Several people have emailed asking for opinion on the Yahoo News article [READ HERE] outlining Ali Watkins as a victim of the horrible investigative apparatus that targets journalists who are involved in leaking and denying leaking, “Top Secret, Classified Information” from their narrative engineering positions. {{Insert Eyeroll Here}}
Having read the lengthy article a few times, there are some interesting aspects and also a lot of nonsense in the grand scheme of things. The motive for the article appears to be a defense against government investigating journalists, and a sub-sector of one of the intelligence agencies (Customs and Border Patrol) having a semi-rogue actor named Jeffrey Rambo. Ali Watkins was contacted by Rambo in 2017 based on his discovery of her connection to Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe.
You have to read the article [HERE] to see where the author, Jana Winter, is coming from. Overall, the article is a little weird and defensive, and frames a position that secretive U.S. government agencies should not be conducting surveillance on U.S. journalists. Much of the article is not too interesting to anyone who is not a journalist. However, there are a few parts worth noting. One paragraph specifically, which I’ll get to.
First… The author Mrs. Jana Winter and Ali Watkins are lying about a very key point. Watkins claims James Wolfe never leaked any classified information to her, and Jana Winter makes that point repeatedly. This is a lie, they are liars – [sue me]. James Wolfe did leak classified information to Ali Watkins, who was writing for Buzzfeed at the time, which Watkins then shared with her friends and peers in the media. One specific classified leak was the Carter Page FISA application, which Wolfe leaked to Watkins in March of 2017.
Second… When Jeffrey Rambo enters the picture to question Watkins, neither of them knew at the time that Watkins was already under FBI investigation. The timeline is outlined in the original James Wolfe indictment. After Watkins wrote an article in early April 2017, using the Wolfe and the FISA leak as her anonymous source, she became a target for investigation.
Watkins was notified on February 13, 2018 about her electronic communication being retrieved by the DOJ/FBI per a previous court order. One set of her phone records that were used in evidence covered a period from Feb 1 to July 31, 2017. [LETTER HERE]
Third… We know from the indictment itself the investigation of James Wolfe was completed by December 15, 2017, when he was fired from his position. Wolfe’s indictment did not surface for another six months – until June 08, 2018. Wolfe was indicted for lying to the FBI investigators. However, Wolfe was not indicted for leaking the FISA application despite the FBI having direct evidence of the leak; which was then sworn and affirmed in Wolfe’s December 2018 sentencing memo when the U.S. Attorney Office in DC requested an upward departure for longer term sentencing, specifically because Wolfe leaked top secret classified information. He leaked the FISA application.
Wolfe leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. Despite Wolfe’s lawyer denials; and despite Ali Watkins denials; and despite Yahoo denials; and despite The Washington Post denials; and despite the New York Times denials; Wolfe DID leak the FISA application.
The reason the media needs to deny the leak is because these same media outlets were falsely reporting everything about the FISA application. The biggest names in U.S. media (WaPo and NYT) had the full and unredacted FISA application in March of 2017, and spent the next 15 months lying about the content to support the fraudulent Trump-Russia narrative. Heck, Ali Watkins was likely hired by the New York Times -from Buzzfeed- specifically because she had the FISA application.
[SIDEBAR – James Wolfe did not respond to Yahoo News about their latest article on Ali Watkins. Smartly he’s keeping his mouth shut, because he was saved from having to face repercussions from the classified information leak by a 2018 DC cover-up operation organized by Andrew Weissmann and the Robert Mueller special counsel team.]
The media had the full and unredacted FISA application in March 2017, two months before the Robert Mueller special counsel even started. The FISA application was made public by the special counsel on July 21, 2018, partly because the media already had the FISA in circulation. The media had the application for sixteen months before it was made public, by the special counsel, one month after James Wolfe was indicted.
The last interesting point I would note is this paragraph in the Yahoo article:
“On June 12, 2018, just a week after Wolfe was indicted, the Washington Post published an article about Rambo’s meeting with Watkins, identifying him by his real name. Rambo, who never realized she had learned his name, was blindsided.
Rambo, the article reported, had told Watkins that “the administration was eager to investigate journalists and learn the identity of their confidential sources to stanch leaks of classified information.”
It’s obvious now that Ali Watkins was the sole source for that Washington Post article. Media friends in the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative helping each other.
