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Perhaps they lived in the burn 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,960 bags stored away in this secret room the FBI headquarters 13 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:52,039 that people were not aware of, and for some reason 14 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:55,479 the bags never got burned. But a whole bunch of 15 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:00,000 documents keep coming out. They keep declassifying under Cash Betel's leadership. 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And yesterday we went over the report by John Solomon 17 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:08,760 at Justthnews dot com. And by the way, John Solomon 18 00:01:09,519 --> 00:01:14,319 has been a longtime journalist in DC. I believe he 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,040 used to work for The Hill a long time ago, 20 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,159 and then he went on his own. I believe it 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,239 may have been sometime around twenty sixteen, during the first 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,439 Trump run or administration when it began or something, but 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,640 just the news has been around for a while. John 24 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,560 Solomon is a highly credentialed and respected journalist. Yesterday he 25 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:42,200 had the big write up headlined Democrat whistleblower told FBI 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:49,599 that shift Okade leaking classified intel to hurt Trump. Covered 27 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:52,200 that piece that he wrote yesterday. So if you didn't 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,400 hear it, go back and get the podcast WBT dot 29 00:01:55,439 --> 00:01:58,000 com or thepeatpod dot com. It's on all of the 30 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:06,680 podcasting platforms. Today. We have another story this headline. Komy's 31 00:02:07,079 --> 00:02:14,560 media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative and needed 32 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,840 to discount or needed a discount rather to deny leaking intel. 33 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,479 And I did not understand what that meant. This was 34 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,479 an odd use of the word discount. But essentially, when 35 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,039 the FBI finally got around to talking to him about 36 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,360 whether or not he was acting as a cutout for 37 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:39,759 Komy to leak classified information to the media, the cutout guy, 38 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,360 his name is Daniel Richmond or rich Man north of Richmond. 39 00:02:45,439 --> 00:02:49,680 He said, Oh, I'm one hundred percent sure, one hundred 40 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,280 percent sure that I never provided any classified intelligence to reporters, 41 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,719 But I could only say I'm one hundred percent sure 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,759 with a discount. What does that mean. It means he's 43 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:08,639 not one hundred percent sure. He doesn't know. So what's 44 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:14,280 the story about. Well, now we have the reports that 45 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:20,080 the FBI generated when they investigated many, many, many leaks, 46 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:27,400 and the leaks were published in multiple stories at the 47 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,680 beginning of Trump's first term in twenty seventeen. And so 48 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:37,520 this is much along the lines of what the whistleblower 49 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:43,360 report yesterday documented, which was in twenty seventeen. This Democrat 50 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,000 staffer who's an intelligence officer, but he's a Democrat staffer 51 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,919 on the House Intelligence Committee. He was told in various 52 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,960 ways at various meetings by Adam Schiff, then the ranking 53 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,159 minority member on the Intelligence Committee, then he became the 54 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:06,199 chair of the Intel Committee as well as Shift's chief 55 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,759 of staff or the leadership on the committee, rather to 56 00:04:10,919 --> 00:04:16,120 leak to their favored media people, and the purpose of 57 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,720 those leaks was to smear Donald Trump as a Russian asset. 58 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:26,399 This was articulated in the meetings, and this whistleblower went 59 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,519 to the DOJ, went to the FBI and told them 60 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,720 about this. Of course, the FBI already knew about the 61 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:39,040 attempts to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent because 62 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,920 they knew of the Clinton intelligence plan as it was called, 63 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,600 during the twenty sixteen race, and so they never did 64 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:51,079 anything with it. They interviewed the guy like six times 65 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,959 over the course of six years, and nothing ever came 66 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,319 of it. And so then we got so we got 67 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:04,279 that report yesterday. Oh and by the way, that that 68 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:12,800 whistleblower also named Eric Swalwell, also a Democrat representative from California. Swallwell, 69 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:18,279 I just saw this has responded. This would have been 70 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,920 well about two hours ago. He took to the Twitter 71 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:28,240 machine and he said, this whistleblower made this bleep up 72 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,839 when Trump was president. If they had anything, they would 73 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,000 have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy 74 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,000 me if he could have. They didn't indict me. Therefore 75 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,879 they had nothing. What's next? And this is the circular 76 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:48,240 logic used in order to defend this criminal activity, which 77 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,480 is what that the people that were in charge of 78 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:54,439 