I reported earlier about the bombshell report that blew apart the "official" account of the start of the Russia collusion hoax and explained that it was started by the Obama CIA.
The report - written by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag - details how the Obama administration CIA allegedly and improperly called on foreign allies from the "Five Eyes Nations" (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) to surveil 26 Trump aides as "targets for collection and misinformation.” The journalists got this information from sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation.
That's big news. Shellenberger told Fox News that it was both illegal and election interference.
Some of the information on this is in a binder, Shellenberger said. There has been a rumor about the binder and speculation that Mar-a-Lago was raided because of information that former President Donald Trump may have had on Crossfire Hurricane.
Shellenberger is now talking about his and fellow journalist's new report that gives more information about the secret binder.
A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference. pic.twitter.com/Y2jmxdhYdb
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 15, 2024
CNN wrote in a piece co-authored by Natasha Bertrand about the binder in December saying it went missing in the last days of the Trump presidency, that it had “highly classified information related to Russian election interference” and raised concerns that some of America’s most “closely guarded national security secrets… could be exposed.”
A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference. pic.twitter.com/Y2jmxdhYdb
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 15, 2024
On the contrary, as the new report explains, it isn't national security that is threatened by what's in the binder, it's the actions of officials that would be exposed.
Sources have told Public and Racket, however, that the secrets officials worry might be “exposed” are ones that would implicate them in widespread abuses of intelligence authority dating back to the 2015-2016 election season.
“I would call [the binder] Trump’s insurance policy,” said someone knowledgeable about the case. “He was very concerned about having it and taking it with him because it was the road map” of Russiagate.
Transgressions range from Justice Department surveillance of domestic political targets without probable cause to the improper unmasking of a pre-election conversation between a Trump official and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to WMD-style manipulation of intelligence for public reports on alleged Russian “influence activities.”
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The documents in question are said to contain information about the legal justification for those investigations, or more specifically, the lack of justification, among other things. Should more of that information be made public, it might implicate a long list of officials in serious abuses.
In other words, CNN cast it as one way, but there's a whole different story out there, which figures. And the binder could nail a bunch of people. No wonder they sound like they're frantic to find it.
The report says they will have more on Thursday about how a team “hand-picked” by CIA Director John Brennan "relied on “cooked intelligence” to craft that January 6th, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment."
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