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Spygate: Why Did Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama Seem So Determined to Impede and Topple Trump?
US Attorney John Durham who is currently conducting an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe should take a look at a role played by Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in sparking and fanning the Russiagate scandal, says Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel.
The newly released House Intelligence Committee's transcripts shed some more light on Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who apparently told then Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in March 2016 that Moscow had "damning" Hillary Clinton emails. According to one of the transcripts, Mifsud was heard bragging he was a member of the Clinton Foundation.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202005121079281586-spygate-why-did-hillary-clinton–barack-obama-seem-so-determined-to-impede-and-topple-trump/
Sputnik so take it for what its worth
Trump spy chief declassifying documents showing ex-CIA Director John Brennan 'suppressed' Russia intelligence: Report
by Daniel Chaitin
| May 12, 2020 09:24 PM
| Updated May 12, 2020, 11:13 PM
President Trump's spy chief is reportedly declassifying information that shows former CIA Director John Brennan "suppressed" intelligence on Russia wanting Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election.
Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry said Tuesday evening that "it could get sticky" for Brennan, who served as CIA director under former President Barack Obama, due to his role in developing the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference that determined with "moderate" to "high" confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin sought to boost Trump's 2016 election chances.
"There's other intel that may have been more serious suggesting that Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win, rather than balancing that out in the assessment they put out there in that assessment, and set the narrative that Russia wanted Trump to win," Henry reported on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Noting that Fred Fleitz, a former CIA officer and National Security Council chief of staff, first blew the whistle on Brennan's alleged efforts to hide this information, Henry said he has a separate intelligence source who confirmed this intelligence is among the four or five batches of documents that Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, is working to declassify.
This follows Grenell declassifying a list of Obama administration officials involved in the "unmasking" of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in intelligence community intercepts of conversations the incoming Trump national security adviser had with a Russian envoy during the presidential transition period.
Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s then-ambassador to the United States, but he later declared his innocence and argued he was set up by the FBI.
The Justice Department filed to drop its criminal case against Flynn on Thursday, saying in a court filing that after reviewing newly disclosed materials, the agency agreed with Flynn’s attorneys that his interview with the FBI that took place in late January 2017 should never have taken place because his conversations with the Russian diplomat were "entirely appropriate."
Instead of agreeing to dismiss the case immediately, the D.C. federal judge presiding over it, Emmet Sullivan, opened the matter to outside opinions on Tuesday, which earned a stern rebuke from Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who took over representation for Flynn last summer.
Last week, in a private conversation with former administration officials that was leaked to Yahoo News, Obama said the Justice Department's recent actions show the "rule of law is at risk." His criticism came after the release of documents, which have raised questions about the extent to which Obama and Joe Biden, his vice president and now presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, were privy to the actions taken by the FBI in the case against Flynn in the waning days of the previous administration.
Henry said a DOJ representative confirmed to him that U.S. Attorney John Durham is looking into the Flynn "unmasking" issue "among others." , Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, is conducting a criminal investigation of the Russia inquiry, which ultimately did not establish any criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin
Grenell delivered his unmasking list to the Justice Department last week.
The Washington Examiner reported on Monday that making the information public will be up to Attorney General William Barr and that the declassified list also likely includes the names of officials involved in other unmaskings near the end of Obama's second term.
Henry reported the Justice Department told him it is not going to release the information being declassified, instead waiting for Grenell to do it himself.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-spy-chief-declassifying-documents-showing-ex-cia-director-john-brennan-suppressed-russia-intelligence-report
Great video at link for educating normies.
Sen. Hawley calls for special counsel to probe Obama administration: 'The more we learn, the worse it gets'
Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday called for a special counsel to conduct a “full-fledged” investigation into the Obama administration’s potential ties to the FBI’s alleged misconduct in the Russian investigation and in the case against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“The more we learn, the worse it looks which is why we need a full investigation into what went on,” the Republican Missouri lawmaker told “Fox & Friends.”
Hawley said that the Obama administration took "unprecedented action to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election and they "misled the FISA court."
"A secret court where if you are targeted in an investigation, you don't get to appear in the court and we know that the Obama FBI deliberately misled the FISA court."
Meanwhile, Russia probe files released as part of the Justice Department's move to drop its case against Flynn are raising new questions about a mysterious Inauguration Day email sent by Flynn's predecessor in the Obama administration, Susan Rice.
An exhibit in the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case last week detailed a special counsel interview of former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. The interview indicated outgoing President Barack Obama was aware of Flynn’s intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period.
The document noted Yates learned about the calls during a Jan 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting with Obama, Rice, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
After the briefing, Obama asked Yates and Comey to "stay behind," and said he had "learned of the information about Flynn" and his conversation with Russia's ambassador about sanctions. Obama "specified that he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information.”
At that point, the document said, "Yates had no idea what the president was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can't recall if he specified there was an 'investigation.' Comey did not talk about prosecution in the meeting.”
Hawley said that the Senate should conduct an investigation as well in order to give the American people answers. Hawley urged that the Judiciary Committee should hear from former Obama officials “under oath.”
"If they won’t come, we should subpoena these people so that they can look into the eye of the American public and tell everyone what exactly they did. Why did they break these protocols? Why did they authorize spying on the Trump campaign? Why did they lie to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court and try to get wiretaps on Trump affiliates? Why did they break protocol with Flynn and go after him the way they did?”
The filing to dismiss the Flynn case came after the DOJ determined that the bureau's 2017 Flynn interview which formed the basis for his guilty plea of lying to investigators was "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
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The retired Army lieutenant general for months had been trying to withdraw his plea, aided by a new attorney aggressively challenging the prosecution’s case and conduct.