Christopher Steele is a former
MI6 agent for her majesty’s government.
It had been some time since he got the phone call from the United States
president Barack Obama to help Hillary Clinton become his successor. At first, Steele thought this would be easy
money as the dossier he was being paid for was not something he actually had to
write. It was written by Glenn Simpson
of Fuison GPS, which is an oppositional research firm that Hillary Clinton had
paid through a law firm named Perkins Coie to find dirt on Donald Trump. Steele was asked to put his name on it and
add some Russian information to flavor it a little but since Simpson’s
information was from 2007, they merely took lies they wrote about Bob Dole and
inserted Donald Trump’s name for Dole’s.
The problem was that Steele hadn’t worked in Russia for 25 years so his
sources were even more outdated than the article Simpson wrote in 2007. As he was in England, he called a CIA spy by
the name of Stefan Halper to see if he could help him with the Russian flavoring. After pleasantries, Steele gets to the point
and Halper responds, “I taught a course last year (May 2015) with a former
Russian Foreign Intelligence service member named Trubnikov. I’m sure he could help you. He hates Donald Trump too.”
“That would be great.
Please reach out to him.”
“Will do.”
“And don’t worry; I don’t expect
you to do this for free. I will pay you
for this information.”
“Whatever you think is fair.”
When they got off the phone,
Halper contacts CIA director John Brennan on what he was offered. Brennan has been on a crusade to take down
Donald Trump but since the CIA has no prosecutorial power and can’t operate
domestically, they need to trick the FBI to do their dirty work for them. Brennan is happy that Steele agreed to put
his name on the dossier because the CIA director knows Steele is an FBI
informant so they will trust his information.
Brennan then calls the pentagon to see if they can aid in these
endeavors. His source at the Pentagon
informs him that they have a obscure division known as the Office of Net
Assessment to pay foreign agents to spy on the Americans. They document it on providing information on
four papers and give Halper a million dollars using taxpayer money.
With this new found money,
Halper calls Simpson and contributes to various aspects of Simpson’s dossier to
add Russian information that he had gotten from Trubnikov.
Unfortunately for everyone
involved, the attempt had failed because Donald Trump, despite all the attacks
and false information, still became president of the United States. They, however, didn’t give up and they
released the dossier to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency and
burden him with the scandal. For the
most part, the Pentagon angle was left out of the media but then a Pentagon
employee named Adam Lovinger, found the payments to Stefan Halper from the
Office of Net Assessment. He informed
his direct supervisor that Halper never actually gave the information for any
of the four papers that the payments allege it was for. Lovinger wondered if Halper breached his
contract, then why did they give him the million dollars?
The Pentagon then would break
the Whistleblower law and suspend Lovinger without pay for mishandling
sensitive information. Given that
Lovinger didn’t go to the press and only told people that had higher clearance
than he did, this accusation was completely fabricated but that didn’t stop
Lovinger from being punished for being a Whistleblower.
After a special counsel was set
up to investigate whether or not Trump colluded with Russia, US Inspector
General Horowitz, US Attorney General Bill Barr and US Attorney John Durham
were looking into the origins of the 2016 investigation into Donald Trump. Part of the investigation was to interview
Bruce Ohr, who was the fourth highest member of the DOJ, and was a liaison
between the FBI and Christopher Steele after Steele was fired as an FBI
informant because he leaked his information to the media violating his
agreement. During Ohr’s testimony, Ohr
said that in regards to the July 30 meeting, when the investigation was opened,
he got information from Steele who got the information from a source who got it
from a Russian Foreign Intelligence source that he had Trump over a
barrel. Although Ohr said that he didn’t
know who the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service member was, other state
department officials, namely Kathleen Kavalec, that interviewed Steele found
his source to be lying and given how close Trubnikov was to Halper, it wasn’t
hard to figure it out it was Trubnikov.
As the investigation proceeded,
Steele admitted that his information collector was known to US law enforcement
and since Halper was already a CIA asset, it’s likely that it was easy to
identify Halper as the guy he was referring to.
