a bridge between the CIA and FBI operations.
By now people are familiar with the construct of CIA operations involving Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor generally identified as a western intelligence operative who was tasked by the FBI/CIA to run an operation against Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos in both Italy (Rome) and London. {Go Deep}
In a similar fashion the FBI tasked U.S. intelligence asset Stefan Halper to target another Trump campaign official, Carter Page. Under the auspices of being a Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper also targeted General Michael Flynn. Additionally, using assistance from a female FBI agent under the false name Azra Turk, Halper also targeted Papadopoulos.
The initial operations to target Flynn, Papadopoulos and Page were all based overseas. This seemingly makes the CIA exploitation of the assets and the targets much easier.
One of the more interesting aspects to the unfinished Durham probe is the possibility of a paper-trail created as a result of the tasking operations. We should watch closely for evidence of a paper trail.
HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes has outlined how very specific exculpatory evidence was known to the FBI and yet withheld from the FISA application used against Carter Page that also mentions George Papadopoulos. The FBI also fabricated information in the FISA.
However, there is an aspect to the domestic U.S. operation that also bears the fingerprints of the international intelligence apparatus; only this time due to the restrictive laws on targets inside the U.S. the CIA aspect is less prominent. This is where FBI Agent Peter Strzok working for both agencies was important.
Remember, it’s clear in the text messages Strzok had a working relationship with what he called their “sister agency”, the CIA. Additionally, Brennan has admitted Strzok helped write the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which outlines the Russia narrative; and it is almost guaranteed the July 31st, 2016, “Electronic Communication” from the CIA to the FBI that originated FBI operation “Crossfire Hurricane” was authored by Strzok…. and Strzok immediately used that EC to travel to London to debrief intelligence officials around Australian Ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Downer.
In short, Peter Strzok appeared to be the very eager, profoundly overzealous James Bond wannabe, who acted as a bridge between the CIA and the FBI. The perfect type of FBI career agent for CIA Director John Brennan to utilize.
Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson hired CIA Open Source analyst Nellie Ohr toward the end of 2015; at appropriately the same time as “FBI Contractors” were identified exploiting the NSA database and extracting information on a specific set of U.S. persons.
It was also Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson who was domestically tasked with a Russian lobbyist named Natalia Veselnitskaya. A little reported Russian Deputy Attorney General named Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was working double-agents for the CIA and Kremlin. Karapetyan was directing the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Glenn Simpson was organizing her inside the U.S.
Glenn Simpson managed Veselnitskaya through the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. However, once the CIA/Fusion-GPS operation using Veselnitskaya started to unravel with public reporting… back in Russia Deputy AG Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash.
Simultaneously timed in late 2015 through mid 2016, there was a domestic FBI operation using a young Russian named Maria Butina tasked to run up against republican presidential candidates. According to Patrick Byrne, Butina’s handler, it was FBI agent Peter Strzok who was giving Byrne the instructions on where to send her. {Go Deep}
All of this context outlines the extent to which the FBI/CIA was openly involved in constructing a political operation that settled upon anyone in candidate Donald Trump’s orbit.
International operations directed by the FBI/CIA, and domestic operations seemingly directed by Peter Strzok operating with a foot in both agencies. [Strzok gets CIA service coin]
Recap: ♦Mifsud tasked against Papadopoulos (CIA). ♦Halper tasked against Flynn (CIA), Page (CIA), and Papadopoulos (CIA). ♦Azra Turk, pretending to be Halper asst, tasked against Papadopoulos (FBI). ♦Veselnitskaya tasked against Donald Trump Jr (CIA, Fusion-GPS). ♦Butina tasked against Trump, and Donald Trump Jr (FBI).
Additionally, Christopher Steele was a British intelligence officer, hired by Fusion-GPS to assemble and launder fraudulent intelligence information within his dossier. And we cannot forget Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, who was recruited by Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe to participate in running an operation against the Trump campaign and create the impression of Russian involvement. Deripaska refused to participate.
All of this engagement directly controlled by U.S. intelligence; and all of this intended to give a specific Russia impression. This predicate is presumably what John Durham is currently reviewing.