SEQUENCE – Obviously Watkins knew in December 2017 that her source in the SSCI was busted. Then Watkins finds out in February 2018 her records with Wolfe were in the hands of the FBI/DOJ. Watkins then finds out in June 2018 that Wolfe was indicted. Watkins immediately reaches out for help to her team at New York Times and Washington Post allies, both benefactors of the unlawful leak Watkins gained from Wolfe.
The wagon-circling media quickly throw the dirt of Jeffrey Rambo into the mix as chaff and countermeasures. A month later their fellow Lawfare travelers in the Mueller special counsel then release the FISA application to the public; more chaff and countermeasures.
A never before seen, top secret classified FISA application, illegally in the hands of the media for the past 16 months, was now…. ipso facto… lawful to possess.
Funny how that happens.
The sequence is critical:
1. Adam Waldman text messages. (release date Feb 9, 2018)
2. Justice Dept. Letter to journalist Ali Watkins (release date Feb 13, 2018)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4498451-Justice-Department-Records-Seizure.html
3. James Wolfe indictment (release date June 8, 2018)
4. FISC / Senate Judiciary Letter (public release April, 2020 – event date July 12, 2018) The letter from DOJ-NSD (Mueller Special Proseuctors) to the FISC is important.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/2018-doj-letter-to-fisc&download=1
5. Carter Page FISA application (release date July 21, 2018) Only need the first application section. 83 pages of original application.
https://www.scribd.com/document/384380664/2016-FISA-Application-on-Carter-Page#
6. Government Sentencing Wolfe Case memo and recommendation for upward departure and/or variance. Filed December 11, 2018
https://www.scribd.com/document/395499292/James-Wolfe-DOJ-Sentencing-Memo-December-11
7. Govt. Reply to Defendant (Wolfe) sentencing memo (date Dec 14, 2018) Govt. Exhibit #13 (two page attestation is critical).
https://www.scribd.com/document/395775597/Wolfe-Case-DOJ-Response-to-Defense-Sentencing-Memo
Misc:
July 27, 2018, – Wall Street Journal – Wolfe lawyers threaten SSCI subpoenas.
Dec 11, 2018 – Politico – Senators seek Leniency –
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/senate-intelligence-committee-leaking-james-wolfe-1059162
There is no law left in the USA. Tis nought but an imaginary friend.
James Wolf got himself a whole “two months” in the lockup for committing treason.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he also got a ‘kiss in the mail’ so long as he keeps his mouth shut.
Agree. He is the most intriguing character in the whole of spygate to me… The Page FISA was clearly NOT his first leak and he was in the role for years….
Can we call out to Project Veritas to do a “where are they now…” report? I would love to know how big his boat is…
They know we know, and they don’t care. That should tell you just how dangerous these people are.
Only because we keep electing the same tired, corrupt, greedy, incompetent scum of the earth to represent us. And it all starts at the local level.
That’s more than most! Especially those who should be in GITMO!
He got 2 months for treason and patriots are getting 3 1/2 years for protesting election fraud on Jan 6th. Funny how that works.
Wolfe got 2 months for not bringing up Warner’s role in the mess.
No, I disagree….
There very much is law….way, way too much of it…..
There is no justice…..
Anyone who tries to challenge Sundance on the facts surrounding THIS PARTICULAR SUBJECT is either a complete fool or…. indefensibly overconfident of their ability to lie with impunity.
:0) It is always a delight to follow a story for years and know for a fact that what is being presented is Correct, True & Documented.
Amen to that.
Indeed!
This is a landmark day for the Editor-in-Chief of the “rag tag, conservative misfits!”
As the shadow of Durham moves closer, those that are implicated are forced into desperate coverups, and sleight-of-hand, but the Sheriff of the Last Refuge is having none of it!
He’s got the receipts!
Durham’s staff should take a “walk on the wild side” and read through today’s striking summary.
Durham’s lead investigator, William Aldenberg, was fully briefed regarding this subject and much more on August 18, 2020…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/08/22/my-discussion-with-john-durhams-lead-investigator-william-aldenberg/
Problem is: Public disclosure leading to wholesale criminal indictments necessarily requires taking down the SSCI, DOJ, FBI, Weissman’s Merry Band of Lawfare Accomplices and the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller…
In other words: Justice in the form of a constitutional crisis of the highest order…
I don’t foresee how the Fourth Branch would ever allow that much exposure and transparency…
think about if sundance, technofrog, and few others just took a different path in life. This treason would have never been caught. we would have been left to the Fake Media Complex only.
