“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.” That quote by Sir Walter Scott appropriately applies to the counter intelligence operation that took place among high-placed individuals in the CIA and the DOJ, including the FBI, to bring down the Trump presidency.
That quote immediately came to my mind after reading about the disturbing close relationship between former CIA Director John Brennan and the agency’s current director Gina Haspel. It’s chronicled by Jed Babbin in his American Spectator piece, “Who Ran Crossfire Hurricane? Incidentally, Babbin served as deputy undersecretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush.
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You will recall how Brennan voiced his concern over President Trump’s executive order requiring intelligence agencies to cooperate with Attorney General Bill Barr in his investigation into the origins of the spying on the Trump campaign, encouraging colleagues to resist.
Babbin writes that the executive order was necessary because of the stonewalling by the CIA and NSA encountered by U.S. Attorney John Durham in his effort to uncover what took place in 2016 and 2017.
We’ve known about the close relationship between former FBI director James Comey and Robert Mueller, but I was unaware of the Brennan-Haspel tie.
Haspel served in the CIA’s coveted chief of station position in London from 2008-2011 and again in 2014-2017, a “reward for her loyalty” to Brennan, Babbin believes.
“As the CIA’s chief of station in London, Haspel would not only have known about (Peter) Strzok’s missions to London, but would had to have been briefed on it and approved it. And that’s not the half of it. Haspel, as Brennan’s chief of station, must have run the UK end of the spy op on Trump for Brennan,” writes Babbin.
“We don’t know – yet – what went on between Brennan, Haspel, or any of their agents and Christopher Steele, author of the dossier that was later seized upon as the basis for their ‘investigation.’ Durham will have to investigate all of the London events and every aspect of Haspel’s and Brennan’s involvement.
“Durham will face the most determined stonewalling by the CIA on all of this. Both Haspel and Brennan have a lot to lose, so she will be fighting tooth and nail against any of Durham’s requests for documents and testimony. Durham, and Barr, will have to force the issue.
“The faster Barr and Durham can complete their investigation, the sooner the public will learn about the abuses of power that occurred in the FBI/CIA spy op on Trump, his campaign, and his early presidency,” Babbin concludes.
At lunch Monday, I was asked if I thought Barr would be successful in his effort to uncover the Deep State wrongdoing and indict those individuals accountable.
Let’s not forget the others in that tangled web of deception – Strzok’s lover Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Sally Yates, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, and, likely, a complicit Obama White House.
I must admit some hesitation after learning of the Haspel-Brennan relationship, but my money is still on Barr and Durham.
May God bless the United States of America.
