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===Demanding NATO accountability===

===Demanding NATO accountability===

John Brennan developed a false narrative:{{quotebox|"CIA Dir. John Brennan received information from British GCHQ intelligence as part of an allegedly "routine" intelligence sharing agreement about Trump associates' business dealings in Russia.<ref>Elwes, Jay (April 13, 2017). [https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/interview-richard-dearlove-europe-intelligence-mi6 "Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism"]. ''Prospect'' magazine website (United Kingdom).</ref> The information is said to have originated with Estonian intelligence. [[Estonia]] is requesting a missile defence system at this time,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/b9453544-228c-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d</ref><ref>http://linkis.com/atlanticcouncil.org/fAWKh</ref> while Trump adviser [[Newt Gingrich]] refers to the country of 1.3 million inhabitants as a 'suburb of St. Petersberg', which has 5.3 million inhabitants. Gingrich, rumoured to be on the short list for Secretary of State, says he doubts American leaders would risk [[nuclear war]] over [[Putin]]'s actions in the region.<br>Allegedly, the information that triggered Brennan to act was a tape recorded conversation that mentioned money from the Kremlin to the Trump Campaign."}} In actuality, John Brennan received nothing from UK intelligence.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref> Nonetheless Brennan shared his invented narrative with Clapper and Comey to form a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force. The FBI began an investigation into Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

[[John Brennan]] developed a false [[narrative]]:

{{quotebox-float|"CIA Dir. John Brennan received information from British GCHQ intelligence as part of an allegedly "routine" [[intelligence sharing]] agreement about Trump associates' business dealings in Russia.<ref>Elwes, Jay (April 13, 2017). [https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/interview-richard-dearlove-europe-intelligence-mi6 "Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism"]. ''Prospect'' magazine website (United Kingdom).</ref> The information is said to have originated with Estonian intelligence. [[Estonia]] is requesting a missile defence system at this time,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/b9453544-228c-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d</ref><ref>http://linkis.com/atlanticcouncil.org/fAWKh</ref> while Trump adviser [[Newt Gingrich]] refers to the country of 1.3 million inhabitants as a 'suburb of St. Petersberg', which has 5.3 million inhabitants. Gingrich, rumoured to be on the short list for Secretary of State, says he doubts American leaders would risk [[nuclear war]] over [[Putin]]'s actions in the region.<br>Allegedly, the information that triggered Brennan to act was a tape recorded conversation that mentioned money from the Kremlin to the Trump Campaign."}} In actuality, John Brennan received nothing from UK intelligence.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref> Nonetheless, Brennan shared his invented narrative with Clapper and Comey to form a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force. The FBI began an investigation into Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about warrantless wiretaps under the Patriot Act to hide the real source of information that he was gleaning from the Torture Program.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>

The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about warrantless wiretaps under the Patriot Act to hide the real source of information that he was gleaning from the Torture Program.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>

===Obama's Oval Office meeting===

===Obama's Oval Office meeting===

During the transition Obama held a secret meeting with [[James Clapper]], [[John Brennan]], [[James Comey]], [[Sally Yates]], [[Susan Rice]] and [[Vice President Biden]] in the [[Oval Office]]. The ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' was discussed.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/152579d488a740b2a8d39fbe2f34506d</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/a82309544e9e465fa2ad4f83e5a48540</ref> Susan Rice made a note of the meeting. {{Quotebox|President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities "by the book". The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.<br><br>From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.<br><br>[Redacted section]<br><br>The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would."<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-08%20CEG%20LG%20to%20Rice%20(Russia%20Investigation%20Email).pdf</ref>}}At the conclusion of the briefing, Obama held Yates and Comey aside. The 90-day surveillance period under the secret [[FISA]] warrant had just over two weeks remaining and was set to expire just as Trump was taking office. The [[Obama administration]] was facing a deadline if the secret FISA warrant was to be extended beyond Obama's term of office. They needed to figure out how the investigation could continue after Trump was sworn in as president. Rice's “by the book” comment is transparent: Obama claimed to adhere to a book that forbade consultation between political officials and civil service investigators. But here they were consulting. So Rice tried to cover their tracks in her CYA email: She makes it appear that the consultation is a mere friendly reminder that Obama wanted everything done by the book.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/susan-rice-email-president-obama-russia-investigation/</ref>  

During the transition Obama held a secret meeting with [[James Clapper]], [[John Brennan]], [[James Comey]], [[Sally Yates]], [[Susan Rice]] and [[Vice President Biden]] in the [[Oval Office]]. The ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]'' was discussed.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/152579d488a740b2a8d39fbe2f34506d</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/a82309544e9e465fa2ad4f83e5a48540</ref> Susan Rice made a note of the meeting.  

