Vladislav Surkov walks outside
his massive home in Moscow and picks up a copy of his New York Times. As he scrolls through the paper, he removes
an article by Adam Goldman entitled, “Justice Department is investigating CIA
resistance to sharing Russia Secrets.”
He smiles and cuts out the article and puts it in a scrapbook next to
another Adam Goldman article. He knows
that Carlos Slim owns the New York Times and the Mexican billionaire makes most
of his money through remissions to Mexico so he doesn’t have America’s best
interests at heart. Still, Surkov is
proud of himself that three years after he and his colleague Vyacheslav
Trubnikov successfully convinced various British officials that Donald Trump
and not Hillary Clinton was the Russian stooge, America was still in chaos from
it. At first, Surkov thought that they
only had a handful of useful idiots but even he was surprised at how many
people jumped on the bandwagon and now his group of useful idiots in America
was massive. He knew he couldn’t sit out
of the 2020 election but given that his work from 2016 was still paying
dividends four years later, he wondered how he could possibly do any better
than he already had. Before figuring out
his future moves, he leaned back and reflected over his last four or five
years. As he reads the article, it is a
synopsis of all his work but Surkov knows the whole story is much longer than
this piece. That is what he is
reflecting on and these are the thoughts that went through his head.
Barack Obama is the president of
the United States and he opens an e-mail from his Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. They have been e-mailing back
and forth as Hillary is using her private e-mail so that other government
officials won’t be able to read what they’re saying to each other. Barack Obama did have to take the risk of
alerting some people because his blackberry is so heavily guarded for various reasons
that he doesn’t get a blacklist, or a list of e-mail addresses that will be
blocked, he gets a white list in that only e-mails appearing on a pre-approved
list will get through to the President.
The White House Communication Agency (WACA) is very diligent in
maintaining that list and making sure that no e-mail gets through unless they
pre-approve of the sender. It’s because
of this, that President Obama had to tell them about Hillary’s personal
e-mail. It wasn’t really a big deal
because WACA wasn’t in the business of reading the e-mails; they merely
determined who could e-mail the president and everyone else was banned.
Unfortunately for Obama and
Hillary, an unsecured private e-mail is susceptible to having unauthorized
people read them. The CIA receives a
credible hit that the Russians have hacked Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail
server and have dumped her e-mails to Wikileaks that they are threatening to
release. The CIA and the FBI ask Hillary
to turn over her server and e-mails so they can assess the damage but she
refuses and bleach bits her e-mails and destroys her blackberry with a
hammer. This prompts the CIA to look for
the e-mails through the Russians as they are not going to be too protective
over them. When President Obama finds out
that they are in possession of the e-mails, he calls the head of the FBI and
tells him in no uncertain terms that he is not allowed to read any e-mails
between him and Hillary Clinton and he is declaring executive privilege.
As the election nears, President Obama receives a daily
briefing and he looks through it to see if there’s anything he needs to act
on. What he doesn’t see is anything
about President Trump colluding with Russia.
This daily briefing is extremely well vetted to make sure that if the
president is making a decision, it’s based on verified information. After reading the briefing, his secretary
buzzes and states, “Mr. President, John Brennan is here to see you.”
“Send him in.”
John Brennan walks into the Oval
Office with a large manila envelope. He
hands it to President Obama and declares, “Mr. President, in this envelope is
my assessment that I have it on good authority that Donald Trump is colluding
with the Russians to steal the 2016 election.”
“How is that possible when we have
50 local elections that make up our election?
It’s impossible to steal. In
fact, I recently gave a speech in the Rose Garden saying precisely that.”
“With today’s social media and
internet sophistication, I’m afraid it is possible sir.”
“Well, I don’t like the
arrogance of that man so keep the information coming. This may be a blessing because we have
actionable intelligence to take down Donald Trump and make sure he’s never in
this office. Keep me posted.”
“I will Mr. President.”
Shortly after Brennan leaves,
President Obama is giving a presser in which he is asked about Hillary Clinton
e-mailing him on her private server.
President Obama replies, “Let me be clear, I had no idea that Hillary
was sending e-mails on an unsecured private server. I merely saw it was from her and I opened the
e-mail and figured it was on a secure network.”
President Obama knows he’s lying
but only people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the White House
will know. The majority of Americans
will just take him at his word. Later,
he will use the envelope given by Brennan to assert that 17 intelligence
agencies all agree that Trump colluded with the Russians. The truth is, the National Security Agency
(NSA) is only moderately confident as its director Mike Rogers has found that
80% of the times that the NSA database was accessed was for fraudulent
reasons. This forced him to shut down
access to it as that much information was proving to be too tempting for its
users not to abuse it.
There was a lot that happened
before John Brennan walked into the Oval Office that day to deliver a document
he knew to be salacious and unverified.
