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another dump of declassified documents. I do not know where
these documents came from. Perhaps they lived in the burn
bags stored away in this secret room the FBI headquarters
that people were not aware of, and for some reason
the bags never got burned. But a whole bunch of
documents keep coming out. They keep declassifying under Cash Betel's leadership.
And yesterday we went over the report by John Solomon
at Justthnews dot com. And by the way, John Solomon
has been a longtime journalist in DC. I believe he
used to work for The Hill a long time ago,
and then he went on his own. I believe it
may have been sometime around twenty sixteen, during the first
Trump run or administration when it began or something, but
just the news has been around for a while. John
Solomon is a highly credentialed and respected journalist. Yesterday he
had the big write up headlined Democrat whistleblower told FBI
that shift Okade leaking classified intel to hurt Trump. Covered
that piece that he wrote yesterday. So if you didn't
hear it, go back and get the podcast WBT dot
com or thepeatpod dot com. It's on all of the
podcasting platforms. Today. We have another story this headline. Komy's
media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative and needed
to discount or needed a discount rather to deny leaking intel.
And I did not understand what that meant. This was
an odd use of the word discount. But essentially, when
the FBI finally got around to talking to him about
whether or not he was acting as a cutout for
Komy to leak classified information to the media, the cutout guy,
his name is Daniel Richmond or rich Man north of Richmond.
He said, Oh, I'm one hundred percent sure, one hundred
percent sure that I never provided any classified intelligence to reporters,
But I could only say I'm one hundred percent sure
with a discount. What does that mean. It means he's
not one hundred percent sure. He doesn't know. So what's
the story about. Well, now we have the reports that
the FBI generated when they investigated many, many, many leaks,
and the leaks were published in multiple stories at the
beginning of Trump's first term in twenty seventeen. And so
this is much along the lines of what the whistleblower
report yesterday documented, which was in twenty seventeen. This Democrat
staffer who's an intelligence officer, but he's a Democrat staffer
on the House Intelligence Committee. He was told in various
ways at various meetings by Adam Schiff, then the ranking
minority member on the Intelligence Committee, then he became the
chair of the Intel Committee as well as Shift's chief
of staff or the leadership on the committee, rather to
leak to their favored media people, and the purpose of
those leaks was to smear Donald Trump as a Russian asset.
This was articulated in the meetings, and this whistleblower went
to the DOJ, went to the FBI and told them
about this. Of course, the FBI already knew about the
attempts to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent because
they knew of the Clinton intelligence plan as it was called,
during the twenty sixteen race, and so they never did
anything with it. They interviewed the guy like six times
over the course of six years, and nothing ever came
of it. And so then we got so we got
that report yesterday. Oh and by the way, that that
whistleblower also named Eric Swalwell, also a Democrat representative from California. Swallwell,
I just saw this has responded. This would have been
well about two hours ago. He took to the Twitter
machine and he said, this whistleblower made this bleep up
when Trump was president. If they had anything, they would
have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy
me if he could have. They didn't indict me. Therefore
they had nothing. What's next? And this is the circular
logic used in order to defend this criminal activity, which
is what that the people that were in charge of
these agencies at the time when the whistleblower first came
forward were the people that were put in place prior
to Trump's arrival, and they had buried this stuff with
the super duper top secret clearance or a classification system,
and they put them in burn bags and hid them
so nobody could actually access the documents. So no, it
doesn't prove that. But if I were to adopt his logic,
then I guess that means all of his rantings about
Trump being in the Epstein files. That doesn't hold any
water either, right, because wouldn't have Joe Biden used it
against Trump this So this is just a silly argument
that he's making because he feels protected by the people
that were in charge at that time. That's why they
didn't care that he was leaking. Everybody wanted them to leak.
This cabal wanted the leaks out there. So no, they're
not going to indict you. Also, as we went over yesterday,
there was this impression among Shift and Swallwell that they
could leak whatever they wanted to because they were covered
under a law that protects lawmakers in the House and
Senate from libel. Basically, they could go onto the House floor,
the Senate floor, they could say whatever they want to.
That's why you know, Harry Reid accused Mitt Romney of
not paying his taxes, even though that wasn't true, it
didn't matter. Harry Reid was protected because when you are
on the floor of the House or Senate, you can
impugne people, you can smear them, you can libel, slander people,
I should say suld you can slander them because it's
protected speech. And that's what these guys, these guys thought
covered them too. I'm not aware of any court rulings
that back up that assertion, but that's what they believed
and apparently still do believe, or at least that's what
they're going with still because they don't want to get
in trouble. So today, the FBI concluded numerous legacy news
media stories that crafted the false Russian collusion narrative. These
stories contained illegally leaked classified intelligence, but they failed to
definitively identify the leakers. They had multiple leak investigations running
in that one year, the first year of Trump, they
had multiple leak investigations. While they were unable to identify
the leakers. According to their reports, agents did force a
pretty stunning admission from James Comy, the former FBI director,
which is that he used a special conduit to The
New York Times, a cutout, as I call them, and
the intelligence community would call them too, write these cutouts,
So I'm not directly doing this thing, but I'm going
to give you the information. You then give it to
this other person. And the other person was a New
York Times reporter who won a pulletzer for his Russia
Gate Russia hoax coverage, and the reason he did this
was to polish his image and push for a special
prosecutor to take out President Trump. That was the intention.
