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SPYGATE: The biggest political scandal in US history since Watergate

Bob Shanahan
investmentwatchblog.com
Fri, 25 May 2018 18:31 UTC

PART I

Spygate is the biggest political scandal in political history. The embedding of an FBI spy in the Trump campaign and the Obama administration's illegal wiretapping and unmasking of targets in the Trump camp reveal dangerous and unprecedented acts of collusion against the most transformational president in our recent history.

The liberal mainstream media are pushing against this reality of course but the evidence is incontrovertible and the real Obama is being shown for the blatant criminal he truly is. "Spygate," the false allegation that the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign, explained, reads Vox's typically incurious and misleading headline. Other headlines in a similar vein are blasting across the media's propaganda waves as they attempt to tamp down this bombshell.

On Wednesday, President Trump asserted that Spygate will turn out to be "one of the biggest political scandals in history!" The 45th president of the United States is correct in this assessment. FBI source and former Cambridge professor Stefan Halper had contact with at least three advisers during the Trump campaign to create a link between the Russians and Donald Trump.

Needless to say, he came up empty and so has Mueller's special counsel.

Trump is taking on the massive, power-hungry, and unelected Deep State cabal in Washington and he should fear for his life and political future because of it. The president claimed he is ''caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!''

Will oil be the downfall of the American Century?

F. William Engdahl
Katehon
Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00 UTC

The American Century, so triumphantly proclaimed in a 1941 Life magazine editorial by US establishment insider Henry Luce, was built on the control of oil and on an endless succession of wars for that control of global oil. Now, ironically, with the illegal and unilateral cancellation of the Iranian nuclear agreement by the US President, oil may be set to play a key, if unintended, role in the downfall of the global hegemony of that same American Century.

Each element of various countries' recent and increasing steps to get away from dollar dependency, in and of itself is insufficient to end the domination of the US dollar through Washington's ability to force other countries to buy or sell their oil only in dollars. Yet each unilateral provocation and sanction action by Washington forces other countries to find solutions only four years ago not deemed possible or practical.

Since the 1973 oil price shock following the Yom Kippur War, Washington and Wall Street have moved to ensure that OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, would sell its oil only in US dollars. That insured that demand for the US currency could be more or less independent of the internal state of the US economy or of the Government debt or deficits. That system, dubbed petrodollar recycling by Henry Kissinger and others at the time, was a vital underpinning of US global ability to project its power at the same time it allowed its major corporations to walk away from national domestic taxes and investment, in the process of out-sourcing to places like China or Mexico, Ireland or even Russia. Were a significant group of nations to abandon the dollar and turn to other currencies or even barter at this point, it could start a chain-reaction of events that would lead to sharp US interest rate increases and a new US financial crisis that would be far uglier than that a decade ago.

Comment: The US has but one play to execute. Everyone else can jump-shift.

That brilliant strategy to offer N. Korea 'The Libya Model' somehow falls through

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00 UTC

Three days before President Trump announced him as the new National Security Advisor, deranged mutant death walrus John Bolton appeared on Radio Free Asia and said of negotiations with North Korea, "I think we should insist that if this meeting is going to take place, it will be similar to discussions we had with Libya 13 or 14 years ago."

Bolton has been loudly and publicly advocating "the Libya model" with the DPRK ever since. "I think we're looking at the Libya model of 2003, 2004," Bolton said on Face the Nation last month, and said the same on Fox News Sunday in case anyone failed to get the message.

Bolton never bothered to refine his message by saying, for example, "Without the part where we betray and invade them and get their leader mutilated to death in the streets." He just said they're doing Libya again.

This was what John Bolton was saying before he was hired, and this was what John Bolton continued to say after he was hired. This was what John Bolton was hired to do. He was hired to sabotage peace and facilitate death and destruction. That is what he does. That is what he is for. Can openers open cans, John Bolton starts wars. You don't buy a can opener to rotate your tires, and you don't hire John Bolton to facilitate peace.

