SpyGate: Bread Crumbs and Coat Tails

In any case, the history of the “Steele dossier” doesn’t begin with Christopher Steele or Nellie Ohr in the summer of 2016; it begins with a story that Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal dated April 17, 2007. “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington”

That is a quote from Tablet by Lee Smith read the whole piece here.  As the Russian collusion narrative began to surface Simpson had a handy target in Manafort. I think it is worth noting lobbyists are only evil when they court Republicans. Just a funny quirk, right?

A lot of people are inquiring when the shipwreck known as SpyGate actually began.  Our elected officials charged with oversight and citizens concerned about potential abuses of power need answers.

So when the Trump campaign named Paul Manafort as its campaign convention manager on March 28, 2016, you can bet that Simpson and Jacoby’s eyes lit up. And as it happened, at the exact same time that Trump hired Manafort, Fusion GPS was in negotiations with Perkins Coie, ...

BING BING BING Trump's super Tuesday victories appear to have punched his rival's schemes into high gear.  The connectivity in timing is hard to ignore. Prior to this I suspect there was some quiet probing of people affiliated with the Republican campaign. But timing is everything check out the following quote from here.

In late-spring 2016, FBI and DOJ officials, including James Comey and Loretta Lynch, discussed whether to provide the Trump campaign with a defensive briefing warning about possible attempts by Russians to infiltrated the campaign.

Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller goes on the say that these Democrat lapdogs decided not to inform the Trump campaign because and I paraphrase, they didn't want to spook the Russians.  Hey, we're in the Gamma quadrant folks.  Notice the possible attempts did you?  That's because when you look around in this story you don't find any Russians trying to infiltrate Team Trump.  I would ask Herr Mueller, show me the Russian spies.

Oh wait, you might say that Herr Mueller is a slur.  I've not seen anything to connect Trump to Russian Collusion any more than there is evidence to connect Robert Mueller to Heinrich.  An American general awaits sentencing.  Where is my Russian spy?  There is a trail of bread crumbs that lead back to a American academic living in London.

For the sake of speculation let's say a Russian spy approached James Comey at a Washington dinner party.  How would that make Comey guilty of anything.  How would that create the basis of any investigation?  Spying on the spy would be fine but Comey is a U.S. citizen.  Absent any fact that Comey knew the spy was a spy how can surveillance on Comey then be justified?

"This is just my speculation — I have no knowledge," Clovis told me. "I think [Halper] was using his meeting with me to give him bona fides to talk to George Papadopoulos. He used Carter Page to get to me and he used me to get to George. George was the target. I think George was the target all along."

Again this is Ross at the Daily Caller.  Clovis admits he is speculating.  We must also admit this is coming from someone that was at ground zero.  Papadopoulos has also expressed suspicions about Halper's motives.  The London based academic had, perhaps by pure chance, intercepted another Trump affiliate after he had returned from Moscow, Carter Page.

The infamous meeting at Trump Tower was arranged not by my Russian spy but by Rob Goldstone a UK PR man.  Hello London Calling, we're back in merry old England with a pile of bread crumbs.  Thousands of pages of reports about a ten minute meeting have been released so it's easy to get lost in the minutia but we're back in London.  For his part Goldstone admits sending an email in which he puffed the information.  Once again someone is approaching the Trump campaign under the guise of having Russian connections that have information damaging to Hillary Clinton.

This is an alternate reality folks.  The corrupt media in this country would have you believe the FBI opened an investigation into Trump because they were worried Russia might have leverage on the Republican candidate.  Why wasn't the FBI concerned Moscow might have leverage on Clinton after they apparently knew Trump associates were approached by people claiming to have just such information?

From the perspective that this was only and ever a politically motivated scheme to get Donald J. Trump  do the actions of the DOJ and FBI make any sense.  Where was the concern for Russian hackers while Robert Mueller was Director of the FBI and Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and running her illegal email server?  Explain how these same officials could exonerate before they investigate and not be concerned Clinton was open to Kremlin leverage?

