Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

1. There can be no room for half measures. There must be no contemplation of providing quarter for the attempted usurpation. No-one must be allowed safe passage from their role in the weaponization of our government.

2. On Pages #11 and #12 of the Weissmann/Mueller report, the special counsel team outlines the purpose and intent of the probe as delivered by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

scribd.com/document/40672…

3. Within these pages Mueller outlines the August 2nd, 2017, Scope Memo that has previously been hidden and remains redacted through today.

scribd.com/document/37547…

4. Read the highlighted portion carefully to understand the scope of the instructions. Note the careful wording: “the Special Counsel had been authorized since his appointment to investigate allegations”…

5. This means from Day #1 of the special counsel, the scope of the probe was always to investigate the claims within the Ohr/Steele Dossier.

6. The August 2nd, 2017, Scope Memo additionally authorized the investigation of “certain other matters” specifically relating to Manafort (financial crimes), and Papadopolous and Flynn (FARA violations).

7. These paragraphs tell us a great deal about what originated the purpose of the FBI investigation and the continued purpose of the special counsel.

8. Remember, the special counsel was a continuance of the FBI counterintelligence operation which *officially* began on July 31st, 2016.

[The unofficial beginning was much earlier]

9. Understanding now that Weissmann and Mueller are saying from Day One of the special counsel beginning, they were investigating the Steele Dossier.

Here’s where everyone needs to check and question their original assumptions. Hopefully, I can explain why it is important.

10. From the beginning most people have thought the Fusion-GPS objective was to dig up dirt on Trump for political exploitation. However,... with all the recent information outlined there’s actually a more significant role for Fusion.

11. The overall intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government was already conducting political surveillance on their political opposition. The systems of the intelligence apparatus such as FISA-702(16)(17) databases searches were being exploited months (if not years) beforehand.

12. When NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers discovered the FBI use of the NSA database he shut down FBI contractor access on April 18th, 2016.

theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/05/ope…

13. When Fusion GPS was hired by the DNC and Clinton team, also in April of 2016, it now appears the purpose was to provide cover for government surveillance already taking place. Perhaps part of that motive was fear of what NSA Mike Rogers might do.

Stay with me....

14. As a precaution, the Obama administration (U.S. government intelligence apparatus) needed an external source of information that could cover/justify their domestic surveillance and spy operations.

15. That’s why Fusion GPS was hired, and why emphasis was put on using European and Australian intelligence contacts to create the plausible process to continue surveillance that was always taking place.

16. This corrupt weaponizing of the U.S. intelligence apparatus is MUCH BIGGER than anyone currently absorbs. The Steele Dossier was an *eventual* part of the cover-story.

Begin with the end in mind....

17. In August 2016, when Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were discussing the “insurance policy” , they were not discussing insurance from the perspective of their success, ie. Clinton elected;... they were discussing insurance from the position of: what if they failed.

18. If Clinton was elected, great; everything continues as normal. However, if Clinton was not elected the preexisting weaponization of government needed a cover story, a plausible legitimate reason for why political surveillance/spying was taking place.

19. This is the insurance policy need…. This is why they needed the Steele Dossier.

20. Regardless of anything happening to stop them, the IC was already conducting surveillance of their political opposition. To validate that surveillance the intelligence community needed a plausible FBI counterintelligence operation. That’s where John Brennan (CIA) comes in.

Brennan manufactured the plausible excuse for an FBI operation to begin through the use of “unofficial channels” via Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper and eventually Alexander Downer via an Australian intelligence asset Erika Thompson.

22. Notice how this is worded. It was Erika Thompson (quoted on May 6th) who was working in London with U.S. intelligence assets (DIA) Terrence Dudley and Greg Baker, ie. the “Papadopoulos operation”.

23. While the overseas op. was working to create plausible explanation & start Crossfire Hurricane, back in the U.S. Fusion-GPS was contracted to supplement the appearances for a domestic parallel track.

24. Fusion ran operations for the "Russian appearances" inside the U.S.

An example is the Trump Tower meeting.

25. For their domestic effort, Fusion was using previously extracted FISA-702(16)(17) results to create more supportive evidence and plausible material.

That part of the Fusion effort led to the Chris Steele Dossier.

26. However, in a similar way the Brennan operation needed the Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer to cross from “unofficial” into “official” channels, the Steele Dossier needs a way to cross from "unofficial opposition research" into "official investigative product" status.

27. Enter the FISA warrant.

A FISA warrant that could be built upon the Steele Dossier was what they needed.

28. The Steele Dossier is the investigative virus the FBI needed. To get the virus into official status, they use the FISA application as the delivery method and injected it into Carter Page.

29. The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the Dossier in the system.

30. With the communication from A. Downer (foundation for the EC), in conjunction with the Steele Dossier (foundation for the Page FISA), the CIA and FBI now held a plausible basis to explain/justify all of their 2015 and 2016 political spying and surveillance activity.

31. This is their insurance policy.

32. If Hillary wins the election, everything just evaporates into the ether. However, if Hillary loses the election – the fraudulent investigative evidence now protects all of the players for their role in weaponized intelligence spying and surveillance operations.

33. Andrew Weissmann was/is one of the DOJ participants who is well aware of the status of the operations as they proceed. In 2016 and 2017 Weissmann is being briefed by DOJ official Bruce Ohr who is carrying messages from Fusion-GPS and Chris Steele into the FBI.

34. Just like the Susan Rice justification Memo, fraudulent justifications are what’s behind these paragraphs in the Rosenstein scope memos as delivered to Weissmann and Mueller.

That's why Weissmann/Mueller outline them, but Rosenstein in DOJ kept them hidden.

35. Key Point: Fusion GPS was not hired to research Trump, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations.

36. In the same way the Brennan operation created justification for the EC to start Crossfire Hurricane..... the Steele Dossier created justification for preexisting domestic surveillance and spy operations against political opposition; and gave entry to continue.

Fusion-GPS gave them the justification they needed with the Steele Dossier.

That’s why the Steele Dossier is so important in the scope memos.

They were burning the constitution.

This what they were doing by weaponizing the intelligence community to target their domestic political opposition.

This is why we must ensure that none of them gets away with this.

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