NAME OF SPY IN TRUMP CAMPAIGN REVEALED; TRUMP DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
BY C. MITCHELL SHAW
SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/29102-name-of-spy-in-trump-campaign-revealed-trump-demands-investigation; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The name of the FBI spy placed in the Trump campaign in 2016 has been revealed, and it turns out this isn’t his first time infiltrating a political campaign as a spy. Seventy-three-year-old University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper — who was planted in the Trump campaign to report to the FBI — did the same thing for Reagan’s 1980 campaign, according to multiple reports.
As The Intercept is reporting:
Four decades ago, Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election, in which the Reagan campaign — using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush — got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration. The plot involved CIA operatives passing classified information about Carter’s foreign policy to Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering.
On May 10, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reported that the FBI “source” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was seeking to learn more about was actually a spy the FBI had planted in the Trump campaign. The FBI and DOJ had “stalled” and “stonewalled” Nunes — going so far as to refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to provide the information. Only after Nunes threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress did DOJ back down and brief committee members on the “specific individual.”
Strassel ended her explosive article by saying:
I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it. It would therefore be irresponsible to publish it. But what is clear is that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible. It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.
This writer — simply projecting the lines — predicted that others would “do the same digging she has done and the name will likely soon be known. And when it is known, it's going to be a bad day for the DOJ and FBI.”
The past week and a half has been abuzz with speculation. Now, as Fox News is reporting, it is known that the New York Times and Washington Post “have known of Halper’s identity for weeks, but chose not to reveal his name. Then on Thursday, the Daily Caller named Halper in the opening paragraph of its report.”
Of course, now that Halper has been revealed as the spy, the FBI and DOJ look more than a little ridiculous for having trotted out the tired old line about how revealing his name would “threaten national security” and could result in “loss of human lives.” Given Halper’s past — particularly his running a spying operation inside the Carter administration for George H.W. Bush during Reagan’s successful bid to unseat Carter — it is much more believable that the FBI and DOJ were really just concerned about getting caught with their pants down.
As The Intercept reported:
To begin with, it’s obviously notable that the person the FBI used to monitor the Trump campaign is the same person who worked as a CIA operative running that 1980 Presidential election spying campaign.
It was not until several years after Reagan’s victory over Carter did this scandal emerge. It was leaked by right-wing officials inside the Reagan administration who wanted to undermine officials they regarded as too moderate, including then White House Chief of Staff James Baker, who was a Bush loyalist.
The NYT in 1983 said the Reagan campaign spying operation “involved a number of retired Central Intelligence Agency officials and was highly secretive.” The article, by then-NYT reporter Leslie Gelb, added that its “sources identified Stefan A. Halper, a campaign aide involved in providing 24-hour news updates and policy ideas to the traveling Reagan party, as the person in charge.” Halper, now 73, had also worked with Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Alexander Haig as part of the Nixon administration.
In response to the scandal, President Trump tweeted Sunday: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
It is shaping up to be a bad time, indeed, for the FBI and DOJ.
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TRUMP: ‘CRIMINAL DEEP STATE’ CAUGHT UP IN ‘MAJOR SPY SCANDAL’
POTUS dubs it “spygate” in tweetstorm
BY STEVE WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-criminal-deep-state-caught-up-in-major-spy-scandal/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
President Trump issued a patented tweetstorm in the early hours of the morning and first thing Wednesday, slamming former intelligence officials and declaring that the ‘Criminal deep state’ has become caught up in a ‘major spy scandal’.
“Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State.” Trump wrote.
“They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!” the President added.
“What goes around comes around!” Trump exclaimed.
In a further tweet, Trump declared that this could be one of the biggest political scandals in history.
The President also quoted Fox News legal expert Judge Andrew Napolitano:
The President also slammed former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who appeared on The View Tuesday and said Trump should be ‘happy’ that the FBI monitored his campaign.
“No, James Clapper, I am not happy,” Trump tweeted.
“Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!” he added.
Earlier in the evening Clapper appeared on CNN and claimed that spying on Presidential candidates constitutes “standard investigative practices”:
According to Deep State Clapper, the FBI and CIA spying on a presidential campaign is now "STANDARD INVESTIGATORY PRACTICE"!#SpyGate
Trump’s latest tweets followed on from several earlier ones, in which the President claimed that a spy infiltrated his 2016 campaign to “help Crooked Hillary win.”
If the person placed very early into my campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the previous Administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered - many times higher than normal...
...Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win - just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
Trump said at the White House Tuesday that it would be “very illegal” if there were spies in his campaign.
.@POTUS: "If they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country." fxn.ws/2KKRVuN
“A lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. If they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest insults that anyone has ever seen, it would be very illegal aside from everything else,” he said.
Weighing in on the matter, Former Speaker and staunch Trump ally New Gingrich said that Clapper and the rest could face severe punishment:
“People like Clapper and the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, all these guys thought they could get away with this… Now you are watching people who I think in every case are in danger of going to jail. If the system works and people are actually tested on, ‘Did you tell the truth under oath?’ Clapper’s a perfect example.” Gingrich noted.