Speaker 1: That was the.
Speaker 2: Stated goal, was to get a special prosecutor so they
could indict and impeach and remove from office Donald Trump.
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Liberty Buick gmc pete, could you explain what a burn
bag is? So Craig and Belmont asking what is a
burn bag on the text line, These are bags that
you burn, Okay, Um, so you stuff a bunch of
you stuff a bunch of classified material into a burn
bag in the intelligence agencies, right, and they keep these
bags and just stuff, you know, papers, thumb drives, whatever
you put stuff in there, and it's supposed to get incinerated,
to be destroyed. But for some reason when they were
when they came in Cash Betel and his team when
they got into the FBI, they found what did they
call it a previously unknown skiff, which is a was
it secure compartmentalized information facility I think is what it
stands for SCIF. And this is where you go into
a you go into a room and you can't have
a phone, like, you can't take pictures, can't make notes
or anything like that. Like you go in there and
you just read the documents or view the files or something,
and then you leave. And unless you're seeing burglar, you know,
Clinton's old aid who smuggled a bunch of documents out
of the National Archives. I believe it was because it
linked Clinton to nine to eleven failures, and so he
stole a bunch of papers and got to slap on
the wrist, of course because he's a Democrat. But unless
you're Sandy Berger, you're not allowed to take anything out
of those rooms. And yeah, so they had piled a
bunch of burn bags into this room that was a
I think previously unknown or undisclosed skiff. So they found
this room and when they started going through this stuff,
and that's why we're seeing all of these documents now
being declassified. And I think this has got a lot
of these conspirators very, very worried as well. It should
as well, it should, And I know Democrats don't like
seeing these stories and they don't want they just let's
just move on. Let's move on. You know, Donald Trump
is a threat to the Democrats. He like, that's what
they would like to talk about. Ebstein files, Ebstein files, right,
because these are the smoking guns. That's why I keep
doing these stories whenever this stuff comes out and it
confirms rumors that we had heard or previous anonymous based reporting.
These are the documents that are proving that this was true.
This stuff was true, and the Russia collusion hoax was
in fact a hoax and it was perpetrated on the
American public by the top intelligence agency leaders and the
former president. So who was the cutout for Jim Comey
to feed classified intelligence to the New York Times and
the Washington Post. It was this guy, Daniel Richman, who's
a Columbia University law professor who admit to agents and
interviews that he routinely communicated on behalf of Komi, who
was a longtime friend of his, and he would communicate
on Komy's behalf too. The New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt,
whose work was among the newspapers twenty eighteen Pulitzer winning
stories on Russian election interference Pulitzers, I would point out
that they have never returned. They have never returned those Pulitzers,
despite the fact that their reporting was incorrect. The goal,
according to Richmond, who said this to the FBI, was
quote to correct stories critical of Komy the FBI and
to shape future press coverage outside of the bureau's official
press office. These reports, by the way, newly declassified memos
and such were delivered to Congress this week. While Richmond
was known to have publicly quoted to have been publicly
quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comy, he
admitted to the FBI agents who were part of an
inquiry that was dubbed Arctic Hayes. That was the name
of the investigation, Arctic Hayes. He admitted to these agents
that he was given access by Comy to what turned
out to be highly classified information and sometimes then provided
information to reporters on an anonymous basis. In the end,
the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges
against Comy or any of his lieutenants or now Senator
Adam Schiff for Brains. None of them are being pursued
were pursued for criminal charges potential evidence of leaks, saying
that they just they couldn't be sure who leaked what
and when. So we know we've got these leakers. We
know we have a whistleblower who told us that they
were leaking, but we don't know which person on the
House Selected Intelligence Committee, and Jim Colemey and John Brennan
and James Clapper, we don't know specifically who leaked what
piece of information. And so because we can't make that
exact connection, we just can't charge our boss. Just The
News also revealed this week that a career intel officer
who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for
more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in
twenty seventeen, that Adam Schiff for Brains, had approved leaking
classified info to smear then President Donald Trump over the
now debunked Russia Gates scandal. Chef has denied the allegation.
