Why the 'Intelligence Community' aggressively pushed RussiaGate conspiracy theories

Debra Heine
PJ Media

James Clapper behind John Brennan and Robert Muller

Why did anonymous members of the intelligence community and top Obama administration officials like James Comey, James Clapper, and John Brennan so aggressively push the Russia collusion narrative for over two years in the midst of ongoing investigations? Who does that? Why have these Obama alumni been so conspicuously loud in their protestations against the president?

"They doth protest too much," Monica Crowley explained in her Washington Times piece this week, as she fleshed out what many of us have been thinking from the beginning.

The best defense, the saying goes, is a good offense.

The key orchestrators of the Big Trump-Russia Collusion Lie seem to have hewed tightly to that tactical advice.

Over the past two years, one of their biggest "tells" has been their hyper-aggressive and gratuitous attacks on the president. Given that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation found no collusion or obstruction of justice, their constant broadsides now look, in retrospect, like calculated pre-emptive strikes to deflect attention and culpability away from themselves.

By accusing Mr. Trump of what they themselves were guilty of, they created a masterful distraction through projection.

We now know that former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, are hip-deep in the conspiracy. Both wrote supposed "tell-all" books and carpet-bombed the media with interviews in which they regularly flung criminal accusations against the president. Whenever asked about their own roles, they reverted to denouncing Mr. Trump.

With Mr. Mueller's findings, Mr. Comey's and Mr. McCabe's media benders look increasingly suspicious.

As do those of their comrades in the Obama national security apparatus, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and his partner in possible crime, former CIA Director John Brennan, who, apart from former President Barack Obama himself, may be the biggest player of them all.

Every clip of Brennan fulminating against the president on MSNBC, every insufferable tweet from James Comey, and every pearl clutch from James Clapper on CNN should be seen with this in mind.

Because there is so much corruption and malfeasance to cover up.

For instance, The Daily Caller investigative reporter Luke Rosiak recently discovered a provision in a 2012 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court motion that expanded the FBI's ability to share information with foreign officials, laying the groundwork for the 2016 abuses against U.S. citizens. To put it bluntly, "the UK and Australia would be able to trade information back and forth with the U.S. about campaign workers who are American citizens." Like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, for instance.

Ace of Spades explained how it works:

Remember the US intelligence trick? They can't spy on US citizens without a warrant sufficient to clear the probable cause evidentiary hurdle. But if they tell foreign intelligence services to do the spying and slip the results back to the US intelligence community, they get their spying done by proxy, avoiding a judge's scrutiny and any intersection with the US Constitution at all.

Former prosecutor Sidney Powell told The Daily Caller that the language in the 2012 FISA provision was "very concerning." 

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Deep State & mainstream media begin cover up as illegal spying on Trump campaign is revealed

DCWhispers

The Obama era Intelligence community was determined to punish Donald Trump and his supporters for challenging the political status quo. They didn't actually think Trump would win though. So what was initially a punishment operation turned into a search and destroy operation that pitted the Deep State and its media cohorts against a duly elected President of the United States? That attempt is now being uncovered in real time which in turn has led to a flurry of cover-up activity from such powerful players as the New York Times. And not only are they desperate to save their own skins but even more importantly protect the man at the very top of this political conspiracy food chain - Barack Obama himself.
 
"John Brennan should get a good lawyer." That's the advice from former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova who laid out the stunning extent of the Deep State operation against Donald Trump: 

"We know that Hillary Clinton was illegally exonerated. We knew that a year ago," the former prosecutor said.

"We know that there was a substantial effort to frame the current president of the United States with crimes by infiltrating his campaign and then his administration with spies that the FBI had set upon them."

"We have learned that the crimes were committed by the FBI, senior members of the Department of Justice, John Brennan, Mr. [James] Clapper, Mr. [James] Comey and others associated with the Democratic Party," he continued. "And Donald Trump and his associates committed no crimes."

"Categorically and unequivocally, it has been proved that the FBI, in violation of all guidelines, all legislation - and I believe they committed crimes in doing so - purposely sent people into the Trump campaign to plant false information, then force that information to be forwarded back to CIA, and then funneled to the FBI, to be used as false information in FISA applications," he said. 

"Everybody involved in that process, who knowingly participated, committed a crime," DiGenova concluded.  

