In Part One we explained who, what, when and why around the modern construct of the modern DC system {Go Deep}. Now we move into Part Two, the targeting of President Trump and the specific trail of documented evidence that exists behind the targeting.
It is critical to understand that foundationally our corrupt political system is built upon a network of surveillance. It is through monitoring information and people, together with intercepting risk, that operations can continue to maintain a corrupt administrative state; what some might call the Deep State.
Within the system information is key, and the actions taken by DOJ and FBI officials are an outcome of this information. As Edward Snowden explained, the surveillance state is critical to power retention. President Trump carried documents that outlined how this process took place as it pertained to his entry into politics, thus the raid to retrieve them.
There is a common misconception about why the FBI and intelligence apparatus began investigating the political campaign of Donald Trump.
During the timeframe of December 2015 through April 2016 the NSA database was being exploited by contractors within the intelligence community, specifically within the FBI, doing unauthorized searches.
On March 9, 2016, oversight personnel doing a review of FBI system access were alerted to thousands of unauthorized FBI search queries of specific U.S. persons within the NSA database.
NSA Director Mike Rogers was made aware.
Subsequently NSA Director Rogers initiated a full compliance review of the system to identify who was doing the searches; & what searches were being conducted.
On April 18, 2016, following the preliminary audit results, Director Rogers shut down all FBI contractor access to the database after he learned FISA-702 “about”(17) and “to/from”(16) search queries were being done without authorization.
Thus begins the first discovery of a much bigger background story.
When you compile the timeline with the people involved; and the specific wording of the resulting NSA review, which was then delivered to the FISA court; and then you overlay the activity that was taking place in the 2016 political primary; what we discover is a process where the metadata collected by the NSA was being searched for political opposition research and surveillance.
Exposing this method of surveillance is where the Trump phrase, “they are not after me – they are after you, and I’m just in the way,” takes on a massive amount of clarity. Because, in the final analysis, what Trump experienced as a target of this system actually pertains to anyone, not just him.
Tens-of-thousands of unauthorized and unlawful searches were identified by the 2017 FISA court as likely extending much further than the compliance review period: “while the government reports it is unable to provide a reliable estimate of the non-compliant queries since 2012, there is no apparent reason to believe the November 2015 [to] April 2016 period coincided with an unusually high error rate”.
In short, during the Obama administration access to the NSA database was continually used to conduct surveillance. This is the critical point that leads to understanding the origin of “Spygate”, as it unfolded in the Spring and Summer of 2016.
It was the discovery of the database exploitation and the removal of access as a surveillance tool that seemed to create the initial problem for the FBI political unit in Washington, DC. Here’s how we can tell.
In December 2015 there were 17 GOP candidates, all needing opposition research.
However, when Donald Trump won New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina the field was significantly whittled. Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson remained.
On Super Tuesday, March 2, 2016, Donald Trump won seven states (VT, AR, VA, GA, AL, TN, MA) it was then clear that Trump was the GOP frontrunner with momentum to become the presumptive nominee.
On March 5th, 2016, DonaldTrump won Kentucky and Louisiana; and on March 8th Trump won Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii.
The next day, March 9, 2016, is when NSA security alerts warned internal oversight personnel that something sketchy was going on. This timing is not coincidental.
As FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer later wrote in her report, “many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges.” Put another way: attributes belonging to a specific individual(s) were being targeted and queried, unlawfully. Given what was later discovered, it seems obvious the primary search targets, over multiple date ranges, were political candidates, specifically Donald Trump.
There were tens-of-thousands of unauthorized search queries; and as Judge Collyer stated in her report, there is no reason to believe the 85% non compliant rate was any different from the abuse of the NSA database going back to 2012, the same year the FBI collocated a workspace within Perkins Coie.
As you will see below the NSA database was how political surveillance was being conducted during Obama’s second term in office. However, when the system was flagged, and when NSA Director Mike Rogers shut down “FBI contractor” access to the system, the system users needed to develop another way to get access.
Mike Rogers shuts down contractor access on April 18, 2016.
Coincidentally, on April 19, 2016, Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby visits the White House. Immediately thereafter, the DNC and Clinton campaign contract Fusion GPS… who then hire Christopher Steele. At the tail end of that enterprise Michael Sussmann (Perkins Coie lawyer) is delivering material to FBI legal counsel James Baker, and DOJ official Bruce Ohr is serving as a secondary conduit of information from Chris Steele to the FBI.
Knowing it was federal “contractors”, outside government with FBI access to the NSA system doing the unauthorized searches, the question becomes: who were the contractors?
The possibilities are quite vast. Essentially anyone the FBI or intelligence apparatus was using could have participated. Crowdstrike was a known FBI contractor; they were also contracted by the DNC. Shawn Henry was the former head of the FBI office in DC and later become part of Crowdstrike’s leadership team, a rather dubious contractor for the government and a politically connected data security and forensic company.
We know from the Michael Sussmann trial that electronic data was extracted by Neustar, a federal contractor. The head of the organization, Rodney Joffe, then used cyber tech resources from Georgia Tech to assemble the data and deliver a false report to the Clinton campaign of Trump-Russia connections.
FBI Director James Comey’s special friend Daniel Richman was also an unpaid FBI “special employee” with security access to the database. Nellie Ohr began working for Fusion-GPS on the Trump project in November 2015 and she was a previous open-source CIA contractor; and now that we know the FBI and Perkins Coie were in a collaborative relationship, we can also see the DNC law firm as FBI contractors with similar clearances and access.
On May 31st of this year, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an explosive announcement as an outcome of a whistleblower providing information to him and Jim Jordan about the FBI having a collaborative relationship with the Clinton/DNC law firm Perkins Coie. {Go Deep} Specifically, the explosive element surrounds the FBI having a workspace within the DNC law firm that would have given Democrats an open portal into FBI databases for use in opposition research.