these agencies at the time when the whistleblower first came 79 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,920 forward were the people that were put in place prior 80 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:03,920 to Trump's arrival, and they had buried this stuff with 81 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:09,079 the super duper top secret clearance or a classification system, 82 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,639 and they put them in burn bags and hid them 83 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:20,600 so nobody could actually access the documents. So no, it 84 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:23,279 doesn't prove that. But if I were to adopt his logic, 85 00:06:23,319 --> 00:06:25,240 then I guess that means all of his rantings about 86 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,639 Trump being in the Epstein files. That doesn't hold any 87 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:31,839 water either, right, because wouldn't have Joe Biden used it 88 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:35,839 against Trump this So this is just a silly argument 89 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,319 that he's making because he feels protected by the people 90 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,360 that were in charge at that time. That's why they 91 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,839 didn't care that he was leaking. Everybody wanted them to leak. 92 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,519 This cabal wanted the leaks out there. So no, they're 93 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:54,720 not going to indict you. Also, as we went over yesterday, 94 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:00,800 there was this impression among Shift and Swallwell that they 95 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,600 could leak whatever they wanted to because they were covered 96 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,959 under a law that protects lawmakers in the House and 97 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,040 Senate from libel. Basically, they could go onto the House floor, 98 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:14,879 the Senate floor, they could say whatever they want to. 99 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:17,519 That's why you know, Harry Reid accused Mitt Romney of 100 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:20,319 not paying his taxes, even though that wasn't true, it 101 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,399 didn't matter. Harry Reid was protected because when you are 102 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:26,079 on the floor of the House or Senate, you can 103 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:29,879 impugne people, you can smear them, you can libel, slander people, 104 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:33,319 I should say suld you can slander them because it's 105 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:37,240 protected speech. And that's what these guys, these guys thought 106 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,759 covered them too. I'm not aware of any court rulings 107 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:44,319 that back up that assertion, but that's what they believed 108 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:46,879 and apparently still do believe, or at least that's what 109 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:49,800 they're going with still because they don't want to get 110 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:58,000 in trouble. So today, the FBI concluded numerous legacy news 111 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:03,279 media stories that crafted the false Russian collusion narrative. These 112 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:09,000 stories contained illegally leaked classified intelligence, but they failed to 113 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:17,240 definitively identify the leakers. They had multiple leak investigations running 114 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,120 in that one year, the first year of Trump, they 115 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:28,879 had multiple leak investigations. While they were unable to identify 116 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:35,679 the leakers. According to their reports, agents did force a 117 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:41,519 pretty stunning admission from James Comy, the former FBI director, 118 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:46,200 which is that he used a special conduit to The 119 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,519 New York Times, a cutout, as I call them, and 120 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,879 the intelligence community would call them too, write these cutouts, 121 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,720 So I'm not directly doing this thing, but I'm going 122 00:08:56,799 --> 00:08:58,440 to give you the information. You then give it to 123 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,759 this other person. And the other person was a New 124 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,639 York Times reporter who won a pulletzer for his Russia 125 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:10,399 Gate Russia hoax coverage, and the reason he did this 126 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,120 was to polish his image and push for a special 127 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,720 prosecutor to take out President Trump. That was the intention. 128 00:09:21,919 --> 00:09:22,399 Speaker 1: That was the. 129 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:26,519 Speaker 2: Stated goal, was to get a special prosecutor so they 130 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:30,600 could indict and impeach and remove from office Donald Trump. 131 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,879 All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 132 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,960 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 133 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,080 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 134 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:41,159 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 135 00:09:41,159 --> 00:09:43,879 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 136 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:47,120 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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So Craig and Belmont asking what is a 155 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:53,080 burn bag on the text line, These are bags that 156 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:59,759 you burn, Okay, Um, so you stuff a bunch of 157 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,480 you stuff a bunch of classified material into a burn 158 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,799 bag in the intelligence agencies, right, and they keep these 159 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:11,120 bags and just stuff, you know, papers, thumb drives, whatever 160 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,279 you put stuff in there, and it's supposed to get incinerated, 161 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,759 to be destroyed. But for some reason when they were 162 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,159 