Operation Crossfire Hurricane: The FBI’s secret cabal against Trump

[volfanjustin]

Treason. Obama will be the one that ends up in jail, not Trump.

Barry is above the law, most democrats are. He won’t do any jail time

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Treason. Obama will be the one that ends up in jail, not Trump.

You are living in a Dream World if you believe that anyone will seriously pursue any criminal action against Obama.

Obama will be untouched because he is America's first BLACK president.

The Obama presidential campaign solicited hundreds of illegal campaign contributions, but everyone looked the other way because he was America's first BLACK president.

Obama has complete immunity from everything.

 

[lawgator1]

You are living in a Dream World if you believe that anyone will seriously pursue any criminal action against Obama.

Obama will be untouched because he is America's first BLACK president.

The Obama presidential campaign solicited hundreds of illegal campaign contributions, but everyone looked the other way because he was America's first BLACK president.

Obama has complete immunity from everything.

The hate in you is strong.

 

[volfanjustin]

You are living in a Dream World if you believe that anyone will seriously pursue any criminal action against Obama.

Obama will be untouched because he is America's first BLACK president.

The Obama presidential campaign solicited hundreds of illegal campaign contributions, but everyone looked the other way because he was America's first BLACK president.

Obama has complete immunity from everything.

Sad but true

 

[FLVOL69]

The hate in you is strong.

Oh the irony

 

[AM64]

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We've heard over and over about Scott Pruitt's phone booth and first class flights. Now word is out that McCabe had a $70,000 conference table, and I'd bet those are just the tip of the iceberg. You can absolutely bet there are some honest people in several agencies dying for a chance to be heard in a forum where they are required to tell what they know.

 

[AM64]

Barry is above the law, most democrats are. He won’t do any jail time

True, he probably won't. It's a shame though for many reasons, and who knows he might even wind up bunk buddies with another IL politician - there are enough of them who've been there.

 

[BigOrangeD]

8 signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump's campaign

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/388978-growing-signs-of-a-counterintelligence-operation-deployed-against-trumps

Code name

The operation reportedly had at least one code name that was leaked to The New York Times: “Crossfire Hurricane.”

Wiretap fever

Secret surveillance was conducted on no fewer than seven Trump associates: chief strategist Stephen Bannon; lawyer Michael Cohen; national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner; campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and campaign foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

The FBI reportedly applied for a secret warrant in June 2016 to monitor Manafort, Page, Papadopoulos and Flynn. If true, it means the FBI targeted Flynn six months before his much-debated conversation with Russia’s ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

The FBI applied four times to wiretap Page after he became a Trump campaign adviser starting in July 2016. Page’s office is connected to Trump Tower and he reports having spent “many hours in Trump Tower.”

CNN reported that Manafort was wiretapped before and after the election “including during a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Trump.” Manafort reportedly has a residence in Trump Tower.

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Electronic surveillance was used to listen in on three Trump transition officials in Trump Tower — Flynn, Bannon and Kushner — as they met in an official capacity with the United Arab Emirates’ crown prince.

The FBI also reportedly wiretapped Flynn’s phone conversation with Kislyak on Dec. 31, 2016, as part of “routine surveillance” of Kislyak.

NBC recently reported that Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, was wiretapped. NBC later corrected the story, saying Cohen was the subject of a “pen register” used to monitor phone numbers and, possibly, internet communications.

National security letters

Another controversial tool reportedly used by the FBI to obtain phone records and other documents in the investigation were national security letters, which bypass judicial approval.

Improper use of such letters has been an ongoing theme at the FBI. Reviews by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General found widespread misuse under Mueller — who was then FBI director — and said officials failed to report instances of abuses as required.

Unmasking

“Unmasking” — identifying protected names of Americans captured by government surveillance — was frequently deployed by at least four top Obama officials who have subsequently spoken out against President Trump: James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence; Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Susan Rice, former national security adviser; Sally Yates, former deputy attorney general.

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Changing the rules

On Dec. 15, 2016 — the same day the government listened in on Trump officials at Trump Tower — Rice reportedly unmasked the names of Bannon, Kushner and Flynn. And Clapper made a new rule allowing the National Security Agency to widely disseminate surveillance material within the government without the normal privacy protections.