Additionally, remember the Sharyl Attkisson computer intrusions? It’s all part of this same network of contractors. Attkisson even named Shawn Henry as a defendant in her ongoing lawsuit. Shawn Henry was in charge of the FBI field office and former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was then head of the Virginia U.S. attorney office that was identified as part of the Attkisson targeting operation.
All of the aforementioned names, and so many more, held a political agenda in 2016.
It seems likely if the NSA flags were never triggered then the contracted FBI system users would have continued exploiting the NSA database for political opposition research; which would then be funneled to the Clinton team. However, once the unauthorized flags were triggered, the system users (including those inside the FBI and sister agency the CIA) would need to find another back-door to continue… Again, check the timing and actions become transparent.
Immediately after NSA flags were raised March 9, 2016, the same FBI and CIA intelligence agencies began using confidential human sources (CHS’s) to run into the Trump campaign. By activating intelligence assets like Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper the IC (CIA, FBI) and system users had now created an authorized way to continue the same political surveillance operations.
When Donald Trump hired Paul Manafort on March 28, 2016, it was a perfect scenario for those doing the surveillance. Manafort was a known entity to the FBI and was previously under investigation. Paul Manafort’s entry into the Trump orbit was perfect for Glenn Simpson to sell his prior research on Manafort as a Trump-Russia collusion script two weeks later.
The shift from “unauthorized exploitation of the NSA database” to legally authorized exploitation of the NSA database was now in place. This was how they continued the political surveillance. This is the confluence of events that originated “spygate”, or what officially blossomed into the FBI investigation known as “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31.
If the NSA flags were never raised; and if Director Rogers had never initiated the compliance audit; and if the FBI political contractors were never blocked from access to the database; they would never have needed to create a legal back-door, a justification to retain the surveillance. The political operatives/contractors would have just continued the targeted metadata exploitation.
Once they created the FBI surveillance door, Fusion-GPS was then needed to get the FBI known commodity of Chris Steele activated as a pipeline. Into that pipeline all system users pushed opposition research. However, one mistake from the database extraction, likely during an “about” query, shows up as a New Yorker named Michael Cohen in Prague.
That misinterpreted data from a FISA-702 “about query” is then piped to Steele and turns up inside the dossier; it was the wrong Michael Cohen. It wasn’t Trump’s lawyer, it was an art dealer from New York City with the same name; the same “identifier”.
A DEEP DIVE – How Did It Work?
Start by reviewing the established record from the 99-page FISC opinion rendered by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer on April 26, 2017. Review the details within the FISC opinion.
I would strongly urge everyone to read the FISC report (full pdf below) because Judge Collyer outlines how the DOJ, which includes the FBI, had an “institutional lack of candor” in responses to the FISA court. In essence, the Obama administration was continually lying to the FISA court about their activity, and the rate of fourth amendment violations for illegal searches and seizures of U.S. persons’ private information for multiple years.
Unfortunately, due to intelligence terminology Judge Collyer’s brief and ruling is not an easy read for anyone unfamiliar with the FISA processes. That complexity also helps the media avoid discussing it; and as a result most Americans have no idea the scale and scope of the Obama-era surveillance issues. So we’ll try to break down the language.
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For the sake of brevity and common understanding CTH will highlight the most pertinent segments showing just how systemic and troublesome the unlawful electronic surveillance was.
Early in 2016 NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted of a significant uptick in FISA-702(17) “About” queries using the FBI/NSA database that holds all metadata records on every form of electronic communication.
The NSA compliance officer alerted Admiral Mike Rogers who then initiated a full compliance audit on/around March 9th, 2016, for the period of November 1st, 2015, through May 1st, 2016.
While the audit was ongoing, due to the severity of the results that were identified, Admiral Mike Rogers stopped anyone from using the 702(17) “about query” option, and went to the extraordinary step of blocking all FBI contractor access to the database on April 18, 2016 (keep these dates in mind).
Here are some significant segments:
The key takeaway from these first paragraphs is how the search query results were exported from the NSA database to users who were not authorized to see the material. The FBI contractors were conducting searches and then removing, or ‘exporting’, the results. Later on, the FBI said all of the exported material was deleted.
Searching the highly classified NSA database is essentially a function of filling out search boxes to identify the user-initiated search parameter and get a return on the search result.
♦ FISA-702(16) is a search of the system returning a U.S. person (“702”); and the “16” is a check box to initiate a search based on “To and From“. Example, if you put in a date and a phone number and check “option 16” as the search parameter the user will get the returns on everything “To and From” that identified phone number for the specific date. Calls, texts, contacts etc. Including results for the inbound and outbound contacts.
♦ FISA-702(17) is a search of the system returning a U.S. person (702); and the “17” is a check box to initiate a search based on everything “About” the search qualifier. Example, if you put a date and a phone number and check “option 17” as the search parameter the user will get the returns of everything about that phone. Calls, texts, contacts, geolocation (or gps results), account information, user, service provider etc. As a result, 702(17) can actually be used to locate where the phone (and user) was located on a specific date or sequentially over a specific period of time which is simply a matter of changing the date parameters.
And that’s just from a phone number.
Search an ip address “about” and read all data into that server; put in an email address and gain everything about that account. Or use the electronic address of a GPS enabled vehicle (about) and you can withdraw more electronic data and monitor in real time. Search a credit card number and get everything about the account including what was purchased, where, when, etc. Search a bank account number, get everything about transactions and electronic records etc. Just about anything and everything can be electronically searched; everything has an electronic ‘identifier’.
The search parameter is only limited by the originating field filled out. Names, places, numbers, addresses, etc. By using the “About” parameter there may be thousands or millions of returns. Imagine if you put “@realdonaldtrump” into the search parameter? You could extract all following accounts who interacted on Twitter, or Facebook etc. The search result is only limited by the operators’ imagination and the scale of the electronic connectivity.
