Obama FBI Ran Off-The-Books 'Honeypot' Operation On Trump Campaign In 2015

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...n-2015-whistleblower


Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign

Alleged off-the-books investigation predated FBI's Russia collusion probe

https://www.washingtontimes.co...oney-pot-spies-infi/

The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.

An FBI agent involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected disclosure sent to the committee.

The whistleblower disclosure said two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail.

According to the disclosure, which The Washington Times reviewed, the investigation differed from the later Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation targeting Russian collusion. It said the early off-the-books probe was a criminal investigation targeting Mr. Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign staff.

The agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation against Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure.

The off-the-books investigation did not appear to target a specific crime but was more of what agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find something incriminating about Mr. Trump.

The Times reached out to the FBI and Mr. Comey for comment.

A House Judiciary Committee spokesman said the committee received the whistleblower allegations and “plans to look into them.”

The whistleblower said the undercover operation was hidden from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who investigated misconduct in the bureau’s probe of the Trump campaign.

The whistleblower disclosure also said the secret investigation may indicate institutional bias against Mr. Trump, though “it does not appear that any information about this investigation was turned over to Trump’s criminal defense counsels.”

Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said the report, if true, is a “booming, egregious violation” of the rules governing the attorney general and the FBI.

“It’s an unpredicated infiltration of a presidential campaign which is sensitive,” he told The Times. “It’s sensitive to the point where it would have to have been approved by the [attorney general] and … would have to be predicated. And in this case, I’m not hearing any predication. It would have to be on the books anyway, regardless.”

Mr. Trump launched his first presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City, about a year before the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane, a counterintelligence investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated, knowingly or unknowingly, with the Russian government’s efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

The FBI investigation and a Justice Department special counsel probe did not find evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.

The earlier off-the-books investigation, according to the disclosure, “had no predicated foundation, so Mr. Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system.”

The disclosure notes that the FBI has multiple methods of concealing highly sensitive investigations, so Mr. Comey did not have a “legitimate reason” to avoid creating a case file in the FBI’s system.

Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 until May 2017, when President Trump fired him.

The disclosure said Deputy Director Dave Bowdich and Paul Abbate, assistant director in charge of the Washington field office, were also involved in helping Mr. Comey execute the secret probe.

The undercover “honeypot” agents targeted Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, according to the whistleblower.

Mr. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to the felony charge of making false statements to the FBI in October 2017 about his contacts related to U.S.-Russia relations.

Mr. Trump pardoned him in 2020, two years after he served 12 days in federal prison and was placed on a one-year supervised release.

Justice Department documents declassified in April 2020 revealed that FBI agent Curtis Heide was the handler for a confidential human source who recorded Mr. Papadopoulos.

In the recordings, Mr. Papadopoulos adamantly denied that the Trump campaign was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s emails in 2016.

He rebuffed claims that the Trump campaign was working with Russia.

Mr. Papadopoulos’ denials were withheld from the FBI’s warrant application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to documents released by Attorney General William P. Barr.

In a December 2019 report, Mr. Horowitz listed the failure to include Mr. Papadopoulos’ denials as two of 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s application for court permission to spy on Trump campaign figure Carter Page.

The FBI whistleblower said the off-the-books investigation was closed because a newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercover agents and was about to publish it.

The FBI press office, according to the agent’s disclosure, misled the newspaper by claiming the photograph was of an FBI informant, not an undercover agent. The FBI said the informant would be killed if the photograph was published.

Additionally, the FBI employee alleged that one of the undercover agents agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness, and another bureau employee involved in the operation was rewarded for her activities with a promotion and now is a high-level FBI executive.

“The FBI employee personally observed one or more employees in the FBI being directed to never discuss the operation with anyone ever again, which included talking with other people involved in the operation,” the disclosure states.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Filthy POS Drudge.

He has taken his rag status to 11. Just another TRUMP hater who has lifted his dress to show his bleeding butt-hurt.

