Posted on 01/13/2017 4:46:37 AM PST by Resettozero
Former spook John Schindler pronounced on Twitter Thursday night that the CIA is trying to take out President-elect Donald Trump before he is sworn in as president next Friday, January 20. Schindler has long accused Trump of being a Russian stooge.
Schindler’s bio for his Observer column reads, “John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor. He’s published four books and is on Twitter at @20committee.”
Schindler made his comment about the CIA in reaction to a report by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius that an Obama administration offical told him Trump’s national security adviser retired Lt. General Michael Flynn made several calls to Russia’s U.S. ambassador the day last month that President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for allegedly interfering in the presidential election to benefit Trump.
David Ignatius reported in a column published Thursday night about questions he has regarding Russia, Trump and the election:
Question 3: What discussions has the Trump team had with Russian officials about future relations? Trump said Wednesday that his relationship with President Vladimir Putin is “an asset, not a liability.” Fair enough, but until he’s president, Trump needs to let Obama manage U.S.-Russia policy.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice for national security adviser, cultivates close Russian contacts. He has appeared on Russia Today, and received a paid speaking fee from the cable network, which was described in last week’s unclassified intelligence briefing on Russian hacking as “the Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet.”
According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials and other measures in retaliation for the hacking. What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions? The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
If the Trump team’s contacts helped discourage the Russians from a counter-retaliation, maybe that’s a good thing. But we ought to know the facts.”
Schindler makes the point about monitoring phone calls being the job of the intelligence community and that the leak of alleged phone calls from Flynn to the Russian ambassador would have come from the office of the Director of the CIA John Brennan (aka the seventh floor at Langley–CIA headquarters located in Northern Virginia).
Schindler concludes that the CIA is trying to take out “traitor” Trump “now.”
Thank you! Excellent post.
World War111? What happened to World Wars 3-110?
While certainly not my theory, I am now convinced that very serious people decided some time before, during or after the success of the Manhattan Project that the government of this nation could not be left to whims and caprices of the electorate. Trump is the first president in a long time not be their creature.
What began perhaps as an unconstitutional action in the interests of national security metastasized into toppling governments, continual "small" wars, drug and human trafficking, etc., all extremely lucrative. It finances the buying of politicians here and abroad.
Trump is a threat to them and their racket.
The CIA is run by a muslim and his embedded cronies. It’s one of the deeper and most contaminated parts of the swamp.
It is sounding like the CIA is its own country making war on the USA.
The electorate is a traitor, perhaps..?
Interesting times.
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I think there isa lot of truth in what you posted
Fake news to placate the bubblehead Dims something to feed off
while the real news is FBI continues investigation into Klinton slush fund.
By all means, keep the 30 second sound bite news community distracted on Russia, and not on the criminal actions of the Secretary of SNAKE
who operated for five years without oversight or an Investigator General (IG) looking over her shoulder.
O'Bungler is as complicit in this, just as much as he claimed not to know of her private server, even though emails indicate otherwise, including his fake screename.
The Pro-EU faction working against Brexit is involved in the dossier?
btt
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