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<\/a><\/p>\nChris Farrell
\nJUDICIAL WATCH<\/p>\n
In examining the cast of FBI and senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials fired, retired, resigned and under investigation since May 2017, the breathtaking scope of the FBI\u2019s unprecedented criminal efforts to steer a presidential election and frame a newly elected president serves as Exhibit A for the organization\u2019s disbandment. The \u201cleadership\u201d that willfully and corruptly ignored Hillary Clinton\u2019s criminal mishandling of highly classified information had no problem faking a counterintelligence investigation to smear and destroy President Trump.<\/p>\n
A recitation of the FBI\/DOJ Litany of Shame is called for: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Baker, Ohr, Yates, Priestap, Rybicki, Kortan, Campbell, Turgal, Bower, Steinbach, Giacalone, Laufman, Carlin, McCord \u2014 there are more, and eventually we\u2019ll learn their names. Some took unlawful action draped in the American flag and smarmy self-righteousness. Some were careerists craving a retirement paycheck and a strong resume, standing by and doing nothing \u2014 negligent or complicit with guilty knowledge<\/p>\n
The group dubbed the \u201cSecret Society\u201d by FBI lawyer Lisa Page in a text to self-anointed FBI \u201cSuper Agent\u201d Peter Strzok had a clear goal: Stop Trump. But how to do that \u201clegally\u201d? How does one manufacture a phony Russia hoax and hang it around Trump\u2019s neck when you\u2019re constrained from going after his campaign, organization and staff?<\/p>\n
The FBI is specifically prohibited from penetrating and subverting U.S. organizations under the provisions of Executive Order 12333, Section 2.9: \u201cNo one acting on behalf of agencies within the Intelligence Community may join or otherwise participate in any organization in the United States on behalf of any agency within the intelligence community without disclosing his intelligence affiliation to appropriate officials of the organization, except in accordance with procedures established by the head of the agency concerned and approved by the attorney general.\u201d That\u2019s tough for the \u201csecret society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Could they \u2014 would they \u2014 rely on Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and have her office generate a legal finding memo? An actual, discoverable, legal record detailing and authorizing an operation against a presidential candidate? Too risky on a few levels.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s more to Section 2.9: \u201cSuch participation shall be authorized only if it is essential to achieving lawful purposes as determined by the agency head or designee. No such participation may be undertaken for the purpose of influencing the activity of the organization or its members except in cases where: (a) The participation is undertaken on behalf of the FBI in the course of a lawful investigation; or (b) The organization concerned is composed primarily of individuals who are not United States persons and is reasonably believed to be acting on behalf of a foreign power.\u201d<\/p>\n
That second portion of Section 2.9 was exploited by Strzok & Co to create the predicate for a foreign counterintelligence investigation overseas that would then be \u201cimported\u201d back into the United States \u2014 circumventing the prohibition on \u201cUndisclosed Participation in Organizations Within the United States.\u201d Using this technique, Strzok & Co wouldn\u2019t be offensively targeting the Trump operation to subvert his election and presidency. The FBI would now be \u201creacting\u201d to a foreign intelligence threat.<\/p>\n
Hence, we have the widely reported (FBI designed and orchestrated) events surrounding Carter Page, George Papadopolous, Stef Halper, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, et al. Super Agent Strzok even traveled to the United Kingdom (the safest \u201cOutside the Continental United States\u201d [OCONUS] operating environment for the FBI) to grease the skids for a counterintelligence \u201cdangle\u201d operation. The reader will recall Lisa Page\u2019s December 2015 text message: \u201cYou get all our oconus lures approved? ;),\u201d to Strzok.<\/p>\n
Having personally run double-agent operations as a counterintelligence case officer, I\u2019m not guessing at this language and intelligence tradecraft.<\/p>\n
Thrilled with the initiation of their foreign counterintelligence investigation implicating Trump \u201cassociates,\u201d (and laundering the criminality of their end-run of \u201cundisclosed participation\u201d) the secret society could launch full-bore with an array of techniques and tradecraft. Keep in mind that the FBI\/DOJ never gave Trump a \u201cdefensive security briefing\u201d that is standard when FBI\/DOJ comes upon a foreign counterintelligence threat to a U.S. organization or corporation. Never.<\/p>\n
Not coincidentally, the \u201cTrump Dossier\u201d appears on the scene \u2014 thanks to Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee funding, via a couple of cut-outs, to actual Russians (a crime actually worth investigating). Next come the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, predicated on Hillary\u2019s mercenary\u2019s lies. Now we know the FBI went so far as to phony-up investigative reports (\u201c302s\u201d) in the related framing of LTG Mike Flynn. Is there anything the FBI\/DOJ leadership wouldn\u2019t do to stop Trump?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the big picture: there are the crimes described above \u2014 and there are the crimes to facilitate and then cover-up the underlying activity. That\u2019s where the FBI got lost. It\u2019s gone. No sensible American believes in the organization anymore. The DOJ is right there with them. Compromised, arrogant, ruthless, vindictive, detached, self-righteous, hypersensitive to criticism and largely immune. A fish rots from the head down. Go back and read the FBI\/DOJ Litany of Shame. Review Comey\u2019s arrogant, smug, Flynn-interview statement: \u201csomething I probably wouldn\u2019t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more \u2026 organized administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer is to create an investigative division within the U.S. Marshals Service and laterally transfer over vetted, honest FBI agents. Collapse the decayed wreck of the FBI within six months and hope the American public can once again believe in \u201cEqual Justice Under the Law.\u201d<\/p>\n