There is no doubt that this blog site is a blessing: Our blog host, our moderators, and so many of the participating Treepers.
Hey. That’s a good reminder to continue donating so as to sustain it’s long term viability. 🤑
Leave MarxMerdia Alone!
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All I can guess is that some day, it’s going to get dirty, nasty and brutal for the Democrats aka enemies of the United States of America! And I’ll add, they’ll deserve every lump and bruise!
Dirty and Nasty is also an apt description of Yahoo. I find their articles mostly full of lies, and extreme bias. I really try to avoid reading any article written by any employee of Yahoo.
I will not call them journalists, or reporters.
I read yahoo religiously I also throw up a little in my mouth when I do. It s important to know what the enemy is doing and saying. Yahoo is just another mouthpiece like WaPo and NYT. It also helps to counter the the current admins lies to Americans
There are soooo many “journals” filling our In boxes these days, could we do a poll and find what the favorite is of Treepers? After TCTH, of course.! I used to subscribe to the Epoch Times, but they started shifting left.
Right now I am hung up on You Tube; Hauser and Senorita, 🙂 But I really want another Conservative News option. Do you have a favorite besides TCTH ?
American Greatness, Gateway & PJ Media
Gateway Pundit, American Thinker, Liberty Daily
Citizen Free Press.
I used to read yahoo news not so much for the lying stories but more so for the comments section. Real humans would always counter the lies of the stories in the comments. It was often brutal. About two years ago yahoo stopped letting people comment on stories. This tells everyone everything they need to know about yahoo news, once they took the comments away I’ve never been back.
My reaction as well.
At some point, to use a phrase that has currency but is fraught with danger for everyone and our society: “it’s nigh high time to eff some people up.”
One can hope.
These alleged enemies would at least be afforded EFFECTIVE USE (per the Constitution!) of their Bill of Rights, something they are now emphatically denying to their political adversaries; something that is, in itself, a crime, or at least a civil tort, punishable by fines or jail sentences, or recoverable by monetary awards.
Of course, if the shoe were on the other foot, i.e., if the Trump Campaign had concocted a Steel dossier etc., etc., the Left would now be assembling their guillotines on the Washington Mall.
Sundance wraps up this update clearly and concisely just like his original series of articles on Wolfe and Watkins the presstitute. This is subset of Russiagate that can be digested more easily than most tangents of the hoax. That made it’s possible exposure very dangerous to the coupsters who needed the Herrs Mueller and Weismann, the SSCI, and the MSM to collude and cover up.
Nailed it. This part of the entire operation is the easiest one for casual truth seekers out on a lark to understand.
“This is a lie, they are liars – [sue me].”
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This is true. And she is a whore — [sue me].
Does anyone else think it’s odd that the Me Too movement has been totally silent on this whole incident?
Some poor little female journalist being forced to open her legs by some dirty old white man in power just to get a story. Just to put food on the table.
They are all ate up with greed & arrogance……the world is now aware of the 2 tiered injustice system in this country..
FJB Lesko Brandon
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There’s a great Mel Brooks or Stanley Kubrick movie waiting to be made about Russiagate and its subsequent cover-up.
Maybe a young Peter Sellers as Andrew Weissman? Leslie Nielsen as Robert Mueller? Carter Page has to be a character…
Sellers would need more than one part: Weissman, Mueller, and Hillary.
LOL
We don’t need no stinkin’ movie. We have been victims of one of the worst political crimes ever committed against a duly elected president AND We The People. I will never forget the criminals who heaped INJUSTICE on our republic working night and day to further their EVIL Larcenous schemes. They are trying to take our country away from us! I call it larceny. God knows who they are!!
Thank the Good Lord for men and women of worth here at the Conservative Treehouse. Thank you Sundance, Menagerie, and others who diligently toil every day to bring us the light of truth and encouragement. You are the BEST!!
And God knows who YOU are!
I agree .what the clintons and obummer did to a duly elected president is worse than criminal it s treason. The Russians hoax is nothing compared to the full blown destruction of america we are seeing today. Those that brought us russiagate wont be happy until america collapses. Our enemies don’t fear us, our friends don’t trust us and we don t believe a word the fool in the WH says.