Media strategy

Former CIA Director John Brennan and Clapper, two of the most integral intel officials in this ongoing controversy, have joined national news organizations where they have regular opportunities to shape the news narrative — including on the very issues under investigation.

Clapper reportedly secretly leaked salacious political opposition research against Trump to CNN in fall 2017 and later was hired as a CNN political analyst. In February, Brennan was hired as a paid analyst for MSNBC.

Leaks

There’s been a steady and apparently orchestrated campaign of leaks — some true, some false, but nearly all of them damaging to President Trump’s interests.

A few of the notable leaks include word that Flynn was wiretapped, the anti-Trump “Steele dossier” of political opposition research, then-FBI Director James Comey briefing Trump on it, private Comey conversations with Trump, Comey’s memos recording those conversations and criticizing Trump, the subpoena of Trump’s personal bank records (which proved false) and Flynn planning to testify against Trump (which also proved to be false).

Friends, informants and snoops

The FBI reportedly used one-time CIA operative Stefan Halper in 2016 as an informant to spy on Trump officials.

Another player is Comey friend Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor, who leaked Comey’s memos against Trump to The New York Times after Comey was fired. We later learned that Richman actually worked for the FBI under a status called “Special Government Employee.”

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The FBI used former reporter Glenn Simpson, his political opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and ex-British spy Christopher Steele to compile allegations against Trump, largely from Russian sources, which were distributed to the press and used as part of wiretap applications.

These eight features of a counterintelligence operation are only the pieces we know. It can be assumed there’s much we don’t yet know. And it may help explain why there’s so much material that the Department of Justice hasn’t easily handed over to congressional investigators.

 

[1972 Grad]

The hate in you is strong.

The truth in his statement is stronger.

 

[BigOrangeD]

ruh roh

 

[ajvol01]

You are living in a Dream World if you believe that anyone will seriously pursue any criminal action against Obama.

Obama will be untouched because he is America's first BLACK president.

The Obama presidential campaign solicited hundreds of illegal campaign contributions, but everyone looked the other way because he was America's first BLACK president.

Obama has complete immunity from everything.

Not a chance

 

[Orangeburst]

ruh roh

This is possibly huge. The rank and file that supposedly Trump demonizes. A faint accompli by the true rank and file intelligentsia. I wanna see 2-3 dozen stand up for what is going on in front of Congress on C-Span. I wil betcha that this is not one lone wolf and has spoken to colleagues.

Kinda what the American people are doing to DC!

 

[BigOrangeD]

This is possibly huge. The rank and file that supposedly Trump demonizes. A faint accompli by the true rank and file intelligentsia. I wanna see 2-3 dozen stand up for what is going on in front of Congress on C-Span. I wil betcha that this is not one lone wolf and has spoken to colleagues.

Kinda what the American people are doing to DC!

The best part is he was the one in on the interview with Flynn who knows what was actually said.

 

[lawgator1]

So tomorrow that joke of a Congressman Nunes, plus Gowdy, gets to see the Intel FIRST. Only AFTER that do any Dems see it in the Gang of 8.

So obvious what the political game plan is. I bet Nunes and Gowdy have already been told by the White House what to say. They don't even really need to go to the meeting.

 

[ajvol01]

So tomorrow that joke of a Congressman Nunes, plus Gowdy, gets to see the Intel FIRST. Only AFTER that do any Dems see it in the Gang of 8.

So obvious what the political game plan is. I bet Nunes and Gowdy have already been told by the White House what to say. They don't even really need to go to the meeting.

You're such a partisan hack.

Better get the crying closet ready.

 

[BigOrangeD]

So tomorrow that joke of a Congressman Nunes, plus Gowdy, gets to see the Intel FIRST. Only AFTER that do any Dems see it in the Gang of 8.

So obvious what the political game plan is. I bet Nunes and Gowdy have already been told by the White House what to say. They don't even really need to go to the meeting.

They want to see it before the DEMs start to leak stuff again. The DOCs will come out in time either way.

 

[1972 Grad]

So tomorrow that joke of a Congressman Nunes, plus Gowdy, gets to see the Intel FIRST. Only AFTER that do any Dems see it in the Gang of 8.

So obvious what the political game plan is. I bet Nunes and Gowdy have already been told by the White House what to say. They don't even really need to go to the meeting.

I bet that slick weasel Nunes slips in and cooks the intel to make Obama look bad before the Dems get a look.

