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Harry Reid sent sensitive Trump collusion letter over CIA objections
The Washington Times ^ | May 12, 2018 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 05/12/2018 10:15:39 AM PDT by jazusamo

Then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid released a letter in the heat of the 2016 election alleging Trump-Russia collusion even though the CIA director at the time urged him not to, according to a person familiar with their conversation.

Mr. Reid’s Aug. 27 letter to the FBI appears to mark the first time a Democrat officially accused President’ Trump’s campaign of colluding with the Russian government to hack his party’s computers.

The letter has come to represent for conservatives the “deep state” — Obama loyalists leaking unproven allegations to the press against Mr. Trump and his people to ruin the campaign, the transition and the White House.

“The evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues to mount,” Mr. Reid wrote to FBI Director James B. Comey.

Mr. Reid wrote and leaked his letter after receiving a secret telephone briefing from then-CIA Director John Brennan.

The retired senator has portrayed the letter as having the blessing of Mr. Brennan, a fierce Trump critic who suggests the president is beholden to Russian President Vladimir Putin for fear of blackmail.

But now the Brennan side rebuts Mr. Reid’s contention that the then-CIA director was actively trying to leak damaging anti-Trump information during the election.

Nick Shapiro, former deputy chief of staff for Mr. Brennan as CIA director, told The Washington Times that his ex-boss considered the information sensitive. He expressly urged Mr. Reid to confine the information to private discussions with Mr. Comey.

That August, Mr. Brennan was briefing the so called “gang of eight” congressional leaders on Russian computer hacking and on suspicious that Trump people were involved.

Mr. Shapiro, now a Brennan adviser, provided this version of the Brennan-Reid phone call:

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: jazusamo

“That August, Mr. Brennan was briefing the so called “gang of eight” congressional leaders on Russian computer hacking and on suspicious that Trump people were involved. “

They were never suspicious of the Trump people being involved in any Russian hacking, if it occurred.

They KNOW it was all fabricated.

One day soon, these people must hang.


21 posted on 05/12/2018 10:53:41 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: jazusamo

Brennan is lying, of course. That’s what he does.

Brennan is the #1 guy responsible for the seditious conspiracy. He invented it, set it in motion, and watched the puppets dance.

He needs to be hanged from the neck until dead.


22 posted on 05/12/2018 10:56:28 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (President Trump: Please Fire Sessions!!! You have nothing to lose.)
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To: jazusamo
I can't decide upon whose headstone I most want to empty my bladder...Juan McLame’s or Dirty Harry's.
23 posted on 05/12/2018 10:56:39 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: jazusamo

A few weeks before the Senate voted to confirm Brennan as CIA director, former FBI agent John Guandolo revealed that Brennan had, indeed, converted to Wahhabist Islam while he was CIA station chief in Riyadh. Guandalo quoted Brennan as having said that he “marveled at the majesty of the Hajj.” The Hajj is the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and is reserved only for devout Muslims. Guandalo was quoted as telling a radio interviewer, “Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia.” A website that is known to be financed by the CIA and George Soros, Snopes.com, attacked the notion that Brennan is a Wahhabist and ignored the controversy completely. The similarly CIA- and Soros-influenced Wikipedia completely ignored the controversy.

One of Brennan’s chief lieutenants at the CIA, the agency’s chief of the Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), known only as “Roger,” did convert to Sunni Islam. This fact was reported by The Washington Post. “Roger’s” career at the CIA started about the same time that Brennan joined the agency. “Roger, ” whose real name is Michael A. D’Andrea or “Mike”, joined in 1979, Brennan in 1980. Both became fluent in Arabic. D’Andrea’s CIA nickname was “The Wolf.”

WMR learned from a well-placed U.S. intelligence source that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about Warren and Brennan before he died in a suspicious fiery auto crash in Beverly Hills, California, in June 2013, a little over three months after Brennan became CIA director. The perennially-suspect Wikipedia incorrectly lists Warren’s religion as “Christian.”


