Former FBI agent theorizes on Spygate, and other articles of note
Mark Wauck writes a guide to Spygate, and connects a few extra dots. Interesting.
This article about the elusive “stop him” text of Strzok, and the process by which it was ultimately excavated, is also worth reading.
And energizer bunny Andrew C. McCarthy has a new article up, on what should happen to the Mueller investigation at this point.
And here are some predictions on the probable results of Trump’s EO. The scenario is certainly plausible, and is very much like my own notion of the next steps. But one caution I would offer is that Trump often finds a way to surprise.
Re: the predictable results of the Trump EO.
A fine article until the very last sentence.
The DNC is constitutionally incapable of ‘telling the truth and nothing but the truth’. Even when the whole truth is entirely favorable to them, they will twist the truth into deceitfulness.
Liars have to lie, it’s their nature… their greedy lust for power allows them no other course.
All very excellent articles.
I doubt that Mueller or Rosenstein will pay any attention to them.
John Turner: “The only question is, will the DNC be honest about their goal of using the familial separation to end zero tolerance, or will they find yet another way to obscure their true goals?”
NO to the first; they’ll do their damnedest on the second.
The DC article on Horowitz’s extraction of the Strok text message is fairly weird.
The IG used an IT contractor for the work, but when they wanted to dig deeper they went to the Pentagon? So the IG treated the FBI, who should have excellent tools, as a kind of hostile witness? Why the Pentagon and not the NSA, who should be the crème de la crème of IT forensics? I suppose the NSA wants to keep their tools and capabilities secret.
The FBI phone had a text message database on it that was part of the phone OS, and the FBI wasn’t aware of it?? (I presume that when the author wrote “operating function” he meant “operating system function.”) Or was this the FBI being a hostile and dishonest witness? Seriously, how incompetent could they possibly be?
To paraphrase: Never underestimate the depth of stupidity that human beings can exhibit. Even genius has its limits. Stupidity is infinite.
Are you guys still on Spygate? That thing imploded a long time ago.
And that isn’t even the latest Trump accusation to implode. You have his attacks against the FBI in regards to Michael Cohen and Attorney–client privilege. How’s that one working out?
This is why Birtherism is important. One would think by now you guy would have noticed a pattern.
OT…. Charles Krauthammer died. RIP
The AT article on Spygate is a mindblower. Wauk suggests that prior to Adm Rogers crackdown on FBI abuses, the whole of the raw NSA data on US citizens was made available to the FBI. I think I wrote about this before. This largely neuters the civil rights protections of the FISC. Then the FBI hands this access over to private contractors possibly like Fusion GPS.
Read this by Wauk. He claims that when Adm. Rogers did an audit of NSA database activity in the spring of 2016, he discovered that 85% of all queries did not comply with legal requirements to conceal the identity of US citizens. In short, the FBI was running amok of FISA requirements in an unrestricted spying spree.
I remember when the Patriot Act was up for reauthorization several years ago, and Dick Cheney made some comment that we weren’t turning over the NSA databases over to somebody like Lois Lerner. These NSA people are patriots! Actually, it’s worse. We handed the databases to the J. Edgar Hoover’s of the left.
Ah, Manju, we all defer to your nearly infinite wisdom and superior knowledge.
I am doing this from my cellphone, so I’ll be brief. But I want to say RIP, Charles Krauthammer, a brilliant mind and a great soul.
Agreed. RIP, Charles Krauthammer.
Dear Geoffrey Britain,
I came here via instapundit.
You write: “A fine article until the very last sentence.”
How about next time you copy the sentence out in your comment? It’s just one sentence. That would be helpful.
For one, I don’t have time available to go hunt up that sentence, wherever it might be or worse yet, in an attempt to find it, have to guess which sentence or just what the hell your point is.
In the case, I did all that and didn’t find your sentence, and I still have no idea re. your point.
All the best,
Johnny
GB’s comment was concise and to the point, Johnny. He clearly referenced “last sentence”, which is just about as specific as one can be.
To be fair, he did not follow your arbitrary TL/DR guidelines. But this is well and proper procedure when dealing with an obvious idiot, as is the case here.
Johnny,
Do your own work.
