WHISTLEBLOWER: FBI-RUSSIA PROBE 'WAS ALL A
SET-UP', Bureau assisted by operative tied directly to
Kremlin, by Art Moore, 8/28/18.
The Cambridge professor
who assisted the FBI in the Russia investigation apparently has significant
ties to the Russian government along with sources connected directly to
President Vladimir Putin, leading a Defense Department whistleblower to
conclude that the entire Russia-Trump collusion probe was a “set-up.”
Investigative reporter Sara
Carter reported that information provided by the whistleblower, Adam
Lovinger, documents Stefan Halper’s work with the CIA and with the
FBI’s “Cross-Fire Hurricane” investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign.
Halper, it turns out, was
directly involved on the FBI’s behalf with three key targets of Robert
Mueller’s special counsel investigation: Trump campaign volunteers Carter Page
and George Papadopoulos, and campaign foreign policy adviser and later
national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn.
The Pentagon suspended
Lovinger’s top-secret security clearance May 1, 2017, after he exposed through
an internal review the government’s payment of about $1 million in taxpayer
funds to Halper to write Defense Department foreign policy reports.
Lovinger’s lawyer, Sean Bigley,
said his client’s security clearance was eventually revoked in March 2018,
despite the Pentagon “refusing to turn over a single page of its purported
evidence of Lovinger’s wrongdoing.”
As WND reported, the
Washington watchdog Judicial Watch is trying to obtain relevant records.
Bigley suspects Lovinger
was punished because he “unwittingly shined a spotlight on the deep state’s
secret weapon – Stefan Halper – and threatened to expose the truth about the
Trump-Russia collusion narrative than being plotted: that it was all a set-up.”
Professor turned FBI informant
- Halper,
73, has developed top-level government connections through his work with
members of the intelligence apparatus, Carter pointed out.
The contacts and the
information Halper collected later were utilized by the FBI against the Trump
campaign.
But during his time
hosting the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar at the University of Cambridge, Carter
found, Halper shifted from his roles as a professor and former government
consultant to FBI informant on the Trump campaign.
In 2016, Halper made
contact with Trump campaign volunteer Page, the target of the surveillance warrant obtained by
presenting the dubious, Democrat-financed, anti-Trump dossier as evidence.
The FBI used Halper to
collect information on Page, staying in contact with him until September 2017,
sources told Carter.
Significantly, Halper told
reporters at the time of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in December 2016
that he was concerned about “unacceptable Russian influence” on the election.
But Carter found that
Halper also had invited senior Russian intelligence officials to co-teach his
course on several occasions, including the former director of Russian
intelligence, Gen. Vladimir I. Trubnikov.
And according to news
reports, Halper accepted money to finance the course from a top Russian
oligarch with ties to Putin, Andrey Cheglakov.
A former senior
intelligence official told Carter the FBI used Halper “to get more information
on Trump aides, but it’s Halper who has the real connection to Russia.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Mark Meadows said
Tuesday he’s
seen “hard evidence” that the FBI leaked information to media to justify the
FISA warrants.
Halper also tied to
Papadopoulos - Halper not only was spying on Page for the FBI in 2016, he had
made contact in September 2016 with another Trump campaign volunteer,
Papadopoulos, Carter reported, who later pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s
special counsel probe for lying to the FBI.
Papadopoulos was lured to
London by Halper, Carter found, with a $3,000 paycheck to work on a research
paper under contract. Papadopoulos already had been in contact London-based
professor Josef Mifsud, who claimed the Russians had damaging material about
Hillary Clinton.
Papadopoulos’s wife,
Simona Papadopoulos, told Carter her husband was forced to plead guilty because
of threats from Mueller’s team and a lack of financial resources.
She said she testified to
Congress that “as far as George is concerned, he met with individuals following
the same pattern of behavior … and all of a sudden (Halper) was asking if he
was doing anything with Russians.”
“This is the case with
Halper, who is now proven to be a spy, possibly with (Australian Ambassador)
Alexander Downer,” who her husband met with in London.
Halper and Michael Flynn - Halper also provided information about Trump’s
first national security adviser, Flynn, who was forced to resign just 27
days into his tenure.
“The investigation into
Trump didn’t start with Carter Page or George Papadapolous, but with Flynn,” a
former senior intelligence source with knowledge of the matter told Cater.
“Flynn was already on the
CIA and Clinton target list. Those same people sure as hell didn’t want him in
the White House and they sure as hell didn’t want Trump to win.”
Flynn was forced to resign
after his highly classified conversation with former Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak was leaked to the Washington Post in January 2017 and he was later
questioned by the FBI.
FBI Director James Comey
has said the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he was lying.
Nevertheless, Flynn pleaded
guilty to one count of lying to Mueller’s special counsel team.
Carter said Halper already
was providing information on Page, Papadopolous and Flynn when the bureau
opened its Crossfire investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016.
Halper told the FBI in
2016 he witnessed interactions between Flynn and Russian academic Svetlana
Lokhova at the February 2014 seminar dinner that seemed suspicious.
Without any evidence, he
leaked his suspicions to London newspapers and eventually U.S. media.
Lokhova responded to the
allegations in a May 2017 BBC News interview, saying she thought they were a
joke.
Numerous witnesses
confirmed Flynn and Lokhova spoke only for a short time at the dinner.
And subsequent email exchanges were generic in nature, with
Flynn asking her for a copy of a historical 1930s postcard she had brought to
the seminar.
“But it didn’t matter that
it wasn’t the truth,” the former senior intelligence official told Carter.
“It was already out there
because of Halper’s allegations and the constant leaking and lying of false
stories of those to the media.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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