Wednesday, April 25, 2018

The Counterintelligence Probe's Phantom Origin

"The counterintelligence investigation uses the tools of our intelligence services that are not supposed to be used on American citizens. So, we've long wanted to know, well, what intelligence did you have that actually led to this investigation? So, what we found now after the investigators have reviewed it is that in fact, there was no intelligence," Nunes told Fox News last weekend.

The probe didn't start "By the book." It started largely on the say-so of John Brennan, whose CIA operated like a branch office of the Hillary campaign.

We know from Brennan's own testimony and leaks that he had been lobbying the FBI to start the probe since at least the spring of 2016.

Whatever alleged intelligence Brennan gave to the FBI, it was too flaky for the FBI to commit to print.

Out of embarrassment at having started a counterintelligence probe on the hunch of such an unhinged Hillary partisan, the FBI has scrambled to find a better reason for launching it and thought it had found one in the George Papadopoulos yarn.

To make matters worse, Brennan's alleged intelligence from the British on Trump-Russia collusion was just laundered Steele opposition research for Hillary.

Through foreign intelligence agencies, he became an indirect stream of bad intelligence.

https://spectator.org/the-counterintelligence-probes-phantom-origin/

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