There is plenty to suggest British operatives baited Trump affiliates in a misinformation campaign.  Russian spies are in short supply, strangely enough.  With people coming forward claiming high level Russian connections who possessed damning emails that could be used against a potential U.S. President (Clinton) how then do you explain there is no evidence our intelligence agencies took that threat seriously?

Friends I've been out of work for two months.  I have coronary artery disease which resulted in bypass ten years ago. That does not disqualify me from operating the big truck.  Wait!!!  Don't stop reading!!!  I'm going to get back to the coat tails!!!  Thanks.  Five years ago the VA said they couldn't do anything for DOT.  I had no choice but to move my healthcare to the private sector.  I found a good cardiologist who had no problem qualifying to drive, he retired.  I was arbitrarily assigned  a new doctor.  He's a test freak.  This year I consented to a heart cath, a angiography.  No stents were placed.  No change has been ordered in my medications or course of treatment.  My cardiologist is handing off responsibility for clearing to drive to the doctor that performed the heart catheter procedure.   That doctor says barring any sign of an irregular heart rhythm I am cleared to return to work.  There has never been any evidence of a heart rhythm issue.  I had accounted that I might be out of work for a while this year but the can has been kicked down the road so far I'm now broke and worried that I may not have shelter tomorrow.  I've been taken from hard working average working class American to jobless and potentially homeless.

This past year I have been on a lane from Warren Michigan (Detroit) to the southeast.  I captured this video on the morning of their heaviest snowfall.  The company I can only brag about because of their support for me would tell you my motto is "Safety first then service."  I get up in the morning and evaluate the conditions and make a determination to go or not.

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Whether you love him or hate him Barack Obama was popular.  In spite of that he never had any coat tails.  His popularity never transferred to Hillary Clinton.  While in office Obama lost both houses of congress. Then 2016 happened and Donald Trump is the President.

   

Fire Sessions or Maybe Not?

In the commentary sections of many blogs there is a current of calls that AG Jeff Sessions is a traitor and should be fired. You may feel that way and I get that.

When the #BLM riots engulfed Charlotte a blogger my brother and I both respect and follow made a comment that became troublesome because it was taken out of context. I was asked, as a professional driver, what would you do? My answer was based on a simple philosophy. It is easier to avoid trouble than to get out of trouble.

Radio talk shows provide up to date traffic and news. I'm not a big fan of most of these shows but the stations that host these shows offer real time news. If you want to fault me or question the validity of this assertion let me set you straight. On September 11th, 2001 I called my brother who, at the time was working for the Washington Times. I explained to his wife we were under attack. I was behind the wheel of a semi when I made the call and was listening to radio as opposed to watching CNN or Fox. The result of my call was that while people were fleeing D.C. my brother was driving into one of the targets of the attack. How might that change my opinion of Jeff Sessions?

Mr. Sessions draws a lot of flak for recusing himself from The Russian Collusion probe. How is all of this tied up and why do I bother to post?

I have been out of work for two months because of health conditions. I am struggling to get by. What does that make me? Probably a typical working class American. My GofundMe page was setup after some of these health issues came up two years ago. If you think the question I'm going to ask is critical and to the point in all of this Russian Collusion storm please go by there and donate. You can donate as little as five dollars and it all helps. Are you ready for my burning question?

After Jeff Sessions recused himself we learned he had been the target of an FBI counter intelligence probe. If he had not recused himself how might that have played out in the savagely hostile mainstream media? I'm just a dumb truck driver but I think this might have been a problem.

My best guess is that someone calculated that if Trump won Sessions would be his Attorney General. That someone then made sure that a counter intelligence probe was begun. The object being that the incoming Attorney General would be conflicted. In looking at all of the things that happened around the 2016 election I don't see much of it was accidental. Counter Intelligence investigations can be initiated without any evidence of a crime. I believe that the man most likely to become Attorney General in the event of a Trump victory was targeted.

