By Matt Vespa| Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
I
mean, we shouldn’t be too shocked about this I guess, given the scale of the
anti-Trump operation executed by the Obama administration. Then-President Obama
had to have known. If not, then he wasn’t in control of the executive. Katie
touched upon this earlier this week, noting that new documents from the
Department of Justice in their motion to dismiss their case against ex-National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was the victim of an FBI plot to entrap him
on perjury charges. Flynn has been vindicated, and more light is being shed on
the scope of this whole operation.
The
deep state does exist. They’re malicious. They’re ruthless. Just look at the
mindset of Andrew McCabe and James Comey, who were determined to ensnare Flynn,
department policy, and constitutional rights be damned. It’s chilling. And now
we’re seeing how Obama was the starting quarterback for how to ensure the
incoming Trump administration would be saddled with the Trump-Russia collusion
allegations. It was coordinated chaos. Here’s what Katie wrote about what the
new DOJ revealed regarding
this angle:
Newly released
documents from the Department of Justice show President Obama informed former
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates of a phone call between former National
Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in
December 2016. He did so in the Oval Office.
"Yates first
learned of the December 2016 calls between [LTG Michael] Flynn and [Russian
Ambassador to the United States, Sergey] Kislyak on January 5, 2017, while in
the Oval Office. Yates, along with then FBI-Director James Comey, then-CIA
Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper, were at the White House to brief members of the Obama Administration
on the classified Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities in
Recent U.S Elections. President Obama was joined by his National Security
Advisor, Susan Rice, and others from the National Security Council," the
document states.
"After the
briefing, Obama dismissed the group but asked Yates and Comey to stay behind.
Obama started by saying he had 'learned of the information about Flynn' and his
conversation with Kislyak about sanctions. Obama specified he did not want any
additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether
the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the
information. At that point, Yates had no idea what the President was talking
about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning
the Logan Act, but can't recall if he specified there was an
'investigation,'" it continues.
That
January 5 meeting appears to be critical, as Obama also gave his marching
orders. Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist has a lengthy post detailing the meeting,
the ensuing timelines, and how all the stars aligned to what Barry wanted. He
wanted to make sure the incoming Trump administration didn’t find out about the
FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion. With that mindset,
Obama officials soon weaponized the Russia collusion nonsense to inflict damage
on the new Trump White House. Remember, Obama and most of the Democratic
establishment thought Hillary was going to win. Obama administration officials
thought so as well, as did the intelligence apparatus probably. They thought
this could be swept under the rug once Hillary was sworn-in, washed away as if
it never happened. Well, that plan got punched in the mouth. It was scrambling
time (via The
Federalist) [emphasis mine]:
A clearer picture
is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in
the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began
intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump
conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the
incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of
investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive
media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.
Not only was information on Russia not fully
shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes
made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in
the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When
Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his
handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a
Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That
probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with
Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.
An analysis of the
timeline from early 2017 shows a clear pattern of behavior from the federal
officials running the collusion operation against the Trump campaign. It also
shows how essential media leaks were to their strategy to sideline key
law enforcement and intelligence officials and cripple the ability of the
incoming Trump administration to run the country.
[…]
January 5: Yates,
Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper briefed Obama on Russia-related matters in the Oval Office. Biden and
Rice also attended. After the Obama briefing, the intelligence chiefs who would
be leaving at the end of the term were dismissed and Yates and Comey, who would
continue in the Trump administration, were asked to stay. Not only did Obama
give his guidance about how to perpetuate the Russia collusion theory
investigations, he also talked about Flynn’s conversations with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to both Comey and Yates. Interestingly,
Clapper, Comey, and Yates all said that they did not brief Obama about these
phone calls. Clapper testified he did not brief Obama on the calls, Yates
learned about the calls from Obama himself during that meeting, and Comey also
testified he didn’t brief Obama about the calls, even though the intelligence
was an FBI product. Rice, who publicly lied but later admitted under oath to
her widespread use of unmasked intelligence at the end of the Obama
administration, likely briefed Obama on the calls and would have had access to
the intelligence. Comey mentions the Logan Act at this meeting.
