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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1187207)	12/21/2019 12:35:46 PM
From: Winfastorlose	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575504

You missed the memo, nitiwt, Brumelda. Brennan has now stated that Trump was not involved with Russia after all. Your team's story line has suddenly changed. Get on the bandwagon fast before Durham comes after your communications with your fellow communists as well.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1187207)	12/21/2019 5:06:41 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575504

Putin Gooses Congress on Impeachment Dec 20, 2019 RUSH: This is Larry in Pine River, Wisconsin. You’re first, and it’s great to have you, Larry, hi. CALLER: Hi. RUSH: Hey. CALLER: It’s a real pleasure to speak to you. RUSH: Thank you. I can understand. Yes. CALLER: I have a question for you. RUSH: What is it? HEY BUMMIE, you are my man. Keep it up, brennen has betrayed us. CALLER: I just heard on the news that Putin came out in defense of Donald Trump. Now, Donald Trump does not need Putin to defend him against anything. RUSH: Would you actually characterize it as “Putin came out in defense of Trump”? What did Putin say? CALLER: Well, according to the news, he was defending the fact that this impeachment was, you know, not a good thing. RUSH: Right. He didn’t defend Trump. He went out and attacked Congress. (laughing) I laughed my ass off, Larry. I laughed my ass off on Putin. CALLER: (laughing) Yeah. RUSH: He’s goosing them! He’s driving them crazy. He’s keeping them believing that Trump and Putin are buddies and are sabotaging the Democrats. I think it was hilarious. Putin… This is on a par with Trump asking Putin to find Hillary’s emails. Here’s Putin ripping the U.S. Congress for not having the slightest idea what they’re doing, making a big mistake. He can’t believe how stupid they are. (laughing) This is fantastic. He’s goosing ’em, Larry. He’s gaming them out there. CALLER: (garbled) …was the fact that he’s doing this simply because he wants to set up Donald Trump (laughing) in the media and the left to give them a reason to say, “See? I told you he’s out there doing this!” RUSH: Oh, maybe. Maybe. What Putin wants to do is exactly what he’s doing thanks to the Democrats falling for it all. Vladimir Putin… The Democrats want you to believe that Putin wanted Trump to win, and so Trump and Putin are buddies, and they colluded, and they found a way to make it happen. Well, that’s not what… Putin can’t control who wins. All he wants is the United States in a state of disarray. He wants the United States focusing on internal battles, paying less attention to him. In truth, Donald Trump may be the worst thing that has ever happened to Vladimir Putin. Trump is by no means (chuckling) a Russian ally or a Putin ally. So there could be an element of this (chuckling), Putin trying to keep the Democrats going after Trump alive by claiming they’re doing it the wrong way, claiming they’re making a mistake. But if that’s true, then all Putin is doing is simply trying to further their belief that Russia and Trump are buddies and are colluding. Now, the Democrats are in such a state of delusion — and, folks, they really are. They are as delusional as I have ever seen a political party. Now, don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying that they’re not dangerous or that they’re a joke. That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that they are so absent and distant from reality here that Putin coming out and chastising them for doing it the wrong way… It could be that Putin wants to further the idea that he’s on Trump’s side, which could then keep the Democrats further engaged and enraged in their effort to get Trump. But (chuckles) if that’s his plan, he’s just gonna make them look crazier. They don’t understand yet how they have come off in all of this to the vast majority of the American people. And, frankly, I haven’t seen that much reaction to Putin anyway. It’s been kind of muted. There hasn’t been, you know, “Stop everything! Breaking news! Vladimir Putin criticizes Pelosi and her impeachment.” I haven’t seen that yet. We’ll have to keep a sharp eye. I don’t think it registered much except it did with me from the standpoint of being very entertaining.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1187207)	12/21/2019 5:44:57 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Winfastorlose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575504

'This IS the Scandal': Dan Bongino Explains How John Brennan's Office Became Ground Zero in the Russian Collusion Scandal https://t.co/anmsKIjfr1 — RedState (@RedState) December 21, 2019 www.redstate.com /elizabeth-vaughn/2019/12/21/scandal-dan-bongino-explains-john-brennans-cia-became-ground-zero-russian-collusion-story/'This IS the Scandal': Dan Bongino Explains How John Brennan's Office Became Ground Zero in the Russian Collusion Scandal Elizabeth Vaughn 7-9 minutes Caricature by DonkeyHotey flic.kr/p/Ct4G4K creativecommons.org On Thursday night, just as Fox News was airing Martha MacCallum’s interview with Attorney General William Barr, the New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney John Durham had requested former CIA Director John Brennan’s communications records. This included all emails, texts and call logs from his time at the CIA. The Times’ sources also told them that Durham’s team was said to be “scrutininizing” Brennan’s Congressional testimony. Many believe he’s perjured himself. This is a major development and it hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Durham’s probe, as we all know, shifted into a criminal investigation in October. In a special counsel or an independent counsel investigation, when the work is done, the team prepares a report of their findings. In a criminal investigation, when the team accumulates sufficient and convincing evidence of a crime, an indictment is made. Former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy told Fox on Friday that we should be waiting