In January 2017, the FBI sent an agent to talk to Trubnikov about his
information. When the FBI agent reported
to FBI director Jim Comey about the investigation, he concluded that
Trubnikov’s information was garbage and unveiled that he is a notorious Russian
disinformation propagandist with very close ties to Vladimir Putin. The fact that Trubnikov still lives in Russia
and was never punished for being exposed as Steele’s source provides evidence
that Trubnikov is exactly what the FBI agent said he was. This didn’t stop Jim Comey from renewing a
FISA warrant against Trump campaign member Carter Page three times even though
FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe admitted to the world that there would be no
FISA without the dossier since most of their information came from it.
The year is now 2019 and
Inspector General Horowitz has set his date to release his report on December
9, 2019, which is in about two weeks.
This forces the media to scramble to get ahead of the story to try to
bore the public with its content so when it was released, people would already
have preconceived notion on it and refuse to read it. Worse, when people told them the contents,
they would try to spin it to fit the narrative that the mainstream media had
already formed in their minds. For the
last three years, the mainstream media have geared all their efforts to taking
down President Trump and just like Steele and Simpson, have failed thus
far. Even very easily debunked stories
were being run as truth. An example of
this is when Newsweek released an article during Thanksgiving week that Donald
Trump spent Thanksgiving weekend tweeting, golfing, and more. The reality was that President Trump had
visited Bagram, Afghanistan, where there’s a military base in a still active
war zone. President Trump was also
scheduled to meet with the Afghani president during his visit of the
troops.
The New York Times had a bigger
problem. They have become frustrated
with the Democrats constantly changing their story, which makes their older
articles contradictory and obsolete. If
the Times retracts the story, then it shines a light on how the story changed
but it they write the change in the story, then anyone that remembers the
previous article knows they’re contradicting themselves. An example of this is an article written in
May 2017 entitled, ‘FBI sent an investigator posing as assistant to meet with
Trump aide in 2016.’ Now, the Democrats
were telling them not to insinuate that the FBI spied on the Trump
campaign. The New York Times doesn’t
retract the story not wanting to remind people what they said but they take the
risk to change their story now to claim that there was no spy on the Trump
campaign. They hear from their sources
that are being targeted by the IG Report how to spin the story and they
headline an article, “Russia inquiry review is expected to Undercut Trump Claim
of FBI Spying.”
Quickly, the deep state in the
government starts calling various media sources pressuring them to pick up the
story and they all do so with no independent verification of any kind as they
are puppets of the liberals and Democrats.
As New York Times writer Adam Goldman
sees his article being picked up, he plays back the conversation he had when he
called one of his sources and asks about what happened. The FBI representative responds, “We sent
Stefan Halper to talk to Carter Page and George Papadopoulos when they worked
on the Trump campaign.”
“Who is Stefan Halper?
“He is a spy for the CIA.”
“Alright, but I can’t say that
so how do you want me to explain that in the article?”
“Say that the FBI had an
undercover agent who posed as Halper’s assistant during a London meeting with
them in August 2016.”
“Who was the assistant?”
“She runs under an alias Azra
Turk but don’t release that. That is off
the record.”
“Alright, I’ll just call her ‘Halper’s
assistant.’ So, the message is that it’s
not a spy but an undercover agent.”
“Correct”
“I need to cover myself by
mentioning the opposition but I’ll just downplay it.”
“How do you mean?”
“I’ll say that Trump and his
supporters point to some of the investigative steps the FBI took as evidence of
spying but it’s just typical law enforcement activities. That’s what Comey did. He admitted that
Hillary Clinton sent classified e-mails over a non-secure server and everything
that she was accused of was true but then inserted at the end that ‘no
reasonable prosecutor would prosecute this case and everyone believed him”
“Comey was fired. I’m not sure if that’s a good strategy
because suggesting that putting an undercover agent in a presidential election
campaign is status quo for the FBI really takes a shot at the credibility of
the FBI.”
“The FBI already has low
credibility from this whole scandal from the right. As for everyone else, they believe what we
tell them to.”
“Common sense tells you that
can’t be the case.”
“Common sense isn’t common.”
“Well, it’s your article but I
hope you have the courage of your conviction.
If you say that then you’re giving the American people a choice; neither
of which is good for us. The first
option is that they believe you and the status quo of the DOJ is to do this
making us like Soviet Russia or that you’re a liar. If you want to risk your
reputation on this then that’s your prerogative.”
It is this last part that makes
Adam Goldman happy that his fellow mainstream media outlets have picked up the
story to gas light it to the American people.
It may just bolster his credibility.