when they came in Cash Betel and his team when 163 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:28,320 they got into the FBI, they found what did they 164 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:34,879 call it a previously unknown skiff, which is a was 165 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,080 it secure compartmentalized information facility I think is what it 166 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:44,200 stands for SCIF. And this is where you go into 167 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,519 a you go into a room and you can't have 168 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,600 a phone, like, you can't take pictures, can't make notes 169 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,519 or anything like that. Like you go in there and 170 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,960 you just read the documents or view the files or something, 171 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:02,159 and then you leave. And unless you're seeing burglar, you know, 172 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:07,799 Clinton's old aid who smuggled a bunch of documents out 173 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,159 of the National Archives. I believe it was because it 174 00:12:12,279 --> 00:12:17,200 linked Clinton to nine to eleven failures, and so he 175 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,200 stole a bunch of papers and got to slap on 176 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,919 the wrist, of course because he's a Democrat. But unless 177 00:12:21,919 --> 00:12:24,840 you're Sandy Berger, you're not allowed to take anything out 178 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,600 of those rooms. And yeah, so they had piled a 179 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,759 bunch of burn bags into this room that was a 180 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:38,320 I think previously unknown or undisclosed skiff. So they found 181 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,600 this room and when they started going through this stuff, 182 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,720 and that's why we're seeing all of these documents now 183 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:48,159 being declassified. And I think this has got a lot 184 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:54,679 of these conspirators very, very worried as well. It should 185 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:59,519 as well, it should, And I know Democrats don't like 186 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,799 seeing these stories and they don't want they just let's 187 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,120 just move on. Let's move on. You know, Donald Trump 188 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:08,320 is a threat to the Democrats. He like, that's what 189 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,039 they would like to talk about. Ebstein files, Ebstein files, right, 190 00:13:12,399 --> 00:13:14,600 because these are the smoking guns. That's why I keep 191 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:16,799 doing these stories whenever this stuff comes out and it 192 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:21,840 confirms rumors that we had heard or previous anonymous based reporting. 193 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,440 These are the documents that are proving that this was true. 194 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,279 This stuff was true, and the Russia collusion hoax was 195 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,120 in fact a hoax and it was perpetrated on the 196 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,120 American public by the top intelligence agency leaders and the 197 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:45,240 former president. So who was the cutout for Jim Comey 198 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:51,279 to feed classified intelligence to the New York Times and 199 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,320 the Washington Post. It was this guy, Daniel Richman, who's 200 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:01,000 a Columbia University law professor who admit to agents and 201 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:06,480 interviews that he routinely communicated on behalf of Komi, who 202 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,279 was a longtime friend of his, and he would communicate 203 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,720 on Komy's behalf too. The New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, 204 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,440 whose work was among the newspapers twenty eighteen Pulitzer winning 205 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:25,720 stories on Russian election interference Pulitzers, I would point out 206 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,279 that they have never returned. They have never returned those Pulitzers, 207 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:37,600 despite the fact that their reporting was incorrect. The goal, 208 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,639 according to Richmond, who said this to the FBI, was 209 00:14:42,759 --> 00:14:49,360 quote to correct stories critical of Komy the FBI and 210 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:54,720 to shape future press coverage outside of the bureau's official 211 00:14:54,759 --> 00:15:00,759 press office. These reports, by the way, newly declassified memos 212 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:04,480 and such were delivered to Congress this week. While Richmond 213 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:07,639 was known to have publicly quoted to have been publicly 214 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:10,720 quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comy, he 215 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:15,639 admitted to the FBI agents who were part of an 216 00:15:15,679 --> 00:15:20,039 inquiry that was dubbed Arctic Hayes. That was the name 217 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:25,480 of the investigation, Arctic Hayes. He admitted to these agents 218 00:15:25,519 --> 00:15:28,320 that he was given access by Comy to what turned 219 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,879 out to be highly classified information and sometimes then provided 220 00:15:32,919 --> 00:15:39,480 information to reporters on an anonymous basis. In the end, 221 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:42,440 the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges 222 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,879 against Comy or any of his lieutenants or now Senator 223 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:57,000 Adam Schiff for Brains. None of them are being pursued 224 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:02,879 were pursued for criminal charges potential evidence of leaks, saying 225 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:06,240 that they just they couldn't be sure who leaked what 226 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,919 and when. So we know we've got these leakers. We 227 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,960 know we have a whistleblower who told us that they 228 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,360 were leaking, but we don't know which person on the 229 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:23,120 House Selected Intelligence Committee, and Jim Colemey and John Brennan 230 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:28,120 and James Clapper, we don't know specifically who leaked what 231 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,879 piece of information. And so because we can't make that 232 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:39,759 exact connection, we just can't charge our boss. Just The 233 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:42,799 News also revealed this week that a career intel officer 234 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,440 who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for 235 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,559 more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 236 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:56,559 twenty seventeen, that Adam Schiff for Brains, had approved leaking 237 00:16:56,639 --> 00:16:59,799 classified info to smear then President Donald Trump over the 238 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,720 now debunked Russia Gates scandal. Chef has denied the allegation. 