for indictments from the Durham team, rather than a report. He said that “in a criminal investigation, you don’t get a report unless there are no indictments.” Washington attorney Sidney Powell, who is currently representing General Michael Flynn, said the same thing recently in an appearance on Lou Dobb’s show. Fox News contributor and investigator Dan Bongino addressed the John Brennan story on his Friday podcast. (The Dan Bongino Show: Episode 1140, can be viewed below.) The first thing he told his viewers is that the Russian collusion story did not originate with the FBI. It began long before they opened their counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016. Bongino explains it began because John Brennan and others wanted to gather intelligence on Barack Obama’s political opponents, “but couldn’t get it because there are U.S. laws that prevent the government from spying on its own citizens. But they found another place they could get it from – The Five Eyes.” The Five Eyes, which includes the intelligence services of England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S., share intelligence among the group. It was set up to help track down terrorists and international criminals, but in this case, it was used against Obama’s political opponents. Bongino says, “Do you understand that is the scandal?” It’s important to note that John Brennan has maintained he did not see the Steele Dossier until December 2016. The New York Times’ sources informed them the Durham team was “examining whether Mr. Brennan privately contradicted his public comments, including May 2017 testimony to Congress, about both the dossier and about any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia’s interference.” Although there is some real information in the Times’ article, Bongino emphasizes that its writers are trying to make the reader believe this is a Trump team witch hunt. They’re trying to dig up dirt on John Brennan. The reality of the situation is that it’s very likely John Brennan and his colleagues convinced the FBI to open their counterintelligence investigation. So, it’s necessary to filter out the propaganda from the facts. Bongino says the lede tells us “they have absolutely no doubt our intelligence infrastructure was spying on political campaigns, notably [Ted] Cruze, [Ben] Carson and Trump using foreign partners in circumvention of U.S. law. There’s no doubt about this anymore.” Durham’s team is also looking at the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) released in January 2017, which was backed by Comey, Brennan and others, which concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump defeat Clinton. Everyone knows Russia interfered in our election. But we do not agree that Putin intended to tip the victory to Trump which is the narrative the left would like everyone to believe. Bongino believes the “ICA gave them [the deep state] cover…that everything they’d been doing to spy on the Trump team was legitimate. ‘Look, the intelligence community agrees. Everything they (the Russians) were doing was to help Trump. Fair and square to look into it, right?'” Durham’s team is trying to find out if this claim that Putin tried to help Trump was “based on intelligence or the political opinion that the [Obama] White House really needed out there?” Dan puts up a Washington Times article written by Rowan Scarborough on May 29, 2917 entitled “Obama Loyalist Brennan drove the FBI to begin investigating Trump associates last summer.” Bongino tells his viewers, “Brennan is nailed to the wall. This is an intelligence laundering operation by the CIA…I believe Brennan was running a rogue spying operation and lied to the FBI to get them to open a criminal operation as cover for what Brennan was already doing. In other words, ‘We can’t tell the people we’re spying in the CIA, but we can tell them the FBI has evidence of criminality and are doing a counterintelligence investigation.’ That was all cover. It was all a cover story.” In Brennan’s testimony before Congress, he told lawmakers: I wanted to make sure that every [piece of] information and bit of intelligence that we had was shared with the bureau [FBI] so that they could take it. It was well beyond my mandate as director of CIA to follow on any of those leads that involved U.S. persons. But I made sure that anything that was involving U.S. persons, including anything involving the individuals involved in the Trump campaign, was shared with the bureau. I was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the Russians, either in a witting or unwitting fashion, and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion [or] cooperation occurred. Bongino notes that Brennan “was aware of contacts between people on the Trump campaign and the Russian government? Where was that information coming from? If Brennan’s assertion that he knew nothing about the dossier – which is the only place where you can find information about people on the Trump campaign, Carter Page, Papadopoulos and the Russians – that’s the only place…If Brennan said he didn’t see that, then where was he getting his information about the Trump campaign allegedly colluding with the Russian government?” Bongino’s Analysis: The scandal is no more complicated than this. And the devastating portion of it was explained to me recently. We have multiple sources feeding things into this. And I would not report anything to you unless I can confirm it from multiple sources. The scandal here is that U.S. citizens were being targeted and spied on by an intelligence structure whose sole purpose is to assist [prevent] U.S. citizens from being spied on, being the targets of terror investigations. Their entire role was reversed. And they were doing it in conjunction with their U.K. partners. Brennan clearly knows about the information in the dossier, yet he claims he didn’t see it until December. Since the information could be found no where else, both stories can’t be true. It sure looks like Brennan is lying. And clearly John Durham is on to him. (Note: He refers to a CNN article published in April 2017 entitled “ British Intelligence Passed Trump Associates’ Communications with Russians on to U.S. Counterparts,” which includes more detail. In addition, there is more information from 21:00 in the podcast below.)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1187207)	12/21/2019 7:38:23 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By IC720 locogringo Winfastorlose Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575504