The key point of all that background is to see how committed the CIA and FBI were to the constructed narrative of Russia interfering with the 2016 election. The CIA, FBI, and by extension the DOJ, put a hell of a lot of work into it. Intelligence community work that Durham is now unraveling.
We also know specifically that John Durham is looking at the construct of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA); and talking to CIA analysts who participated in the construct of the January 2017 report that bolstered the false appearance of Russian interference in the 2016 election. This is important because it ties in to the next part that involves Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
On April 11th, 2019, the Julian Assange indictment was unsealed in the EDVA. From the indictment we discover it was under seal since March 6th, 2018:
On Tuesday April 15th more investigative material was released. Again, note the dates: Grand Jury, *December of 2017* This means FBI investigation prior to….
The FBI investigation took place prior to December 2017, it was coordinated through the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) where Dana Boente was U.S. Attorney at the time. The grand jury indictment was sealed from March of 2018 until after Mueller completed his investigation, April 2019.
Why the delay?
What was the DOJ waiting for?
Here’s where it gets interesting….
The FBI submission to the Grand Jury in December of 2017 was four months after congressman Dana Rohrabacher talked to Julian Assange in August of 2017: “Assange told a U.S. congressman … he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents … did not come from Russia.”
(August 2017, The Hill Via John Solomon) Julian Assange told a U.S. congressman on Tuesday he can prove the leaked Democratic Party documents he published during last year’s election did not come from Russia and promised additional helpful information about the leaks in the near future.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is friendly to Russia and chairs an important House subcommittee on Eurasia policy, became the first American congressman to meet with Assange during a three-hour private gathering at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for years.
Rohrabacher recounted his conversation with Assange to The Hill.
“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year’s presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.”
Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents, Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Trump. (read more)
Knowing how much effort the CIA and FBI put into the Russia collusion-conspiracy narrative, it would make sense for the FBI to take keen interest after this August 2017 meeting between Rohrabacher and Assange; and why the FBI would quickly gather specific evidence (related to Wikileaks and Bradley Manning) for a grand jury by December 2017.
Within three months of the grand jury the DOJ generated an indictment and sealed it in March 2018. The EDVA sat on the indictment while the Mueller probe was ongoing.
As soon as the Mueller probe ended, on April 11th, 2019, a planned and coordinated effort between the U.K. and U.S. was executed; Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the EDVA indictment was unsealed (link).
As a person who has researched this three year fiasco; including the ridiculously false 2016 Russian hacking/interference narrative: “17 intelligence agencies”, Joint Analysis Report (JAR) needed for Obama’s anti-Russia narrative in December ’16; and then a month later the ridiculously political Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in January ’17; this timing against Assange is too coincidental.
It doesn’t take a deep researcher to see the aligned Deep State motive to control Julian Assange because the Mueller report was dependent on Russia cybercrimes, and that narrative is contingent on the Russia DNC hack story which Julian Assange disputes.
This is critical. The Weissmann/Mueller report contains claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers as the central element to the Russia interference narrative in the U.S. election. This claim is directly disputed by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, as outlined during the Dana Rohrabacher interview, and by Julian Assange on-the-record statements.
The predicate for Robert Mueller’s investigation was specifically due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. The fulcrum for this Russia interference claim is the intelligence community assessment; and the only factual evidence claimed within the ICA is that Russia hacked the DNC servers; a claim only made possible by relying on forensic computer analysis from Crowdstrike, a DNC contractor.
The CIA holds a massive conflict of self-interest in upholding the Russian hacking claim. The FBI holds a massive interest in maintaining that claim. All of those foreign countries whose intelligence apparatus participated with Brennan and Strzok also have a vested self-interest in maintaining that Russia hacking and interference narrative.
Julian Assange is the only person with direct knowledge of how Wikileaks gained custody of the DNC emails; and Assange has claimed he has evidence it was not from a hack.