{{Quotebox-float|President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities "by the book". The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.<br><br>From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.<br><br>[Redacted section]<br><br>The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would."<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-08%20CEG%20LG%20to%20Rice%20(Russia%20Investigation%20Email).pdf</ref>}}At the conclusion of the briefing, Obama held Yates and Comey aside. The 90-day surveillance period under the secret [[FISA]] warrant had just over two weeks remaining and was set to expire just as Trump was taking office. The [[Obama administration]] was facing a deadline if the secret FISA warrant was to be extended beyond Obama's term of office. They needed to figure out how the investigation could continue after Trump was sworn in as president. Rice's “by the book” comment is transparent: Obama claimed to adhere to a book that forbade consultation between political officials and civil service investigators. But here they were consulting. So Rice tried to cover their tracks in her CYA email: She makes it appear that the consultation is a mere friendly reminder that Obama wanted everything done by the book.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/susan-rice-email-president-obama-russia-investigation/</ref>  

The next morning Dir. Brennan released an unclassified version of the ''Joint Analysis Report'',<ref>also referred to as the ICA or ''Intelligence Community Assessment''</ref> a joint Comey, Clapper and Brennan document consisting of recycled reports on [[Russia Today]] (RT) with 2 pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier''. NSA Dir. [[Adm. Mike Rogers]] dissented from the report.<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf ]</ref> The ''[[Washington Post]]'' was assured that "the sources involved in the [Clinton-Steele dossier's] reporting were credible enough to warrant inclusion in the highly classified [presidential] report.”<ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-russia-allegations-20170110-story.html</ref> Brennan however in later public testimony said the dossier and its sources ''were not'' credible enough to incorporate in the ''Joint Analysis Report''. Brennan swore  that the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' did not “in any way” factor into the [[CIA]]'s assessment that Russia interfered in the election to help Trump. The classified version of Comey, Clapper and Brennan's  ''Joint Analysis Report'' congressional investigators found contradicted Brennan's sworn testimony. Furthermore, Brennan never received any intelligence reporting from allied intelligence bureaus as he repeatedly claimed, which he supposedly passed along to the FBI, which became the supposed "legal" basis of opening a foreign counterintelligence investigation on American citizens in July 2016.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref>

The next morning Dir. Brennan released an unclassified version of the ''Joint Analysis Report'',<ref>also referred to as the ICA or ''Intelligence Community Assessment''</ref> a joint Comey, Clapper and Brennan document consisting of recycled reports on [[Russia Today]] (RT) with 2 pages of sexual innuendo from the ''Clinton-Steele dossier''. NSA Dir. [[Adm. Mike Rogers]] dissented from the report.<ref>[https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf ]</ref> The ''[[Washington Post]]'' was assured that "the sources involved in the [Clinton-Steele dossier's] reporting were credible enough to warrant inclusion in the highly classified [presidential] report.”<ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-russia-allegations-20170110-story.html</ref> Brennan however in later public testimony said the dossier and its sources ''were not'' credible enough to incorporate in the ''Joint Analysis Report''. Brennan swore  that the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' did not “in any way” factor into the [[CIA]]'s assessment that Russia interfered in the election to help Trump.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)], Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election, 30 December 2016. cia.gov</ref> The classified version of Comey, Clapper and Brennan's  ''Joint Analysis Report'' congressional investigators found contradicted Brennan's sworn testimony. Furthermore, Brennan never received any intelligence reporting from allied intelligence bureaus as he repeatedly claimed, which he supposedly passed along to the FBI, which became the supposed "legal" basis of opening a foreign counterintelligence investigation on American citizens in July 2016.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/</ref>