As you can see below, on March 9th, 2016, internal auditors noted the FBI was sharing “raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information”. Who were they sharing it with? Perkins Coie?
In plain English the raw search returns were being shared with unknown entities without any attempt to “minimize” or redact the results. The person(s) attached to the search results were named and obvious. There was no effort to hide their identity or protect their 4th amendment rights of privacy; and database access was from the FBI network:
But what’s the scale here? This is where the story really lies.
Read this next excerpt carefully.
The operators were searching “U.S Persons”. The review of November 1, 2015, to May 1, 2016, showed “eighty-five percent of those queries” were unlawful or “non compliant”.
85% !! “representing [redacted number]”.
We can tell from the space of the redaction the number of searches were between 10,000 and 99,999 [six digits]. If we take the middle number of 50,000 – a non compliant rate of 85 percent means 42,500 unlawful searches out of 50,000.
The [six digit] amount (more than 10,000, less than 99,999), and 85% error rate, was captured in a six-month period, November 2015 to April 2016. The timeframe of highest interest in the republican presidential primary.
Also notice this very important quote: “many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges.” This tells us the system users were searching the same phone number, email address, electronic identifier, repeatedly over different dates. Put another way, specific person(s) were being tracked/monitored.
Additionally, notice the last quote: “while the government reports it is unable to provide a reliable estimate of” these non lawful searches “since 2012, there is no apparent reason to believe the November 2015 [to] April 2016 coincided with an unusually high error rate”.
That means the 85% unlawful FISA-702(16)(17) database abuse has likely been happening since 2012.
2012 is an important date in this database abuse because a network of specific interests is assembled that also shows up in 2016/2017:
- Who was 2012 FBI Director? Robert Mueller, who was selected by the FBI group to become special prosecutor in 2017.
- Who was Mueller’ chief-of-staff? Aaron Zebley, who became one of the lead lawyers on the Mueller special counsel.
- Who was 2012 CIA Director? John Brennan (remember the ouster of Gen Petraeus)
- Who was ODNI? James Clapper.
- Remember, the NSA is inside the Pentagon (Defense Dept) command structure. Who was Defense Secretary? Ash Carter
Who wanted NSA Director Mike Rogers fired in 2016? Brennan, Clapper and Carter.
And finally, who wrote and signed-off-on the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment and then lied about the use of the Steele Dossier? The same John Brennan, and James Clapper along with James Comey.
Tens of thousands of searches over four years (since 2012), and 85% of them are illegal. The results were extracted for?…. (I believe this is all political opposition use; and I’ll explain why momentarily.)
OK, that’s the stunning scale; but who was involved?
Private contractors with access to “raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to FBI’s requests“.
So, someone using the justification of FBI “requests”, was exploiting their access to the FBI portal; and they were searching for material “well beyond” the justification of “FBI requests” the used. Doesn’t this exactly sound like someone in Perkins Coie using their FBI portal access?
And as noted, the contractor access was finally halted on April 18th, 2016.
[Coincidentally (or likely not), the wife of Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, goes to the White House the very next day on April 19th, 2016.]
None of this is conspiracy theory.
All of this is laid out inside this 99-page opinion from FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer who also noted that none of this FISA abuse was accidental in a footnote on page 87: “deliberate decisionmaking“:
This specific footnote, if declassified, could be a key. Note the phrase: “([redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding entered into [redacted])”, this sentence has the potential to expose an internal decision; withheld from congress and the FISA court by the Obama administration; that outlines a process for access and distribution of surveillance data.
Note: “no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016“, that is important.
Summary: The FISA court identified and quantified tens-of-thousands of search queries of the NSA/FBI database using the FISA-702(16)(17) system. The database was repeatedly used by persons with FBI contractor access who unlawfully searched and extracted the raw results without redacting the information and shared it with an unknown number of entities.
The outlined process certainly points toward a political spying and surveillance operation; and we are not the only one to think that’s what this system is being used for.
Back in 2017 when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was working to reauthorize the FISA legislation, Nunes wrote a letter to ODNI Dan Coats about this specific issue:
SIDEBAR: To solve the issue, well, actually attempt to ensure it never happened again, NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers eventually took away the “About” query option permanently in 2017. NSA Director Rogers said the abuse was so inherent there was no way to stop it except to remove the process completely. [SEE HERE] Additionally, the NSA database operates as a function of the Pentagon, so the Trump administration went one step further. On his last day as NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers -together with ODNI Dan Coats- put U.S. cyber-command, the database steward, fully into the U.S. military as a full combatant command. [SEE HERE] Unfortunately it didn’t work as shown by the 2018 FISC opinion rendered by FISC Judge James Boasberg [SEE HERE]
There is little doubt the NSA database system was used by Obama-era FBI officials and political allies, from 2012 through April 2016, as a way to spy on their political opposition.
Quite simply, there is no other intellectually honest explanation for the scale and volume of database abuse that was taking place; and keep in mind these searches were all ruled to be unlawful. Searches for repeated persons over a period time that were not authorized.
When we reconcile what was taking place and who was involved, then the actions of the exact same principle participants take on a jaw-dropping amount of clarity.
All of the action taken by CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, ODNI Clapper and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter make sense. Including their effort to get NSA Director Mike Rogers fired.
Everything that comes after March 9, 2016, had a dual purpose: (1) done to cover up the weaponization of the FISA database. [Explained Here] Spygate, Russia-Gate, the Steele Dossier, and even the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (drawn from the dossier and signed by the above) were needed to create a cover-story and protect themselves from discovery of this four-year weaponization, political surveillance and unlawful spying.
Even the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel makes sense. (1) Mueller was FBI Director when this began. And (2) they needed to keep the surveillance going.
