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“Did Spygate Source Stefan Halper Work For Hillary Clinton's Campaign?” thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/did…

“One wouldn’t expect the CIA to disclose its agents and sources publicly. But that didn’t stop “people familiar with the matter” from leaking to the Washington Post that “the professor”—easily identified as Halper —had served as a source for both the FBI and the CIA”

“Halper’s past relationship with the CIA highlights yet another possible task master for the 76-year-old during the 2016 election and raises the question of whether Halper was working for CIA or another intelligence agency before FBI brought him on as a CHS in early August 2016”

“The IG report’s conclusion that the FBI had not used any confidential human sources prior to the launch of Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, indicates Halper had another boss before then, because Halper first engaged with Page at a small dinner in Cambridge on July 10, 2016”

“But additional facts raise still another possibility: that Halper was working with the Clinton campaign at this time.” @ProfMJCleveland @FDRLST

“On July 6, 2016, just days before Halper dined with Carter Page and a dozen other select guests at Magdalene College, Halper spoke at a plenary lecture series at Cambridge on “the phenomenon which is ‘Trump’s maverick candidacy.’” A write-up of the talk noted that..

Halper “explain[ed] the deficits in Clinton’s campaign which have caused the campaign to become almost too close to call,” and then “concluded his talk by stating that if the media focuses on Clinton, she will lose, whereas if they continue to focus on Trump, he will lose.”

“This will be true despite Trump’s adept handling of the media that has resulted in him receiving two billion dollars’ worth of free media coverage,” Halper said, according to the blog post.

Four days after sharing his sage insights with the attendees of the lecture series,

Halper welcomed Clinton surrogate and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and former Republican Party strategist and outspoken Never Trumper Vin Weber, to the same Cambridge conference Page attended. According to the Washington Post, Page’s presence at that conference...

...came at the behest of Halper, whose grad student called and emailed Page an invitation to the seminar. The Post also reported that Cambridge paid for Page’s air travel and accommodations—a strange arrangement given that Page was not a featured speaker at the conference.”

“While at Cambridge, Page dined with Halper and a small group of other dignitaries. On August 5, 2016, the Washington Post also reported that while at the Cambridge conference, Page attended “a closed-door session co-chaired by former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright and

..Republican consultant Vin Weber.” Page declined to comment on the article, though, which portrayed Page as a Russian patsy and further laid the groundwork for the Russia-collusion conspiracy theory. But if Page did not speak with reporters, who told the Post that...

... Page participated in a “closed-door session” with Albright and Weber? Could it have been Halper? This same time frame—late July to early August—was when Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, in concert with and on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee and...

Clinton campaign, also began promoting the Russia-conspiracy hoax in earnest. While Steele worked the FBI, details from the dodgy dossier were also peddled to the press, as demonstrated by this July 26, 2016 text from Damian Paletta—then with the Wall Street Journal—show.”

“The text’s mention of Page’s supposed meeting in Moscow with Igor Sechin, and the Russian’s possession of “solid kompromat on Clinton as well as Trump,” mirrored portions of Steele’s July 19, 2016 memorandum. This suggests either Steele or Fusion GPS had begun plying the...

...press with the dossier almost as soon as Steele penned that work of fiction.
Steele wasn’t the only one selling the Russia collusion story to the press, though, according to Svetlana Lokhova.
Lokhova, a U.K. citizen of Russian descent, and a former Cambridge Ph.D. student,

..sued Halper and others for defamation, alleging the defendants pushed the falsehood that she was a Russian spy and the paramour of @GenFlynn. Lokhova told Federalist that “Halper had been pushing the story that I was a Russian spy and Flynn’s mistress since December of 2016.”

“New York Times’ Rosenberg told me a source had been circulating these stories since December 2016” Lokhova said. Smith, in his book “The Plot Agains the President” confirmed the story that Flynn had a relationship with Lokhova had been circulated to the press since December 2016

If Halper had been priming the press, why and on whose behalf?

The FBI fired Steele for talking to the press, making clear that’s a no-no for a CHS. Conversely, the DNC and Clinton campaign paid for Fusion GPS to seed the media with tales of Trump’s supposed escapades.

“One must wonder if Halper was helping the Clinton campaign in those efforts.” @ProfMJCleveland @FDRLST
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