Comment: It's hard to know, at this point, what the US wants. If there is a plan within a plan within a plan...is this a plan?

John Brennan's plot: Infiltrate the Trump Campaign

George Neumayr
The American Spectator
Tue, 22 May 2018 12:05 UTC

It came out of his "inter-agency taskforce" at Langley.

As Trump won primary after primary in 2016, a rattled John Brennan started claiming to colleagues at the CIA that Estonia's intelligence agency had alerted him to an intercepted phone call suggesting Putin was pouring money into the Trump campaign. The tip was bogus, but Brennan bit on it with opportunistic relish.

Out of Brennan's alarmist chatter about the bogus tip came an extraordinary leak to the BBC: that Brennan had used it, along with later half-baked tips from British intelligence, as the justification to form a multi-agency spy operation (given the Orwellian designation of an "inter-agency taskforce") on the Trump campaign, which he was running right out of CIA headquarters.

Comment: We take for granted that choices made by agencies and personnel, charged with the security and lawfulness of acts within or affecting the USA, are under strict protocols and constraints. This is precisely why Brennan and cohorts were able to get this far. But trust is easily turned to blame when co-conspiracy is exposed man-to-man.

See also:

Pompeo declares the US is looking to change Iranian behavior, not regime

RFE/RL
Fri, 25 May 2018 20:02 UTC

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says "regime change" is not the goal of President Donald Trump's policy toward Iran, falling in line with recent comments by other members of the U.S. administration.

"It's not about changing the regime," Pompeo told VOA in an interview broadcast on May 25. "It's about changing the behavior of the leadership in Iran to comport with what the Iranian people really want them to do," he added.

Pompeo's comments come just over two weeks after Trump pulled the United States out of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal that Iran signed with six world powers and which provided Tehran with sanctions relief in return for significant curbs on its nuclear program.

Trump has long complained about the terms of the deal, although the five other signatories -- Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China -- had urged Washington to remain within the agreement.

The controversy over "regime change" surfaced after John Bolton, considered, like Trump, to be a hard-liner on Iran, was named the president's national security adviser in March to replace H.R. McMaster. Before taking the position, Bolton told Fox News in January that the United States should increase economic pressure on Tehran and provide support to government opponents and that "our goal should be regime change in Iran."

Comment: Is there a divide in the administration over its policy going forward regarding Iran? No matter whether it is 'regime change' or 'behavior change,' it is not the US' business to tell Iran how to be or what to do. In 1776, America had a whole revolution to insure this point.

Has Pompeo, himself, miraculously undergone behavior change? Just this week he did the following:

Facepalm? Obama spy chief contends Russia decided the outcome of 2016 election

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Thu, 24 May 2018 05:35 UTC

Obama's former spy chief, James Clapper, is on a roll as of late. The ex-Director of National Intelligence has come to the defense of the intelligence community.

Last week, it was reported that Stefan Halper, a longtime CIA operative and Cambridge University professor, spied on the Trump campaign, trying to make contacts with George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Sam Clovis. Yet, to Clapper, this isn't spying. It was just a confidential source trying to glean information under false pretenses to see if there was any Russian collusion - and so far, there hasn't been any evidence to suggest the Kremlin was tipping the scales.

Oh, and it was a good thing that the FBI did this during the election. Well, now he's taking it a step further. Despite multiple politicians involved in the investigation into Russian collusion on the Hill, Clapper says the Russians "decided" the election. And obviously by extension, he's referring to President Trump. Also, the Mueller probe has yet to find any evidence of said collusion. Clapper made these remarks on PBS NewsHour Wednesday:

Comment: For some, delusion is so strong and reinforced that it substitutes for truth. See also:

Inappropriate attire: Hillary Clinton dons heavy coat and scarf in sweltering 90° Boston heat

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 25 May 2018 00:01 UTC

Hillary Clinton dons heavy coat and scarf in Boston in sweltering heat.

What is Hillary Clinton hiding? On Friday, Hillary Clinton stepped out into the sweltering Boston, MA heat in a heavy coat and scarf.