The beginning decision to use FISA(702) as a domestic surveillance and political spy mechanism appears to have started in/around 2012. Perhaps sometime shortly before the 2012 presidential election and before John Brennan left the White House and moved to CIA. However, there was an earlier version of data assembly that preceded this effort.
Political spying 1.0 was actually the weaponization of the IRS. This is where the term “Secret Research Project” originated as a description from the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under Eric Holder and the FBI under Robert Mueller. It never made sense why Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD ROM, until overlaying the timeline of the FISA abuse:
The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010 (link)
Why disks? Why send a stack of DISKS to the DOJ and FBI when there’s a pre-existing financial crimes unit within the IRS. All of the evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.
The IRS scandal was never really about the IRS, it was always about the DOJ asking the IRS for the database of information. That is why it was transparently a conflict when the same DOJ was tasked with investigating the DOJ/IRS scandal. Additionally, Obama sent his chief-of-staff Jack Lew to become Treasury Secretary; effectively placing an ally to oversee/cover-up any issues. As Treasury Secretary Lew did just that.
Lesson Learned – It would appear the Obama administration learned a lesson from attempting to gather a large opposition research database operation inside a functioning organization large enough to have some good people that might blow the whistle.
The timeline reflects a few months after realizing the “Secret Research Project” was now worthless (June 2012), they focused more deliberately on a smaller network within the intelligence apparatus and began weaponizing the FBI/NSA database. If our hunch is correct, that is what will be visible in footnote #69:
How this all comes together.
Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. As shown in the evidence provided by the FISC, politically motivated FBI contractors were already doing surveillance and spy operations. The Clinton campaign through people like Rodney Joffe (cutout) already knew everything about the Trump campaign. They were monitoring everything by exploiting their FBI relationship and the Perkins Coie location for portal access to the database.
However, after the NSA alerts in/around March 9th, 2016, and particularly after the April 18th shutdown of contractor access, the Clinton Team and DOJ/FBI needed Fusion GPS to create a legal albeit ex post facto justification for the pre-existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion GPS gave them that justification in the Steele Dossier.
That’s why the FBI small group, which later transitioned into the Mueller team, were so strongly committed to and defending the formation of the Steele Dossier and its dubious content. The Steele Dossier was used in lieu of the ‘Woods File‘, underpinning the justification for the Carter Page Title-1 surveillance warrant.
The Steele Dossier, an outcome of the Fusion contract, contains two purposes: (1) the cover-story and justification for the pre-existing FBI surveillance operation (protect Obama and Clinton); and (2) facilitate the FBI counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign (assist Clinton and Perkins Coie).
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 a Title-1 search warrant against Carter Page. The FBI already knew Carter Page (he worked for the CIA); essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the FISA warrant and the Dossier in the system {Go Deep}.
The Obama FBI needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing political surveillance and spy operations. Fusion-GPS gave them that justification and evidence for a FISA warrant with the Steele Dossier.
Ultimately that’s why the Steele Dossier was so important; without it, the FBI would not have the tool that Mueller needed to continue the investigation of President Trump. In essence by renewing the FISA application in 2017, despite them knowing the underlying dossier was junk, the FBI was keeping the surveillance gateway open for Team Mueller to exploit later on.
Additionally, without the Steele Dossier the DOJ and FBI are naked with their surveillance (FISA-702) abuse as outlined by John Ratcliffe.
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In this video NSA Director Mike Rogers explains how he was notified of what was happening and what he did after the notification. WATCH:
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Knowing that Perkins Coie and the FBI were working together on this targeting operation, makes everything else make sense.
However, the involvement of official government agencies like NSA Admiral Mike Rogers, creates a paper trail. Search query logs, notifications to Mike Rogers, notifications to the FISA Court, notifications to FBI officials of the suspension of contractor access, and subsequent FISA court opinions like the 99-pages from Rosemary Collyer, all of it creates an internal trail of government documents that tell the story.
It’s those documents that become a risk to the people who operate within the system. In this example of government documents, the trail outlines the targeting of Donald Trump and that was what he continued to ask the ODNI, DOJ and FBI to release.
Frustrated by the lack of action, in March 2022 Donald Trump filed a massive civil lawsuit against the Clinton campaign and everyone involved in this targeting operation. [SEE LAWSUIT HERE] “Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty,” the president states.
“Under the guise of ‘opposition research,’ ‘data analytics,’ and other political stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public’s trust. They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump,” says one segment of the lawsuit.
All of the claims within the filing are substantiated by documents outlining the history of the events. I’m not sure any defendant is going to be successful getting themselves out of the target zone on the lawsuit. The suit alleges “racketeering” and a “conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood,” among other claims.
The basis for the evidence against the entire crew? That was likely part of the assembly of evidence, the declassified documents at the heart of the battle, that were targeted by the DOJ and FBI raid. That’s where we enter, Part III.
the Steel Dossier being a masking operation is a reiteration of past allegations……Crossfire Hurricane after it received FISA approval legitimized all previous spying activity by the FBI and ODNI assets….this was their main purpose to cover their illegal activity before they got this as cover
President Trump has always told us, “In reality they’re not after me. They are after you. I’m just in the way.”
That’s the shortened version.
TRUST GOD.
President Trump’s response to Biden in the September 2020 debate continues to encourage me:
”We’ve caught them all. We’ve got it all on tape. We’ve caught them all. And by the way, you gave the idea for the Logan Act against General Flynn. You better take a look at that, because we caught you in a sense, and President Obama was sitting in the office.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!! (did I say ha?)
Like a stone
Like a Boss
Call him Boss Stone
Trump leaves NY AG Letitia James’ office after repeating ‘same answer’ for SEVEN HOURS while pleading the fifth: Says meeting was ‘very professional’ and insists his company has ‘lots of CASH’
I wonder if this guy was one of the techs on the FBI Mar a Lago raid?
