Investigation Of A Crime Needs A Predicate

[PoliticalChic]

…a reason to begin.


1.A political coup doesn’t need anything more than evil intent. Having evil and corrupt intentions, such as destroying the presidency of a candidate one is opposed to, is not a predicate to the use of the FBI, CIA, et.al.,

"In criminal law, predicate relates to any crime that is part of a series of crimes, one that is committed in furtherance of the larger crime. In such a case, an example of a predicate offense somehow laid the groundwork for the current offense."
Predicate - Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes



That lack of a predicate, of any real crime other than winning an election, was the bar to the Obama/Deep State assault on the Trump presidency. One would have hoped that integrity would have been the bar, but, facts have revealed that none of the actors….Obama, Hillary, Comey, Mueller, Brennan, Clapper, etc., had any.
So….they looked for a way to fake a predicate…..”Let’s pretend that Russia influenced the voters in favor of Trump….and let’s make a case that he and his associates were Russian agents/assets!”






2. They looked for a place to begin. Carter Page became foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during 2016. The Obama brain trust needed to find a way to link him to Russia, and use him to be able to spy on the Trump Campaign. Here’s the problem: not only wasn’t Page a spy for Russia…..he worked with one of our intelligence agency!

Instructive about the plot is how they altered documents to find a way to go after Carter Page.

"HUGE: New Information Shows Carter Page Was a Whistleblower in October 2016 But Deep State FBI Spied on Him Anyway"
HUGE: New Information Shows Carter Page Was a Whistleblower in October 2016 But Deep State FBI Spied on Him Anyway


The Deep Stated needed someone as the 'first hop' into the Trump camp.....but Carter Page was just too darn squeaky-clean, and actually worked with one of the intel agencies!
Guess what they did?
Simple: The Deep State lied, changed the report from ‘he was a source’ to ‘not a source.’

Agent Clinesmith at the Deep State’s service:
“Supervisory Special Agent 2," who swore to an affidavit for all three FISA renewals against Page in 2017, told Horowitz's investigators that on the third renewal he wanted "a definitive answer to whether Page had ever been a source for another U.S. government agency before he signed the final renewal application."

While in contact with what was reportedly the CIA's liaison, Clinesmith was reminded that back in August 2016, predating the first Page warrant application in October 2016, the other agency informed the FBI that Page "did, in fact, have a prior relationship with that other agency."

An email from the other government agency's liaison was sent to Clinesmith, who then "altered the liaison's email by inserting the words 'not a source' into it, thus making it appear that the liaison had said that Page was 'not a source' for the other agency" and sent it to "Supervisory Special Agent 2," Horowitz found.”
FBI lawyer under criminal investigation altered document to say Carter Page 'was not a source' for another agency

"altered the liaison's email by inserting the words 'not a source' into it

The one given the ‘short straw,’ currently the sacrificial lamb as the plot has become public knowledge, is Kevin Clinesmith.
Kevin E. Clinesmith is a lawyer and FBI agent who worked on the Hillary Clinton email scandal investigation, the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, and the Mueller team.
Kevin Clinesmith - Conservapedia

Clinesmith tossed under the bus to cover the complicity of the rest of the intel community, i.e., the Deep State.



And we now know that Obama was in charge from the start.

 

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3. The plan was to bring out Russia as the bête noire, the excuse for Hillary losing, and to tied Trump to Russia as an agent/asset.


Flynn was next. The central idea was to pretend that long-time Democrat ally, Russia, was now ‘evil’….something they fought when Reagan said it, their FBI used a perjury trap to bring bogus charges against Flynn, linking him to Russia, and thus, Trump to Russia.


They had the Democrat apparatchiks with press passes drum away:

“Pundits at MSNBC and CNN derided former national security adviser and retired Gen. Michael Flynn as treacherous and a possible Russian asset after he was charged with lying to the FBI about interactions with the Russian ambassador in 2016.” FLASHBACK: MSNBC, CNN Derided Flynn as Treacherous, Possible Russian Asset


In actuality, Flynn was simply doing what a national advisor should do.
But.....
Keeping Flynn would have given the Obama/FBI plan more fuel. Fighting the false links to Russia made jettisoning Flynn appeared to be the Trump campaign’s only way out.

 

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The crime was beating Hillary and the DNC’s plans to continue destroying America.

These are modern day Bolsheviks we are dealing with, not rational or fair people.

 

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4. GEORGE ORWELL ONCE SAID: “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

And that brings us to who began the Russia Hoax. Hillary did….through the State department, and Alexander Downer, to the Obama FBI.



What did the plotters use as the predicate for beginning the ambush?

MR. GOWDY: When did the investigation begin? And if it were not the dossier, what prompted it? MR. MCCABE: The investigation began -- it was officially initiated [an individual] had met - with George Papadopoulos And this related that in a meeting they had … that Mr. Papadopoulos had made comments to them along the lines that he was quite confident that - that then-candidate Trump would win the election. He was confident because, as he stated, the Clintons had a lot of baggage and that the Trump campaign had a fair amount of information about the Clintons…”

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/am33.pdf

The information came from the State Department…Hillary’s State Department….to the Bureau.

And the man who supposedly told Hillary’s State Department was … “Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, as having remembered a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.



But how did the FBI know they should talk to him?



That’s left out of their narrative. Downer’s signature appears on a $25 million contribution to the Clinton Foundation. You don’t need much imagination to figure that he was close with Clinton Foundation operatives who relayed information to the State Department, which then called the FBI to complete the loop. This wasn’t intelligence. It was likely opposition research from the start.”