You are correct, however to those in the middle of the DC corruption don’t care. That’s evident from them recently trotting out the Evil Hag with the blue dress staining husband. That evil sow should be in prison for any one of her 100s of felonies. They not only don’t care, they think they can shove that pig down the throats of the American people in spite of her being soundly rejected in 2016
Although not American I have read everything Sundance has posted about American coup, this allows me to connect more dots from my side .
Trying to explain to some of my peers (and their not stupid) is near impossible as a particularly unique analytical mindset is needed which of course Sundance posses .
Did readers here know that the highest security base outside continental USA is is located in the central desert country of Australia in the state of South Australia, not located on maps , I have been to the perimeter.
This so called ” joint facility” is duel purpose, military of course but it’s main function is as a satellite bouncing rely station for the NSA !
Australia has a lot more to do with your coup than people are aware.
China recently stated that this base was a priority one target.
Officially Australia has no nukes but most beleive that nukes are present at this base.
Disclaimer : everything above is in the public sphere if one is willing to look.
It is called ” Pine Gap”.
You may be referring to JDFN.
Per Dunn & Bradstreet: ” JOINT DEFENCE FACILITY PINE GAP is located in ALICE SPRINGS, NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia and is part of the Services to Buildings and Dwellings Industry. JOINT DEFENCE FACILITY PINE GAP has 3 employees at this location and generates $4.79 million in sales (USD). (Employees and Sales figures are modelled).”
Interesting.
Ive been keeping up with your posts.
Thank you and your brothers in the fight.
I’ll keep y’all in my prayers.
Cheers lolli , I had to repost the name as I was thinking about posting more and decided I should just leave it at that but I decided to change my mind , if you are a woman you might know what I mean 😜 !
Thank you for that info.
You mean to say JDFPG is in the NT.
The Bull Bar has a good selection of beers.
Much as we would like to believe that the Marxist outback of Australia is central to the stinking American spying network, don’t forget the ‘mother country’.
Over here in Blighty (and other five eyes outposts) the spies are as numerous as the lying media.
Australia is a 5 eyes country.
“5 Spies” country works too.
Australia is part of Five Eyes. I suspect Five Eyes was created so intelligence agencies could get around the domestic spying laws by asking another member to look for them. That information could be enough to get a FISA warrant to look at everything about an individual. Under Justice Roberts the FISA court has been a rubber stamp 99% of the time which means we have no reason to stay in Five Eyes.
No Doubt NSA files which “do not exist” are kept on this base.
Excellent, Sundance, as always.
Thank you for showing us these parts of the unbelievably huge criminal empire built with our blood, sweat, tears and tax dollars.
Prayers of strength for all, this is some nasty business….
I loved that movie. Broadcast News. Now their only “integrity” is speaking lies to Americans for the powerful. They are not comforting the afflicted, they are inflicting pain on Americans and comforting the powerful. Evil.
OWNED.
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Whatever happened to baby Jane .
Great old movie .
I get it ☺
My first thought was: why is she doing this now? Why the “I didden dooit” story right now?
Is her “journalistic reputation” in shatters? I doubt it. Do her fellow Commies, er, leftists care?
Is Durham after her? Unlikely. So what’s the need for this gaslighting now?
Glen Greenwald on MediBuzz thinks the MSM is attempting to explain away their craven partisanship as patriotism.
Neither Lord Brian (Williams), nor Lady Rachel (Maddow) have offered credible reasons for decamping; hence I think they will be on special (secret) assignment by their networks in anticipation of Election 22.
You can be sure they will be up to no good!
When the left feels its back up against the wall, they default to infiltration and phony outreach initiatives geared to gaining information and tactical advantage.
My recommendation to conservatives is that when these two choice creeps come calling for interviews, tell them to call back in a few years. By then, all the dust will have settled on the Russia Hoax, the Biden Disaster, and on Donald Trump’s reelection to President of the United States.
At that point, there will be much of interest to talk about.
It’s as simple as this: the FBI works for leftist causes and can use any means necessary to go after their targets. A J6 defendant will be overcharged and their civil liberties trampled.