Probably, but it is pretty obvious that Eric Holder was “in” on the planning. See Holder interview from August 4, 2022.
Yes, Holder and Elias are working extensively on this stuff.
Nice work, Sundance. This one is for the time capsule.
I have been astounded lately to consider that Mueller and his merry band of pranksters spent all that time and money investigating Trump/Russia collusion and never managed to determine that it was a hoax.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
They always knew it was a hoax because they were participants in creating that hoax. They only pretended not to know it was a hoax for your consumption.
The Mueller Scam was just that…lots of money wasted, friends paid off and Nothing!
Now realise the only prosecuting agency is the Doj and no matter who is appointed AG, the minions below him are the same people and the same seed as described above.
I’m settling on unfixable.
Which is why I believe the States need to step in. Corrupted agencies can not cure themselves.
I’m not certain how it can be done but it needs to happen nonetheless.
Somehow the states have to build a wall against this federal tyranny. In Pa the FBI goons are still trying to bully and silence lawmakers attempting to defend legitimate elections.
It’s all about intimidation and wearing down defiance. They are the modern day mafia.
A state could cultivate a culture that recognizes the feds as an an enemy and withdraw all assistance. One can observe how so called sanctuary states have frustrated ICE, DEA, etc.
Remember how the US was spectacularly losing the war in Baghdad in 2006? The Baathists had joined with the populace and elements of Al Quaeda to obstruct US efforts. Despite all our technology we were losing ground rapidly because the people would not assist. Think also Vietnam. . I think it is a matter of will. Some people just cannot make the psychological leap to viewing the feds as they are, a malignant threat to life.
This is the most encouraging comment I’ve seen thus far. At first glance, it does seem to be an unwinnable war, but this idea gives me hope. The Founders of this country were not only brilliant, but ordained by God.
The MAFIA is an honorable organization compared to these goons.
Who watches the watchers?
UNLESS the lower level perps are given a simple choice…Fess up or to to PRISON FOR LIFE!
Sundance, the first Scribed link below the Deep Dive heading doesn’t seem to be populating:
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So, is Trump one step ahead of THEM ?
Was the RAID was foreseen ?
O.B.I.T. is now real ?
IMO, the Raid was expected and inspired. The Raid has been and will continue to be horribly damaging for the “Bad Guys”. That and the IRS hiring 87,000 goons hits home to every American the real possibility for experiencing the same fate down the road.
No one can possibly feel as secure today as they may once did. Everyone has to be saying to themselves; “But for the grace of God goes me”.
On the IRS, I’ve been hearing commentators say that 50% of current IRS audits are on people making less than $75,000 per year
Yet regime spokesmannequins are toeing a line “no new audits on anyone making less then $400,000” yada yada
…. yeah
It’s a way for them to get their foot in the doors and disarm the populace. White collar criminal charges are easier to fudge probable cause for. They’re going to break in and confiscate people’s guns, and rob and intern anyone who questions them.
There is a reason the IRS has been buying up so much ammo and guns, It also goes along with their job posting that included “willing to use deadly force”.
Remember those years under usurper Obama when all of the ammo shelves in stores were empty? Well usurper Obama was the reason:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/10/20/why-are-federal-bureaucrats-buying-guns-and-ammo-158-million-spent-by-non-military-agencies/
Yes! Those are strategic lies that buy time to concoct further lies!
That’s 1740 agents for each state. They will be harassing every business in America.
Don’t think for a second that Trump has all the documents elsewhere…likely in many places!
Wow!
Pray for President Donald J Trump
Pray for Sundance
Psalm 91 Esther 4:14
They are two brave and courageous men who I thank God for every day.
❤️ 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️
Assuming The FBI wanted the declassified Russiagate files, I had thought maybe they got wind that Trump was going to give them to someone like Solomon to write a book.
I kinda forgot about his lawsuit. Those files are necessary evidence.
Sure hope he has multiple copies spread around
Truth Social?
In his famous press conference over 5 years ago, Comey has already told us that no reasonable judge would take case. (How is this one any different?)
I often wonder where the good guys are (whistleblowers etc) and why Admiral Roger’s has still never come out publicly to maybe become the face of/person to bring this all into the light of day.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why Roger’s has remained silent all these years?
The good guys? They’re in Hannity’s imagination.
why Admiral Rogers has still never come out publicly
Maybe Admiral Rogers is all too aware of what happens to whistleblowers like Phil Haney
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-dhs-whistleblower-found-dead-with-gunshot-wound-in-california
Possibly, but Rogers does not read like a coward. I suppose Flynn didn’t either and he was certainly cowed. Sure wish he would step up now. Maybe he can move in with Ed Snowden, very likely the bravest American of a generation.
Bingo.
I have asked that same question in my posts several times.
I sure would like to know.
Hopefully our question has gone unanswered for a good reason.
The whole Admiral Rodgers thing is way overblown. At the most he was actually performing his job instead of being a total lackey for the Deep State. In no way was/is he going out of way to help Trump directly.
It was my understanding that it was Admiral Rogers who informed Trump that Trump Tower was being wiretapped, which caused them to move campaign offices the very next day.
Shutting down the contractor access to that system alerted the abusers that they were blown. Would have been far better to honeypot them and gather evidence of their illegal activities. I believe this is something that a law enforcement person would try to do by instinct. Just boldly ‘killing the feed’ was the equivalent of shining a flashlight in the dark so the enemy can know where you are, and that you’re coming for them. That move right there is probably a clue as to why Rogers hasn’t come forward.
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DONE, and thanks for the reminder. I would have forgotten, consumed by the shock of these revelations.
In the former Soviet Union citizens learned that the State was always watching them. The average person took the attitude that the “State knows everything” about you, therefore one lies in the open when questioned, knowing the truth is captured by the State via other methods. If the State wants you, they come for you! Otherwise, you are currently safe, so keep lying in public for some form of cover and peace of mind.
