Thread by @RobertPLewis

Thread: Can't Have Russian Collusion without Russians / The Binary Choices We (Hopefully) See Mon:

1- For those who prefer the old fashioned long-form article, this thread is taken from my weekly column from the last conservative paper in Los Angeles:

santaclaritafree.com/gazette/opinio…

2- As of the time I’m writing this, the government’s expected release of the inspector general’s report on FISA abuse regarding the Spygate and Russiagate controversy is slated to be released on Monday, December 9th - although I would wager that’s likely to shift.

3- The media, both television and print, are doing their best to get out ahead of the potentially damning report, by hiring the former intelligence heads who are likely implicated, to continue spinning the narrative they’d prefer over reality.

4- It is quite amusing to watch the media, who proved they have zero access to this White House by getting just about every “bombshell” given to them by “anonymous sources” over the past three years wrong, now claim they have some sort of insider knowledge about this report...

5- ...that has had zero leaks since IG Horowitz began his investigation.

The narrative spinning and wild accusations can be dizzying, so rather than put one of my own out there to muddy the waters further, I’d like to remind everyone of two simple, binary options...

6- ...which can either prove the MSM & Democrat accusations accurate, or once and for all put this nonsense to rest.

(H/T to @dbongino & @drawandstrike
who have been speaking about one of these binary options for years)

7- I’m talking, of course, about the mysterious Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud and the DNC server, claimed to be the target of a Russian hacking operation.

8- There are so many different aspects to these conspiracies that one could easily get lost trying to list them all, but I’ve chosen these two because they are both simple, binary options that could be answered in the FISA report and be able to put these to bed at last.

9- Actually, they should have both been answered in the Mueller Report, and as they weren’t it seems as if Mueller had a different task than what we had been told.

So let’s start with Joseph Mifsud, who the Mueller team identified as a Russian agent supposedly...

10-...attempting to provide the Trump campaign with the “hacked” Clinton/DNC emails released by Wikileaks.

If Mifsud is truly a Russian agent, it will lead credence to the claims that Russia was attempting to get damaging Clinton dirt to the Trump campaign.

11- If he is not, however, the entire story (and Mueller report) falls apart.

There is already plenty of evidence in the public domain that Mifsud is not a Russian agent. His own lawyer stated that he worked for western intelligence, not Russia.

12- He taught at Link Campus in Rome, a university used by the FBI, CIA, NSA, MI6 and a plethora of other western intelligence agencies to train their operatives.

13- He moderated a panel at a Doha conference with the former heads of several western intelligence agencies, was very friendly with former heads of UK and Italian intelligence, and even worked closely with one of the heads of the UK intelligence agency’s vetting office...

14-...- literally the person whose job it was to decipher whether someone was a Russian asset or not.

If Mifsud truly were a Russian agent, he would have been the most highly placed and successfully infiltrated intelligence asset in all of human history...

15-...given his interaction with both western diplomats and intelligence heads.

It should also be noted that, despite the Mueller team’s preference for prosecuting people who were less than truthful with them, the team who interviewed Mifsud noted that he lied...

16-...in their interview, yet chose not to prosecute, and not even to call him in for a follow-up.

But we’re supposed to believe that’s completely normal.

So if the Horowitz report indicates that, as all signs already do, Mifsud is in fact a western intelligence asset...

17-...rather than Russian, the entire Russian collusion story immediately falls apart.

It should also be noted that if he turns out to be a Russian asset, it means that the entirety of western intelligence is completely inept in terms of vetting people...

18-...as he would have slipped by every western intelligence agency and never even triggered a damage assessment, which is supposed to be done any time an adversary gets an intelligence asset into our network.

19-Likewise, if the Horowitz report indicates that the infamous DNC server was never hacked by Russia, and the Wikileaks emails were in fact delivered to Julian Assange by Seth Rich (Rich’s parents and brother have already admitted as much), the entire Russian collusion...

20-...case falls apart.

It should be noted that the FBI never took possession or even looked at the server in question (which is highly irregular), instead relying entirely on a report by Crowdstrike which was highly redacted by the private, Google-funded firm.

21-Remember that no one, not the Clinton campaign nor DNC ever claimed the emails in question were forgeries - all of their efforts went into reframing these emails making their way to Wikileaks via Russian hacking, rather than a human source delivering a USB drive.

22-Bill Benney, the former NSA operative who created the ThinThread program has done his own investigation, indicating that it would have been physically impossible for the Wikileaks emails to have been procured via hacking, but nobody seems to want to listen to him.

23-So we’re at a point where we have been thrust into a land of confusion regarding whether Russians attempted to collude with the Trump campaign to help him win the 2016 election, and whether the FBI was justified in launching a counter-intelligence operation...

24- ...against a Presidential candidate.

If they had, this would have been a poor choice for Russia, given Trump’s increasing our military, our nuclear deterrence against Russia, his increase of our oil output and crushing sanctions on the Russian government.

25- And finally, at this point in time after three years of wailing and gnashing of teeth, we find ourselves with two distinct, binary options which can lay the entire case to rest (and deal a death blow to the past three years of media reporting and Pulitzer Prize awards).

26 - I hope that Horowitz, unlike Mueller, took his charge seriously and chose not only to investigate, but also to inform the American public about these significant parts of the origins of this case. If he did, we may finally be able to put these to bed.

27 - If he didn’t, at least we still have the Durham investigation to look to for closure. Either way, it’s worth waiting just a few more days to find out.

28 - Expect the media to spin, lie and do everything they can to change the narrative & protect themselves. If you have as much mistrust of the media as I & most Americans do, follow @drawandstrike and watch @dbongino 's show on YouTube or listen to his podcast to get caught up.