That "future" video is everything the left is and wants. Nothing about their motives is more transparent than when they accuse us.

Any one of these would have been great, but all four- my, my:

https://x.com/EvilDevilInside/.../1852218990967341372

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Any one of these would have been great, but all four- my, my:

That is a great move.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
This is incredible. You guys will love this.

https://x.com/njhochman/status/1852172049386529178

Yet it’s posted on the platform whose owner is one of the architects of this dystopian future who is using “censorship “ as a tool to achieve unlimited power…otherwise cool plot. When does this movie come out? Mini-series? HBO? Amazon? Netflix?

Did you catch Elon in an Iron Man suit?
Pretty Cool.

RFK Jr. is a decent and good man, he should get the "Profiles in Courage" award his family gives to commie clowns. His decision to support President Trump, took guts, and he will be a great asset to the 47th administration.

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RFK Jr. is a decent and good man, he should get the "Profiles in Courage" award his family gives to commie clowns. His decision to support President Trump, took guts, and he will be a great asset to the 47th administration.

Trump, RFK Jr, Elon Musk are all cut from the same cloth. Fearless men of courage and vision. Do the right thing at any cost. Trump is clearly putting his life on the line. RFK Jr is doing what he thinks is right and for the good of all Americans at the cost of being disowned and ridiculed by his family. Musk is risking his empire. None of these men have to be doing what they are. They could live in the lap of luxury but they choose to fight. These are men that have come to be where they are at this moment in time by the grace of God.

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...They could live in the lap of luxury but they choose to fight. These are men that have come to be where they are at this moment in time by the grace of God.

Sounds like 1776 all over again.

Trump said that Liz Cheney is a "war hawk" and that she should be given a rifle and sent into battle with people shooting back at her. And that she would not do that because she is a coward.

Her family made a fortune as a defense contractor run by her father. The left has twisted this saying that Trump called for her execution.

Here is one question that demolishes that stupid argument: "When has there been an execution in which the target had a rifle?"

I feel stupid for having admired Cheney in Bush's administration. Doubly bad, I admired Bush. They are the "Masters of War" that Dylan sang about.

Trump, being the great man he is, issued a "clarification" in which he said the statement about Liz Cheney as a war hawk-- was absolutely true.

Did anyone see the Instragram posts from Lara Trump about the thousands of duplicate ballots in Michigan? I don't have Instagram but had two people send me screen shots of it.

I found this: https://www.newsweek.com/repub...allots-found-1977936

https://x.com/tvheidihatch/status/1851753425350148275

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https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/s...098303021060/photo/1

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Interesting that Rasmussen, a highly respected independent pollster, says things making it sound like he's a Republican cheerleader. "Yeah nothing wrong there, all good, move along..." Be impartial and just report the data. Leave the editorializing to us partisans.

Watching the Michigan rally tonight. I really don't see how he can lose Michigan. (I know he might) Plant closings, layoffs, etc. President Trump has a plan on how to stop this shit. His opponent not so much.

EDIT: Just went to the Kamala rally on YouTube. Bunch of female rappers. They are very pretty but their music sucks. Pathetic doesn't even describe the Kamala shit storm

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https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/s...098303021060/photo/1

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Interesting that Rasmussen, a highly respected independent pollster, says things making it sound like he's a Republican cheerleader. "Yeah nothing wrong there, all good, move along..." Be impartial and just report the data. Leave the editorializing to us partisans.

I expect this kind of stuff all over the place but now that they have figured out they've voted more than once, is there a process to identify and remove those ballots? That's the problem with the Pennsylvania ballots.

Governor Inslee of Washington State has issued an order to really the National Guard.

To protect the citizens from the liberal lunatics. He is expecting violence.

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an order to really the National Guard.

What does that mean?

^ready?

Coalition...

It can be the most powerful way to get things done that need doing, to right Lady Columbia, on the windswept seas into which she has been poorly sailed.