Enter that pesky cell phone, the easiest intrusion that can be monitored, offering a strong database of information, same with your computer for both have specific addresses, meaning owners of that address. We, as a nation, had developed a tool that could “read your mind” in so many ways, without you ever knowing what we were doing. Perfect tool to watch you without you knowing you were being watched.
Imagine you want to buy a car, yet you don’t know how the salesman intends to work you in order to close the deal. Wouldn’t you love to know what is in the mind of that salesman? Might help you get the best deal possible, right?
Imagine you want to have an affair with your next door neighbor’s wife. You work to make it happen, yet you wonder if your wife has a hint of your behavior. You have access to her cell phone and her computer. You learn she has no idea of your behavior.
If I want control over you I know that if I had a tool which could “read your mind” I would be way ahead of the game in getting that control. This is an old game, desiring to control others.
Who wants to play with Johnny when everyone knows Johnny cheats? The next question is why does Johnny cheat? Enter the “seven deadly sins” of history when searching for the reason(s) Johnny cheats.
From the lips of Bill Clinton: “I feel your pain!”
Imagine usurper Biden (and his puppet master usurper Obama) wanted to make life difficult not just for those who acted under their Constitutional rights to attend the January 6th rally at the Capitol, but also those MAGA patriots who attend Trump rallies and vote for MAGA candidates. They need 83,000 more armed IRS agents to check those so-called “domestic terrorists.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/19/how-did-ordinary-american-people-become-domestic-terrorists-in-the-eyes-of-the-deep-state/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2018/06/21/stunning-confirmation-judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-showing-mccain-staff-urging-irs-to-target-tea-party-groups/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/mueller_worked_with_lerner_to_target_tea_party.html
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2013/11/09/the-establishment-republican-party-takes-aim-to-destroy-conservative-ranks-and-the-tea-party-for-only-one-reason/
Wait, are you actually insinuating that joe biden is president? Are you not aware that it’s an actor who’s playing joe bidAn?
What a brilliant article!
I expect FIB raids of attorney firms and even their private homes representing 45 in the March 2022 lawsuit. FIB will continue to go after the said documents and will attempt to block production of them in discovery.
The suit was filed in Southern District of Florida. Anyone know any background info on the assigned judge, Judge Donald M Middlebrooks?
Middlebrooks information. appointed by Cl*nton.
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/middlebrooks-donald-m
Federal courts don’t allow filming/live streaming etc. in the courtroom. Surely, there will be some lawyer daily sitting in that courtroom during the trial to nightly give the daily update to US.
Someone. Make. It. Happen.
I think it is a serious mistake to trust Rogers.
First, nothing he “stopped” ever stopped. Everything Collyer complained about was also complained about by Boasberg. Twice.
Second, do you think he ever shutdown Perkins-Coie access? I doubt Perkins-Coie was even considered a “contractor”. Probably some legal justification given for the FBI placing an FBI workshop there.
And never forget. Rogers kept it all from the courts while he was exploring the abuses. Should have notified the court on day 1. This gave the DOJ the opportunity to pull the rug out from under the truth. The DNS notified them first while he was writing it up. This allowed people to pretend to fall on their swords to “fix” the problem. Which allowed the government to happily continue these abuses. And it allowed the FISC to keep rubberstamping abuse.
Imagine if the FISC was notified of abuses in April when they had proof and “shut it down”, full details to be revealed at end of investigation. Even with notification in September, they approved the fishing expedition against Trump in October, rubber stamping a bunch of flagrant lies. That is like a kid’s boo-boo being made magically better when mom kisses it. “They resigned. It’s all better. Spy on a Presidential campaign? Sure! No problem here! (It’s the Republican isn’t it?)”
Everybody involved is just pretending to do the right thing. Stopping this. Investigating that. Telling the truth long after it matters. Pretending to fall on your sword when just switching hats in the Lawfare/Government plot against America. Pretending to complain about abuses while letting them continue.
That includes Admiral Rogers.
Maybe I missed it but has Wray ever been asked to explain why Michael Sussmann and Perkins-Coie were allowed to have an FBI workstation? All this concern about classified documents held by President Trump and the need for a padlock on the storeroom door while a DNC lawyer is given access to the NSA database since 2012.
Kennedy asked but didn’t get anywhere with corrupt Wray.
… ‘Again, ask yourself why Wray is so constantly evasive? Why does he refuse to answer basic questions that are completely within his purview? Why, after almost half a decade, has he still not truly addressed the connections between the FBI and Hillary Clinton?
I think we know the answers to all those questions, and the revelation that the FBI had a workspace inside Perkins Coie adds clear context to Wray’s refusal to be held accountable. The corruption runs deep at the bureau, and I hope Kennedy gets another shot at Wray soon. It’ll be interesting to see how the FBI director refuses to answer the questions now that he doesn’t have the Sussmann trial to hide behind.’
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/06/01/christopher-wrays-recent-evasions-on-michael-sussmann-start-to-make-sense-after-shocking-report-from-tucker-carlson-n573245
Listening to Wray when he testifies, I always come away thinking that for someone who is the Director of the FBI, he seems to be the least inquisitive person on the planet. Totally unaware of what is going on in his own organization and doesn’t seem interested in asking questions or seeking answers . “I haven’t read that report” “ I am not aware of that case” Etc. etc. He is either lying or a complete doofus.
And shouldn’t anyone in top management of an organization be fired just for supposedly not having a clue as to what is going on in that organization aside from all the impropriety ? I would suggest that if Trump would ever be president again that he would make a video of the “clueless” Wray as he is announcing his firing.
Wray is a slithering cobra…he speaks with forked tongue. To me he acts like a dumb ass when he is before the senate. What a freakin’ tool.