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CIA’s Brennan & Sen. John McCain Lied About Putin & Russia Helping Trump Win White House

True Pundit

U.S. intelligence agencies’ far-reaching conclusion that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to specifically help Donald Trump was flawed by “tradecraft failings,” says a House report.

The conclusion was written by the CIA then under the direction of Obama loyalist John O. Brennan.

And Sen. John McCain helped spread those lies too.

The report said the CIA’s Putin–Trump analysis violated standards for analyzing intelligence products and noted that one guideline is to “be independent of political considerations.”

It said the CIA’s draft section on Mr. Putin’s intentions lacked vigorous internal debate because it was restricted to an “unusually constrained review” by other agencies.

The findings are contained in the Republican majority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling.

It buttressed the argument from Hillary Clinton, who from the moment she lost to Mr. Trump cited Russia as the reason. Obama loyalists, such as Mr. Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James R. Clapper, have suggested that Mr. Trump is a Putin agent.

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CIA Chief Drops Bombshell — Admits Orlando Shooter Had NO Direct Connections to ISIS

Jay Syrmopoulos

 

Washington, D.C. – In extremely revealing testimony, director of the CIA John Brennan told the Senate intelligence committee Thursday that CIA has no evidence of a connection between Omar Mateen and the Islamic State.

Despite alleged claims made by the Orlando shooter during the massacre, as well as a chorus of media pundits and politicos that followed; including President Obama, and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Central Intelligence Agency head Brennan said the intelligence agency has not been “able to uncover any link” between Orlando killer Omar Mateen and the Islamic State (ISIS).
According to a report in The Guardian:

Reinforcing four days of internal government assessments across multiple agencies and a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry, the CIA director, John Brennan, contrasted “lone wolf” killers in Orlando and San Bernardino last December with recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, which he told the Senate intelligence committee were “directed” by Isis leadership in Syria and Iraq.

In addition to the CIA assessment given to the Senate intelligence committee, the FBI has also come to the conclusion that the killer was not in contact with ISIS before his attack at the Pulse nightclub.

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World Plunges Toward War After About-Face In Kiev - Was John Brennan Responsible?

LaRouchePAC

As of this writing, the UN Security Council is about to begin as 8:00 PM Sunday Emergency Meeting on Ukraine, summoned by Russia. 
 
The immediate background is that the self-proclaimed Ukraine government dropped its more conciliatory approach to the anti-Maidan demonstrators who are taking over public buildings in eastern Ukraine, after an emergency National Security Council meeting on Saturday evening, April 12. In that connection, the Russian state media Vesti television and RIA-Novosti report that US CIA Director and Obama crony John Brennan visited Kiev that same day, under an assumed name, to advise the Ukrainian defense and interior ministries on what to do. Inquiring about this in Washington, Novosti was told by a US National Security Council spokesman to ask the CIA, which has not yet answered. For its part, London's Daily Telegraph, in reporting the story of the Brennan visit, says that the White House refuses to confirm or deny it. 

After the Security Council meeting, coup-appointed president Turchynov told television cameras that the Army will be used to prevent a "repeat of Crimea" in the southeast, and offered guarantees of safety to anyone who gives up occupation of buildings by Monday morning, the Ukrainian site Zerkalo Nedeli reports. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov posted to his Facebook page that an "anti-terrorist" operation was being launched against building-occupiers in Slovyansk. He said the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) was coordinating forces from all over the country, and that special militia units were being set up to fight the "separatists." He said he counted on "12,000 patriots" to join them.

It is unclear how this overlaps the newly-formed National Guard. Russian media report that armed militants from the neo-Nazi Right Sector are prominent in the fighting in Slovyansk. 

At last report, Avakov had said that one of his Security Service troops had been killed, and there are reports of two deaths among demonstrators and larger numbers of injured on both sides. 

Earlier, in a Saturday evening telephone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Kerry, Kerry had threatened Russia with further sanctions if the eastern Ukraine building seizures continued. (US UN Ambassador Samantha Power did the same on US national television Sunday.) Lavrov had said that any use of force by the coup-installed government in Ukraine would imperil the four-way (Russia, Ukraine, US, EU) talks scheduled for Thursday. 

Sunday's violence precedes a scheduled Monday meeting of EU foreign ministers, and a Tuesday meeting of NATO's North Atlantic Council to consider how to strengthen NATO armed forces on Russia's borders.