===Comey's blackmail attempt===

===Comey's blackmail attempt===

On February 11 an aide to Flynn was denied a security clearance, in effect, the CIA exercising [[veto]] power over the President's management of national security affairs. The action was unprecedented and without cause. Reports say the CIA did not like the aide's attitude toward the agency.<ref>The article continues: "Since no one can take part in the formulation or execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president’s people by denying them clearances trumps the president....the persons who thus took for themselves the prerogative that the American people had entrusted to [President Trump] at the ballot box, chances are 100 percent that they will use that prerogative ever more frequently with regard to anyone else whom they regard as standing in the way of their preferred policies, as a threat to their reputation, or simply as partisan opponents... undermin[ing] nothing less than the self-evident heart of the [[United States Constitution:Article II|Constitution’s Article II]]: The president is the executive branch. All of its employees draw their powers from him and answer to him, not the other way around." https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/</ref> “They believe this is a hit job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close to him," because the aide "believes that the CIA doesn’t run the world.”<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319073-top-flynn-aide-rejected-for-key-security-clearance-report</ref>

On February 11 an aide to Flynn was denied a security clearance, in effect, the CIA exercising [[veto]] power over the President's management of national security affairs. The action was unprecedented and without cause. Reports say the CIA did not like the aide's attitude toward the agency.<ref>The article continues: "Since no one can take part in the formulation or execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president’s people by denying them clearances trumps the president....the persons who thus took for themselves the prerogative that the American people had entrusted to [President Trump] at the ballot box, chances are 100 percent that they will use that prerogative ever more frequently with regard to anyone else whom they regard as standing in the way of their preferred policies, as a threat to their reputation, or simply as partisan opponents... undermin[ing] nothing less than the self-evident heart of the [[United States Constitution:Article II|Constitution’s Article II]]: The president is the executive branch. All of its employees draw their powers from him and answer to him, not the other way around." https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/</ref> “They believe this is a hit job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close to him," because the aide "believes that the CIA doesn’t run the world.”<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319073-top-flynn-aide-rejected-for-key-security-clearance-report</ref>

Unable to get his staff appointments, Flynn was unable to do his job, and resigned. Consortiumnews reported, {{quotebox|"Flynn’s real “offense” appears to be that he favors ''[[détente]]'' with Russia rather than escalation of a new and dangerous [[Cold War]]. Trump’s idea of a ''rapprochement'' with Moscow – and a search for areas of cooperation and compromise – has been driving Official Washington’s foreign policy establishment crazy for months and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#The neoconservatives return|the neocons, in particular]], have been determined to block it."<ref><small>The article continues, "as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency – he oversaw a prescient 2012 analysis that foresaw that their support for the Syrian insurgency would give rise to “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria [ISIS].”

Unable to get his staff appointments, Flynn was unable to do his job, and resigned. Consortiumnews reported, {{quotebox-float|"Flynn’s real “offense” appears to be that he favors ''[[détente]]'' with Russia rather than escalation of a new and dangerous [[Cold War]]. Trump’s idea of a ''[[rapprochement]]'' with Moscow – and a search for areas of cooperation and compromise – has been driving Official Washington’s foreign policy establishment crazy for months and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#The neoconservatives return|the neocons, in particular]], have been determined to block it."<ref><small>The article continues, "as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency – he oversaw a prescient 2012 analysis that foresaw that their support for the Syrian insurgency would give rise to “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria [ISIS].”

The DIA report, which was partially declassified in a lawsuit over the [[Libyan War#Ambassador Stevens dispatched|2012 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya]] and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in Syria and the ouster of secular President Bashar al-Assad.

The DIA report, which was partially declassified in a lawsuit over the [[Libyan War#Ambassador Stevens dispatched|2012 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya]] and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in Syria and the ouster of secular President Bashar al-Assad.

This opportunism has turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a pro-New Cold War constituency willing to engage in a new breed of McCarthyism by demanding intensive investigations into alleged connections between Americans and Russians....

This opportunism has turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a pro-New Cold War constituency willing to engage in a new breed of McCarthyism by demanding intensive investigations into alleged connections between Americans and Russians....

...since Trump’s inauguration, the focus has shifted to Flynn, as the personification of the effort to cool off the New Cold War, because he had phone conversations with the Russian ambassador that presumably were intercepted by U.S. intelligence.

...since Trump’s inauguration, the focus has shifted to Flynn, as the personification of the effort to cool off the [[New Cold War]], because he had phone conversations with the Russian ambassador that presumably were intercepted by U.S. intelligence.

Because Flynn supposedly misrepresented some details of the calls to Vice President Mike Pence, senior '''Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.'''