Was Sessions right in recusing himself. That's my burning question. If my pondering gives you pause drop by my GoFundMe page and retweet or donate. There's whole lot of speculation out there. I put together two facts. Sessions was the object of a counter intelligence probe and he recused himself. It's better to avoid trouble than get out of it.

SpyGate: The Traitors Among Us.

Senator Lindsey Graham more sensationally told Fox News that Nellie Ohr “did the research for Mr. Steele,” but details remain scarce.

Reading the article at the American Spectator you will learn that Nellie Ohr, whose husband Bruce formerly held the fourth highest position in the Department of Justice, is a Stalin apologist. Bruce Ohr was demoted after it was discovered that he had an undisclosed meeting with his wife's employer, at Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson. I bring up the Ohr's complicity because in this climate of Bombshell reports it is easy to lose sight of how many players were on the field.

One has to look at Bruce and Nellie Ohr because I think it is important to see how government officials and privateers became partners in a scheme to deceive the American public.  Secondly, in the climate of Russian Collusion we have a fan of Stalin working to undermine the campaign of the man who would become President. Sit back and let that soak in. Let me quote The American Spectator story again

Speaking “revisionist” lingo, Nellie Ohr turns the millions killed by Stalin into “excesses,” which, in Ohr’s words, “sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country.”

Is this really a surprise?  Sounds like a communist sympathizer to me.

The lengthy and well paced article at The American Spectator by Diana West also touches on several inconsistencies.  "Ghost Stories" an FBI operation which netted real Russian spies revealed that some had gotten very close to the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.  It was literally laughed off by VP Biden and others. One of the women involved was ... HOT.  That in the words of Uncle Joe.  And in the Clinton's pay to play world getting someone close to the former Secretary of State was never going to be difficult. My appraisal of Ghost Stories has always been that the group was only the Recon Team. 

Nellie Ohr has another problem. According to Lindsey Graham ( R SC) her research was the primary basis of the Steele Dossier. Curiously, this woman in her sixties, decided to become a Ham operator. She applied for her license shortly after returning from a London meeting with Christopher Steel. The assertion made by many is that she wished to covertly communicate with the British spy. The story gets much better. Let me quote a article at The Federalist by George Parry.

It has also come out that Bruce Ohr failed to report the source of his wife’s income from Fusion GPS on his DOJ ethics disclosure forms. Such disclosure is mandatory, and Ohr’s omission raises many questions

Someone is trying to conceal something. If I contend, as many writers have, that Nellie Ohr became a Ham operator to escape surveillance to speak with Mr. Steele then her husband's demotion  at DOJ would underscore my argument. It is becoming very clear that people in government office conspired with like minded privateers to damage a rival. After the fact, the people involved attempt to conceal their crime. That tells us that they knew they were engaged in criminal behavior. The murderer hides the body because...

 For example, under the law, such an omission could be considered evidence tending to prove his consciousness of guilt. 

Again, that quote is from George Parry at The Federalist.   

Representative Nunes and Senator Grassley have done a inspired job in uncovering a domestic threat to our democracy.  The full story of bad actors inside our government offices is far from complete. For example, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned as chairman of the DNC just before the convention when stolen emails implicated her in a scheme to tip the scales against Bernie Sanders. This alone should have been a huge scandal but our nation's free press has become a propaganda outlet for the Democrat party and was thus barely talked about. Instead the news about this was about the stolen emails.

The tale of Nellie Ohr and her husband, a now demoted DOJ official, is but a thread of a larger cloth of deception and possible traitorous activity. To date I have rejected calls for a special counsel.  The regulations for the appointment of special counsel require specific evidence of a crime. I now believe that those requirements have been met. The investigation should not be about the players involved but about the larger conspiracy to deceive that American  public.

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