This Russian “hacking” claim was ultimately so important to the CIA, FBI, DOJ, ODNI and U.K intelligence apparatus…. Well, right there is the obvious motive to shut Assange down as soon as intelligence officials knew the Mueller report was going to be public.
This is why Julian Assange deserves a pardon, so he can tell his story.
Yep, but I’d like to see him go one big step farther: tell the nation why it is our reps are so generous with foundations, strange organizations, and other nations. Tell them that, as with Joe Biden, the money they cast a vote to go to these entities comes BACK TO THEM. Nice way to launder money. Tell them, POTUS,
No sense giving half truths. The whole truth and nothing but the truth, POtuS.
https://twitter.com/4Restored2/status/1341588259055362048?s=20
declass the private contractors accessing the database – show the emails associated with it, and show the fear was Asssange showing 2 things.
Voter registration roll collections and gmail phone tracking to overlay location at a voting place or not. if not, vote for that person.
https://i.ibb.co/tKWxvC5/interestedparty.webp
interesting.
should be able to be checked in NSA and commercially available phone records
Thank you for this article, Sundance. The way the dots are connected gives the big picture clarity.
After I read this, I recall that about a week ago, it was on the various conservative news sites that the UK Parliament requested an urgent meeting with Assange. That was when there were clamors for the pardon of Assange being requested on several fronts. I wonder if it had anything to do with this information that you have pieced together for us re: the link between the FBI/CIA and the British Intelligence.
Also after reading this, you reinforced my gratitude that Barr is leaving. On his way out, he is still insisting that the CIA stayed in its lane in the Russian collusion and there was no misconduct. I do not know what reports he is reading but I hope he brings it with him to wrap his bagpipes with.
The most important thing for POTUS right now is his enlightenment on who to listen to and whom to trust among the people close to him. It is clear that as an outsider, he is being given advice as to who to put in key positions. Whoever this person is, it is obvious that neither the best advice nor the best recommendations have been given to POTUS. Either this person is as much an outsider as POTUS or this person is a wolf in sheep’s clothing (as are many RINOs). It seems that this person has the underlying objective of undermining the success of POTUS. In the end, Trump may be as Lincoln reportedly was, trusting no one but himself and acting on his gut instincts.
I continue with my prayers for this President and this Republic.
If President Trump doesn’t pardon Assange, I’ll be very disappointed in him.
Unless Assange has something on Trump (doubt it, but who knows) Trump is going to hold off Pardoning him until he is 100% sure he has lost the election. Right now, Trump not pardoning Assange is a leverage he is probably using against the democrats.
JA is incarcerated in GB. Better to bring him here and then pardon him.
Would the Brits free JA if PT pardoned him or would they quickly create or resurrect a prior alleged offence to retain him?
Or, worst case scenario, Kare, the Brits intentionally give him a cell mate who takes him out. The authorities can always claim they didn’t realize the cell mate had “mental” issues.
Some people get killed outright by corrupt Politicians. Others are forced to suffer a slow death.
Pluck-a-chook and Dan the Man comes to mind
Trump awards Morrison with top military honourDonald Trump has awarded Australian PM Scott Morrison a top military honour, a year after describing him as a ‘great friend of the United States’.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/trump-awards-morrison-with-top-military-honour/news-story/d8fbb99e79c0063e4de7863f61a90c4f
I’m not sure I trust the source on this. Could be a planted story, IMHO.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1341599792187797506
Wait, up thread just a few entries, the writer said Trump had signed that bill. Who is the one who is misinformed?
Was Peter Strzok really the bridge between the CIA and FBI? Or was he really CIA who worked in the FBI? The CIA has had their people in every nook and cranny of the government since the 1950’s.
The latter (the CIA was the ring leader, the master planner, and the FBI the eager follower):
“Brennan has admitted Strzok helped write the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which outlines the Russia narrative; and it is almost guaranteed the July 31st, 2016, “Electronic Communication” from the CIA to the FBI that originated FBI operation “Crossfire Hurricane” was authored by Strzok….”
https://brassballs.blog/home/strzok-worked-for-cia-and-fbi-at-the-same-time-in-counterespionage
The ICA was the political (not valid intelligence) cover for the whole coup d’etat. Trying to state things simply but accurately, and definitively, I have called the coup d’etat “A CIA In-Country Regime-Change Operation”. It is good to see Sundance reiterating this CIA planning and mothering of the treason, now that more people are paying attention.