Because Flynn supposedly misrepresented some details of the calls to Vice President Mike Pence, senior '''Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.'''

*'''Comey testifies''' to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, '''while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie'''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

*'''Comey testifies''' to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, '''while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie'''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

:*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] says Comey is withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref><ref>'''March 2, 2017:''' *[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So, it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, '''if they found out how we knew what we knew''' about their -- the staff, the Trump staff's dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more." https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mike-ciandella/2017/03/30/former-obama-official-stumbles-while-trying-backtrack-after '''Farkas was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

:*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] says Comey is withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref><ref>'''March 2, 2017:''' *[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''[[Morning Joe]]'', a smoking gun went off: “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So, it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, '''if they found out how we knew what we knew''' about their -- the staff, the Trump staff's dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more." https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mike-ciandella/2017/03/30/former-obama-official-stumbles-while-trying-backtrack-after '''Farkas was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

:*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government. https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU

:*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government. https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU

:*Farkas' use of "people on the hill" refers to Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands, some of which have press contacts and are the source of leaks. Once the materials fell into their hands, many partisan staffers then became armchair counter-intelligence sleuths, combing  through the leaked material, feeding their mainstream sources with their latest pet theories on Donald Trump being in the pay of the KGB, and taking to Twitter threads with extended narratives to document their speculation.

:*Farkas' use of "people on the hill" refers to Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands, some of which have press contacts and are the source of leaks. Once the materials fell into their hands, many partisan staffers then became armchair counter-intelligence sleuths, combing  through the leaked material, feeding their mainstream sources with their latest pet theories on Donald Trump being in the pay of the KGB, and taking to Twitter threads with extended narratives to document their speculation.

:*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes SCIF.</ref>

:*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes [[SCIF]].</ref>

*'''3 March.''' [[Adam Lovinger]] noted, {{quotebox|“There has never been an external review of these contractors’ [e.g. [[Stefan Halper]] ] research products…It is now clear that over several decades the office [ONA] transferred millions of dollars to inexperienced and unqualified contractors.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/09/27/exclusive-chelsea-clintons-best-friends-defense-company-got-11-mil-in-contracts-but-doesnt-have-federal-security-clearance/</ref>}}

*'''3 March.''' [[Adam Lovinger]] noted, {{quotebox|“There has never been an external review of these contractors’ [e.g. [[Stefan Halper]] ] research products…It is now clear that over several decades the office [ONA] transferred millions of dollars to inexperienced and unqualified contractors.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/09/27/exclusive-chelsea-clintons-best-friends-defense-company-got-11-mil-in-contracts-but-doesnt-have-federal-security-clearance/</ref>}}

*'''11 March.''' Adam Waldman texts Mark Warner: {{quotebox|Adam Waldman - Ps On the question discussed, they [DOJ] already are aware. I have had lots of other dealings with DOJ relating to my Rus client [Deripaska].<br>Mark Warner - Ok great}}

*'''11 March.''' Adam Waldman texts Mark Warner: {{quotebox|Adam Waldman - Ps On the question discussed, they [DOJ] already are aware. I have had lots of other dealings with DOJ relating to my Rus client [Deripaska].<br>Mark Warner - Ok great}}

