Retracting the Retraction, Fusion’s Simpson Stands by Testimony that FBI Had Spy in Trump Campaign

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I like Andrew McCarthy’s analysis.  It is interesting the company that the Dems used along with their foreign agent keep coming back into the story.

I realize that those that lean left will dismiss this, but every time I hear Trump being compared to Nixon, I wonder what those left leaning folks are thinking with respect to the previous administration and the losing campaign regarding their actions relating to the 2016 election.  Placing a spy into an opposing campaign is much worse than anything Nixon ever did, but it seems par for the course with the politics the previous administration injected into the executive branch top departments.

 

By Andrew McCarthy May 15, 2018

 

My weekend column dealt with the claim by Glenn Simpson that the FBI had a confidential informant embedded in the Trump campaign.

Simpson is the co-founder of Fusion GPS. In August 2017, he related to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the former British intelligence officer, Michael Steele, told him that the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign. Steele, of course, is the former British spy who collaborated with Simpson in 2016 on a Clinton campaign anti-Trump research project, now known as the Steele dossier. The document sets forth sensational allegations of a Trump-Putin conspiracy. These claims, multiple hearsay accounts from anonymous Russian sources, have never been verified, according to statements by government officials. Major media outlets that were aware of the dossier allegations refrained from publishing them because they could not be corroborated.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-campaign-fbi-spy-glenn-simpson-stands-by-testimony/

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Interesting, I would think it would be a big deal if an administration placed an FBI spy in an opposing campaign.  I guess Trump can do it in 2020 with no complaints.

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By 

Kimberley A. Strassel

May 17, 2018 7:06 p.m. ET

 

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes appeared on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday, where he provided a potentially explosive hint at what’s driving his demand to see documents related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Trump-Russia probe. “If the campaign was somehow set up,” he told the hosts, “I think that would be a problem.”

Or an understatement. Mr. Nunes is still getting stiff-armed by the Justice Department over his subpoena, but this week his efforts did force the stunning admission that the FBI had indeed spied on the Trump campaign. This came in the form of a Thursday New York Times apologia in which government “officials” acknowledged that the bureau had used “at least one” human “informant” to spy on both Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. The Times slipped this mind-bending fact into the middle of an otherwise glowing profile of the noble bureau—and dismissed it as no big deal.

But there’s more to be revealed here, and Mr. Nunes’s “set up” comment points in a certain direction. Getting to the conclusion requires thinking more broadly about events beyond the FBI’s actions. 

Think of the 2016 Trump-Russia narrative as two parallel strands—one politics, one law enforcement. The political side involves the actions of Fusion GPS, the Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama officials—all of whom were focused on destroying Donald Trump. The law-enforcement strand involves the FBI—and what methods and evidence it used in its Trump investigation. At some point these strands intersected—and one crucial question is how early that happened.

 

What may well have kicked off both, however, is a key if overlooked moment detailed in the House Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report. In “late spring” of 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey briefed White House “National Security Council Principals” that the FBI had counterintelligence concerns about the Trump campaign. Carter Page was announced as a campaign adviser on March 21, and Paul Manafort joined the campaign March 29. The briefing likely referenced both men, since both had previously been on the radar of law enforcement. But here’s what matters: With this briefing, Mr. Comey officially notified senior political operators on Team Obama that the bureau had eyes on Donald Trump and Russia. Imagine what might be done in these partisan times with such explosive information.

And what do you know? Sometime in April, the law firm Perkins Coie (on behalf the Clinton campaign) hired Fusion GPS, and Fusion turned its attention to Trump-Russia connections. The job of any good swamp operator is to gin up a fatal October surprise for the opposition candidate. And what could be more devastating than to paint a picture of Trump-Russia collusion that would provoke a full-fledged FBI investigation?

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-trumps-campaign-set-up-1526598374

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One administrations corrupt FBI being used to spy on another campaign. This is huge. Bigger than Watergate 

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But the lamestream media don't and won't care.

Conversely, Mark Levin (constitutional attorney) has been continuously and intensely going, uh, aysheep* about it.

 

*Mrs. T-B.'s term for the intestinal effluvium of simians

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Saw that Comey’s friend Benjamin Wittes accuse Nunes of leaking the name of the spy.  This seems to have fallen flat and is somewhat revealed for what it is, the DOJ CYAing.  Why does all this stuff seem to revolve around a bunch of academics?

 

 

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The Obama campaign apparently donated $972,000 to Fusion GPS in 2016 to place a spy in the Trump campaign.

I'll try to find the source of this highly interesting tidbit.

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3 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

The Obama campaign apparently donated $972,000 to Fusion GPS in 2016 to place a spy in the Trump campaign.

I'll try to find the source of this highly interesting tidbit.

Would be very interested in seeing this.