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The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation
Hint: it wasn’t when they say, and they were spying on people before then.
Quote:The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Carter Page or George Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration.
Exactly when is the “late Spring”?
Of all the questions that have been asked about what we’ve called the “Origination Story” of the Trump-Russia investigation, that may be the most important one. It may be the one that tells us when the Obama administration first formed the Trump-Russia “collusion” narrative.
See, it has always been suspicious that the anonymous current and former government officials who leak classified information to their media friends have been unable to coordinate their spin on the start of “Crossfire Hurricane” — the name the FBI eventually gave its Trump-Russia investigation.
The Original Origination Story: Carter Page
First, they told us it was an early July 2016 trip to Moscow by Carter Page, an obscure Trump-campaign adviser.
As we’ve observed, that story became untenable once a connection emerged between the Bureau’s concerns about Page and the Steele dossier. The dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, portrayed Page’s Moscow trip as seminal to a Trump-Russia conspiracy to hack Democratic email accounts and steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
It turned out, however, that the dossier was a Clinton-campaign opposition-research project, the main allegations of which were based on third-hand hearsay from anonymous Russian sources. Worse, though the allegations could not be verified, the Obama Justice Department and the FBI used them to obtain surveillance warrants against Page, in violation of their own guidelines against presenting unverified information to the FISA court. Worse still, the Obama Justice Department withheld from the FISA court the facts that the Clinton campaign was behind the dossier and that Steele had been booted from the investigation for lying to the FBI.
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RE: The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation
Espionage, plain and simple.
obama should be on a plane to a country we don't have an extradition agreement with.
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2018 06:54 PM by Kronke.)
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RE: The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation
(05-22-2018 06:54 PM)Kronke Wrote: Espionage, plain and simple.
obama should be on a plane to a country we don't have an extradition agreement with.
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