There is absolutely no doubt that the CIA has placed agents in the FBI and other important government agencies.
Being a veteran of many years I thought Snowden was a traitor. Now? In light of our government’s behavior for the last eight decades, I believe him and Assange should be pardoned and their stories should be amplified to 11. Period. Our government is the most corrupt organization in the history of the world. It is burning anyway as this election has proven. Let it burn all the way down, there is no other choice as the people running the show are incorrigible.
Correct, Snowden and Assange are the ones who exposed the traitors.
After reading this, I am confused as to why Barr contends the CIA stayed in their lane. Something doesn’t compute!
Didn’t Barr also say that Durham was not investigating the CIA? Doesn’t compute indeed!
The one criminal above all who shouldn’t escape (not counting Mrs Clinton) is John Brennan, who with Stzrok orchestrated the whole conspiracy.
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/05/24/big-changes-at-the-daily-beast-eic-john-avlon-to-cnn-noah-shachtman-to-replace-him/
*https://www.brookings.edu/experts/shachtmann
*https://www.iac.com/about/leadership/board-directors/chelsea-clinton
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Someone leaked ‘very important’ call with John Kelly concerning WikiLeaks
Former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher speaks at Stop the Steal Rally 12/12/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeTc-LZWsOQ
I hope and pray he’s got the BEST security!!!
Justice demands this man be pardoned. It should be done ASAP. (And I’m saying this having come from a position of thinking he should be shot on sight)
Please don’t describe Peter Strzok as a James Bond wannabe. I am a big James Bond fan and can attest that Strzok is nothing at all like Bond. Bond would never try to subvert the government and undermine the democratic process. As well, Bond was not a bureaucrat, but a field operative licensed to kill and take out Her Majesty’s enemies. He would not try to take out patriots!
I think you meant to compare him to Quisling, a Nazi collaborator.
For their crimes against America, for their treason, for the pain they have caused on the citizenry by their perfidy, After being found guilty for treason by a military tribunal, I suggest the following punishments for the guilty:
Weismann should have his flesh flayed; Comey drawn and quartered; Brennan should be put in the stocks; McCabe should be put on the breaking wheel; Bruce Ohr should be disembowled; Lisa Page impaled; William Barr burnt alive at the stake; Christopher Wray death by sawing; Georges Soros slow slicing; the Clintons, death by crushing by elephants; the Biden family, crucifixion; Nancy Pelosi and John Roberts, submerged alive in a bath of hydrochloric acid.
I am open to other suggestions.
Don’t hold back. tell us what you really think …
No suggestions needed….Carry on !
Nothing will be done. Barr had his chance and announced charges for a 32-year old crime.
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I have a dream…
I don’t know. I think you’re too easy on Brennan. He, I think should suffer crucifixion. Might do his soul some good.
Incredible that ALL those people who knew anything of the sort, would allow Assange to hang out to dry all these years. They are immoral and subhuman in my opinion.
This may sound obtuse to some, but what damage did the Clinton emails do? Trump knew nobody was affecting the election. In other words, what DO the Clinton emails implicate?
Assange and wikileaks have done much more good than harm over time.
I agree that Assange should be pardoned and allowed to continue his good work as someone who has shone the light of truth in many dark places around the globe.
Reportedly according to Assange, the WikiLeaks source of the DNC server information came from Seth Rich which supports his claim that there was no hack involved in obtaining it. It also provides powerful support for the motive HRC had to sic her cleaning squad on Rich.
Let the President talk to him directly, size up the man. After Contracting with NY contractors and unions, for 20 yrs, Trump can smell BS. It is worth listening to Assange and the final smoking gun that Seth Rich stole the tapes and Podesta email about “ wet works”and sending messages to traitors was worth it.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/609/pardon-julian-assange