Thread by @BusterUSMC

1. As I think most persons paying attention now realize, the investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election.

2. It was run at the highest (or deepest) Deep State levels by the likes of James Clapper and John Brennan, whose frantic and hysterical Tweets are like no utterances of any CIA director in history.

3. That also explains one of the puzzling aspects of the last year that I've occasionally mentioned here:

If you were truly interested in an "independent" Special Counsel, why would you appoint Robert Mueller?

4. He's a lifetime insider and the most connected man in Washington - a longtime FBI Director, and Assistant Attorney-General and acting Deputy Attorney-General at the Department of Justice. …61f1c4mgf0abl-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…

5. Exactly. His most obvious defect as an "independent" counsel is, in fact, his principal value to the likes of Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein: washingtondailywire.com/rosenstein-and…

6. He knows, personally, almost every one in the tight little coterie of discredited upper-echelon officials, and he has a deep institutional loyalty to bodies whose contemporary character he helped create.

7. In other words, he's the perfect guy to protect those institutions.

As for the nominal subject of his investigation, well, he's indicted a bunch of no-name Russian internet trolls who'll never set foot in a US courthouse.

8. That's not even worth the cost of printing the complaint.
"there are no Russians in the Russia investigation"

Which is true. Yet that doesn't mean there aren't "foreigners."
nbcnews.com/politics/white…

9. And an inordinate number of them are British subjects -or, to use today's preferred term, "Commonwealth citizens".
dailykos.com/stories/2018/7…
All the action in this case takes place not in Moscow
but in southern England.

10. Start at Cambridge University with a 2-day conference called "2016's Race to Change the World", on Jul 11-12 2016 - or 3wks before the FBI supposedly began its "counterintelligence" op against @realDonaldTrump , code-named "Crossfire Hurricane". crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26818

11. That's from the 1st line of the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
songmeanings.com/songs/view/630…
The song and its key signature figure in the plot of a ho-hum Cold War thriller of the same name, about
~a British spy trying to get info fr the Russians to a heroic American woman.

12. "Yes, really!"
Jonathan Pryce played "Jumpin' Jack Flash" , and was asked him about it at w/panel on acting at St Catherine's College, Oxford w/him and Patti Lupone a few years later. imdb.com/title/tt009130…

13. If you think that's a weird event for an Oxbridge college to host, it's as nothing to this "Race to Change the World" beano, but the bill of fare for this curious symposium is so bland as to be almost generic-

14. -panels titled
"Europe and America"
"2016 & the World"
"Global Challenges Facing the Next President"
coggs.polis.cam.ac.uk/laboratories-f…
Compared to the laser-like focus of a typical Cambridge confab
("A Westphalia for the Middle East?"),...

15. ....it's as if someone were trying to create an event
so anodyne and torpid no one would notice it.

16. All that distinguished these colorless presentations was the undoubted eminence of the speakers: fmr 🇺🇸Sec of State Madeleine Albright; fmr 🇬🇧Foreign Sec Sir Malcolm Rifkind; and Sir Richard Dearlove, fmr (that's M, for 007 fans) at MI6🕵🏼‍♂️ impeachobamatoday.blogspot.com/2018/05/specia…

17. The conference appears to have been put together at a couple of weeks' notice by Steven Schrage, former "Co-Chair of the G8's Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group" and a well-connected man on the counter-terrorism cocktail circuit: csap.cam.ac.uk/network/steven…

18. Here he is introducing Mitt Romney to the director of the CIA's Counter terrorist Center, nytimes.com/2007/11/02/wor…...

19. ..and here he is spending election night in the UK at a party with Scotland Yard elite counterterrorist types. facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

20. Make what you will of that-it's a somewhat odd background for the convenor of an insipid, vanilla, cookie-cutter foreign-policy seminar-but among the small number of strangely prestigious attendees at Mr Schrage's conference were:..

21. ~Carter Page, a petroleum-industry executive and Trump campaign volunteer;
~Christopher Steele, the former head of the Russia house at MI6;
steynonline.com/8218/how-to-st…
~Stefan Halper, a University of Cambridge professor with dual UK/US citizenship.

22. Today, Mr Page is better known as the endlessly surveilled "person of interest" whose eternally renewable FISA warrant was the FBI's gateway into the @realDonaldTrump campaign; nypost.com/2018/05/26/car…

23. Mr Steele is a sometime FBI asset who, a week before the Cambridge conference, had approached the G-men w/the now famous "dossier" that provided the pretext for the FISA application; ..steynonline.com/8327/the-co-de…

24. ..and Professor Halper turns out to be not some tweedy academic but a man with deep connections to MI6 & the CIA, on the payroll of something at the Pentagon called the "Office of Net Assessment" & (one of) the supposed FBI informant(s) inside the @realDonaldTrump circle.

25. Carter Page says that in the course of this 2 -day conference he met Professor Halper for the 1st time.

But I was struck by this aside Mr. Page made to Sara Carter: saraacarter.com/concealed-fisa…