 

[Orangeburst]

So tomorrow that joke of a Congressman Nunes, plus Gowdy, gets to see the Intel FIRST. Only AFTER that do any Dems see it in the Gang of 8.

So obvious what the political game plan is. I bet Nunes and Gowdy have already been told by the White House what to say. They don't even really need to go to the meeting.

Gowdy is on his way out and fed up with what he sees as DC political corruption disguised as public service. He ain't no Trump lover.

That is the thing, most of everybody including you and me is scared to see what falls out of the tree when shaken in DC. Regardless of political affiliation and with trillions of dollars budget and power over the most powerful nation on earth, a lot of crap is gonna fall out of the tree.

That is why Trump is supported. To see a Congress get exemptions to the HCA that they passed, extravagant benefits, pensions, etc, all the while in earning a "meager" salary, leave and are multiple millionaires. Do what I say and not as I do is about the most "authoritarian" concept I can envision.

How has President Trump's policies negatively impacted your life other than emotional response?

 

[volfanhill]

Gowdy is on his way out and fed up with what he sees as DC political corruption disguised as public service. He ain't no Trump lover.

That is the thing, most of everybody including you and me is scared to see what falls out of the tree when shaken in DC. Regardless of political affiliation and with trillions of dollars budget and power over the most powerful nation on earth, a lot of crap is gonna fall out of the tree.

That is why Trump is supported. To see a Congress get exemptions to the HCA that they passed, extravagant benefits, pensions, etc, all the while in earning a "meager" salary, leave and are multiple millionaires. Do what I say and not as I do is about the most "authoritarian" concept I can envision.

How has President Trump's policies negatively impacted your life other than



Wrong quote

 

[AM64]

Gowdy is on his way out and fed up with what he sees as DC political corruption disguised as public service. He ain't no Trump lover.

That is the thing, most of everybody including you and me is scared to see what falls out of the tree when shaken in DC. Regardless of political affiliation and with trillions of dollars budget and power over the most powerful nation on earth, a lot of crap is gonna fall out of the tree.

That is why Trump is supported. To see a Congress get exemptions to the HCA that they passed, extravagant benefits, pensions, etc, all the while in earning a "meager" salary, leave and are multiple millionaires. Do what I say and not as I do is about the most "authoritarian" concept I can envision.

How has President Trump's policies negatively impacted your life other than emotional response?

I'm thinking there's a good chance that nothing falls out of the trees because it would turn into tit for tat, and everybody there is too interested in keeping the corrupt, incestuous, rat hole just as it is.

 

[BigOrangeD]

I'm thinking there's a good chance that nothing falls out of the trees because it would turn into tit for tat, and everybody there is too interested in keeping the corrupt, incestuous, rat hole just as it is.

That is how it's been forever. My only hope is since both parties were scared as hell of what Trump would do if elected makes me feel a little better that something may get done. I believe Trump was recruited for this very purpose.

 

[1972 Grad]

Gowdy is on his way out and fed up with what he sees as DC political corruption disguised as public service. He ain't no Trump lover.

That is the thing, most of everybody including you and me is scared to see what falls out of the tree when shaken in DC. Regardless of political affiliation and with trillions of dollars budget and power over the most powerful nation on earth, a lot of crap is gonna fall out of the tree.

That is why Trump is supported. To see a Congress get exemptions to the HCA that they passed, extravagant benefits, pensions, etc, all the while in earning a "meager" salary, leave and are multiple millionaires. Do what I say and not as I do is about the most "authoritarian" concept I can envision.

How has President Trump's policies negatively impacted your life other than emotional response?

I have asked that same question to 3 or 4 people on the forum before. Never have gotten a good answer.

 

[Orangeburst]

That is how it's been forever. My only hope is since both parties were scared as hell of what Trump would do if elected makes me feel a little better that something may get done. I believe Trump was recruited for this very purpose.

With Californication succession the latest news and Texas a couple of years ago, what really binds us as a nation of how we should be federally governed anymore?

Not just political litmus tests now, but if we are even to be a merit based economy.


Hopefully, the yungons see that the free markets system works and don't fold like a tent when we hit the next fore coming recession and look for daddy govt to provide artificial relief. With $20 trillion debt I am not sure there would be any relief at all and people will say what happened.

 

[lawgator1]

Silence.

 

[hog88]

Silence.

Not good for the way you want this to turn out.