239 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:10,400 Newly declassified FBI memos also include details on investigations into 240 00:17:10,519 --> 00:17:15,440 other leaks that were classified in nature, and those were 241 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:27,160 dubbed tropic Vortex Foggy Falls riding hood, Sirens, lure echoes, Fate, 242 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:31,319 and Genetic Christmas, which I'm a little that one's a 243 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:38,599 little weird to me. Genetic Christmas I had read a 244 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:44,400 long time ago, like about how they name the operation 245 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,079 Enduring Freedom, right, Like how did they come up with 246 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,160 these names? And I remember reading a story this was 247 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,960 twenty years ago. I want to say, where there's there's 248 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,559 like some random generator of letters or something that they 249 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,240 just spits out, and so they use the letters and 250 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:05,960 then they just use words to plug in there or something. 251 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,240 I don't know if they still do that. I don't 252 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,960 know if that's why they called this that. I don't 253 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,559 know how they come up with these names, but Janeta 254 00:18:12,599 --> 00:18:16,640 Christmas is a weird one. Like GC you could have, like, 255 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,039 there are a lot of other things you could have 256 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:23,039 called that anyway. I mean tropic vortex, foggy I mean 257 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:28,359 foggy bottom. That kind of makes some sense. 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Then if the aid is ever called 294 00:20:39,799 --> 00:20:43,720 to testify, he or she would refuse citing attorney client privilege. 295 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:46,640 Creating a lot of moving parts or just overwhelming a 296 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,119 system in just about any situation makes it so much 297 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,799 easier to deflect and deny in the public simply gets 298 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:56,400 worn out trying to follow along, so little ever happens. Sadly. 299 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,400 In fact, Bain, this guy Rich Shman, who was friends 300 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,799 with Komy and was his cutout to give classified information 301 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:13,640 to reporters. When Comy was fired by Donald Trump, Comy 302 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:19,640 hired Richmond as his lawyer. He did precisely that. Yeah, 303 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,759 like that, that's pretty standard. So who are these reporters 304 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,319 at the New York Times. You've got Mike Schmidt, You've 305 00:21:28,319 --> 00:21:34,920 got Matt Opuzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau at the Washington Post, 306 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:41,720 Ellen Nakashima, Karun Demerjian, and Devlen Barrett at the Wall 307 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:51,920 Street Journal, Holman Jenkins Junior. Richmond always defended Comy, and 308 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,799 he said he saw his role as this is him 309 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,640 talking about Jim Comy. Jim saw his role as a 310 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:05,720 political and independent and the okay and the FBI director, 311 00:22:05,799 --> 00:22:09,079 even as he reports to the Aty attorney general often 312 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,240 has to stand apart from his boss. See, this is 313 00:22:13,319 --> 00:22:18,240 the myth that like, I'm separate, I'm I'm not Obama's 314 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:21,279 wingman like Eric Holder was when he was Attorney general. Right, Like, 315 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:25,599 this is a separate position, no outside influence. You can't 316 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:30,319 have the president influencing these chiefs of the Intel agencies, unless, 317 00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:32,640 of course, your name is Barack Obama and you want 318 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:37,000 to create a smear of Donald Trump that will then 319 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:42,039 dovetail into the leaking of the Clinton intelligence plan, which 320 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,240 was the Steele dossier, the Alpha Bank smear, the all 321 00:22:45,319 --> 00:22:52,400 of that. The Times article wrongly argued that in the 322 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,079 case of the Trump Russia investigation, Comy conducted the investigation 323 00:22:56,559 --> 00:22:59,319 by the book, right, And we know that that was 324 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:04,599 not true because of the investigations into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. 325 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,200 It was not done by the book. We have been 326 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,079 detailing it now with the release of more declassified information 327 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,279 that no, actually it wasn't by the book, which was 328 00:23:13,319 --> 00:23:16,640 why only three out of the like nearly two dozen 329 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:22,839 intelligence agencies signed off on the Intelligence Community assessment that 330 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,240 was then leaked to the media to smear Trump and 331 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:33,119 to get the Steele dossier into circulation. Only the DNI 332 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,759 James Clapper, the CIA John Brennan, and the FBI Jim Comey. 