24 posted on 05/12/2018 10:57:20 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

I don’t know if there is a Brennan-Soros connection. I do suspect if you dig deep enough, he’ll turn out to be a communist sleeper-mole.

Definite sociopath.


25 posted on 05/12/2018 11:00:05 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (President Trump: Please Fire Sessions!!! You have nothing to lose.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

It’s a toss up, they’re both most deserving.


26 posted on 05/12/2018 11:01:03 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: tired&retired

It’s unimaginable to me that anyone in the CIA could convert to Islam and remain in the CIA, let alone become director.

Times have sure changed.


27 posted on 05/12/2018 11:06:11 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
It’s unimaginable to me that anyone in the CIA could convert to Islam and remain in the CIA, let alone become director.

Times have sure changed.

Obama appointed him... that says it all.

28 posted on 05/12/2018 11:10:42 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Exactly!


29 posted on 05/12/2018 11:11:59 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Everybody knows this. Why isn’t AG Sessions laying out a case against all of theses a-holes? This was a coup.


30 posted on 05/12/2018 11:44:02 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: jazusamo
PDJT had better whoop his big stick out and start using it. This has been going on too long and these rats have been getting away with sedition and treason for too long.

To be honest, he only made it worse when he said HRC would not be prosecuted after the election and not getting rid of Sessions. Now you have JK attending secret meetings with Iran and others.

It will not stop on its own. He needs to intervene with some arrests done by the military justice division.

31 posted on 05/12/2018 11:56:25 AM PDT by eartick (Have been to the line in the sand and liked it. Ready to go again)
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To: eartick

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-reid-solar/u-s-senator-reid-son-combine-for-china-firms-desert-plant-idUSBRE87U06D20120831


32 posted on 05/12/2018 12:42:49 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: jazusamo

It is a coupe, and the DOJ personnel are the militant force for The Democratic party!


33 posted on 05/12/2018 1:31:56 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: tired&retired

They are not zionists.


34 posted on 05/12/2018 1:35:02 PM PDT by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: blam

It’s not a miracle
It’s 100% the campaign he ran which was the most tireless and strategic ever with like 4-5. Campaign stops per day
AND those four debates. One better than the last
Finally someone with the GUTS to take on Clintons
And don’t forget the PRIMARIES. remember ted Cruz ? Rubio ? Huh
Four ? Yes the VP one where we had a God fearing Christian man versus one of satans worst liars slanderers and receivers
And the media lied so much about Clinton winning by 50 points
They probably. Made leftists stay home figuring it was in the bag
Bottom line. PENNSYLVANIA my home state was the key
You have to overcome PHILLY my home town
With the cheating included in PA you’re down 5000000 just to start
THAT my freeper friends
Is NOT LUCK
NOT A MIRACLE
NOT THE WILL OF THE ALMIGHTY ( well maybe . ;))
It is plain and simple
That
DONALD JOHN TRUMP LOVES THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE
MORE THAN HE CARES ABOUT HIMSELF


35 posted on 05/12/2018 1:48:38 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: blam

Agree. So many institutional and treasonous forces arrayed against him, it was indeed a miracle.

I believe God gave the sorry remains of our republic one more chance. Reform in eight years . . . or else.


36 posted on 05/12/2018 2:44:45 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

I think you’re thinking of a different gang of eight, the immigration gang.
This is the Intelligence gang.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence)


37 posted on 05/12/2018 4:00:12 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: jazusamo


38 posted on 05/12/2018 4:12:26 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: jazusamo

Looks like the Deplorables are gonna have to make a side trip to Nevada to pick up an additional “tree decoration” for the DC cherry tree party...


39 posted on 05/12/2018 4:39:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: jazusamo

Harry Reed is, and has always been, an evil little man.


40 posted on 05/12/2018 5:39:57 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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