Those obsessed with the stern merkined one's investigation into FISA abuse re Steele should remember that FISAs are to investigate espionage as (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and the Office of the Inspector General has been down this road before. justice.gov/storage/120919…
There was deep suspicion that specific members of Trump's team were not only in contact with foreign agents (aka spies) but might even be getting paid by them with the end state being infiltration and manipulation of our government. justice.gov/nsd-fara/frequ…
Turns out that the FBI was correct. They just didn't shoot high or wide enough. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had sent a friend Rick Gerson to the Seychelles to set up a "back channel" with Putin. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
In many cases spies are already being targeted. If they talk to a U.S. citizen then it's fair game. Kushner not only explored deals with Putin but quickly strong armed Qatar and cozied up to MBS and MBz. The Dunham investigation ignores Jared's role in foreign espionage.
The Steele Report was one of many sources used by the FBI to begin the investigation into foreign espionage, influence and bribery. They just haven't gone far enough. Why Because Barr blocked them. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Some cases like George Nader's were written to focus on Clinton campaign, some like Prince's were slow rolled, others were so egregious they caught leaders of nations in the trap. It has taken a long time to get back on the case but justice grinds forward. thebulwark.com/thomas-barrack…
The Barr/Dunham investigation is trying to blame the investigators instead of the centralized criminality of the Trump family. Trying to project the idea of being "set up" and avoiding the Russia/UAE/KSA bribery/influence run by Jared. Why not investigate the Abraham Accords?
The Abraham Accords not only injected billions of dirty money into the Trump crime family but resulted in the worst case scenario: The UAE deciding to dump the U.S. and hire Wagner to to their dirty work in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. A criminal cabal that was unthinkable
The media and to a certain extent the FBI uses the 2016 framework of "potential foreign influence" and then ODs on the lists of nations and individuals who penetrated the White House to shape policy. It's much worse if you you look backwards from today.
It didn't help that Trump tried to violently overthrow our government. He had a lot to loose. The Abraham Accords were just the beginning. He had stripped troops from conflicts worldwide, enabled money laundering, stayed out of regional conflicts. He was being a good vassal.
Thankfully somebody handed the Biden administration a large dossier. They are currently looking in all the right places and privately bitch slapping all the right people. The downside is that petrodictators and regional strongmen aren't our friends anymore. It's a fine line.
Petrodictators buy our weapons, Israel has massive influence amongst our politicians. Russia can choke off the UE in fifteen minutes. China is laughing their ass off. We haven't formed a policy to deal with this new matrix. But we are watching democracy vanish.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