333 00:23:38,799 --> 00:23:40,599 Those are the only ones that signed off on it. 334 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,200 And they were also those agencies were the ones that 335 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,640 met with Obama in October. They were like, we have 336 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,319 to we have to redo this or sorry, excuse me. 337 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,240 In December and they said we have to redraft the 338 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,359 Intelligence Community assessment because it did not include the Steele dossier, 339 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,160 and it did not go far enough in making this 340 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:10,440 lie of a connection between Putin and Trump. The FBI 341 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,440 closed the investigation into the leak in early September twenty 342 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:19,960 twenty one. So they investigated this leak for four years. 343 00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:24,519 The FBI said that quote, investigators learned that FBI Office 344 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:27,960 of Public Affairs was told also to assist The New 345 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:32,240 York Times with the April twenty seventeen article. That Comy 346 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:38,640 either directed or otherwise authorized FBI's official assistance to the 347 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,240 New York Times. So he ordered you know who, he ordered, 348 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:45,960 by the way, to give what was called an investigative 349 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,640 brief into the New York Times. There were two people. 350 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:58,359 There were two people that he sent, Peter Struck and 351 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,240 Lisa Page. That's who he sent to brief the New 352 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:06,640 York Times. Yeah, the disgraced and fired FBI special agent 353 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,720 Peter Struck, who now has a nifty gig as a 354 00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:14,279 talking head an analyst over at either is it I forget? 355 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:18,799 Is it CNN or MSNBC I forget? Along with his paramore, 356 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,640 his colleague with whom he was having an affair, the 357 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,960 FBI lawyer Lisa Page. They appear to have been involved 358 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:33,720 in the briefing of the Times. According to the FBI memos, Dean, 359 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:35,640 Welcome to the show. Hello Dean, how are you man? 360 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,319 Speaker 1: What do you say? Their teeth? How's it going, tom? 361 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 2: No, you know, I'm not bleeding from my years and 362 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:43,359 I'm vertical, So like that's that's a. 363 00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:46,559 Speaker 1: Good day, Always a good day. So Hey, I had 364 00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:49,920 an opportunity to work at the Defense Intelligence Agency for 365 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,440 a while as a as a sit in intelligence analyst. 366 00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:58,200 As you might say, just a little backstory. I'm a 367 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:01,960 retired Green Beret and I had been in the country 368 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,880 of Columbia, and so in order to keep the civilians 369 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,359 that work on a day to day basis in the 370 00:26:08,559 --> 00:26:14,519 specific country areas, DIA likes to put people in their 371 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,160 departments that have been on the ground and kind of 372 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,720 have an idea of what's actually happening happening in that country. 373 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,279 So I heard a question about a burn bag. If 374 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,759 you picture that you're some type of a desk bound 375 00:26:31,839 --> 00:26:35,720 person that deals with intelligence sensitive items, you can't get 376 00:26:35,799 --> 00:26:38,440 up and leave your desk three hundred times a day 377 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,559 and burn a piece of information that might be sensitive 378 00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:44,319 that doesn't need to be put in a storage cabinet. 379 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,519 So you would have a bag that is specially marked 380 00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:51,599 in certain ways that everybody knows the classification of the 381 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,519 information that's put in that bag, whether it's stop secret 382 00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:57,960 or secret, or higher or lower. And so once you 383 00:26:58,079 --> 00:27:03,519 get all that weeks build up or day build up, 384 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:06,880 whatever it is, then you close that bag and you 385 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,720 take it to someone who's actually in an incinerator room 386 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,839 or a firebarrel. But it's a collection point for sensitive 387 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,640 information that needs to be burned on a timely basis. 388 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:19,200 How about that. 389 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 2: There you go. That's a good explanation, Dean. Good to 390 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,559 hear from you, my man, I got to run. I 391 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:27,359 appreciate it, No problem, all right, buddy, Yeah, that's aye, 392 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,559 the burn bag system. Somebody was asking about that on 393 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,279 the text line. 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He criticized Jim 419 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,720 Comey's decision to leak his so called comy memos, including 420 00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:04,240 details about Trump's alleged comments about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. 421 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,240 He leaked these to the media in twenty seventeen, in 422 00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:12,000 an effort by the then fired FBI director to spur 423 00:29:12,279 --> 00:29:16,480 the appointment of a special council. That's how that happened. 