Journalist best known for publishing “The Twitter Files” and his work chronicling Occupy Wall Street protests learns of evidence of Obama-era “political espionage” operations in new Substack report He is no different from his target, Donald Trump. long suspected.
Matt Taibbi, who published the report with Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger and reporter Alex Gutentag, also told Fox News that the story of Trump-Russia collusion is similar to that of Bush-era Iraq. He said it has the same characteristics as the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) claim.
On “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” host Jesse Watters covers the report extensively, and Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan targets English-speaking U.S. allies against the Trump campaign in 2016. and reported that foreign intelligence services were provided with a list of 26. Persons in Trumpworld may be “clashed” or encountered by intelligence agencies.
Watters speculated that one such person might be George Papadopoulos. He is a former campaign staffer who was later found guilty of lying to federal investigators during an investigation in which he was approached by operatives who had brought “dirt” on Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton while overseas. Admitted.
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“Foreign spies did not ‘discover’ evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and turn it over to the federal government. Foreign spies did not “discover” evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and turn it over to the federal government. Obama’s CIA worked with Hillary’s foreign agents in London to fabricate false rumors that led to FBI investigations, illegal wiretapping, [Gen.] Mike Flynn stabbed him…” Watters reported.
The report states that the U.S. intelligence agency asked the Five Eyes, an intelligence agency made up of Americans, British, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders, to “monitor Trump’s associates and collect information they obtained. “Share the information with U.S. government agencies.”
Taibbi said information about the alleged cooperation was reportedly located in a 10-inch binder in Langley, Virginia, the CIA’s headquarters, and if true, would violate espionage and election laws. He added that it would be a big deal.
Mr. Taibbi told Mr. Watters that the scope of the special counsel’s investigation, led by former Connecticut State Attorney John Durham, was limited and did not expand in any particular direction.
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“The information we have, the investigation conducted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, what they found was widespread political espionage,” he said.
Mr Taibbi summarized the report’s findings as twofold: One alleges that at least 26 Trump-linked individuals were “wrongfully and without warning placed under surveillance during the 2016 election year” and that a Russian interference plot colluded with the Trump campaign. The intelligence agencies that did this were groundless.
“This is a Weapons of Mass Destruction style story. They suppressed dissent and created a false narrative,” he said. (Allegations emerge that during the George W. Bush administration, opposition claims questioning whether then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed such weapons were widely ridiculed and suppressed.) did.)
However, Taibbi said he would like to see additional information about the “Binder” allegedly residing in Northern Virginia, as well as reports on the origins of the Intel community’s assessment that it “never left the vault.” Then he reported. [in] Langley. ”
“This is something like a 17-20 page report that has been confirmed by multiple sources. Apart from that, there are also numerous others that may or may not be these binders that the article mentions. I heard that there are investigation materials for…,” Taibi said.
Watters therefore concluded that the report is another reason Washington officials are worried about a second Trump presidency.
“I mean, he’s going to blow the lid off that,” Jesse Watters joked.
The host also alluded to President Trump’s combative interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Leslie Stahl, in which the Republican countered the CBS reporter’s dismissive stance on “spying allegations.” [his] motion. “
On Wednesday night, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley also responded to Taibbi’s report, saying that Papadopoulos and Carter Page, who was later targeted by the FISA Act, were part of then-candidate Trump’s foreign policy team. It was pointed out that it was announced as
“FISA should not be used to target First Amendment activity, which is political activity,” he said.
“However, targeting U.S. citizens beyond FISA and even using surrogate mothers would raise very serious legal and policy questions and would be contrary to what has been established. That would be a contradiction.”
