Jim Bratten
Spying on the Trump campaign was a frequent activity for those involved in the silent coup. On November 17, 2016, after Trump’s election win, this tweet was sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his FBI paramour, Lisa Page: “Or, he’s ‘CI guy’ Same. Might make sense. He can assess if there are any news Qs, or different demeanor. If [redacted] husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships” He’s the “CI guy” – a Central Intelligence agent.
Barack Obama’s intelligence agencies had their fingers all over the coup. Thanks to the efforts of Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, his DNI, James Clapper, and his FBI director, James Comey, the coup was implemented. Was this an intelligence investigation of a president, ala Soviet style? Yes. They set out to destroy a president-elect who, at that time, hadn’t even been sworn in yet. And these crooks are walking around, still plotting; no indictments.
Even the New York Times finally admitted that spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 did occur in a story headlined, “F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet with Trump Aide in 2016.” The paper never touches upon CIA operatives sent into the White House at the direction of Obama’s director of the CIA, John Brennan.
When it was discovered that a CIA agent was the Adam Schiff “whistleblower” (leaker) assigned to the White House national security team, the obvious question was put forth: “Why?” Interviewing an ex-CIA official recently, CNN host Chris Cuomo asked him about that and what was meant by the term, “mechanism.” The ex-CIA agent responded, “…to make sure the president doesn’t do anything crooked with a foreign leader, like influence an election.” This had never been done before, but that’s why the surveillance of Trump was covered as an “intelligence gathering” operation.
Surprising that, despite the Left’s acceptance of the egregious actions by the CIA, there was one notable pushback to the arrogant assumptions and pompous accusations from the Propaganda Press. It concerned the “leaker” of Trump’s completely legal phone call to Ukraine.
On CNN, virulent anti-Trumper Phil Mudd, an ex-intelligence official, unloaded on host Chris Cuomo’s accusations against Trump: “The last I checked, Chris, when I served, we were responsible for chasing the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians and terrorists. We’re not responsible for reporting to the Congress what the president says…” Cuomo abruptly responded that the president’s phone call was “over the line.”
Mudd shot back, “What the heck is ‘over the line’? The president can say what he wants to Putin; he can say what he wants to Kim Jong Un. The president can say what he wants; it’s not the responsibility of the intel guys to go police the president and go snitch on him to the Congress. Ridiculous…”
An obvious question is, “Why haven’t we heard this type of objection, loudly and repeatedly, from Republican leadership?
The Central Intelligence Agency has had a mission since it was created by former President Harry S. Truman. Its job is to monitor foreign threats and gather intelligence that helps the U.S. deal with those threats. For example, its job is to prevent 9-11s from happening. Obviously, it failed in that effort. Its mission, however, remains: exposing external threats to the U.S.
Then what is the CIA’s concern with domestic issues, such as elections? Nothing. The CIA has no right collecting “intelligence” on a U.S. president, even Donald Trump, whom the former Obama CIA leadership despises. Further, the CIA has no official business monitoring the president’s activities or private calls. None.
Democrats have politicized and abused the CIA. This president can’t trust his national security staff since he may be compromised. But Democrat staffers welcome stolen info with a wink and a nod and, maybe, a reward for betraying a president.
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