We should
have known that a Bush henchman would be involved in this spying.
Well, you
see, the mole wasn't a spy, he was an informant. Aha. Let's use a microscope to
tell the difference.
The mole:
Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor.
Supposedly,
Halper was gathering information for the FBI about a suspected Trump-Russia
connection.
Well,
what else has Halper done? At The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald reports: "Four decades ago, Halper
was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980
election, in which the Reagan campaign - using CIA officials managed by Halper,
reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and
then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush - got caught running a spying
operation from inside the Carter administration. The plot involved CIA
operatives passing classified information about Carter's foreign policy to
Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any
foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering."
Oops.
That doesn't smell good. CIA operatives, managed by Halper, infiltrated the
presidential campaign, spied on Jimmy Carter and his advisors, and relayed
information about Carter's foreign policy to Reagan's team.
But we're
supposed to believe, without evidence, that in 2016 Halper was only trying to
dig up information on a Trump-Russia connection.
What more do we know about Stefan
Halper, the mole for hire? Breitbart: "Halper...served as an assistant to
all three of President Gerald Ford's Chief of Staffs - Alexander Haig, Donald
Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney..." Quite a trio of politicians. I don't think
you'd want to list them on your resume, if you were applying for a job with an
organization that showed a shred of ethics.
And then there is this: In 1984, Halper
was the chairman of the Palmer National Bank. Breitbart: "White House
official Oliver North wiredloaned funds from the Palmer National
Bank to a Swiss bank account, which were later used to aid the [Nicaraguan]
contras." The contras, backed by the CIA, were trying to derail the
Sandinista government, and in the process, reportedly carried out over 1000
terrorist attacks. Transferring funds from the US to the contras was illegal.
Glenn Greenwald: "...the CIA
operative and FBI informant [Stefan Halper] used to gather information on the
Trump campaign in the 2016 campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a
sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA
operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a
dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential
election."
But don't
worry. Nothing untoward is going on here. The FBI merely needed a man on the
inside of the Trump campaign, to make sure Russia wasn't exercising undue
influence on the 2016 presidential election. Nothing more. No problem. Just ask
the FBI. They'll confirm this. The FBI high echelon is squeaky clean. They
never lie.
One other
thing. Stefan Halper's
father-in-law was Ray Cline, an infamous CIA agent. From Wikispooks:
"Cline has been an outspoken proponent of disinformation and direct
manipulation of the press by the CIA. In testimony before the House Select
Committee on Intelligence, Cline defended the use of such covert devices as
black propaganda and the funding of journalists, arguing that 'the First
Amendment is only an amendment'."
"He
[Cline] later became director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence
and Research (1969-73), where he helped coordinate the CIA's destabilization
and eventual overthrow of the Allende government in Chile."
But
again, no problem. Why would we even suspect Halper was engaged in anything
illegal during his time as a mole inside the Trump campaign?
The FBI
is pure as the driven snow. So is the CIA. All is well.
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