Let me emphasize TommyJay’s point about the IG’s office turning to the DoD for help with the cyber aspects of the investigation. While the DoD certainly does have quite a selection of cybersecurity tools, all of the high-level stuff that they have came from the NSA, because the NSA is the agency that is charged to provide high-level cybersecurity capabilities across the executive branch. The fact that they went to the DoD suggests that the IG did not trust the NSA on this matter. That puts a whole new spin on things. Did the NSA have a role in this scandal? Or did they suspect that the FBI or Glenn Simpson had a mole inside the NSA? Either way, the NSA doesn’t come out looking good.
The FBI is notorious for using an undercover agent or informant (what’s wrong with “informer,” BTW) to cajole people into committing some act for which they can be prosecuted. I recall one case in which they kept after a suspect for months and actually supplied (fake) explosives to him to entrap him into committing a terrorist attack.
It now appears that they were using a long-time informant sometimes known as “Henry Greenberg” to offer “Russian” dirt on Hillary to see if they could get someone to bite.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rob Goldstone, the British publicist for an Azherbajani rock star who orchestrated the infamous Trump Tower meeting was also an FBI stooge, since the Russian attorney Veselnitskaya is 1) generally barred from entering the US and can only do so on a special “parole” visa, magically got one in time for her to attend a Congressional hearing, meet with Fusion GPS, and take the meeting with Don Jr., et al, and 2) stated herself (corroborated by all the testifying attendees) that she didn’t know anything about Russian dirt on Hillary and was surprised when they asked her about it. She was there (also corroborated by all the attendees) to lobby against the Magnitsky Act and for Russian adoptions by Americans, which had been banned by Putin in retaliation for the Act.) Note that Goldstone also attended the meeting. What was he there for? To see if anyone bit on the story, perhaps?
The problem is not when they give fake explosives to terrorists. It is when they use real explosives to get terrorists, such as Oklahoma bombing.
@Richard: Someone who wants real explosives to carry a “mission” is a f***ing wannabe terrorist. That’s no more entrapment than offering a Congressman money in exchange for services and having him gleefully take the briefcase of cash (ABSCAM).
@ymarsakar: The FBI did not buy or supply the ingredients to the bomb. They were purchased by the defendants themselves, and mixed by the defendants themselves. If that doesn’t show intent, I don’t know what does. IFF (computer science and logic meaning: IF and only iF) the FBI KNEW a bombing was about to take place are they guilty of anything. I suspect they were either knew and were incompetent, or simply knew, but have no proof either way (but that McVeigh supposedly took off his car’s license plates and didn’t expect to be pulled over by some J. Random cop stretches credulity. But McVeigh and Nichols were hardly like someone who unknowingly buys a shotgun 1/4 of an inch too short to be legal, as the ATF was known for doing…
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The FBI did not buy or supply the ingredients to the bomb. They were purchased by the defendants themselves, and mixed by the defendants themselves.
Incorrect interpretation. The fertilizer bomb was by recent analysis, insufficient to bring down a building of that structural integrity. I’m talking about the prototype advanced explosives, later called Thermobaric or variation there of. The people that made those bombs, were already on record of recognizing them at the building’s detonation site, which was why the FBI cleaned the site up and didn’t allow recovery and salvage.
What they thought they were doing, not even the FBi knew. Only the Deep State knows. The ATF didn’t know why they were ordered to force American gun sellers to run guns to the cartels across the border. That’s way beyond their clearance and need to know.
I’ll let the FBI explain to the victims of the FBI, what people knew they were doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BplUD6kQYuU
They weren’t the only sources I had available to me. I get the impression that if it wasn’t for the media, Trum, or the State telling people things, Americans would have no idea what was going on, absent internet propaganda memes.
The time stamp is somewhere around 48:00
Snowden knew what happens to whistleblowers and other people who the national security agencies have blacklisted.
He ran his butt off out of the nation, there goes that “if you don’t like it, get out”. Well he got out and is still alive apparently.
That’s more than can be said for certain people who worked with or along the Clintons…
The issue is not whether McVeigh was involved or not. If he wants to admit to it, that’s his choice. It’s not my concern. My concern is with the other thing.