(excerpt) The keyboard operatives working for the bigshots were not in the West Wing: (snip)
There are other opinions on this, but I believe there is a strong argument that there were two agencies involved in that particular case: the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The exposed contractors were very likely to be individuals from the same company who worked government contracts that that company held with both agencies.This is mind-boggling. Huge sums of money spent on contractors in a company John Brennan ran. Did or does he have a financial stake in that outfit? Was he profiting from domestic spying?The company is the one John Brennan was president of from 2005 to 2009: The Analysis Corporation. A major reason this hypothesis resonates is that the TAC contract with both agencies is for database maintenance and analysis. (The contracts are still active. They were very long ones, obtained in 2008 and 2009, running into hundreds of millions of dollars.)
The other major reason is that in 2012, Brennan set up the close collaboration of the FBI and NCTC on precisely the data we’re concerned about – USPI – when he was Obama’s counterterrorism czar.
(snip) The sheer number of persons said to be on Grenell’s list informs us that the “black book” of this enterprise has been pried out and assembled, computer keystroke by computer keystroke.
This is far more important than seeing the names of senior officials we already knew were unmasking authorities, attached to their unmasking requests.(end excerpt)
Sundance at CTH also speculated on the redacted contractors.
Take heart. Lifson advised us to be patient.
“... because Durham is meticulous and not leaking, we won’t hear about this until the ”big reveal.” And we don’t want to do anything to harm those plea bargain negotiations by getting specifics out into the public view. I am among the many conservatives frustrated by the “all talk, no action” status quo.
But: John Durham is no Lindsey Graham or Trey Gowdy. He has no interest in talking a good game; he wants indictments and convictions.
And so do I.
Patience, my friends. The information and reasoning supplied by J.E. Dyer is the most heartening news of the day.”
We don’t see any leaks, or even hear who’s on Durham’s team. So all we can do right now is to speculate. And hope the “big reveal” is clear cut with dozens (hundreds) of indictments. Unlike the horowitz report, nothing comes off it.
U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly reviewing John Brennan’s analysis of Russian election interference, including scrutiny of the former Obama CIA director’s handling of a secret source said to be close to the Kremlin.
Durham, who was selected by Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the government’s response to Moscow’s meddling, is investigating whether Brennan’s CIA was attempting to keep other agencies in the dark as he pushed for a specific preconceived analytic assessment about Russia’s true intentions in 2016, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The top Connecticut prosecutor’s team reviewed emails from the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency analysts who came together to assess Russia’s interference, the new report revealed, and Durham’s investigators pressed for answers about why some agencies at least temporarily denied other agencies access to secretive intelligence about the Kremlin’s active measures campaign.
Durham interviewed agents and analysts from all three agencies, and the report said he was scrutinizing whether the clash over intelligence sharing was the typical sort of bureaucratic turf battle over jealously guarded secrets or an effort to cover something up. of spying on and carrying out covert actions against the campaign of candidate Donald Trump.
This was NOT a simple gathering of a small number of disgruntled Democrats working at the CIA who got together like a book club to grouse and complain about the brash real estate guy from New York.
It was a specially designed Obama-era CIA covert action to try to destroy Donald Trump.
A “Task Force” is a special bureaucratic creation that provides a vehicle for bring case officers and analysts together, along with admin support, for a limited term project. But it also can be expanded to include personnel from other agencies, such as the FBI, DIA and NSA. Task Forces have been used since the inception of the CIA in 1947.
..... a recently declassified memo outlined the considerations in the creation of a task force in 1958.
The author, L.K. White, talks about the need for a coordinated Headquarters element and an Operational unit “in the field,”
meaning deployed around the world.
A Task Force operates independent of the CIA “Mission Centers” (that’s the jargon for the current CIA organization chart).
So what did John Brennan do?
I am told by an knowledgeable source that Obama's CIA director John Brennan created a Trump Task Force in early 2016.
It was an invitation only Task Force. Specific case officers (i.e., men and women who recruit and handle spies
overseas), analysts and admin personnel were recruited. Not everyone invited accepted the offer. But many did.
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