The facts and truth – Ha - I use conspiracy labels and false hype
Full story highlights from here – and BTW: I am changing Trump’s
middle name from “John” to Donald “Alex Jones”
Trump – why? Because Trump proves almost daily that he is a close second to the
conspiracy nutcase Jones especially when tied to FOX and Hannity and his daily
BS spewing. Hell, maybe Trump is even tied for first place with both of them?
Either, way, we have never had a president this paranoid as Trump at least in
my lifetime.
This Story: The woman who oversaw the Obama
White House’s response to the Russian election attack said she was never
briefed on the FBI’s use of an informant to investigate the Trump campaign and
that it was “ridiculous” for President Trump to claim that the matter amounted
to “one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.”
Avril Haines, who
served as deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration, made the comments during an
exclusive interview with the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” In her first
full-length interview since leaving government, Haines also said she had been
“very concerned” in 2016 about the degree to which Russians might have gained
“influence” within the Trump campaign — concerns that were fueled by Trump’s
public comments about Putin that she found “wildly disconnected from reality.”
Haines said when asked if she was ever told about the
confidential FBI informant who made contact with three members of the Trump
campaign said: “No, absolutely not. We didn’t even know at the time there was
an [FBI] investigation as such.”
Plus, she said the FBI briefed the NSC “on a regular basis”
about what she termed “counterintelligence issues” but that it had not told the
council that any formal probe of the Trump campaign had been initiated.
Over the past week, Trump and his allies have repeatedly
claimed that the “Obama administration” had planted a “spy” inside the Trump
campaign for political purposes, prompting them to demand that the Justice
Department and FBI turn over documents about a confidential informant – a former University of Cambridge professor
— who had contacted three campaign advisers.
Law enforcement officials have countered that using
such informants amid counterintelligence investigations — which the FBI had
launched in late July 2016 into Russian efforts to penetrate the Trump campaign
— is standard procedure.
Asked about one of Trump’s tweets referring to the use of the
informant as “Spy-gate” and claiming that it may be “one of the biggest
political scandals in U.S. history,” Haines
said: “Surely, you realize that I think that’s ridiculous. … It’s very
unfortunate that the current president of the United States goes after the
institutions that he is responsible for in a way that is not at least
apparently the product of deliberation and thoughtfulness.”
Noteworthy: Haines, who had previously served as
deputy CIA director under John Brennan, was charged by the White House in the
summer of 2016 with overseeing the U.S. response to the Russian election
attack.
That response was
a highly secretive process that she said was further complicated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-KY) and his refusal to go along with a bipartisan warning about the
Russian efforts.
In a highly controversial decision, the White House chose not
to respond to those efforts until after the election, fearing that it might
disrupt the voting. Instead, Obama warned Putin privately during a summit in
China — a move that officials thought was productive because the White House
detected no further Russian attempts to tamper with state election databases,
which was their chief worry at the time.
Still, Haines acknowledged that there were aspects of the
Russian attack — especially the exploitation of social media platforms such as Facebook and
Twitter — the White House and the
U.S. intelligence community did not fully understand at the time and that
continued after Obama’s warning. “The picture you have now we didn’t have then.
Honestly, we could have done better from the policy perspective. In thinking
that through, I think we all have a piece of that to live with. I do think,
though, even knowing that, I’m not sure our reactions would have been any
different,” she concluded.
My 2 Cents: For Mr. Trump and like-minded nuts
on this “spy/mole/plant” conspiracy I have one word: STFU – your constant undermining
of the time-tested agencies and people serving and protecting this nation with
honor and dignity has gone too far.
Your rabid partisanship has it a new low –
even if that possible. What is the outcome? Wait and see – which the GOP can’t
seem to grasp the reality of that premise of wait and see.
In the meantime as I
said they are doing great damage to the country and the leader of that assault
is the President himself and this story reinforces my assessment and that of
millions of other like me.
Stay tuned for more truth vs. their BS, and as
always, thanks for stopping by.
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