Who Ran Crossfire Hurricane?
American Spectator,
by
Jed Babbin
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/3/2019 4:58:15 AM
"Crossfire Hurricane” — the melodramatic code name for the FBI/CIA spy operation on candidate Trump and his early presidency — was run for the FBI by then-FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, and a few others.
Then-CIA director John Brennan ran it for the CIA. Brennan had to have help, but who was it? A lot of evidence points to the CIA’s then-chief of station in London in 2016-2017, and now the Director of Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel.
President Trump claimed that the FBI and CIA’s spying on his campaign and early presidency was treason. Attorney General William Barr said that, legally, it wasn’t.
Barr is correct.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 6/3/2019 6:02:10 AM (No. 89565)
Wow.
I sure do wonder who'll have the literary rights to this 'story' when it's all over. Gold, pure gold!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 6/3/2019 6:48:18 AM (No. 89584)
Which media co-conspirators were in on the plot is rather obvious...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/3/2019 7:40:03 AM (No. 89597)
It is mind boggling that so many anti-American communist sympathizers were and still are in high level positions in the government. Apparently, we were extremely close in having a government so corrupt that they would even have the moxie to think about committing the crimes they were so enthusiastically engaged in and probably still are at some level. These folks will not back down. I don’t believe there will be someone who will give state’s evidence and tell all. It will be a long hard slog to bring any of these miscreants to justice. They are that arrogant in believing that they can still beat this. If justice is served it will be because the few men and women of integrity who remain in government will tirelessly fight to restore the rule of law and go after these conspirators hard because they realize the Republic is under attack. God bless anyone who is willing to join the battle because raw courage is required to go against the Deep State and defend the Republic. There will be unsung heroes to thank and criminals to prosecute if we can rid our government of the high level of corruption that has been running wild. We owe the country justice, plain and simple.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/3/2019 7:45:45 AM (No. 89599)
The President's nominating Haspel for CIA Director was a well-planned setup. Keeping the enemy in close proximity is wise. AG Barr needs Haspel, Brennan, and/or Comey to come clean with who gave the go-order to spy on the President. Likely scenario remains the same - Billary's campaign team (Panetta) presented the plan to Billary, she approved, and after presenting the plan to Obie, he gave the go order to roll with Crossfire Hurricane. It isn't clear to me yet exactly how the Bushes and John McCain fit into this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
gone2pot 6/3/2019 8:08:28 AM (No. 89609)
If you think the deep state is not going to be rewarded for all this, no matter who is (present tense, IS) involved and no matter how many are involved, please pet your purple unicorn for me. Also, these same players and many others are involved in things like illegal alien voter registrations nation wide and the completely unconstitutional majority vote now law in thirteen states. What is the GOP doing about it? Watching like cows watching a passing train.
And 3, Andrew McCarthy who told us at the beginning of the Russia hoax inquisition how wonderful and full of integrity Mueller was and what a bonehead carter Page was? The one who wrote the most elitist and insulting legal articles about the nuances of Mueller and his team and what a good friend he was and how he so trusted Mueller and Comey? THAT Andy McCarthy?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2019 8:15:25 AM (No. 89618)
So, Haspel is an acolyte of Brennan. THAT, if true, and it appears to be, is a damning
fact. So, we add her to the list of the folks who need to be indicted and sent to jail.
Adds a lot to understanding why Pres. Trump gave Barr the authority to declassify anything
he wanted. I imagine that there are shredders powered by locomotive diesels at
CIA running hot from the heavy workload these days.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/3/2019 8:21:31 AM (No. 89623)
I bet the 'mastermind ' was Valerie Jarrett. Using the authority of 0bama , to order the minions in the CIA, FBI etc.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 6/3/2019 8:56:31 AM (No. 89655)
I don't know what her physical appearance has to do with her job. Women are always judged on how they look and man rarely are.
This is quite a shock if true that Haspel was involved in this. I never suspected her.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/3/2019 9:01:52 AM (No. 89659)
I hope you are correct #3. I fear that from day one Trump had to step into this new arena and work with what was available. I see it like a business turnaround. You can only discharge so many, you have to keep the organization alive while you evaluate, plan and then take it to the next level. Trump had swamp creatures to pick from and of course it has taken time to rebuild the team.
Haspel may very well have been one such expedient pick. I would also suggest that behind every traitor Trump has allowed on the bus a good half a dozen are passing along the recommendation.
The question becomes not who the traitors are in Washington, but who if anybody exists in the system that remains loyal to the republic. They haven't just infiltrated they have overrun our government.