The reason he purposely did it separately from the President’s Daily
Briefing is that he knew the document fake so if it was vetted, like the
information in the Daily Briefing is, then it would be exposed for the hoax
that it is and it will never be used by the FBI to open an investigation, which
is Brennan’s ultimate goal. This is the basis
of what Goldman would later call US Attorney John Durham of accusing Obama
officials of hiding evidence or maintaining analysis of Moscow covert
operation. It is an attempt to discredit
Durham’s report which is set to be released in a couple of months after the
article prints. All that, however, comes
later. Right now, it’s August 2016 and
the FBI has been inundated with information from a former MI-6 agent named
Christopher Steele. Steele is an FBI
confidential informant. What they don’t
know is that Steele has been leaking his information to the media and to David
Kramer of Senator McCain’s office so that there is bipartisan support for the
information that is being filtered into the FBI. What Steele doesn’t know is
that his information is not only being leaked by him but Steele’s former boss,
the head of MI6 in Britain, is a dear friend of Brennan’s. His name is Richard Dearlove and Steele just
happens to be in one of the most highly surveilled countries in the world. There is no right to privacy in England and
Brennan has full access to Steele’s e-mails so he is well aware of his
correspondence with Glenn Simpson and Stefan Halper as he puts together a
dossier alleging President Trump colluded with Russia. Now, the question is how to use this
information.
As Brennan mulls this over, he
mutters to himself, “I need to get the FBI to open a criminal investigation
into Trump. What I’m going to tell them
is a lie so I can’t have it get back to me so I need to do it in a way that it
won’t be traced back to me.”
In August 2016, Brennan figures
out the answer to his dilemma. He goes
to Capitol Hill where he briefs the gang of eight or a group of eight
congressman that are in charge of the congressional intelligence committee. He purposely doesn’t tell the Republican
members like Devin Nunes what he knows because he knows Nunes will try to
verify it. What he needs is someone that
hates Donald Trump so much that they won’t even bother to check if the
information is true but will go right to the FBI. Goldman will later claim that
Durham is hunting Brennan but right now Brennan is hunting Trump and like every
good hunter knows; stealth is key.
Brennan briefs Harry Reid and informs him of everything he learned while
spying on Christopher Steele.
Brennan’s plan worked as Harry
Reid only waits 24 hours before writing a letter to the FBI demanding that they
open a criminal investigation into Donald Trump and his collusion with
Russia. In the letter will be
information that will never be found anywhere else besides the Steele dossier,
which Brennan claims he never saw until December 2016. When you’re reading the author’s e-mails, you
don’t have to see the document to know its contents. His work is complete as he got Congress to
push his flimsy narrative without him being blamed for misleading the FBI. With his plausible deniability in place, he
rests very easily that night.
The next day, he calls Richard
Dearlove and there’s jubilance in his voice, “Richard, it worked. Congress has pushed the information into the
FBI and they’re going to open an investigation.”
“Good work but I’m a little
confused on why you didn’t just tell the FBI yourself. Why make this so difficult?”
“I’m advancing a hoax.”
“You Americans are so
blunt. You didn’t advance a hoax; you
operated on the bias of a preconceived notion.”
Although the New York Times
would use that precise language four years later, Brennan answers, “That’s one
way to put it. I would say that I
omitted any information that didn’t fit the narrative to make it a stronger
case. It’s not exactly lying; it’s just
omitting and not giving the full picture.”
“I believe the expression is ‘seeing
what you want to see.’”
“Yea, that works.”
“In all seriousness, to answer
your question, I know the information we got from Steele was all garbage. Most of it was based on a Wall Street Journal
article written in 2007 that talked about Bob Dole not Donald Trump. Let congress be the ones dropping the ball on
bad intelligence and information.”
“Can’t have another 9/11 on your
hands.”
“Exactly. There’s other reasons too.”
“Do tell.”
“Right now, the FBI thinks that
Steele is only their source. I’d like
them to continue thinking that.”
“Well I guess it’s irrelevant
now. The FBI has the information and now
it’s up to them.”
“I agree but this is a good
day. You should have a pint and
celebrate. I know I will.”’
In 2020, when Durham and Barr
see through Brennan’s lies and unravel how he lied to the FBI, Brennan will go
on Hardball with Chris Matthews and laugh at the accusation saying that it’s silly
to open a criminal investigation for an analytical judgment. The reaction is split down party lines. If you support President Trump, then you
believe that the investigation does warrant that when you fall for a hoax and a
Russian misinformation campaign. If you
disagree with Trump, all of a sudden the intelligence community is not to be
questioned as they’re the experts and everyone is the unwashed masses. It’s interesting how they didn’t hold that
opinion 19 years ago after 9/11 happened.”