*'''14 March.''' ''TruePundit'' reports, {{quotebox|days before Gen. Michael Flynn was sacked as national security advisor, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe gathered more than a dozen of his top FBI disciples to plot how to ruin Flynn’s aspiring political career and manufacture evidence to derail President Donald Trump, according to FBI sources.<br>McCabe, the second highest ranking FBI official, emphatically declared at the invite-only gathering with raised voice: “F*** Flynn and then we F*** Trump,” according to direct sources.<br>This was one of several such meetings held in seclusion among key FBI leaders since Trump was elected president, FBI sources confirm. At the congregation where McCabe went off the political rails and vowed to destroy Flynn and Trump, there were as many as 16 top FBI officials, inside intelligence sources said. No lower-level agents or support personnel were present.<br>...Days after the McCabe tirade, Flynn was forced to resign. That was no coincidence. ...<br>Part of the plan hatched at that gathering was to make sure Flynn’s wiretapped conversations were leaked to the media, FBI and intelligence sources said. <br>...James Comey did not attend these private meetings of his interoffice revolutionaries, sources said, though he was aware of the gatherings yet did not discourage them or McCabe’s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric. ...<br>...The FBI’s secret plan to ruin Flynn worked. And fast. Flynn is long gone. Now they can focus on ruining President Trump. ...<br>...McCabe’s dictatorial tone ruffled a number of agents at FBI headquarters who still believe the mission of the bureau is not to wage clandestine warfare against the sitting president and his administration....<br>[[File:Jill and Andy.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|The fix was in from the gitgo. 5 days after the Hillary email investigation began, former Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe "recruited" McCabe's wife to run for the Virginia senate. He and his PACs gave nearly $700,000. Much of the money was unspent after her loss. [[Mainstream media]] ignored the naked corruption until late October 2016.]]Democratic factions controlled by a Hillary Clinton insider paid the deputy director of the FBI’s wife almost $700,000 in campaign funds before McCabe, who was supervising Clinton’s investigation, lobbied against charging her criminally, according to records and interviews obtained by True Pundit.<br>Dr. Jill McCabe was a Virginia state senate candidate in 2015. Longtime Clinton family consigliere and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, sent her approximately $675,000 to fund the Democrat hopeful’s campaign coffers. Dr. McCabe, a physician, is married to the FBI deputy director. Mrs. McCabe is a registered Democrat. FBI agents who work with McCabe say he and his wife were both staunch Hillary Clinton supporters.<br>According to one FBI insider, the McAuliffe-generated campaign funds may have ultimately bought Clinton some strategic breathing room.<br>“McCabe was one of the few people who backed Comey’s decision not to refer Hillary Clinton to the Justice Department for indictment,” a FBI source said of the July 2016 decision not to refer Clinton for criminal charges for violating email and document safeguards for classified and Top Secret national security intelligence. “McCabe and Comey are both lawyers. They aren’t street agents. They’re more political. We wanted her (Clinton) indicted. They did not.”<br>Gov. McAuliffe has been an important Clinton family insider for decades. During Bill Clinton’s presidential candidacy and subsequent reelection, McAuliffe often spearheaded investigations into Clinton critics and helped silence women who alleged Bill Clinton harassed or sexually assaulted them, sources said.<br>Ironically, McAuliffe is currently under investigation by the FBI for alleged campaign-related finance infractions.<br>McAuliffe’s contributions to Dr. McCabe’s campaign match the exact time frame of the FBI’s parallel Clinton investigation. No contributions were made prior to the FBI’s probe of Clinton. McCabe was overseeing personnel decisions, including assigning agents to the Clinton investigation team, at the FBI’s Washington D.C.’s field office when his wife began her 2015 campaign. His wife lost the election after spending an estimated $1.8 million on the senate run. Three months later, Comey promoted McCabe to FBI Deputy Director in February 2016. The promotion helped fill a very large void created by the retirement of John Giacalone, who was the supervisor of the bureau’s National Security Branch and also the FBI brains and genesis behind the Clinton email and private server investigation. Since the inception of the case, Giacalone had spearheaded the Clinton investigation, and helped hand select top agents who were highly skilled but also discreet. Many of those agents were concerned when Giacalone abruptly resigned in the middle of the investigation.<br>FBI insiders said Giacalone used the term “sideways” to describe the direction the Clinton probe had taken in the bureau. Giacalone lamented privately he no longer had confidence in the direction the investigation was headed. He felt it was simpler to quietly step aside, walk away instead of fight to keep the investigation on its proper track. Giacalone was a true heavyweight agent at FBI. In fact, he likely should have been running the entire show. His pedigree included running and creating FBI divisions in New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and even serving as deputy commander in the Iraqi theater of operations. But in the midst of the Clinton investigation, Giacalone handed the bureau his retirement papers in February 2016.<br>The day after Giacalone’s departure, Comey tapped McCabe to help oversee the ongoing Clinton case and personally serve “as the eyes and ears” for Comey, sources confirmed. Since early July 2016, Comey has come under intense fire from critics and the majority of Americans who believe he granted Clinton a get-out-of-jail-free card by refusing to refer the case to the Justice Department for a probable slam-dunk indictment on at least one of potential dozens of criminal charges.<br>...personal and political philosophies have crept into the FBI and commandeered the bureau’s powerful reach and resources to tamper with law-abiding White House personnel, including the president. That’s called public corruption, a crime the FBI is tasked with investigating.<br>Just like it “investigated” $700,000 in donations from the Clinton family to the wife of the FBI’s deputy director who, during the exact time frame was tasked with overseeing the investigation of Hillary Clinton. She ultimately was never charged with any crime and McCabe received a FBI promotion...<ref>https://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbis-own-political-terror-plot-deputy-director-and-fbi-brass-secretly-conspired-to-wage-coup-against-flynn-trump-2/</ref>}}