CBP and DHS are viewed by the MSM as instruments of the right (which is grossly exaggerated). They have a few honest agents who are capable of recognizing threats (in the few databases they are given access) that the FBI would studiously ignore with much greater resources and authorities. Therefore they need to be defunded, which is the whole purpose of the Yahoo.news smear.
From reading the yahoo article, it appears that the media was very upset with this Rambo character for conducting an investigation not sanctioned by the FBI. The crimes of Watkins and Wolfe were successfully being buried by the media and their buddies in the FBI until Rambo stuck his nose into it. His crime was not ignoring what the Deep State wanted ignored.
My take away is that the media was very upset that someone dared to investigate on of their own. They seem to think they should have greater privacy protection than the average citizen.
I didn’t see much outrage about the intrusive nature of our govt in general, just that it was used vs them.
From the Yahoo article (I didn’t know this and how the hell can this be legal?)
Ratliff worked on DOMEX, a program that collects information from the contents of a person’s electronic device when they cross a U.S. border. The controversial program sweeps up everything from phone contacts and emails to the contents from encrypted messaging apps and social media.
In the big picture, Watkins is a loose end that could unravel that coverup if pulled. They would not leave such a vulnerability just because of the first amendment.
Those lies are as directed. Wonder where the threats needed to keep her silence are coming from? That is an awful lot of media organizations lying in sync with her. True there may be some carrot involved too. Maybe guaranteed employment? Combined with never work again in your life?
Of course, there is the obvious threat of blackmail by the SC and the DOJ. Not just against her, but against her family or loved ones as well as that litany of media companies. Trusting in loyalty to a conspiracy will never be good enough. And that won’t be limited to legal action.
Even makes you wonder if someone made it clear that the only other alternative was an up close and personal interview with Seth Rich or Epstein? Who would be that someone? The FBI? DNC? Obama’s crew? The string pullers behind Obama?
And the winner is …. All of the above! Can’t have their conspiracy unwinding. And fellow conspirators are always the greatest risk.
It’s not much, but it is mildly gratifying to know watkins, wolfe, and others have to go through the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder.
thats how they tell the PERSON what their story is. They publish it – and Ali better stick to the script.
of she will get
Wonder where the threats needed to keep her silence are coming from?………..No threats needed. She’s on the same team.
That being said, toss her into a cell under the NDAA and let her sit there for a while, no internet, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Happy Hour with friends, no brunch with her GFs on a sunny Sunday, no margaritas on a patio somewhere patting each other on the back and talking about how they’re saving the world from Conservatives, and she might start thinking otherwise.
Put her in a cell next to the folks in detention form Jan6th. Hold her under the same conditions as they’re being reported. We’ll see how long she lasts.
Hmmm, IIRC, Wolfe went to the ‘Scif’ with Mark Warner (who took Feinstein’s place on the SSCI) who wanted to review the FISA warrant on C. Page. At that time Wolfe (With Warner? At Warner’s direction?) sent Ali Watkins 82 text messages. How long was the FISA? Eight three pages. At least Wolfe was smart enough not to take a picture and text the blank page
I love when the media makes totally baseless charges and then doesn’t include comments so people can call out their lies.
Do the ‘reporters’ even read them, or just the moderators when someone brings it to their attention?
Excellent. Irrefutable.
It both saddening and infuriating that these scumbags got away with their crimes and felonies.
To say we live in a lawless country is an understatement.
Crime is out of control, from the street thugs to the Capitol thug cartel that includes this gang.
Meanwhile the J6 prisoners who did nothing wrong, are dying in Garland’s Gulag.
One very interesting thing Sundance pointed out way back when was the Wolfe threat to call as witnesses the Senators on the senate select intelligence committee if he was brought to trial on stealing top secret material. This has been lost in the wash but a just and fair country should have seen this for what it was, a criminal release of top secret material by the highest senators in the land for their gross political ends. A high crime along with the crimes of the former senate chairman who released proceedings that were secret to alert her political fellow conspirators to the knowledge of the government of their crimes. To right the wrongs of criminals in the government is critical for our country. There is nothing in the constitution authorizing codifying or making free from criminal prosecution any political party. The political party discussed here is a criminal enterprise and should be prosecuted punished disbanded and made to pay with prison time for these undertakings
Political crimes have how many years until the Statute of Limitations run out? I believe it’s 5 Years. Hence Hillary moved back to the US.