Shortly after all of Brennan and
other’s efforts had failed, and Donald Trump is the next president of the
United States, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was disgraced when her
anti-Trump e-mails revealed her affair with lead investigator Peter Strzok and
unraveled their plot to stop Trump from becoming president, is on Capitol Hill
giving sworn testimony to congressman Mark Meadows. Meadows asks her if she is aware that Steele
was a CIA source. Page seems legitimately
confused and replies, “If the CIA as early as August, in fact, had those same
reports, I’m not aware of that, nor do I believe they provided that to us, and
that would be unusual.” It is at this
moment that Lisa Page realizes that John Brennan and the CIA set them up and
lied to them.
The Brennan as the useful idiot
portion of Surkov’s trip down memory lane has ended and he pivots to the
FBI. This is where his friend Trubnikov
comes into play. After feeding Steele information
about Donald Trump that is false, Steele exposes him by naming him and Surkov
as a source to Kathleen Kavalec of the state department. The FBI goes to London and meets with
Trubnikov and inquires, “These are the claims that our confidential source has
told us you told him. Can you verify
these statement about Donald Trump?”
Trubnikov reads through the
bullet points of the claims and scoffs, “No, this is all fake. A lot of this stuff I said while taking shots
of vodka and I was joking. Others are
just a gross exaggeration. I barely
recognize this information.”
That should have been the end of
that but the FBI ran with the information anyway much to Surkov’s
surprise. Surkov questioned his
colleague later about this and Trubnikov informed him that they would have been
more suspicious if he agreed to it. By
denying it, it helps them think that Russia is helping Trump. He explained, “By me denying the information,
they can spin it in their heads that it’s proof that Russia is helping Donald
Trump.”
Surkov wasn’t so sure that was
the case since it discredited everything Steele said but here the FBI was
getting a FISA on Carter Page based on the information in the dossier. This was especially exciting to Trubnikov and
Surkov since it was Carter Page who was sent to Russia on behalf of the CIA in
a sting operation against Russians.
Their revenge was sweet. Later,
the FBI even set up a special council even though they knew that Brennan lied
to them and the source already confirmed that it was a hoax but they hired Bob
Mueller anyway. This caused Surkov to
call Trubnikov and admit that he was wrong.
Now that the Russian collusion
hoax has thoroughly been discredited and the Democrats impeached President
Trump but failed to remove him from office, John Durham and Bill Barr were
going on the offensive as their investigation was wrapping up. You could tell they were getting close
because the media started attacking Trump and posturing that how dare he
question professional intelligence officials as they are above reproach. Bill Barr knew what was coming next; the
Democrats would not learn from their previous failures and impeach President
Trump again because he attacked the intelligence community, which they will
twist to be obstruction. Right now,
Attorney General Bill Barr is being interviewed by a journalist. He is asked, “After Steele’s success with
exposing the FIFA scandal and his good standing with the FBI, why would you
think he was disingenuous now?”
Barr keeps a stoic face at the
ridiculousness. He merely responds,
“Past performance not indicative of future results.”
“He seems credible.”
“If he’s credible then you have
to believe that he didn’t lie to the State Department when he admitted that
Trubnikov was a source.”
“I don’t think he did lie about
that.”
“And Trubnikov is the head of
the SVR, which is like the CIA.”
“I didn’t know that but okay.”
“So, do you think it’s possible
that Steele fell for a Russian disinformation campaign and the information that
Trubnikov gave him was a lie intended to deceive and mislead Steele?”
“Well, I heard that Trubnikov
was a double agent and our asset.”
“He’s still in Russia. If you knew that, you don’t think Putin would
know that? Why hasn’t Putin punished him
then? Why isn’t he fleeing Russia? If Trubnikov is an American spy in Russia,
why did we not know about Russia’s activity in Crimea? Why didn’t we know about them hacking Hillary
Clinton’s e-mails unti;l after the fact?
Why didn’t we know how they were going to meddle in our elections?”
The journalist was speechless as
he couldn’t answer these questions. He
simply retorted, “I’m not the intelligence expert here. Who am I to speculate on these things?”
“You can use your common
sense. Do you also think it’s convenient
that Stefan Halper, a known CIA spy, taught a course with Trubnikov and that
Halper was paid a million dollars to write a paper in which he cites Trubnikov
as a source? He’s also the guy that
invited various Trump satellite people to Britain so they could spy on
him? Did you think that was a
coincidence?”
“Thank you for your time Mr.
Barr.”
