Stefan Halper and the origins of the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign

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American Thinker
Thomas Lifson
May 14, 2018

The true story of how senior officials in the FBI and intelligence community conspired to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency on suspicion of nefarious dealings with Russia is starting to emerge, and with it, the possible role of a shadowy figure: Stefan Halper.  The counterintelligence investigation at the FBI was officially launched, as Sundance notes:

On July 31st, 2016 [as] the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign. They did not inform congress until March 2017. •At the beginning of August (1st-3rd) 2016 FBI Agent Peter Strzok traveled to London, England for interviews with UK intelligence officials.

We have no explicit information about whom Strzok met with in London immediately after the investigation was launched, but given what follows below, it seems quite likely that Stefan Halper was on his agenda and that generating a plan to ensnare unwitting dupes into incriminating-looking behavior had something to do with the trip.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/05/stefan_halper_and_the_origins_of_the_fbi_counterintelligence_investigation_of_the_trump_campaign.html

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Read the whole thing for the full measure of intrigue.

[Sanguine]

People this the term"constitutional crisis" around,  but it applies here.

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People this the term"constitutional crisis" around,  but it applies here.

Maybe most interesting are the claims that he worked for three Republican presidents and then went hard left at Cambridge. We'll see.

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That is interesting.

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That is interesting.

How blissfully ironic it will be if Mueller unwittingly ends up draining his own swamp.

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Maybe most interesting are the claims that he worked for three Republican presidents and then went hard left at Cambridge. We'll see.

Yeah, but look at the "Republicans" he worked for. Nixon, Ford, Bush. He was some back bencher in the Reagan Admin just because Bush stuck him in there, but he is a Progressive hack to the core.

[Oceander]

People this the term"constitutional crisis" around,  but it applies here.

If there is a lot of meat here, then yes, this could be such a crisis.

[Sanguine]

If there is a lot of meat here, then yes, this could be such a crisis.

Agreed, there has to be something real there.

[Oceander]

Agreed, there has to be something real there.

Not enough info to make that call yet. IMHO