If only…
That would be a heck of a coup by President Trump. If only it were true. Too bad the Mossad won’t and them over to Trump…..or maybe they already have.
That would be a dream come true…. ❤️🙏🇺🇸❤️
If it is true that the DS initiated the home invasion to collect the declassified documents, and the civil lawsuit is based upon that evidence, then the attorneys representing Trump in that lawsuit have the documents and have reviewed them in drafting the complaint. Given the thugocracy’s repeated precedents of ignoring attorney-client relationships (Cohen, Giuliani, etc.) we can predict a raid on the attorney’s offices. They should take countermeasures.
Now seems like a good time to release the declassified documents. The Enemy has satisfactorily brought the issue to the forefront. The collective mind is now asking the question Why? These documents seem to answer that question.
I pray every morning that our great nation does not fall into complete chaos or civil war and that God’s vengeance will be upon those in our corrupt government who are corrupted.
There is not going to be a civil war. There is no ability anymore to even organize a protest let alone a war. God’s justice is already ensured but that doesn’t mean we will see it in our lifetime or that millions won’t be oppressed and even suffer physical harm just like so many millions have in the past under totalitarians.
Sundance, BRILLIANT article. However, I have one problem with it.
You wrote: “However, after the NSA alerts in/around March 9th, 2016, and particularly after the April 18th shutdown of contractor access, the Clinton Team and DOJ/FBI needed Fusion GPS to create a legal albeit ex post facto justification for the pre-existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion GPS gave them that justification in the Steele Dossier.”
Illegal, unlawful activity is not made lawful by creating a justification. Even if you concede that the justification made everything that FOLLOWED lawful, the preceding activity is STILL unlawful. Example… I rob a bank. That is unlawful. If a law is passed that taking money from a bank at gunpoint is NOT against the law, that does not absolve me of the bank robberies BEFORE the law was passed.
For 4+ years, ILLEGAL activity on a massive scale was taking place. The insertion of the Steele Dossier in no way makes the earlier activity “legal”.
I know you understand that. My beef is that the way you are terming this might indicate to some that there is legal cover for this illegal activity. IMO, there is ZERO legal cover. The problem is that no one in the DOJ will do anything about it.
Again, awesome article and summary.
If you’d been hanging out here as this history was being made and attempts were being made here to make sense of it you’d’ve learned that with the Feds establishing a putatively legal justification for spying is indeed fully retroactive, making aright all that was until that moment quite wrong.
Yes, it’s whack, but that’s what we got.
Trump was a target before his Presidency, during his Presidency and now after his Presidency.
The extent to which those who pursued him is unprecedented in our history, even breaking laws.
We did not hold the early parties responsible and it has empowered others now.
Remarkable investigative reporting, this is the stuff great history books used to include, before they were woke’d. Kudos, SD.
As to defendants’ “getting out of the target zone of the [Trump] lawsuit”, that will depend entirely on what court and judge hear this case.
While people focus on the FBI playing around with Melania’s clothes Sundance gets right to business on the real reason why they were there.
Reading this takes time and concentration to absorb everything and understand it, something much of the American public doesn’t have.
Too bad, because it is very important for what is to come in the future.
Our Republic is in peril. Very dire peril.
A few month’s ago Trump talked about a book he is writing supposedly about the 2020 election.
Could what Sundance has written be a part of this book?
It should be.
I been following the outline Sundance created on the corrupt IC from his first posts here on CTH.
Brilliant work!
This is like a serial movie from the old days, with a new chapter I never saw coming.
I never connected President Trump’s lawsuit into this because I never looked at it. He’s going after very powerful people and organizations. The discovery will be damning.
Time for Part 3!
The way I see this, is that anyone connected (favored in the IC community) can commit the most egregious crimes against children with absolute, complete and full immunity. This is demonic on a scale never before seen.
Maybe not seen before in America, but this is nothing new to authoritarian commies.
Whistleblower David Montgomery says Obama used “THE HAMMER” to spy on and blackmail Americans, and to steal elections–including the 2020 presidential election
I like the way that Sundance says that Obama was “installed” in the White House. In 2008 there were reports that 10 million GOP votes disappeared giving the “win” to “Born in Kenya” Obama and Biden. Then in 2020 usurpers Biden and Harris were installed in the same manner. Here is more proof of that.
Whistleblower Robert Montgomery released a lot of damning information about Mueller/Comey/Obama illegally spying on Americans. Montgomery also stated that the CIA manipulated the election results in 2008 in order to help Obama win. And Montgomery reported that Obama’s long from birth certificate was a fraud–something that Sheriff Joe Arpaio proved.
How the CIA, Obama, and Biden were illegally spying on Americans and stealing elections
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/situation-room/audio/brannon-howse-november-4-2020
In February 2009, the Obama administration commandeered a powerful supercomputer system known as THE HAMMER. THE HAMMER includes an exploit application known as SCORECARD that is capable of hacking into elections and stealing the vote, according to CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, who designed and built THE HAMMER.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER TAPES, confidential audio recordings released by U.S. DIstrict Judge G. Murray Snow’s courtroom in November 2015, revealed that SCORECARD was deployed by the Obama team against Florida election computers to steal the 2012 presidential election on behalf of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
SCORECARD steals elections by tampering with the computers at the transfer points of state election computer systems and outside third party election data vaults as votes are being transferred. SCORECARD is now [November 2020] being activated to steal the vote on behalf of Joe Biden once again. Biden utilized THE HAMMER and SCORECARD while running for Vice President in 2012. Votes are again being stolen on Joe Biden’s behalf as he runs for President of the United States in 2020.
In August 2015, CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower Dennis L. Montgomery provided the FBI and the DOJ with evidence stored on 47 hard drives that implicates Robert Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, in illegal activities, Montgomery states.