Barr relaxes and takes a deep
breath. He thinks that he did well in
getting through to the young journalist that maybe everything he believes to be
true isn’t. Then he picks up the New York
Times and the Washington Post the next day and reads claims that it’s confirmed
that President Trump is using the DOJ to attack his political opponents. They both also assert that it’s already been
concluded that Barr and Trump’s comment about Stone’s sentence being too harsh
is obstruction of justice. Barr
sighs. There was just no getting through
to these people. The truth is that only
the New York Times and Washington Post were professing those ideas and it not
only hadn’t been concluded but nobody was asking the question. Barr thought of the old advertizing tactic of
saying that everyone is doing something so you should too. He shakes his head and wonders how they can’t
see the blatant hypocrisy in accusing the President of using the DOJ to attack
his political opponents when the DOJ just convicted a Trump ally who was
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s political opponent. As he voices his frustration, one of his
staffers articulates, “Sir, I have an idea on how you can use this to our
advantage.”
“We aren’t in the political
game. We only seek the truth.”
“I’m not asking you to lie or
spin. Well, maybe a little bit but hear
me out.”
“I’m listening”
“Well, I watch a lot of
professional wrestling”
“Odd place to begin but okay”
“So in WWE, there are ‘faces,’
which everyone loves and the crowd cheers and ‘heels’ that everyone hates and
the crowd boos.”
“I’m familiar”
“Well, no matter how much of a
heel someone is, they can always turn into a face by doing one thing.”
“What’s that?”
“Criticize and attack Vince
McMahon.”
Barr perks up and mulls this
over, “That is actually a very good idea.”
The staffer beams as he was very
nervous to bring this up. Bill Barr
immediately schedules an interview.
During the interview he expresses that he wishes the President wouldn’t
tweet about DOJ cases because it makes it nearly impossible to do his job. He ends it with a defiant declaration that he
will not be bullied by anyone whether it be Congress, the media, politicians or
the president himself.
Almost immediately, social media
is a buzz about how Barr has turned against Trump and will be their hero to
take down Donald Trump. News outlets are
ecstatic that they finally got to Barr and Trump’s handpicked attorney general
has just stabbed him in the back. They
rush to President Trump for a response not learning from all the times they
have been really excited only to be disappointed with Trump’s response. President Trump tells them that he has no
problem with what Barr had said. After
all, all Barr said was that his only loyalty was to the truth and what he
believed was the right thing to do. It’s
hard to find fault in that. The
journalists go back to their computers dejected that they didn’t get the sound
they wanted of President Trump attacking Barr.
Meanwhile, Barr calls his
staffer and inquires, “Did you see the news?”
“Looks like you’ve turned face
Mr. Barr.”
Barr grins, “Yes, and magically
nobody is taking about my investigating Brennan and Comey as being a political
attack.”
“the mob is fickle sir. They’ll turn on you once you attack their
golden calf.”
“I know but to people paying
attention, they’ll see that they contradicted themselves. I know we say that a lot but we do pick up
more people the more times they are hypocrites.”
“I’m not so sure. Nobody seemed to care that Obama claimed
executive privilege so the FBI didn’t read his e-mails with Hillary Clinton
that the Russian hacked. Interesting
that the Russians can read it but the FBI can’t. It was separation of powers then but when
Bolton says something to President Trump, then they demand that he testify and
reveal everything. Double standards
don’t seem to bother them sir.”
“The president’s popularity
among black voters is between 34-42% depending on the poll. It hasn’t been over 15 in decades. I know the president claims it’s because of
the black unemployment rate being at 50 year lows and his criminal justice
reform but I believe it to be that rappers loved Donald Trump. People wanted to go to Mar A Lago. They loved the apprentice. Now, all of a sudden he’s a racist,
misogynistic, NAZI? They had trouble
with the switch so they left the Democrat party and followed him.”
“I think Bernie Sanders, an
admitted socialist, may have helped with Democrats leaving the party.”
“That is true. I still cringe to think that the man who gave
that speech at the University of Vermont saying that he was very excited and
impressed with the Cuban revolution and the poor people rising up is now the
leading Democrat candidate for president of the United States.”
“Yea, not many Democrats are
that radical so they are walking away from the party.”
“The same could be said about
President Trump.”
“He’s at 95% Republican
approval.”
“That may have to do with the
alternative. Then again, it may be
because the people that opposed him left the Republican Party.”
“That’s true. Nine months to go before the election. We’ll just see where the cards lie. In the mean time, face or heel, our mission
hasn’t changed. We are trying to
determine if Brennan lied to the FBI and the truth is the only thing we have
loyalty to.”
Hanging up that phone on
Valentine’s Day, it is not known if the spring will reveal Durham’s report but
Republicans are eagerly awaiting it.
Conservatives, on the other hand, have given up hope that Democrats will
be prosecuted. The deep state is too
strong and they prove again and again that Democrats are above the law. This is especially true for anyone that opposes
Donald Trump.
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