*'''14 March.''' ''TruePundit'' reports, {{quotebox|days before Gen. Michael Flynn was sacked as national security advisor, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe gathered more than a dozen of his top FBI disciples to plot how to ruin Flynn’s aspiring political career and manufacture evidence to derail President Donald Trump, according to FBI sources.<br>McCabe, the second highest ranking FBI official, emphatically declared at the invite-only gathering with raised voice: “F*** Flynn and then we F*** Trump,” according to direct sources.<br>This was one of several such meetings held in seclusion among key FBI leaders since Trump was elected president, FBI sources confirm. At the congregation where McCabe went off the political rails and vowed to destroy Flynn and Trump, there were as many as 16 top FBI officials, inside intelligence sources said. No lower-level agents or support personnel were present.<br>...Days after the McCabe tirade, Flynn was forced to resign. That was no coincidence. ...<br>Part of the plan hatched at that gathering was to make sure Flynn’s wiretapped conversations were leaked to the media, FBI and intelligence sources said. <br>...James Comey did not attend these private meetings of his interoffice revolutionaries, sources said, though he was aware of the gatherings yet did not discourage them or McCabe’s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric. ...<br>...The FBI’s secret plan to ruin Flynn worked. And fast. Flynn is long gone. Now they can focus on ruining President Trump. ...<br>...McCabe’s dictatorial tone ruffled a number of agents at FBI headquarters who still believe the mission of the bureau is not to wage clandestine warfare against the sitting president and his administration....<br>[[File:Jill and Andy.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|The fix was in from the gitgo. 5 days after the Hillary email investigation began, former Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe "recruited" McCabe's wife to run for the Virginia senate. He and his PACs gave nearly $700,000. Much of the money was unspent after her loss. [[Mainstream media]] ignored the naked corruption until late October 2016.]]Democratic factions controlled by a Hillary Clinton insider paid the deputy director of the FBI’s wife almost $700,000 in campaign funds before McCabe, who was supervising Clinton’s investigation, lobbied against charging her criminally, according to records and interviews obtained by True Pundit.<br>Dr. Jill McCabe was a Virginia state senate candidate in 2015. Longtime Clinton family consigliere and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, sent her approximately $675,000 to fund the Democrat hopeful’s campaign coffers. Dr. McCabe, a physician, is married to the FBI deputy director. Mrs. McCabe is a registered Democrat. FBI agents who work with McCabe say he and his wife were both staunch Hillary Clinton supporters.<br>According to one FBI insider, the McAuliffe-generated campaign funds may have ultimately bought Clinton some strategic breathing room.<br>“McCabe was one of the few people who backed Comey’s decision not to refer Hillary Clinton to the Justice Department for indictment,” a FBI source said of the July 2016 decision not to refer Clinton for criminal charges for violating email and document safeguards for classified and Top Secret national security intelligence. “McCabe and Comey are both lawyers. They aren’t street agents. They’re more political. We wanted her (Clinton) indicted. They did not.”<br>Gov. McAuliffe has been an important Clinton family insider for decades. During Bill Clinton’s presidential candidacy and subsequent reelection, McAuliffe often spearheaded investigations into Clinton critics and helped silence women who alleged Bill Clinton harassed or sexually assaulted them, sources said.<br>Ironically, McAuliffe is currently under investigation by the FBI for alleged campaign-related finance infractions.<br>McAuliffe’s contributions to Dr. McCabe’s campaign match the exact time frame of the FBI’s parallel Clinton investigation. No contributions were made prior to the FBI’s probe of Clinton. McCabe was overseeing personnel decisions, including assigning agents to the Clinton investigation team, at the FBI’s Washington D.C.’s field office when his wife began her 2015 campaign. His wife lost the election after spending an estimated $1.8 million on the senate run. Three months later, Comey promoted McCabe to FBI Deputy Director in February 2016. The promotion helped fill a very large void created by the retirement of John Giacalone, who was the supervisor of the bureau’s National Security Branch and also the FBI brains and genesis behind the Clinton email and private server investigation. Since the inception of the case, Giacalone had spearheaded the Clinton investigation, and helped hand select top agents who were highly skilled but also discreet. Many of those agents were concerned when Giacalone abruptly resigned in the middle of the investigation.<br>FBI insiders said Giacalone used the term “sideways” to describe the direction the Clinton probe had taken in the bureau. Giacalone lamented privately he no longer had [[confidence]] in the direction the investigation was headed. He felt it was simpler to quietly step aside, walk away instead of fight to keep the investigation on its proper track. Giacalone was a true heavyweight agent at FBI. In fact, he likely should have been running the entire show. His pedigree included running and creating FBI divisions in New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and even serving as deputy commander in the Iraqi theater of operations. But in the midst of the Clinton investigation, Giacalone handed the bureau his retirement papers in February 2016.<br>The day after Giacalone’s departure, Comey tapped McCabe to help oversee the ongoing Clinton case and personally serve “as the eyes and ears” for Comey, sources confirmed. Since early July 2016, Comey has come under intense fire from critics and the majority of Americans who believe he granted Clinton a get-out-of-jail-free card by refusing to refer the case to the Justice Department for a probable slam-dunk indictment on at least one of potential dozens of criminal charges.<br>...personal and political philosophies have crept into the FBI and commandeered the bureau’s powerful reach and resources to tamper with law-abiding White House personnel, including the president. That’s called public corruption, a crime the FBI is tasked with investigating.<br>Just like it “investigated” $700,000 in donations from the Clinton family to the wife of the FBI’s deputy director who, during the exact time frame was tasked with overseeing the investigation of Hillary Clinton. She ultimately was never charged with any crime and McCabe received a FBI promotion...<ref>https://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbis-own-political-terror-plot-deputy-director-and-fbi-brass-secretly-conspired-to-wage-coup-against-flynn-trump-2/</ref>}}

