Posted on 05/19/2018 8:47:47 PM PDT by Mariner
A Cambridge professor with deep ties to American and British intelligence has been outed as an agent who snooped on the Trump presidential campaign for the FBI.
Multiple media outlets have named Stefan Halper, 73, as the secret informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos starting in the summer of 2016. The American-born academic previously served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations.
The revelation, stemming from recent reports in which FBI sources admitted sending an agent to snoop on the Trump camp, heightens suspicions that the FBI was seeking to entrap Trump campaign aides. Papodopoulous has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, while Page was the subject of a federal surveillance warrant.
“If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal,” President Trump tweeted Saturday, calling for the FBI to release additional documents to Congress.
The Halper revelation also shows the Obama administration’s FBI began prying into the opposing party’s presidential nominee earlier than it previously admitted.
Halper’s sit-downs with Page reportedly started in early July 2016, undermining fired FBI Director James Comey’s previous claim that the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign began at the end of that month.
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This is pretty bad... it’s either handcuff them or our country is done! ONce the media turns around, the left will be in more trouble. This that they did is as serious as it gets. Did you near Nunes on Maria?... he was angry... men fight better when angry sets in.. so hang on!!
This will not be overlooked.... the reason it’s gone on this long is half the country couldn’t believe it could happen... and by obama. but it did and it was obama and all the parts of government he used to get people... to get one candidate and save another criminal candidate.. it’s bad.. ya’ can’t do that! it’s not going to be overlooked!
This is what obama did... he was up to no good the day he was elected..
How else are these scum bags going to escape justice?
He is a US Citizen.
“The CIA, FBI, and MI6 may have been the collusion.”
That’s the great National Security secret they are so aggressively trying to keep secret.
The US solicited, and received help from MI6 to spy on and entrap Trump.
If that gets out, Britain will stand alone in the world. The Special Relationship will be dead.
This is frightening that our government can do this.
While it may sound like quibbling...people in our government did this.
Which people is the question.
Explains a little more why Hillary can’t get over her loss.
She’s crooked. She cheated, spied, used the full resources of the Federal government.
AND SHE STILL LOST.
HAHAHA!
And nothing will happen. Will be forgotten by Tuesday when the next “development” in the Trump-Russia or Trump-Porn Star “scandal” is reported heavily.
His disappearance is no where that I can find.
NY Post says he’s 73, another says middle age.....
Never mind, I’m getting it mixed up. Disregard other post. I need more coffee.
Stefan Halper, 73
Joseph Mifsud, middle age disappeared.
Different guy, but still at the heart of this conspiracy...
So that is the other mole that has been missing for 9 months.
I bet Halper knows where he is, if he does not show up dead
in Fort Marcy Park of sucicide.
I have confidence in Nunes and Grassley getting to the bottom
of it. Maybe the IG will get the details too.
I bet this criminal was a sub contractor to Halper.both of them need to be tracked down.
Imagine if we had a President that could fire Sessions? Man, that would be something!
There is a college professor today who was an agent provocateur at the local scene when I was in college. He ensnared an idiot leftist who stupidly followed his incitement. The idiot leftist served prison time and the provocateur skated, of course.
We have already seen the IRS escape all responsibility for illegal actions. Will the criminals who hatched this plot to infiltrate a political campaign, be immune to justice, too?
Yes, that is true, but just proves how corrupt the place is. Everyone is dirty. Witness: Manafort, Bannon, Scaramucci, and even perhaps Flynn.
Oops. I hope Comey didn't say that under oath.
My score card is practially illegible because of all the alerations. Just remind me, did Comey every say that he ordered the infiltration for Trump's own good?
“I don’t believe PDJT is an idiot.”
Me either, which is why I assume he’s going to use the tools available to him including strategic misdirection. The Sessions bashers dismiss this as “4D chess” in order to suggest it’s a kooky theory - but it’s not. Of course Trump is using strategic misdirection.
Here it is in a nutshell:
Trump knows Mueller’s witch hunt will find no dirt on him because there’s none to find. They always knew they had nothing so the whole plan was to scare Trump - bait him into firing people and then get him for obstruction. Trump is not an idiot so he didn’t fall for it. Their fallback strategy was to try and keep him tied up - hobble his agenda. I don’t think that’s working either.
Meanwhile, while everyone is focused on Mueller’s investigation there are many other investigations uncovering a widespread Obama admin conspiracy to illegally use executive branch resources and intelligence to steal the election for the Democrats. Trump knows about everything the DOJ has, and that it absolves him, but is very damning for this political enemies.
Trump knows he’s holding all the trump cards and that his enemies have nothing - the only question left is how to play out his cards for the best outcome. In poker, the goal in this situation would be to build the pot - get your opponents to bet - act crazy - behave as if you have a lousy hand - run a misinformation strategy.
If I were Trump and my own DOJ was about to indict hundreds of my political enemies while exonerating me, I’d be worried about one thing:
I’d worry that the public would see it as me using my executive authority, my DOJ, my lapdog AG, to whitewash my political crimes and seek political retribution against my political enemies. You can bet the Left, the DNC and the MSM will take every opportunity to push that narrative to the public 24/7.
So, how to counter that narrative? If I were Trump I’d do everything I could to distance myself from my DOJ and my AG. I’d start by saying I wouldn’t get involved - let them go where the evidence leads, let the chips fall where they may - justice is blind - all that. I certainly wouldn’t fire or repkace anyone at DOJ. I’d threaten to, but I wouldn’t actually do it.
But I’d go a step further and say I’m deeply disappointed in my DOJ. I’d ask rhetorically “Why don’t they investigate X? Why is so and so still not in jail?” I’d cultivate the public perception that I had absolutely no control or influence over what the DOJ does or what the AG does - they’ve gone rogue.
That way, when the DOJ ax falls on Trump’s political enemies, and the MSM wants to portray Jeff Sessions as Trump’s political lapdog or hatchet man, they’ll have an uphill battle. When Mueller comes up empty handed and they want to portray it as a DOJ run whitewash - they’ll be hard pressed because the perception is out there that Trump’s entire DOJ including AG and deputy AG were out to get Trump.
This Sleepy Sessions narrative plays right into Trump’s hand, so thank you Sessions bashers - Trump is playing you like a fiddle.
He hung out around the coffee urn.
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