Tyb
Reposting for day shift - would love any feedback on this hypothesis.
Does the timing of the CIA collecting bulk data story make anyone else think that some of the "bulk data" might have been part of how [they] were spying on the Trump campaign?
Thus far, SPYGATE has mostly focused on the FBI, which would make sense, as they are the responsible for domestic investigations. One of the things that makes the CIA story stand out is that they were collecting bulk data domestically, when their task is to provide foreign money intelligence. The CIA has the ability to work with the FBI on their special "bulk collection" given a FISA warrant or a sign off by the DNI. It appears to be outlined under Executive Order 12333. Seems to me like that would be a very convenient way to assist the FBI in ousting POTUS. The CIA can similarly ask the NSA to perform tasks and share intelligence regarding collection outside of the CIA’s (supposed) lane of foreign intelligence.
https://www.cia.gov/static/54871453e089a4bd7cb144ec615312a3/CIA-AG-Guidelines-Signed.pd
Not saying that’s exactly what happened in this case, but just a potential for abuse.
Now the CIA can point at the FBI and say “hey, they are the ones who did it, not us” while the FBI points back and says “they told us to do it”, and both can point at the DNI / AG and say they got the sign-off.
Nice article regarding the CIA bill data collection program:
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators claim the Central Intelligence Agency is running a secret program aimed at scooping up massive amounts of data and has been shielding it from Congressional oversight, they said in a letter released on Friday.
In the letter dated April 13, 2021, Senators Ron Wyden, of Oregon, and Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, warned top U.S. intelligence officials that an unspecified "bulk collection" program was operating "entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection."
The letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and CIA Director William Burns was partially redacted and lacked several key details, notably the nature of the CIA program and the kind of data it collected. It referred instead to a cache of newly declassified documents from the U.S. intelligence watchdog known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
A Feb. 10, 2022 statement from the CIA released along with the declassified material said agency officials are required to "take reasonable steps to limit the information collected to only that which is necessary to achieve the purpose of the collection."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-say-cia-data-collection-has-been-hidden-public-lawmakers-2022-02-11/
The CIA’s Updated Executive Order 12333 Attorney General Guidelines
https://www.cia.gov/static/100ea2eab2f739cab617eb40f98fac85/Detailed-Overview-CIA-AG-Guidelines.pdf
Another anon indicated that they thought Peter Strzok, former Chief of the FBI’s Counterespionage Section might be related to this.
If you haven’t read up on him, he’s got quite the fascinating background.
Educated in Tehran.
Strzok led a team of a dozen investigators during the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server and assisted in the drafting of public statements for then-FBI Director James Comey.
He led the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
In June and July 2017, Strzok worked on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into any links or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok is a good starting point.
At least seven killed after explosion and fire in southern France
Interior minister heads to scene of tragedy near Perpignan as search of gutted buildings continues
At least seven people, including two children, have died after an explosion sent fire raging through a building in southern France.
One of the victims of the blaze that started in a three-story building in the coastal town of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, north-east of Perpignan, was reported to be a baby.
The French interior minister, GĂ©rald Darmanin, who was on an official visit to police in Montpellier, 96 miles (155km) from the tragedy, was expected at the scene on Monday afternoon.
He confirmed the provisional death toll of seven people including two children but added: “Unfortunately, the work of the firefighters and other services is not finished so this may not be definite.”
The French prime minister, Jean Castex, send his condolences to the victims’ families and friends and praised the work of the emergency services who he said were working “in difficult circumstances”.
The explosion happened around 1.30am local time and was believed to have occurred on the ground floor, which housed a grocery store and a fast-food take-away. Flames quickly engulfed the building and two neighbouring properties.
Firefighters have searched two of the buildings but said the third remained too dangerous to enter.
Jean-David Cavaillé, the Perpignan public prosecutor, said the emergency services were still searching for a family thought to be in the building but who may have been absent. The search was being hampered because temperatures in the buildings remained high and several floors had collapsed, he said, adding that the death toll may rise further.
Cavaillé said an investigation into the cause of the explosion had been opened but it was too early to establish whether it was accidental or criminal.
One man who jumped from the second floor to escape the flames was said to be in a critical condition in hospital. Three other people were also injured.
Just under 100 firefighters were called to the scene in the early hours of Monday.
A resident of a neighbouring building who was woken by the explosion said it was “a horror scene … it was extraordinarily violent”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/pyrenees-france-explosion-killed
Trudeau to hold news conference Monday on Covid protests
AFP February 14, 2022
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold a news conference Monday afternoon on protests against Covid health rules now entering a third week in the capital Ottawa and at the US border, his office told AFP.
Facing growing pressure to act, the Canadian leader said Friday that all options “were on the table” for ending the “unlawful” demonstrations that are hurting the nation’s economic recovery.
This is a developing story..
https://insiderpaper.com/trudeau-to-speak-in-afternoon-about-covid-protests-spokesperson/
Department of Defense tweet:
Guiding lights.
@usairforce Staff Sgt. Dan Collier guides a refueling truck during exercise Cope North at Northwest Field, Guam.
https://twitter.com/deptofdefense/status/1493268834379309060?s=21