Why focus on Trump?
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Why focus the FBI on Donald Trump?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/why_focus_on_trump.html
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Paul Murphy
Here's a passage from a June 6,
2018 article by Ivan Pentchoukov ("Spy Operation on Trump Campaign Started as Early as December 2015, New Texts Suggest"):
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released 500 pages of documents and texts on June 4, the bulk of which consists of messages between Page and Strzok. One message, which was previously redacted, shows that FBI agents were working to recruit double agents as early as Dec. 28, 2015.
"You get all our oconus lures approved?" Strzok wrote to Page.
"No, it's just implicated a much bigger policy issue," Page responded. "I'll explain later. Might even be able to use it as a pretext for a call."
According to Chris Farrell, a former counterintelligence officer who ran double-agent operations for the U.S. Army, "oconus" stands for "outside the continental United States," while "lures" refers to people used as bait to snag a potential double agent.
We do not know what the bigger policy issue was, but we do know three things about this exchange:
- this text exchange took place in the context of the Trump campaign;
- it took place almost five months before the May, 2016, meeting between George Papadopoulous and Alexander Downer frequently cited by the FBI and democrat media as the trigger event giving rise to the FBI's interest in the Trump campaign;
- the FBI subsequently paid multiple informants, including Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper and someone known as Henry Greenberg, to initiate what look like standard recruiting efforts against people, including George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Michael Caputo, and Roger Stone, associated in one way or another with the Trump campaign.
The timing is particularly intriguing because, while Obama's inner circle would have known Hillary Clinton well enough to understand the risks she posed as the Democratic party's heir apparent and thus be deeply worried about her ability to defeat whoever the GOP put up, assuming them so prescient as to focus all their efforts at sabotage and compromise on the Trump campaign more than six weeks before the Iowa caucuses strains the bounds of credulity.