Former Clinton Pollster Calls For End to the Mueller 'Partisan Inquisition'

pjmedia.com

 

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5. “… a terrific timeline. It starts on January 4, 2017, at a time when the FBI was scrambling, as the Federalist’s scribe puts it, to reopen a case against General Flynn. The January 5 meeting started as a briefing for the President and also included Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, the CIA director, John Brennan, and the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.

“Not only did Obama give his guidance about how to perpetuate the Russia collusion theory investigations, he also talked about Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to both Comey and Yates.”




“Interestingly,” writes Ms. Hemingway, Messrs. Clapper and Comey and Ms. Yates “all said that they did not brief Obama about these phone calls.” …Mr. Comey “mentions the Logan Act.” Fifteen days later, Ms. Rice would send herself what Ms. Hemingway calls a “bizarre” email claiming that Mr. Obama wanted everything to be done “by the book.”

In the ensuing weeks, a series of leaks rocked the incoming Trump administration. Grizzled newspapermen shook their heads in amazement at such a cataract of leaks against a new administration. By February 13, writes Ms. Hemingway, “the operation finally succeeded in getting Flynn fired and rendering him unable to review the operations against the Trump campaign, Trump transition team, and Trump administration.”



— it’s just gobsmacking — that a sitting president of America hosted in his office a meeting that appears designed to undermine the man who will, two weeks hence, succeed him in the highest office in the land.

“What did the president know and when did he know it?” What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?

 

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6. Hillary was a knowing part of the plan, her efforts began it as well. She worked with the Kremlin to produce that ‘dossier’ aimed at sinking the Trump presidency….but it was too absurd for anyone to accept. But even then, her partner, Comey pushed it’s use to get FISA spy warrants.


Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after theFBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”



"...a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump...."
Even when he already knew it was "non-credible
Non-credible....



"The Department of Justice used the unverified dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, an alleged "foreign policy adviser" to Donald Trump and the last frayed thread of the Russian collusion story. The FISA court was not told who had paid Steele to create the "salacious and unverified" dossier -- in the words of the showboating former FBI Director James Comey -- much less about Steele's personal hatred of Trump." Carter Page: Agent 000



We read about pivotal moments and momentous events in our history books….those of us who read….but we are living through one of the most of those sort of events….and most of us don’t realize it. We are both witnesses and participants….and those who still support the Democrats are, as Hussein liked to say….’on the wrong side of history.’

 

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7. “The president of the United States turned to the head of the FBI, the most powerful law enforcement official in America, and said continue to secretly investigate my chief political rival so that I can act against him. Comey's response? Yes, sir. That's what Obama was saying openly.



In any normal period in American history, this exchange would define Barack Obama forever. Obama would be known as the disgraced former president who used federal law enforcement to hurt his political enemies. That's what he did.



Most media outlets have ignored the origins of the Russia conspiracy hoax completely. And as a result of that, Barack Obama's plan to derail his successor unfolded with very little opposition along the way, including from Republicans. The entire country, therefore, spent the first three years of the Trump administration hyperventilating about Russian collusion that did not exist.


Susan Rice assiduously did her part to help it along. Here is Rice in July of 2017, a year and a half later, suggesting on network television the president of the United States was indeed working for Vladimir Putin.

Susan Rice, former U.S. National Security Adviser: He has taken a series of steps that, had Vladimir Putin dictated them, he couldn't have mirrored it more effectively. What his motivations are, I think is a legitimate question, one that I trust that the special counsel is investigating. But the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin's interest in dividing the West, undermining democracy.

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News host: Does that mean you think it's an open question whether or not he is compromised by Russia?

Rice: George, I don't know what his motivations are. I think that's a legitimate question.



In fact, it was never a "legitimate question." It was a reckless slur, the most reckless possible slur -- the kind that damages a whole country along with a politician it is aimed at.

Rice knew perfectly well, there was no evidence at all that Donald Trump had ever worked for Russia. We know that she believed that because she admitted as much under oath in a closed-door hearing in Congress.” Tucker Carlson: Obama should be known as a disgraced president who used the FBI against his political enemies



A reminder:
Rule #1 Every argument from Democrats and Liberals is a misrepresentation, a fabrication, or a bald-faced lie.

 

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8. “WASHINGTON – Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has sought to declassify a list of former Obama administration officials who were allegedly involved in the so-called “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his conversations with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, a senior U.S. official tells ABC News.”

Any Obama officials involved in Flynn 'unmasking' declassified: Source

Acting DNI Grenell has sought to declassify a list of former Obama administration officials who were allegedly involved in the so-called 'unmasking' of Michael Flynn.

abcnews.go.com

The FBI could not hide the illegality of the plot without pro forma FISA warrants, to ‘legally’ allow them to spy on opponents. The apologists have denied that the bogus Steele/Putin dossier was used to get the warrants. In those declassified interviews, McCabe says otherwise:

Gowdy asks: “…did the Bureau rely on what has come to be known as a dossier in any form, and if so, how? MR. MCCABE: So very generally, sir, we did not rely on the Steele reporting for the opening of the investigation into possible Russian influence on the 2016 election, but we did rely on that reporting in the FISA application” https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/am33.pdf




9. "FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”



"...a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump...."
Even when he already knew it was "non-credible
Non-credible....


"The Department of Justice used the unverified dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, an alleged "foreign policy adviser" to Donald Trump and the last frayed thread of the Russian collusion story. The FISA court was not told who had paid Steele to create the "salacious and unverified" dossier -- in the words of the showboating former FBI Director James Comey -- much less about Steele's personal hatred of Trump. Carter Page: Agent 000

When an investigation is begun without a predicate, without a crime….you rely on Putin’s fake dossier.