Worked to Flip Past Presidential Election Too as CIA Spook
The political scandal of the decade is brewing in Washington DC , and it may leave President Donald Trump in a very different position than his enemies wish : Not destroyed , but largely vindicated .
Details have finally started to emerge about an establishment-led effort to plant a mole within the Trump campaign , and evidence is beginning to mount that its goal was to undermine and derail his run for office .
The facts are suggesting something chillingly sinister : A government operative directed by the Obama-run FBI purposely infiltrated the campaign of a candidate with the training and background needed to destabilize elections .
In a detailed piece published by The Intercept , investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald summarized the scandal and gave a blow-by-blow account of how its beginning to unravel .
Over the past several weeks , House Republicans have been claiming that the FBI , during the 2016 election , used an operative to spy on the Trump campaign , and they triggered outrage within the FBI by trying to learn his identity , he explained .
The controversy escalated when President Trump joined the fray on Friday morning . Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted , for political purposes , into my campaign for president , Trump tweeted .
Amazingly , FBI and Department of Justice sources did not deny this claim . It’s worth remembering that while the media and DOJ insiders were laughing and dismissing Trump’s accusations a year ago – especially regarding wiretapping and the Steele dossier – he has been proven right on almost every point .
Nobody is laughing now . Instead , they’re scrambling to cover their tracks .
On May 8 , the Washington Post described the informant as « a top-secret intelligence source » and cited DOJ officials as arguing that disclosure of his name « could risk lives by potentially exposing the source , a US citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI » , Greenwald reported .
That was almost certainly a last-ditch effort to protect the mole and save face . Then came the threats .
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee , Mark Warner … actually threatened his own colleagues in Congress with criminal prosecution if they tried to obtain the identity of the informant , Greenwald reported .
Journalists , including Greenwald and veteran gumshoes at several major media outlets , didn’t stop . After a few rounds of newspaper one-upmanship , the mole’s name has been revealed .
As a result of some very odd choices by the nation’s largest media outlets , everyone knows the name of the FBI’s informant : Stefan Halper , Greenwald wrote .
Here’s the truly important and shocking part : Halper is no run-of-the-mill FBI operative . He has a history of being involved in shady CIA operations to infiltrate and derail US elections .
To begin with , it’s obviously notable that the person the FBI used to monitor the Trump campaign is the same person who worked as a CIA operative running that 1980 Presidential election spying campaign , Greenwale wrote .
Yes , it was Halper , a former Nixon insider and the same man at the center of the anti-Trump scandal today .
Nearly 40 years ago , a largely buried scandal was playing out in Washington . In involved some famous Republicans , including old names that even today are firmly in the “Never Trump” camp .
Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election , in which the Reagan campaign – using CIA officials managed by Halper , reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George HW Bush – got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration , the Intercept explained .
In other words , there may be a structure within the foreign policy and intelligence communities that goes back to at least the time when George HW Bush ran the CIA .
That behind-the-scenes power structure – Deep State , to borrow the term – was on the side of Hillary Clinton and believed that Trump needed to be stopped at any cost .
One look at the now-public text messages from FBI officials in the weeks and months leading up to the 2016 election definitely seems to support this . And it’s worth pointing out that the now 93-year-old George HW Bush admitted to supporting Hillary Clinton .
By any measure , the Bush dynasty has not been friendly to Trump .
Whatever else is true , the CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the Trump campaign in the 2016 campaign has , for weeks , been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is : a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election , explained Greenwald .
For that reason , it’s easy to understand why many people in Washington were so desperate to conceal his identity , but that desperation had nothing to do with the lofty and noble concerns for national security they claimed were motivating them , he added .
Deep operatives . Election interference . Moles and spies deployed against a candidate by our own government agencies .
It’s a chilling picture , but one that all of the evidence so far supports . There’s a power struggle of shadows within the swamp in Washington , and it is at odds with the American people and their sovereign voice .
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Benjamin Arie 2018/05/20
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