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2020-10-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

The 2016 Soft Coup Unraveling (starring Gina Haspel)

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Posted by Clem 2020-10-06 05:39|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 Well, he appointed her - did he expect gratitude?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-06 06:05|| 2020-10-06 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 In fairness, Candidate Trump could have not possibly known the depth and breadth of this treachery. It is only years later that the pieces can actually be assembled and new pieces appear to be surfacing on a weekly basis.

When (now silent) senior Intelligence Community officials, both current and former, came out en masse against the 'Orange Man' in the early days of his presidency and campaign monitoring scandal, one had to know that something was dreadfully amiss.

Career employee Haspel's loyalties are to the organization, her former boss John Brennan, and the mission, not to an uncooperative political office holder like Donald Trump. Once again, it's all about power and control. They have it and intend to keep it. They are the Deep State.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-06 06:34|| 2020-10-06 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Salient portions of the Gatestone link:

The FBI is not allowed to penetrate and subvert a presidential campaign. Executive Order 12333, Section 2.9, "Undisclosed Participation in Organizations in the United States," prohibits it in plain language. Historically, the prohibition is a consequence of U.S. Army Counterintelligence penetrating Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the behest of the FBI during the 1960s -- among other abuses of power and authority. That legal prohibition is the reason the FBI felt the need to manufacture a "foreign counterintelligence threat" in the UK and then "import" the investigation back into the United States.

The FBI plotters needed to establish a foreign counterintelligence "event" to run their operation. The UK was the easiest and operationally safest/friendliest place to pull it off, especially with Stefan Halper's connections to Cambridge. Haspel was clearly fully informed and had "coordinated" the operation. She also enjoyed cordial relationships with MI6 and GCHQ. Now we (largely, but imperfectly) know what transpired. Halper under oath, in public, would fill in a lot of blanks. Gina Haspel, under the same circumstances and conditions, might just complete the puzzle. Should President Trump be reelected, it might just happen. A President Biden guarantees we will never hear another syllable of the rest of the story.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-06 07:06|| 2020-10-06 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 the Deep State learned a hard lesson in 1963: the outright assassination of a President is too messy and outrageous to the American people.

Instead, they have learned that character assassination is the way forward for them in their quest for power.

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-10-06 07:53|| 2020-10-06 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 You'll notice that the powerful *always* use this tactic. They dig around in your background, find something, doesn't matter what it is, and smear you with it.

They don't engage with ideas, they just use character assassination. It's amazing how many people who oppose them turn out to be horrible - an amazing coincidence. When you see this, you can't un-see it.

Posted by Muggsy Hapsburg5230 2020-10-06 08:20|| 2020-10-06 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Haspel raised questions in my mind because of her closeness to Brennan. Wray is another roadblock more than an appointment. If swamp-draining is your objective, I guess you wait for these people to eventually reveal themselves. Then you roll them up and take appropriate actions. The coup d etat cover-up always gets you.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-10-06 11:15|| 2020-10-06 11:15|| Front Page Top

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