Among the 600 million pages of documents stored on those 47 hard drives of electronic data that Montgomery turned over to the FBI were 10,000 pages of documents regarding Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, according to Montgomery.
On February 3, 2009, Brennan and Clapper moved THE HAMMER to Fort Washington, Maryland and began using the foreign surveillance system for domestic surveillance, targeting President Obama’s political enemies for “blackmail and leverage.” Montgomery, as a CIA contractor, worked for John Brennan and James Clapper.
Montgomery became a whistleblower upon seeing first hand how the Obama administration had turned THE HAMMER against America. Montgomery originally designed and built THE HAMMER in 2003 as a foreign surveillance system to protect America after 9/11.
“THE HAMMER IS THE KEY TO THE COUP” — Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons, On His Death Bed, Speaking To His Longtime Friend, Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney
They stole a super-surveillance government tool for foreign surveillance and they turned it against America and are using it to steal the Presidential election of 2020.
* Brennan and Clapper used THE HAMMER to spy on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 156 Article III judges, FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton, Members of Congress, Wall Street executives, Rudy Giuliani, Lt. General Michael Flynn, Donald Trump, Trump Tower, multiple Trump businesses, and members of the Trump family. Brennan and Clapper spied on Donald Trump because the CIA feared Trump. Brennan and Clapper wiretapped Donald Trump “a zillion times.”
* The Obama Whitehouse could access THE HAMMER at will through an encrypted VPN.
Two thoughts:
1) 1984
2) …and yet, despite all of the surveilling, they cannot seem to stop evil (think FF or human trafficking).
Bastards
Your best work ever Sundance; Part 1 and Part 2. Good thing WordPress told you to leave when they did. Just in time.
God knew it would take time to fine tune your new site and He know what was coming and when; apparently He intended a way for you to secure the Truths. We are encouraged by the evidence He’s uncovered for you and us.
I still think it’s the Mueller invented doctrine of parallel construction at work here. They were conducting illegal political surveilance, without question, but getting a FISA warrant after-the-fact, makes the prior illegal conduct – legal -as FISA warrants are retroactive in time (most people do not understand the gravity of what it means to have a retroactive warrant). So the act of desperation in getting the FISA warrant – falsifying documents, deployment of agents, anything, etc – was the insurance policy (but obviously there was more than one insurance policy), so first the FISA – a fig leaf to launder the prior illegal surveillance, and then the Muller investigation to cover up the FISA cover up. I still blame Sessions, in way over his head, and they ran circles around him. But hindsight is indeed perfect.
I hope he made copies…
Seems to me there is no way such a “Political spying operation” could have been conducted, for as long as indicated, without ‘the other party’ the ‘target’ becoming aware of it.
That old adage “Once is happenstance, twice coincidence, third time enemy action” comes to mind.
If you are thinking in tems of R vs D, it seems obvious that the R party leadership, be it the RNC or Congressional leadership i.e. McConnell, if focused in “winning seats” would notice, from the RESULTS of this political spying, that “Hey, theres SOMETHING going on here, and it ain’t right!”
Put another way, if this “political spying” didn’t give the perpetrators a distinct advantage, WHY do it?
And, assuming it DID give them an advantage, the opposition it was being used against would have eventually noticed it, just from the results.
Point being, I simply do not believe this was simply an “Obama” operation.
ALL the foundation WAS actually put in place, during the BUSH administration.
Mueller was appointed FBI Director.
He brought Comey and Weismann into 7th floor of FBI.
MOU with CIA was signed, giving FBI access to NSA database.
Patriot act written and passed.
7 and out, and no doubt other policy changes made, enabling vetting agents for ideological conformity.
ALL this occured during Bush admin. Are we to believe this was all done either with “good intent” and then Obama came in and exploited it, or that it was done right under the nose of “Republicans” in the admin., without their seeing it?
For me, that strains credibility.
See W’s comments regarding us deplorables. It’s clear he was in on it. We are worse than Al Qaeda doncha know??
“ NSA Director Mike Rogers explains how he was notified of what was happening and what he did after the notification.”
In this short video exchange between Lankford and Rogers I just learned something new: apparently the queries weren’t shut down entirely but only (17) queries, and those only temporarily until the Director returns to the courts and says that the “technical” problem is solved. I expect that has already long taken place and that they are back in operation completely.
Also, in this exchange Lankford appears to paint the system as having worked because, as he says, they discovered it and shut it down. However, it was only shut down temporarily, and they only discovered it many years after it has been an operation. It appears to me that the system never worked and still doesn’t work but they want to maintain it basically as is.
Furthermore, Rogers appears to be agreeing with Lankford that the system for preventing the abuses has worked.
Why has the Governor of Florida been so quite about the raid on Mar A Lago?
Could it be that he is consulting with his staff and others as to whether the Constitution allows federal interference of law enforcement within his state?
Could they be contemplating drafting a law requiring the FBI to request license from the state before gaining jurisdiction for any law enforcement or political activity?
The IRS scandal was never really about the IRS, it was always about the DOJ asking the IRS for the database of information.
Puts a whole new perspective on the new 87,000 IRS agents they’ll be hiring.
This is excellent. But we need to discuss the physical aspect of surveillance which Annonymous Conservative discusses. This isn’t just digital. What is Operation TAPS for $500?
I haven seen mention of the fact that everyone that has/had access to the NSA Database has to have a login credential…that means that ALL OF THEM can be IDENTIFIED…AND PROSECUED…SO WHY HAS THAT NOT HAPPENED? Wanna Blow this wide open, ID ALL of them and who they work for, Hiroshima will be a pop corn pop compared! That is where Trump needs to go once he wins in 2024!
As I read through the pieces of this disaster, I find myself thinking there MAY be a nuclear component to all of this. It may be the explosion that brings “them” all down. We can hope, can’t we?
That should wake up a few people.