EXPLOSIVE!
Comey's Just Been Caught Red-Handed Entire House Crashing Down Around Him!
It has been a couple of week of revelations as an intense battle of wills broke out between
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (D-CA), the Department of Justice, and the
Mueller investigation concerning a cache of intelligence that Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein refuses to hand over in response to a subpoena – a request Rosenstein equated
to nothing less than "extortion."
The Washington Post notes that White House officials agreed to the DOJ's request with
President Trump's blessing noting one caveat, stating: "it is unclear whether Trump was
alerted to a key fact — that information developed by the intelligence source had been
provided to the Mueller investigation."
Apparently, the U.S. intelligence community does not trust Nunes with this information,
as WaPo goes on to report – "For the intelligence agencies, Nunes's request threatened to
cross a red line of compromising sources and methods of U.S. intelligence-gathering, according
to people familiar with their views.
Intelligence officials fear that providing even a redacted version of the information
Nunes seeks could expose that person and damage relationships with other countries that serve
as U.S. intelligence partners."
Nunes originally requested the information in question on April 24 in a letter to the
Justice Department marked "classified."
Given its designation of "classified" it is currently unknown just what information
the DOJ is refusing to provide, however, Nunes has stated to the press the investigation
concerns FBI Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse and "other matters."
WaPo also notes the involvement of the White House marks a rare "moment of alignment
between the Justice Department and Trump, who has relentlessly criticized Attorney General
Jeff Sessions and other top Justice officials for the probe into Russia's interference
in the 2016 election led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III."
As of Sunday, Nunes was threatening to hold Sessions in contempt for refusing to comply
with his request.
And Nunes made it clear he has no plans to back down as he to OAN News – "The bottom
line is we've had this investigation going for a long time into FISA abuse that occurred
by the executive branch.
We need documents to be able to verify if things were done properly or improperly, so
that's what we're waiting on.
So we sent a letter a few weeks ago, a classified letter.
That letter was not responded to, it was ignored.
We issued a subpoena…
We got back on Thursday that they will not comply, so now we have no other choice but
to move to hold the Attorney General in contempt if they don't provide the documents."
Yet Nunes was denied this cache of classified information by the (DOJ) after senior FBI
and national intelligence officials who told them the materials were too hot to give to
him – and "could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has
provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to report citing multiple sources.
The FBI made the urgent request to the White House last Wednesday with claims that even
a redacted version of the request could risk lives by exposing a top-secret intelligence
source.
Yet at the same time, it also came out that this VERY SAME intelligence had already previously
been shared with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into supposed
Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election.
By Wednesday afternoon, the news emerged that Nunes and House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) would receive a classified Thursday briefing at
the DOJ on the documents.
The incredible significance of this is not to be missed.
Why might you ask?
Well, because according to a bombshell op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel
published, it appears that the FBI may have had a mole embedded within the Trump campaign
itself.
If true, the wide-ranging implications for the CIA, FBI, DOJ and former Obama administration
officials would be astounding, to say the least.
Kimberley Strassel states via The Wall Street Journal: "The bureau already has some explaining
to do.
Thanks to the Washington Post's unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes's
request deals with a "top secret intelligence source" of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S.
citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe.
When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average
citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency.
Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who
used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.
This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting.
It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about,
which was bad enough.
Obama political appointees rampantly "unmasked" Trump campaign officials to monitor their
conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter
Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information
came from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style,
to infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Which would lead to another big question for the FBI: When?
The bureau has been doggedly sticking with its story that a tip in July 2016 about the
drunken ramblings of George Papadopoulos launched its counterintelligence probe.
Still, the players in this affair—the FBI, former Director Jim Comey, the Steele dossier
authors—have been suspiciously vague on the key moments leading up to that launch
date.
When precisely was the Steele dossier delivered to the FBI?
When precisely did the Papadopoulos information come in?
And to the point, when precisely was this human source operating?
Because if it was prior to that infamous Papadopoulos tip, then the FBI isn't being straight.
It would mean the bureau was spying on the Trump campaign prior to that moment.
And that, in turn, would mean that the FBI had been spurred to act on the basis of something
other than a junior campaign aide's loose lips.
We also know that among the Justice Department's stated reasons for not complying with the
Nunes subpoena was its worry that to do so might damage international relationships.
This suggests the "source" may be overseas, have ties to foreign intelligence, or both.
That's notable, given the highly suspicious role foreigners have played in this escapade.
It was an Australian diplomat who reported the Papadopoulos conversation.
Dossier author Christopher Steele is British, used to work for MI6, and retains ties to
that spy agency as well as to a network of former spooks.
It was a former British diplomat who tipped off Sen. John McCain to the dossier.
How this "top secret" source fits into this puzzle could matter deeply.
I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide
it to me and refuse to confirm it.
It would, therefore, be irresponsible to publish it.
But what is clear is that we've barely scratched the surface of the FBI's 2016 behavior,
and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify
everything possible.
It's time to rip off the Band-Aid."
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