“I’ve Seen the Documents” – Rep. Ratcliffe Confirms Obama Deep State Was Lying and Spying on Trump Camp Way Before Opening Crossfire Hurricane by Jim Hoft December 21, 2019 On Friday night former US Attorney and Rep. John Ratcliffe went on with Jason Chaffetz on Hannity and revealed he has seen the documents that indicate that Comey and Brennan were running an op BEFORE the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. Fired FBI Director James Comey stated in March of 2017 under oath that the FBI investigation into the Trump – Russia scandal started in July 2016. Comey lied. *** * * * * * * * * * TGP contributor Joe Hoft reported on this back in March of 2019. The Gateway Pundit confirmed at that time that the Obama CIA and FBI were spying on Trump way beforeCrossfire Hurricane. The pieces of the coup to undermine the Constitution of the United States of America are coming undone. Evidence from various sources now confirms that Obama’s CIA, DOJ and FBI illegally spied on the Trump team starting in 2015 and then built a coup to prevent him from winning the election and later remove him from office!As we reported on June 4, 2018, the US Senate released over 500 pages of information related to the Spygate scandal. Hidden in the information were unredacted Strzok – Page texts that show the FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in the Trump campaign in December 2015. We reported that according to far left LA Times, Comey stated in March of 2017 under oath that the FBI investigation into the Trump – Russia scandal started in July 2016. Now we know without a doubt that Comey lied about this. A text message released by the US Senate showed words that were redacted when the FBI released the same texts long ago. The texts show evidence of collusion and wrongdoing by Obama’s FBI. Super-spy Tony Shaffer retweeted a tweet by Nick Falco showing that text messages between dirty cops Peter Strzok and his girlfriend in the FBI, Lisa Page, lead to information that ‘Spygate’ started in early 2015 – Unfortunately but not surprisingly, Twitter has since shut down the Twitter account of Nick Falco, the individual Shaffer retweeted, he must have been too effective! Fortunately we saved the contents of Falco’s tweet. Falco referred to texts released between corrupt FBI investigator Peter Strzok to corrupt FBI attorney Lisa Page stating the following – 1) BOMBSHELL- From DECEMBER 2015–The word LURES is redacted by FBI but not OIG “OCONUS LURES” OCONUS= Outside Contiguous US LURES= In this context LURES = SPIES – multiple Is this an admission that the FBI wanted to run a baited Sting Op using foreign agents against Trump? pic.twitter.com/OtLxlOEGsV — Falco (@Nick_Falco) June 4, 2018 Additional information we also provided showed that Obama’s spy, Stefan Halper, was awarded a contract in September of 2015. We also pointed out that the problem with Obama spying on Trump before July 2016 is that it is against FBI rules – Retired assistant FBI director for intelligence Kevin Brock also has questions. Brock supervised an agency update to their longstanding bureau rules governing the use of sources while working under then-director Robert Mueller. These rules prohibit the FBI from directing a human source to perform espionage on an American until a formal investigation has been opened – paperwork and all. Brock sees oddities in how the Russia case began. “These types of investigations aren’t normally run by assistant directors and deputy directors at headquarters,” he told me. “All that happens normally in a field office, but that isn’t the case here and so it becomes a red flag. Congress would have legitimate oversight interests in the conditions and timing of the targeting of a confidential human source against a U.S. person.” -The Hill The problem with Comey lying about the start date of the Trump counterintelligence campaign before Congress is that it is against the law. President Trump tweeted out a follow up to our post the next day – Now we know that President Trump was correct in retweeting our story!US Representative Devin Nunez was on the Sean Hannity [Radio] Show two days ago and he said this – There’s a lot of information out there that tells us that the FBI was thick into this all through 2016 not just starting at the end of July like they’d like to claim. In addition, we now know from Jeff Carlson at the Epoch Times who obtained a copy of Nellie Ohr’s testimony to Congress, that Nellie, who was a CIA agent, started working against Trump in 2015 – The implication here is that Nellie Ohr approached Fusion-GPS owner Glenn Simpson for a job; essentially to work on political opposition research files Fusion-GPS was assembling in 2015. This is distinctly different from Glenn Simpson seeking out Nellie Ohr, and opens the entire background to larger ramifications. Our research has always indicated that Nellie’s work product was transmitted to Christopher Steele as part of an intelligence laundry process. Chris Steele laundered Nellie’s information, provided second verification where possible, formatted into an official intelligence file, and returned that file -now named the Steele Dossier- to the FBI. However, if it becomes verified that it was CIA contracted (former or current) Nellie Ohr who approached Simpson, then it becomes possible, perhaps likely, the intelligence information (seeds carried by Nellie), originated from the CIA. This means that Obama’s CIA, DOJ and FBI, all started working on spying on, infiltrating, harassing and framing the Trump campaign in 2015!** The light is beginning to shine on the many crooks in the Obama Administration. Let it burn!hat tip D. Manny