AG Barr announced on Wednesday morning to a Senate panel that he thinks “spying did occur” by the government on President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“For the same reason we’re worried about foreign influence in elections…I think spying on a political campaign — it’s a big deal, it’s a big deal.”
Barr’s statement came in response to a question from Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, who had asked why Barr is looking into the origins of the investigation.
“I’m not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it’s important to look at that. I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly,”
Shaheen then asked, “You’re not suggesting that spying occurred?”
Barr paused for several seconds and then replied, “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was . . . adequately predicated.” Barr wouldn’t elaborate further.
CNN jumped on the remark as “inflammatory.” This echoed Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who said that Barr’s “spying” comment was “unnecessarily inflammatory.”
Last week PDJT had called for looking at the origin of the Russian Collusion-Conspiracy narrative, calling it a “con job”, and “made up fraud”.
PDJT intuitively realizes that the origin of the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American public is where attention needs to be focused. This avoids being ensnared in the justification trap that has been previously uncovered by Susan Rice’s “by the book” memo-to-self. The memo was written at 12:15 PM on January 20th, 2017, inauguration day.
Rice’s memo justifies why there had been multiple false and misleading statements given to incoming PDJT and all of his officials during the transition. It was put there in case the impeachment effort failed. And the Mueller investigation was all about trying to impeach PDJT.
PDJT is pointing to the origins of the investigation to avoid the prior administration’s officials saying they had a credible cause for concern and “were just doing their jobs to protect the country.” This also avoids the FISA warrant issue as well.
Once the original FISA warrant was issued on Carter Page (October, 2016), the prior surveillance of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane counter intelligence operation became legal. This legalized that surveillance “after the fact” all the way back to July 31, 2016 the starting date of that operation. This is quite different from normal search warrants which must be issued BEFORE searching can begin.
There is much evidence that point to the fact that surveillance of opposition candidates was ongoing in 2015. Admiral Rogers, NSA director at the time, had stopped FBI “contractor” access to NSA feeds in April 2016 due to the ridiculously high illegal access rate(85%).
This is the origination point that needs to be shown some sunlight. Those involved in trying to overthrow the Trump administration are probably getting a bit nervous now that the Mueller investigation can no longer shield them from scrutiny.
It would not be surprising to find out that Shaheen’s question was a probe to try to uncover just where that investigation is. Then the Democrats could frame a narrative to try to discredit the results of the investigation if they knew just what was being looked at.
Along with the concerns of the Democrats, buried deep within an article at the NYTimes on the IG’s investigation into the Russia matter, were a couple of paragraphs about Stefan Halper.
So, the NYTimes is outing Halper as an FBI informant who was spying on American citizens. Keep in mind that until recently the NYT was calling people ‘conspiracy theorists’ for pointing out how the CIA and FBI were using overseas intelligence officials to spy on the Trump campaign.
Now the NYT makes it seem like this is no problem by the way they report it. However, it is. Halper’s surveillance activity precedes the initiation of the Crossfire Hurricane counter intelligence operation.
So, just what was the basis for such surveillance? What’s the underlying evidence that caused the FBI to request Stefan Halper to spy on American citizens connected to the Trump campaign? What’s the reason?
The clock is ticking. It appears that the show is just beginning. Get some popcorn. It should be interesting.