{"id":126105,"date":"2019-07-31T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126105"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:12:36","slug":"more-evidence-points-to-the-russiagate-hoax-as-a-british-intel-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126105","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence Points to the Russiagate Hoax as a British Intel Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Secret McCabe Texts With MI-5 Counterpart Emerge, Spotlighting UK&#8217;s Early Role In &#8216;Russiagate&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Newly surfaced text messages between Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his counterpart at MI-5, the UK&#8217;s domestic security service, have cast new light on Britain&#8217;s role in the FBI&#8217;s 2016 &#8216;Russiagate&#8217; investigation, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/30\/secret-texts-cast-light-uk-early-role-trump-russia-inquiry\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=McYz43Ac\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=McYz43Ac\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=Wq3NQTIv 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=Wq3NQTIv 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=Wq3NQTIv 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=Wq3NQTIv 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=Wq3NQTIv 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg?itok=McYz43Ac 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/fleming%20mccabe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f24b45be-0c46-41bf-a157-227954e34d0d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two of the most senior intelligence officials in the US and UK\u00a0<strong>privately shared concerns about<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<strong>our strange situation<\/strong>\u201d as the FBI launched its 2016 investigation into whether Donald Trump\u2019s campaign was colluding with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\">Russia<\/a>, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Text messages\u00a0<strong>between Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI at the time, and Jeremy Fleming<\/strong>, his then counterpart at MI5, now the head of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/gchq\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\">GCHQ<\/a>, also reveal their mutual surprise at the result of the EU referendum, which some US officials regarded as a \u201cwake-up call\u201d, according to a person familiar with the matter. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/30\/secret-texts-cast-light-uk-early-role-trump-russia-inquiry\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCabe and Flemming&#8217;s texts were &#8220;infrequent and cryptic,&#8221; but &#8220;occurred with some regularity&#8221; after the June 2016 Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"my_spring1\"><\/aside>\n<blockquote><p>In his text message about the August 2016 meeting,\u00a0<strong>Fleming appeared to be making a reference to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/aug\/13\/fbi-fires-peter-strzok-agent-who-criticized-trump-in-text-messages\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Peter Strzok<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jul\/13\/peter-strzok-hearing-congress-fbi-trump-russia-partisan-dysfunction\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a senior FBI official<\/a>\u00a0who travelled to London that month to meet the Australian diplomat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/31\/alexander-downer-the-gaffe-prone-conservative-and-unlikely-anti-trump-hero\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Alexander Downer<\/a>. Downer had agreed to speak with the FBI about a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, who had told him that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee in the race. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/30\/secret-texts-cast-light-uk-early-role-trump-russia-inquiry\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2017,\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reported that Britain&#8217;s spy agencies had played a key role in alerting their American counterparts of communications between members of the Trump campaign and &#8220;suspected Russian agents,&#8221; which was passed along to the US in what was characterized as a &#8220;routine exchange of information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UK begged Trump not to declassify<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In May, President Trump issued a\u00a0<strong>sweeping declassification order\u00a0<\/strong>on materials related to the DOJ\/FBI Russia investigation &#8211; leaving\u00a0it in the hands of Attorney General William\u00a0Barr to determine exactly what happened to Trump and his campaign before and after the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;For over a year, people have asked me to declassify. What I&#8217;ve done is declassified everything,&#8221; said Trump, adding &#8220;He can look and\u00a0<strong>I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"article-outstream\" data-google-query-id=\"CLThyZCf3-MCFUoMrQYdLDIEqQ\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the greatest hoax probably in the history of our country and\u00a0<strong>somebody has to get to the bottom of it.<\/strong>\u00a0We&#8217;ll see. For a long period of time, they wanted me to declassify and I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid761388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqTdwruOJJo?start=150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, also in May,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dispute-erupts-over-whether-brennan-comey-pushed-steele-dossier-as-doj-probe-into-misconduct-begins\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported that\u00a0the discredited &#8220;Steele Dossier&#8221; &#8211; assembled\u00a0by\u00a0<em>former<\/em>\u00a0MI6 spy Christopher Steele &#8211; was referred to as\u00a0<b><i>&#8220;crown material&#8221;<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i>in an email exchange suggesting that former FBI Director James Comey insisted that CIA Director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of the dossier in the\u00a0intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, much of &#8220;Operation Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; &#8211; the FBI&#8217;s official investigation into the Trump campaign &#8211;\u00a0<strong>occurred on UK soil<\/strong>, which is perhaps why the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-23\/uk-begged-trump-not-declassify-russia-docs-cited-grave-concerns-over-steele\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported last September that\u00a0<strong><u>the UK begged Trump not to declassify<\/u>\u00a0&#8216;Russiagate&#8217; documents &#8216;without redaction.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=es_O3BaF\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=es_O3BaF\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=4yyr2DzN 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=4yyr2DzN 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=4yyr2DzN 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=4yyr2DzN 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=4yyr2DzN 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg?itok=es_O3BaF 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/mifsud%20papad1_0_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e5ca001e-09f6-4f2d-8640-8c2abe56e61a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s also not forget that shortly after Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos announced his intention to work for the campaign, he was\u00a0<strong>lured to London<\/strong>\u00a0in March, 2016, where Maltese professor and self-described\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2017\/11\/01\/news\/russiagate_mystery_professor_joseph_mifsud_speaks_out_dirt_on_hillary_clinton_nonsense_-179948962\/\">Clinton foundation member<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Joseph Mifsud<\/strong>\u00a0fed him the rumor that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton. It was later\u00a0<strong>at a London bar<\/strong>\u00a0that Papadopoulos would drunkenly pass the rumor to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder what else McCabe&#8217;s texts with his MI-5 counterpart will reveal?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-31\/secret-mccabe-texts-mi-5-counterpart-begin-trickle-out-spotlighting-uks-early-role\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-31\/secret-mccabe-texts-mi-5-counterpart-begin-trickle-out-spotlighting-uks-early-role<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret McCabe Texts With MI-5 Counterpart Emerge, Spotlighting UK&#8217;s Early Role In &#8216;Russiagate&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}