[[Joseph Mifsud]], part of a network working with CIA director [[John Brennan]], masqueraded as a [[Russia]]n intelligence asset and planted false information with Papadopolous claiming that Russians had Hillary Clinton's emails. The CIA used [[Erika Thompson]] to lure Papadopolous into repeating the false information Mifsud fed Papadopolous.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/downer-7.jpg</ref> Thomson's boss, Australian Ambassador [[Alexander Downer]] informed the U.S. embassy in [[London]] that the Trump campaign supposedly was in cahoots with Russia, which then passed on the false allegations to [[James Comey]], [[Andrew McCabe]], and [[Peter Strzok]] of the FBI to justify opening an official counterintelligence investigation against the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. These actions occurred outside the legal process for international [[intelligence sharing]] agreements between the U.S. and its allies, and were motivated by an effort to cover-up the illegal domestic political surveillance the [[Obama administration]], and to sway the [[2016 presidential election]] in [[Hillary Clinton]]'s favor. | [[Joseph Mifsud]], part of a network working with CIA director [[John Brennan]], masqueraded as a [[Russia]]n intelligence asset and planted false information with Papadopolous claiming that Russians had Hillary Clinton's emails. The CIA used [[Erika Thompson]] to lure Papadopolous into repeating the false information Mifsud fed Papadopolous.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/downer-7.jpg</ref> Thomson's boss, Australian Ambassador [[Alexander Downer]] informed the U.S. embassy in [[London]] that the Trump campaign supposedly was in cahoots with Russia, which then passed on the false allegations to [[James Comey]], [[Andrew McCabe]], and [[Peter Strzok]] of the FBI to justify opening an official counterintelligence investigation against the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. These actions occurred outside the legal process for international [[intelligence sharing]] agreements between the U.S. and its allies, and were motivated by an effort to cover-up the illegal domestic political surveillance the [[Obama administration]], and to sway the [[2016 presidential election]] in [[Hillary Clinton]]'s favor. |