Bigger Than Watergate: US Intelligence Community Collaborated With Clinton to Spy on Trump in 2016
There's a loud scandal in the US. It turns out that in the US secret service, by the fall of 2016, there was a conspiracy against then still Presidential candidate, Donald Trump. And the effort against Trump continued even after his victory in the elections. Unthinkable. Special services against the President of the country. Details of this story were found out practically yesterday.
And here's the report of our special correspondent in the US, Valentin Bogdanov.
Evidence that the FBI and the US Justice Department were working on Clinton's side, and that Moscow wasn't working on Trump's side, was awaited so much by the US public, that the Congress site went down in the first minutes of publication. Despite the protests of the Democrats and their supporters, the head of the White House decided to take the dirty laundry out of a well-protected house.
Donald Trump: "I think it's a disgrace. The memo was sent to Congress, it was declassified. Congress will do whatever they’re going to do, but I think it’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country. When things like that happen, many people should be ashamed".
The key episode of the Nunes memorandum named after the committee head that compiled it is about how FBI, two and a half weeks before the election, received a wiretapping order for Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's campaign staff. The former agent of the British MI6 and a specialist in the energy market, Christopher Steele, was recorded as a Kremlin agent, with no evidence. Clinton's headquarters through Fusion GPS, paid him $160,000 to prepare a Trump file. In the case of Page, Steele didn't even have to make an effort. He was a student in Moscow and later worked for 3 years with the Russian representative office of Merrill Lynch. He also met Ambassador Kislyak. That means he's definitely a spy.
- Did you meet Sergey Kislyak in Cleveland, did you speak with him?
Carter Page: I'm not going to deny that I met him, but I want to note that I haven't met him anywhere outside of Cleveland. Let's stop there.
- So the only time when you met him was in Cleveland?
- I could have met with him and it could have possibly been in Cleveland.”
FBI knew from the very beginning that Paige came up in the story of the alleged Russian interference from Steele's account. But, the Obama administration and Clinton's entourage needed access to information about what was going on at Trump's headquarters on the eve of the election. They decided to get to it through Page. Then bureau head, James Comey signed the application for the secret surveillance order to the court in the windowless room of the Ministry of Justice building. Personally. Comey deliberately didn't mention that Steele works for Clinton.
"The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named US person but does not name Fusion GPS. The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of and paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information".
To give their story weight, the FBI, in their request to spy on Page, alluded to the Yahoo article by Michael Isikoff. In fact, both the journalist Isikoff and his article were part of the cover-up operation.
Matt Gaetz, Florida Congressman: "This dossier was so fake that they had to find this article on Yahoo, which Steele himself came up with to refer to later on. On the other hand, we see how the Democrats are bribing the Department of Justice. The Democratic Party money goes to a law firm account and then to Fusion GPS, whose mission is to dig up dirt on Trump. They hire Christopher Steele to delve into the dirty laundry, and Nellie Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr, who was engaged in combating drug trafficking in the Department of Justice and who began to leak this allegedly compromising material in the intelligence community paid for by the Democrats".
A family arrangement: the wife gets money from Clinton to look for dirt on Trump. The husband, a senior official of the Prosecutor's Office, sent the compromising evidence to the top. For example, he puts it on Rod Rosenstein's desk, the deputy head of the Ministry of Justice, the one who found the special prosecutor Muller, and to this day oversees his investigation of alleged Russian interference in the US elections. George Papadopoulos, also Trump's advisor, became involved in this case, too. Here is another excerpt from the memorandum:
"The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Peter Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page, no known relation to Carter Page, where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton".
The agent-lovers did not hold back in text messages. And harshly insulted Trump. Strzok, for example, called him an idiot. Both even managed to work for the same Mueller. The 50,000 messages that the agents exchanged already after Clinton lost, were mysteriously lost. For a whole year, liberal US media persuaded readers and viewers that Russia was to blame for this defeat. After the publication of the memorandum, the studios are full of tension. Mueller himself suddenly appeared under the hood, and the whole story about the "hand of Kremlin" is falling apart.
"The published report is an attempt by Donald Trump to discredit Mueller's investigation into the Russian case".
And maybe not just Trump, other journalists are going even further:
- Is it possible that the Republican congressman, the head of the House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence, is connected with Russia? Is it possible that the Intelligence Committee is headed by a Russian agent
- I hope that's not the case.
There's panic in the Democratic camp. If it isn't the second Watergate, then something very similar. They want the Republican House speaker to immediately kick his fellow party member Nunes from the head of the Intelligence Committee chair. And threaten a counter-memo. It is going to be submitted for consideration tomorrow. But none of this is preventing Trump from celebrating victory.
twitter.com/realdonaldtrump: "This memo totally vindicates "Trump" in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. There was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!"
The Nunes memo did not appear by chance in the House of Representatives. During the autumn vote, the Democrats are aiming precisely at it, hoping to sweep the pro-Tramp majority on the crest of the so-called wave elections. After winning the majority, Trump's opponents will probably begin the impeachment process. And in this sense, the memo is a breakwater that can save the people sitting in the same boat from the storm: the Republicans and their President.
Valentin Bogdanov, Ivan Utkin, and Denis Lisitsin. From the US — Vesti, News of the Week.