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I am beginning to think that some of those we view(ed) as main players in this theater were more dupes than masterminds with Brennan being the puppet master. It appears NSA was not much of a player in this, but the state department stepped in to fill the gaps. We already know the FBI did not verify or corroborate information from the dossier and therefore this is likely true for other information that they received.

If the FBI believed Brennan and Clapper without question it would have made this set-up pretty easy. The most interesting nugget in this article is the link between Obama changing the policy on sharing information and how that retroactively provided cover for Brennan on what he had already done. At this point the FBI will take the biggest hit in this mess, but every new thing we learn points to the fact that they acted on the information of others or at the behest of others (Brennan/Yates) - they did not develop their own information. Along the way they received corroboration from other sources that were also likely planted by Brennan such as our allied intelligence and our own state department. The map of the game was provided by what they did with the dossier - used the info, disseminated it to friendly intel sources who fed it back to FBI, and then verified with a planted news story from the same source giving the appearance of verified information.

The superstar group at FBI practiced absolute trust with no verification. I imagine a few of them are beginning to realize that they were used. It is probable given that Nunes seems to have the measure of this that the State Dept was also used to funnel contrived information into the FBI to reinforce the narrative and they willingly trusted that as well because they wanted to believe or “knew in their gut” that all of this was true.

One thing that I am certain will exist. - documentation about where all of this information came from. As we have already seen, the named sources were only passing on information fed to them.......... likely by Brennan and the CIA. Laura Ingraham was correct when she giddily claimed that this resembles the plot of a John LeCarre novel and the Nunes approach to the investigation illustrates he understands the game. They planted the information and made sure it was funneled to FBI creating the appearance of confirmation to those who trusted without question - like Comey who still appears convinced all of this was true!