The next phone call Goldman made
was to an expert on the link Campus in Rome and Cambridge University in
London. Goldman starts the conversation,
“Hi, my name is Adam Goldman from the New York Times. Do you have some time to talk about Joseph
Mifsud?”
“He’s a Maltese professor that
worked at Link Campus in Rome.”
“I know that but the accusation made was that he was a
Russian agent.”
“Well, he’s not.
Look, I’m not comfortable with this but I know the power that the people
that want me to say that have so I’ll work with you to frame this.”
“That’s all I’m saying.
I can report that Mifsud is not an FBI agent.”
“Nobody said he was though. They just said that he’s not a Russian
agent.”
“That’s irrelevant.
My readers are not familiar with what conservatives have said. They say what we tell them they said.”
“Well, you have to link him to Russia”
“I’ll just call him a Russian intermediary. It’s just a play on words. Yea, you’re right he ‘s not an asset but he’s
an intermediary.”
“Sounds like you have if all figured out.”
“Do you have a problem with
that?”
“No, I’m just not clear what an
‘intermediary’ is.”
“That’s the point right? It’s a vague term that could mean that he
knew a Russian. The vaguer it is, the
harder it is to debunk.”
“Well, If that’s your goal then
you have succeeded.”
“Perfect, thank you for your
time.”
“Anytime”
Goldman hung up the phone and
made another phone call to a source in the FBI.
After pleasantries, Goldman says, “I’d like to talk to you about Carter
Page. Do you have a moment for me?”
“Anything for the New York
Times.”
“How did the Steele dossier
influence the FISA warrant?”
“The FBI constantly cited the
dossier to the FISA court.”
“Is the dossier true?”
“No, it isn’t. The problem was the FBI didn’t tell the judge
that there were potential problems with the dossier. They’re supposed to reveal all the
problematic information but they just omitted that.”
“What were some of the
problems?”
“Well, the FBI interviewed
Steele and he contradicted the dossier and then we introduced his sources and they
were not credible. Everything we looked
into differed from the dossier.”
“Well that sounds pretty
damning.”
“You’re the writer.”
“I’ll just say that the FBI
found the information from the sources differed slightly from the dossier. I’ll leave out specifics so the word
‘slightly’ will stop it from sticking in people’s minds.”
“Okay”
“Do you have any information
that helps the Democrats case to discredit Horowitz, Durham and Barr?”
“You can say that Carter Page
was wire tapped after he had already left the Trump campaign.”
“What?! That’s huge. That means that the FISA on Carter Page
wasn’t spying on the Trump campaign because Carter Page wasn’t even on the
Trump campaign.”
“That’s not exactly true. When you get access to someone’s e-mails and phone
calls, it’s not dated from the FISA forward.
You can go into the archives and look at old e-mails and phone calls
when he was a part of the campaign.”
“You need to understand that
people don’t know the rules and procedure of investigations the way you
do. People will grasp on to that
fact. I’ll just leave out that it’s
irrelevant obviously. This discredits
the whole argument because the FISA is the spying.”
“Jim Comey is already on record
that the FBI investigated any links between individuals associated with the
Trump campaign and the Russian government.”
“I didn’t know that; my readers
won’t remember that either.”
When Goldman got off the phone,
he felt better about himself. He takes
it to his editor who is not as thrilled.
The editor utters, “This IG report may be damning.”
“That’s not what I’m hearing
sir. It’s nothing I can’t spin.”
“Yea but look at how much you
have to spin. You have to realize that
all your information is from people targeted by the IG report leaking to
us. All you get is the response to the
allegation without seeing what it is the IG report actually alleged. Even with the one-sided story we have, it
still requires a lot of bait and switching and spinning. What if the actual allegation makes the
response irrelevant? Like the response
that Mifsud isn’t a FBI agent. There was
no allegation that he was so if the allegation is that he’s not a Russian asset
and the response is, ‘well at least he’s not an FBI agent’, it’s irrelevant.”
Goldman frowned, “So…you’re not
going to run with the story.”
“No, I have to run with the story because of the shit and
pressure I’ve been getting for it. I’m
just saying that our work has only just begun.”
“I’m ready for it.”
“I hope we all are.”
The article ran and was widely distributed during
Thanksgiving week approximately 10 days before the scheduled release of the IG
Report. Once the report drops, who know
what the ramification will be. All we
can do is wait.
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