It was this meeting
that Rice memorialized in a bizarre inauguration-day email to herself that
claimed Obama told the gathered to do everything “by the book.” But Rice also
noted in her email that the key point of discussion in that meeting was whether
and how to withhold national security information, likely including details of
the investigation into Trump himself, from the incoming Trump national security
team.
And
all of this was done for obvious reasons. The FBI’s actions here were
deplorable. First, they used an unverified piece of opposition research, the
Trump Dossier, to secure a FISA spy warrant on Carter Page, a former Trump
campaign official. The FBI altered or omitted exculpatory evidence in the
process to obtain the warrant, which DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz
said was a systemic issue. Someone should be fired over this, but that won’t
happen. The Horowitz report also drove a stake through the heart of the
dossier, which was compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher
Steele which was funded by the Democrats and Hillary Clinton. The dossier was
probably never vetted by the FBI since former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
refused to say otherwise. By the glaring errors
in it, it wasn’t.
Also, let’s not forget about the
spying operation into the Trump campaign.
Sorry, it’s not spying, just
informants gleaning information from Trump campaign officials under false
pretenses and then relaying said information to a third party. The FBI sent a
woman, Azra
Turk, to run the operation which included Stefan Halper, another informant.
Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos, a target of this surveillance
operation called ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ felt Turk was CIA, not an FBI agent,
but that’s a tale for another time.
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He wasn't a spy.... he was hired by the FBI to
secretly engage in conversations under false pretenses and then report back
whatever he learned in those conversations.
But he wasn't a spy.
But he wasn't a spy.
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I agree with everything in this superb article
except “Azra Turk” clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish
intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work
in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with.
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And
now we know this entire operation, the entire collusion narrative was a hoax.
It was partially grounded in Russian misinformation which was surely fed to
Steele when he was developing sources in Russia, some of which were
intelligence officials still active in the Kremlin. Knowing Trump, Obama knew
how the incoming president would react and moved to ensure a plan was set in
place that would lead to the works getting gummed up. Hemingway’s excellent
timeline analysis shows the leaks and other deep state antics that went along
prior to and after Trump’s inauguration. CNN and The Washington
Post appeared to be popular sites for these leaks to pop up.
They
tried but failed. The whole circus act has been revealed—and the hunters are
slowly becoming the hunted. It’s about damn time.
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RELATED
STORY
Mark Levin Perfectly Sums Up What New
Documents Say About Obama's Role in Targeting Flynn
By Katie
Pavlich |Townhall.com
Source:
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Yesterday the Department of Justice released a number of
documents backing up the decision to drop the criminal case against General
Michael Flynn. In them, it was revealed President Barack Obama was in on the
Flynn takedown, knew about the FBI wiretapping his phone in 2016 and asked
whether his case should be "treated differently" moving forward. He
even took the time to brief then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, in the
Oval Office, on what he knew.
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During an appearance on Hannity Thursday night,
conservative radio host Mark Levin referred to the documents as "Barack
Obama's blue dress."
"This is Barack Obama's blue dress," Levin said
holding up the documents. "Let me explain what I mean. We're supposed to
believe that during the Obama administration the FBI went rogue. The Department
of Justice went rogue. The CIA went rogue. The DNI went rogue. The NSA went
rogue. We have all these leaks in the newspapers, The New York Times and the
Washington Post that anybody can read and see and Barack Obama didn't know
anything? Poor Barack Obama, poor Joe Biden. The fact of the matter is, they've
never been asked. They've never been asked about any role they've had."
"This is a massive coverup of the greatest scandal
in American history. We expect and we don't like it when the Russians interfere
with our elections, or the Chinese or the Iranians or the North Koreans,
they're the enemy and they ought to pay for it. But we don't expect the Obama
administration and the Democrats to interfere with elections, to send spies
into the opposition party's campaign. To lie to a federal court, to fix
evidence...that's why all along I've been calling this a silent coup," he
continued. "This tells us that Obama knew...the fact of the matter is
Barack Obama knew all about this."