Newly declassified FBI memos also include details on investigations into
other leaks that were classified in nature, and those were
dubbed tropic Vortex Foggy Falls riding hood, Sirens, lure echoes, Fate,
and Genetic Christmas, which I'm a little that one's a
little weird to me. Genetic Christmas I had read a
long time ago, like about how they name the operation
Enduring Freedom, right, Like how did they come up with
these names? And I remember reading a story this was
twenty years ago. I want to say, where there's there's
like some random generator of letters or something that they
just spits out, and so they use the letters and
then they just use words to plug in there or something.
I don't know if they still do that. I don't
know if that's why they called this that. I don't
know how they come up with these names, but Janeta
Christmas is a weird one. Like GC you could have, like,
there are a lot of other things you could have
called that anyway. I mean tropic vortex, foggy I mean
foggy bottom. That kind of makes some sense. But so
they add what one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
total leak investigations, and every single one of them they
just came up dry. Just never could trace that stuff
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Speaker 1: So I got a.
Speaker 2: Tweet from Russ who says the naming of FBI operations
sounds like they're letting the theater kids do the naming.
Or maybe they're subcontracting the names to the same people
who make up the names for all of the new
pharmaceutical products that are possible sounds possible from the text
line Bain says, not being able to make the connection,
thus not being able to identify leakers reminds me of
Hillary Clinton's tactic of requiring all of her aids to
have law licenses. Then if the aid is ever called
to testify, he or she would refuse citing attorney client privilege.
Creating a lot of moving parts or just overwhelming a
system in just about any situation makes it so much
easier to deflect and deny in the public simply gets
worn out trying to follow along, so little ever happens. Sadly.
In fact, Bain, this guy Rich Shman, who was friends
with Komy and was his cutout to give classified information
to reporters. When Comy was fired by Donald Trump, Comy
hired Richmond as his lawyer. He did precisely that. Yeah,
like that, that's pretty standard. So who are these reporters
at the New York Times. You've got Mike Schmidt, You've
got Matt Opuzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau at the Washington Post,
Ellen Nakashima, Karun Demerjian, and Devlen Barrett at the Wall
Street Journal, Holman Jenkins Junior. Richmond always defended Comy, and
he said he saw his role as this is him
talking about Jim Comy. Jim saw his role as a
political and independent and the okay and the FBI director,
even as he reports to the Aty attorney general often
has to stand apart from his boss. See, this is
the myth that like, I'm separate, I'm I'm not Obama's
wingman like Eric Holder was when he was Attorney general. Right, Like,
this is a separate position, no outside influence. You can't
have the president influencing these chiefs of the Intel agencies, unless,
of course, your name is Barack Obama and you want
to create a smear of Donald Trump that will then
dovetail into the leaking of the Clinton intelligence plan, which
was the Steele dossier, the Alpha Bank smear, the all
of that. The Times article wrongly argued that in the
case of the Trump Russia investigation, Comy conducted the investigation
by the book, right, And we know that that was
not true because of the investigations into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
It was not done by the book. We have been
detailing it now with the release of more declassified information
that no, actually it wasn't by the book, which was
why only three out of the like nearly two dozen
intelligence agencies signed off on the Intelligence Community assessment that
was then leaked to the media to smear Trump and
to get the Steele dossier into circulation. Only the DNI
James Clapper, the CIA John Brennan, and the FBI Jim Comey.
Those are the only ones that signed off on it.
And they were also those agencies were the ones that
met with Obama in October. They were like, we have
to we have to redo this or sorry, excuse me.
In December and they said we have to redraft the
Intelligence Community assessment because it did not include the Steele dossier,
and it did not go far enough in making this
lie of a connection between Putin and Trump. The FBI
closed the investigation into the leak in early September twenty
twenty one. So they investigated this leak for four years.
The FBI said that quote, investigators learned that FBI Office
of Public Affairs was told also to assist The New
York Times with the April twenty seventeen article. That Comy
either directed or otherwise authorized FBI's official assistance to the
New York Times. So he ordered you know who, he ordered,
by the way, to give what was called an investigative
brief into the New York Times. There were two people.
There were two people that he sent, Peter Struck and
Lisa Page. That's who he sent to brief the New
York Times. Yeah, the disgraced and fired FBI special agent
Peter Struck, who now has a nifty gig as a
talking head an analyst over at either is it I forget?
Is it CNN or MSNBC I forget? Along with his paramore,
his colleague with whom he was having an affair, the
FBI lawyer Lisa Page. They appear to have been involved
in the briefing of the Times. According to the FBI memos, Dean,
Welcome to the show. Hello Dean, how are you man?
Speaker 1: What do you say? Their teeth? How's it going, tom?
Speaker 2: No, you know, I'm not bleeding from my years and
I'm vertical, So like that's that's a.