424 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:22,480 Horowitz wrote that his investigation interviewed seventeen witnesses, including former 425 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:26,839 Director Comy and his cutout, Daniel Richmond, the individual who, 426 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,039 at Komy's request, shared the contents of one of Comy's 427 00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:34,400 memos with a reporter. Remember, Comy did this interview where 428 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,039 he was like, I get out of the meeting with 429 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:37,720 the President. I would just think, Oh my gosh, I 430 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:39,599 can't believe he said that stuff. And he just started 431 00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:42,920 taking notes about everything. Those were his memos, and then 432 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,400 he handed him off to Richmond, and Richmond handed him 433 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,640 off to The New York Times. Komy told Horowitz that 434 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,920 the day after being fired by Trump, he retained Richmond 435 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,039 as an attorney. 436 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:56,519 Speaker 1: Quote. 437 00:29:56,559 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: We had previously faulted Comy for acting unilaterally and inconsistent 438 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:05,200 with department policy, Horrowitz wrote in the report. Comy's unauthorized 439 00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:09,880 disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation 440 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,759 merits similar criticism. Coomy admitted in twenty seventeen that he 441 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:19,799 had hoped that leaking the information would prompt the appointment 442 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:24,680 of a special council. Horowitz concluded Comy's leaks quote were 443 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:30,039 an attempt to force the Department to take official investigative actions. 444 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,599 Horowitz sent a criminal referral to the DOJ over Jim 445 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:39,480 Comey's memos. At the time, the DOJ did not prosecute him. 446 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:46,039 Komy's efforts were successful because Robert Muller was appointed Special 447 00:30:46,079 --> 00:30:49,599 counsel within days of the Komy memo leaks that were 448 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:55,079 published in The New York Times. So it worked much 449 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,839 like Harry Reid's lie against Mitt Romney. And when asked 450 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:00,960 about the lie, he said, well, he didn't win. Did 451 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,039 he see the ends justify the means? An article in 452 00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:11,319 The Times written by Michael Schmidt was titled Comy memo 453 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:17,720 says Trump asked him to end Flynn investigation right because 454 00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:20,920 Trump was saying, why are you going after Mike Flynn? 455 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,000 And by the way, what was Mike Flynn accused of doing? 456 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,359 You remember talking about sanctions with the Russian ambassador or 457 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,039 Russian guy or whatever, when in fact, what Mike Flynn 458 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,960 was saying was, Hey, you know we're coming in. It's 459 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,680 going to be a new administration, and you know, don't 460 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:44,920 retaliate against these sanctions that Obama just slapped on you 461 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,240 on his way out the door in order to jam 462 00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:51,599 up Trump. But like just pulled off. You know, we're 463 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,160 coming in. 464 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: There. 465 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: Weren't any promises made or anything like that. An article 466 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,839 in The Times. That article in The Times was then 467 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:08,279 used by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Muller 468 00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:12,119 as a special counsel the very next day. After two years. 469 00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:20,960 Muller did not establish any criminal Trump Russia collusion. Oh 470 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,359 and by the way, I did get a message on 471 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,839 the text line of Joe Biden. Remember, moved stuff out 472 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:34,440 of the skiff too. It wasn't just Sandy Berger. Newly 473 00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:38,759 declassified FBI memos also detail a host of other failed 474 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,640 or botched classified leak's investigations, which all made their way 475 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,680 into legacy media. Tropic vortex. This was March twenty seventeen. 476 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,599 Thisy're all the same timeframe, this one year. This one 477 00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:55,480 was led to a New York Times story. Komy asks 478 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,400 Justice Department to reject Trump's wiretapping claims that was a 479 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:06,799 leak and Trump's claim was correct, right. The predicate was 480 00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,160 a lie. The guy who filled out the FIS of 481 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,839 court warrant application was disbarred. I mean he's a Democrat, 482 00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:17,200 so he's back practicing again, but he was disbarred for 483 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,799 lying on the warrant about carter Page. Foggy Falls was 484 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:27,480 a Washington Post investigation based on their mid April twenty 485 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:30,640 seventeen story FBI obtained PIS a warrant to monitor former 486 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,559 Trump advisor Carter Page. See, all of these leaks were 487 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,960 all done to shut down and shut down any kind 488 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,039 of opposition to what they were doing, what they were 489 00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:44,920 engaged in into smear Trump as a Russian agent. It's 490 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,680 all very clear. 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