According to various weather reports, it reached nearly 90 degrees in Boston on Friday.

Comment: If Hillary was in need of a back brace, why on earth would she be trying so hard (unsuccessfully) to hide it? Perhaps she still feels she's got a shot at the presidency and doesn't want anyone to think she's not fit for the job.

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'Our path': Iran announces plan to stay in Syria as Pompeo issues unprecedented threats

Tyler Durden
Russia Insider
Wed, 23 May 2018 19:48 UTC

It's not up to Uncle Sam but up to Syria and Iran alone

After last Thursday's relatively brief meeting in Sochi between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's Bashar al-Assad wherein Putin stressed that it is necessary for all "foreign forces" to withdraw from Syria, there's been much speculation over what Putin actually meant.

Many were quick to point out that Assad had agreed that "illegal foreign forces" should exit Syria - meaning those uninvited occupying forces in the north and northeast, namely, US troops, Turkish troops and their proxies, and all foreign jihadists - while most mainstream Western outlets, CNN and the Washington Post among them, hailed Putin's request to see Iran withdraw from Syria.

Whatever non-Syrian entity Putin intended to include by his words, both Syria and Iran gave their unambiguous response on Monday: Iran announced it would stay in Syria at the request of the Assad government.

Priceless: Andrew McCabe spent $70k on conference table - FBI redacted price in documents for Senate Judiciary Committee

Conservative Fighters
Fri, 25 May 2018 17:07 UTC

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying under oath, spent $70,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference table. The FBI also redacted the conference table's steep price tag from documents that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested, in an apparent attempt to hide it from Congress.

Comment: No doubt it was for "national security" reasons.

In a letter sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed that the FBI had redacted the cost of the table from a document he and his fellow members of the committee requested to see. Grassley said many of the redactions within the documents made no sense, nor were they made to protect national security secrets.

"Congress, and the public, have a right to know how the Department spends taxpayer money," Grassley wrote. "I am unaware of any legitimate basis on which the cost of a conference table should be redacted. Embarrassment is not a good enough reason. The manner in which some redactions have been used casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible."

Grassley's letter and the revelation about the sweeping redactions, which included hiding the cost of office furniture, is the latest in an ongoing fight between members of Senate Judiciary Committee and Justice Department officials. Members of Congress have been attempting to figure out if the DOJ acted properly throughout its ongoing, year-old investigation into President Trump and his campaign associates led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Deep State swamp monster Pompeo says there is no Deep State

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 26 May 2018 16:38 UTC

Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee today that he does not believe there is a deep state in the CIA, the State Department or the Department of Justice, which is the same as a mob boss saying he doesn't believe there is organized crime in the Mafia.

California Rep. Ted Lieu, himself a virulent Russiagater and aggressive defender of the US intelligence community, asked Pompeo if he believed there was a "Criminal Deep State" at the State Department in reference to a recent tweet by America's reality TV president.

"I haven't seen the comments from the president. I don't believe there is a deep state at the State Department," Pompeo said.

"You formerly served as CIA Director," Lieu continued. "Do you believe your colleagues at the CIA are part of the Criminal Deep State?"

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Puppet Masters

SPYGATE: The biggest political scandal in US history since Watergate

Will oil be the downfall of the American Century?

That brilliant strategy to offer N. Korea 'The Libya Model' somehow falls through

John Brennan's plot: Infiltrate the Trump Campaign

Pompeo declares the US is looking to change Iranian behavior, not regime

Facepalm? Obama spy chief contends Russia decided the outcome of 2016 election

Inappropriate attire: Hillary Clinton dons heavy coat and scarf in sweltering 90° Boston heat

'Our path': Iran announces plan to stay in Syria as Pompeo issues unprecedented threats

Priceless: Andrew McCabe spent $70k on conference table - FBI redacted price in documents for Senate Judiciary Committee

Deep State swamp monster Pompeo says there is no Deep State

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