Speaker 1: Good day, Always a good day. So Hey, I had
an opportunity to work at the Defense Intelligence Agency for
a while as a as a sit in intelligence analyst.
As you might say, just a little backstory. I'm a
retired Green Beret and I had been in the country
of Columbia, and so in order to keep the civilians
that work on a day to day basis in the
specific country areas, DIA likes to put people in their
departments that have been on the ground and kind of
have an idea of what's actually happening happening in that country.
So I heard a question about a burn bag. If
you picture that you're some type of a desk bound
person that deals with intelligence sensitive items, you can't get
up and leave your desk three hundred times a day
and burn a piece of information that might be sensitive
that doesn't need to be put in a storage cabinet.
So you would have a bag that is specially marked
in certain ways that everybody knows the classification of the
information that's put in that bag, whether it's stop secret
or secret, or higher or lower. And so once you
get all that weeks build up or day build up,
whatever it is, then you close that bag and you
take it to someone who's actually in an incinerator room
or a firebarrel. But it's a collection point for sensitive
information that needs to be burned on a timely basis.
How about that.
Speaker 2: There you go. That's a good explanation, Dean. Good to
hear from you, my man, I got to run. I
appreciate it, No problem, all right, buddy, Yeah, that's aye,
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Inspector General Michael Horowitz. He wrote a report. It was
released in August of twenty nineteen. I'm old enough to
remember this. I know it's ancient history. He criticized Jim
Comey's decision to leak his so called comy memos, including
details about Trump's alleged comments about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
He leaked these to the media in twenty seventeen, in
an effort by the then fired FBI director to spur
the appointment of a special council. That's how that happened.
Horowitz wrote that his investigation interviewed seventeen witnesses, including former
Director Comy and his cutout, Daniel Richmond, the individual who,
at Komy's request, shared the contents of one of Comy's
memos with a reporter. Remember, Comy did this interview where
he was like, I get out of the meeting with
the President. I would just think, Oh my gosh, I
can't believe he said that stuff. And he just started
taking notes about everything. Those were his memos, and then
he handed him off to Richmond, and Richmond handed him
off to The New York Times. Komy told Horowitz that
the day after being fired by Trump, he retained Richmond
as an attorney.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: We had previously faulted Comy for acting unilaterally and inconsistent
with department policy, Horrowitz wrote in the report. Comy's unauthorized
disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation
merits similar criticism. Coomy admitted in twenty seventeen that he
had hoped that leaking the information would prompt the appointment
of a special council. Horowitz concluded Comy's leaks quote were
an attempt to force the Department to take official investigative actions.
Horowitz sent a criminal referral to the DOJ over Jim
Comey's memos. At the time, the DOJ did not prosecute him.
Komy's efforts were successful because Robert Muller was appointed Special
counsel within days of the Komy memo leaks that were
published in The New York Times. So it worked much
like Harry Reid's lie against Mitt Romney. And when asked
about the lie, he said, well, he didn't win. Did
he see the ends justify the means? An article in
The Times written by Michael Schmidt was titled Comy memo
says Trump asked him to end Flynn investigation right because
Trump was saying, why are you going after Mike Flynn?
And by the way, what was Mike Flynn accused of doing?
You remember talking about sanctions with the Russian ambassador or
Russian guy or whatever, when in fact, what Mike Flynn
was saying was, Hey, you know we're coming in. It's
going to be a new administration, and you know, don't
retaliate against these sanctions that Obama just slapped on you
on his way out the door in order to jam
up Trump. But like just pulled off. You know, we're
coming in.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: Weren't any promises made or anything like that. An article
in The Times. That article in The Times was then
used by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Muller
as a special counsel the very next day. After two years.
Muller did not establish any criminal Trump Russia collusion. Oh
and by the way, I did get a message on
the text line of Joe Biden. Remember, moved stuff out
of the skiff too. It wasn't just Sandy Berger. Newly
declassified FBI memos also detail a host of other failed
or botched classified leak's investigations, which all made their way
into legacy media. Tropic vortex. This was March twenty seventeen.
Thisy're all the same timeframe, this one year. This one
was led to a New York Times story. Komy asks
Justice Department to reject Trump's wiretapping claims that was a
leak and Trump's claim was correct, right. The predicate was
a lie. The guy who filled out the FIS of
court warrant application was disbarred. I mean he's a Democrat,
so he's back practicing again, but he was disbarred for
lying on the warrant about carter Page. Foggy Falls was
a Washington Post investigation based on their mid April twenty
seventeen story FBI obtained PIS a warrant to monitor former
Trump advisor Carter Page. See, all of these leaks were
all done to shut down and shut down any kind
of opposition to what they were doing, what they were
engaged in into smear Trump as a Russian agent. It's
all very clear. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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