*'''15 March.''' Comey briefs Sens. Grassley & Feinstein of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That briefing addressed the Russia investigation, the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele, and the FBI’s reliance on Mr. Steele’s dossier in two applications it filed for surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-03-15%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf</ref>

*'''15 March.''' Comey briefs Sens. Grassley & Feinstein of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That briefing addressed the Russia investigation, the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele, and the FBI’s reliance on Mr. Steele’s dossier in two applications it filed for surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."<ref>https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-03-15%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf</ref>

*Private security firm, CrowdStrike, employed by DNC which first claimed Russia hacked the election refuses to cooperate with Congressional investigations. DNC has yet to allow FBI to examine servers to establish whether or not the servers were hacked.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4376628/New-questions-claim-Russia-hacked-election.html</ref> FBI continues its investigation into "Russian hacking" based on discredited information (''Steele dossier'') and unestablished facts (DNC hacking).

*Private security firm, CrowdStrike, employed by DNC which first claimed Russia hacked the election refuses to cooperate with Congressional investigations. DNC has yet to allow FBI to examine servers to establish whether or not the servers were hacked.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4376628/New-questions-claim-Russia-hacked-election.html</ref> FBI continues its investigation into "Russian hacking" based on discredited information (''Steele dossier'') and unestablished facts (DNC hacking).

*Reports say CIA Dir. John Brennan targeted [[Sean Hannity]] and [[Blackwater]] founder, Erik Prince<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/</ref> between the election on November 8 and the inauguration in January, according to White House and House intelligence sources. Hannity was reportedly unmasked by Susan Rice at Brennan’s behest because of a perceived relationship with Trump and [[Julian Assange]]. Prince has long criticized the CIA’s incompetence, including the Brennan's handling of the [[drone]] program and its failure to target terrorists properly and the collateral damage done to [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] [[civilian]]s. Brennan was behind the removal of Flynn. The motivations for Brennan’s intense dislike of Michael Flynn date back years to when Flynn was producing intel documents that showed how the supposed 'Syrian moderates' were funded by persons and groups in [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Qatar]]. Brennan also brought in to the CIA disgraced Syria analyst Elizabeth O’Bagy. O’Bagy was outed for manufacturing her credentials and for being paid by the Syrian rebels.<ref>http://gotnews.com/breaking-barackobamas-cia-director-john-brennan-allies-targeting-trump-supporters-surveillance/</ref>