I think real hillary been put-“aside”- few yrs ago…signer… do you remember 09/11/16 her health scare..
“Having read the lengthy article a few times, there are some interesting aspects and also a lot of nonsense in the grand scheme of things.”
well DUH !!!!
It’s Yahoo “News”
Sundance for the win – receipts in tow.
Why would the intelligence side of Customs and Border Patrol be contacting Watkins? That alone makes no sense.
JoeBama has already declared for all intent and purposes the JoeBama Administration will be leaving journalists alone. Unless you’re Julian Assange, of course.
“”Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this Department of Justice — in a change to its longstanding practice — will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs,” Anthony Coley, the department’s director of public affairs, said in a statement.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/politics/justice-department-leak-investigations-reporters-new-york-times/index.html
So why the need for the Jana Winters article now?
None of this makes any sense. What is coming down that we do not yet see?
Good grief. Why can’t these people get a life and quit playing their silly-arse games? Do they really expect us to believe this nonsense?
from the article “As many as 20 journalists were investigated as part of the division’s work”
So…journalists are complaining they shouldn’t be investigated and put under surveillance, because it’s a 1A and 4A issue.
That means they are saying they want to be EXEMPT from the same treatment the government dishes out to ordinary citizens now, amiright?
This isn’t a defense of rights and privacy issue…this is another divying up of who is in the “protected” class and who isn’t…..
Sundance,
To borrow a quote from Broadcast News that applies to you.
Paul Moore: It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.
Jane Craig:
No. It’s awful.
I mean this as a compliment. Because you ARE the smartest person in the room and have an uncanny ability to sniff out the story.
PDJT was framed for treason. They commited Treason
excellent. THIS INFOPIC illustrates a very account of THE PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN TIME when the coup was engaged by all of the major players. In this instance, it gives a focused review of the complete awareness and complicity, coordination, conspiracy and manufactured cover story from with specific congressional member actors named who fulfilled key roles in support of and acting to unlawfully direct a coup of a President of the United States.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) was warner’s wing man throughout the phony Russia collusion investigation. And he asks for leniency for Wolfe. What do they have on this guy?
MUCHO!
Hang them all. Let God sort these Bastards out.
Hang them in the town square for all to see. Preferably upside down like Mussolini
Leave them for the crows to pick clean and let their bones bleach white in the sun as a warning to the next crew.
It appears Rambo was a Border Patrol agent living in San Diego, who went TDY to the National Targeting Center. The NTC was not a desirable place to work so they needed personnel to come in from the field, and typically got a lot of agents from the Southern border, which for them would be an improvement. However, the NTC work is nothing like border work. So there is a learning curve.
As Treepers may recall, Phil Haney (murdered DHS employee) was one of the top notch officers at the NTC, and targeted a lot of real terrorists, which upset some people in the Obama administration. He was ordered to delete the records of those individuals. I would surmise that there was a shift at that time at NTC, from protecting the American people to protecting the Administration/Deep State.
Now, to return to Agent Rambo. He goes TDY to NTC, and would be in front of a computer terminal and would interact with field people over the phone. He would not be interviewing reporters or investigating leaks. Not his lane at all. And he would not have any idea what he was doing.
So, whack job? Put up to it (patsy)? Or?
Needs more attention.
Rambo – CIA CHS asset.
used to “interview” watkins…see how reliable she was to stand up on the art of deception and concealing her status as a IC asset? “field” assets have great experience doing one on one “reads” and developing good intuition about a person of interest. he has those skills already. How to “size” someone up. Is watkins reliable. Is she effective? What are here weaknesses? Does she fold easily? What are the tells, and is there any concern about this asset failing to perform?
you NEED people to monitor assets….the people you USE to monitor AND EVALUATE assets must have certain skill sets, that come from focused experience.
A CBP agent from San Diego would most certainly have those skillsets..and he’s an “outside”, just some dude who works border patrol over on the left coast. exquisitely cia style and form.
just my opinions
see remarks I made earlier.
Border Patrol enforce Title 8 (immigration) and because of the combining of Border Patrol, INS, and Customs, they can also enforce Title 19 (Customs), and small parts of Title 18 (Criminal) such as smuggling (545). There is no nexus with the border in this case. None.