Trump has faults no doubt, but he's at least loyal to the country. Which of course is a problem for the global communists.
There may several who quality for tier two of Crossfire Hurricane leadership but can there be much doubt that Obama was/is the head of the snake? Unless of course you want to go above that to his handlers, then perhaps Soros is the ultimate top level Dr. Evil.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365 6/3/2019 9:29:15 AM (No. 89676)
“Gina Haspel’s longstanding loyalty to Brennan ranks her among the two or three worst personnel choices made by President Trump.“
While Jeb Babbin’s article is speculative, it does reinforce the fear that no one in the Obama regime will be prosecuted for their breaking of numerous federal laws in order to stop Trump. If President Trump was informed that Haspel was linked to the London entrapment of Carter Page and George Papadopoulos yet still nominated her to head the CIA, our country is in deeper trouble than we realize. And whatever AG Barr is doing is little different than the Huber smokescreen we fell for in early 2018. Please, prove Babbin wrong.
As to Gina’s appearance, she looks like a bureaucrat, bland, nondescript yet incredibly loyal to those who can help her career.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VietVet68 6/3/2019 10:00:51 AM (No. 89703)
I find it ironic that the biggest story since Watergate, and it's even bigger than that, will never have a movie made about it because the left controls the media. Crossfire Hurricane would paint the democrat establishment and their first black president, not to mention their first female candidate, in a very negative light.
If anybody goes to jail over this the media will just minimize i and sweep it under the rug.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
starboard 6/3/2019 10:08:18 AM (No. 89707)
Last night I watched the movie Breach about Robert Hanssen. That story was milk toast compared to this. The fact that there are so many players involved in this operation is stunning. They operated with impunity thinking Trump would never be Potus and there would be no repercussions. I think it was Nunes who said they thought "Crossfire Hurricane" went back a decade. Right around the time Obama was sworn in and Jarrett became the new White House brain.
It will be interesting to see how the media deals with this unraveling. There isn't a rug large enough to sweep this pile of dirt under. The American people will demand justice and a couple of scapegoats and perhaps one or two honchos will be prosecuted and convicted.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MMC 6/3/2019 10:25:29 AM (No. 89719)
I wish Tom Clancy were alive to write this Jack Ryan novel.. or Robert Ludlum And Jason Bourne.. Treadstone on steroids..
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/3/2019 11:03:21 AM (No. 89754)
As far as declassifying all the related documents goes, I say do them all! We need to see the sources and methods used by the traitors to harm America- not just President Trump! Those were not sources and methods used to protect America.
Those sources and methods will tell us what we need to know, to punish the traitors and establish safeguards to prevent future criminality.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/3/2019 11:08:48 AM (No. 89759)
Fire them all then make them interview to get their jobs back.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lana720 6/3/2019 12:21:18 PM (No. 89835)
If not treason, sedition? Is sedition worthy of life imprisonment or hanging? A rose by any other name.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
thewarden 6/3/2019 3:12:31 PM (No. 89991)
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Mick Jagger so there’s that...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
joew9 6/3/2019 3:30:58 PM (No. 90011)
I think this deep state spying on non-Rino conservatives has been going on for decades.
And it was the culprit for various past "scandals". Valarie Plame(who wasn't an undercover agent but the CIA falsely claimed she was), Joe Wilson (who was sent by the CIA to discredit and embarrass W Bush with an "investigation" that really wasn't.) , IRS vs Tea Party(an entire political party was emerging and the deep state illegally stopped it.)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Bohallx 6/3/2019 6:10:11 PM (No. 90144)
So, Gina rats out the others...... and nobody knows she did that.... and she avoids prosecution and maybe even gets a promotion in the deal.
Oh, say, that's probably already happened!
Person running the CIA needs to be able to be RUTHLESS.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
sagman 6/3/2019 6:54:54 PM (No. 90171)
If what Babbin says is so, and Barr is serious about getting at the truth, I hope the AG's security detail is vigilant.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
iamshazzam 6/3/2019 7:23:09 PM (No. 90187)
#1 - the rightful owners of the literary rights should be the American taxpayer! President Trump should have all rights as public domain so none of these morons profit from their misdeeds.
Furthermore, he should dismantle the state department. It was only intended as the "war Department" post WWII, and should not be selling us out to foreign governments.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
iamshazzam 6/3/2019 7:25:12 PM (No. 90188)
I would almost bet my last dime that Hillary was complicit in this crap. So was Jeb and all the bushes.
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