So, a spy is someone who collects information and reports back. An informant collects information and reports back. See the difference? And sometimes informants (not spies) are embedded into a campaign to protect that campaign from a foreign intelligence operation; according to James Clapper we no longer use spies for counter-intel ops. Got it?
CNN is insistent that there is no evidence of spying on the Trump presidential campaign – irrespective of what the New York Times and Washington Post reported. Remember, Democracy Dies in the Darkness – And CNN killed it. Apparently a spy in your opponents camp is not put there by anyone, and he is merely an informant. Not a spy. (And he is a male because people in the media and Congress know this person’s name.)1
Chris Cuomo yelled all morning about President Trump tweeting about a spy planted in his campaign. For shame! How can Trump blatantly lie about someone who is known to the media and reported back to the FBI (and the DNC, naturally). Cuomo could not wait another hour to hear former National Intelligence Director James Clapper tell ABC’s The View about this Informant (his word, and they’re called Assets James – don’t you read Tom Clancy?) Cuomo kept asking the camera this morning where the evidence is for this so-called “spy.” Well there you go Chris, you’re welcome.
Trump raised questions about a potential FBI informant inside his campaign in a Friday tweet. “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president,” he said, adding, “If true – all time biggest political scandal!” – POLITICO, May 18, 2018
Really CNN, you literally are now breaking the news. You give President Trump no quarter when he tweets about the #FakeNews media, yet here you are torpedoing your fellow journalists. Sad! CNN had no reporting of this spy – Informant! sorry – over the weekend as doing so would ruin their narrative. That the Obama Administration Department of Justice and FBI planted someone in the campaign, or just to sniff around the campaign, to get information amounts to flagrant heresy.
But by Tuesday the network figured out how to spin it: It’s simply not true. Nevermind that members of the House are going to get a classified briefing later this week on the matter explaining what the FBI was doing inside the campaign. (Protecting it from Russians, right Jim?)
And what a story the Washington insiders have cooked up, really. Brilliant. The spy was there to
- Protect Donald Trump from Russian agents infiltrating his campaign.
- Only trying to determine if their were Russians snooping around the campaign, so they can then warn Trump.
- Find out if anyone from the Trump campaign was colluding with Russians
- Find out how much influence the Russians had on the campaign,
- Get a head start on the Mueller investigation that will be coming up in 2017 right after Trump takes office.
And in case you missed that last part of clairvoyance, yes, the FBI and DOJ will have you believe they were anticipating an investigation by a Special Council — maybe this was “Plan B” from the Strzok and Page texts. What did this agent-in-place find out during the campaign then? Anything? And they didn’t report it to the proper authorities, or, the American public? They’d keep that under wraps for sure – Who in Washington would ever want to damage the Trump campaign – that might help Hillary win!
Or, they didn’t find anything. Oh well, on to Plan B: The Special Council. Enter Robert Mueller. My question is: How much of a head start did Mueller have on his investigation into Trump/Russia collusion since he had a confidential human source? Oh yeah, that – that term comes from James Comey
Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?
— James Comey (@Comey) May 23, 2018
The FBI even had a codename for this operation: CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. So does anyone in the public-sphere still believe that spying on the Trump Campaign didn’t happen? They gave it a codename! Nobody makes up codenames for no good reason; good ones are hard to come by and not to be wasted.
And so who can we trust now? Everybody thought they could trust the Obama Administration – what do those poor lost souls do now? For the sake of his legacy everyone should hope that this is a Department of Justice just run amok. That should scare everybody, no matter your politics. If they can spy on a presidential candidate’s campaign, they can just as easily do it to your candidate one of these days. Maybe there already was one in Hillary Clinton’s camp, too; telling her to skip Wisconsin and Michigan?
And what about everyone else who rails against the President for calling this a Witch Hunt? Because whatever it is it started during the campaign and long before the Special Counsel investigation. How prescient! This should matter to everyone who believes in the fairness of all our elections – we should not have an Obama Administration that is so strong and omniscient that it decides who wins and who loses. I think Obama officials realized how much control they actually had over the election, so they decided to let it run its course. And it did. And when the wrong guy won, they brought in the Special Counsel to stop him from implementing his agenda for the country.
You can laugh because it is undercutting Donald Trump – but what will you say if it is Bernie Sanders next? (Or already was Bernie Sanders?) This is a never-ending cycle, literally I don’t know where to end this article, because the implications of what we are learning are that dangerous and that destructive to our Republic. Well, I guess that’s why you choose a Republic over a Democracy to begin with. But these actions aren’t just short of an authoritarian dictatorship; it IS an authoritarian dictatorship. Is anyone buying all of this BS?
- Both the New York Times and the Washington Post published stories Friday [May 18] reporting that a secret FBI informant met with multiple Trump campaign officials in 2016, but did not name the source. – POLITICO
- Sharyl Atkisson on Spygate: Sure looks like FBI’s operation against Trump was political (Washington Times, May 24)
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