*Reports say CIA Dir. John Brennan targeted [[Sean Hannity]] and [[Blackwater]] founder, [[Erik Prince]]<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/</ref> between the election on November 8 and the inauguration in January, according to White House and House intelligence sources. Hannity was reportedly unmasked by Susan Rice at Brennan’s behest because of a perceived relationship with Trump and [[Julian Assange]]. Prince has long criticized the CIA’s incompetence, including the Brennan's handling of the [[drone]] program and its failure to target terrorists properly and the collateral damage done to [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] [[civilian]]s. Brennan was behind the removal of Flynn. The motivations for Brennan’s intense dislike of Michael Flynn date back years to when Flynn was producing intel documents that showed how the supposed 'Syrian moderates' were funded by persons and groups in [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Qatar]]. Brennan also brought in to the CIA disgraced Syria analyst Elizabeth O’Bagy. O’Bagy was outed for manufacturing her credentials and for being paid by the Syrian rebels.<ref>http://gotnews.com/breaking-barackobamas-cia-director-john-brennan-allies-targeting-trump-supporters-surveillance/</ref>

*'''7 April.''' '''Second Carter Page FISA warrant renewal.'''

*'''7 April.''' '''Second Carter Page FISA warrant renewal.'''

*''Washington Post'' reports Rice herself asked to unmask the identities of some of the Trump associates and chronicles list of misleading statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/10/susan-rices-track-record-is-taking-a-beating/?utm_term=.ed514af67621</ref> Rice under fire over claims of destroying Syrian chemical weapons.<ref>https://youtu.be/m05QXZhvPNw</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/16/510047606/obama-adviser-susan-rice-cites-syrian-war-as-biggest-disappointment</ref>

*''Washington Post'' reports Rice herself asked to unmask the identities of some of the Trump associates and chronicles list of misleading statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/10/susan-rices-track-record-is-taking-a-beating/?utm_term=.ed514af67621</ref> Rice under fire over claims of destroying Syrian chemical weapons.<ref>https://youtu.be/m05QXZhvPNw</ref><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/16/510047606/obama-adviser-susan-rice-cites-syrian-war-as-biggest-disappointment</ref>

[[File:Peter-strzok-and-lisa-page.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two  [[Progressive]] pustules on the rump of the Marxist deep state, could not restrain their hatred and bigotry toward their fellow citizens or American democracy on taxpayer-funded communication devices or from interfering with their duties as civil servants in national security positions.]]

[[File:Peter-strzok-and-lisa-page.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two  [[Progressive]] pustules on the rump of the Marxist deep state, could not restrain their hatred and bigotry toward their fellow citizens or American democracy on taxpayer-funded communication devices or from interfering with their duties as civil servants in national security positions.]]

*'''11 April.''' ''Washington Post'' published an article, ''FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Former Trump Adviser Carter Page'' by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous. It reads in part, {{quotebox|"The FBI obtained a secret court order in October 2016 to monitor the communications of a former adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part by of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.<br>The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.<br>The court documents in that spy case only identify Page as “Male 1.’’ Officials familiar with the case said that “Male 1’’ is Page."}} It is the '''first disclosure of the October 2016 Carter Page FISA warrant'''.  

*'''11 April.''' ''Washington Post'' published an article, ''FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Former Trump Adviser Carter Page'' by [[Ellen Nakashima]], Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous. It reads in part, {{quotebox|"The FBI obtained a secret court order in October 2016 to monitor the communications of a former adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part by of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.<br>The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.<br>The court documents in that spy case only identify Page as “Male 1.’’ Officials familiar with the case said that “Male 1’’ is Page."}} It is the '''first disclosure of the October 2016 Carter Page FISA warrant'''.  

*'''[[Andrew Weissmann]] leaks [[grand jury]] information in the [[Manafort]] case to the [[Associated Press]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/mueller-manafort-journalist-leak/</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/20cfc75c82eb4a67b94e624e97207e23</ref> FBI officials issued a complaint to the Justice Department suggesting Weissmann didn't follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.'''  

*'''[[Andrew Weissmann]] leaks [[grand jury]] information in the [[Manafort]] case to the [[Associated Press]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/mueller-manafort-journalist-leak/</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/20cfc75c82eb4a67b94e624e97207e23</ref> FBI officials issued a complaint to the Justice Department suggesting Weissmann didn't follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.'''