A top FBI official admitted to Congressional investigators last year that the agency had contacts within the Trump campaign as part of operation “Crossfire Hurricane,” which sounds a lot like FBI “informant” Stefan Halper - a former Oxford University professor who was paid over $1 million by the Obama Department of Defense between 2012 and 2018, with nearly half of it surrounding the 2016 US election.
According to portions of transcripts published on Tuesday by the Epoch Times of a Aug. 31, 2018 deposition by Trisha Anderson, the FBI relied on sources who “already had campaign contacts” in order to surveil the Trump team.
“To my knowledge, the FBI did not place anybody within a campaign but, rather, relied upon its network of sources, some of whom already had campaign contacts, including the source that has been discussed in the media at some length beyond Christopher Steele,” said Anderson - who was the #2 attorney at the FBI’s Office of General Counsel, and had extensive involvement with the Trump counterintelligence investigation.
Halper is reportedly a longtime CIA and FBI informant, and has been involved in US politics at the highest levels for decades, becoming George H.W. Bush’s National Director for Policy Development during his presidential campaign. After Bush lost to Reagan, Halper worked as Reagan’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State - where he served under three different Secretaries.
He then became a senior advisor to the Department of Defense and DOJ between 1984 and 2001. Halper’s former father-in-law was Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA. He also allegedly spied on the Carter administration - collecting information on foreign policy (an account disputed by Ray Cline).
Stefan Halper was indeed married to Ray Cline's daughter, Sibyl Cline, now known as Sibyl MacKenzie.https://t.co/bT3xLY4XM5https://t.co/oOByAmgi5R pic.twitter.com/n2IuDC9FId
— The_War_Economy (@The_War_Economy) March 26, 2018
Apparently Halper and his team of Central Intelligence Agency people during the Reagan / Bush ticket actually collected inside information on the Carter Administration's foreign policy - with Halper in charge - although Ray Cline rejected this account.https://t.co/h4bIIjgB4U pic.twitter.com/8qgEe1OJOO
— The_War_Economy (@The_War_Economy) March 26, 2018
Halper’s involvement in surveilling the Trump campaign was exposed by the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross, who reported that the 74-year-old spook was enlisted by the FBI to befriend and spy on three members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election.
Halper received a DoD contract from the Obama administration for $411,575 - made in two payments, and had a start date of September 26, 2016 - three days after a September 23 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff about Trump aide Carter Page, which used information fed to Isikoff by “pissgate” dossier creator Christopher Steele. The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the unverified “pissgate” dossier as supporting evidence in an FISA warrant application for Page.
Halper approached Page during an election-themed conference at Cambridge on July 11, 2016, six weeks after the September 26 DoD award start date. The two would stay in contact for the next 14 months, frequently meeting and exchanging emails.
He said that he first encountered the informant during a conference in mid-July of 2016 and that they stayed in touch. The two later met several times in the Washington area. Mr. Page said their interactions were benign. -New York Times
And as the Daily Caller reports, Halper used a decades-old association with Paul Manafort to break the ice with Page.
In September 2016, the FBI would send Halper to further probe Trump aide George Papadopoulos on an allegation he made that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. According to Papadopoulos in an interview with Dan Bongino, Halper angrily accused him of working with Russia before storming out of a meeting.
Halper essentially began interrogating Papadopoulos, saying that it’s “obviously in your interest to be working with the Russians” and to “hack emails.” “You’re complicit with Russia in this, isn’t that right George” Halper told him. Halper also inquired about Hillary’s hacked emails, insinuating that Papadopoulos possessed them. Papadopoulos denied knowing anything about this and asked to be left alone. -Bongino.com
Just don’t call Halper a spy…
via zerohedge
Spying? Heavens no. The FBI was protecting Trump from the Russians and insure him winning the Presidency. Yeah. Yeah. That’s it. Hillary and the Bern weren’t protected.Shows who the FBI supported. Sometimes logic is unnecessary.
When ever “Hillary RODENT Clinton” name comes up, I add my lowly opinion of her, Hillary is the “Queen Mother of all Rats”, let us never forget that because her middle name is the “RODENT” that she in not only related to RODENTS but she, herself, is definitely a RODENT, who lives in the darkness and sneaks every where she goes! BTW, recent word on the street, from my most reliable, trusted sources is, Hillary RODENT Clinton has just joined the Atheist church, which is not a church so to speak, it is a Anti-God church or “meeting place” of those who don’t believe in the Father of Light, the God who made us all! Well, there is a special spot waiting in Hell for the “RODENT”, it is standing for all eternity in front of the Blast Furnace that heats up the place. She actually took over for the Devil, as she was found by God to be even more evil then He was/is! So, if you are a Christen I wouldn’t plan on seeing Hillary hanging around in Heaven in the near eternity, perhaps later one after eternity is over, but there’s no evidence to confirm that guess at all, in fact, I just made it up because I could.
That wasn’t very nice! But it is correct. Send Hillary to Venezuela!
Hilary is a lying,murdering,traitor to our country and should be treated as such.
Probable Cause - look it up
JAIL THEM.
hangem high
Justice please!
Ok will’ll call it TREASON then ! Better ?
Lock up Fatso!
The FBI cannot even lie very well. Infiltrating is spying. If you are listening, watching or playing word games, it’s still spying. I’ll bet if the spying would have really turned up some real evidence, it would have already been in the headlines. The FBI needs to be totally such down so a good cleaning can be preformed. It would take some very strong chemicals to clean up the FBI crooked lying. Maybe a chemical called lead would work very well?
Watergate all over again.No difference .you can call a tomatoe an apple all day long ,guess what,its still a tomatoe.
What the heck else would you call him? The new AG had better start cleaning house at the FBI, starting with Christopher Wray. What another disappointment he turned out to be! He should have started cleaning house the minute he got there, but he chose to keep all of the tarnished agents AND Andrew McCabe? What a colossal mistake Wray is!
Look like the more we stir that pot the more stinking facts come out line all the dirty players up and shoot them starting with Killarney the rodent
We need a fire and brimstone AG to take them all down looks like the more the pot is stored the more stinking facts come out looks like fire if squad time
What we seem to have is the Obumo and Clinton hacks are a group of corrupt people who had no worry how much distortion / fake facts they create because good old Hillary would be Pres and cover all their illegal acts. It seems that this country ‘s biggest fear should be the Dems controling the govt… They cannot be trusted. They are out to destroy everything about our Republic. These Dems are Socialists. Communists. Marxists.
Redfray, you are so right. Who do they think they’re kidding with their double speak? One definition of “infiltrate” is “to penetrate (an organization) for the purpose of spying, sabotage, or the like.” They act like we are stupid and will swallow whatever they put out there.
“After Bush lost to Reagan”? When was that?
Spying is what it is and should be prosecuted for his crimes. All of the ones involved in this should be held accountable.