{"id":35261,"date":"2019-01-23T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35261"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:13:24","slug":"anatomy-of-a-smear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35261","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy Of A Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Solomon posted an article at The Hill<\/a> that details the role the Clinton campaign played in creating a situation where a Special Counsel needed to be appointed. It is a sobering tale of how a group of people can manipulate the government for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

When at first you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again. That\u2019s what Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>\u2019s machine did in 2016, eventually getting the FBI to bite on an uncorroborated narrative that Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> and Russia were trying to hijack the presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between July and October 2016, Clinton-connected lawyers, emissaries and apologists made more than a half-dozen overtures to U.S. officials, each tapping a political connection to get suspect evidence into FBI counterintelligence agents\u2019 hands, according to internal documents and testimonies I reviewed and interviews I conducted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In each situation, the overture was uninvited. And as the election drew closer, the point of contact moved higher up the FBI chain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was, as one of my own FBI sources called it, a \u201cclassic case of information saturation\u201d designed to inject political opposition research into a counterintelligence machinery that should have suspected a political dirty trick was underway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-FBI general counsel James Baker, one of the more senior bureau executives to be targeted, gave a memorable answer<\/a> when congressional investigators asked how attorney Michael Sussmann from the Perkins Coie law firm<\/a>, which represented the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party, came to personally deliver him dirt on Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is further proof that the government wittingly or unwittingly put its thumb on the scale during the 2016 election cycle. Thank God their efforts did not work. However, every person who willingly used the power of their government position to undermine President Trump needs to be immediately fired. Most of them have been, but I suspect there are still people in our government who are working against the President and against the American people.<\/p>\n

The article describes an escalation of the efforts to get the FBI to respond to the political opposition research of the Clinton campaign:<\/p>\n

But the bureau apparently did not initially embrace Steele\u2019s research, and no immediate action was taken, according to congressional investigators who have been briefed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the escalation began.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a trip to Washington later that month, Steele reached out to two political contacts with the credentials to influence the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then-senior State Department official Jonathan Winer, who worked for then-Secretary John Kerry<\/a><\/span>, wrote that Steele<\/a> first approached him in the summer with his Trump research and then met again with him in September. Winer consulted his boss<\/a>, Assistant Secretary for Eurasia Affairs Victoria Nuland, who said she first learned of Steele\u2019s allegations<\/a> in late July and urged Winer to send it to the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(If you need further intrigue, Winer worked from 2008 to 2013 for the lobbying and public relations firm APCO Worldwide<\/a>, the same firm that was a contractor for both the Clinton Global Initiative and Russia\u2019s main nuclear fuel company that won big decisions from the Obama administration.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the State Department office that oversees Russian affairs sends something to the FBI, agents take note.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Steele was hardly done. He reached out to his longtime Justice Department contact, Bruce Ohr, then a deputy to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates<\/a><\/span>. Steele had breakfast July 30, 2016, with Ohr and his wife, Nellie<\/a>, to discuss the Russia-Trump dirt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(To thicken the plot, you should know that Nellie Ohr was a Russia expert working at the time for the same Fusion GPS firm that hired Steele and was hired by the Clinton campaign through Sussmann\u2019s Perkins Coie.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Ohr immediately took Steele\u2019s dirt on July 31, 2016, to then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the deputy attorney general\u2019s office contacts the FBI, things happen. And, soon, Ohr was connected to the agents running the new Russia probe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around the same time, Australia\u2019s ambassador to London,\u00a0Alexander Downer, reached out to U.S. officials. Like so many characters in this narrative, Downer had his own connection to the Clintons: He\u00a0secured a $25 million donation<\/a> from Australia\u2019s government to the Clinton Foundation in the early 2000s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Downer claims WikiLeaks\u2019s release of hacked Clinton emails<\/a> that month caused him to remember a conversation in May, in a London tavern, with a Trump adviser named George Papadopoulos<\/a><\/span>. So he reported it to the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Clintons had been involved in government long enough to know how to set the wheels in motion to undermine Candidate Trump and later President Trump. It is a shame they didn’t direct their focus to something more constructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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