William Barr Made A Major Disclosure In His Senate Hearing That Hardly Anyone Noticed
Daily Caller,
by
Chuck Ross
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/4/2019 5:11:28 AM
In a little-noticed exchange during his Senate hearing Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr made a surprising disclosure that could allow the public and press to obtain sensitive details about the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. During a back-and-forth with Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Barr identified Alexander Downer, a former Australian diplomat, as the FBI’s source for the information that sparked the bureau’s counterintelligence investigation into George Papadopoulos and other Trump campaign associates. The federal government had not officially identified Downer as the source until Wednesday. His role in the investigation was publicly known,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/4/2019 8:25:06 AM (No. 76722)
I knew who Downer was and where he was from. If I knew, so did lots of other folks who follow Politics. Barr did NOT disclose any sensitive information. Jeesh!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jorgecito 5/4/2019 8:38:29 AM (No. 76730)
Yes, Downer´s role was already well-known to anyone paying attention.
So were many other details in the NYT´s johnny-come-lately account. I remember hearing George Papadopoulos tell of his encounters with "Azra Turk" and "Professor" Halper, months ago.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snapper451 5/4/2019 9:50:32 AM (No. 76723)
Headline correction would be “...for those who were not paying attention or those covering their ears and saying nah, nah, nah...”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
harleynyc 5/4/2019 9:51:54 AM (No. 76726)
Alexander Downer would be on Hillary´s payroll.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/4/2019 10:34:06 AM (No. 76725)
The Obama KGB Gestapo enlisted the spies of Great Britain, Australia, Russia, and who knows what other countries to overthrow President Trump. This may turn out like the Kennedy assassination, where we never learn the whole truth (that it was the Secret Service)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/4/2019 11:08:21 AM (No. 76727)
Appears that Downer was used AFTER Obama and his stooges in the FBI and CIA decided to use Russia as the excuse to spy on Trump campaign. Downer was directed to meet with Papadopoulus after plot was hatched, not before. Downer would provide credibility for spying, spying that apparently began in March 2016, months before Downer was brought in to assist.
Having Downer testify may be impossible because he’ll claim diplomatic immunity plus be in Cyprus or Australia until after 2020. Or, he’ll claim that the Cuban electronic attack on our Havana embassy erased his memory even though he was never there. Those Cubans learned a lot from Russia.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/4/2019 11:49:11 AM (No. 76728)
ALL of us - - every one - - has known for at least two years that this entire Russia-Russia-Russia concoction was simply a coverup operation for all the illegal, treasonous spying already perpetrated by the 0bama cabal.
There was NO Russkie "interference" in our elections - - NONE!
It was all the biggest illegal scam and coverup in our beloved history - - a coverup of crimes already committed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/4/2019 1:41:30 PM (No. 76729)
Naming names is very useful. Alexander Downer, Azra Honeypot Turk, Stephan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, and what was the role of MI6 in Spygate?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gone2pot 5/4/2019 3:10:40 PM (No. 76731)
Barr simply established one hundred percent motive and intent to slander and libel an innocent US citizen who had zero notoriety at the time, Carter Page, via the Papadopoulos avenue used for illegal FISA warrants against Carter. Carter became famous BECAUSE OF, as a result of, the slander and libel against him and therefore notoriety; public figure claims will be struck down in his civil law suits (Clinton Foundation attorneys tried that here in OK at the beginning of Carter´s civil proceedings and they were laughed out of court-NOT reported btw). THAT is why the NYT published their pathetic CYA article containing smidgeons of facts and data about FBI spying on the Trump campaign.
You´re looking in the wrong direction for justice. Not one thing will happen to any of the criminal players from Obama, Hillary to Clapper, Comey, Mueller, FISA judges, etc; not one thing. However, none of them know nor understand civil law and civil law juries and DISCOVERY in civil law suits. It´s way beneath them all. Carter had his case here in Oklahoma locked in concrete to win in a jury trial sans settling. Barr just added the pipeline from the entire criminal coup cabal´s bank accounts, real estate holdings, personal and company assets to Carter´s pockets; to me, the biggest story about which no one is reporting.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/4/2019 4:20:33 PM (No. 76721)
I wonder whether this Alexander Downer ever even knew Pappy apart from the DC cocktail circuit? Did he have any real professional dealings with him, or did the entrenched
Obammunists simply USE a purposely-placed "rumor" of impropriety as their catalyst for initiating a detailed investigation.
It´s always the case with any complex conspiracy that the architect is undone by his own design... which is what our Bible specifically references this in Prov 28:10 "Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance."
Case in point: They will claim they were using the apparatus of the Federal government to spy on the spies who were attempting to control a Federally sanctioned U.S. Election, but failed in one very obvious regard.... they never told the candidate, citizen Donald Trump.
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I have read elsewhere that Downer was part of a very large donation to the Clinton Campaign in 2016.