Tactics?

Benefits?

DECLAS will force out [RR] so it would be important to have DOJ's IG responsible for investigating the DOJ involved in DECLAS review.

DECLAS not only jeopardizes international relations but damages DOJ so he has to be behind it and support it. Ultimately Horowitz reports to Barr, so Barr also has to be on board. Important that Barr is a Bush guy because it lends credibility to what he does next.

Also, important for Mueller to finish his investigation so that DECLAS is not seen as a distraction from it. Also, important to make sure Mueller shows his cards so that everything is linked to fake Dossier which DECLAS will destroy.

Reporters should be asking Barr whether he has met with Horowitz and how far along DECLAS review is.

Reporters should ask Barr whether he has met with Huber and whether investigations are ongoing.

When was DJT recruited?

Could it have been back in 2011 when he came out with the birther movement?

Army officials involved in birther movement were the first to support DJT. Also considered Cruz.

Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, who joined Zinke's super PAC Special Operations for America as a board member in July 2012, reportedly regularly espoused the false claims that Obama was born outside the U.S. and is Muslim, two long-standing fringe conspiracy theories on the right.

Vallely on Zinke's radio show also promoted a false theory that a Saudi national was behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, CNN's KFile reports.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/384619-zinke-added-birther-conspiracy-theorist-to-his-super-pacs-board