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.”
They forgot the part where the heavily-armed Deplorables might have a problem with that scenario...
FUUSSACIAMECCA, the pro-Islamist CIA left a naked Marxist in the White Hut for 8 long years without a peep.
If the CIA is looking for treason in dealings with Russia, look to Obama’s quote about being more flexible AFTER the election in 2012...
No mention of Obama’s sending messages to Iran before he was elected, telling the Mullahs essentially to hang on and not make a deal, because he was on their side?
Kinda incomplete without that detail.
Anyone “ex-CIA” is just an attention whore.
We need to just get rid of the CIA completely.
Was Schumer right?
Trump is a Russian Stooge??? LOL!!! He’s NOBODY’S STOOGE!!
Schindler is just trolling for attention and twitter followers. He actually wrote for Jared Kushner’s newspaper until very recently.
Schindler’s Lisp.
Should read 'the Pi$$ey ''scorched earth policy' of the outgoing administration cannot be ignored !!
Most likely the “CIA leaks” are actually coming from the Obama White Hut. The Obamunist filth will be gone in a week and everything will blow over.
The OSS asnd CIA once protected America.
No more.
Now, Brennan on his Islamic prayer rug, begins
each day working for ... Iran, N. Korea, and
all Islamic terrorists’ jihad — which he supports.
Why does appear that Ignatius is trying to direct attention away from those issues?
Is he PERSONALLY involved? Are there Satanic forces attempting to regain control of the United States government from the Christian victors of the November 2016 presidential election?
I'm just asking.
If the “Intel Community” has incontrovertible evidence they should just put up or shut up.
But then, the admission “We know Trump has ties to Russia because we’ve been wiretapping him” might get a little awkward.
If they had all this information why wasn’t it leaked during the primaries.
That’s why I don’t trust the information.
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