Stefan Halper. Now his name is all over (some of) the media.
Halper, American born, is a professor at Cambridge University who has ties to both U.S. intelligence and the Republican party – a perfect combination for him to conduct espionage on a Republican candidate.
From Mary Kay Linge’s article in the New York Post:
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 revelation, stemming from recent reports in which FBI sources admitted sending an agent to snoop on the Trump camp, heightens suspicions that the FBI was seeking to entrap Trump campaign aides. Papodopoulous has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, while Page was the subject of a federal surveillance warrant.
“If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal,” President Trump tweeted Saturday, calling for the FBI to release additional documents to Congress.
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.
Sources close to Papadopoulos told NBC News that he now believes Halper was working for an intelligence agency.
Do you remember when President Trump claimed he was being spied on? Do you remember media making him out to basically be a drooling idiot for saying so?
Don’t expect any retractions now.
In fact, the same mainstream media venues which made him out to be ridiculous for that claim are already starting to try and spin the revelations that, yes, there was a spy in his campaign.
Want an example? How about the start of NBC’s “news” story, which was referenced in the Post article:
President Donald Trump’s allegation that the Department of Justice put a “spy” inside his presidential campaign to frame him is being widely dismissed as absurd by current and former law enforcement officials.
But it would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia to interfere in the presidential election. In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI.
“The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances,” said Frank Figliuzzi, a former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News national security analyst. “What is easier to imagine is the FBI trying to flesh out information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers if the reasonable suspicion was there and the approvals were in place.”
See the game? It’s “absurd” and “hard to imagine”. But, if it happened, it probably was because the FBI wasn’t snooping on Trump, it was checking out ….get ready, here it comes again…. the Russian collusion thingie.
That’s right, this is being contorted into another version of the Russian collusion fanatasy – the one there remains no actual evidence of after two years of desperately digging to find it. And, of course, it completely ignores the fully-evidenced Hillary Clinton ties to foreign nationals (e.g. Christopher Steele) and Russian informants (the basis for just about everything in his unverified, largely debunked “dossier”)…
…not to mention Clinton’s involvement in, and her foundation’s enormous $$$ windfall from, the turnover of almost 20% of our uranium reserves to a company tied directly to Russia.
So you’ll pardon me if I cringe – not only at the tortured logic being employed to cover up media complicity over these years, but at the degradation of what used to be at least a reasonably useful mainstream media.
And I’m far from alone in this assessment. Read the next blog…
