H.A.L.P.E.R. Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies By Clarice Feldman

[DCPatriot]

May 20, 2018
H.A.L.P.E.R. Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies
By Clarice Feldman

Last week I reported that Internet sleuths had winkled out the name of the spy/agent provocateur that Obama's intelligence officers had used on the Trump campaign. The New York Times and Washington Post, the Democrats' semi-official newspapers this week megaphoned the instigators, offering up their justifications without naming his name.

Again, the name is Stefan Halper, who, as I wrote here last week, was paid a substantial sum by the Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment.

If it was for this work – and it suspiciously looks like it because the payments were made in July and September of 2016 when he was weaseling his way into the campaign – then we know we have the DNI, CIA, DOJ, FBI, Dept. of State and the Defense Department working for Hillary's election and to smear and create a basis for further spying on Trump and his campaign.

more at:  http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/halper_spells_game_up_for_obamas_spies.html

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[aligncare]

Tough slog getting through, but Clarice managed to collate several disgusting pieces of this unfolding puzzle.

I don’t recall the name of Stalin’s sidekick who first said it but this whole dirty operation perfectly fits the quote: Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

We must hold accountable those who conceived and participated in this DNC/deep state attempt to get the criminal Hillary Clinton elected president.

Attempts to subvert the will of the people must have severe consequences.

[Bigun]

"... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
......just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

 
Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED,  p.411, Signet Books, NY, 1957

[endicom]

Scott Johnson of Power Line smells a red herring in Halper. That outing Halper could be a distraction to draw us off the scent of some real coverup. That leaves open the question of what would be covered up.

[Sanguine]

Scott Johnson of Power Line smells a red herring in Halper. That outing Halper could be a distraction to draw us off the scent of some real coverup. That leaves open the question of what would be covered up.

He does seem like a sacrificial herring.  Which leaves the big fish still obscured.

[endicom]

He does seem like a sacrificial herring.  Which leaves the big fish still obscured.

Johnson persists: Neither mentions the identifying details of the informant’s identity illegally leaked by FBI sources to the Washington Post and the New York Times...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/tapper-raps-on.php


"...illegally leaked..."

[WingNot]

He does seem like a sacrificial herring.  Which leaves the big fish still obscured.

Can a fish be a "Dem Plant"

[Sanguine]

Can a fish be a "Dem Plant"

Yes, virtual fish are very flexible.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Cambridge professor outed as FBI informant inside Trump campaign
NY Post, May 19, 2018, Mary Kay Linge

A Cambridge professor with deep ties to American and British intelligence has been outed as an agent who snooped on the Trump presidential campaign for the FBI.  Multiple media outlets have named Stefan Halper, 73, as the secret informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos starting in the summer of 2016. The American-born academic previously served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations.

The Halper revelation also shows the Obama administration’s FBI began prying into the opposing party’s presidential nominee earlier than it previously admitted.

Halper’s sit-downs with Page reportedly started in early July 2016, undermining fired FBI Director James Comey’s previous claim that the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign began at the end of that month.

Halper made his first overture when he met with Page at a British symposium. The two remained in regular contact for more than a year, meeting at Halper’s Virginia farm and in Washington, DC, as well as exchanging emails.

The professor met with Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis in late August, offering his services as a foreign-policy adviser, The Washington Post reported Friday, without naming the academic.

Clovis did not see the conversation as suspicious, his attorney told the paper — but is now “unsettled” that “the professor” never mentioned he’d struck up a relationship with Page.

Days later, Halper contacted Papadopoulos by e-mail. The professor offered the young and inexperienced campaign aide $3,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to London, ostensibly to write a paper about energy in the eastern Mediterranean region.

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Highly detailed descriptions of the FBI informant in Friday reports in The New York Times and Washington Post pegged Halper in all but name. Outlets including NBC and Fox News subsequently connected the dots. The revelation confirms a March report in the Daily Caller that outlined Halper’s repeated meetings with Papadopoulos and Page.

It is not clear if the professor was paid to speak with Trump campaign figures, but public records show that he has received large payments from the federal government in the last two years.

The Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment — a shadowy think tank that reports directly to the secretary of defense — paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017.

Halper has close personal and professional ties to the CIA reaching back decades. He is the son-in-law of a former deputy director of the agency and worked on the 1980 presidential campaign of George H.W. Bush, who had served as CIA director.

When Bush became Ronald Reagan’s running mate, Halper was implicated in a spying scandal in which CIA officials gave inside information on the Carter administration to the GOP campaign.


More:  https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/cambridge-professor-outed-as-fbi-informant-inside-trump-campaign/

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Halper revelation also shows the Obama administration’s FBI began prying into the opposing party’s presidential nominee earlier than it previously admitted.

Why not just say .... FBI began *spying" on ......

[DCPatriot]

Why not just say .... FBI began *spying" on ......

....because they think the use of 'Informant(s)' gives them more than 'an arm's length' involvement.

...that [paid] informants provide them information on wrongdoing.   

Sure hope the FBI and DOJ don't get away with this.  And that people get fired and lose pensions.  AND GO TO EFFING PRISON!   

[Fishrrman]

endicom wrote:
"That outing Halper could be a distraction to draw us off the scent of some real coverup. That leaves open the question of what would be covered up."

I'm wondering if Seth Rich fit into this, and if so, where...?
And who knows these things and is still walkin' around...

Addendum:
Hmmm... just found this:
"New details revealed in shooting of lobbyist investigating murder of DNC staffer":
http://news3lv.com/news/nation-world/new-details-revealed-in-shooting-of-lobbyist-investigating-murder-of-dnc-staffer

Sumthin' tells me there's a lot more to be discovered beneath the surface on this...