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2019-05-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Valerie Plame: Surveillance on Trump campaign not 'spying' [video]

[The Hill] Former CIA operative and current congressional candidate Valerie Plame said Monday that FBI surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign was not spying.

"I absolutely do not [believe spying occurred]. These are professionals in our intelligence community, both in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and in the CIA. I have to believe that what happened was that there was real cause. And the bar is extremely high to collect information, particularly on a U.S. citizen," Plame, a Democrat running for a House seat in New Mexico, said on CNN's "New Day."

During congressional testimony last month, Attorney General William Barr called the FBI’s surveillance of members of Trump's 2016 campaign "spying." Trump has also used the term.

The Justice Department's inspector general is now reviewing whether the FBI followed correct procedures in applying for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have said the FBI improperly relied on details from the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele when applying for the warrant.

"So I don't know all the details of what led to that, but I think Attorney General Barr's rather casual assessment that the FBI spied on candidate Trump is a little too loose with the facts," she continued.

Fairly extensive BIO on Plame found at this link.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-15 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "I absolutely do not [believe spying occurred]. These are professionals in our intelligence community, both in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and in the CIA.

"Professionals" such as Comey, Stryzak, Page, McCabe, and Rybicki ?

I always chuckle silently when I read about Dick Armitage and Bob Novak "blowing Plame's cover". Everyone working out of an embassy (any embassy) is automatically assumed to be an intelligence asset. Here in the States, foreign embassy folks are issued Diplomatic car tags and travel restrictions. This is done for a reason.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-15 04:04|| 2019-05-15 04:04|| Front Page Top

#2 This Joo-Hating Fake CIA "Operative" Trash is running for Congress as a ....Democrat. Wh'd a thunk it?
Even pompous attention whore Joe Wilson got tired of her shit

Posted by Frank G 2019-05-15 08:35|| 2019-05-15 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 And there was former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger who used his position of trust as a former Cabinet official to steal highly-classified documents from the National Archives but then he was an amateur.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-05-15 08:47|| 2019-05-15 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 People like Val position themselves so that when they lose they can talk about how it says so much about what is wrong with the rest of us. Sign me up...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-05-15 08:57|| 2019-05-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Not spying spying.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-05-15 08:59|| 2019-05-15 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 "Everyone working out of an embassy (any embassy) is automatically assumed to be an intelligence asset."

I thought she claimed to be a NOC. Wiki - Plame served the CIA at times as a non-official cover (or NOC), operating undercover in (at least) two positions in Athens and Brussels.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2019-05-15 17:21|| 2019-05-15 17:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought she claimed to be a NOC. Wiki - Plame served the CIA at times as a non-official cover (or NOC), operating undercover in (at least) two positions in Athens and Brussels.

OC to NOC, NOC to OC.....that must be a real challenge for the document folks, not to mention the asset. How about USEMBASSY 'meet & greet' gopher, pretty face, and bullshi* artist.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-15 17:28|| 2019-05-15 17:28|| Front Page Top

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