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  • The big point everybody is missing about the FBI/CIA spy from Cambridge University

    By Charles Lipson
    Saturday, May 19, 2018 0 Corruption, Crime, FBI, FISA Courts, Foreign Intelligence Agencies, James Clapper, James Comey, John Brennan, Loretta Lynch, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Surveillance, Trump-Russia Investigation No tags Permalink

    It is a sad sign of decline at Cambridge University that their latest spy is working for United States.

    What is this poor world coming to?

    Cambridge spies are supposed to work for the Russians.

    There is tradition to uphold here, folks.

    Can Putin and his minions no longer recruit idealistic socialists who hate their country?

    Must they give up on entirely British universities and rely on Berkeley, Oberlin, and Evergreen State?

    There is a small glimmer of continuity. At least the recruiting agencies were up to no good.

    They were doing their best to infiltrate an American political campaign.

    The story is here, complete with the spy’s name and picture. We know those details thanks entirely to CYA leaks from the DOJ or FBI, trying desperately to get ahead of Congressional investigations and the Horowitz report (the DOJ Inspector General).

    Those details were supposed to be top secret. That the officials charged with keeping the secrets released them to protect themselves is a scandal in its own right.

    On a more serious note: the house that Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and their aides built now looks increasingly like a game of jenga. The wooden blocks are being removed, though the process is moving very, very slowly because of  DOJ and FBI self-protection.

    Did these guys previously work on transparency and document security for Joe Paterno’s athletic department?

    But with each new block removed, the whole structure looks more and more likely to collapse.

     

  • Kimberley Strassel’s quick, powerful update on FBI, DOJ, CYA leaks and what they tell us about political spying

    By Charles Lipson
    Thursday, May 17, 2018 0 CIA: Central Intelligence Agency, Crime, FBI, FISA Courts, FOIA, Foreign Intelligence Agencies, House of Representatives, Intelligence agencies, James Comey, John Brennan, Loretta Lynch, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Special Counsel, Surveillance, Trump-Russia Investigation No tags Permalink

  • House Intelligence Committee now looking at targeting of Trump Campaign by Obama intel agencies, also raisng perjury questions

    By Charles Lipson
    Monday, February 12, 2018 3comments Anti-Trump Actions, Democratic Party, Due Process, FBI, FISA Courts, Intelligence agencies, John Brennan, Obama Administration, Surveillance, Trump-Russia Investigation Devin Nunes Permalink

    Exclusive at Real Clear Investigations: CIA Ex-Director Brennan’s Perjury Peril (link here)

    Here is the heart of Paul Sperry’s report:

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump — including whether Brennan perjured himself in public testimony about it.

    In his May 2017 testimony before the intelligence panel, Brennan emphatically denied the dossier factored into the intelligence community’s publicly released conclusion last year that Russia meddled in the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances of victory.”

    Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document, even though senior national security and counterintelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

    Last week, Nunes (R-Calif.) released a declassified memo exposing surveillance “abuses” by the Obama DOJ and FBI in their investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. It said the agencies relied heavily on the uncorroborated dossier to take out a warrant to secretly surveil a Trump adviser in the heat of the 2016 presidential election, even though they were aware the underlying “intelligence” supporting the wiretap order was political opposition research funded by Clinton allies — a material fact they concealed from FISA court judges in four separate applications. –Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations

     

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