The FBI outs its deep state spy placed in the Trump campaign

streiff:
This is just insane.

The FBI and Department of Justice has been fighting tooth and nail to not tell Congress the identity of the informant they used to gather intelligence on the Trump campaign. And their allies in Congress and elsewhere have chimed in with all manner of ridiculous and bullsh** threats directed at Devin Nunes…though not at Trey Gowdy who is working with Nunes to identify this FBI source. A reflexively leftwing law professor (but I repeat myself) made this astonishing statement tonight:

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This is just stupid. The law clearly defines who it covers as employees of an intelligence agency. This does not cover informants or sources and intelligence agencies are forbidden by law from collecting information on US persons. And the very idea that the Department of Justice is going to okay a grand jury investigation and indictment of a member of Congress when the FBI has leaked the same information to multiple media outlets is simply insane.

The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee made a similar threat today....

If Warner were truly concerned about irresponsible or illegal he’s be worried about the FBI and Justice because they have effectively outed their informant. Last week, there was speculation that the informant was a US academic teaching at Cambridge named Stefan Halper. He had a connection to US intelligence. He had a friendship with a retired head of MI6. He contacted George Papadopoulos out of the blue and paid for his flight to London in addition to several thousand dollars for a “research paper.” Papadopoulos broke off contact with Halper started asking about Clinton emails. Halper struck up a friendship with Carter Page.

Today, the FBI and Justice go back the the leak well and give us enough information that we can say pretty conclusively that Halper is the man.

Secret FBI source for Russia investigation met with three Trump advisers during campaign.
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There is more.

Page had previously speculated that Halper was the guy based on his own interaction with him.  In other words, Halper was attempting to use him, possibly the same way he used Papadopalous.  The FBI outed their own mole and now claim he was embedded to try to get the Russians, but the reality is that he appears to have tried to entrap people like Papadopalous and Page.  Whether he was a witting member of the coup attempt is yet to be determined, but some people suggest he was.

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  1. Halper ran a spy operation against Carter for Reagan in 1985, he has connections going back to George Bush Senior, when he was Director of the CIA. Hmm Bush-McCain, GOPe connection ? Halper has a very interesting background as a covert source, operator.

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