Yes, CBP conducts interviews to determine compliance with the aforementioned titles, but almost all are interviews (Q&A) to determine admissibility. If criminal conduct is detected (eg drug smuggling) the matter is turned over to ICE for resolution. Once probable cause is developed, then there is no further interview (due to miranda) aside from obtaining biographic information. Also, CBP do not work informants, at least not officially. Until about 1990 US Customs inspectors were highly encouraged to develop sources of information. After that time, no. And sources had to be turned over to OI (Office of Investigations), if
possible.
I have no idea why this agent got involved, but it is one of the strangest things I have ever read. And I read a lot of strange.
“not officially” covers alot of territory.
broaden that…
a cia asset dressed in cbp from san diego, just in town for some r&r.
“not officially”
there is a reason why his name pops up…there is a reason why the people you put in orbit around monitoring assets…is there are no phantom worlds. it’s really people, with real lives..
the least suspicious the better.
his name pops up because they needed to develop the lead and determine rambo to simply be this coincidence and there isn’t anything there to see…a dude on vacation, cbp from san diego.
its just a theory of mine….but when you see these assets and how they are likely used, well you can’t make all that work without actual human beings involved at a person level.
it was no coincidence.
No disagreement with what you have written so far. The strangest part of the story for me was the coffee shop in San Diego. Two things most BPAs lack is extra time and cash. Unlike other federal agencies, few trust fund babies join CBP. Moreover, BPAs work overtime in the best of times (and these are not the best of times). None of them are moonlighting, unless they are a midnight shift sleeper who hasn’t been caught.
The FBI nondisclosure agreement left Rambo hamstrung
Handy little tool to have !
Watkins will never be with out a handsome paycheck with very generous COLA and (real) inflation increases. And undoubtedly subsidized by the rest of us.
And the IRS will NEVER be in touch with her.
I saw this reported in the SHILL yesterday mixing in their own special brand of reporting. Bottom line? How DARE that orange menace spy on reporters!!!!
Once again, Sundance works wonders. Thank God for the Treehouse.
Still waiting for the handcuffs and the perp walk. Not holding my breath though . . .
As usual, Sundance gives a very detailed and accurate account of what happened. Lets simplify it for a moment though…
Based on the photo of Watkins in the headline photo, I looked her up to see how accurate the photo was. Is she a supermodel? Don’t think so. But she ain’t ugly either, to be blunt. She’s one of thousands of young good looking women running around DC.
Well, Wolfe ISN’T a good looking man on his best day.
So, an attractive 25 year old, female reporter is having liaison’s with James Wolfe, a not so good looking man more than twice her age, who happens to be in one of the most confidential assignments in Washington, DC. Hmmmmm……..
What is a honeypot in espionage?
In espionage, a honeypot or honeytrap is a trap set to capture, kill or compromise an enemy agent using sex as the lure.
So, the Left Wing media/journalists/talking heads/researchers, has zero problem with their staff, etc sleeping with the right people for classified information? Is that what I’m getting?
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They groom them and turn them out . . .
The good ones don’t have to ‘work’ too long to be afforded a lifetime of ease . . .
BINGO!
And Sen. Warner – got away scott free. He was as big a Russia! Russia! Russia! I know secret things! As any other beltway goon. Quite the abuse of office, if you ask me.
Nothing against against the State, everything for the State.
Ali Watkins and her mainstream journalist colleagues want to assure the State that they take great care not report anything that is against the State. O’Keefe and Project Veritas are not real journalists, in the eyes of MSM, because they do not take the same care.
So much comical effort is invested in pretending that investigative journalism is going on; we learned from the Russian collusion hoax that most “journalists” simply wait by the phone for State sources (FBI, State Dept etc.) to tell them what to report. The conservative “journalist” John Solomon appears to follow the same arduous work routine. Only the identity of his very dubious sources needs to be reported.
It reminds of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; when Butch finds out how much money and effort the railroad is putting into stopping his train robberies, Butch says “if only they’d pay me to stop robbing them, I’d stop robbing them!” The source for most gossip about celebrities is, of course, the celebrities themselves.
Most investigative journalism is a show, a grand hoax. Nothing more.
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The wrap-up smear? Isn’t that what Nanzi called it?
protip:
ali watkins IS a CIA spook asset. operating in journalism for a specific reason, which is activated at any time such that a need to intentionally compromise classified data, use “anonymous sources”, and to speak in details about classified material in articles.
