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This entire Russia investigation is a sting against the Swamp.
RR's part, Mueller's part, maybe Comey's part, Cohen's part, Sater's part, & most certainly Donald Trump's part!
The part you most need to understand is that Russian Collusion happened! But that it was an FBI sting, run by Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap & others. Authorized by Mueller when he was FBI Director & continued w Comey. It's stated purpose? Catch Russians
It's unstated purpose? Catch American politicians & law enforcement people who were helping the Russians launder money & buy influence. People who sabotaged the Illegal spy case called Ghost Stories that captured Anna Chapman & other Russian spies. By tipping off the Russians.
Less clear, but just as likely, the people who sabotaged the Uranium 1 prosecution. People who revolved around international money launderer, Marc Rich, friend of the Clinton's & the man who helped the Oligarchs plunder Russia.
Investigations of this money laundering into Bank of New York had Clinton & Yeltsin very worried in 1999. It may also explain why Clinton pardoned Rich. But both tried to help their successors win & continue the game. MI6 stepped in to help Putin win!
The investigation into these crimes & the Russian influence networks in the US were closing in on the criminals with Operation Ghost Stories in 2010. Elements within the FBI/DOJ tipped off the Russians. Then the State Dpt. cut a deal to let them go.
This forced a reset of the entire FBI operation against this global money laundering case. So White Hats in the FBI designed a new operation, when the replacement spies arrived. Infiltrate their network with assets unknown inside the Swamp & catch them all at once!
This case became known as the Buryakov case, as he was the only person prosecuted originally. How did they do it? First they planted a DIA agent pretending to be an energy analyst to get recruited by the Russians. Carter Page! Who managed to get bugs into SVR HQ in NYC!
Then it gets interesting, the FBI designs a Wealthy Atlantic Casino Investor Russian Collusion Sting. To get one of the banks involved in the money laundering to let a casino investor get in on the money laundering to build a casino in Russia!
While it is clear that Felix Sater & Michael Cohen played undercover roles in this case for the FBI, @realDonaldTrump's role is more interesting. Seems he has been using teams of FBI assets within his businesses to run stings on mobsters since 1981.
These threads only scratch the surface of the biggest sting in law enforcement history, but if you do not understand that this is all a sting. You have no chance of figuring out who the White Hats are & who the Black Hats are!
Just as important, while these investigations were closing in on the Clinton money laundering machine, her secret server story broke. That lead to an investigation of Sid Blumenthal who was running the Clinton Oppo Research effort using NSA data.
But they were caught, before the 2016 election by the White Hats in the FBI & by the NSA.
One final question for this thread! Were they using the NSA data to spy on Trump because he was a candidate? Or were they using the NSA data to spy on the FBI's covert operations against the global money laundering ring? Either way, they found the evidence & used it to frame him!
If they were using abusing access to NSA data, by contractors or 5 Eyes partners like MI6 to protect the money laundering operation involving the Clintons & the Oligarchs. Does it explain the effort by Muller & Comey to shutdown the warrantless surveillance program in 2004?
What else could you do if you knew the criminals you were chasing could read the emails & listen to the phone calls of all your informants, agents, & witnesses?