Now how does this work?
the REASON why she was held out to be the “journalist” is such that IF any pushback or investigations happen, then national security firewalls can be established to protect:
these are just theories.
The fact that Burr wanted the testimony about Wolfe to die an immediate death is simple. He was compromised by Warner early on (I often wondered if they were playing Hanky and Panky since they seemed to always have their heads literally touching and always had strange smiles on their faces. Wolfe knew what they were up to . He knew that Warner had an issue with contacting Waldman and could be quickly and publicly tied to Steele before he could even talk to a lawyer. Feinstein had her own problems with her CCP driver.
Whenever the people decide to “blow up” the crooked FBI, the more crooked DoJ and the crookedest CIA, they may as well take the SSCI at the same time. They are equally as crooked. I would say the HPSCI but some of them are actually honest. Not many but at least they have a couple. SSCI are corkscrews! It is time for the people of the USA to say enough already. We need to purge Congress (yes, I realize some good people will go but the rotten to the core in both houses outnumber the good and honest by at least 25 to 1! We have a totally corrupt government in place. We are holding political prisoners in our nation’s capital. Leadership in the House is more concerned with the eradication of Donald Trump than doing the business that they were elected to do. The Senate Democrats are in large part Pelosi Bobble Head Dolls. When Pelosi says jump, they jump and then say Mother May I!
How do you know the Democrats are in trouble? Look at the polls. THEIR POLLS. Biden is in deep trouble but he is still ahead of Harris and Congress. Even Fauci is being proven to be a liar, a fraud and seen as (like Congress) only doing things which enrich his bank accounts! It is a shame that the midterms aren’t immediately coming up. Unless (and until) they cheat bigger and better than in 2020, the next election could be the biggest blowout and blow up in American election history!
FISA Court delenda est.
More CYA from the media….Sorry, I thought this was also much seedier-that she slept with (the much older) “source” to get the FISA material….
I guess when one of your Dem woman role models is the VP it makes sense.
Honestly, Sundance, I do not fathom how you keep all of this crap straight… Thanks for clarifying for this old codger… and for ALL of your amazing, hard work. Time to donate again.
I couldn’t find it
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wyden-cbp-surveillance-184458020.html
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog turn over its investigation into employees involved in a leaked investigation of a reporter and a congressional staffer.
“The Department of Homeland Security [inspector general] must provide its investigation to Congress immediately,” Wyden said Sunday in a statement to Yahoo News. “If multiple government agencies were aware of this conduct and took no action to stop it, there needs to be serious consequences for every official involved, and DHS and the Justice Department must explain what actions they are taking to prevent this unacceptable conduct in the future.”
Yahoo News obtained a full copy of the inspector general report
Back maybe a year ago, I researched what happened to Mr. Woolfe. A few interesting tidbits.
1. His high-powered wife divorced him.
2. They sold their tony home… and realtor photos online showed a feature I’ve never seen before in a modern home – a custom-designed secret hideaway, possibly in a downstairs entertainment room. The pictures showed the wall propped half open, like an old wall bed, but inside Wolff had displayed his special Swamp moments.
3. It appears he moved to a smaller place – in a Trump property!
That July 27 report was a HUMONGOUS TELL.
BTW, I got booted from Twadder because I was relentlessly bagging on Watkins
What a wh0re
Richard Burr of NC has been a thorn in the side of the Republican Party for WAY too long. He was one who voted with the infrastructure bill and with the Democrats on cloture – to allow the unlimited raising of the debt ceiling.
He’s retiring next year and I hope that NC will vote for a strong and good Republican to take his place.
Ipso facto nothing. Watkins had the material when it was unlawful to possess. Absolutely should have been persued to disincentivize national security leaks.
It amazes me that a man as obviously ugly and unattractive as James Wolfe (and he surely must have known that about his own appearance / attraction to the opposite sex) could in his wildest dreams think even for a nanosecond that a 20 something journalist would want to have sex with him! Nope, he was willing to trade Classified Government Documents for a brief affair with a women 30 years younger than himself to flatter what was left of his self-esteem.
How more pathetic than that can a man possibly be?
This stuff has been going on for decades upon decades upon decades. Gray-mail is why nothing in DC ever comes to light.
The government never gets more honest, it just gets better at nondisclosure.